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The Ford govt. wants to allow sport hunters to bait black bears only 30 meters from a public road way and public trail. This literally means that sport hunters can shoot black bears from the road while sitting in their trucks !!!
Sport hunters have been advocating for this because many hunters CANNOT shoot in the woods and then drag the bear to their trucks or do not know how to butcher the bear into small pieces so it can be carried out of the woods.
This proposal appeases 'slob hunters' - those hunters that lack any skill and tend to be thrill hunters - killing for fun.
This is very dangerous for any person walking on a trail or driving on a public road. Currently the distance for baiting black bears from a public roadway or public trail is 200 metres. The Ford govt. is now proposing that this distance be reduced to only 30 metres!
This is crazy. It places innocent outdoor users in the path of a bullet and/or keeps outdoor enthusiasts inside for the duration of the black bear hunting season which runs from May to June and then again from August to December.
What is worse is that the Ford govt. has not provided any rationale for this proposal because in doing so it would have to acknowledge 'slob hunters' and their inability to hunt skillfully. This is the worse sort of hunter one would encourage shooting along a public roadway or trail.
Bear baiting should be banned altogether! That's not real hunting, that's luring and target shooting and killing for fun!
Submitted June 15, 2019 11:45 PM
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Proposal to reduce the minimum distance requirement for placement of bait from rights of way and trails for black bear hunting
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