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Hey everyone,I have been surfing the net and learning as much as I can about hunting bears.As we know on sites like youtube, there is comment sections, in which I have been noticing a lot of negative comments from fellow hunters, and tree huggers, about how unethical it is to hunt over a food barrel.Now I don't care what the tree huggers have to say, but when I start hearing negative comments from hunters in the west, about how hunters from the east are wrong and unethical about the way we hunt bears, I begin to have an issue.I don't feel hunting over a bait barrel is any more unethical than shooting a Grizzly on one mountain ridge from another, or sitting and waiting for it to come out of its den then blasting it.Wouldn't calling in an animal be considered in the same category, technically we are targeting the animals weakness and using it to draw them in, which is common practice everywhere.It just really bothers me to be put in the unethical crowd by some of our counterparts from the west, because we have an effective way of doing things.Bear baiting works, its not the lazy mans way to hunt, as anyone who has set up a bear bait can attest to, it takes skill in scouting and knowing your prey, and really its the way hunting takes place in almost every species through history, by the art of camouflage, attraction and/or deception.I am only new to bear hunting but have learned a lot and have a lot left to learn, but one thing I don't consider myself is unethical.