Hmmmmm. Deer is big enough game for me. And the bear that I’ve eaten over the years is sweet, while gamy. I don’t find it all that tasty; though it’s good as jerky.
But...I think baiting any animal to hunt is CHEATING. It’s called “hunting” not “setting a trap and waiting.”
I don’t hunt bear, but baiting is SOP. And not a certainty of success. Some parts of the country they use dogs on deer. Other places they consider drive unfair, and downright dangerous. A century ago they’d employ all these techniques. Hard to judge local customs.
When I was a kid the only way to get permission to hunt on private land was to work for it. The general charge was one days labor about 10 or 11 hours, sunup ‘til supper, would entitle you to one deer or bear if you could shoot straight.
If you worked hard then you’d be invited to work again the following year. I helped sink many fence posts to earn my deer.
Some guys would rather hunt government land. I figured if I could drive a pickup truck right to the animal, load it and haul it back to the barn, skin it, quarter it and get it put up in the cooler, all by 9 or 10 AM, I was ahead of the game.