I believe up here, you can hunt them w/ dogs.They seem to stay shy of the .45 fired near them, into the ground.
I heard, most often, only tethered dogs become snacks for a bear. I hate to thing about that.
Good luck. and Carry on.
Get bears on my place all the time, had one up on the front deck several nights in a row a couple weeks back.
I don’t shoot them unless they become a danger to my wife or my dogs.
I would turn on the porch light and give the bear about a 3 minute head start, then let the dogs out, you could hear them chasing the damn thing all the way up the mountain.
Bears are a lot faster than the dogs so I didn’t worry to much about them catching him (or her).
In 15 years I have only had to shoot 2 when they got to aggressive, even during the day.
I believe up here, you can hunt them w/ dogs.They seem to stay shy of the .45 fired near them, into the ground.
I heard, most often, only tethered dogs become snacks for a bear. I hate to thing about that.
Good luck. and Carry on.