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Trump Ends Obama’s Ban on Bear Baiting and Other Cruel Hunting Techniques in Alaska
New York Magazine ^ | May 22, 2018 | By Ed Kilgore

Posted on 05/22/2018 1:59:50 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

It’s the sort of thing that drives animal-rights advocates and other elite bunny-hugging liberals wild, to the delight of politically incorrect red-blooded MAGA-men. As NBC News reports, the Trump administration is bringing back savage hunting techniques to federal lands in Alaska:

The Trump administration is moving to reverse Obama-era rules barring hunters on some public lands in Alaska from baiting brown bears with bacon and doughnuts and using spotlights to shoot mother black bears and cubs hibernating in their dens.

There are a lot of humans, much less bears, who can’t resist bacon and doughnuts. But before you can say “Sarah Palin,” there’s more:

Under the proposed changes, hunters would also be allowed to hunt black bears with dogs, kill wolves and pups in their dens, and use motor boats to shoot swimming caribou.

These and other hunting methods - condemned as cruel by wildlife protection advocates - were outlawed on federal lands in 2015. That was, of course, under President Obama, who hated Real Americans.

(Excerpt) Read more at nymag.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: alaska; bears; regulation
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To: Dr. Sivana

Baiting deer is legal in many States.


61 posted on 05/22/2018 4:54:02 PM PDT by gundog (Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
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To: EVO X

We never baited the bears...We’d drive the logging roads and have a “strike” dog on the hood or the top...Believe it or not, a good “strike” dog could smell if a bear had crossed or went down the logging road in the past few hours...He’d start baying, then we’d get the trail dogs out and have at it...


62 posted on 05/22/2018 4:56:28 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: gundog

Never saw a reason to bait deer or hunt deer with dogs...They are such creatures of habit, scouting will help you find where they move and where to set up your stand...


63 posted on 05/22/2018 4:58:07 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: JBW1949

Ever hunt black tailed deer? They are not creatures of habit like white tails.


64 posted on 05/22/2018 5:03:52 PM PDT by gundog (Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
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To: gundog

I’ve heard stories from the Depression Era, I think, around here. Dogs would be used to push all the deer in an area to the beach, and then up against a jetty to be shot. Currently illegal to hunt them with dogs.


65 posted on 05/22/2018 5:07:49 PM PDT by gundog (Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
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To: gundog

Nope...As far as I know they aren’t any in Tennessee that I know of...


66 posted on 05/22/2018 5:15:15 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: gundog

Dog hunting for deer is legal in Alabama and Eastern North Carolina...Probably plent of other places also, I guess...Most all my deer hunting has been in East and Middle Tennessee...


67 posted on 05/22/2018 5:17:56 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: Sacajaweau

I’m ranch raised and to this day I shoot all my beef and pork right between the eyes just before I slit their throats.

Some of these posters seem to think that the beef, pork, chicken, and fish they eat just magically appear in their grocery stores. Somebody is killing all of the meat poultry and fish they eat weather they like to deal with it or not.

My attitude is that if you eat store bought meat but bitch about my hunting you are nothing but a hypocrite and a coward.

The coward part come in if they don’t have the gonads to kill the meat they eat.

I’ve never in my life told a city slicker flat-lander how to live or tried to impose my values on them. In return they need to stay in their cities and keep their mouth and lunatic ideas away from me and the cultures that actually feed their sorry asses.


68 posted on 05/22/2018 5:31:37 PM PDT by oldenuff35
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To: JBW1949

No, they’re a west coast thing. Personally, I like(d) still hunting or trail watching. Baiting would require polluting the baited area with human scent. In Texas, where mesquite can limit visibility and people pay big bucks to hunt big antlers, baiting is the norm. Running a deer down with dogs doesn’t hold any appeal for me.


69 posted on 05/22/2018 5:33:01 PM PDT by gundog (Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
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To: gundog

we can have one dog per hunter when hunting deer in cali.


70 posted on 05/22/2018 5:34:54 PM PDT by oldenuff35
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To: gundog

Big antlers do nothing me...Can’t eat antlers...

I taught my son that the first legal deer he sees goes in the freezer....


71 posted on 05/22/2018 5:36:06 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: Sacajaweau

Hunting bear with dogs? Why?

If you don’t understand, you probably won’t


72 posted on 05/22/2018 6:04:48 PM PDT by Figment
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To: JBW1949

Or to a PP abortion clinic/baby chop shop.

Then give me lectures on “cruelty” you lying hypocrites.


73 posted on 05/22/2018 6:34:43 PM PDT by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a warning to all anti-semites.)
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To: oldenuff35

I had a Rottweiller with the patience to sit still. I’d be worried that some Fudd would shoot her, though.


74 posted on 05/22/2018 6:36:47 PM PDT by gundog (Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
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To: Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi

Exactly!!!!!!!


75 posted on 05/22/2018 6:36:57 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: gundog

Like the woman on her first deer hunt...She shoots and heads down to her kill...
A man is atanding over it and and she yells “Get away!!! That’s MY deer!!!”

He steps back and says “OK...You can have it...Just let me get my saddle off!!!”


76 posted on 05/22/2018 6:43:40 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

There is nothing inherently cruel about luring a bear with bait or with any of those other hunting methods.


77 posted on 05/22/2018 6:48:42 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: Beagle8U
I really doubt anyone is shooting black bears and their cubs while they are “hibernating in their dens”. That is just liberal BS!

Sounds like BS to me too.

78 posted on 05/22/2018 6:58:39 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: gundog

“Running a deer down with dogs doesn’t hold any appeal for me.”

Deer dogs don’t run deer down, they just track the deer and the deer will circle back to the hunters. Beagles are popular deer dogs in the south, they are slower but the deer run a smaller circle.


79 posted on 05/22/2018 9:12:54 PM PDT by Beagle8U (Liberals can kiss my bitter clingers!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Obama put the restrictions in place?

Why didn’t Hillary’s Husband Bill do it when he was POTUS?


80 posted on 05/22/2018 9:20:06 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The only good Commie is a dead Commie. Cast your Vote Accordingly.)
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