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10-30-2014, 12:14 PM
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Pork meat to bait bears?
I'd like to put some light on this:
Years ago when I first started working for an outfitter the guy who taught me to bait bear told me bear don't eat pork meat. Funny I thought.
We were using scrap meat (mix of pork and beef) from the butcher and old donuts to bait them and it's true that when there was left over after a bear had visited my baits, it was the pork meat. Everything else was gone but the pork. This didn't only happen once it was an every day observation at the 10 or so baiting site I was tending to. Did the bear eat some of it or did it avoided all of it that I don't know.
Is this something others have observed? Is this "bear don't eat pork" real? If so do we have references of that? And if it's all false, you have any idea of I could observe this all the time?
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10-30-2014, 12:47 PM
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Muslim bears!!!!
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10-30-2014, 12:48 PM
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Best bait for bears in the spring: Greman Rye Bread and Donuts!
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10-30-2014, 12:54 PM
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Originally Posted by unclebuck
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Man you just made my day I'm crying tears of joy here.
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10-30-2014, 01:21 PM
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Ok lets test who wants to be covered in Bacon fat and run around a bear den?
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10-30-2014, 01:46 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Arnak
I'd like to put some light on this:
Years ago when I first started working for an outfitter the guy who taught me to bait bear told me bear don't eat pork meat. Funny I thought.
We were using scrap meat (mix of pork and beef) from the butcher and old donuts to bait them and it's true that when there was left over after a bear had visited my baits, it was the pork meat. Everything else was gone but the pork. This didn't only happen once it was an every day observation at the 10 or so baiting site I was tending to. Did the bear eat some of it or did it avoided all of it that I don't know.
Is this something others have observed? Is this "bear don't eat pork" real? If so do we have references of that? And if it's all false, you have any idea of I could observe this all the time?
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Not sure if it is true but if somehow it is proven that bears don't eat pork... the next time I go into bear country I'm leaving the bear spray at home and wearing a pork chop necklace around my neck. And hanging a pigs foot at each corner of my camp.
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10-30-2014, 02:13 PM
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mmmmm pigs foot
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10-30-2014, 11:12 PM
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He did say they ate everything BUT the pork...so maybe keep the bear spray or you'll be a part of the everything 
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10-30-2014, 11:49 PM
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bears and pork
They eat pork, as least they did at my baits. Mix of meat scraps from a butcher, everything gone all the time. Baccon grease/fat left over in frying pan seems to be a favorite as well, rubbed on the sun facing side of trees really smells up the bush when it warms up, kinda makes a hunter hungry. I'm sure the curing, salting or smoking for the baccon have a lot to do with that though. Who knows, maybe the bears you were dealing with were problem bears relocated from the middle east. Happy hunting.
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10-31-2014, 06:56 AM
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Originally Posted by unclebuck
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Or maybe Jewish???
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10-31-2014, 07:05 AM
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Or maybe Jewish???
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lol, I have used fish at some of my baits when I started to hunt bears years ago, they avoided that too, which I thought was strange. Maybe they are coneseurs!
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10-31-2014, 07:35 AM
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Originally Posted by SBE2
They eat pork, as least they did at my baits. Mix of meat scraps from a butcher, everything gone all the time. Baccon grease/fat left over in frying pan seems to be a favorite as well, rubbed on the sun facing side of trees really smells up the bush when it warms up, kinda makes a hunter hungry. I'm sure the curing, salting or smoking for the baccon have a lot to do with that though. Who knows, maybe the bears you were dealing with were problem bears relocated from the middle east. Happy hunting.
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That alone pretty much void that "don't eat pork" thing. I wonder why those observations I made tho. You bring a good theory with curing or smoking. I don't remember that but who knows maybe it was.
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10-31-2014, 06:18 PM
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Used to be a pig farm in the James River area, with a lot of Dead Stock. Prime draw for Grizzlies.
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10-31-2014, 07:57 PM
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They like pork over beef I can guarantee that..tested an proven!
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11-01-2014, 04:50 AM
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I know black bear will eat a bear carcass. I can't imagine why they would be fussy about pork.
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11-01-2014, 10:01 AM
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I used tons and tons of pork scrapes from the butcher when I was outfitting for baited black bears. They never left any of it on the ground.
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11-01-2014, 03:56 PM
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Well I think it's clear. Whoever taught me that was wrong and I followed that advice for way too long! Thanks all
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