paleraider
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Has anyone successfully hunted a bear over a gut pile from their own elk or deer kill? I am looking to hunt Elk and Mule deer in Idaho this season, and was wondering is it even something worthwhile to pursue in the fall?
Make it look like a coincidence, it's technically illegal. If there are many bears in the area and you have time, there's a decent chance for it to work.
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Make it look like a coincidence, it's technically illegal. If there are many bears in the area and you have time, there's a decent chance for it to work.
It's illegal to use wild game to bait in Idaho, but if you just left the carcass where you killed it, maybe it wouldn't be considered baiting. I'd do it personally, as long as you don't arrange it as a bait site I can't imagine they'd find anything wrong with shooting a bear off it. The law is to prevent wildlife being harvested and wasted as bear bait, so a chance encounter over a gut pile shouldn't be a problem.
How is it technically illegal?
In Washington where near baiting is illegal rcw 77.15.245 (d) talks about exposing, disturbed, placed.... If we don't place, intentionally disturb or expose gut piles you can hunt over them.
Like Lang said, it would only be illegal if all of the required portions of the meat were not removed from the animal. Then it would be two violations, wanton waste of a game animal and illegal baiting. I had a co-worker get cited for both violations several years ago because one hindquarters was bloodshot and he didn't remove it. By the time the F&G got there it was difficult to tell if it was bloodshot or not so he received a citation and lost his hunting privileges for a year along with a fine. A few years later he was unable to get a high paying DOE job because of that citation. Just take everything into consideration before deciding to do something that can be accomplished more easily with a bait permit and a pile of doughnuts.