Letter of the Day: Bear-baiting's bad name is undeserved
Bear baiting isn’t what it sounds like. Sadly, most don’t understand what ‘baiting’ is and are using the word ‘bait’ to imagine drunken, hillbillies out in their farm yards putting barbecue steaks on their front lawn to get bears to come right up to them so they can shoot them from their front porch. YEEHAW!
Let me explain to you what it is: Bear hunters will find a spot hours away from camp or towns to find a place for a bear bait. We go up two times in the s
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