bears should be left alone. there is no reason to kill them.
Despite ever rising quotas allowing more bears to be taken every couple/few years, their population still continues to boom. When I first started hunting I think they only allowed 1000 bears to be taken each year, and they were talking about how there was a record 10,000ish bears in california. Now I believe they allow 1500 to be killed and there's between 20,000 and 30,000 bears in california.
Black bears are highly adaptable and are very opportunistic. They very rarely will take down game on their own, but you can damn sure bet they'll take full advantage of somebody's deer that got away or hid too well after being shot. And if that doesn't work they'll just root through your garbage, which actually makes them get bigger quicker than their natural foods, as well as making them breed more offspring.
There's something about bears that keeps me from being able to kill them, but I'll surely eat their meat if somebody puts some in front of me :licklips: It's just a bummer that my stand up freezer just recently took a dump
