A cunning old grisly however, soon learns the danger, and is then almost impossible to trap, as it either avoids the neighborhood altogether or finds out some way by which to get at the bait without springing the trap, or else deliberately springs it first.

I have been told of bears which spring traps by rolling across them, the iron jaws slipping harmlessly off the big round body.

An old horse is the most common bait.
It is, of course, all right to trap bears when they are followed merely as vermin or for the sake of the fur.

Occasionally, however, hunters who are out merely for sport adopt this method; but this should never be done.

To shoot a trapped bear for sport is a thoroughly unsportsmanlike proceeding.