Here in WI, we are under a "no baiting" law, which basically means that you cant bait or feed any deer. But, in the same law, there is a stipulation that says you can hunt over any plot or crop field. Now, I dont know about the rest of the people out there that can/are baiting, but me, all the bait I have ever used comes from the same place that the deer eat from in the wild. I used corn, apples, "honey-balls", acorns, any natural food that I knew deer needed and ate. These same food types come from the plots and crop fields that are legal to hunt.Here, we also have the CWD. This is why they have decided to ban the baiting, because of worries of passing the disease through the deer that are just congregating in one small area. But in the same sense, a food plot, can be as little as an acre or even half an acre, and you mean to tell me that deer cant congregate there also! And, besides, in all the research and all the times spent in the woods, I have come to believe that deer are browsers, and will keep on moving onto different foods that they need. This is a very controversal subject in WI, both for and against have good, reasonsable reasons why there should or should not be a ban, but think about this; if you had50 deer in a 100 acre woods, and in the middle was a 5-10 gallon sized spot of food, and on the very edge was a 100 acre crop field, how many deer do think are really going to get to eat the 5-10 gallon spot before having to move on? Just my opinion.
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