Me thinks that people who call 100% legal hunters slobs, mostly do it to inflate their little ego's! That, "I'm a better hunter than you," attitude!
As said before Texas has plenty of baiting, and NO, NONE, CWD!!!!!
Again as others have said, it might be different if there was snow on the ground, there was no other natural food around, and the deer were starving! In that case, the bait would be a "magnet!"
Where I hunt, there aren't many planted crops to hover over, but theres tons of natural foods! So its a grave misconception that "you put out bait just in any old spot, and presto, every deer in the countycomes to it!"
In the end, lots of things could be concidered unethical. In-lines, cross bows, compound bows, scents, decoys, scopes, the small crops that the farmers "happen" to not completly harvest, baiting, food plots, drives! Have I missed much of anything?
Anyway, the Native Americans, which were NOT from India BTW, and also the settlers used most of the above listed hunting methods that were available to them at the time!
The bottom line is; if its legal, you have a choice, if its not legal, you have no choice!
If thinking thatyourhunting methodmakes you so much better,and pumps your ego, by all means, go ahead! Think what you want!
Thinking it, doesn't necesarily make it so!