Maybe I bait different from what you have seen, I don't know. I don't have 1,000s of pounds of corn in a pile. At each stand, I spread out a 50lb bag, NOT PILES, under white oaks and in my food plots.

Some stands I don't use bait at all and I see just as many deer at these stands.

Point is that everything "baiters" say, "non-baiters" will contridict. My point is, hunting is getting enough bad publicity from PETA and other anti-hunting orgs. And If you read close enough, this subject has come up in EVERY forum that I have ever read and even has had some "non-baiters" calling "baiters" pochers. We sure as hell don't need to be fighting amongst ourselves.

As for the logging, I know that other parts of the country get cleared and it is sad that this happens. A clear cut area is great for a few years, but then when the pines get tall enough to start shading out everything else, thats when it becomes a problem. Here where I live the soil is very sandy so it takes an area a long time to start to grow after it is cleared. So, I see nothing wrong with planting food plots or putting out corn to help these deer get some nutrition.

You ask why I plant food plots and bait if I say it doesn't help with me seeing anymore deer? Just b/c I don't see them, doesn't mean they aren't getting the nutritrion from the food. If they deer don't eat, they don't live, then I don't see anything. You know?

Anyways, I am sure this thread will be torn apart, but thats what makes our country so great. Just don't let it get to the point where we are fighting agmonst ourselves and ruining hunting as a whole.