ORIGINAL: Mountain Cur

I take exception to what Alsheimer and a lot of you others have to say when comparing to baiting to food plots. Its easy to take the high road and say that they aren't the same thing when comparing wether or not either practice is beneficial to deer, but they fail to seperate this from a purely hunting aspect. I fully agree that cornhas basically no nutritional value to a deer other than building fat reserves as compared to a food plot that is high in nutrients and protein, but when you plant that plot for the purpose of hunting, you are planning on killing something are you not, and when that corn pile is placed you are planning on killing something are you not? What about that mock scrape, or scent bombs, surely you're not using them just to view nature, more than likely you are planning on killing something. This goes back to a statement I made in the deer dogging debate, sadly we as a hunting community have glorified the whitetail deer to the point to where hunters are always arguing amongst themselves on issues such as this. Having said all of this, most of you will be surprised at my next statement, I live where baiting is legal, but I would love to see it made illegal for the sole reason that I wouldn't have to buy the stuff anymore and try and keep it out on 9 different stands. I would love to hunt our deer in an environment where they had to fend for themselves and havenatural travel patterns.We have around 400 acres that is surrounded by a club of 10,000 acres and one that is 3,500 acres, within 200 to 400yds of just about any of our stands their is gonna be a cornpile. Bad thing about that though is it could never be properly enforced and we'd still be in the same boat we're in now. But don't sit on your high horse and tell me hunting over a plot or a standing crop field is any better ethically, results wise yeah I gaurantee ya'll have it better!