RE: Why bait?
Do you hunt over a corn or bean field? The farms I hunt on grow cattle not veggies. I have 2 feeders on the property. I do not hunt over them I use them to attract deer and keep them on the property. The bait I put out is a managment tool much like a food plot would be. I have killed 2 deer and one hogso far this season. All of them were killed in a patch of oaks while feeding on acorns. I was 1/4 mile away from the closest feeder. Since the acorns were scattered all over the ground and I found them and the evidence that deer were feeding there, and I set up there and ambushed the deer was that not bait? Is a corn field a natural food source? Or a soybean field, or an apple orchard? Or any farm for that matter? Is Tinks 69 bait? What about Trails end?