Why bait? Why not, if you can and you plan on eating the deer you shoot? Farmers put cattle on corn a few months before the slaughter house to fatten up and sweeten the meat. You wouldn't like eating a cow thats only been grazing in the field.

If and when I bait, I hunt right on top of the pile. I'm doing it to kill deer for processing for my own. I kill deer in the woods only to kill deer. I give pretty much all away unless it's a bambi. Those I may keep as my own but haven't in years.

This all may sound harsh, but in my eyes deer are big rats. They eat all my landscaping, carry a bunch of diseases and/or parasitesand are a threat to humans with the population out of control. For those who think PETA can make hunting illeagal, PETA just got rocked today. Experts believe the E-coli out break in spinach was cause by wild hogs. Looks like someone needs to hunt them more in Ca.