ORIGINAL: salty
hunting over bait is not hunting. It is sitting and waiting for an animal to come in to your pile of food placed in the woods or wherever you are hunting (sitting).. Hunting is actually getting off your rear end and searching for rubs/scrapes, actual real food sources and outsmarting your buck/doe whichever. I am not one to preach but baiting is just plain old cheating. Anyone can carry a bucket of apples in the woods and sit 50 yards away with the 30-06 and pick off deer one by one but what fun is that? I personally like to challenge myself and see how good my skills are in actual real life hunting situations. I'd rather go 5 years without a bow kill than have to throw 100 pounds of corn 20 yards from my stand to get a decent buck.
Just as I think I'm out, I get sucked back in. Arggghhh!!!!![:@]
"Cheating"? "Real life hunting situations"? Smoke a few more hog legs, Skip! You've never hunted over bait I presume... have you ever even hunted? If so then you must be congnisant of a deer's senses, right? Regardless if you get within bow range by setting up over "rubs/scrapes, actual real food sources" (and everyone has enough land to be that selective, right?) or bait, you still have to close the deal, no? Why does it matter what placed the deer within bow range be it scent, stand placement, rattling, calls, luck, bait, whatever? Sitting and waiting for a deer to come into a bait pile is much different than sitting and waiting for a deer to come into a natural food source (bait), or to a rub line or scrape, right? Some of you people blow my mind.
