Hunting over bait is a tactic like anything else. If you hunt over a trail, then are essentially doing the same thing--waiting on a deer that you KNOW is going to come by. How is that any less cheating? Based on this logic that hunting over bait is cheating just because you know a deer is going to come (even though you really don't), then it seems that hunting over a trail or using camouflage or rattling or hunting over acorns is the exact same thing. Heck, you shouldn't even be using a broadhead if hunting over bait is cheating, you should have to hit them with a brick. A broadhead is just too easy.

You wouldn't criticize a bobcat for hunting rabbits where rabbits like to feed, would you? We are predators too, and we do what we know works. That is called smart hunting, not cheating. You have to go where the game is, or find some way to bring them in. That is called tactics. I can tell you this...I can't wait to climb over my feeder stand this weekend as soon as I get the chance. I hope a deer comes into the corn and that I harvest that deer.