You can place" one " stand to cover a bait pile.Where do youplace " one "stand tocover all300 acres ofa corn field?? I am not following you on how a baitpile and a corn field is the same. A baitpile concentrates the deer to a specific very small area.300 acres isn't what I consider a specificvery small area. Deer can'thide in a bait pile... they can in a corn field.

You can't generalize.Each is different. Just as comparing ag land hunting to big woods huntingor bear hunting to deer hunting. We seem to get locked up in our own little world and judge others on our own little world. These forums should show us that there is a bigger world out there then our own little world.

Each statesets up guide lines ( laws )to manage animal populations. Baiting bearsis an effecient way of managing them when other methods won't work for that area. Bottom line... the bears need to be managed by the state.

Deer.... we have a lot more methods for hunting and more people hunting them compared to bears. While baitingcan be aneffective way ofkilling deer, there are downsides. Those downsides can and do effect hunters who don't bait. There is your problem in a nutshell. I don't surf the bear forums as we don't have bears here and I haveno real interest in traveling to hunt them.Are there as manybear baiting bashing threads... errr debates in the bear forums like we seein the deer forums?? Does bear baiting effect the non-baiting bear hunter in the same area?? I bet not and think you are comparing apples to oranges... eeerrrrr bait piles to corn fields.

Tim