Tim:

Fair outlook......but if you have 3 acres of shelled corn or 3 acres of soy beans......what's the REAL difference?

FOR THE RECORD:
I live in a state that allows baiting. I keep a feeder up all year long (except during turkey season....and then it's just empty) to feed the deer. I hunted over this feeder, some, my first season......and baited a certain field with apples, that year. I talked to some guys here that I trust a LOT when it comes to all things DEER. They convinced me to try something this year that would change the way I deer hunted, .......FOREVER. They convinced me that it was easier to kill deer (around here, at least) when you were NOT hunting over bait. They told me deer coming to bait were extremely skiddish (which I've found them to be)....and that animals traveling their normal routes aren't (which I've found to be true). I can ONLY say for me that NOT hunting bait (for deer.....which is all I can speak intelligently to) has made a HUGE difference in my success.

The only reason I mention THAT is........it's typically the people sho've never hunted over bait that seem to know all about it (and I PROMISE I'm singling NO ONE out when I say that). It's also funny that a lot of the same people that find baiting deer disgusting.....will seemingly have no problems with baiting other animals (or sitting on a water hole in Africa). It just seems hypocritical, to me.

This thread was tointended to just make people think aboutothers.....and look outside the box.

Dan.....I'll be in your area this weekend. We have friends in Ontario.....and we'reheaded up there, Friday night. We're headed to Huntsville, Saturday morning. I packed my warm undies.