I use dairy ration (horse feed)not trash, with molasses mixed in. Also used is a lot of candy corn and gummy worms. I do not use trash, and don't know of many respecitable outfitters that would. The bait I use is totally edible, just in case I got stranded out baiting, I have something to eat.

You bet I like to shoot game at short distances. It's avery ethical and sucessfull way to hunt. Just like Elkcrazy8 touched upon, hunting deer over a travel route, or a farmers field as they either come to feed or to bed, turkeys in the morning where they like to roost, squirrel's in the timber, pheasants in CRP or after the first snow of the year, hunting a low pressure just after a long period of high, moose during the rut, deer during the rut, elk during the rut, ect...You get the picture. It is our responsibility to the game we hunt to make a quick clean kill, so for me (and a lot of other hunters) that's getting them in close.