TJD, this may help you understand the difference of how baiting effects a regular deer season in comparison to an eradication zone...

There are three parcel of land all adjacent to each other. The one on the East is owned by logs, the one in the middle by Layzhunter and the one on the West by TJD. The goal is to harvest three deer and each hunter draws one tag.

Layzhunter is the only one that baits deer. Each one hunts and is allowed one deer and there is a nine day season. Layzhunter has the deer coming into his feeder every day. It is to the point that the deer do not need to travel onto logs or tjd's land since they get all the food they want on layzhunters. Layz shoots a deer early in the hunt but continues to feed year round. Neither logs or tjd get a deer. This is bad.

Now same situation but now we want to harvest all the deer on these three parcel and we have month to do accopmlish it. This is being done because some deer have a deadly illness and there is no know why to contian it. The land owners are allowed to kill all the deer. layzhunter hunts over his feeder and kills all the deer in 3 months.
Mission accomplished.
In the first situation baiting is used by only 33% of the hunters and it is not effective for the overall hunt, whereas the goal was for every hunter to get one deer. In the second situation baiting is effective.

So baiting is effective and yet it does detract or adversely effect a regular harvest.

At least that's what the Magic eightball said.


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