First ya'll do understand that we will never get any agreement on this...right? Also as hunters the best thing that we can do is hunt whatever way we like as long as it is legal AND support the next guys right to do the same thing...right again?

Do on with the show. If you have never hunted my situation, then you are a fool to pass judgment on it. Just like I would be a fool to pass judgment on the way you do thing is I have never been there with you. Having a feeder out is not really any different then any of the following....putting out doe urine, blowing a grunt call, rattling, hunting any type of agricultural field, during harvest leaving a strip or 2 of standing corn, deer drives (the whole purpose of the drive is to bring deer to you), and I am sure that I could list some more if I took the time.

If you want to stretch this argument the problem many have with baiting is that it stacks the odds in the hunter favor right? Well then how about your cover scents, scentlok, climbing deer stands, better scopes, better ammo, better guns. All of these are engineered to give the hunter an advantage. So unless you are jumping out of trees and killing them with a stick you are at least to some degree doing the same thing that someone that baits is doing. You are trying to stack the odds in your favor.

Also you really need to understand that hunting in different parts of the country can be very, very different. In Texas deer can bed anywhere, can eat anywhere. You do not get all of the nice funnel areas, the bedding areas, the staging areas. Over 90% of the place that I hunt is so thick that you cannot see more then 30 yards in any direction. Now I could ease though the brush and kill a deer, BUT it is hard to manage a herd that way. I need to see the animal, age and evaluate that animal, and then decide if I want to take that animal. In most of the whitetails range the problem is to many animals, so over harvest is not the problem. If it were then you would see many of the things that hunters do to stack the odds in our favor fall out of favor.

I am just saying that being a little less judgmental would probably serve all of us well. If you want to hunt in a pink tutu while wearing a green wig well......as long as it is legal then I will support your right to do it.

-john