ORIGINAL: BowHuntingFool
Excellent post Cloudster!!!!!!!! Respect!
Far from it.
The difference between a Food plot and a Corn field, Alphalpha field, Soybean field, and an Apple Orchard is. One is put there to attract deer (Food Plots....weather it is clover, soybeans corn fields etc.), or bait them to a specific area, the others arethere for agricultural purposes/reasons (Mainly feeding people or live stock).
So explain the difference in placing a stand over either saying that they are both 50 acres in size compared to a 55 gallon pile of corn 10 yards from a stand?
Do I categorize putting a pile of corn out the same as the fore mentioned fields? Most defiantly not, nor did I ever try to. I was only pointing out your misguided logic in the statement made in your first reply....the fact that if the plot is bigger then a pile of corn it is better, that is just plain silly.
How is it misguided or even silly if you yourself wouldn't catagorize them the same. I never said that " if the plot is bigger than a pile of corn, it is better". That doesn't even make sense.
I said:
A food plot could be 50 acres or it could be a 1/4 acre. You cannot put these into the same catagorie as a pile of corn 10 yards from a stand. A deer could visit the food plot and never offer an inrange bow shot.
He said:
So if I spread my "bait pile" or corn over 1/4 acer I should be good. I think that hunting over a pile of corn may give you a little bit of an advantage over the food plot but......they are both as good at "drawing" deer to your stand....if you sit over your food plot you will get the job done just the same as sitting over a pile of corn, it just might take you a day or two longer.
Again, I said:
A food plot could be 50 acres......A deer could visit the food plot and never offer an inrange bow shot.
I believe that there is little difference in baiting deer with a clover field vs. a corn pile, they both have the same effect.....drawing deer near the hunter.
But you do if it's planted for agricultural reasons?
And BHF,
that made it an excellent post?