RE: baiting response
Dont get me wrong...I am all about hunting with what works. I have food plots, and my original post was the debate. We have had confirmed CWD cases here, and I was concerned about the ethical ramifications of my growing corn, alfalfa, clover, etc. I have hunted with dogs, usually later in the shotgun season...hell my best friend has 14 blueticks and walkers.
My disgust is that others around you just dont get the fact that dogs are hard to contain when hunting. Down here they say a day out hunting with your dogs, is another out hunting your dogs! I was on my hunting land a month after season ended tilling and burning brush, and at midnight there were 3 hounds running deer through my land. I caught one of the dogs and called the number on the collar, and the guy just said..."oh, they will come back when they are tired of running". Not everyone wants to hunt with the dogs...all of the time! Especially when Im bowhunting and setting up on a trail, I get real ticked off when hounds are chasing deer around off season.
If you raise or hunt with dogs...just respect the hunter on the land next to you. Keep them penned up while out of season, and invest with radio collars so you can locate them and get them back in the box!
My two cents! Im done!