We all know we come here for good information and the camaraderie of our fellow hunters. This topic of bait seems to have so many people upset to whether it is ok or not. The big picture should be focused on a couple of points… one is it legal in your state and how does it if it does impact your native animals.

I personal think that selective baiting (food plots, corn feeders, etc.) is not as harmful and some other types of baiting I have seen on so many of these hunting programs that are publicly broadcasted on this site. Typically most questions can be answered in so few of words, but this one may not be.

One question that could be asked is… In Texas and so many hunting shows hunt there for free I might guess, just to show the property on TV why is it these ranches that own thousands of acres then they drive down the roads and dump not just corn but process food pellets like they were spreading salt on the highway in the dead of winter.. Would you consider that fair chase…is there a difference…? How bout these ranches with their 12 foot high fences completely enclosing their property to only charge thousands of dollars to shoot an animal… I never knew African game was possible in the United States… why would you want to drag an animal all the way from Africa to Texas just to raise it in the big enclosed caged property… oh yeah.. we do it because we can charge some dumb person from New Jersey thousand ‘s of dollars to go down there sit in a highly equipped deer stand with lights and power and water and windows and range cards to shoot some sorry animal… is that fair chase….

We’ve gotten off the topic but they all wind up in the same category…. Everyone is trying to have the best possiblity in harvesting a animal cleanly and safely…. The problems fall into the comparision of the big outfits to you and your neighbor…The things these big hunting outfits do is so much greater in scale then what some little land owner who owns 40 acres and puts up a feeder, takes some nice photos while he’s hunting and shows them to friends and family do… so why aren’t we complaining about that…. Why aren’t we asking them to open up their land and let a limited ammount of people hunt their property without paying thousands of dollars…

So to answer your question in my opinion I think if you bait responsibly you can do your animals a benefit as well as harvesting a animal for the frezzer…

As in one guy said go back to the way it was meant to… well if you read what he put in his signature, he quoted that he uses every hi-tech cojmponent possible…

Why isn’t he using a long bow with wooden arrows and stone points or a flint lock muzzleloader…. Why aren’t you practicing what you preech… high power optics, 80% left off bows, saboted slugs….. these are just as much a advantage as baiting…

I think we need to step back and look at it from different sides… be responsible and carign for our wildlife and be greatful for what we have rather then complaining about what someone else is doing…

So grow up and worry about whats in your back yard rather then whats in someone else… most people wouldn’t like it if other worried about what they did…

Especially you mr jo cop…