ORIGINAL: OHbowhntr
ORIGINAL: txjourneyman
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ORIGINAL: txjourneyman
Does the cornfield help you pattern the deer? Can you watch for a day or 2 and know when and where they will enter? Yeah, I thought so. One big bait pile!
Ridiculous comparison.
Why? Really, why? Each way can help a hunter pattern deer and get a shot opportunity. it may take longer in a corn field but deer are creatures of habit. Find where they enter and exit and chances are if you set up there they will come by again.
OK, some of y'all don't "GET IT," so let me help you out. BAIT PILES HELP INCREASE THE SPREAD OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES!!!!! And that's why y'all in WISC. are allowed to use them. Ever hear of this disease call
Chronic Wasting
Disease????
Disease!!!! That's what it's ALL ABOUT!!!!
Tx.
If it wasn't in your screen-name, I'd have known where you were from anyhow based on your responses. You don't hunt bait piles of feeders do you????
(because I think I already know this answer!!!
) If you think a corn field is the same as a bait pile or a feeder, you are SADLY mistaken. If it were "JUST THAT EASY," I'd have a wall full of Booners, but it ain't just that easy. And I'd rather not see corn up, I'm a much bigger fan of Soy Beans, because deer can't hide in them. Not sure if you knew this, but our corn up here is FIELD CORN, it grows to 8-10ft high in MANY places, and our deer, contrary to popular believe, AREN'T quite that big. If corn is up, I have to change my hunting plan completely vs. beans being planted. And being a Bow-only hunter, a corn field don't put deer within range as long as they're where they can eat corn, give me a feeder or a bait pile, and any deer eating IS "within range."
Are bait piles BAD??? Form your own opinion, but if you start having outbreaks of bovine tuberculosis, and 40% of your population dies off, then you may be in the opinion that they are. If blue tongue (EHD) were a contagious disease that could be passed from animal to animal, then a larger number of deer would die in areas that are stricken with it each year, including my areas last year, fortunately it is not. But BAIT PILES congregate deer in close proximity, and increase spread of disease, plain and simple. You wouldn't want to be crammed into and elevator with 3 or 4 people with colds that kept coughing and not covering their face would you???? Want to drink after someone with a nasty cold sore on their mouth????? No thanks!!!!