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!
if that is the case, so is water, which technicaly it is bait, but IF your in the big woods like me, water holes are natural so to me if its natural i dont mind, but i wouldnt take 50 pounds of corn and a week later come back and hunt that pile, i would use corn for trail cams, but i dont use them, but if i found a seclued corn field or any corn field i would hunt it, hunting any kind of food source, beans, corn, grass, moss, whate ever, its all bait, so unless you only hunt the trails, that the deer are using you are hunting over or with the aid of bait, but to me aslong as your not dumping a pile of corn all over the ground and hunting it i dont mind. so i am trying to say dont go over board on the whole bait thing, if the food is natural (not meant for deer, other animal ie cattle) then who cares