ORIGINAL: GMMAT
You just don't "get it" do ya???? Aren't you in Wisconsin???? The state with the CWD Problem???? Go back and read again, CWD IS CONTAGIOUS, AND IS SPREAD BY CONGREGATING DEER, that's WHY it's ILLEGAL in most of the places it's illegal!!!!
There's never been a case of CWD documented (or even reported to my knowledge) in NC.....yet we see thousands and thousands of hunters bait every year.
The skyisn't falling, here.
GR8.....
a bait pile and a corn field are the same insofar as they are both artificial. Past that....the differences are the size, only (as they relate to being "BAIT").......being utilized as cover notwithstanding.
No Jeff, they're NOT. A pile of corn doesn't allow the deer to hide in it, maybe even to the extent that you don't even know that a certain deer exists until the corn is cut. When you have a few hundred acres of corn, sometimes the deer take up living in it, and REALLY don't appear until it's been cut and they have no place to hide anymore. It's not the SAME by any means. The only thing that is the same is there IS corn, but one 3'x3' pile of corn is completely different than a 50 acre cornfield, or a 200acre cornfield that the deer have literally been living in for the first 5 weeks of hunting season until it's cut.
Jeff,
If you don't know how to hunt and NEED bait to kill deer, I understand, and that's ok. (
NOTE: EXTREME SARCASM!!!) I'm not totally against baiting, I just think it takes some of the "HUNT" out of it. Go to a state that doesn't allow hunting then what do you do???? Then you actually have learn to scout, learn to read sign, and pick a spot and trial it to see if the deer are moving through it in the morning or evening, or if they are even using it at all when you could actually shoot them????
virginshadow,
There's a different between deer congregating under an big massive oak tree in a 50ft radius, and deer congregating on a pile of corn that is 3' x 3'. Read the article, don't just refute what is said because I say it. I'm just putting forth what he true SCIENTISTS aka WILDLIFE BIOLOGISTS found, not some rhetoric that I made up.