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.
You highlighted what you wanted to hear in my statement and TOTALLY disregarded the rest of it....which SPECIFICALLY addressed the cover issue. We can discuss the use of corn as cover if you want....but the thread is discussing baiting. Cat tails would work for cover. Conceded.
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????
Before you talk down your nose to/at me.....understand I've killed 14 deer via bow in the last two years and haven't baited one of them. If you wanna discuss how I hunt....I'd be happy to.
One other difference is that one is put there specifically to attract deer and the other one was put there to eventually harvest. Oh yeah, one other difference is that you can get a depradation permit to keep the deer from eating one out of season and the other one can only be hunted during the proper season. There may be more but those came to mind right now.
Bruce:
I know people here who plant corn and soy beans with NO interest in harvesting the first bushel. I see 'em knocked down and combined in the fields. You think I'm kidding.....but I'm not. What's the difference in this and baiting? I'm not taling about an acre, either.
