I don't see the difference between baiting and planting food plots specifically for deer. I'm stationed at Parris Island Recruit Depot here in SC and we conduct deer reduction hunts twice a month. During these hunts, the deer are baited at the 32 different stands throughout the base with corn. The hunters are also allowed to shoot any deer they want even if it has spots. I don't agree with this but they do it. After all, it is to reduce the population. But over on the Beaufort Air Station across town, they do not allow baiting. But they have food plots planted on 4 of the hunting areas. Naturally, these are the first areas that get checked out on hunting days. No baiting, but we can hunt right on top of the food plots if we want. I agree that over baiting would attract more deer which is the opposite of what they're trying to accomplish, but aren't the food plots affectively accomplishing the same thing????

By the way, baiting is legal in SC for deer. But not on the Air Station.