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Old 12-01-2009 | 06:27 AM
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teedub31
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Got another scenario for you guys to consider. Apples and acorns are natural and you can hunt these. Corn and bean fields are "natural" and you can hunt these.

However can you hunt a picked corn field that has a few piles of corn spread out through it from where the farmer had some spillage transfering from picker to wagon?? It is there by the "natural act" of farming and was not put there to attract game. If the answer is yes then explain the difference between a farmer spilling a bushel or two of corn and a hunter spilling a bushel or 2 of corn. Semantics. If the answer is no you can't hunt it, then how is that picked fieldd any different and not considered baited.

I can't ever recall seeing a deer eating corn off an unshucked cob. They have to wait to it is shucked and loose on the ground. Much like I rarely see a deer pluck an apple off of a tree that is 6 ft off the ground. They wait for it to fall. Artificiallly making the apple fall is baiting. Artificilally using a machine to husk corn and spill on the ground is no different.

I propose new legislation in no bait states, that picked corn fields be made off limits for the standard 10 days AFTER plowing under has been complete.
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