Originally Posted by
bigcountry
Food plots, baiting, QDM all leaves a bad taste in my mouth. To each his own, but I am not into growing deer to shoot them. I like nature to take its course and hunt around that.
Agreed!
When you condition deer year round with any food source manually created...you aclimate them to
human presence and scent. They no longer assoctiate people with danger
TO THE EXTENT that a truely WILD deer does. Yes a deer over bait will run at movement BUT a wild deer will run just whiffing human scent left by your boot walking in.
It's a different LEVEL of hunting.
From Easy -Shooting a pen raised animal on HIGH FENCE
to Moderate Ag Land where farming activity aclimate animals
to VERY HARD- Free Ranging PUBLIC Land w/o food plots or improvements aka mountain terrain
The
SKILL required at each level is dramatically different.
If it is legal, hunt your skill level. A P&Y harvested animal is a higher achievement level than aSCI harvested animal. Pope and Young is being vilafied for not LETTING EVERYONE IN with a 125 scored animal.