Originally Posted by
kyslayer
If you think baiting turns hunting into shooting you dont know your ass from a hole in the ground. I have game feeders, salt and mineral blocks, deer cane and food plots. Basically its something to keep deer on your property instead of neighboring farms that are full of corn rows or soybeans or any other local crops. If your going to tha tI sure hope you dont hund a food plot because thats baiting or hunt a stand of oak trees because you know deer love acorns. Or is it ok if the "bait" naturally falls there? We all get on here cause we love the hunt not to badmouth others tactics.
I normally dont condescend to responding to comments like this...but...
Every year I fill my tags with venison tagged legally hunting big woods northern NY.
For a fair number of years when it was neccessary to feed my family by hunting, I utilized bait piles and planted crop fields. I knew exactly when and where to be, and knew what deer would be there. No reason to waste time, wander out on stand about 45 minutes before dark, get comfortable, pick my target and shoot. Deer shooting. I took no joy in it. If you do, good for you. I didnt knock it. I simply prefer to spend as much time as possible hunting, looking for sign, scrapes, rubbings, and learning where the deer are...not chumming for them to draw them to me. If it is legal in your area, I dont knock utilizing legal techniques.