Everyone is entitled to their opinion on this. I do not judge what another does or does not do.

For myself, ......I do not, will not, and have not baited any wildlife. I do not want to take wildlife this way. I do not place salt licks on my property. I do not plant crops to attract deer. I do not even use attractants or buck lure scents. I do not hunt on cornfields or grainfields. I do all my deerhunting in the woods. All this is just a matter of my own convictions. I just go out and hunt deer as they are....where I find them. It works for me and that' s the way I want it and like it. Again, I do not judge what another does unless he is doing something illegal.

I hear people talk about how smart deer are. I don' t believe that at all. A deer simply follows the instincts that he has inherited from those who went before him. That is how the species has survived. Basically, they are of little intellect. Man, on the other hand is highly intelligent (although I have met several exceptions). I just refuse to stack the odds heavily in my favor. We have the weapon. We have the intellect. The deer has his instincts and four good legs. Seems to me like a good trade-off. Hunting is something that should be fair to the game. That is my own opinion. I know that others hold variations of this...and that is fine. Everyone is different. Everyone hunts for different reasons and derives satisfaction from it in different ways. To me, all this is part of sportsmanship. I like a fair chase. I know fella' s who want to shoot every deer they see. I know fella' s who do almost all their hunting through the window of their pickup truck. If all of us were like that, where would we be? I just derive great satisfaction from pursuing an animal alone...on it' s turf...in what I think is a fair chase. In conclusion, I think that is what we all do, isn' t it? We just have our individual opinions and outlooks on it all.

Clint