Ahhh, the ol' to bait or not to bait debate - gotta love it.

If you really put your mind to work and think about it for long enough, you will all realize that baiting is merely another extension of a long line of advantages we give ourselves to hunt the elusive white tail. It's a tool. It's not for sissies or beginners or lazy hunters. How many pound let-off is unfair? How true or fresh of a scent lure is unfair? At what point do we call the camo and cover up scents and carbon suits and all the other crap out there unfair? I know some guys on this board will spend millions this year in all the latest fads with no-scent this and un-scent that as well as the latest technology in bows to squeak that arrow to its 25 yard destination a whole millionth of a second faster than last year's bow. My point - baiting should NOT be illegal under any circumstances and I will cite two reasons why: First and foremost, it is nothing short of the anti's getting a bigger grip around our ankles to take us down - it's taking a freedom away, one more thing that "they" can say "we" cannot do. Secondly, it's not a guaranteed kill by any means, ever. I've been hunting over bait for 23 years and I will continue to hunt over bait. I've killed some nice bucks over bait, but that's not why I hunt over bait - I hunt over bait to get some venison in the freezer, then I hunt the patterns of the bucks and forget the bait. Nothing wrong with that IMO.