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This is dumbest argument of all time. Ok, so you mean your bait pile is the equivalent of me hunting over my 7 acre food plot? Are you kidding me? Do you spread you bait pile over 7 acres? I doubt it.

Baiting is the same as hunting over oaks?...... What!? ......My land has hundreds if not thousands of oaks on it. Do you have hundreds of baitpiles? I doubt it......

That's the exact problem; there aren't thousands of oaks around here, mainly pine trees. For the 7 acre food plot I have one question. Say one guy out there puts out a bag of corn on the ground, one bag three days before he hunts. Another guy planted an acre of corn on his property. Both these hunters kill a doe, one eating on corn that was thrown on the ground, and the other deer was eating corn in the one acre plot. Both deer were eating corn that wouldn't naturally be there and both hunters used the corn to harvest the deer. If there are any acorns dropping around where I am at the deer will not touch the corn. The land that I lease is owned by a logging company, and I can't cut down any trees (pine trees) without losing my lease. I have been going out to this lease on a regular basis to fertilize all the natural browse, and any oak trees that may be located on my lease. I have had a biologist from the state walk out there with me to help with suggestions on what I need to do to help the herd to become stronger and healthier. I cut down brush and weeds that the deer don't eat and fertilize the honey suckle, greenbrier, dewberry, blackberry, wild lettuce, jasmine, and oak trees. I also add supplemental feeding i.e. corn for when the deer may need it which isn't normally till late season for it my freeze only a few times a year until late January/February. So if anyone out there thinks I am lazy, or I am ashamed of ANY deer I harvest let them think again. Pride shouldn't be a factor when it comes to baiting. If baiting was harmful or unnecessary in a state the state will dictate that. In Louisiana it is legal to bait with the exception of the wild life management areas, which I hunt on three of them in addition to my lease. Anyway it is an interesting argument, and I hope that no one out there gets too upset with all the opinions out there. It’s our opinions and the freedom to express them that makes us great.