RE: Do you think hunting over baited corn is right?
 

I see everyones point but still hunting over a cornfield verse hunting a big pile of corn is a totally different concept.

RE: Do you think hunting over baited corn is right?
 

Sure it's different, the deer are used to going to a corn field down the same trail they've been safely trotting down for months,.........until opening morn! Then it's NO different at all.

RE: Do you think hunting over baited corn is right?
 

if its legal you are not poaching:eek:

My opinion was asked - and it was given.

Corn = poaching from where I hunt - that is MY take on it. - If it where legal I might think differently about it - but its not.

RE: Do you think hunting over baited corn is right?
 

Baiting deer is legal in Texas and I've hunted over a feeder some. What I've seen though, is that you can sit there and watch does and small bucks lining up in the brush, waiting for the timer to kick on, and they charge the feeder when the corn starts hitting the ground. Even if you wanted a doe or small buck, it's kinda hard to get a clear shot on one deer out of that mob. Always a deer blocking the one you want, or in position to get wounded on a passthrough. The big boys won't come in to the feeder. So, my tactic is to set up an ambush on a trail about 50-75 yards away from the feeder.

No different than hunting a trail to a planted food plot.

RE: Do you think hunting over baited corn is right?
 

I do the same thing as Author_P........ Unless i want to kill a doe I will back off cuz i know the big boys ususally wont come into the field til after dark.....

RE: Do you think hunting over baited corn is right?
 

If you pattern the deer as they eye the feeder, it is pretty much like hunting over bait.

RE: Do you think hunting over baited corn is right?
 

Hunting over bait is not legal in my home state,so it is not something I have to give any time thinking about.It is not something that would interest me in doing but I am not opposed to it in states where it is legal.
There are a lot of fine lines as so many others here have mentioned.It seems to me that most hunters have an easier time in justifying there method of attracting game based on how much effort was involved in creating the attractant.That makes some sense to me,working your tail off to put in a food plot,maintaining bear bait sites for many weeks while accumulating and hauling all the bait in,walking for many miles to find that grove of white oaks that is dropping big nuts.All of those things impact on me a lot differently than the open the bag of corn and dump it out kind of baiting and hunting.I would fight for your right to do it though in states where it is legal.

RE: Do you think hunting over baited corn is right?
 

And if you pattern the deer as they eye the alfalfa , soy bean , or corn field?

RE: Do you think hunting over baited corn is right?
 

With the very real threat of CWD and other diseases, baiting is a practice that needs to become a LOT less practiced.

RE: Do you think hunting over baited corn is right?
 

Yes, and along with that, we need to dry up the small watering holes, cut down the mast crop producing trees, stop the natural instinct of deer to breed, and of course somehow drive the social nature out of them.:D