Is my bait pile big enough?
10-25-2006, 08:04 AM
#11
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Southwest Ohio
Posts: 2,849
RE: Is my bait pile big enough?
I would disagree with YooperMike. Not that he is wrong where he is, but on my farm and my dad's farm, if the corn runs out the deer go elsewhere to feed. Even though we have 10 acres in alphalfa and another acre or 2 in mixed plots. I would warn against putting so much out at once though because some will rot before they eat it all and deer do not like to eat around rotten bait. TRUST ME.
10-25-2006, 08:42 AM
#12
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2006
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RE: Is my bait pile big enough?
Just out of curiosity - Where do you live? And, why is it legal for you to hunt over bait?
I'm in VA and baiting is illegal. This year you can't even feed deer that you're not hunting. I used to feed the deer at my house corn, but I don't hunt there. My house is in a develpment andmy property isonly 1.6 acres. The corn would bring them in so that we could see them in the back yard in the mornings, but I can't even feed them anymore.
I know that some places you're allowed to bait to control over population, but in my opinion that would be counter productive because if everyone was sitting out bait you'd just be adding to the problem by providing more food than the land would normaly provide which would result in more deer.
I'm in VA and baiting is illegal. This year you can't even feed deer that you're not hunting. I used to feed the deer at my house corn, but I don't hunt there. My house is in a develpment andmy property isonly 1.6 acres. The corn would bring them in so that we could see them in the back yard in the mornings, but I can't even feed them anymore.
I know that some places you're allowed to bait to control over population, but in my opinion that would be counter productive because if everyone was sitting out bait you'd just be adding to the problem by providing more food than the land would normaly provide which would result in more deer.
10-25-2006, 09:04 AM
#13
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Morgan County, IL
Posts: 1,073
RE: Is my bait pile big enough?
I have been experimenting with different sized bait piles and am trying to figure out if mine is big enough? I have concluded that the more bait I have the more deer i will see.?
I just dumped a pickup truck load of sugar beets off on it tonight, i figure i gotta have close to a ton of beets on there now. I can't wait to fire up the heater in my shack and see how many deer this thing draws in.
God I love the hunt!
I just dumped a pickup truck load of sugar beets off on it tonight, i figure i gotta have close to a ton of beets on there now. I can't wait to fire up the heater in my shack and see how many deer this thing draws in.
God I love the hunt!
10-25-2006, 09:13 AM
#14
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Kokomo, In.
Posts: 2,151
RE: Is my bait pile big enough?
I've baited with scents, calls and decoys, but I've never baited with food, so I don't know anything about that. I have seen a contraption on t.v. that can be set to open the feeder doors only during daylight hours. I don't remember the name. It had some kind of evil sounding name, like widowmaker, or black death or something like that. Dang, I wish I could remember the name.
10-26-2006, 09:59 AM
#16
Typical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Southern Indiana
Posts: 950
RE: Is my bait pile big enough?
If the Irish Apples don't work, try hard boiling some Eggs and cover them with a white chocolate glaze, put them on the down wind side of the nearest Telephone pole, drives em crazy!!!!!!!
just messing around with the great white buffalo, thats all.
10-26-2006, 09:46 PM
#19
Typical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 525
RE: Is my bait pile big enough?
I'm not trying to start a war and by all means if it's legal to do it then go ahead. I just can't seem to find the logic in hunting baited deer and the "God I LoveTo Hunt".
I couldn't do it, maybe I'm a softy
I couldn't do it, maybe I'm a softy
