Im keeping my mouth shut....

Why do you guys care what someone else does? It is none of your business how someone else hunts or what they do on their property. Do you think you are a better person because you hunt over a trail instead of a bait pile? If thats how you want to hunt, then good for you. There is no need to talk trash about someone else doing something that theyenjoy doing andis perfectly legal. Keep your superiority complex to yourself.

Na Na I'm better than you because I don't bait. Your a dumb dumb if you do. I'm rubber and your glue.......etc.

Get the point???????

Why is it that there's a different thread on baiting every other day out here? Go back a few pages and reply to one of the hundreds of baiting threads already hashed around.

Fetz, nicely put.

If you don't think hunting over bait is hunting, then sell your stuff and go join PETA for the sake of Pete! Get off it. If you're not going to side with your fellow hunters but rather be against them, then I suggest a lifetime membership with HSUS is in order.

Good grief.

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I don't and won't hunt over bait. It really doesn't matter though cause it's not legal where I hunt. If you do hunt over bait and it's legal who can tell you otherwise.

Perhaps you need to come to south Texas (not on a ranch either, a REAL hunting scenario), and see how long you sit between deer sightings without baiting. There is very little natural food down here, so the baiting really helps the herds health. And mostly all deer activity over bait here is at night, so there is never a garuntee of even seeing a deer.

And I will pay for your membership!!

My Grampa baits here in MI, has for 25 years. He is truly a great man, and I have a ton respect for him.

hunting over bait is not hunting. It is sitting and waiting for an animal to come in to your pile of food placed in the woods or wherever you are hunting (sitting).. Hunting is actually getting off your rear end and searching for rubs/scrapes, actual real food sources and outsmarting your buck/doe whichever. I am not one to preach but baiting is just plain old cheating. Anyone can carry a bucket of apples in the woods and sit 50 yards away with the 30-06 and pick off deer one by one but what fun is that? I personally like to challenge myself and see how good my skills are in actual real life hunting situations. I'd rather go 5 years without a bow kill than have to throw 100 pounds of corn 20 yards from my stand to get a decent buck.

Just as I think I'm out, I get sucked back in. Arggghhh!!!!![:@]

"Cheating"? "Real life hunting situations"? Smoke a few more hog legs, Skip! You've never hunted over bait I presume... have you ever even hunted? If so then you must be congnisant of a deer's senses, right? Regardless if you get within bow range by setting up over "rubs/scrapes, actual real food sources" (and everyone has enough land to be that selective, right?) or bait, you still have to close the deal, no? Why does it matter what placed the deer within bow range be it scent, stand placement, rattling, calls, luck, bait, whatever? Sitting and waiting for a deer to come into a bait pile is much different than sitting and waiting for a deer to come into a natural food source (bait), or to a rub line or scrape, right? Some of you people blow my mind.

buckmaster......looks like another pissin contest...drink up....as for me...Im going out to kill and kill some more

Hunting over bait is a tactic like anything else. If you hunt over a trail, then are essentially doing the same thing--waiting on a deer that you KNOW is going to come by. How is that any less cheating? Based on this logic that hunting over bait is cheating just because you know a deer is going to come (even though you really don't), then it seems that hunting over a trail or using camouflage or rattling or hunting over acorns is the exact same thing. Heck, you shouldn't even be using a broadhead if hunting over bait is cheating, you should have to hit them with a brick. A broadhead is just too easy.

You wouldn't criticize a bobcat for hunting rabbits where rabbits like to feed, would you? We are predators too, and we do what we know works. That is called smart hunting, not cheating. You have to go where the game is, or find some way to bring them in. That is called tactics. I can tell you this...I can't wait to climb over my feeder stand this weekend as soon as I get the chance. I hope a deer comes into the corn and that I harvest that deer.