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yeah, she is hot...

oh btw, good luck uh, bowhunting you say?

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Main reason I said it was because something on that video we watched yesterday at work I thought was hilarious.

Tiffany is sitting on their porch talking and says something to the effect of "Most people think that hunting big mature whitetail on our managed farms is easy, but I'm here to tell you you're dead wrong."

And then they flash to at least a half dozen scenes of bucks scoring well over 140" P&Y.

I just found that funny, and seeing as how I saw several large deer last night myself... ;)

As for not seeing deer over bait during legal shooting light... The guy I mentioned who baits every year, he and his daughter take lagre bucks every year over their bait piles.

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Gotcha, Dan. That is pretty funny actually. I would BET that there are more big bucks smacked over bait piles than most would care to admit.

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We get pictures of mature bucks during daylight hours over mineral and bait sites, it would stand to reason that we would be seeing these same bucks if we were in a stand over the sites.

I don't know. Chances are I won't bait, but when all you're seeing is yearlings and does because everything else is headed to someones bait pile (year after year) it gets discouraging.

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Ahh one would think. Here in MI baiting is the way to hunt. Now that gramps is older I will tend to hunt closer to him. He hunts over bait, I have not seen a mature buck do it yet. I have seen mature doe stand off about 60 yds and scan. She picked old gramps off and turned walk back about 60 yds and bedded down. Gramps gets down a little early, I watch the doe get up and check to see if he is there. She sees no gramps and walks right in:D

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I know that has happened to me before!

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Dan

Many things changehow the deer use an area.Why should you have to giveup hunting a buckin an area if someone else started baiting and got them coming to thier pile or feeder?? Why should you have to resort to baiting ??If someone startedbaiting bucks in my hunting area and a buck I was after changed his pattern on account of it... you are darn rightI would still shoot him if I could. I don't bait as it is not my cup of tea. Their bait pile isn't going to wreck my fun or goals though. I just try to adapt to the situation dealt, just as Iwould for any othersituation changing a buck'smovement. I see no shame in that.

Tim