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"Baiting Vs. Food Plots"
12-30-2007, 07:17 PM
#22
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Virginia / West Virginia
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RE: "Baiting Vs. Food Plots"
I agree with Rob completely. Comparing a food plot (or agricultural field) to a pile of bait CAN'T be done. Not even close. Yes, they both are something for the deer to eat, but that is about as close as it gets. There is also a difference between putting something out to feed deer, and setting up over it to kill a deer. I don't care if you bait - if its legal and it floats your boat...go for it. Personally I'd quit hunting before I'd hunt over a pile of corn or apples. Poll is too vague, and argument too big.
12-30-2007, 07:29 PM
#24
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Wisconsin/Michigan
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RE: "Baiting Vs. Food Plots"
ORIGINAL: WV Hunter
I agree with Rob completely. Comparing a food plot (or agricultural field) to a pile of bait CAN'T be done. Not even close. Yes, they both are something for the deer to eat, but that is about as close as it gets. There is also a difference between putting something out to feed deer, and setting up over it to kill a deer. I don't care if you bait - if its legal and it floats your boat...go for it. Personally I'd quit hunting before I'd hunt over a pile of corn or apples. Poll is too vague, and argument too big.
I agree with Rob completely. Comparing a food plot (or agricultural field) to a pile of bait CAN'T be done. Not even close. Yes, they both are something for the deer to eat, but that is about as close as it gets. There is also a difference between putting something out to feed deer, and setting up over it to kill a deer. I don't care if you bait - if its legal and it floats your boat...go for it. Personally I'd quit hunting before I'd hunt over a pile of corn or apples. Poll is too vague, and argument too big.
I hunt over my food plot to kill something, Seems like the same as setting up over a baitpile, deer come, eat and hopefully get killed! What's the difference???
12-30-2007, 07:34 PM
#25
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Oct 1998
Location: Hughesville, PA USA
Posts: 18,322
RE: "Baiting Vs. Food Plots"
ORIGINAL: BowHuntingFool
Excellent post Cloudster!!!!!!!! Respect!
Excellent post Cloudster!!!!!!!! Respect!
The difference between a Food plot and a Corn field, Alphalpha field, Soybean field, and an Apple Orchard is. One is put there to attract deer (Food Plots....weather it is clover, soybeans corn fields etc.), or bait them to a specific area, the others arethere for agricultural purposes/reasons (Mainly feeding people or live stock).
Do I categorize putting a pile of corn out the same as the fore mentioned fields? Most defiantly not, nor did I ever try to. I was only pointing out your misguided logic in the statement made in your first reply....the fact that if the plot is bigger then a pile of corn it is better, that is just plain silly.
I said:
A food plot could be 50 acres or it could be a 1/4 acre. You cannot put these into the same catagorie as a pile of corn 10 yards from a stand. A deer could visit the food plot and never offer an inrange bow shot.
So if I spread my "bait pile" or corn over 1/4 acer I should be good. I think that hunting over a pile of corn may give you a little bit of an advantage over the food plot but......they are both as good at "drawing" deer to your stand....if you sit over your food plot you will get the job done just the same as sitting over a pile of corn, it just might take you a day or two longer.
A food plot could be 50 acres......A deer could visit the food plot and never offer an inrange bow shot.
I believe that there is little difference in baiting deer with a clover field vs. a corn pile, they both have the same effect.....drawing deer near the hunter.
And BHF,
that made it an excellent post?
12-30-2007, 07:36 PM
#26
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Central Minnesota
Posts: 9,445
RE: "Baiting Vs. Food Plots"
ORIGINAL: BowHuntingFool
I hunt over my food plot to kill something, Seems like the same as setting up over a baitpile, deer come, eat and hopefully get killed! What's the difference???
I hunt over my food plot to kill something, Seems like the same as setting up over a baitpile, deer come, eat and hopefully get killed! What's the difference???
12-30-2007, 07:40 PM
#27
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Wisconsin/Michigan
Posts: 9,679
RE: "Baiting Vs. Food Plots"
ORIGINAL: Schultzy
I'm not disagreeing with you at all. Food plots do more then get deer shot off of them though. Excellent nutrition, alot of other omniverous critters eat off of them as well, specialy in the winter, You know that, you live in the northern states!
ORIGINAL: BowHuntingFool
I hunt over my food plot to kill something, Seems like the same as setting up over a baitpile, deer come, eat and hopefully get killed! What's the difference???
I hunt over my food plot to kill something, Seems like the same as setting up over a baitpile, deer come, eat and hopefully get killed! What's the difference???
12-30-2007, 07:42 PM
#28
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Virginia / West Virginia
Posts: 4,906
RE: "Baiting Vs. Food Plots"
ORIGINAL: BowHuntingFool
I hunt over my food plot to kill something, Seems like the same as setting up over a baitpile, deer come, eat and hopefully get killed! What's the difference???
ORIGINAL: WV Hunter
I agree with Rob completely. Comparing a food plot (or agricultural field) to a pile of bait CAN'T be done. Not even close. Yes, they both are something for the deer to eat, but that is about as close as it gets. There is also a difference between putting something out to feed deer, and setting up over it to kill a deer. I don't care if you bait - if its legal and it floats your boat...go for it. Personally I'd quit hunting before I'd hunt over a pile of corn or apples. Poll is too vague, and argument too big.
I agree with Rob completely. Comparing a food plot (or agricultural field) to a pile of bait CAN'T be done. Not even close. Yes, they both are something for the deer to eat, but that is about as close as it gets. There is also a difference between putting something out to feed deer, and setting up over it to kill a deer. I don't care if you bait - if its legal and it floats your boat...go for it. Personally I'd quit hunting before I'd hunt over a pile of corn or apples. Poll is too vague, and argument too big.
I hunt over my food plot to kill something, Seems like the same as setting up over a baitpile, deer come, eat and hopefully get killed! What's the difference???
12-30-2007, 07:43 PM
#29
Typical Buck
Join Date: May 2007
Location: South Carolina
Posts: 957
RE: "Baiting Vs. Food Plots"
This subject has been beat in the dirt some many times. For every "Pro" there's a "con".
Here are some of my thoughts.
A HUNTING food plot is planted to HUNT over and bring in deer. Same as bait.
-So in that, they are the same.
Corn isn't very nutrional. Hardly any protien. Food plots may offer better nutrition.
-Food plots win this one.
Food plots feed more than deer. So does corn. I've even seen foxes eat corn.
-So in that, they are the same.
As one of our members incorrectly stated, food plots are more expensive.
-This is not true. corn is $5+ a bag and deer may eat a bag in two days. Do that math with a season like ours which runs from Aug-Jan.
Food plots are there all year around. Again, wrong. NOT all food plots are there all year. Some people put out feed all year in feeders and such.
-Either can be all year.
I could go on and on..
but do you get my point?
Here are some of my thoughts.
A HUNTING food plot is planted to HUNT over and bring in deer. Same as bait.
-So in that, they are the same.
Corn isn't very nutrional. Hardly any protien. Food plots may offer better nutrition.
-Food plots win this one.
Food plots feed more than deer. So does corn. I've even seen foxes eat corn.
-So in that, they are the same.
As one of our members incorrectly stated, food plots are more expensive.
-This is not true. corn is $5+ a bag and deer may eat a bag in two days. Do that math with a season like ours which runs from Aug-Jan.
Food plots are there all year around. Again, wrong. NOT all food plots are there all year. Some people put out feed all year in feeders and such.
-Either can be all year.
I could go on and on..
but do you get my point?
