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"Baiting Vs. Food Plots"
12-30-2007 | 07:45 PM
#31
Giant Nontypical
Joined: Sep 2007
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From: Central Minnesota
RE: "Baiting Vs. Food Plots"
ORIGINAL: BowHuntingFool
I agree Schultzy, they do offer food for all kinds of critters! Thats why I put them in all year long!!!!!
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 | 07:47 PM
#32
Boone & Crockett
Joined: Oct 1998
Posts: 18,322
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From: Hughesville, PA USA
RE: "Baiting Vs. Food Plots"
A HUNTING food plot is planted to HUNT over and bring in deer. Same as bait.
-So in that, they are the same.
-So in that, they are the same.
That's the only point I'm making. Deer are not necessarily in range when visiting food plots.
I'm not arguing against baiting, I won't even vote because there is no correct answer for me to pick.
12-30-2007 | 07:56 PM
#33
Typical Buck
Joined: May 2007
Posts: 957
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From: South Carolina
RE: "Baiting Vs. Food Plots"
ORIGINAL: WV Hunter
BHF...seriously? There is no comparison. Yes, you can hunt over a food plot and kill deer....no doubt. BUT...the big difference is you have to get them within range. A bait pile automatically puts them within range.
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???
Thats one of the funniest posts I've seen in a while. So, you mean to tell me all I have to do is put out some magical golden nuggest and every deer in the woods will automatically appear in bow range? LoL..thats awesome!!!![:'(]
12-30-2007 | 07:57 PM
#34
Typical Buck
Joined: May 2007
Posts: 957
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From: South Carolina
RE: "Baiting Vs. Food Plots"
ORIGINAL: Rob/PA Bowyer
True, they bring game, bait piles to exact yardages, food plots could have deer standing out at 100 yards. In that they are not the same.
That's the only point I'm making. Deer are not necessarily in range when visiting food plots.
I'm not arguing against baiting, I won't even vote because there is no correct answer for me to pick.
A HUNTING food plot is planted to HUNT over and bring in deer. Same as bait.
-So in that, they are the same.
-So in that, they are the same.
That's the only point I'm making. Deer are not necessarily in range when visiting food plots.
I'm not arguing against baiting, I won't even vote because there is no correct answer for me to pick.
Just b/c someone puts bait close to a stand doesn't mean that a deer will magically appear. doesn't the deer still have its sences?
12-30-2007 | 08:04 PM
#36
Boone & Crockett
Joined: Oct 1998
Posts: 18,322
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From: Hughesville, PA USA
RE: "Baiting Vs. Food Plots"
ORIGINAL: StrutNtom
This can be true. It can also be untrue.
Just b/c someone puts bait close to a stand doesn't mean that a deer will magically appear. doesn't the deer still have its sences?
ORIGINAL: Rob/PA Bowyer
True, they bring game, bait piles to exact yardages, food plots could have deer standing out at 100 yards. In that they are not the same.
That's the only point I'm making. Deer are not necessarily in range when visiting food plots.
I'm not arguing against baiting, I won't even vote because there is no correct answer for me to pick.
A HUNTING food plot is planted to HUNT over and bring in deer. Same as bait.
-So in that, they are the same.
-So in that, they are the same.
That's the only point I'm making. Deer are not necessarily in range when visiting food plots.
I'm not arguing against baiting, I won't even vote because there is no correct answer for me to pick.
Just b/c someone puts bait close to a stand doesn't mean that a deer will magically appear. doesn't the deer still have its sences?
The deer has it's senses if they come to a food plot too.
And let's put a bag of Acorn Rage or Come 'ere Deer in the same catagory of a food plot...I think NOT.
12-30-2007 | 08:07 PM
#37
Nontypical Buck
Joined: Feb 2003
Posts: 4,906
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From: Virginia / West Virginia
RE: "Baiting Vs. Food Plots"
ORIGINAL: StrutNtom
Thats one of the funniest posts I've seen in a while. So, you mean to tell me all I have to do is put out some magical golden nuggest and every deer in the woods will automatically appear in bow range? LoL..thats awesome!!!![:'(]
ORIGINAL: WV Hunter
BHF...seriously? There is no comparison. Yes, you can hunt over a food plot and kill deer....no doubt. BUT...the big difference is you have to get them within range. A bait pile automatically puts them within range.
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???
Thats one of the funniest posts I've seen in a while. So, you mean to tell me all I have to do is put out some magical golden nuggest and every deer in the woods will automatically appear in bow range? LoL..thats awesome!!!![:'(]
And I will say...yes, sometimes they don't come...that is not my point. My point is...IF they come, they are in range. On an ag field, as Rob stated....they could be 100yds away or more.
12-30-2007 | 08:10 PM
#38
Giant Nontypical
Joined: Feb 2003
Posts: 9,679
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From: Wisconsin/Michigan
RE: "Baiting Vs. Food Plots"
ORIGINAL: Rob/PA Bowyer
True, they bring game, bait piles to exact yardages, food plots could have deer standing out at 100 yards. In that they are not the same.
That's the only point I'm making. Deer are not necessarily in range when visiting food plots.
A HUNTING food plot is planted to HUNT over and bring in deer. Same as bait.
-So in that, they are the same.
-So in that, they are the same.
That's the only point I'm making. Deer are not necessarily in range when visiting food plots.
12-30-2007 | 08:11 PM
#39
Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 914
Likes: 0
From: Terre Haute, Indiana
RE: "Baiting Vs. Food Plots"
I think hunting near any food source which is why I hunt in the middle of a desert... come to think of it I haven't seen a deer in a couple years... hmm wonder where they went!?!?!
12-30-2007 | 08:13 PM
#40
Boone & Crockett
Joined: Oct 1998
Posts: 18,322
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From: Hughesville, PA USA
RE: "Baiting Vs. Food Plots"
ORIGINAL: BowHuntingFool
There are guys who knock down trees and put rockpiles around the edges of the plot to make the deer enter/exit thru a certain area/trail, thus put there stands in this area, there are certain shapes to make food plots, hourglass long and narrow etc... We could go on and on and on.......... I didn't vote either!
ORIGINAL: Rob/PA Bowyer
True, they bring game, bait piles to exact yardages, food plots could have deer standing out at 100 yards. In that they are not the same.
That's the only point I'm making. Deer are not necessarily in range when visiting food plots.
A HUNTING food plot is planted to HUNT over and bring in deer. Same as bait.
-So in that, they are the same.
-So in that, they are the same.
That's the only point I'm making. Deer are not necessarily in range when visiting food plots.
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