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ORIGINAL: Gundeck

There are many points you make that confuse me, Nissan. First, you talk about the terrain and habitat in PA as the reason you do not have CWD in PA. I lived most of my first 21 years of life in PA. I now live in upstate NY. If I pulled you out of PA and popped you into NY, you would not know the difference. Why do we have CWD in NY?

You also seem to think that people who use treestands are not hunters. I will tell you that nearly all successful treestand hunters do a great deal of scouting before placing / using their stands. That would put them into the category of hunters in my book.

We don't / can't bait in NY, but here (as in PA) the deer go where the food is whether it be a bait pile or natural browse. I have not hunter in PA for many years, but I know for a fact I can take you to a dozen spots in central PA and sit you down. You WILL see deer. Why? Because there is feed there. There has been feed there. There will be feed there for many years to come. All a bait pile does it concentrate a preferred food source in one spot. A grove of oak trees is little difference.

JMHO

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