This statement geives me the idea that you are able to place bait in front of your game cam. as long as you dont plan on slingin any arrows or lobbin some lead at the deer, u should be ok. just make sure to get the bait out of ur spot 10 days before the season, or ur screwed!!!

In north Carolina it is legal to use most any bait for deer. I hunt a farm that plants sunflower fields and then mows them just before opening day of dove season. It seems like illegal baiting but it's not because the planting of the sunflowers was an agricultural process. It just happens that the doves like them. I think in most states a food plot, though intended to attract deer can be considered no more than a normal agricultural process just like planting grass or cotton, etc. I would stick with natural food plots and forget about licks and manmade feeders.

just be careful we had a mineral block out in the woods where we hunt in PA and removed the block 30 days prior to the start of the bow season (which is a month and half before rifle season) like the game laws state. The game warden show up on the 1st day of rifle season and walks up to one of our guys all the while pointing a rifle at him and ordered him down out of his tree stand. He was arrested for hunting over bait. The warden walked over to the stump where the mineral block used to be on and scrapped over some of stump. He said the stump contained residue. After a court hearing he was given big fine and a 1 yr loss of license.

Well to me it sounds like you can't hunt there no matter what you do. They say it "REMAINS" a baited area from 10 days prior to the season opening and until the day after. It doesn't say anything about being removed or anything. It only says it's a place that bait HAS been placed for the purpose of attracting wildlife. It gets them coming through the area. It sounds to me like if it ever had it... it remains a baited area and would be UNhuntable.

It's better to be safe than sorry, ask your local conservation officer to help you understand it , it's his job.

Thanks for all the input!!

I called the EP and they said you can bait before the season but it must be removed as stated so that you are not hunting over bait.

I got an email address so that I can get it in writing.
I have some deer cane on the way and some deer licker!!!!

Thanks for the input


Jim

Heck, I didn't think hunting or anything else fun or firearms related was legal in Taxachussetts. Gotta love Ted.[:@]