As you can tell with the few postes so far you can tell what most ethical hunters think about baiting.Ishot a nice7 pointer sept30 with the bow on my buddys land at545pm 75degrees and windy. We saw five bucks that nite.As for baiting to stop the deer to get a clean shot I shot mine walking at 15 yards with the wind blowing in its face.I still think baiting messing up the deer hunting in the state.Im not trying to get anybody mad about this I just wanted to see what people think about it.Ithink it gets worse for gun deer hunting than bow hunting. Good huntig acdc.

If planting for deer is baiting, then I bait every year [8D]. Both dumping an plantinghave the same effect, they concentrate the deer. So is planting bad?

HERE HERE!!! I agree. But as for the other guy, i have shot many many bucks and does with out the aid of bait. And will continue do so, im not out there dumping even a half gallon of corn just one coffe can of corn every 3-4 days, and not a big coffee can asmaller one, its no different than taking acorns from one loaction and spreading them out on the ground in another. Ther is no difference if I use acorns, apples, corn, etc, its a natural food source sometimesjust misplaced lol. Do you use scents to attract deer??? If so...STOP BAITING! Your just like the rest of us who bait, but you make it sound like its a bad thing.

The differences between baiting with a highly concentrated food source, and using an attractive scent are so obvious that to try to equate the two is somewhat laughable.

Can some correlations be made...of course. However, any prudent observer can clearly see many major differences.

(as is evidenced by every state law concerning baiting in the entire country, not one state considers the use of deer scents as baiting)

That maybe so, but again, it works exactly as a food source...am I wrong....no im not. The deer smell it, come in, taste it and then BANG!!! Youre creating an illusion of something thats not there with scents, why not have them come into something that is there.

If you can't see the obvious differencesthere is little reason for me to debate the topic.

I'll let the thread get back to the original topic...


Goodluck JC...

Why does anyone post anythign about baiting on here anyway, it just goes round and round and round and it never dies, lets let this one die.

here in nebraska i feed my deer heard in the summer out of the hunting seasons so i dont get accused of "baiting"..

I forgot toput the words (use to) in the first sentence in my previousreply. As far as what one does on his own land in regards to food plots, baiting, or even dumping a little out of the grain wagonI could careless.

The DNR in my opinion have more important things to take care of than worrying about a guy dumping 5 gallons of feed on the ground.

HEHE!! The only thing WDNR has to worry about is how much is left in their wallets. They're killing hunting. And were killing their wallets. Why do you think so many wardens lost their jobs, They are broke so now they up the license fees, changing laws to hopefully issue more fines etc...when i was growing up I always wanted to be a warden because I love the outdoors, Im glad im not one now, and I feel sorry for moany of the WDNR that chose to be one. Many are hated to death.