Should hunting over bait be illegal in your area?
01-08-2006, 09:08 AM
#141
Dominant Buck
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RE: Should hunting over bait be illegal in your area?
ORIGINAL: stretchhunts
no b/c there are real "hunters" LMFAO. You know the ethical type.
ORIGINAL: gregholland
Could it be that people who hunt in areas that DO NOT allow baiting are just pissed and against baiting because they aren't able too? I used to be very leary of baiting until I did it. I love it!!!
Baiting will FOREVER BE LEGAL IN TEXAS!!!! And I love it.
Could it be that people who hunt in areas that DO NOT allow baiting are just pissed and against baiting because they aren't able too? I used to be very leary of baiting until I did it. I love it!!!
Baiting will FOREVER BE LEGAL IN TEXAS!!!! And I love it.
no b/c there are real "hunters" LMFAO. You know the ethical type.
10-4 Stretch!
01-08-2006, 09:26 AM
#142
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Granbury, TX
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RE: Should hunting over bait be illegal in your area?
I chose no. Even at the start of January, Texas is in a drought and really dry. The deer don't have much to eat, so we feed them. There's no sense in letting them starve or something...and hunting over them isn't as easy as you may think (in my opinion). Coming to a feeder already makes them nervous, so even if you can get a close shot, you might spook them. Just my two cents.
01-08-2006, 12:41 PM
#144
Nontypical Buck
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RE: Should hunting over bait be illegal in your area?
The deer don't have much to eat, so we feed them. There's no sense in letting them starve or something...
If that is truelly the case then you are doing nothing more than running a deer farm.
I can accept that fact, however that means that your experiences have little in common with hunting deer that actually survive naturally on their own without artificial feeding by humans.
01-08-2006, 12:58 PM
#145
Dominant Buck
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RE: Should hunting over bait be illegal in your area?
ORIGINAL: Swamp Runner
I have no problem with it as longs as its legal. I dont own a feeder but I know several people who do. To each his own.
I have no problem with it as longs as its legal. I dont own a feeder but I know several people who do. To each his own.
I quess you did'nt understand my post on Florida Baiting and Luring! You are correct, to each his own!
01-08-2006, 06:38 PM
#146
Nontypical Buck
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RE: Should hunting over bait be illegal in your area?
Rebel,you did read ALL the handbook,note the exceptions.Game(except turkeys)CAN be hunted around year-round feeders as long as they have been there for six months.I hunt private land.
01-08-2006, 06:52 PM
#147
Dominant Buck
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RE: Should hunting over bait be illegal in your area?
Fl, no big deal bro...what was throwing me off is this
It makes it sound if you are baiting funnels and trails.
ORIGINAL: FlDeerman
It's legal here,we do it and food plots and funnels and trails and anything I can think of.
It's legal here,we do it and food plots and funnels and trails and anything I can think of.
01-08-2006, 07:16 PM
#148
Nontypical Buck
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RE: Should hunting over bait be illegal in your area?
LOL, no I mean we have food plots,feeders,but I like to hunt the trails and funnels in my guilly suit sitting on the ground.I hunt the feeders with my grand kids,where seeing deer is more important than shooting one.I like to get eye to eye with them,that's where the big one's are.
01-08-2006, 07:21 PM
#149
Dominant Buck
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RE: Should hunting over bait be illegal in your area?
ORIGINAL: FlDeerman
LOL, no I mean we have food plots,feeders,but I like to hunt the trails and funnels in my guilly suit sitting on the ground.I hunt the feeders with my grand kids,where seeing deer is more important than shooting one.I like to get eye to eye with them,that's where the big one's are.
LOL, no I mean we have food plots,feeders,but I like to hunt the trails and funnels in my guilly suit sitting on the ground.I hunt the feeders with my grand kids,where seeing deer is more important than shooting one.I like to get eye to eye with them,that's where the big one's are.
Yep! That's the way I feel also!
01-09-2006, 07:47 AM
#150
Nontypical Buck
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RE: Should hunting over bait be illegal in your area?
Rebel,I think a lot of our Northern Brothers and Sisters misunderstand feeders here in the South.Up North where the ground is covered with snow and very little for the deer to eat theyWILL come for miles to a corn pile.Here since our winters can't compare,they may want corn or other feeds or they may not.It's not that big a deal to them.A late born fawn has just as much a chance to survive as a spring born one.We see them all the time with tiny fawns very late and they seem to be doing just fine.