Should hunting over bait be illegal in your area?
01-13-2006, 10:35 PM
#211
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Port Neches, Texas
Posts: 5,514
RE: Should hunting over bait be illegal in your area?
OK!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm just trying to get along with fellow hunters here!
Again, I'll support your method of hunting any time, as long as its legal in your area!
I wish that we all could do the same!
I know that my, "hunting over a corn field, is the same as hunting over bait," is falling on deaf ears!
JUST, like some of the others, "baiting is cheating," is falling on deaf ears here in Texas! Baiting has been LEGAL here in Texas, Before Christ, and will be legal, until the Second Comming!
So, I'll just try to paint ya'll a picture, and I hope as HUNTERS, we can at least be civil here!
When you say that baiting is not the same as hunting a corn field. Think of this, Tx. is 5-10 times bigger than most states, with a FRACTION of the food crops of some smaller states. More area, AND less crops!
IF, you can picture that, picture this: you are looking at aerial photo's of a 5000-10,000 acre plot of land. You see a 40 acre corn field, somewhere in that 5000-10,000 acre plot!
Where are you most likely to hunt, or start your scouting?
Not ALL regions are the same! If its legal, its NOT cheating!
I'm just trying to get along with fellow hunters here!
Again, I'll support your method of hunting any time, as long as its legal in your area!
I wish that we all could do the same!
I know that my, "hunting over a corn field, is the same as hunting over bait," is falling on deaf ears!
JUST, like some of the others, "baiting is cheating," is falling on deaf ears here in Texas! Baiting has been LEGAL here in Texas, Before Christ, and will be legal, until the Second Comming!
So, I'll just try to paint ya'll a picture, and I hope as HUNTERS, we can at least be civil here!
When you say that baiting is not the same as hunting a corn field. Think of this, Tx. is 5-10 times bigger than most states, with a FRACTION of the food crops of some smaller states. More area, AND less crops!
IF, you can picture that, picture this: you are looking at aerial photo's of a 5000-10,000 acre plot of land. You see a 40 acre corn field, somewhere in that 5000-10,000 acre plot!
Where are you most likely to hunt, or start your scouting?
Not ALL regions are the same! If its legal, its NOT cheating!
01-13-2006, 10:43 PM
#212
Typical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 866
RE: Should hunting over bait be illegal in your area?
ORIGINAL: JagMagMan
I know that my, "hunting over a corn field, is the same as hunting over bait," is falling on deaf ears!
I know that my, "hunting over a corn field, is the same as hunting over bait," is falling on deaf ears!
There's a difference, you know it, I know it and darn near every Hollywood slick paper video star knows it. Why do you think Ted goes to Texas and dumps out a bucket of corn to shoot video pets inside a pen instead of coming to Indiana and hunting wild animals educated on public ground and fed in the corn fields.
01-14-2006, 06:08 AM
#213
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Kountze, Texas
Posts: 5,400
RE: Should hunting over bait be illegal in your area?
ORIGINAL: Jack Ryan
It's not the ears that make the difference, it's what people have between them that allow them to differentiate between a bucket of cracked corn dumped on the ground under a shooting house and the same amount of corn still on the stalk spread out over 40 acres.
There's a difference, you know it, I know it and darn near every Hollywood slick paper video star knows it. Why do you think Ted goes to Texas and dumps out a bucket of corn to shoot video pets inside a pen instead of coming to Indiana and hunting wild animals educated on public ground and fed in the corn fields.
ORIGINAL: JagMagMan
I know that my, "hunting over a corn field, is the same as hunting over bait," is falling on deaf ears!
I know that my, "hunting over a corn field, is the same as hunting over bait," is falling on deaf ears!
There's a difference, you know it, I know it and darn near every Hollywood slick paper video star knows it. Why do you think Ted goes to Texas and dumps out a bucket of corn to shoot video pets inside a pen instead of coming to Indiana and hunting wild animals educated on public ground and fed in the corn fields.
Come to East Texas. Use that methodof taking a bucket of corn and dumping it on the ground. Of course you will find the borders of the borders of that "pen" you speak of consist of the Rio Grande, the Gulf Of Mexico, The Sabine River, and the Red River. Then try to determine where the oak flats begin and the heavy unpenetrable thickets end, (except by the "tame deer" who can walk right through them).
You will quickly learn that corn is not even the deers favorite food around here especially when the acorn crop is good. I can tell you that acorns, natural grasses, and woods browse are a whole lot more natural than planted crops. And, If you want to call the forest around here a crop, you will find that the visibility in the woods here is probably 40 yards at the most without cutting a branch here and there with a chainsaw.
Most successful hunters around here find you have to fight through all of that I just described and find the trails, the buck sign, very secluded bedding areas to kill anything much more than a yearling.
Come down here from the north, and dump that bucket of corn on the ground. (I'm not suggesting you even want too). You will not only be very frustrated, but you will fit the stereotype of a Yankee (only talking stereotype here), and at best an unexperenced southern hunter.
C. Davis
01-14-2006, 08:54 AM
#214
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: WC FL
Posts: 26,323
RE: Should hunting over bait be illegal in your area?
ORIGINAL: JagMagMan
Baiting has been LEGAL here in Texas, Before Christ, and will be legal, until the Second Comming!
Not ALL regions are the same! If its legal, its NOT cheating!
Baiting has been LEGAL here in Texas, Before Christ, and will be legal, until the Second Comming!
Not ALL regions are the same! If its legal, its NOT cheating!
01-14-2006, 09:30 AM
#216
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Granbury, TX
Posts: 241
RE: Should hunting over bait be illegal in your area?
No wonder you guys have such a ruff row to hoe if yer trying to get deer to eat oil.
Hahaha That wasn't the point I was trying to make, but good comeback none the less! Davis makes a good point, when the acorns fall here you won't see a deer around a feeder, and you'll just sit there at one looking like a fool. And I don't even see why yall up north would even care what we're doing hundreds of miles away. I mean think about it, this is a twenty-two page arguement of whether you feed deer or not.
We're all hunters here, even if jcchartboy wouldn't like to think so.
01-14-2006, 09:53 AM
#218
Super Moderator
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Seagrove N.C. USA
Posts: 7,281
RE: Should hunting over bait be illegal in your area?
Please explain why or why not you chose yes or no.
(Planted food plots do not count as "bait")
(Planted food plots do not count as "bait")
A food plot.
A bucket of corn.
A bottle of tinks 69.
To me they are all BAIT.
Bait is just something to draw the animal to a point in which to ambush it.
Each hunter must make up his/her own mind about this subject.
I used to not like a pile of corn but.
I got to thinking theres no difference in all types of baiting.
So if it is legal go for it.
JMHO
01-14-2006, 11:16 AM
#219
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location:
Posts: 1,233
RE: Should hunting over bait be illegal in your area?
Stillhut04 said:
We're all hunters here, even if jcchartboy wouldn't like to think so.
We're all hunters here, even if jcchartboy wouldn't like to think so.
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