Should hunting over bait be illegal in your area?
03-24-2010, 05:09 AM
#361
Spike
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Way out there
Posts: 15
In my home state baiting is illegal and will likely (thankfully) stay that way. To me, baiting is just a shortcut for those unwilling to invest the time and effort to learn how to hunt and to go scout. Just another symptom of our immediate gratification-besotted society.
03-25-2010, 03:29 AM
#362
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Florida Panhandle
Posts: 119
I voted the wrong way. Meant to say no...Here in Florida, the woods are so thick you can't really hunt thru them like you can in the N.E. So you clear a place and plant some food. Believe me, it sure doesn't mean that you sit there & shoot a deer. It just doesn't happen that way.
03-25-2010, 05:50 PM
#364
Fork Horn
Join Date: May 2003
Location:
Posts: 131
I think that anywhere that there's an over population of deer, baiting should be allowed. That being said, hunting over a feeder or pile should be worded as shooting over a pile. I shot a doe over a pile of corn for the first time this year. It was strictly because the farmer wanted more deer out of there than I had time to hunt. It didn't feel much like hunting. IMO
03-25-2010, 06:08 PM
#365
Typical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Amongst the Trees....
Posts: 964
To me, hunting baited deer is like shooting fish in a barrel. When you have a source of food, something they genuinly need to survive, and you decide to put hunt over that, after YOU have supplied that food....to me that's not hunting thats shooting
I have NO PROBLEM with hunting near/around/on food plots of things like BioLogic. What I am talking about is putting out a corn feeder and putting a stand ten yards from it, or putting a pile of acorns on the ground twenty yards from your stand and shooting them when they come in to feed. If you want to put mineral blocks out in the summer, that's fine, but they should be gone a month before any season starts so that they know and don't have that knowledge that it's still there.
To me, there is also another element to this beast: the matter of ethics. Remember back to the last deer you shot.....Remember the excitement at knowing that it had been man vs. animal and you had figured out their NATURAL patterns and had been able to get one? I don't think that same feeling can be achieved when you are simply shooting them and you KNOW they will come in.....
And maybe it's just my views on things.... I am a very ethical hunter and I hate when I see corn feeders in the middle of the woods. If you want to get a deer, scout, put out trail cameras and take walks in the area you intend to hunt before season starts like everyone else. Remember, THIS IS WHY IT'S CALLED "HUNTING" NOT "SHOOTING" OR "MINDLESS KILLING"
Thank you for hearing out my rant......
BigBuck95
I have NO PROBLEM with hunting near/around/on food plots of things like BioLogic. What I am talking about is putting out a corn feeder and putting a stand ten yards from it, or putting a pile of acorns on the ground twenty yards from your stand and shooting them when they come in to feed. If you want to put mineral blocks out in the summer, that's fine, but they should be gone a month before any season starts so that they know and don't have that knowledge that it's still there. To me, there is also another element to this beast: the matter of ethics. Remember back to the last deer you shot.....Remember the excitement at knowing that it had been man vs. animal and you had figured out their NATURAL patterns and had been able to get one? I don't think that same feeling can be achieved when you are simply shooting them and you KNOW they will come in.....
And maybe it's just my views on things.... I am a very ethical hunter and I hate when I see corn feeders in the middle of the woods. If you want to get a deer, scout, put out trail cameras and take walks in the area you intend to hunt before season starts like everyone else. Remember, THIS IS WHY IT'S CALLED "HUNTING" NOT "SHOOTING" OR "MINDLESS KILLING"
Thank you for hearing out my rant......
BigBuck95
Last edited by BigBuck95; 03-25-2010 at 06:12 PM.
03-26-2010, 06:00 AM
#368
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: north florida
Posts: 1,277
03-26-2010, 11:29 AM
#369
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: The Republic of Texas
Posts: 11,887
Just curious... Do you ever use Tink's 69, or rattling antlers, or grunt calls? How is that not "playing off of an animal's instincts and using it for your benefit"?
03-26-2010, 12:30 PM
#370
Typical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: N/W WI.
Posts: 814
Yah-Daddy, if you use any scent or call, you are likened to a deer feeder. Just curious, how did the native Americans survive with out Tinks? The only pure way of hunting is to wack'em in the head with a club or use a sharp stick.
