Oh hell yea them ther doctors & lawyers stealin all the land thats something you all need to worry about!!![]

All you have to do is fence your deer in then you can feed & shoot them any time you want.

All you baiters go out of your way to say it does not help you at all but you sure as hell do it.And all these birds outside my window aren't coming to the feeder they just like my yard.Hell my dog never knows if I will feed him in his bowl or in my wifes closet,he just walks by the bowl for the hell of it.

Well maybe you should stop feeding ya dog in a bowl, I wouldn't want him to get any diseases now.

This argument will never end. I rest my case. To him, his own!

1) You guys make it sound like your area down south is the only area in the U.S. that gets logged off and replanted with pines.Come and visit northern Wisconsin and it will look real familiar to you. The deer still have plenty to eat without corn piles.

2) I might be the only one here that feels this way , but I don't see a big difference in baiting by way of corn piles/feeders or food plots. Just so we're clear on that arguement.

3) It's not about "stealing deer off my land" per say , it's more about the competition baiting causes between one landowner and the next. It's gotten to the point where whoever has the best bait piles will have the most deer on their land. That mentallity has drifted pretty far off from what hunting is suppose to be , in my eyes anyway. I find that pretty sad.

4) This was a poll ,people are going to give their opinions. Just because you may not agree with my opinion doesn't mean "I'm talking sh**" about other hunters"

5) I've seen firsthand the results/problems associated with baiting , so my opinion is based on evidence , not speculation.

Maybe I bait different from what you have seen, I don't know. I don't have 1,000s of pounds of corn in a pile. At each stand, I spread out a 50lb bag, NOT PILES, under white oaks and in my food plots.

Some stands I don't use bait at all and I see just as many deer at these stands.

Point is that everything "baiters" say, "non-baiters" will contridict. My point is, hunting is getting enough bad publicity from PETA and other anti-hunting orgs. And If you read close enough, this subject has come up in EVERY forum that I have ever read and even has had some "non-baiters" calling "baiters" pochers. We sure as hell don't need to be fighting amongst ourselves.

As for the logging, I know that other parts of the country get cleared and it is sad that this happens. A clear cut area is great for a few years, but then when the pines get tall enough to start shading out everything else, thats when it becomes a problem. Here where I live the soil is very sandy so it takes an area a long time to start to grow after it is cleared. So, I see nothing wrong with planting food plots or putting out corn to help these deer get some nutrition.

You ask why I plant food plots and bait if I say it doesn't help with me seeing anymore deer? Just b/c I don't see them, doesn't mean they aren't getting the nutritrion from the food. If they deer don't eat, they don't live, then I don't see anything. You know?

Anyways, I am sure this thread will be torn apart, but thats what makes our country so great. Just don't let it get to the point where we are fighting agmonst ourselves and ruining hunting as a whole.

Agreed!

I spread about 35 pounds of corn over a 100 yard area this past weekend, not in some pileor anything... Only 9 of the 39 deer I saw that day were feeding over the corn, but heck, I may not have seen those 9, and those are where the three bucks I saw were, the rest were doe...

I think it's fun going out and spreadin' corn, adds to a hunt for me, the preparation part of it... the planning... I see action in a specific area, I'll put out some corn to see if I get 'em back...

will it make a diffrence?

I see both sides of it, and there are folks that bait where I am andit is illegal. I don't, and wouldn't. just too easy, takes too much of the challenge out of it. like hunting with a rifle in bow season. illegal, not as much fun, and TOO easy. I like my hunting to be challenging. makes the entire experience when sucessful all that more fulfilling.

i agree with hoyt!

I don't think it works as well as the nay-sayers think. I have around 75 deer go by my house everyday and maybe 15 stop for a bite off a small corn pile. Out here we have so much cropland that is put into sunflower and corn, it's pretty tough to compete with sections of corn and sunflower fields.I have found it is way better to hunt water holes when it is hot and dry. There is more salive transfer in water than in dry feed so the threat of bait spreading disease is simply a guess. Most people who complain about baiting have no land of their own to bait on. I like to hunt trails that lead to bait piles rather than the bait itself, so many of the good bucks will never get that close to anything that even remotely smells like a human.