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ORIGINAL: betheman

I don't know about FL, but here in MO thereare plenty of crops for the deer to eat. The population of deer are well feed. In fact the population of deer are almost a nuisance. When you see more dead along the road then when out hunting there is a problem.

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ORIGINAL: CamoCop

the way i look at it is this: food plots provide added nutrition for antler growth and over all health for the entire year. this means a healthier deer heard. baiting is used solely as a quick fix in hopes of bringing deer to a specific area to either shoot or catch on trail camera's.

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ORIGINAL: fastetti

Camocop, not meaning to start anything, but where I was allowed to bait in Michigan, you could bait from October 1st to the end of the year, I thought it was a prime time to help the deer build up there winter fat supply so in escense all the deer you were not harvesting, you were helping through the winter. That was just my opinion though.

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ORIGINAL: CarpetBagger

Im not really for or against baiting, but can see advantages to it. Problem is here in Pittsburgh, PA that alot of the areas where hunting is permitted are very very over hunted! We hunt a private 60 acre farm here in WMU 2B and alot of our deer sightings have alot to do with when the farmers cut the corn on the other properties surrounding...when it finally all comes down we have many more deer sightings...Well its finally all down here...

Aside from that, alot of the areas around the homes and housing complexes here in the suburbsare over run with deer and you cannot gain access to hunt them. Baiting here in WMU 2B would solve alot of problems with both home owners and discourged hunters. It would get the deer into the areas where hunters could legally take them, as well as solve alot of the problems with homeowners, as well asdrivers who continue to butcher deer here on a daily basis.

WMU 2B which is Alleheny countyallocates 60,000Antlerless tags each season like a vendetta vs the whitetail deer. Half of which are still available here. The hunters who can gain accessin legal areas thin the deer herds in a hurry with the antlerless tagswhile the suburban deercontinue to thrive with the only thing thinning their numbers is the traffic.

I have seen more giant deer around my parents house than anywhereelseI have everhunted.

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ORIGINAL: jklink

Here in Texas, you can plant food plots and use deer feeders. I hunt both. I have just as much luck hunting both as well as travel routes to and from both. Guess what? Deer need water too. Should people have to drain stock tanks and lakes that they dig on thier property because something wild might try to drink from it?

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ORIGINAL: CamoCop

apparently you didn't read all my post. if you are baiting or have food plots (insert your stock tanks here aswell) year around, it benefits the overall deer herd. if you throw up a feeder right before hunting season and hunt over it, in my book your lazy. i know you texans believe it is impossible to kill a deer without a feeder but trust me, it can be done....i do it every year.

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