RE: The Great Debate Over Baiting
 

Here's how I see it...

IF ITS LEGAL, GO FOR IT!!!!

RE: The Great Debate Over Baiting
 

What Camocop said.


Or a salt block, or a canister with a timer, or...or...or...Hence one of the major differences between deer killing and deer hunting. I'll take the hunt hands down every time.

RE: The Great Debate Over Baiting
 

If baiting a deer due to a lack of confidence in your skill makes you sleep easier at night, go for it.

Around these parts the only people baiting are the backwoods meth-heads.

RE: The Great Debate Over Baiting
 

Bait
From Old Norse beita(“‘food’”).

Rhymes: -eɪt

Noun

bait (plural baits)

1. Any substance, especially food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, trap, or net.

2. Anything which allures; a lure; enticement; temptation.

Verb





Infinitive
to bait



Third person singular
baits



Simple past
baited



Past participle
baited



Present participle
baiting
[/align]to bait (third-person singular simple present baits, present participle baiting, simple past and past participle baited)
[ol][*]To attract fish or other animals in order to catch them.[/ol]
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had a good read, thanks. you bring up a good point :D:D[8D]

RE: The Great Debate Over Baiting
 

crokit, walker12 thanks for providing examples of that "holier than thou" attitude I was talking about. Walkerimplying someone who baits is comparable to a meth head really raises the civility of the discussion.

RE: The Great Debate Over Baiting
 

Haha, sorry I didn't mean to come off like that. I just said what everyone around here knows. Everyone's entitled to their own opinion, but I believe baiting is for the hunters who don't want to put in the extra effort. Studying deer behavior, reading everything related to deer hunting, and gaining knowledge about the animal will ALWAYS pay off much more than baiting ever will.

I just couldn't live with myself if I killed a deer over bait. Just my opinion.

RE: The Great Debate Over Baiting
 

what if someone is only hunting a 10 to 100 acre tract and everyone around them is running a timed feeder. How would you go about hunting 10 acres ?
If you didnt feed too you wouldnt see squat.

RE: The Great Debate Over Baiting
 

That's a good point. I've never been in that situation so I can't say what I'd do. All I can speak from is personal experience. I've always been fortunate enough to hunt around individuals who don't bait.

RE: The Great Debate Over Baiting
 

No problem walker, you're right everyone is allowed thier opinion. About not putting in the extra effort I'd like to ask your opinion. Is a guy who leases land from a farmer and hunts over his crop putting out any extra effort? How about a landowner who leases his land to a farmer and hunts over the crop? Niether has done anything to raise the foodsource they're hunting over simply using bait provided by another. With that said let me say I'm not downing anyone whose situation may be similar to the examples I used. My point is as I understand it, someone who baits has to continuously go out and place the bait. That means they're out quite bit checking to see if anything coming in. So in the examples I have given who is putting out the extra effort?

RE: The Great Debate Over Baiting
 

I don't consider natural food sources as being bait. I tend to consider bait as corn, salt licks, or timed feeders; the illegal things in Georgia. I don't have a problem with food plots either, because it takes a lot of work to plow, plant, etc.

I don't have a problem with your two examples. I just can't stand to think of people going out and throwing 100lbs of corn or a few salt blocks in front of their stand and killing big bucks. No doubt it's effective, but I just raise my eyebrows to whether or not it's ethical.