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bryant1 12-10-2008 07:17 AM

i bait and am not ashamed about it
 
Baiting isjust a part of stillhunting here. I don't know anyone who hunts in clubs and other private land that doesn't use corn/bait. I don't see why anyone wouldn't bait where it is legal, and i don't understand why some on here have the attitude that baiting is sloppy or almost like it is canned hunting because it isn't. We may stand better odds to concentrate deer to a area, butnot bigger bucks.


SWThomas 12-10-2008 07:24 AM

RE: i bait and am not ashamed about it
 
I tend to agree with you. Hunting with bait is no different than hunting on a food plot.

1shotkill1993 12-10-2008 07:31 AM

RE: i bait and am not ashamed about it
 
I think it bating is different. There is no logical way that you can say that hunting afood plot is the same as sitting on top of a pile of corn. Food plots take time and work to maintain and grow. Its not just dumping a bag of corn in front of your stand.

But, if baiting was legal here, then I would do it too so don't worry.

Pat Curtis 12-10-2008 08:05 AM

RE: i bait and am not ashamed about it
 
Is hunting close to a 1000 acre corn field the same as baiting? I've been told many a time that it is.... :eek:

spruilldog 12-10-2008 08:12 AM

RE: i bait and am not ashamed about it
 
Bating is perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of. I first started bating at about age 12 or 13 and have continued to bate to greater or lesser degrees since then. Have never bated over a corn field or pile of corn but whatever works for you. Bating now for 20 years and have no regrets;).

HoytSpeed 12-10-2008 08:20 AM

RE: i bait and am not ashamed about it
 
Hunting an agricultural crop is quite different than walking into the woods to hunt a feeder.


ORIGINAL: Pat Curtis

Is hunting close to a 1000 acre corn field the same as baiting? I've been told many a time that it is.... :eek:

Mossy_71 12-10-2008 08:22 AM

RE: i bait and am not ashamed about it
 

ORIGINAL: Pat Curtis

Is hunting close to a 1000 acre corn field the same as baiting? I've been told many a time that it is.... :eek:
I would have to say...NO!!

Here in Alabama--where baiting is illegal--you can hunt foodplots which could include standing corn. If the corn is mowed down--by man or machine--it is considered bating. We found this out just before season opener a few years back. We had planted five rows of corn on each side of one of our more productive greenfields. About a week before bow season, one of the guys went out and mowed it down. Luckily out of concern the club president contacted the local GW and met him out on our lease. He informed us that we could not hunt in or around the plot until ten days after the last kernel of corn was gone. The only gray area I have is if the corn was harvested.

HoytSpeed 12-10-2008 08:22 AM

RE: i bait and am not ashamed about it
 
Heres another forum on baiting and the effects of baiting. I'm not for or against it. To each their own.

http://www.huntingnet.com/forum/tm.aspx?m=3214888


Rory/MO 12-10-2008 08:24 AM

RE: i bait and am not ashamed about it
 
It's not legal here. I wouldn't do it if it was. But I couldn't care less if someone else practices it, as long as it's legal where they are.

HoytSpeed 12-10-2008 08:25 AM

RE: i bait and am not ashamed about it
 
Bingo!


ORIGINAL: Mossy_71


ORIGINAL: Pat Curtis

Is hunting close to a 1000 acre corn field the same as baiting? I've been told many a time that it is.... :eek:
I would have to say...NO!!

Here in Alabama--where baiting is illegal--you can hunt foodplots which could include standing corn. If the corn is mowed down--by man or machine--it is considered bating. We found this out just before season opener a few years back. We had planted five rows of corn on each side of one of our more productive greenfields. About a week before bow season, one of the guys went out and mowed it down. Luckily out of concern the club president contacted the local GW and met him out on our lease. He informed us that we could not hunt in or around the plot until ten days after the last kernel of corn was gone. The only gray area I have is if the corn was harvested.


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