i bait and am not ashamed about it
12-10-2008, 07:17 AM
#1
Nontypical Buck
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: north florida
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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.
12-10-2008, 07:31 AM
#3
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Roanoke, Virginia
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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.
But, if baiting was legal here, then I would do it too so don't worry.
12-10-2008, 08:12 AM
#5
Join Date: Dec 2008
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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
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12-10-2008, 08:20 AM
#6
Fork Horn
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Stafford, VA
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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....
Is hunting close to a 1000 acre corn field the same as baiting? I've been told many a time that it is....
12-10-2008, 08:22 AM
#7
Fork Horn
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Stafford, VA
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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
http://www.huntingnet.com/forum/tm.aspx?m=3214888
12-10-2008, 08:22 AM
#8
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Trussville, AL
Posts: 171
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....
Is hunting close to a 1000 acre corn field the same as baiting? I've been told many a time that it is....
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.
12-10-2008, 08:25 AM
#10
Fork Horn
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Stafford, VA
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RE: i bait and am not ashamed about it
Bingo!
ORIGINAL: Mossy_71
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.
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....
Is hunting close to a 1000 acre corn field the same as baiting? I've been told many a time that it is....
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.