People who hunt with bait are often child molestors and shoplifters who also drown puppies in gunny sacks and smoke crack while worshipping Satan. They are also big fans of Dog the Bounty Hunter and Little People, Big World.[:@]

Hottest topic on the board, a guaranteed 5 page thread!

I hunt over corn in my hunting club, and lots of it!

And how do you know that Lanse? Personal experience...........????

I read it in a book. I swear to God, you can look it up.....

I just get a kick out of people who say that they don't hunt over bait, yet plant food plots on their property. Food plots won't guarantee that deer will come to you(neither will feeders spitting out corn), but you ARE trying to attract deer with either method so technically it should be considered baiting. In my home state baiting is illegal, yet you can plant food plots and hunt your heart out over them. It really doesn't make much sense. I know people try to justify it by saying they are just supplementing the deers food supply with food plots, but in my opinion deer really shouldn't be fed by man. They are wild animals and should fend for themselves. If they come to feed at a cornfield or something it's one thing, but in most cases that corn was not put out there only for the deer to feed at. I am not saying here that baiting is wrong or should be illegal, but I just think that food plots and any other form of baiting are really one and the same and should be viewed as the same by hunters and state game departments.

I agree. Why do hunt a feeder? To kill deer. Why do you hunt a food plot? To kill deer. Very simple, isn't it?

i never hunt over bait if you do use a deer attratant like c'mere deer i think that is just called shooting not hunting

It is not legal to hunt over bait in Oregon. Only mineral blocks. Even if it was, I wouldn't. I do use salt blocks for deer/elk hunting, but they don't seem to work to good. I'm not to fond of baiting.

Started using those 35+ years ago.

Now that's funny... or maybe it's the beer laughing! [8D]

Baiting is illegal in Iowa, but food plots are OK, at least to my knowledge. In MN feeders and mineral licks can be used up until two weeks before the start of deer season, then they must be taken down. Again, food plots are OK... the MN DNR even has two clover plots planted in the public land that abuts my brothers land, and I shot me deer last year across one of them.

My opinion of baiting is that I don't like it, but I'm not going to tell someone else not to do it if it's legal in your state. I also don't equate food plots with baiting, since the food plots are available to the deer 24/7. Most people who use bait set their feeders to throw food at set times. If your feeder throws food at 8am and 4pm every day, then that's baiting by my definition.

Mike