"That's not hunting"
10-29-2013, 11:35 AM
#111
Fork Horn
Join Date: Sep 2013
Posts: 193
Coworker just informed me that shooting a deer over a food plot isn't hunting, it's shooting. I asked how he hunted. He looks for an acorn tree and waits there for a deer to show, usually early morning or late afternoon, or finds a hill overlooking a stream & some green grass. When the deer comes out for a drink, POW! Hmmmm.... I fail to see the difference.
10-29-2013, 11:42 AM
#112
Typical Buck
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Buffalo, WY
Posts: 992
10-29-2013, 11:47 AM
#113
Fork Horn
Join Date: Sep 2013
Posts: 193
I sure hope so my self, I am learning slowly, It will take a couple of seasons before I can be as my brother calls a red horn lol instead of a green horn.
10-29-2013, 12:18 PM
#114
Typical Buck
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Buffalo, WY
Posts: 992
To plagiarize JFK.... We do this not because it is easy but because it is hard. (that's the idea anyway)
Being successful the easy way doesn't carry the personal satisfaction.
The hunter has no crowd to boo his unethical behavior or cheer his victories. He answers to himself.
10-29-2013, 12:54 PM
#116
Typical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: N. Illinois
Posts: 527
If the law says it is legal and you have permission to be where you are then it is the right way to hunt.
10-29-2013, 12:57 PM
#117
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2010
Posts: 3,359
I also agree with those that have mentioned location. I hunt the Midwest. There are millions of acres of corn and beans along with lots of oak trees. I hunt whichever I think is best at the time. I don't alter the deer movement in anyway (outside of occasionally causing them to not be somewhere they normally would)
I use the hand I am dealt to hunt deer.
I go where the deer are.
I use the hand I am dealt to hunt deer.
I go where the deer are.
10-29-2013, 03:59 PM
#119
Fork Horn
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 489
just because there is a pile of corn does not mean they will show up.
I living in one of those southern states that bait with a tractor trailer of cut crops, I still put corn,peanuts and mineral sites and keep them year round. I rarely hunt them. I never hunt my mineral sites and I only hunt corn piles with a bow and when I do blood flies and does go in the freezer. Once I get some meat I go to natural movement, crops,acorns and other browze. I use the bait to keep the does down thats it.
I living in one of those southern states that bait with a tractor trailer of cut crops, I still put corn,peanuts and mineral sites and keep them year round. I rarely hunt them. I never hunt my mineral sites and I only hunt corn piles with a bow and when I do blood flies and does go in the freezer. Once I get some meat I go to natural movement, crops,acorns and other browze. I use the bait to keep the does down thats it.
10-29-2013, 04:30 PM
#120
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: elmira ny
Posts: 1,676
I've been hunting since I turned of age. I must admit that I've never considered sitting over a bait pile hunting, but then again, it's never been legal in my state. Food plots are legal here, but have never done that either. I just turned 61, and with age comes the realization of to each his own.
Truth is, I guess I never really knew the definition of whitetail hunting until I ventured into the realm of still hunting and got turned onto the Adirondacks back in the '70s. Now, I live for the opportunity to hunt for deer there. To me, imho, it's the purest form of deer hunting: searching for them, tracking them, finding them, and hopefully being in the right place at the right time. It's a lot more work than folks realize. I no longer consider a successful season means one resulting in a kill.
I don't look down on those that sit over bait or food plots, it's just not in me to shoot deer that way. To each his own.
Truth is, I guess I never really knew the definition of whitetail hunting until I ventured into the realm of still hunting and got turned onto the Adirondacks back in the '70s. Now, I live for the opportunity to hunt for deer there. To me, imho, it's the purest form of deer hunting: searching for them, tracking them, finding them, and hopefully being in the right place at the right time. It's a lot more work than folks realize. I no longer consider a successful season means one resulting in a kill.
I don't look down on those that sit over bait or food plots, it's just not in me to shoot deer that way. To each his own.
Last edited by crokit; 10-29-2013 at 04:35 PM.