Baiting without the "bait?" (It's illegal here)
#21
Why don't you ask him what he did back in the sixties when me and my buddies went to VN??? When you find out then maybe you will know what a phony this guy is when he talks about how much he supports the troups.
Sorry for the rant, but you brought up a sore subject for me. I apologize.
Last edited by rafsob; 09-03-2010 at 08:50 AM.
#23
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Moravia NY USA
Posts: 2,164
That would be baiting.
Most likely mineral and things like comeere deer would be as well if baiting is not legal. Figure out the regulations and learn to hunt within them rather then looking for ways to skirt them.
#24
Now I have heard it all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
#25
Get out there and scout, determine, based on crop rotation where the funnels are this year and set up off of one of those, have a few stands near by so you can hunt the wind. I have the same issue as baiting is not allowed in my state - lived in TX for many years and never hunted over bait, just doesn't sit well with me but others don't mind.
IMO, if you put in the scouting work, and you end up with a deer, you are going to be much more satisfied with your outcome than sitting inside trying to figure ways around the regs.
Last edited by *twodogs*; 09-09-2010 at 04:33 AM.
#26
you didn't know that? can't hunt corn and bean fields either. Ya'll are going to jail for huntin over bait. oh no oak tree's thats a double whammy
#27
Spike
Join Date: Aug 2010
Posts: 47
This is being overanalyzed. On the land I hunt, there is no apple trees so an apple laying on the ground would be a little out of place. There is corn nearby. But how did this big pile of corn get into the middle of the woods.
Now I may take an apple to eat with me, but it ain't leaving my blind
Now I may take an apple to eat with me, but it ain't leaving my blind
#29
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Moravia NY USA
Posts: 2,164
Sounded like he he was suggesting using apples - not hunting over ones fallen from a tree. The first would be baiting - the latter would not.
#30
Very rarely will a mature buck meet his demise over a pile of bait, especially if he has been pressured at all. I would put in some more time and try to cut him off coming back to bed in the a.m. Don't just assume that because baiting is illegal it must be effective. It is extremely overrated and usually conducted by less educated hunters.