Deer Hunting Baiting
 

Do any of you hunters bait whitetails?


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It is not legal in NY. No, I dont. (baiting is considered anything- food, molasses, salt, that a deer can ingest...not hunting over an established crop or natural food source).
It seems to me baiting turns hunting into just shooting... hardly a show of skill or sportsmanship.

Not legal in Il for any reason!!!!!!! Can't even use it before or after season for trail cam's. Can't even put out hay/feed for severe winter conditions legally.

hunting here in cayuga county ny we cannot bait but i will still set up along corn,bean or overgrown apple orchards. i do not think of that as just shooting but trying to put myself into a spot that i think a deer may pass through.

Down here in the southeast baiting is legal, and many of us do it. I think it fully depends on the situation that the hunter is in. Many people are in hunting clubs with limited amount of land, and your designated area may not be the best.

To each his own I guess.

Ala. --- loose feed bait not allowed. Includes any "deer block", pellet, or other attractant that contains a food item. We can hunt over agriculture fields.

Can also plant and hunt over these food plots. This is the usual practice.

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It is very easy even if it illegal

Use rape seed and sugar beet seeds

Deer love it and and no maintenance

Works like magic for me.

Nappy 13

Cant bait here in MA, I don't think I would if I could any way.

I'm a master baiter.......:D

yes. i probably put out 2,000 or more pounds of corn a year i put out a couple 100 pounds out today while i was trimming stands and running cams. i will make one more outing to put out fresh corn and trim out a couple more stands out right before the start of bow season. then i will go out once every week or week in a half to put fresh corn out. i usually stop just right before the rut starts then i will start back up again after the rut ends and continue until deer season is over.

In Virginia, where I hunt every year, it is illegal, so no. Here in Kentucky, where I live, it is legal and I buy 250 lbs a month and keep it out behind the house year round along with a couple of deer cameras. I have only taken one deer over it and that was a very very nice 8 pointer three years ago that did not come for the corn but was chasing does that were feeding there.

In OH. I use 50lb. mineral/salt blocks and bags and also corn to get my bucks to step in front of my cams but dont hunt over them, I also have 30 + acres of food plots and only have hunted over them twice in the last 3 years. In PA. I put feeders out on my property with in a couple days after I harvest my buck. Pike

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Yes I do in cetrain situations. I have killed some deer on bait, but I will tell you some of my best deer were not over bait. Big bucks are big because they won't come to bait during daylight hours the majority of the time.

Sure they do! Pike

J Pike, you got any GPS coordinates to go with those nice pictures.:biggrin:

In sask. baiting is a legal and popular practice. Here baiting sites consist of salt(blocks or granular), alfalfa hay as a bed and seeds (oats, peas, barley, canola screenings, wheat, etc) Corn is rarely used here. The best placement for baits is in area where the game feel safe to come during daylight hours this is often in transition on a meadow or small opening to allow the hunter time to react and judge the animal as it approaches the bait. Bucks will use baits as a scrape around the rut to locate estrus does, therefor like a scrape they are often visited under darkness. Also they tend to hang back and circle around them in cover before committing. Being mindful of such happenings goes along way in determining bait sites, blind or stand loaction and entry upon hunting over baits. Baiting sites can be particularily productive after the peak rut or first rut has happened as bucks will be tired and in need of easier food sources. My experience has shown pining over bait sites during the rut is largely a frustrating experience or method to hunt mature bucks. As such I prefer not to bait hunt anymore, I used to as a guide and personally but just prefer other methods and don't put as much time as needed to bait. I now enjoy hunting other animals way to much to be caught solely up on whitetail bucks. Truthfully my biggest whitetails haven't been taken while employing baiting. That said I am lucky to live in an area where baiting isn't the only way to get on mature deer either.

Good luck

If you think baiting turns hunting into shooting you dont know your ass from a hole in the ground. I have game feeders, salt and mineral blocks, deer cane and food plots. Basically its something to keep deer on your property instead of neighboring farms that are full of corn rows or soybeans or any other local crops. If your going to tha tI sure hope you dont hund a food plot because thats baiting or hunt a stand of oak trees because you know deer love acorns. Or is it ok if the "bait" naturally falls there? We all get on here cause we love the hunt not to badmouth others tactics.

I find that hunters who hunt in states where it is illegal tend to accuse those who hunt in states where it is legal of being unethical.

I've used corn, mineral blocks, man made scrapes and rubs, grunt tubes and sex lures. All are effective when used at the right time. All are a form of bait in my opinion.

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I normally dont condescend to responding to comments like this...but...
Every year I fill my tags with venison tagged legally hunting big woods northern NY.
For a fair number of years when it was neccessary to feed my family by hunting, I utilized bait piles and planted crop fields. I knew exactly when and where to be, and knew what deer would be there. No reason to waste time, wander out on stand about 45 minutes before dark, get comfortable, pick my target and shoot. Deer shooting. I took no joy in it. If you do, good for you. I didnt knock it. I simply prefer to spend as much time as possible hunting, looking for sign, scrapes, rubbings, and learning where the deer are...not chumming for them to draw them to me. If it is legal in your area, I dont knock utilizing legal techniques.

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Some of folks harping about baiting are some of the same folks who have no trouble with the "challenge" of shooting a buck on a fenced-in game preserve.

Watched such a show today. Ten minutes (literally) into his hunt, this "expert" shoots a drop-tine massive buck. Oh, and it was his pick of three standing there.

Such clowns should keep their opinions to themselves. Give me a baiter on public land over these posers any day of the week.

The. End.