oaktree30

lol WV, I saw a video on youtube not long ago where a guy was pouring corn and carrots out talking about how it was all about the presentation...next scene he is setting out china and candles lol....

Hope all you guys have a great season no matter how or where you hunt.

J Pike

Im not!! Your the one that posted that the only reason you hunt is to put food on the table. Also quit fibbing to yourself, you can buy healthy food and it still would be more time & $$ efficient than hunting to put food on the table. Pike

J Pike

See your the one that said that the only reason you hunt is to put food on the table. I just said that there isnt anything wrong with that!!
Seems to me that the only reason that you started this thread was to pick fights. Pike

bigbulls

I think Mr. Oaktree needs to go back to lurking instead of posting.

Thunderchicken217

This is why hunters like us will someday lose the battle against anti hunters. It will probably not be in any of our lifetimes but for those whose lives that it would occur during I feel sorry for. Why is it that everyone has to beat this dead horse over and over again? For some crazy reason people have this great urge to somehow feel that in some part of their life that they are better or more ethical about something than someone else. All these commercials on tv about stand united with your hunting brothers and sisters and yet people are more worried about tearing the person next to them down for enjoying the same sport they do. I wonder if people who play other sports do this kind of crap and thats exactly what it is. Can you imagine an NFL lineman saying to another, you know I dont really like the way you got to the quarterback in that game. I found it unethical and quite offensive if I must say so. Come on people what the hell is wrong with you? Do you think the person who taught you how to hunt would want you bashing another hunter just for the way they decide to get a deer and if they would well then they had no business what so ever teaching someone to hunt because they sure as hell dont have a clue what its about. It always makes me laugh at a commercial such as Micheal Wadell saying welcome to the brotherhood. The brotherhood of what is my question because you can goto a local gun raffle of hunters and the room is as divided as a meeting of congress or something. All I am saying is that no way that this great sport of ours will last forever with such opionated and judgemental people tearing down its own. Go ahead and laugh if you think I'm crazy for believing that it will one day fail and believe me one day it will be gone. The only thing that will be left is a generation blaming the one before itself for why this great sport is gone. Sound familiar people about alot of other things through out history. It will not be hard for outsiders to tear down a tradition that is already being torn down inside of itself. So why doesnt everyone just worry more about topics that help us all instead of starting posts like this one.

oaktree30

seriously, I dont see where getting these guys fired up a bit is anything but positive, DNR is going to do what it wants....In Georgia for example its legal to hunt over bait for the first time this year, (why because of over population... YES this issue is like beating a dead horse, THEY WILL NEVER TAKE AWAY HUNTING, if anything from what Ive seen they are actually loosening the regulations in many states. If they took it away it would create massive overpopulation...Not even Al Gore could bring himself to do that...

MZS

I fully understand why you hunt over bait right now. You need the meat and you don't have the time. And as mentioned, baiting helps keep harvest numbers where they need to be. But at some point, perhaps in retirement, you might have the time/money and not need more than 1 deer, at most for your freezer. And then you may do much or all of your hunting without bait.

With respect to hunting only for antlers, every state and province I know of requires that you not waste the meat. So by law, trophy hunters must either use the meat themselves or donate it. Only poachers shoot deer and cut off heads for mounts leaving the rest to rot, and I doubt there are any folks like that on this forum.

m.t.hands

baiting in alabama is illegal but everybody is doing it, so we run hounds (which is legal) and its like setting the woods on fire, every deer in the country gets run out of its bed


BTW j/k, i like to still hunt along trails leading to and from bedding/feeding areas with a bow in hand, but i'm not about to interfere with anyones method of legal hunting...when someone elses rights are stripped yours are next

deernutz

I just got a pick of my buddy shooting a nice buck off his bait pile. I told him he over did the corn but he said, "You can never have enough of that corn stuff".

Murdy

Hilarious, DN
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I grew up in northern Wisconsin, where baiting was legal, and I did it. I now live in Illinois, where it's illegal, so I don't. I don't really see baiting as much of an ethical issue. Harvesting meat in an efficient manner is fine, so long as you use the meat. I honestly don't get the relationship between fair chase and ethics. Either its ok to kill an animal or its not--the how isn't that significant, so long as you are attempting to do it in as clean a manner as possible. Are farmers doing something wrong if they don't give a steer 3 steps before they try to kill it?