One is illegal, one is not.Please advise how feeders are different from planting a food plot ?
One is illegal, one is not.Please advise how feeders are different from planting a food plot ?
No one ever brags about killing one over a corn pileOne is illegal, one is not.
I've killed two bucks in Texas where baiting was allowed. Even with very limited hunting pressure and maybe 2-3 hunts per year, the deer quickly learn to avoid bait piles during daylight hours. When everyone and their brother is putting out piles of bait, the deer don't have to move very far or risk daylight movement for food. I've seen studies conducted in West Virginia (I think) where hunters spent 3x as many hours hunting per deer harvested in baiting areas than in areas where baiting is not allowed.I know the difference my friend, I grew up in a State that you can bait, did you?
Now shooting outside of legal hunting hours and that bait pile will win.
In the last 10 to 50+ years of hunting my brother, my sons and myself have killed very few deer over bait piles of corn and molasses, very few.
I believe it, our two local DNR Officers firmly believe hundreds of deer are killed in the county where my familys place is over being able to bait. lolI've killed two bucks in Texas where baiting was allowed. Even with very limited hunting pressure and maybe 2-3 hunts per year, the deer quickly learn to avoid bait piles during daylight hours. When everyone and their brother is putting out piles of bait, the deer don't have to move very far or risk daylight movement for food. I've seen studies conducted in West Virginia (I think) where hunters spent 3x as many hours hunting per deer harvested in baiting areas than in areas where baiting is not allowed.
That’s because they believe state records come walking into corn piles. They’re putting in more hours waiting on that booner to show up.I've seen studies conducted in West Virginia (I think) where hunters spent 3x as many hours hunting per deer harvested in baiting areas than in areas where baiting is not allowed.
If I remember correctly they had estimated buck age data as well and the average age of harvested bucks was older in the non-baiting portions of the state. Antlerless harvest rate was also higher in non-baiting areas.That’s because they believe state records come walking into corn piles. They’re putting in more hours waiting on that booner to show up.
I don't think I've ever met two hunters who agree with how the other hunts. Everyone knows better or does it better than everyone else. It's cracked me up since the first time I walked into an archery shop and listened to the bickering, don't suppose it'll ever change.
Follow the law, that's all I care about. Bait/no bait, traditional ML/inline, compound/stick and string, camo/no camo, food plots/no food plots, scent control/no scent control, public land/private land, anything with horns is a trophy/nothing less than 145 will do, rifle/shotgun/handgun, a doe taste better than a buck/they all taste the same, get em in the freezer fast/let them hang for a week.
One thing is for certain, there is only ONE RIGHT WAY TO KILL DEER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And it ain't your way.
Shhh, don't mess it up. I been on this streak for nigh on 35 years now.Well I found the first hunter I agree with
I didn't take it that way at all. I'm in a similar situation. I feed deer year round, whether it is apples, corn or alfalfa. Prior to season I stop, then start again after. Mineral licks well clear of any stands, by hundreds of yards and in THICK cover. I like happy and fat does. They make happy and fat fawns.Apparently some who have posted here believe my question about where to place a feeder interpreted that to me where can I put a feeder to get around the "baiting" restriction and, thus, illegally hunt over bait.
That was not my intent.
True and feed to kill is also legal,Baiting not so much……It all comes down to opinions and ethics and some want to push their ethics on others or try to look down on them.This is what hunting has turned into. Feed deer all summer long with corn and mineral spots, sit back and watch the deer hit it via trail cams. Opening week go kill your “hit-lister” and hang your hard earned buck on the wall. It’s happening a lot.
More and more people want to hunt this way and states are slowly allowing the bait issue to creep in. This is where disease gets some of its foothold on deer population.
I don’t think you insinuated this at all amboy.
A lot of people feed to kill but they’ll never admit it, but they get twisted up if you make fun of it.
If you could post up the accurate instructions on how to make that work exactly as you described I'd be super intrigued to read it. If you could make it work for me I'll kill a big deer using your approach and you can watch me thank you personally on national television when I do. You'll have a new career waiting for you within days.This is what hunting has turned into. Feed deer all summer long with corn and mineral spots, sit back and watch the deer hit it via trail cams. Opening week go kill your “hit-lister” and hang your hard earned buck on the wall. It’s happening a lot.
So planting food plots and making mineral sites to grow big bone is not a thing?What hunting has turned in to is better understanding of whitetail deer, what they like and what they don't. What hunting has turned in to is millions of people spending millions of dollars creating habitat to better suited to support a species damned near hunted to extinction in Indiana. What hunting has turned in to is people deciding they prefer spending time outdoors to existing within the sludge of our current society and finding productive ways to spend more time in the woods.
You’re right, people are not learning how to make hunting(well let’s not call it hunting) easier……https://deerlab.com/blog/deer-mineral-sites-for-daytime-movementsIf you could post up the accurate instructions on how to make that work exactly as you described I'd be super intrigued to read it. If you could make it work for me I'll kill a big deer using your approach and you can watch me thank you personally on national television when I do. You'll have a new career waiting for you within days.