If you need bait to kill a deer, you aren't much of a hunter.

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Instead of trying to legalize baiting, how about spending your time doing something much more worthwhile, like learning to hunt deer?

Baiting is not feeding deer. It is providing a small "teaser" amount of food to lure deer to an exact spot in front of the gun (or bow). Rarely do baiters provide food to the deer outside of hunting season, and the small amount of food provided does nothing beneficial for the deer. A single deer requires about 5 1/2 pounds of dry-weight food per day. Lets say a specific bait pile is within the seasonal range of 20 deer (not an uncommon situation). You would need to be providing over a 100 pounds of feed per day to be positively affecting the deer. In just two weeks, over 1,500 pounds of feed would be required to positively affect the deer, and then for only a 2 week period.

A food plot can provide many tons of food per acre available throughout the entire year. In addition, a food plot isn't necessarily attracting deer to one spot in front of the gun (hunt an acre food plot and tell me it is drawing deer to a guaranteed kill spot).

No. I don't need a deer so bad that I will do anything to get one. For me, it isn't how many I harvest, it is how I harvest them.

What kind of woodsmanship/hunting skills does it take to shoot a deer eating from a pile of corn or a buck standing over a hot doe while she munches on corn?

BAITING IS A TACTIC DESIRED BY LAZY HUNTERS THAT DO NOT WANT TO LEARN WOODSMANSHIP SKILLS OR SPEND THE TIME TO STUDY DEER, THEIR BEHAVIOR OR THEIR MOVEMENT PATTERNS. BAITING IS A TACTIC DESIGNED TO CIRCUMVENT EFFORT, KNOWLEDGE AND SKILL.

I was born in Minnesota and attended college and law school there; I think the MN DNR is on the right track.

http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/volunteer/sepoct08/bait.html

I know where I stand so I'll stand there.

You can hunt how you like.

BH, I truly love everything about deer hunting, from getting prepared weeks early, being with family and friends, down to camping in the woods, spending quiet time alone in a tree, etc. But the END RESULT is the absolute #1 reason im there, if not I would just go camping or bird watching, sightseeing etc. Many ways to spend time outdoors with family and friends without hunting, so I dont even try to disguise the fact that I truly intend to kill something each and every time I step foot in the woods! Winning the battle against the old mature buck, killing him at 15 yards in his own bedroom with just an arrow, thats where its at and thats the reason I go, end result equals rack in hand admiring the trophy!!! Dont try to make it something its not, its HUNTING!!!!!!!!!! I dont and wont bait either, but killing is a must!