#1671022 - 12/14/09 08:19 AM
Re: Baiting? Where do you stand?
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BH and Wes...good posts
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#1671048 - 12/14/09 08:31 AM
Re: Baiting? Where do you stand?
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Let's hope they never make it legal. And if it were legal, no I wouldn't do it.
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#1671067 - 12/14/09 08:45 AM
Re: Baiting? Where do you stand?
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Buckhunter72
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I know baiting is not legal in Tennessee, but it is amazing how much "deer corn" is sold at Walmart, TSC and other stores right before and during deer season.
I do not put corn out on any farm that I hunt till season is over, or I am done hunting it for the year. I did go to TSC and purchased a few bags of corn the other day. It's about time to start hunting with my trail cameras and take an inventory of the bucks that are still roaming around. I will hunt this weekend and the entire week before Christmas. Clean and oil the guns up, and start with the corn and cameras.
Hunting over it, if it was legal, would be pretty much a waste of time anyway, as I have only got a couple of pictures of good bucks during daylight hours the past 5 years.
But if I had a vote on the issue of hunting over bait:
My vote would be NO.
If I was a GW, I would sit in the TSC parking lot right before season started and do a little "prospecting", to fill my ticket book every year, and catch me some illegal "baiter's". It's amazing how many non-farmers will load their trucks up with bags of corn and head to their favorite hunting land to go "scouting".
I think there is alot of it going on.
If it was legal, I still would not hunt over it, but I might have it out with the cameras on it during season. This would essentually, change the patterns of the deer, and more or less I would be hunting bait.
But, this is coming from a guy that just cleared two acres of woods, to put food plots in. Haven't hunted over them, but once or twice this year, but I live on the travel routes to and from. Main differences:
1) it is legal to plant food plots.
2) If you spend $300.00 ( and some work) to plant, fertilze and maintain a 2 acre winter food plot every year, you can benifit alot of deer for 5 or 6 months out of the year. Another $300.00 (and some more work) for a summer plot and you got the year covered. 12 months of benificial forage for your deer heard. At 7.00 dollars for a 50 pound bag of corn you will get no where near the benifit (just a whole lot less work).
That is my opinion.
Edited by Buckhunter72 (12/14/09 09:34 AM)
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#1671075 - 12/14/09 08:48 AM
Re: Baiting? Where do you stand?
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banyan slayer
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I am not much for the idea of baiting. I see how it appeals to some and it is effective but I hunt for the thrill of the chase and the difficulty in finding my targeted prey! Regarding the hunting over foodplots, while I am guilty of having hunted over them before on other people's property I do not consider them exactly the same as a pile of corn. I am hopefully going to be building my first ever plots this coming year and I can promise you that I will not have a stand anywhere near them. I am hoping to create some additional reasons for deer to visit my property but my hunting will take place far away from those sources, the same as my mineral suppliments.
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#1671091 - 12/14/09 08:55 AM
Re: Baiting? Where do you stand?
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BIGORANGE
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Baiting is legal in Tennessee we just have the stupid 10 day rule that should be done away with.
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#1671153 - 12/14/09 09:31 AM
Re: Baiting? Where do you stand?
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bowhunterfanatic
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Lol. I guess no one bow hunted in the acorn woods this year either. Food is food. What difference does it make where it comes from?
With that being said, I'm not actually in favor of the rule, but I don't understand the difference in hunting a food plot, acorn flat, etc.
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#1671176 - 12/14/09 09:39 AM
Re: Baiting? Where do you stand?
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Winchester
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I could care less! I look at baiting like I did Xbows, it will have zero affect on my personal hunting either way. I dont use a Xbow and I dont/wont bait, and have no problem with anybody that wants to do either, as again it doesnt affect me at all.
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#1671232 - 12/14/09 10:00 AM
Re: Baiting? Where do you stand?
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I personally don't see MUCH difference in baiting and food plotting. Sure there is more work in food plotting but your doing the same thing...hunting over food. I would use bait if legal, but it aint so I aint!
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#1671258 - 12/14/09 10:07 AM
Re: Baiting? Where do you stand?
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Baiting = no sport, no skill needed, your taking an unfair and un-natural advantage of an animals basic need..."food", for that matter it takes all the hunt out of hunting, anyone who baits does not truely know or want to know how to truely hunt...they just want to kill things IMO, if all someone wants to do is kill something then they need a therapist cause they have serious repressed aggresions issues from childhood....LOL....they probably do...right?...LOL, if they allowed baiting they should change the licensing to "baiting license" instead of a "hunting license", I find hunting to be a spiritual experience and for me and I just think it should be a sport in which respect from hunter and hunted is earned through skill, true woodsmanship etc., but if TWRA thinks it is OK then I would respect thier decision but would not bait nor be a supporter of it most stupid thing i have seen in a while no different hunting over a food plot or salt licks heck dont hunt the rut either cause no sport, no skill needed, your taking an unfair and un-natural advantage of an animals basic need..."sex",
There is a huge difference between hunting over a food source and a pile of corn. Add this to the list along with the 22
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