Baiting Bill HB1618/SB1942

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Should baiting be allowed on private land?

  • Yes

    Votes: 195 40.8%

  • No

    Votes: 209 43.7%

  • Don't care

    Votes: 74 15.5%
  • Total voters
    478
Guessing that it doesn't apply to cwd unit. I know of some around me that already bait even with it being illegal. Don't know that it would make a difference for me as I would rather plant food plots.
 
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Every one is so negative about this, is corn going to wipe the deer population out or something?? There's so much food naturally for deer to eat in Tennessee it's not Ike it's going to hurt anything. You can put corn out in Arkansas, Mississippi, Kentucky , Georgia abd Alabama so why not here? In my side of the state there's so much AG that it I don't think it would matter if you baited or not. Yeah I'm sure it'll help later in the season when food is slim but like this year there was so many acorns the deer hardly touched our green plots. I guess all those states that allow it don't have
" real hunters " and it's going to ruin Tennessee just like them. I guarantee every one on here has a neighbor that does it illegal now and you don't care. If it's legal and you don't want to do it then just don't simple as that. I know I won't bother with it if they make it legal.
 
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tntrkkllr said:
Every one is so negative about this, is corn going to wipe the deer population out or something?? There's so much food naturally for deer to eat in Tennessee it's not Ike it's going to hurt anything. You can put corn out in Arkansas, Mississippi, Kentucky and Alabama so why not here? In my side of the state there's so much AG that it I don't think it would matter if you baited or not. Yeah I'm sure it'll help later in the season when food is slim but like this year there was so many acorns the deer hardly touched our green plots. I guess all those states that allow it don't have
" real hunters " and it's going to ruin Tennessee just like them. I guarantee every one on here has a neighbor that does it illegal now and you don't care. If it's legal and you don't want to do it then just don't simple as that. I know I won't bother with it if they make it legal.
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You are asking the wrong question. The first question should be "how will this benefit the wildlife (not just deer) of Tennessee?"
 
Just watched a segment on RED RISING can't remember the hunter's name but he said if you specifically plant food for the deer then in his opinion baiting is no different. My thoughts as well as long as you do it to were it don't effect the wildlife physically . Some don't have the means to put a food plot so baiting would even the playing field . Can't understand the logic behind the negatively as just about all states bordering Tennessee allows baiting and to my knowledge it hasn't effected their wildlife physically.
 
Always wondered why every state around us could? I guess they think they have CWD contained to the western end of the state. I see this increasing the need to buy a suppressor and thermal scope to get a crack at the biggest ones at your bait pile. Oh well nothing stays the same I suppose.
 
Planting plots is a whole lot different than Corning in my opinion. Natural plants don't give deer and turkeys diseases (especially from aflatoxins from moldy corn). And there is no guarantee that deer will eat your crops you planted. There is a very high chance they will come to the corn. Hunting over bait is lazy and requires no skills. I'm not saying I'm better than anyone and most of y'all prob kill way more deer than me, but to have the skill set to find deer naturally is the way to go for the hunter and the wildlife. This topic comes up at least once a year since I have been on this site. I will say the same thing, It was not that long ago that only "criminals" hunted over bait. Are we lowering the bar?
 
bjohnson said:
Bills introduced to allow baiting on private land. Your thoughts?
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I will be hunting for the first time in TN this year as I just bought 15 acres in Stewart County. I set up a feeder to keep deer on the property.
I really don't care one way or the other because once acorns start to drop they don't eat the corn much.
My only heartburn is the 10 day rule. Being out of state I'd have to make a special trip to empty the feeder which is hard.
We should be allowed to keep feeders somewhere just not hunt over them. In Georgia, when you couldn't bait, you could still have a feeder as long as it wasn't in plain site of your stand or blind.
 
Snake said:
Just watched a segment on RED RISING can't remember the hunter's name but he said if you specifically plant food for the deer then in his opinion baiting is no different. My thoughts as well as long as you do it to were it don't effect the wildlife physically . Some don't have the means to put a food plot so baiting would even the playing field . Can't understand the logic behind the negatively as just about all states bordering Tennessee allows baiting and to my knowledge it hasn't effected their wildlife physically.
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How does bait even the playing field?

And since when is it the government's job to regulate fairness?

Pro baiting arguments are borderline socialist. Prove me wrong.
 
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aflatoxins and it's negative effective on turkeys is a fact and the already decline in population is also a fact. So until they require aflatoxin levels to be tested in wildlife corn I say no. But I also hate when the government puts restrictions on what I can do on my one land. Less government is better government in my opinion but one also has to think of the sustainability of wildlife so there of course has to be laws to keep healthy population of animals. But if that was in the hands of the general public well we would be screwed because people are stupid
 
Snake said:
Just watched a segment on RED RISING can't remember the hunter's name but he said if you specifically plant food for the deer then in his opinion baiting is no different. My thoughts as well as long as you do it to were it don't effect the wildlife physically . Some don't have the means to put a food plot so baiting would even the playing field . Can't understand the logic behind the negatively as just about all states bordering Tennessee allows baiting and to my knowledge it hasn't effected their wildlife physically.
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A pile of processed corn and a food plot with a grab bag of varieties and nutrients are not the same. One is actually good for the deer and the other is terrible for the deer.
 
i would suggest to ask the surrounding states when they were planning on shutting down there hunting seasons because of bait, alflotoxins or cwd !!!! If it is all that bad????
 

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