I don't care if they do or don't, I rarely deer hunt anymore anyway
.I'd bet really good money that 90% of private land hunters are baiting if it could be proven. On another note i see what the state allows to happen to our deer herd every summer, with 0 boundaries, i think its absolutely silly that they regulate the ones paying their salaries but not the others. I've just got enough common sense to see what's going on around us. Don't be naive, start paying attention and it will open your eyes. Between Walmart, feed mills, and co-ops its not hard to see how many people are buying corn.
All of our deer get wasted on the neighboring properties in the standing summer beans, to the point we don't have any age structure beyond 3.5 yrs of age, and that I can prove. It will happen again this summer.
Turkeys are no different last year me and a few buddies killed double digit gobblers across 6 counties, about 50% public, 50% private. 93% of them had bait in their crop. I couldn't even begin to tell you the last deer I killed that didn't have it in its stomach content. Maybe it's just here but I doubt it.