Busted big time and it's not what you think.

[SBCHunter]

Guys,

I got busted this morning hunting over corn. I have my thoughts about it and the topic of baiting but right now it really doesn't matter. I'm just trying to spread the word to be careful. I'm pretty sure my hunting days in TN are over. Without the corn, I don't have any interest in hunting.

 

[encore06]

R U SERIOUS??? If I'm reading correctly, it sounds like you got caught hunting ILLEGALLY and came on TnDeer to spread the word??? Surely not

 

[TennBuck]

lol

 

[brmaster]

Planted corn or poured out corn

 

[easy45]

If you just poured some corn out on the ground then you probably should be through, unless their is more to the story.

 

[Rowdy]

R U SERIOUS??? If I'm reading correctly, it sounds like you got caught hunting ILLEGALLY and came on TnDeer to spread the word??? Surely not

:crazy:

 

[Rowdy]

What do you mean by "it's not what you think" ?

 

[SBCHunter]

R U SERIOUS??? If I'm reading correctly, it sounds like you got caught hunting ILLEGALLY and came on TnDeer to spread the word??? Surely not

I'm only telling people to be carefull. With all the corn that gets sold, I'm sure that I not the only one that does it. Before corn, I saw around 5 deer a year and about lost interest in hunting. When I started hunting with corn, I saw around 5 a day. Whether or not you agree, without baiting, I'm not sure that I can find enough deer to keep me interested.

 

[JThuntsalot]

R U SERIOUS??? If I'm reading correctly, it sounds like you got caught hunting ILLEGALLY and came on TnDeer to spread the word??? Surely not

I'm only telling people to be carefull. With all the corn that gets sold, I'm sure that I not the only one that does it. Before corn, I saw around 5 deer a year and about lost interest in hunting. When I started hunting with corn, I saw around 5 a day. Whether or not you agree, without baiting, I'm not sure that I can find enough deer to keep me interested.

Sounds to me like you need to learn to Scout, then hunt.

 

[brmaster]

well, did he take everything you had with ya at the time or just write you a ticket

 

[8up]

When the make it legal you will find at least 50 % of people will do it. I will buy it by the truck load lol

 

[brmaster]

I have had times I didnt see many deer during the year, but mainly because I didnt have time to scout becasuse of my traveling,
but the last 5 years I have averaged 4 deer in a season while living in Indiana. Now that Im back in the great state of TN
I can go back to one of my spots close to Dale Hollow along with scouting some new areas close to me as well

 

[Twitch]

Did he say he got busted hunting over corn ???

 

[brmaster]

But no matter what, I didnt spread corn and such out to draw them in.
I can say I left my garden up and did throw garden leftouvers into the woods, but didnt hunt over it or around it when i did go out

 

[SBCHunter]

I don't have any excuse. I know its illegal, I know that some of you wouldn't think of baiting, others have access to leases and farms have the means to plant food plots. For me, deer hunting was fun when I baited. I saw deer and I don't see who or what baiting is hurting. I was able to provide several needy families with deer meat over the years.

 

[wayne]

I don't have any excuse. I know its illegal...

I guess now you will just move on to poaching.

 

[arctic_cat]

I don't have any excuse. I know its illegal...

I guess now you will just move on to poaching.

LMAO

 

[rem270]

sucks for you. i hunt in ky, do you have any extra corn left over you'd wanna get rid of?

 

[Grizzly Johnson]

A mans got to do, what a mans got to do...... Baiting is of no issue to me..... but I am sure it goes on more than anybody on here knows about....

 

[Hunter0678]

ah, you will be fine, just pay the ticket and get back in the woods, I knew three guys who all got ticketed a few years ago and they never missed a weekend of hunting.

 

[statelineRUT]

It is called the LAW. You broke it therefore you should have to pay. I can give a guy a break for not knowing better and knowing better the next time, but you sir are a LAW BREAKER plain and simple. My question is why do you come on here and testify to your stupidity and outright disregard for the law. Are you looking for kinship among us to pat you on the back for not being able to hunt legally anymore in the state of TN for a crime you knowingly committed. But how could I be so naive as to think you would know better due to the behavior you are currently admitting to. And for using the excuse that breaking the law is somehow justified due to your current lack of hunting access and helping the needy by getting them deer every year. What you don't realize, and I hope you do now, is you just did more harm to families that relied on you for deer meat because of your lack of respect for the law.

 

[Grizzly Johnson]

Is throwing corn out really any different than planting food plots? It has the exact same results.... attracting deer to the area so they can be in camera photos or gun/bow sights. It is cheaper than buying or renting equipment and then burning your time planting and taking care of food plots.

I don't and never have hunted over corn and quite frankly, I am tired of all the BS on whether is should be legal or not.... other states do it, are their hunters persecuted just the same?

LAWS are broken EVERY day in some form. LAWS are sometimes just like the government.... too lacking in merit and WORTHLESS due to some people lacking in the common sense department when they were written.

 

[Big J]

You Sir are the reason the deer I scout for all season long change patterns and I don't see them during deer season. YOu Sir arw a criminal! I hope they keep your stuff and that you do lose interest in hunting. No better than a stinking poacher. Ban this peace of #$%^!

 

[Grizzly Johnson]

You Sir are the reason the deer I scout for all season long change patterns and I don't see them during deer season.

Don't be so hasty BigJ. Deer change their patterns due to the seasonal change and pressure from hunting..... An area they use during summer may not be the same area they use in the fall and winter.....it's a pretty common thing.

 

[woodlawnhunter]

we feed up until allotted time before season starts or when we go to hunt that area and honestly I don't see a difference when we take the feed away.Now to increase deer kept in an area we have used mineral/salt licks which bleed into the ground and will maintain traffic in the area legally as there is nothing there for us to remove. I don't feel sorry for you getting busted as you did the break the law .When you hunt you MUST know and respect the law , as they say ignorance of the law is no excuse as it is published in a nice manual .I don't see the problem with baiting as it does help with growth especially in QDM programs , it is the same as food plots just in different form.What ruins baiting is people see on TV especially in Texas bringing the deer to slaughter as automatic feeders throw corn out in open roadways , I know it is no different as throwing it on the ground but people perceive baiting this way.I have also seen auto feeders removed from an area , and put up a noise box that sounds like a feeder dispersing corn and they come running.but they are close enough to hear it , please obey the law and be an ethical hunter so we can all keep the ability to hunt and for us to keep in the graces of nonhunters

 

[jw0312]

Wow. There are plenty of laws I don't agree with, but I follow them.

 

[102]

The issue is NOT baiting. The issue is LEGALITY!

Personally, I don't care if baiting is made legal or not. I have hunted states where it is legal and truthfully do not see that much of an advantage once the acorns start hitting the ground.

The REAL advantage to baiting is in places where food may be somewhat scarce, and LEGAL hunters who try to abide by LAW DO NOT bait, but POACHERS, in an effort to gain an advantage, DO PUT OUT bait. There in lies the problem.

If all baiting was legal, this would be a moot point because there would be no advantage by POACHERS who blatantly dis-obey the law.

102

 

[102]

I will add though, and I do not have the biological data to run the numbers, that bait piles probably PROMOTE disease transmission. And also probably create an artificial carrying capacity that may or may not be sustained.

 

[Radar]

You broke the law and knew you where breaking the law .You come to a forum to "bait" up a thread . Expect no sympathy here. Learn to hunt , not to master bait. Pun intended.

 

[preachermantom]

Let us be careful about casting stones...I dare say 99% of us speed everyday...that is breaking the law too! Just saying.