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<blockquote data-quote="TheLBLman" data-source="post: 5636249" data-attributes="member: 1409"><p><strong>It <em>CAN</em> be one of those "value" issues</strong> as to <strong><u>just where one will draw his lines</u>.</strong></p><p></p><p>"Food plots" are in most situations considered "legal".</p><p>So are big fields.</p><p>In my experiences, the larger the field, the bigger it's draw to deer.</p><p>A 1/4-acre "food plot" commonly has less attraction to deer than a 4-acre mowed field.</p><p></p><p>I do not consider sitting over a 1/4-acre food plot a compromise of hunting ethics anything like as much as sitting over a poured on the ground pile of corn. Personally, I look at most small food plots as fool plots. Routinely hunting them can be as counter-productive as productive, and usually very counterproductive in terms of harvesting older deer.</p><p></p><p>By contrast, sitting over a continuously re-filled corn feeder continuously brings deer to the same spot. This does not happen when sitting over a field, and we can actually state "any" field is to some degree a "food plot". The smaller that field, the more akin to a bait pile.</p><p></p><p>At what point is the outing more about shooting than hunting?</p><p></p><p>Is hunting a large hay field (without any "food plots"), where you can shoot deer 400 yds any direction, more about shooting or hunting?</p><p></p><p>And with some species of hunting, the very nature of the sport may in fact be more about shooting?</p><p>Think of dove hunting.</p><p>"Baiting" in the doves, whether legal or illegal, may contribute to shooting skills more than hunting skills?</p><p></p><p>Just saying, the lines can get really blurry really fast.</p><p></p><p>This is why many state game agencies allow "legal" baiting via "cultivated" fields (or even 1/4-acre food plots), but draw the line at any "food" item <em>POURED</em> from a bag, and/or simply thrown on the ground or into a "feeder" (to be "fed" rather than "grown").</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheLBLman, post: 5636249, member: 1409"] [B]It [I]CAN[/I] be one of those "value" issues[/B] as to [B][U]just where one will draw his lines[/U].[/B] "Food plots" are in most situations considered "legal". So are big fields. In my experiences, the larger the field, the bigger it's draw to deer. A 1/4-acre "food plot" commonly has less attraction to deer than a 4-acre mowed field. I do not consider sitting over a 1/4-acre food plot a compromise of hunting ethics anything like as much as sitting over a poured on the ground pile of corn. Personally, I look at most small food plots as fool plots. Routinely hunting them can be as counter-productive as productive, and usually very counterproductive in terms of harvesting older deer. By contrast, sitting over a continuously re-filled corn feeder continuously brings deer to the same spot. This does not happen when sitting over a field, and we can actually state "any" field is to some degree a "food plot". The smaller that field, the more akin to a bait pile. At what point is the outing more about shooting than hunting? Is hunting a large hay field (without any "food plots"), where you can shoot deer 400 yds any direction, more about shooting or hunting? And with some species of hunting, the very nature of the sport may in fact be more about shooting? Think of dove hunting. "Baiting" in the doves, whether legal or illegal, may contribute to shooting skills more than hunting skills? Just saying, the lines can get really blurry really fast. This is why many state game agencies allow "legal" baiting via "cultivated" fields (or even 1/4-acre food plots), but draw the line at any "food" item [I]POURED[/I] from a bag, and/or simply thrown on the ground or into a "feeder" (to be "fed" rather than "grown"). [/QUOTE]
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