What is wrong with baiting deer on public land?

[Doskil]

The other thread was about private land.

So why exclude public/WMA land from baiting?

 

[deerhunter10]

Oh lord here we go again.

 

[Antler Daddy]

Is baiting on public land legal anywhere?

 

[ImThere]

I think feeding wild life of any kind should be against the law. All the way down to bird feeders.

 

[DoubleRidge]

Oh lord here we go again.

Giddy up!!

 

[Doskil]

Is baiting on public land legal anywhere?

The introduced bills in the TN legislature exclude public land.

 

[Snake]

Could you really imagine baiting on public ? Deer would weigh 500 lbs all the turkeys would be dead and a bait pile every 50 ft .

 

[30-06 type of guy]

What's the point of baiting period?

 

[Lost Lake]

There'd be fistfights around every corn pile. The cornholers would kill each other.

 

[TheLBLman]

So why exclude public/WMA land from baiting?

I'm opposed to killing wildlife over bait piles,
regardless whether public or private lands.

The wildlife belongs to the public, so if pulling wildlife to a specific spot for the purpose of killing it is made legal on private lands, then it becomes even more important that it's also legal on public lands.

Again, the wildlife belongs to the public, and the public's wildlife should not be allowed to be unfairly claimed by any private land owner. We are all free to hunt on both our private & public lands, but the playing field should be level for all, regardless.

It's totally different if we're talking about farm animals on private lands. Those animals belong to the landowner. Free-roaming deer (or turkeys or birds or whatever) are considered "wild" and to belong to everyone, not whoever's property they happen to fly or walk across.

As to the deer on my private property at any moment, the neighboring hunters on public land can make at least an equally valid claim that those deer belong to them? And it would be unfair if I were allowed to herd them off public to then kill them off "my" private land?

Since deer typically freely roam over somewhere between several hundred and several thousand acres, should a person who owns 15 acres be able to claim ownership to those deer, while the adjoining thousand acres (perhaps with over a dozen different owners) is also hunting those same free-roaming deer?

Should a person owning 15 acres be given the legal right to spotlight & kill those deer at night, if all the other adjoining landowners are not allowed to do the same? Why should killing deer over bait be any different?

 

[Hymie3]

 

[TheLBLman]

Sometimes, an issue can be better weighed if we just put the shoe on the other foot?

What if the question had been,
should we allow killing deer over bait piles on public lands, but not on private lands?

Many the same private land hunters pushing for legalizing baiting on private lands would suddenly be opposed to such baiting on public lands?
Why the double-standard?

But does it really matter whether your bordering lands are public or just everyone else's private?

Even if you privately own over a thousand acres, the deer, spending some of their time on your property, mostly belong to other people besides yourself.

 

[WestTn Huntin man]

There is a Difference between actually hunting deer vs Shooting Deer over a pile of corn.

 

[Popcorn]

Nope
Too easy
No popcorn for this one

 

[Doskil]

What's the point of baiting period?

I don't know but bills were introduced to allow it only on private lands.

Hence my question about excluding public lands/wmas

 

[megalomaniac]

What happened to the other thread?

 

[deerhunter10]

What happened to the other thread?

I guess 500 something replies wasn't enough.

 

[DoubleRidge]

What happened to the other thread?

It got off topic a bit...but its still going...lol

 

[ScLowCountry]

There would be too many bait piles in the woods. I kill deer easily without bait

 

[DoubleRidge]

So why exclude public/WMA land from baiting?

For all the same reasons we shouldnt bait on private land. Its not good for wildlife and many reasons have been listed in detail in the private land thread.