wyohome
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^Tell it to the judge!!
I talked to an Illinois cpo yesterday about this very topic. In Illinois it is illegal to bait deer at anytime. No feeders, no salt/mineral blocks, no powders, nothing allowed year 'round. He said the problem is deer feeding in the same location leave their saliva and pass disease on to other deer. He claimed that cwd is a huge problem in Northern Illinois and that they were shooting deer by the dozens because Wisconsin still allows baiting and the disease is being spread to our state.
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MCgunner said:I find it a stretch to suggest that feeding deer causes or spreads any disease. :eolleyes: I never see more'n 3 deer at my feeders at any one time. I would think over-population is more of a problem.
BTW, I know a couple of Texas judges and one lawyer that hunt feeders on their place.
At the same time we are dumbing down the deer, we are dumbing down our new/young hunters. Instead of learning the deers habits/preferences, basic woodsmanship and how not to get lost in the big woods, they learn what food to buy at the feed mill, how drive the 4X4 down the trail to the box blind and how to light the heater
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If it makes you feel macho, have at it, but I think that I will pass.
Oh wow.
I hope I don't ever feel macho because I killed something.
No one is ever forced to take any shot except in self-defense.
They made it legal to bait on private land here in Arkansas and I have done it, but to tell the truth, I don't see it as hunting. When you take a ten year old out, set them in a tent and let them shoot a deer, it isn't hunting. It is shooting. We are teaching the next generation of "hunters " to kill but not teaching them the skills of hunting. If it makes you feel macho, have at it, but I think that I will pass.
..., but by the pleasure I get from the hunt itself.
I hunt for the challenge, not because I need the meat. I don't have a problem with those who do so if legal where you live, but personally would get no enjoyment from shooting game over bait.
When bait piles are present they show up after dark eat their fill and return to their bedding area before long before daylight.
Obviously the latter, as I pointed out in post 66.are ethics and fair chase consistent or do we pick and choose what suits us?
and where my one pal shot the biggest buck in the herd out his patio door at first light opening day.
Does it help that it was with a crossbow so he didn't wake his neighbors?
I will admit to feeling a bit vindicated when a spotlight run yields a coon or two eating my corn. It's not uncommon to see a dozen of them eating my $10 corn. They probably eat more than the deer. Little bastards.
I hope I am not wrong for satisfying that little bit of bloodlust.
I will admit to feeling a bit vindicated when a spotlight run yields a coon or two eating my corn. It's not uncommon to see a dozen of them eating my $10 corn. They probably eat more than the deer. Little bastards.
I hope I am not wrong for satisfying that little bit of bloodlust.