Who baits whitetail deer when hunting???

[hickstick]

Ia...herb is in new brunswick canada  not nebraska.

[DesertDude]

Labs,  The same could be said of hunting with dogs. "Oh God I have to flush my own Birds"  "Who's going to get the birds I shot" Just because a person hunts with a Wheel bow doesn't make him less of a hunter...JMO

DesertDude...........

[Talondale]

I don't.  Not legal in VA.  Not saying I never would.  It's hard to make sweeping statements that apply to every person and situation.  Baiting certainly has it's downsides to it, CWD and poor PR being the two biggest.  I can conceive of several situations where I would consider it to be a valid tactic.  It's hard for me, with my good health, able body, thousands of acres at my disposal (public and private), and a fondness for roving to judge the motives and methods of others.  After this let's discuss if we should be driving Fords, Chevys, or Toyotas to our hunting grounds.  

[KPaul]

At my place I keep my feeders filled to help get them thru the winter.Also is a great way to inventory who made it thru the hunting season when you set a game camera on the feeders.I can tell you that hunting over a feeder is not a sure thing.My last 2 bucks(10/12/pointers)were harvested no where near the feeders.

[BUFF]

Michigan is alledged to have more than 250,000 bowhunters. I often wonder just how many would continue to bowhunt if compounds and baiting were outlawed. Ten percent? Twenty Percent? Thirty percent? WHY do you suppose so many would jump ship?

I wonder how long you would have a bow season after they were gone

to me it seems alot of the anti bait folks are just petty people. Sort of like when someone kills a good buck and they say " well I didn't kill a deer again this year BUT that guy hunted over bait or used a compound or maybe his deer doesn't mean as much as mine "he use carbon arrows". We are all just a bunch of big kids playing in the woods. What ever brings you the most pleasure is ok by me. If you want to shoot a deer from a tree stand with the latest greatest Camo or run around the hills with a self bow and a wool blanket tied around your head. I'm all for what every makes you happy.

[**DONOTDELETE**]

Baiting done right is a very useful tool, to be used to studying any game/NON-game animal.

Baiting done the wrong way and you can spread sickness like Blue Tongue & CWD to just name a few.

As some have said: Baiting isn't a gimme. knowing what trail a deer is using before the trail cams came out meant work in the woods.

Why is it; the Biggest enemy to hunters .....IS HUNTERS. Think about this... NON-baiter's fight with those that bait. Gun hunters (only) fight with bowhunters because bowhunters get to hunt the RUT ( in some ares where the RUT is in the middle of Bow only season ).

Why is it all about ONE hunter? We are all human, We all Earthlings & No matter what anyone says... We are all Hunters, since the dawn of Time mankind has been & always will hunt.

Some ppl need to bait because of Health reasons, they can't go to deep in the big woods, by themselves.

Hunt Your way... Not the way others want you to hunt...If Your way is to use bait & it's legal, Do it.... If it is legal in Your State & You don't like to Bait.... Don't bait.

Baiting is like Compound, Recurve or long bow. One or all of these bows, aren't for everyone. You have the Choice to pick how you hunt & what you hunt with.


*For any Anti-hunter lurking*

You Hunt for deals, Jobs, Spouse, Location for a home. You where born with Your eyes in front of Your Face... You are a Hunter.

[killinstuff]

You got it Buff, many would stay at home sitting on the couch drinking more beer, watching TV hunting shows and that goes for the gun hunters too. It would be to much effort to hunt deer without an ATV and bait, more like work and god knows the union............oh never mind.

In the end it's all about the money the state brings in for schools, roads, welfare, and whatever else. Successful hunters spend money from new bows and arrows to treestands, bait, and jerky. Spending money makes the world go round and honestly, the U.P. of Michigan would be in big trouble without hunting. I have nothing against guys that want to shoot deer that way, it's legal and that's fine. But when you come up to a bait pile 2 feet high and 8 foot around I think slob hunter. Next fall I'll start a bait pile thread with pic's of all the ones I find in the field.

[Terry Green]

Well....it was fun while it lasted...