to bait or not to bait

It seems like baiting takes some of the sportsmanship out of it. I've never hunted deer in my life, but it seems to me that it's kind of like hunting at the zoo. The animals know where to get food, when to get it, and just walk up and BLAM. Some of the shows I see on TV have a dinner line of deer come in to feed out of those electronic feeders. To me, that's not hunting, it's harvesting.

All depends on why you're going I guess. If you want meat, bait. If you want to hunt, don't.

Again though, I've never once hunted deer so ... grain of salt

There is a sign at my favorite Fun Shop that reads:

ATTENTION DEER
THIS IS NOT A BAIT PILE

This is a composte pile, do not eat.
Violators will be shot on sight.

It cracks me up everytime I see it

That's funny

QUOTE(soule @ Jun 20 2009, 04:36 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>QUOTE(BillBuster @ Jun 19 2009, 05:49 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Ill smack the carrot out there mouth and have fun doing it.

It also helps the fawns if you don't shoot mom.
I can see an argument on no doe with fawns but for bucks and does without fawns i see 100% no problem with it.
But bait or no bait shooting a doe off fawns is bad stuff.
JMO
BB

if the fawns are big and strong enought to live on their own, then theres nothing wrong with it, but if they are still small, then you should pass.

If the fawns are 1 year old ill agree with you but if they are from that spring ill disagree with you.
We have new conditions in the state that we have not seen in our lifetime and that the massive explosion of the coyote population. Field and Stream Just had an article that shows that the coyote is the number one reason for deer mortality in the first year of life in areas with a coyote population.
Ill need to get the article out for the proper number but thinking it indicated 2/3rd of all deaths are from the coyote. So it is very important we do not shoot Mom off the fawns in the first year as she is the best chance for there survival.
So to give you a parable!
Kids today need to be 18 and then we can send them on there way out in the world.
But some can make it and some cant some need to stay with mommy and daddy till there 24 tears old.
Now if we dropped that to lets say 13 the world would eat them up and spit them out much like the yearling fawn without a mom.
Remember this is just my opinion.
BB

QUOTE(BillBuster @ Jun 22 2009, 12:30 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>QUOTE(soule @ Jun 20 2009, 04:36 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>QUOTE(BillBuster @ Jun 19 2009, 05:49 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Ill smack the carrot out there mouth and have fun doing it.

It also helps the fawns if you don't shoot mom.
I can see an argument on no doe with fawns but for bucks and does without fawns i see 100% no problem with it.
But bait or no bait shooting a doe off fawns is bad stuff.
JMO
BB

if the fawns are big and strong enought to live on their own, then theres nothing wrong with it, but if they are still small, then you should pass.

If the fawns are 1 year old ill agree with you but if they are from that spring ill disagree with you.
We have new conditions in the state that we have not seen in our lifetime and that the massive explosion of the coyote population. Field and Stream Just had an article that shows that the coyote is the number one reason for deer mortality in the first year of life in areas with a coyote population.
Ill need to get the article out for the proper number but thinking it indicated 2/3rd of all deaths are from the coyote. So it is very important we do not shoot Mom off the fawns in the first year as she is the best chance for there survival.
So to give you a parable!
Kids today need to be 18 and then we can send them on there way out in the world.
But some can make it and some cant some need to stay with mommy and daddy till there 24 tears old.
Now if we dropped that to lets say 13 the world would eat them up and spit them out much like the yearling fawn without a mom.
Remember this is just my opinion.
BB

i agree bb i will pass on a mother with fawns every time. But two years ago i had a very small yearling come to me every time i was there it would feed right under my tree stand look up at me just staring while it was feeding never once was it scared of me.This deer was smaller than average.I seen this same deer all throughout bow season. I never seen mommy once .So i figured that it was orphaned and malnourished.So i shot it right before gun season. this deer probably wouldn't have survived the winter. But ill tell you what that was the best tasting deer i ever had it tasted like lamb...

QUOTE(BillBuster @ Jun 22 2009, 06:03 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>#2 was orphaned in the field and stream article!

BB
OMG that avatar,

QUOTE(Big Dog @ Jun 22 2009, 05:08 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>QUOTE(BillBuster @ Jun 22 2009, 06:03 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>#2 was orphaned in the field and stream article!

BB
OMG that avatar,


I had to use it!
BB

QUOTE(BillBuster @ Jun 22 2009, 06:15 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>QUOTE(Big Dog @ Jun 22 2009, 05:08 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>QUOTE(BillBuster @ Jun 22 2009, 06:03 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>#2 was orphaned in the field and stream article!

BB
OMG that avatar,


I had to use it!
BB

D*mn near as funny as mine

QUOTE(Big Dog @ Jun 22 2009, 05:17 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>QUOTE(BillBuster @ Jun 22 2009, 06:15 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>QUOTE(Big Dog @ Jun 22 2009, 05:08 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>QUOTE(BillBuster @ Jun 22 2009, 06:03 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>#2 was orphaned in the field and stream article!

BB
OMG that avatar,


I had to use it!
BB

D*mn near as funny as mine


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