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Some of the very ones that are against legal baiting will use sex scent lures, calls, rattling, plots, sit in a tree 30' up, high powered rifles and scopes that shoot well over 100 yards, etc.


Yes, but those guys have decided that those things don't make them lazy, unskilled, slob hunters like corn does. Cause you know, they do those things which makes them okay. Understand yet? Me either. I think you have to have some sort of brain damage to get it.

What's really strange are the people who think hunting deer near a corn feeder in Alabama would make you unethical pond scum. But then these same folks will go somewhere like Canada and gleefully shoot a bear over a bait barrel. Or go out to Wyoming and sit in a blind on the edge of the only water hole for 30 miles waiting until an antelopes thirst overwhelms his fear of their double bull blind. What is the moral or ethical difference?

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If it isn't an attractant...why have a shooting house in them?
It is designed to lure them in...PERIOD.


You are using sound deductive logic and common sense here. See that's not going to work. You have to let go of using your brain logically and just irrationally embrace the hate for one kind of bait while being totally fine with hunting over green patch bait. In short you are thinking too much. LOL!

Besides those shooting houses over those green patches are just there so they can sit in them and watch deer ingest a superior form of nutrition to corn. LOL! I can't even say that and keep a straight face. You guys are a laugh riot.

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None of you have addressed my question about summer plots. IF its just baiting to plant, explain summer plots !


The vast majority of people I know do not plant summer plots. But I would guess the ones that do would be doing it for the same reason some people run feeders the whole off season as well. First to hold deer on their land and condition them to coming to the same areas. Then secondly as a nutritional supplement for their deer.

But this question doesn't change the fact that both are bait artificially placed in a specific location by man. It should either be illegal to hunt over both or legal to hunt over both. Legal to hunt over one but not the other is an indefensible inconsistency. It's like saying you can night hunt with a brand A spotlight but not a brand B spotlight. It's still night hunting no matter the brand of light you use. And a food source is still bait whether it's green or yellow.

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For me playing the game and understanding what, where, when and how deer live, move, eat, hide and woodsmanship are a hell of a lot more interesting, important and enjoyable than making it easier and easier so I can call myself a hunter


So you don't use a 4 wheel drive, a 4 wheeler, climbing stands, lock on stands, game cameras, camouflage, scent killer sprays, cover scents, binoculars, high powered rifles, scopes, scent attractants, grunt calls, rattling horns, etc, etc,

Cause you know, you are not into things that make it easier and easier for you to kill a deer so you can still call yourself a hunter.


Every time this comes up what you find is that people who have a low opinion of baiting with feeders and people who would legalize it have that low opinion basically just because it's always been illegal. But when pressed to defend why it is illegal they either can't back it up or give reasons that cannot adequately explain why it's morally any different than sitting over a green patch.

They call people who would sit over a feeder slob hunters or lazy and unskilled. Well what skill does it take to climb into a shooting house over a patch? "We scouted this green patch for 2 weeks and decided to sit in the shooting house on the edge of it." LOL!!! Does it take great physical effort to work that latch on a shooting house door or the plexiglass sliding windows? What makes these people Daniel Boone but someone that would hunt near a feeder unskilled and lazy? Because I don't see any difference in the skill or effort involved. And I certainly don't see any moral or ethical difference that should warrant one being legal and the other being illegal.




Last edited by Todd1700; 02/09/16 11:33 PM.

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