The greatest benefit to legalizing corn won't be killing more deer. The #1 benefit will be that our game wardens can spend their time dealing with trespassers, thieves, poachers, and night hunters instead of spending half their time hiding out waiting for someone to climb a tree next to a pile of corn.
I have long believed that if you don't have the resources or ability to properly enforce a law, then it shouldn't be a law at all. Unenforced laws promote a lack of respect for the law. It leads to a society where people only follow the laws they agree with. Which is basically what hunting in Alabama has become. There is very little respect for game laws in this state because the state has over-regulated hunting. You shouldn't need to memorize a 45 page book to hunt and fish in this state. Get rid of the petty laws that are impossible to enforce and then strictly enforce the most essential game laws with the resources you do have.
Re: Baiting now Legal?
[Re: pcamper]
#2043807 03/01/1711:03 AM03/01/1711:03 AM
I stand corrected hb184 is in the Senate now,it is bait privledge license, obtained in the same manner as. a hunting license. People exempt from purchasing hunting license will not be exempt from bait license
Re: Baiting now Legal?
[Re: pcamper]
#2043812 03/01/1711:08 AM03/01/1711:08 AM
The greatest benefit to legalizing corn won't be killing more deer. The #1 benefit will be that our game wardens can spend their time dealing with trespassers, thieves, poachers, and night hunters instead of spending half their time hiding out waiting for someone to climb a tree next to a pile of corn.
This is what game wardens in both AL & FL should be doing all along. Go after the fire hunter and outlaw not the regular guy that follows rules and already pays too much in fees to hunt. There is something wrong when regular guys that are law abiding are made to feel like criminals and made to pay more fees.
The greatest benefit to legalizing corn won't be killing more deer. The #1 benefit will be that our game wardens can spend their time dealing with trespassers, thieves, poachers, and night hunters instead of spending half their time hiding out waiting for someone to climb a tree next to a pile of corn.
Disagree - there was always good reason and good wisdom in the law that banned hunting deer over bait.
And game wardens enforcing that law is a good thing imo.
The bs 100 yard rule was *designed* to be the prelude for the bill that is pending now and it is all bs imo.
Bad for the sport and bad for neighbors. It is going to be battle of the feeders and battle of the corn piles and even such battles RIGHT ON PROPERTY LINES!
This is bad, bad, bad.
"The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Thomas Jefferson
" Chuck Sykes is a dictator control freak like Vladimir Putin " WmHunter
It has been going on for years. It is not illegal to feed deer during season.
I wont change much at all.
Originally Posted By: WmHunter
Originally Posted By: ALclearcut
The greatest benefit to legalizing corn won't be killing more deer. The #1 benefit will be that our game wardens can spend their time dealing with trespassers, thieves, poachers, and night hunters instead of spending half their time hiding out waiting for someone to climb a tree next to a pile of corn.
Disagree - there was always good reason and good wisdom in the law that banned hunting deer over bait.
And game wardens enforcing that law is a good thing imo.
The bs 100 yard rule was *designed* to be the prelude for the bill that is pending now and it is all bs imo.
Bad for the sport and bad for neighbors. It is going to be battle of the feeders and battle of the corn piles and even such battles RIGHT ON PROPERTY LINES!
This is bad, bad, bad.
Re: Baiting now Legal?
[Re: pcamper]
#2043875 03/01/1711:57 AM03/01/1711:57 AM
My $.02 which ain't worth $.02 is I don't care. As Hogwild said, I too am on a lot of properties and there is a tremendous amount already out there. IF last year my neighbor would have had 1 or 10 feeders out he was hunting over, I wouldn't have given it a second thought. Doesn't fit into my type of hunting but if chose that route it wouldn't bother me. I have and will continue to plant the corn I hunt over. But there is at the very least 3 facts y'all can take to the bank already pointed out: there is already a tremendous amount of corn already used, it is going to cause some major turmoil in some clubs and neighbors, and the $15 is a tax.
Re: Baiting now Legal?
[Re: pcamper]
#2043893 03/01/1712:08 PM03/01/1712:08 PM
I can care least if any of y'all or any of my neighbors is hunting over a mountain of corn 20 yards away. It's not a guaranteed success. And it's their land and their choice on what to do. They can shoot them at night for all I care if it's on their land.
Re: Baiting now Legal?
[Re: ColeT]
#2043911 03/01/1712:22 PM03/01/1712:22 PM
I can care least if any of y'all or any of my neighbors is hunting over a mountain of corn 20 yards away. It's not a guaranteed success. And it's their land and their choice on what to do. They can shoot them at night for all I care if it's on their land.
The greatest benefit to legalizing corn won't be killing more deer. The #1 benefit will be that our game wardens can spend their time dealing with trespassers, thieves, poachers, and night hunters instead of spending half their time hiding out waiting for someone to climb a tree next to a pile of corn.
I have long believed that if you don't have the resources or ability to properly enforce a law, then it shouldn't be a law at all. Unenforced laws promote a lack of respect for the law. It leads to a society where people only follow the laws they agree with. Which is basically what hunting in Alabama has become. There is very little respect for game laws in this state because the state has over-regulated hunting. You shouldn't need to memorize a 45 page book to hunt and fish in this state. Get rid of the petty laws that are impossible to enforce and then strictly enforce the most essential game laws with the resources you do have.
I can care least if any of y'all or any of my neighbors is hunting over a mountain of corn 20 yards away. It's not a guaranteed success. And it's their land and their choice on what to do. They can shoot them at night for all I care if it's on their land.
Now I ain't going THAT far!!!
Me neither. I gotta draw a line somewhere. It may be their land but it ain't their deer.
Last edited by Out back; 03/01/1701:27 PM.
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People putting out corn piles or feeders next to or near someone else's property is CERTAIN to cause conflict. SERIOUS conflict.
If they are going to pass this redneck backwoods goober lazy gay "hunter" bill they need to include a prohibition of any bait or feeder within 200 yards of a property line.
"The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Thomas Jefferson
" Chuck Sykes is a dictator control freak like Vladimir Putin " WmHunter
Re: Baiting now Legal?
[Re: pcamper]
#2044015 03/01/1701:45 PM03/01/1701:45 PM
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