A pile of corn is an attractant (but is illegal to hunt over unless you are at least 100 yards away and its out of sight)
Once again, 100 yards and out of sight DOES NOT maker corn legal to hunt over. If you put corn out in order to attract game and hunt that game, it is baiting and as of today, baiting is still illegal. All the 100 yards and out of sight decree did is put another element of the crime a GW has to prove, i.e. he has to show beyond a reasonable doubt that the deer you were hunting were attracted to the corn. This is why I am so adamant that it should be legal or illegal, period, No stipulations to keep confusing people.
And how can he prove that beyond a reasonable doubt?
Common sense I guess.
So if the deer’s nose is pointed away from the feeder that’s 400’ away and out of sight on the backside of a hill top it’s a good shoot? But if the deer’s nose is pointed at the feeder it’s a dirty shoot? Common sense flew out the door long ago when it comes to this law. Let’s all understand the purpose of the 100 yards away law is to benefit high fence operators that contribute to political campaigns. It’s so the free range big pen deer can have big antlers too.
“Fair Chase” don’t make me laugh. People ridding around in $20k toys towed to the woods behind $80k trucks onto $5k+ annually strict QDMA clubs lost that bully pulpit once the trail cam count got beyond 20.
Don’t get me wrong if I could afford it I would fox Hunt mounted on a fine steed I straddled after stepping 3 steps from a Rolls Royce with the umbrella in the door and the stocked liquor chest in the boot. But I certainly hope I would be able to not kid myself about fair chase. We are merely consumers of hunting gear designed to defeat natural defenses of the animals we hunt.
But I absolutely agree make it cut and dry. Feeder with feed between 15 Oct and last day of turkey season equal bad or call a distance and any beyond that is ok or back up the truck and dump it over top of your shooting house is cool. Just take the judgement or lack there of out it.
“It’s enough to make a man feel sour. Burning minutes every day by the hour. Just to end up gone like everything else.”
