Baiting Deer?

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Brent, I'm with you on this one.

Whoever said that supplemental feeders do so 24/7 year round is being a good boy.

Most guys drop a couple hundred pounds of corn a week or two before the season and then hunt it. I hunted out of state once and was set up over a 200# corn pile...the squirrels were happy.
 
Exactly 24-7

We dont hunt around the feeders either.The feeders are there but not used as a means to attract deer and then kill them under a feeder.Sorry-thats just not hunting.Most people on here dont know what a feeder is for or how to use one.Just going by what I have read on here.
 
What I meant 700 - was that you are doing it as "the books say to".

Most guys don't have the time or money.
 
I always thought it was deer hunting and not deer shooting. Baiting, hunting over food plots etc to me is not hunting. If you dont get a deer the whole season, then you dont. That is part of the sport. We no longer need to hunt to put meat on the table and havnt for many decades. I see no justification for baiting or food plots other than greed. Yes, I too would love to harvest and consume several deer a year but I am just as content to go out and enjoy a good days hunt without any succesful harvest. That gentlemen is what I call hunting. Thats my .02 worth.
 
That is part of the sport. We no longer need to hunt to put meat on the table and havnt for many decades.
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For some of us hunting is not nor ever has been a sport... in fact i thought a sport meant all the players were voluntarily in the game and knew the rules:D:eek:

Secondly, Some of us really do have to shoot for food. Our total income falls about 50-100 per month short of minimal expenses and our weekly grocery bill for a family of four will severely short us if it exceeds $50 per week. So this is why I hope to keep all game meat under forty cents per pound. my hog meat is currently exceeding a buck fifty as I haven't had the yield per pound of dog food i need.
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I get a kick out of what folks consider to be hunting or not hunting and the viamence behind whether one is or is not a "hunter." What a lot of it boils down to is whether or not somebody approves or can do what you do. It is sort of like the folks that think anything beyond what they put on their own guns is excessive or unnecessary ninja material or who want to argue over what a "true sniper" is or is not.

If you are not on the ground stalking and running down your own prey and/or firing at prey from a position of concealment then you are probably engaged in wildlife sniping, whether you are baiting or not. I find this amusing because the not-true hunters often end up being true snipers in the historical sense of the word.

Most guys don't have the time or money.
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Right. They usually live too far from their hunting property to maintain their feeders year 'round and/or only have a season-limited lease such that they can't put out feeders until just before the season starts. Some see feeding anytime other than just before and during the season as being cost-ineffective.
 
700REM, as a percentage of all ranches, year-around feeding is a very small amount. Sure, some ranchers do. Heck, I run a clock feeder year-around for my house-pet quail, and used to do that with corn back at deer camp. But out of 4,000 landowners in the Terlingua Ranch's 240,000 acres, I was about the only one.
 
The feeders only spin out for 2 or 3 seconds at a times twice a day. It doesn't provide enough corn to really feed them, just keep them interested in the area. By far, most of the corn is eaten after dark. In fact, we very seldom see a deer actually come to the feeder looking for a meal.
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I would venture that if you set up a camera, you'd find coons and other critters eating most of that. Western hunting for mulies or pronghorns is a whole different story than Eastern hunting for whitetails.

Personally, I prefer "fair-chase" methods on the wide-open BLM lands of places like NV, but that's just me
 
To be a true hunter you should live naked out in the woods for at least a year and only use a pointed stick to hunt
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I love it.

Some guys making a point that they are more of a sportsman in how they are going to blow a hole in a deer from two or three hundred yards away than the other guy blowing a hole in a deer from two or three hundred yards away.
 
Zero,

I'm certain our cave dwelling ancestors would have eschewed using firearms had they been readily available. It's all these durn babies having babies that's messing everything up with their dadgumb technology. I miss the old days when all we had to hunt with was dirt and our fingernails. *sigh*
 
I am sure glad i don't need to invest 50+ hours of unending labor to come up with a bow and arrows tipped with hand pounded flint tips to feed my family!
Not to mention I need the guts of one critter just to make my bow string!
I can just her the griping of mrs.hogdogs now... "When are gonna take yer stupid toys out to get us some muskrats to eat? Why don't you just out run an armadillo and stomp it's fool head in like barney over there on the other side of the camp does?"
Brent
 
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