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Thats an honorable point of view, assuming it has no impact on the health of the resource or on others’ enjoyment of the resource. Unfortunately the impact on both is significant and unfavorable in my region.

Sounds like you’ve … wait for it… mastered baiting. Does this forum allow us to assign nicknames?

The data is out there if you’re really interested. I cant read this and understand how you’d defend baiting on the habitat forum. If hot oaks were a disease concern this forum wouldn’t exist. @Bill, I’m doing my best to boost traffic. I expect a check in 30 days.

You think they’re equivalent in terms of disease transmission risk? ETA: I get the ethics debate… not interested in that.

Wade comfortably and confidently. There is sufficient research to support the difference between food plots and bait piles, as it pertains to unnatural deer-deer interaction. With that said… I’d gladly give up my sad food plots to rid this region of the scourge that is baiting.

I appreciate this post; this may the best representation of the real conundrum. But you aren’t exactly toeing the party line. 😉

Food plots can enter the baiting debate when people are commonly spreading triple cleaned corn or rice bran over acres at a time. Until that is a common practice, they shouldn’t be in the same discussion. It’s a shame this is even a topic of interest on the HABITAT forum.

Now do spears.

Yes, well kinda. I’m an engineer in the petrochemical manufacturing world. Hair on fire most of the time. A lot of the offshoring of technical skilled jobs you hear about is effectively companies dipping their toes in the AI water. It’s a human today, but the work processes those humans follow...

There’s a guy on social media I’ve seen killing bucks with a spear. Bait pile at the base of his tree. Multiple kills every fall. It freaking WORKS!

Then why is everyone doing it? Its ubiquity is the best gauge of its effectiveness.

But if we don’t subsidize predator populations with free and abundant corn served in mud, we may not be able to trap as many predators to pretend we’re helping ground nesting birds! I jest!

What do you mean by mapping? A lidar sensor? I’ve been getting quotes for some lidar mapping on a portion of my farm but quotes have been too high for the juice to be with the squeeze.

How does your drone drop the bait?

Take heed, @ksJoe ! As you age, make sure you sit close enough to the pile.

God bless all the little old ladies!

May your corn piles always be tall.

If Karens are the complainers, what do you call the ones that complain about the Karens?

Kind of a long drawn out analogy and it’s been a long week… Are you saying that baiters are trashy? I mean, I wasn’t gonna take it that far, but…