Recent content by BenA

They do take a stance on things like rangefinding sights, even though those are legal in some states and not in others. You have to fill out an affidavit, so they could easily exclude baiting completely if they thought it was not fair chase.

They consider hunting deer in Iowa and Illinois fair chase? Lots of people don't think so. 😁

The conservation organizations like Pope and Young and Boone and Crockett consider baiting fair chase in order to enter antlered deer.

Definitely easier in different places. After hunting both, I don’t consider Kentucky to be on the same level of difficulty as Louisiana.

I'm using the exact same reason you bait. Why is it OK when you bait, and wrong if I do it for the same reason? I'm considering doing it to have deer using my property more.

Not really trying to be short. I've already answered the why question already. If people don't understand it, that's ok.

No

No. I know it makes it harder in many, many circumstances.

It can actually make it harder according to scientific research.

So food plots do raise the risk factor of CWD spread.

I've not seen a bait site like that unless it was flooded. But, I've also seen that happen to other food when flooded as well. The thought that congregation of deer that raises the risk of disease transmission only happens at bait sites is just not true. And, food plots can raise that risk too.

Have you ever seen the ground under a heavily used white oak, persimmon, crab apple, etc? Have you seen the difference inside and outside an exclusion cage on a well used food plot? That uniform level of short clipped vegetation means there are mouths feeding evenly and heavily across its entirety.

Or, I can grow some corn on one side of a field, mow it in place, and it's OK. But, don't dare take some of those cobs and throw them on the other side of the field. Yeah, right, real different there.

When I say using a food plot as bait, I mean using it to attract deer to a food source on your property. You can still use a food source, whether it be, plot, ag, feeder, mast, etc as an attractant and not hunt directly over it. But, also, in close to 40 years of plotting, I don't remember...

I have read the data, and agree with it as I've already said now a few times.