Hunting over corn or other bait; where’s the satisfaction?

What if you shoot a deer before it gets to the corn?

Meh, I went from years of public land, climbers, lock ons, death traps welded in shop class, etc to our own place with 3 kids and box stands with feeders.

It’s def different but each is great. I’ll go out west archery “hunting” to scratch that itch but also sit in a blind with heater and field pod with my little ones.

I’ve found the key to happiness is finding contentment in whatever the situation

To each his own, it’s all personal preference.

Otherwise this argument goes corn or no corn to rifle or bow, to compound or traditional.

I still put in a shite load of time to kill big deer over corn and I’ve been pretty decent at it over the years.

Ok, I don’t particularly care if you shoot em w a long bow on foot or w a .300 mag out of an air conditioned blind. But I am glad you got that out.

I saw 25 bucks this weekend and close to 30 or so does at my feeder.Didn’t shoot any . Had the most fun rattling and having bucks come to it. It’s a different hunt here in Texas than hunting the sloughs and ridges along the river. We’ can harvest 10 deer but usually get 5 . That’ll fill the freezers along with the pork loins and roast. By the time you pay for a lease, feeder, corn, camper, food etc . You want to come home with something. I let my son do the shooting anyway.

How bout a shooting a buck while he’s chasing a peice of arse? It just doesn’t seem right.

I understand where you are coming from,I used to really scout,find a good looking spot and climb a tree.I got more satisfaction from killing a deer that way.But then I got old and lazy,now it’s box stands or a ladder ( if it isn’t too cold).I think the modern style of hunting came about from the proliferation of hunting clubs where each member gets a certain number of designated spots.If everybody else is putting out corn you have to do it also.It’s still not particularly easy to kill a nice buck,they don’t come out and eat corn in the daytime(at least where I’ve hunted)Rather,they are attracted to the does that hang around the feeders and lurk around the edges.
Box stands and feeders aren’t going away so the best thing is don’t worry about what others do.You do it your way and let others do it their way.

Do you fish bare handed?