Hunting over bait vs a food plot are much different if you can spend weeks months setting up feeders what not help with habitat that support the game. Feeders and and bags of feed and hunting over it is not hunting. Sitting in a tree stand were you have kept a few hundred pounds of corn for the last year and shooting that big buck is a not much more than a canned hunt but you can call yourself a hunter. Its always a great Idea to have a gathering place for all the deer to hang out and eat together off your feeders where CWD Brucellosis can be spread from deer to deer. Go ahead flame on But in states where this has happened hunting has sucked for years. If its Legal and Your State Fish and Game are not concerned than I guess I shouldn't worry because the stat DNR biologist know what is best for all of us.

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Posted by TexasTiger

Katy TX

Member since Sep 2003

5326 posts

Posted on 8/19/11 at 7:47 am to Cracker

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Sitting in a tree stand were you have kept a few hundred pounds of corn for the last year and shooting that big buck is a not much more than a canned hunt but you can call yourself a hunter

I think you may be watching to much TV....in most all low fence hunting a Mature Buck will not come to a feeder and eat. He may come at night but not during the day. And Chances are if you kill a buck with nice horns eating corn when you age him you will find out rather quickly he was a young deer. I don't really care what people do or how they hunt as long as they do it legally. I have a feeder set up and I have a stand close to the feeder that me and the kids hunt out of. Gives them a chance to actually see deer and enjoy the hunt. Then I have stands set up away from food sources that I hunt.

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Posted by faxis

La.

Member since Oct 2007

7773 posts

Posted on 8/19/11 at 9:37 am to Cracker

Oh good lord. That's a whole lot of ignorance for such a small post.

I've done both for about forty years. In both cases you're hunting over bait, whether you put it there or you hung a stand next to a prolific oak or a soybean field or whatever. Or you're trying to catch them going to or coming from a food source. Why you gotta cheat like that?

You can cry about how people in that other state where it's legal aren't really hunting like you are but that's mostly just your vagina speaking.

Corn is not crack. And you'll likely never kill a big wallhanger hunting at a feeder unless the rut is on and it's not the corn that got him there then either.

I'm sure the hunting in Texas has been really horrible because they allow you to hunt on feeders because obviously disease killed all the deer because the deer finally met another deer in the wild. I mean if it wasn't for immaculate conception there wouldn't be any deer at all.

Gimme a break.

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