In some places, baiting is a legal, and effective hunting strategy. Me, I think it alters the deers natural movement cycle. I've never hunted somewhere that the lay of the land was such that a fella needed to. Baiting opens a whole different kinda conversation. But if it's legal option, do what makes you happy.
2024/2025 Squirrel Hunting Thread...........
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Baiting is OK.. just during the season. Baiting.. that's not to big a deal...
But even in states without it.. if you can feed them during the off season. You can train some deer into your yard.
Game feeder is different..
Your not training them to people
The deer don't like you training them.. they don't want to smell you. They don't want to hear you. They don't want to see you.
Ounce they learn you.. that's it.. it's no longer a wild deer.
Your not training them to people
The deer don't like you training them.. they don't want to smell you. They don't want to hear you. They don't want to see you.
Ounce they learn you.. that's it.. it's no longer a wild deer.
Anybody ever shoot squirrels over bait? I live in northern New England and our squirrels are no better than tree rats and serve only as bird feeder robbers. I ate one once and it had less meat than a chicken wing. I have found that spreading peanut butter on the bark of selected trees facing my deck at a distance my air rifle is zeroed for works the best. The squirrels will wrap them selves around tree with their backs to me holding on like its the love of their life and and ,pfft , a shot in the back of the head and lights out. Not as effective as it was when I first started this but effective nonetheless the less. They have learned the noise of my screen door as it is opened and take off for a short distance but if i sit quietly I get them shortly later when they come back. My neighbor used a havahart trap with peanut butter and released them down the road. Big mistake. His squirrel population never changed, so he started spray painting them with orange paint before he released them and sure enough he saw them again in his back yard. He now has to take the 3-4 miles away to be sure they can’t find the way back. It must be nice to have squirrels big enough to eat and actually worth hunting them.
I used an apple as a kid for chipmunk...
Yes peanuts lol I never have.
my hippy friend feeds everything in the yard.. one squirrel will take peanuts from his hand.
Yes peanuts lol I never have.
my hippy friend feeds everything in the yard.. one squirrel will take peanuts from his hand.
Here's a good one..
I worked in a part of town. Everyone wasn't from here..
they all picked there to move because of the high rat population..
They leave there basement windows open. Fill the place with garbage and traps..
They eat rats.
I worked in a part of town. Everyone wasn't from here..
they all picked there to move because of the high rat population..
They leave there basement windows open. Fill the place with garbage and traps..
They eat rats.
I feed the squirrels out back year round, and I put up a deer feeder when it's really cold. I wouldn't think of shooting any of them. Jim K might come over and shoot my black squirrel that hangs around.
My daughter even says "you feed the squirrels here, but go to the woods and kill them and eat them". I had no answer.
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My little yard then with deer.
That yard had maybe 3 deer hanging around all the time. Catch one passing threw and that's that. They didn't hang around though.
That was ok.. I would shoot one or two doe passing threw in the week.. and that was good...
That's when I was going but not buying any bait or anything.
Just to shoot a buck.. I kept trying to make it better.
My little yard then with deer.
That yard had maybe 3 deer hanging around all the time. Catch one passing threw and that's that. They didn't hang around though.
That was ok.. I would shoot one or two doe passing threw in the week.. and that was good...
That's when I was going but not buying any bait or anything.
Just to shoot a buck.. I kept trying to make it better.
Opening day.. that yard.. you see allot of deer. it's they all dumping off public land..
So good spot to hunt.. that's hunting.
Before trying bait..
I wasn't there to do it.. so I was always wanting a bait site..
.. but it was pointless because I wasn't there to maintain it..
When I moved there. I had the time and I was there.
I got tired of the same spot.. it was hard not to name deer for fun and then your just not hunting.
Before trying bait..
I wasn't there to do it.. so I was always wanting a bait site..
.. but it was pointless because I wasn't there to maintain it..When I moved there. I had the time and I was there.
I got tired of the same spot.. it was hard not to name deer for fun and then your just not hunting.
If you could probably listen to a radio and kill a bag a chips sitting in the blind.. and watch the deer at the same time..
You might not be hunting. I don't know.
You might not be hunting. I don't know.
OK you got our curiosity up. Who, or what, are "they"? Sounds like "District 9" dystopia...
Nothing wrong with squirrel hunting any way one chooses, so long as its legal. I actually tried to squirrel hunt from a cruddy ladders tand that someone gave me. The wraparound bar made it almost impossible to shoot accurately. The ladder stand I have now will work.Ed, I have to admit that at least on my property, I am known and expected to hunt squirrels from one of my trees stands..., if it's good enough for deer why not squirrels? After all, we spend countless hours seeing probably hundreds more squirrels during archery season than we do deer.
Still pretty hard to beat sitting down and leaning up against a big old oak tree though. Although that seems to lend itself to wanting to take naps, especially on sunny days.
Yep. Do to losing my prime bowhunting grounds a few years ago, I now am a baiter. It is legal here. I can promise you all one thing. Many deer come way out ahead by me baiting, especially on years with little crops. Not just deer, but darn racoons, possums, squirrels, and a slew of other critters.
It was a part of Boston. Just one street.. began with an S .. I want to say south end a street in the south end..
The from one of those country's. They live with rats somewhere they eat and worship the things.
You mean Southerners?
Indonesia..
I had to look country's up.. it clicked.. I new it was an I and it wasn't India.
I had to look country's up.. it clicked.. I new it was an I and it wasn't India.
They call these squirrel tree rat..
The squirrel eats good stuff even out of the garbage.. like pizza crust.
Rats will eat eachother.
Id have to wonder what's the taist..
The squirrel eats good stuff even out of the garbage.. like pizza crust.
Rats will eat eachother.
Id have to wonder what's the taist..
What else eats like a rat?..
They eat like us.. all garbage. McDonald's..
Taist just like human
They eat like us.. all garbage. McDonald's..
Taist just like human
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