Huntings by using lure?

[PreglerD]

Hello,

here in Germany hunting by using lure, especially squeezed apples mixed with corn, is done. We do this for hunting at roes, the most hunted deer in Germany. Especially hunting in the forest in autumn and winter makes this form of hunting very successfull. How about lure hunting in the US ? Do you have the same graet problems with damage of young sprout of the trees by deers who bite them ?

Kirrmeister

 

[paulvallandigham]

Most state do not allow the use of baits to hunt deer. Scents are allowed, but baiting is not. Orchard owners can obtain nuisance permits to protect their orchards from deer eating the buds. The permits allow them to shoot a certain number of deer any time of the year, using any means they have. They do have to request the permits, and the DNR officers do go out and inspect the damage, and the property to see whether it is safe to allow shooting. They also want to see the landowners allow deer hunters during the regular licensed deer seasons have access to the land to kill off the excess deer, before they generally will issue a nuisance permit. However, that practice seems to vary from one officer to another, and from county to another. A friend of mine complained about a neighbor with an orchard who had shot all of the deer he was used to seeing cross the back of his property. The neighbor claimed he had a nuisance permit. I saw the local DNR officer a few days later, on an unrelated matter, and recounted my friend's complaint. She told me they had not issued a nuisance permit in the county in Years! The guy was just poaching deer, and putting of his neighbors with the ' I have a nuisance permit". She asked me to have my friend call her the next time he heard a shot from the orchard. I passed on the word, and my friend was absolutely shocked to hear that no nuisance permits had been issued. I have not asked him recently about whether he is hearing shot over there these days, or whether any deer are back wandering across his property in the late afternoons.

 

[roundball]

Hello,

here in Germany hunting by using lure, especially squeezed apples mixed with corn, is done. We do this for hunting at roes, the most hunted deer in Germany. Especially hunting in the forest in autumn and winter makes this form of hunting very successfull. How about lure hunting in the US ? Do you have the same graet problems with damage of young sprout of the trees by deers who bite them ?

Kirrmeister

Here is the US, the country is broken up into 50 "states" and each state makes it's own rules...they all have some similiar rules but some specific differences exist between states...some states allow 'lures' (what is called 'bait or baiting' here) and some states do not.

In states where baiting is allowed, corn seems to be the primary bait, although I've read about some cases where apples are also put out for them.

 

[rabjr]

I've always found Does to be the best lure/bait. :thumbsup: