I'm through

[leadball]

I'm all done! I shot my first and only bear with my muzzleloader this fall and after this deer season, I am hanging it up. I live in Wisconsin, were it takes a while to get a bear permit. This year, we have had new people who have built newhouses out here starting last spring and they all like to deer hunt. That doesn't bother me. What bothers me is they all bait horribly!! We are not just talking a bucket of corn. It's like they dumped whole cornfields!! No kidding, I have seen backs of pick-ups filled with corn. I do not like to bait myself for deer because of the CWD problem. I have said to my wife if I had to bait deer like everyone else just to get one that I would hang it up. I didn't see one deer except driving home from work late at night because they all go nocturnal near bait piles. How is one to compete when 30 other people have huge bait piles and you don't? I read an article recently were Wisconsin is losing control of CWD. Hello baitpiles?? So, I will still visit this site and read with friendly envy of those that succeed. I am writing a letter to the Wisc legislature in hopes to ban deer baiting. Until Wisc bans it or when I build on my lake property in Minnesota, I am hanging up the rifle :cursing:

 

[rabjr]

Sorry King deerslayer don't seem right to me. Dunno why any State would allow baiting deer. Seems tomany so called hunters are lazy and looking for a quick hunt. And have totally lost the true meaning of hunting. :shake:

 

[leadball]

Wisc banned deer baiting in 2001 or 2002 and I saw more deer moving about freely than anytime in my PRB hunting career. Then the feed stores raised holy hell and the politicians ****** their collective pants and legalized deer baiting again. It seems the new contest in Wi is not how big of a deer one shoots in a season but who has the largest baitpiles. Now the DNR is having trouble containing the spread of CWD

 

[bob1961]

Now the DNR is having trouble containing the spread of CWD

makes ya wonder why they let this go on :v .............bob

 

[Maynerd62411]

That's the problem with CWD in Northern Illinois. Deer don't notice boundary lines and head south. Illinois banned and enforces no bait laws. You can't even put a mineral or salt block out.

 

[jethro224]

Yeah. Besides no-baiting it's also NO FEEDING! There was a study I recently read where it was proven that CWD can be transmitted thru saliva. Would Wisconsin hunters rather have no deer or no baitpiles?

 

[ffffg]

i personally dont think the cwd is propigated in the manner that your thinking.. yes in the short run your right feeding brings groups of deer together and that is not good..,, but the big problem is we have too many deer, too many ducks, water foul etc.. when the fish and game maximizes profits it needs lots of game.. so it protects it, and gets its numbers up so they can sell tags and licences and theres lots of meat in the freezer lots of shooting going on.. what this does is cause crowding and herds/flocks interacting more, effectively spreading disease, rather than letting it die out in its own area....another problem weve got so many muleys in town here they are going to have talks about how to get rid of them.. last year 4 big bucks kept a young newspaper delivery boy under a car for an hour or so till the fish and game came and shot them.. i think the commision or whoever is going to hire someone to go and talk to the deer and ask them to leave town.. :rotf: dave..

 

[Slamfire]

Grats on the bear, don't blame you for hangin' up yore guns. CWD scares the bejesus outa me. Paper don't spread CWD after you've killed it good with 3 or 5 shots in the "boiler room".

 

[spitfire]

In Alabama you can feed'm & salt'm.But is illegal to shoot Deer & Turkey over bait(Corn,feed,mineral block,saltlick ect) .So today I am in the sporting section of Wally world and lo an behold two camo clad gents are buying two large bags of whole kernal corn. :cursing: :shakeid I mention it- Deer hunting season start over a week ago for firearms. :redface:

 

If the deer are going noturnal over the baitpiles are they also being shot at night over the bait?

 

[leadball]

Here's another classic. There is a few guys down the road who feed deer in the winter and shoot them with BP(inlines, of all things) or a bow when the regular firearm deer season ends right off their porch. Is this the future of hunting?

 

[Falco sparverius]

Deerslayer,

Wisconsin does have a bait limit rule. 2 gallons per 40 acres and each 2 gallon amount must be at least 100 yards apart. Also, each person must bait their own stand. I did some reading while NOT seeing any deer over the weekend! Try to turn the people in.


Falco

 

Its illegal to feed wildlife in New Mexico, but everyone does it around here. Its annoying when vacation home owners come up here and dump out 120# of corn or food scraps and then leave you to deal with the skunks, coons, and bears they attract after they've gone home to the city. Baiting is another thing altogether, and that will get you ticketed round these parts. However, just about every Texas deer hunter I've ever met hunts from a tripod blind over an automatic timed feeder. Not my idea of hunting, but whatever blows your skirt up...

Sean

 

[playfarmers]

It is not legal to bait here, and as far as I know it is not done. Our hunter numbers are dropping as a whole, but the muzzleloader hunters are increasing. The new inline rifles are the rife of choice for most muzzleloader hunters, and some areas are quite heavily hunted. I live in a small town far from a large city, so the number of hunters are quite low here. I hunted the first week of our season and saw only 2 other hunters. I feel very blessed to have hunting like this, and wish more lovers of the old ways had it as good.

 

[Bountyhunter]

Heck Sean, ya know I'm just up north of ya on the Canadian, up here they dont even take time to sit in the tripod. They just drive around the back roads in the evening and shoot em out the pickup window. I really think that this has been brought on by the TV shows....I got a two thousand pointer,,,well I got a three thousand pointer.......sheesh....

I know of some guys up in the Sangres that take gunny sacks full a day old bread and sweet rolls up and dump for the bears. But when ya play the game right, Johnny Law doesnt seem to look your way.

 

[Walks with fire]

Baiting deer is more like raising cattle than hunting.

 

[Rat Trapper]

King Deerslayer,
If what you are saying is true, you have a law enforcement problem. Wardens love to ticket people who cabin hunt or have illegal bait piles. Our wardens need your help, call them.

 

[patch knife]

Baiting deer is more like raising cattle than hunting.

I agree 100% . IMHO , baiting any game animal , takes the hunt out of hunting . Here in Maryland , the DNR caught a couple of jerks baiting bear . Caught them red handed :thumbsup: .

 

[Blizzard of '93]

I know what you are saying- I've many times tryed to set a stand up near a NATURAL FOOD SOURCE, WATER, OR SCRAPE, Will admit to tossing out a salt/mineral block nearby tho. Got many a deer that way.

 

[Stumpkiller]

In Alabama you can feed'm & salt'm.But is illegal to shoot Deer & Turkey over bait(Corn,feed,mineral block,saltlick ect) .So today I am in the sporting section of Wally world and lo an behold two camo clad gents are buying two large bags of whole kernal corn. :cursing: :shakeid I mention it- Deer hunting season start over a week ago for firearms. :redface:

Illegal to bait or feed in NY, but our new Gander Mountain has a whole 25 ft isle of Purina Deer Chow and other such feed/bait, timed dispancers and hoppers, etc. Illegal in practice, but not illegal to sell the stuff. Grrrrr. I mentioned to the manager that it might be nicer to use that shelf and floorspace for something like traditional m/l arms and round balls. "Nobody buys them". How could they? In the whole store they had one 25 round box of Hornady balls, no #11 primers and no "true" blackpowder for sale or any m/l sidelock firearms. But that was back the summer prior. Haven't been back since to see what might be changed. :shake: