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Baiting Bill HB1618/SB1942

Should baiting be allowed on private land?

  • Yes

    Votes: 193 40.5%

  • No

    Votes: 209 43.9%

  • Don't care

    Votes: 74 15.5%
  • Total voters
    476
tnanh said:
I think as passionately as some speak against it they may not want to give up their advantage of baiting when it is made legal. Who cares if their feathers are ruffled? Also, people with great property to hunt seem to be the most vocal anti baiting.
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I wonder how this will affect guys like me that only hunt public land. Where all the private land around where I can hunt has bait piles? I bet your gonna say I should go buy hunting property?
 
ImThere said:
I wonder how this will affect guys like me that only hunt public land. Where all the private land around where I can hunt has bait piles? I bet your gonna say I should go buy hunting property?
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No sir, not me. I would never throw rocks at public land hunters.I spent most of my life hunting public land. You haven't read my other posts concerning the elitist.
 
ImThere said:
I wonder how this will affect guys like me that only hunt public land. Where all the private land around where I can hunt has bait piles? I bet your gonna say I should go buy hunting property?
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The baiting bills died/ are apparently not going anywhere.

Nobody gets to bait in Tennessee next season
 
tnanh said:
I think as passionately as some speak against it they may not want to give up their advantage of baiting when it is made legal. Who cares if their feathers are ruffled? Also, people with great property to hunt seem to be the most vocal anti baiting.
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I bet you're a Seek One fan as well.
 
Snake said:
Nobody (legally) gets to bait in Tennessee necks season...
Fixed it for you .
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Hey, I get it. Neighboring properties baiting when you're trying to obey the law sucks. But it also affects us public land hunters. You wouldn't believe how brazen folks can be in how close they bait to property lines…but then again maybe you will. Several years back both a WMA and a state forest I hunted had baiting right along the most remote property lines. This poaching tactic is actually pretty smart because they can claim they didn't know about since they're hunting the private side of the boundary, and the GW is gonna have to prove it was them and not all the public land hunters.
 
All y'all that say private land hunters are all baiting do you know this for a fact? If so then why haven't you turned them in? I'll straight up tell you if my neighbor is baiting and I know it I'm turning their butt in. Pretty broad statement some of y'all make if it's true and sit there and let them bait. I'd love to know your reasoning for letting someone continue to bait if their beside you or not and hunting illegally.
 
TboneD said:
Hey, I get it. Neighboring properties baiting when you're trying to obey the law sucks. But it also affects us public land hunters. You wouldn't believe how brazen folks can be in how close they bait to property lines…but then again maybe you will. Several years back both a WMA and a state forest I hunted had baiting right along the most remote property lines. This poaching tactic is actually pretty smart because they can claim they didn't know about since they're hunting the private side of the boundary, and the GW is gonna have to prove it was them and not all the public land hunters.
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And have to shut down hunting on that portion of the public land too
 
I remember as a kid back in the day at church camp, Fall Creek Falls to be exact…
A conversation between my dad and a Park Ranger discussing something similar to the above posts…
He said "if we didn't let the locals who live on the borders of this park hunt how and when they wanted, they'd burn this damn place to the ground"
That is a word for word quote from that fella that I've never forgotten.
 
MickThompson said:
And have to shut down hunting on that portion of the public land too
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Back in October I met a couple of hunters on some public who'd been hunting same areas as me and my buddy do. One of them related how his other buddy had found a lot of corn dumped the season before along the same rather remote boundary I had a few years ago.

So yeah, the poacher's tactic worked and they were afraid of getting caught up there hunting too close to the corn. Said it was pretty obvious it came from the private property because of how many bags were poured out. Asked him if they'd called the GW and he acted like he didn't know who to call. Nice, young guys taken advantage of by a sorry fill in the blank. 😡

The takeaway is that even if baiting on private land is legalized, it won't do anything to stop that kind of despicable behavior.
 
FTP said:
I remember as a kid back in the day at church camp, Fall Creek Falls to be exact…
A conversation between my dad and a Park Ranger discussing something similar to the above posts…
He said "if we didn't let the locals who live on the borders of this park hunt how and when they wanted, they'd burn this damn place to the ground"
That is a word for word quote from that fella that I've never forgotten.
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Cherokee National Forest is still standing. Usually the fires there start after a marijuana patch is cut.
 
I personally don't care either way. I find little joy climbing out of my stand, walking over, and knocking the corn out of a bucks mouth with my ball-peen hammer. I loke to feed in the winter and watch the pets. I just don't understand with CWD running rampant and with turkey numbers in decline, why?
 

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Bell3wv said:
I personally don't care either way. I find little joy climbing out of my stand, walking over, and knocking the corn out of a bucks mouth with my ball-peen hammer. I loke to feed in the winter and watch the pets. I just don't understand with CWD running rampant and with turkey numbers in decline, why?
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Than i just dont understand why you feed in the winter for the same reasons you mentioned 🤷
 

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