In regards to bating...a question

[peytoncreekhunter]

When I think of baiting, I automatically think of corn, apples or something of that order. I don't automatically think of mineral blocks, trophy rocks or mineral licks as baiting. It's more of an attractant in my eyes. But is there really a difference? I mean, both draw deer into a certain spot.

What say ya'll?

 

[gatodoc]

To me baiting includes salt licks food plots and corn feeders. i hunt in Bama where baiting is permitted. We rarely see mature bucks near the feeders but they do skirt the areas checking out does in the fields….

Allowing baiting doesn't seem to have affected the deer kills in Bama much at all…..

 

[backyardtndeer]

Difference is that you don't have timers for minerals, they are free to be hit any time and they are in the ground long after whatever you used appears to be gone. Deer will keep hitting the soil if there is a deficiency in the area and no other minerals are available. Minerals are not used as much by deer in the fall and winter. Many feeders can be set with timers. People dumping corn at set time every other day from an ATV or side by side will be watched by deer, and they will become conditioned to hit the bait when it's available. Late to the game they miss out. I have seen videos of deer watching from a treeline while baiters dump corn, and then hitting the pile just as soon as they left. No, imo it is not the same at all, especially when taking into account how mineral use drops off sharply in the fall.

 

[gary66]

When I think of baiting, I automatically think of corn, apples or something of that order. I don't automatically think of mineral blocks, trophy rocks or mineral licks as baiting. It's more of an attractant in my eyes. But is there really a difference? I mean, both draw deer into a certain spot.

What say ya'll?

I hunt the bait all the time, I just don't provide it. Don't plant the fields and didn't plant the oak trees. Didn't spill a ton of salt going to fast around a curve, didn't fill the water hole or produce the spot they bed down.

If it draws it's bait and by the way the deer approaching them they know something is not quit right.

Only thing I need to know is what the dnr thinks about it.

I scout a place after season end, before things get thick. Hit on a trail and follow it, mark all the sign in a gps, give them names that tell me how good they are. I'm also looking for a tree to climb, mark it. Then connect the gps to a computer and build a map. Zoom out a bit and see why the deer go from here to there, what baits them to move. Pick my day, get in way before first light, climb a tree and wait. Could be years later, still works. Any bait man puts out doesn't change the pattern and why I'm not against it. People ruin deer patterns and if I can...I use that too so I'd say they were a form of bait

Funny... Someone asked if a sexy woman wearing nothing but a mink coat showed up at your door, what would you do? I answered this way... "I'd look around for the hunter...that's bait"

 

[timberjack86]

If it's meant to draw deer into a certain spot during hunting season it's bait. Corn, salt, fruit trees and food plots. Ive always said might as well legalize it all since some forms of bait are already allowed. Or we could outlaw them all. Wouldn't really matter one way or the other to me. I like to actually hunt deer.