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Mottz · Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 8:04 pm Post subject: Another idea

Why don't they legalize baiting as an attempt to get deer numbers down?
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nehunter88 · Gander Joined: 29 Mar 2005 Posts: 798

It's funny I was just talking to a guy with the G&P the other day about that.

He told me orginally they didn't want baiting because it concentrated deer and the spread of disease. CWD was the main thought there.

Then a few years back they wanted to kill a bunch of deer and have them tested. They asked a guy that had food plots and feeding stations up, and he said no he wouldn't let them shoot the deer. They figured no problem they'd just hunt neighboring ground. Problem was they had a hard time getting deer because the farm with the feeders had all the deer. That's when they thought what happens when one guy has feeders and only shoots his one buck and leaves everything else go. Hunters on neighboring ground are willing to shoot a bunch of does, but have a hard time finding any because of the feeders.

I have a neighbor that does not allow hunting. If you looked around this winter you'd see 50 to 100 turkeys at a time around here. I have not been able to get a turkey for me or another guy I've had out as of yet. My neighbors wife feeds the turkeys and will go through 100 pounds of feed a week. If you're willing to pick one off the road in front of their house or out of their yard, it would be easy pickings. But other then that, a turkey is now hard to come by. I didn't think I'd see that day around here. But it does confirm what I was told about deer and feeders.
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hoyt shooter · Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 10:13 am Post subject:

nehunter88 · Gander Joined: 29 Mar 2005 Posts: 798

Because of cattle running the ground where we hunt, we were in about the same boat. Many of the deer stayed on the neighbors land and made it hard sometimes.

But now we don't have to deal with cattle anymore, so the food plots and feeders are going in. We're going to reverse what happens in your area. We're going to try and make the ground open for hunting more attractive then the non hunting ground.
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