Wisconsin bans baiting/mineral in top 3 harvest counties!

Hunting an edge of a cornfield is "cheating" to a couple of you guys?

 

Whats the difference.....hunting over a bait pile, importing 1000's of non native trees to plant on your property to make thermal bedding, or hunting near a cut corn field? Nothing.

 

1) Baiting creates the most hunter conflict issues in Wisconsin
2)Baiting promotes easier cwd/tb transmission
3)Baiting drives deer nocturnal
4)Baiting is breaking the law

Your state defines non native species.

 

Piling corn (baiting) and farming (hunting near standing corn) are in no way shape or form close to each other.

Maybe to some of you that corn isn't an agricultural commodity. Then I can somewhat understand. I would love to see you hunt around here and not be within 100 yards of a corn or soybean field.

 

my area has alot of crop land, but we also have some pretty big chunks of timber also. the biggest chunks were once lumber co. land. now city boys bought alot of this land and will clear 35yd x 35yd areas all over the interior of their land and plant all different kinds of plots. you think the average man can buy hundreds of timber in this area and then clear these plots all over the place. i dont see the difference between a small plot that you can shoot any deer on it with your bow if you sit on the edge or a bait. how is backpacking in 2 gallons of corn every couple of days lazy, but either paying someone to put a food plot in for you or using a quad or tractor with discs not lazy? dont get me wrong, i once was against baiting as much as anyone but then i realized who cares. it was a right. be careful, they could take away a right that you like.

 

Matt,
You are confusing a right with a privilege. You do not have the right to a drivers license or a hunting license. Both require You abide by the constraints/limitations set within. The bill of rights was written for a reason. The 2nd gives you the right to bear arms, not hunt.

Do you hunt private land in 62b? Throw in a plot, no big deal.

 

You're about to be on that show, World's Dumbest Criminals. Nothing like admitting to breaking laws from a traceable IP address. Good work.

 

Amen, amazes me how many people just willing share they are not only breaking game laws but knowingly.....

 

I hunt in Waupaca Co. This is a good thing!! Playing field needs to be leveled.

 

Yet another reason to not have high fenced in deer hunting preserves or whatever you want to call them.

 

Its hard enough to bowhunt without battling lawbreakers.

 

I hunt in Waupaca Co. This is a good thing!! Playing field needs to be leveled.

 

No baiting in Waupaca!!! Awesome!!!

 

You know what... This Star Tribune article made me immediately think of you and your "own practices." Sickening.

Dad, son charged with poisoning bald eagles in Wisconsin

 

Keeping quiet keeps people wondering about one's intelligence level. Putting things in writing removes all doubt. Only 18 post in a year and a half. Why would anyone post anything like this. Talk about self incriminating! WOW

 

Here Is what I was talking about in my previous post.. nice to see someone else saw the same thing as what I saw...

 

I know this is a slight side-track from the topic, but it's related I promise. I think it's comical when people look down on someone who baits yet they hunt in a plot or corn field themselves. Plots and fields were planted and are just the same as a pile of something dumped on the ground. I'm not saying one person is right over the other, but my question is, how far must one hunt from a high fense to be considered free range hunting or how far must they hunt from a food source (naturally grown or dumped) to be considered not hunting over bait? Everything has a stipulation and is arguable. First argue over the definition of definition, then argue over the definition of bait, then argue over baiting. It's an endless cycle and no one wins.

 

Legality is where I defend baiting...if legal I am behind you. If you want to argue whether baiting is different than food plots...my friend that is a whole bigger topic. I will say there is so many ways food plots are different than baiting that they are more different than the same...only real similarity is both are food....outside that so many differences it's hard to compare.

 

I know I can sit on the side of a 100 acre corn field and not get a shot at a single deer. I know I could sit over a pile of corn and get a shot at every deer that fed there. Kind of seems a little different to me. What am I missing here? Same deer, same food. Just presented to them a little differently. I know that if I want a picture of nearly every deer on my property, I can pour some corn on the ground. If I put that same camera on the side of a field, I would be lucky to get a picture of 5% of them in the same amount of time. Again, am I missing something here?

Let me also be clear in stating that I have zero problem with anyone hunting over bait where legal. The only problem I have is when they try to convince me that it is the same as hunting over agricultural fields. I have done both, (hunted Texas where bait was used) I know the difference. You may have convinced yourself, but that does not make it so.

In all honesty, I think that some guys who hunt over bait (where legal) feel like they must convince themselves and others that its the same experience as hunting other food sources. Its not, it never will be, but who cares. Just hunt within the laws and enjoy.

I would also quickly concede that hunting deer in ag land is easier than trying to hunt a mountain buck in endless miles of forrest. They are just easier to pattern at certain times of the year. They are more visible and likely have a smaller home range.

 

Big difference from ag fields but little difference from a couple acre food plots in reality.

I've hunted over all 3 and will do so again at some point likely... But baiting is no easier to kill an animal on than a 2 acre clover/alfalfa field. My experience has been the opposite actually.

But when we are talking hundreds of acres of grain, it becomes so spread out its like trying to pinpoint which oak tree in a 100 acre oak flat. Not the same as baiting/food plots.