Hunting Forum

Posted By rthomas4 on 08 Feb 2013 11:24 AM
Ah ha, one of those lurkers!!!!!!!!!!

Hence my "Give them enough rope theory".

Maybe Prunes is just stating an opinion, maybe he/she is just a trouble maker???

If the latter is the case you may have had more fun making him/her chase their tail for awhile

Ron, I don't know if I would go as far as calling natural resources, bait? You didn't purposely put it there to draw them to it. I do understand your point though.
I'm not allowed to bait. I can plant a food plot, but am not allowed to hunt over it. I just use good ole common sense and plant myself between food and bedding in those natural bait funnel areas. LOL! Seems the mystery guest hasn't returned to defend his statement?

Of course GLW. Thats the way it always is.Steve and Etaylor8... set me straight the first night I was in here.... My mistake was to think, this was a chat room. I didnt realize It was a forum, "cause I was stupid, or uneducated"I got good guidance, and now I have a good idea how to negoitiate these forums. I wonder if others feel the same. I wonder if all of us should ask this question before we make judgement.Maybe, maybe not....imo.

I learn all the time and I'm in my 50's? It's too easy to get caught up in the small world around you and expect it's the same all over. Only one state away can be a totally different world with different practices we may not consider right? I stick my foot in my mouth on occation, but pull it back out after a short education and keep on going.

GLW when I refer to naturally occurring water holes, and browse, etc., as bait; I do so in reference to people taking advantage of it for the purpose of intercepting and killing deer. If you think about it, there aren't many methods of hunting that don't utilize some type of deer trait, in order to capitalize on an opportunity. Using those traits, knowing that deer are driven by the need for food and water, and the drive to reproduce, have always been used by every individual who has ever hunted deer.

Yup, that was the part where I said I understaood your point.

I use a feeder to get the does and fawns out in the field and I sit in the woods waiting for a buck. How is that different than waiting next to a crop field? There are many different ways to hunt and I respect them all.