I’ve never heard the QDM organization promote supplemental feeding as someone posted.
I think ethics has always been the main concern of those who are against it.
Everybody for it says hunt how you want and let me hunt how I want. But it’s not as simple as that. Because how others hunt has an effect on the future of hunting.
If the state allowed deer hunting at night, deer hunting with poison and deer hunting by drones how would hunters respond? I’d hope we would all speak up loudly against it. I’m sure the non hunting public would. And if we didn’t speak up loudly against it, it’s would nt be long before the “sport” of hunting disappears.
So what is the difference in baiting, food plotting, calling deer. They all are similar in that it is the hunter luring the deer in for the kill. But only one has ever been illegal. The reason it has been illegal is because deer hunting is a sport and the public has always considered bait as unsportsmanlike. You can say it’s the same as scents, lures and foodplots but it’s not in most people’s opinion.
I think ethics has always been the main concern of those who are against it.
Everybody for it says hunt how you want and let me hunt how I want. But it’s not as simple as that. Because how others hunt has an effect on the future of hunting.
If the state allowed deer hunting at night, deer hunting with poison and deer hunting by drones how would hunters respond? I’d hope we would all speak up loudly against it. I’m sure the non hunting public would. And if we didn’t speak up loudly against it, it’s would nt be long before the “sport” of hunting disappears.
So what is the difference in baiting, food plotting, calling deer. They all are similar in that it is the hunter luring the deer in for the kill. But only one has ever been illegal. The reason it has been illegal is because deer hunting is a sport and the public has always considered bait as unsportsmanlike. You can say it’s the same as scents, lures and foodplots but it’s not in most people’s opinion.