Is there a fairness chart I can look up?
No. I just don’t want no one telling what is! I hunt this way. So should u. If u want the law changed. Go for it.
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Food plots are baiting
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No. I just don’t want no one telling what is! I hunt this way. So should u. If u want the law changed. Go for it.
red neck richie
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Agreed.
Is there a fairness chart I can look up?
Fair went out the window with the start of muzzle loaders hundreds of years ago.
And food plots are totally fair????
Same as hunting over a harvested peanut field is fair or hunting a cut alfalfa hay field is fair. Isn't that what y'all do down there in South Georgia? I sure would.
XIronheadX
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Food plots are no different than briars or any other browse in the woods. It's growing vegetation out of the ground. It's the fact it's a wide open spot that drives corn beggars nuts. Some briars in the Midwest have as high protein as alfalfa due to the soil. I sit and watch deer eat wheat in strips and then walk in the briars and browse in there just as long. If you gathered all the tender wheat at the right time of growth, the rape after a couple of frosts, and next summers clover, and the threw the crap in a pile, it may start to get equal to corn(to some does with young ones, that's what you usually see in a plot). Watching them eat privet(12.9% protein) in a flood plain with a plot 100 yards away is amusing too. Corn beggars just need to sit on their corn pile and enjoy themselves.
I hunt clearcuts where timber has cut every tree from oaks to pines. No turkeys cause they sprayed to kill the green weeds with hens in them. Our little area looks like a Moab hit. We keep it knowing it will grow back and maybe we can get some turkeys back. Deer do ok. Hogs do great.
My little food plots are about 1/4 acres where they use to set equipment to cut. Pines will grow back. Few years good cover and food.
It’s about money.
red neck richie
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A lot of that up here too Kmack. A lot of folks had to clear cut their land and sell the timber to keep it during the Obama recession.
shdw633
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There is no difference between putting a foodplot in the middle of the woods or piling up some corn in the same area as far as fairness goes but that's for each hunter to decide as both attract deer to an area They might not otherwise go to. We hunt peanut fields as much as anyone else....we just add corn to them as well.
We hang on and try to improve what we have. We have good deer. Once it gets thick everywhere again we will have very good deer. Turkeys will take a while.
https://www.clarionledger.com/story/sports/2015/10/01/mdwfp-deer-biologist-baiting-hunting/73137266/
And guess what? Mississippi has CWD!
And guess what? Mississippi has CWD!
Guess what in the 50tys we had the screw worm.
Guess what this year humans had the flu bug.
Guess what this year humans had the flu bug.
I just hope the cartle and pork and chicken farms are ok.
Does missippi have deer farms like Alabama.
rosewood
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Has CWD become prevalent in the southern zone in the last few years since baiting has been legal?
Not where I hunt , just a bunch of fat happy animals !
KyDawg
Gone But Not Forgotten
I do not know anybody that plants food plots, that don't expect to see deer show up in them. I feed corn year around but do not hunt over it, and baiting has been legal here for 50 years. I do hunt the trail they establish going back and forth from it. I usually kill one deer a year and most of the time it will be a doe. We all take advantage of any edge we can get to get our deer. The main problem I have is when people complain about the way other people hunt. People act like shooting a deer over corn is as easy as getting out of bed in the morning and putting your shoes on. I don't know where these people hunt, but I have been running a trail cam over the spot where I feed corn. I got thousands of pictures, but not one of them is a decent buck during daylight. I have a lot better chance of taking a nice deer in my food plot. I love food plots.
shdw633
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Now tell me how they got it. Neither Alabama or Louisiana allow baiting with Louisiana being separated by the mighty Mississippi River. They have found 1 deer.
Doing my part here to move it along. It's been around long enough to start going a little stale, all things CORNsidered.
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