Forums46
Topics539,018
Posts9,744,188
Members87,136
|
Most Online25,604 Feb 12th, 2024
|
|
|
North Woods Law--- Deer baiting
#7295933
09/24/18 04:30 PM
|
Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 1,816
MO
OP
Pro Tracker
|
OP
Pro Tracker
Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 1,816 |
I have been watching " North Woods Law " lately. It appears that in Maine , deer baiting is illegal and considered unethical. If Texas outlawed deer feeders , how much would this affect your hunting.
Just curious
MO
MY BACKYARD , 20,000 ACRES , NO MOWING
|
|
|
Re: North Woods Law--- Deer baiting
[Re: MO]
#7295965
09/24/18 05:11 PM
|
Joined: Feb 2018
Posts: 428
PoppinPiggies
Bird Dog
|
Bird Dog
Joined: Feb 2018
Posts: 428 |
Yeah I'd be screwed.... with the bow for sure!
Follow me on instagram @crosstexasoutdoors
|
|
|
Re: North Woods Law--- Deer baiting
[Re: MO]
#7295968
09/24/18 05:15 PM
|
Joined: Sep 2009
Posts: 18,983
ChadTRG42
THF Celebrity
|
THF Celebrity
Joined: Sep 2009
Posts: 18,983 |
It would force you to hunt trails, natural food sources like acorns and open fields. It would certainly change up how you hunted. I'd spot and stalk a lot more if no feeders were allowed. It would be similar to other states that do not allow feeders.
|
|
|
Re: North Woods Law--- Deer baiting
[Re: MO]
#7295969
09/24/18 05:15 PM
|
Joined: Jul 2015
Posts: 3,121
Always ready 2 hunt
Veteran Tracker
|
Veteran Tracker
Joined: Jul 2015
Posts: 3,121 |
meh, adjustments would be made and actually help out the ol wallet
|
|
|
Re: North Woods Law--- Deer baiting
[Re: MO]
#7295976
09/24/18 05:26 PM
|
Joined: Nov 2009
Posts: 100
Wack em & Stack em
Woodsman
|
Woodsman
Joined: Nov 2009
Posts: 100 |
Texas wouldn’t allow that
|
|
|
Re: North Woods Law--- Deer baiting
[Re: PoppinPiggies]
#7295983
09/24/18 05:31 PM
|
Joined: Nov 2011
Posts: 10,022
unclebubba
THF Celebrity
|
THF Celebrity
Joined: Nov 2011
Posts: 10,022 |
Yeah I'd be screwed.... with the bow for sure! You'd be surprised. I've killed plenty of deer hunting trails with no feeders with Bow in OK.
|
|
|
Re: North Woods Law--- Deer baiting
[Re: MO]
#7295996
09/24/18 05:39 PM
|
Joined: Apr 2007
Posts: 60,681
BOBO the Clown
kind of a big deal
|
kind of a big deal
Joined: Apr 2007
Posts: 60,681 |
It would force a longer season and way more tags issued. Might actually be an ecological disaster
I’m not sure how much it would effect me outside of bow hunting.
|
|
|
Re: North Woods Law--- Deer baiting
[Re: unclebubba]
#7296134
09/24/18 07:26 PM
|
Joined: Feb 2018
Posts: 428
PoppinPiggies
Bird Dog
|
Bird Dog
Joined: Feb 2018
Posts: 428 |
Yeah I'd be screwed.... with the bow for sure! You'd be surprised. I've killed plenty of deer hunting trails with no feeders with Bow in OK. Oh I know it's possible, I'm only in my second season bow hunting and most the property I hunt is short mesquite brush so no acorns to set up on just wheat and bait. Not impossible it would just make it a lot harder and probably lower my chances significantly. Have a few stands setup this year on trails leading to food plots so we will see how it goes.
Follow me on instagram @crosstexasoutdoors
|
|
|
Re: North Woods Law--- Deer baiting
[Re: MO]
#7296142
09/24/18 07:32 PM
|
Joined: Sep 2012
Posts: 12,925
PMK
THF Celebrity
|
THF Celebrity
Joined: Sep 2012
Posts: 12,925 |
funny, I still remember hunting before there were feeders ... now I am feeder poor maintaining 3 properties
"everyone that lives dies but not everyone who dies lived..."
~PMK~
|
|
|
Re: North Woods Law--- Deer baiting
[Re: MO]
#7296148
09/24/18 07:37 PM
|
Joined: Dec 2009
Posts: 807
Russ79
Tracker
|
Tracker
Joined: Dec 2009
Posts: 807 |
I don't speculate on things that will never happen. Too much money changes hands for this to ever be made illegal in Texas.
|
|
|
Re: North Woods Law--- Deer baiting
[Re: MO]
#7296303
09/24/18 09:50 PM
|
Joined: Sep 2018
Posts: 1,051
Old Shakie
Pro Tracker
|
Pro Tracker
Joined: Sep 2018
Posts: 1,051 |
Yes, too much money changes hands for that too ever happen. The corn growers would be protesting for sure. I have seen hunters pull their trailers up to a feed store and buy whole pallets of corn at a time. Load em up with forklifts. I have seen non-Texans pull up to convenience stores and be puzzled that stores have a display of deer corn out front.
|
|
|
Re: North Woods Law--- Deer baiting
[Re: Old Shakie]
#7296318
09/24/18 10:01 PM
|
Joined: Nov 2010
Posts: 1,379
Schpanky
Pro Tracker
|
Pro Tracker
Joined: Nov 2010
Posts: 1,379 |
Yes, too much money changes hands for that too ever happen. The corn growers would be protesting for sure. I have seen hunters pull their trailers up to a feed store and buy whole pallets of corn at a time. Load em up with forklifts. I have seen non-Texans pull up to convenience stores and be puzzled that stores have a display of deer corn out front. I've towed a flat-bed trailer with several pallets a time or two.... would it change the way i hunt...absolutely... would i still hunt successfully?....absolutely. I've hunted trails and funnels with no feeder plenty of times....the feeder makes it more "predictable"...
|
|
|
Re: North Woods Law--- Deer baiting
[Re: MO]
#7296380
09/24/18 11:13 PM
|
Joined: Dec 2017
Posts: 2,823
RattlesnakeDan
Veteran Tracker
|
Veteran Tracker
Joined: Dec 2017
Posts: 2,823 |
I have shot more deer and elk than I can remember, much of them with longbow and wood arrows. Never any place where baiting was even considered, or legal. I have only shot 1 doe out of a deer blind. You would adapt if you had to but south Texas has it's challenges with the thick brush/cactus that is un-penetrable by man, blinds are a very good way of doing it down here. I did not understand baiting and deer blinds until living here.
Just like Jesus, sometimes you gotta kill some hogs. Lone Star Mesquite . com RattleSnake Dan's Shredding Service
|
|
|
Re: North Woods Law--- Deer baiting
[Re: MO]
#7296442
09/25/18 12:08 AM
|
Joined: Sep 2009
Posts: 5,852
Drop Tine
THF Trophy Hunter
|
THF Trophy Hunter
Joined: Sep 2009
Posts: 5,852 |
Food plots or wheat/oat fields would replace feeders. Would be quite a few less deer killed in Texas and the population would definitely grow....so many places here in Texas that spot in stalk doesn't work. It's just too thick to hunt and not all of Texas has tree's suitable for tree stands. I haven't killed many trophy bucks at a feeder anyway, so I personally wouldn't care if they were outlawed. I'll adapt and keep filling my freezer every year.
|
|
|
Re: North Woods Law--- Deer baiting
[Re: MO]
#7296504
09/25/18 01:06 AM
|
Joined: Feb 2010
Posts: 11,658
GusWayne
THF Celebrity
|
THF Celebrity
Joined: Feb 2010
Posts: 11,658 |
I have a friend originally from Pennsylvania
He told me once that there was no baiting AND no hunting on Sunday's up there
Sounds ridiculous to me
|
|
|
Re: North Woods Law--- Deer baiting
[Re: GusWayne]
#7296553
09/25/18 01:54 AM
|
Joined: Oct 2016
Posts: 3,444
JimBridger
Veteran Tracker
|
Veteran Tracker
Joined: Oct 2016
Posts: 3,444 |
Pennsylvania still doesn’t allow baiting except in Special Regulation Areas that are near heavily populated areas. In these areas baiting can only be done on private property. You still can’t hunt for game animals on Sunday.
Last edited by Pappybear; 09/25/18 02:09 AM.
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Edmund Burke
|
|
|
Re: North Woods Law--- Deer baiting
[Re: MO]
#7296669
09/25/18 03:47 AM
|
Joined: Jul 2006
Posts: 110,809
dogcatcher
THF Celebrity
|
THF Celebrity
Joined: Jul 2006
Posts: 110,809 |
With our terrain and rainfall in a lot of the western half of the state the deer population would suffer without the supplemental feeding and watering that hunters provide.
Combat Infantryman, the ultimate hunter where the prey shoots back. _____________"Illegitimus non carborundum est"_______________
|
|
|
Re: North Woods Law--- Deer baiting
[Re: MO]
#7296680
09/25/18 04:05 AM
|
Joined: Aug 2004
Posts: 17,721
Txduckman
THF Celebrity
|
THF Celebrity
Joined: Aug 2004
Posts: 17,721 |
They make doe easy to kill but only a few of our bucks are actually killed eating corn at a feeder. They may walk nearby checking things out but rarely eat as witnessed by years of game cams proving it at least at our place. Our bigger older deer will hit each feeder maybe once in a season and it is never when you expect it. Biggest I got at the lease happened to visit the one feeder I was at opening morning couple years ago. He hadn't been to that feeder for over 3 weeks. Only showed up at one other one the whole time.
|
|
|
Re: North Woods Law--- Deer baiting
[Re: MO]
#7296843
09/25/18 12:58 PM
|
Joined: Sep 2016
Posts: 391
Pintail711
Bird Dog
|
Bird Dog
Joined: Sep 2016
Posts: 391 |
I think it would hurt the Texas Economy even worse. There’s no telling how many bags of corn is purchased every year just by deer hunters.
Last edited by Pintail711; 09/25/18 12:59 PM.
|
|
|
Re: North Woods Law--- Deer baiting
[Re: MO]
#7296874
09/25/18 01:20 PM
|
Joined: Jan 2011
Posts: 65,571
SnakeWrangler
THF Celebrity
|
THF Celebrity
Joined: Jan 2011
Posts: 65,571 |
More hunters would be shot staking thru the woods and mistaken for deer.....
I believe in science and I’m an insufferable [censored] Actually, BBC is pretty damn good "You Cannot Simultaneously Be Politically Correct And Intellectually Honest!"
|
|
|
Re: North Woods Law--- Deer baiting
[Re: MO]
#7297064
09/25/18 04:03 PM
|
Joined: Aug 2004
Posts: 6,170
Jimbo
THF Trophy Hunter
|
THF Trophy Hunter
Joined: Aug 2004
Posts: 6,170 |
I've used feeders for a long as I've been hunting and that is a long, long time. I've killed very few deer from under a feeder, and I use the feeder mainly to keep the deer in the area. Hunting the approach trails is what I do, and most big bucks will skirt around a feeder anyway. I don't have anything against those who hunt a feeder, but I just don't like staring at a feeder when I can see a long ways at deer approaching or moving around in the vicinity.
Thursday at 12:45 PM #33 Once i learned that i didn't "NEED" to kill something, and that if i did kill something all the fun stopped and work began, i was a much better hunter.
|
|
|
Re: North Woods Law--- Deer baiting
[Re: Old Shakie]
#7297718
09/26/18 03:06 AM
|
Joined: Sep 2009
Posts: 1,615
MELackey
Pro Tracker
|
Pro Tracker
Joined: Sep 2009
Posts: 1,615 |
Yes, too much money changes hands for that too ever happen. The corn growers would be protesting for sure. I have seen hunters pull their trailers up to a feed store and buy whole pallets of corn at a time. Load em up with forklifts. I have seen non-Texans pull up to convenience stores and be puzzled that stores have a display of deer corn out front. We buy 3 pallets at a time between corn and protein. We've bought 12,000 lbs since August. 6,000 lbs put out and 6,000 lbs on deck ready to start refilling in October. When that batch is unloaded, we will go down and buy 3 more pallets and have them on deck to start topping off in December.
|
|
|
Re: North Woods Law--- Deer baiting
[Re: MO]
#7297950
09/26/18 01:29 PM
|
Joined: Jun 2009
Posts: 4,972
Dry Fire
Extreme Tracker
|
Extreme Tracker
Joined: Jun 2009
Posts: 4,972 |
Alabama allows feeding during the off season. Feeders must be empty 30 days before the season starts. You can feed during the season, but the feeder must be 100 yards or more from your hunting position and you cannot be able to see the feeder from your hunting position.
If your neighbor puts a blind on the fence line and you don't like it. You put a feeder within 100 yards of his blind.
There has been discussion of allowing feeders to be used during deer season. Alabama would charge an annual $50 permit for every feeder. Surprised Texas hasn't checked this one out.
coffee spelled backwards is eeffoc. I don't give eeffoc until I have my morning coffee.
|
|
|
Re: North Woods Law--- Deer baiting
[Re: MO]
#7298401
09/26/18 07:54 PM
|
Joined: Mar 2010
Posts: 12,487
ntxtrapper
THF Celebrity
|
THF Celebrity
Joined: Mar 2010
Posts: 12,487 |
I quit feeding corn about 15 years ago. I hunt trails and openings now and still see plenty of deer. Sure has saved me a ton of money too.
|
|
|
Re: North Woods Law--- Deer baiting
[Re: MO]
#7301702
09/30/18 09:58 PM
|
Joined: Jan 2012
Posts: 118
major_74
Woodsman
|
Woodsman
Joined: Jan 2012
Posts: 118 |
Would definitely have to make changes
|
|
|
Moderated by bigbob_ftw, CCBIRDDOGMAN, Chickenman, Derek, DeRico, Duck_Hunter, hetman, jeh7mmmag, JustWingem, kmon11, kry226, kwrhuntinglab, Payne, pertnear, rifleman, sig226fan (Rguns.com), Superduty, TreeBass, txcornhusker
|