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Kaleb

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New to IA. Is it legal to feed deer (corn pile, feeder, etc) in Iowa if you do not hunt over that bait?

Does this answer change at all if located in a CWD positive county?


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1983, is that answer a little loose? Hunting directly over the bait is illegal but hunting on a trail just off the bait pile would be suspect to most COs. Can you put out corn piles during season, yes. But I sure wouldn’t want any active piles when I was hunting the property unless that property was pretty good size and clearly not hunting the bait pile. Thoughts?
 
To be clear I care more about does CWD county change deer feeding regs. I have no interest in baiting or feeding deer during hunting season.


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Muskrat24 said:
1983, is that answer a little loose? Hunting directly over the bait is illegal but hunting on a trail just off the bait pile would be suspect to most COs. Can you put out corn piles during season, yes. But I sure wouldn’t want any active piles when I was hunting the property unless that property was pretty good size and clearly not hunting the bait pile. Thoughts?
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My response was yes you can feed if unrelated to hunting. The specifics of how far stuff needs to be is way too gray. They need to just make all in season feeding illegal to eliminate any gray area.
 
IowaBowHunter1983 said:
My response was yes you can feed if unrelated to hunting. The specifics of how far stuff needs to be is way too gray. They need to just make all in season feeding illegal to eliminate any gray area.
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Sounds good and wanted to know for myself also. I was wondering and didn’t want OP to think no big deal. From what I have checked into it by asking DNR is each CO may interpret differently but if hunter is gaining an advantage then chance for citations. I agree that taking the gray out during season would be best. But I have not ran into an issue feeding outside of hunting season. Not stating a stance but there are several recommendations not to use bait or salt/mineral to aid in not spreading CWD.
 
Muskrat24 said:
Sounds good and wanted to know for myself also. I was wondering and didn’t want OP to think no big deal. From what I have checked into it by asking DNR is each CO may interpret differently but if hunter is gaining an advantage then chance for citations. I agree that taking the gray out during season would be best. But I have not ran into an issue feeding outside of hunting season. Not stating a stance but there are several recommendations not to use bait or salt/mineral to aid in not spreading CWD.
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Agree. I think they should do away with feeding


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