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dedgeez
death from above
I am of the opinion that we all have and incorporate different tactics into our hunting! When we start questioning who is right and who is wrong or what is the "right" way to do something, we are quite simply spinning our tires! There are many effective ways to pursue whitetails and it should be a "to each their own" attitude! It does no good to argue about who is right and who is wrong. We have way bigger issues to worry about right now than whether or not so and so chooses to or not to use a trail cam! When it comes down to it, there is NO substitute for hard work and scouting when it comes to killing a trophy whitetail, regardless of the method!
Hardcorehunter
UL Shelter/Stove Geek
All fair chase. I hunted near a disced cornfield/bean field, and the rifle season is for pop control for deer herd doe reduction. Rifles have been used for 100's of years to hunt with, but trail cameras sending images to smart phones over sugar beets have not, and are not even a hunting heritage. Food plots and cameras sending images to a cell phone are not used to doe hunt, they are used for unfair advantage on bucks. Look, if an individual can bait with an UNNATURAL, food plot in a specific area size, and set video SURVEILLANCE on the deer, then it should be legal to spread corn over that same specific area size, and let the guy hunt without cameras telling him when the deer is there. They are both baiting, but the corn with no cameras has less of an advantage then the un natural food plot and cameras recording timed info on the feeding habits on that plot.
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huntemup
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If you use a blind and decoys for bowhunting turkeys you are cheating. That's not hunting!
Hardcorehunter
UL Shelter/Stove Geek
If you use a blind and decoys for bowhunting turkeys you are cheating. That's not hunting!
Native Americans used blinds and decoys for hunting since the beginning of time.
antlerfreak
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Hardcorehunter
UL Shelter/Stove Geek
Page 24 of the IDNR reg book states:
“Bait” means grain, fruit, vegetables, nuts,
hay, salt, mineral blocks, or any other natural food
materials, commercial products containing natural
food materials, or by-products of such materials
transported to or placed in an area for the purpose of
attracting wildlife. Bait does not include food placed
during normal agricultural activities
The bold type says normal agriculture practices.
Looking up what the definition of agriculture, this is what I find:
The Merriam Webster Dictionary
: the science, art, or practice of cultivating the soil, producing crops, and raising livestock and in varying degrees the preparation and marketing of the resulting products : farming
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/agriculture
Now, it doesn't take a rocket scientist, or a jury of 12 to agree or see that planting sugar beets, turnips, clover, rape, kale and turnip are only put out for attracting deer, and not agriculture, as they are not harvested or marketed.
“Bait” means grain, fruit, vegetables, nuts,
hay, salt, mineral blocks, or any other natural food
materials, commercial products containing natural
food materials, or by-products of such materials
transported to or placed in an area for the purpose of
attracting wildlife. Bait does not include food placed
during normal agricultural activities
The bold type says normal agriculture practices.
Looking up what the definition of agriculture, this is what I find:
The Merriam Webster Dictionary
: the science, art, or practice of cultivating the soil, producing crops, and raising livestock and in varying degrees the preparation and marketing of the resulting products : farming
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/agriculture
Now, it doesn't take a rocket scientist, or a jury of 12 to agree or see that planting sugar beets, turnips, clover, rape, kale and turnip are only put out for attracting deer, and not agriculture, as they are not harvested or marketed.
SaskGuy
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I like my trail cameras, but they're hung mostly on scrapes during the season.
I am picking up what HCH is putting down in regards to the beet/corn debate though.
The arguments will never end on the topic, everyone has too much personal emotion invested. I gotta be honest, I don't see much diff when Shockey lays down a whitetail buck over some peas with a smokepole in Nov. when compared to someone on Drury etc. pulling out the smokepole in Jan and laying the smack down on the largest buck out of 20 of them standing on some standing beans. I'm not going to take sides on either as being right or wrong just truthfully can't see a big diff..............but I'm not viewing it from an emotional standpoint either.
I am picking up what HCH is putting down in regards to the beet/corn debate though.
The arguments will never end on the topic, everyone has too much personal emotion invested. I gotta be honest, I don't see much diff when Shockey lays down a whitetail buck over some peas with a smokepole in Nov. when compared to someone on Drury etc. pulling out the smokepole in Jan and laying the smack down on the largest buck out of 20 of them standing on some standing beans. I'm not going to take sides on either as being right or wrong just truthfully can't see a big diff..............but I'm not viewing it from an emotional standpoint either.
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