I wonder if you'd get more votes if you put it in the "General Hunting" forum page?
Great point.Probably so, but I'm a fan of keeping state specific topics in their forum. Founder, feel free to move it if you would like.
I guess it would be just like poaching on private ground.......extremely hard to enforce and you have to hope for honest, law abiding sportsmen to do the right thing.......abide by the law. ??????How in the world would you make it illegal to bait on private property? I don't think that would happen.
I don’t think the government would be stripping us of anything if we are the ones asking for it to be banned.I'm undecided, here's why there is lots of work that comes with baiting. You do have to keep restocking so that's the hardest part. The hunting part becomes easier once you get them coming in. The part that I say no it shouldn't be banned on is giving the govt. more control. Every rule they make they strip a freedom from you. However I believe outfitters are becoming a problem with baiting. And disease could spread easily through baiting making it a negative outcome. Another positive for it some units are thick and very tough to glass and spot and stalk. So you become more effective with it. How would people feel if you had to register bait stations like you do for bears? Would people also feel different if it was disclosed in the story of the hunt. Or would you feel it is cheating still. It does seem desert country does really well with apples.
So true. I guess if it hasn’t been banned by the time I draw my Paunsy tag I will have to find an apple farmer. Might have to go to California and get a truckload.Damn I didn't know you can bait in utah! Does anyone Know a apple farmer?
I have a question for all of you guys...
If someone was to finally after 25 years of applying draw a premium bull elk or buck deer tag and spends the summer and fall scouting it out and finds a giant. It’s the biggest one he has seen by far. The guy really wants to hunt this animal but the problem is he’s feeding on someone else’s bait station. Should this hunter go away and leave and try to find another one? Or should he hunt it anyway because it is public land after all?
How about if you were the hunter that had the bait station that the giant was using. Some other guys also had him spotted and decided to move in and have a go at him as well. How would you react?
I know I’d be hunting that buck if I found him scouting. I wouldn’t let the fact that other hunters are in there effect me much. I wouldn’t sit in their stand or on their bait, but if that buck was in that area, I’d probably be real close.elkassassin
Those are some good questions. I would say probably legal but definitely ethically questionable
I have a question for all of you guys...
If someone was to finally after 25 years of applying draw a premium bull elk or buck deer tag and spends the summer and fall scouting it out and finds a giant. It’s the biggest one he has seen by far. The guy really wants to hunt this animal but the problem is he’s feeding on someone else’s bait station. Should this hunter go away and leave and try to find another one? Or should he hunt it anyway because it is public land after all?
How about if you were the hunter that had the bait station that the giant was using. Some other guys also had him spotted and decided to move in and have a go at him as well. How would you react?
Because otherwise it's only "live" and not "let live"“Live and let live” only applies when their actions don’t have negative impacts on others.
Neither you, nor I must sit by and let others have negative impacts on us simply in the name of “live and let live.”
Because otherwise it's only "live" and not "let live"
Has this site been infected by PETA???? You guys should go let all the cows out of the dairies and all the beef out of the slaughter houses. You all worry way too much about what other people are doing. Maybe you could borrow Lady Gaga's meat dress and picket at the DWR's doorstep. Sad deal
Banning minerals is going to be next to impossible. They are used by ranchers for their livestock that are on public lands and we know that they are not going to agree to that.
Idaho allows them for livestock. You can also place mineral licks at cameras to see what's in the area. You just can't hunt over them.
And if the response is, "How are you going to enforce it?"
Then, the answer is, "Are you saying hunters willfully break wildlife laws just because they don't like them?"
I'd like to assume that most hunters follow the laws regarding seasons, weapon restrictions, shooting hours, wanton waste, etc... and would follow baiting the laws the same way.
I understand you weren't implying that, just anticipating the responses on enforcement that we've already seen here ?Grizz, not suggestion hunters are all going to break the law, although we know some will. Just saying the all out banning of minerals on public lands won't happen. It was a reply to the concern about that particular "attractant."
Nope, keep it right here......we don't need Texas Tristates vote in favor of baiting big game.I wonder if you'd get more votes if you put it in the "General Hunting" forum page?
As it was discussed by the Mule Deer Working Group and the board, salt blocks were going to be left alone as they are used by sheep and cattle and placed there by the ranchers for that sole purpose and not used as chum for the purpose of attracting game animals.We need a clear definition of "baiting".
The uproar right now is over truckloads of apples.
Not a 5 lb. mineral based rock salt (trophy rock).
I'm ok with some limited regulation on so called baiting but not on all or any type of attractant.
I use attractants all the time on a trail to get a deer or elk to stop a few minutes for my camera to get a clear, unblurred picture.
Not to hunt over.
Most rocks salts stop getting used after August.
Word would eventually get out if baiting were illegal and used on private lands to harvest big game, especially on a CWMU.I guess it would be just like poaching on private ground.......extremely hard to enforce and you have to hope for honest, law abiding sportsmen to do the right thing.......abide by the law. ??????
Hey Bess this is why I frequently hunt tags in units most people don't care about! There's almost no deer! No one will pack 50 lbs of apples off trail for a ghost!Is It Legal To Dump Apples on somebody-elses Apple Pile?
Is It Legal To Put a Trail Cam Right on Top of Somebody-elses Trail Cam?
Can We All Sit in the Same Blind?
Can We All Shoot at the Same Buck while We're all sitting in the Same Bind?
Anybody Remember The Days Of Hunting when it was Known as Fun?
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