Larry:
Please, take a dip. If you are including me in your label of "private land hating idiots," take two dips, because you don't know what the hell you are talking about.
To answer your question, I would hunt that land if I was you, and I would place my stand where ever I damn well wanted. I wouldn't let the methods of other hunters determine how I hunt.
In case you didn't get it, no one was telling you how to hunt. Guys were discussing trends in hunting that seem to be changing the way most of us grew up hunting.
Discussing that once a state allows baiting, it becomes a baiting game. Discussing the fact that in states where baiting is legal, if you don't bait, but your neighbors do, you won't have any deer. And other things that IN THE OPINION OF SOME (opinion only), are not good for the long-term health of deer herds or the future of hunting.
Nobody said chit about private land. WTH did you come up with that one? I own private land. I hunt private land. I hunt public land, also.
I might be a "know-it-all smart'arsed Mo Fo." I've been called a lot worse than that, by my grandmother of all people.
Your post is friggin' hilarious.
Here is a private land whitetail, taken without apples, corn, feeders, food plots, of the other stuff that everyone seems to be so happy to defend, when some of us talk about our preference to hunt in other manners. Knock yourself out with those things. Your comment isn't doing anything to change my impressions of 'em.
Taken while still hunting, through the willow bottoms.
With my teenage son (aka "smart'arse," Jr.) still hunting the river bottoms.
Rattling the creek bottoms.
This private land was accessed by being a good neighbor and offering to shoot nothing but does for the first three years. Now, we get to hunt bucks, if we shoot a bunch of does first.
If you want more proof I have stepped my "smart'arse" feet on private land for the purspose of hunting whities, let me know. I can PM you a bunch more, saving the folks here from my meaningless drivel.
Please, get someone to post your pics. I want to see them. I am sure I will like them, and it won't "hack me off."
Ohiohntr:
You call folks "ignorant," without knowing what hunting experiences those "ignorant" people have. My first ten years of hunting were midwestern whitetails, before moving out west 22 years ago. This year I have IA, KS, and MO whitetail tags. Those hunts will be non-guided and NOT over food plots, bait, feeders, ........ Methods of my choice, not influenced by others. And, I would offer that you should hunt according to your choices and not worry what others think of it.
Some of us "ignorant" people do happen to know what it is like to hunt east of the Rockies, so no need for us to be "learned" of the errors in our ways. My wife agrees that I am "ignorant," but not based on the grounds you have cited.
I do agree that shooting a big eastern whitetail is difficult. Very difficult.
Happy Hunting to both of you. I hope you both shoot whoppers this year and post them on this site. Really!
"Hunt when you can - You're gonna' run out of health before you run out of money!"