baiting permit

i wonder how long itll take to itll be $25

i just renewed my truck tag ,
fishing license, baiting permit , HIP, the hard card for it all ( got the one with the gobbler on it ).
life time CC permit ,

damn just damn .

Wish they had never passed it. Got neighbors with deep pockets feeding a ton per week. None of the adjacent landowners are seeing deer

I haven't got a deer on camera in 2 months.
Killing my hunting

It’s funny. One of the arguments was baiting will allow the po people without tractors and equipment to compete with adjacent landowners’ succulent food plots. I guess peeps thought such landowners would refrain from baiting. It’s kinda like minimum wage. They thought making more without working hard to advance would help but when the price of everything goes up as result it’s all a bust. Glad I’m not in a situation where adjacent landowners create a deer island/hub of sorts and leave me deerless. That’d suck but nothing can be done.

They were feeding before it passed too I suspect

It’s needs to be $500-1000 make a man really want it bad. But But farmers selling corn cash money it’s nice. yes deep pockets will continue to feed.

Ask everyone who has hogs on their property if baiting works at drawing deer in

It doesn't matter what the rules are, cry babies are going to cry.

I put out 1000 to 1500 lbs per month year round. Not just corn, equal amounts of protein pellets. If they ban it tomorrow, I'll stop. Until then, my neighbors can hunt however they see fit.

Got to create the bedding on you and hunt that line! And Ben is right.

^^^THIS^^^

The only difference I have noticed is that I have the hogs I already had coming to a feeder regularly. This makes them a little easier to target and a bit tastier I suppose. I haven’t had any more deer than before I began running feeders and several of the deer(especially the older bucks) don’t even go to them but on rare occasions. It’s the same 7 does and a couple spikes.

My deer are eating 12 to13 hundred pounds a week of protein and corn!

I definitely had more of an advantage before everybody could do it…..

Of course they were. Trough Feeders (and some metal one's) on our lease by the house (inlaws family lease) are 25 years old. It ain't what ya know, it's who you know 😁

Yeah they kicking our arse too! 🙄

I enjoyed being an Outlaw 😃 Now it just sucks lol...

It amazes me that so many accept the creation of crimes and then selling permission to commit those crimes as being a legitimate role of our government.

The state constitution that was ratified just last year declares, "the sole object and only legitimate end of government is to protect the citizen in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property, and when the government assumes other functions it is usurpation and oppression".

How does creating crimes and then selling permission to commit those crimes fit that declaration? Is that not the very definition of "usurpation and oppression" that appears in our state constitution?

Same way I feel. Selling a privilege for permission to break the law. It’s absolutely ridiculous.

What baiting permit

yeah well hunters dont see it like that . all they see is a chance to bate legal. all this was just a way to get money and hunters ate it up . had it been some thing else theyd raised hell about it if they didnt like it . theyd be saying just what we think now . lol

Corn in Alabama is one of the most overrated hunting strategies in my opinion. It simply isn’t a primary source of food for deer so long as native browse is available which is nearly always the case in Alabama. Deer will grab a quick snack from it but you aren’t holding deer because of it and your neighbor with corn isn’t stealing your deer if you have good habitat. I have hunted low density properties where corn didn’t help and I have hunted high density properties where I see tons of deer with and without corn. Not to mention it is nearly useless when hunting for mature bucks in daylight.

Never bought one
Never will

Like mandatory CWD testing. I’m not participating.

This is how I felt from day one while 90% of people were just happy they got to bait. The details matter. Either make baiting legal or dont. Selling privilege licenses with no conditions for approval other than paying the fee to do an otherwise illegal activity the state considers as unsportsmanlike and harmful to wildlife makes the original prohibition illegitimate. You will never see the state relax an existing game law again. After the baiting privilege permit we later got the hog and coyote night hunting permit. But I thought night hunting was dangerous, unfair chase, and needed to be outlawed? Apparently not if you buy a permit.

And don’t even get me started on lifetime license holders needing to keep buying permits, especially the pricy non resident permits if you ever move.

I agree with this until January when the food starts to dwindle in areas then they will hammer corn

Just wait until the rut is about to start. Back a dump trailer up to a SILO and fill it with corn. Drive it to your favorite food plots and spread it all over. Hunt those plots until you kill your number of deer wanted.