Again, the amount of work expended by the hunter has no bearing in the discussion, nor does the time of day or the money that it costs to do so. If one of us does 200 pushups with a bag of corn on his back, and chews the bag open with his teeth before pouring it into the feeder, would that change your mind? That's a lot more effort than just cutting it open.


If it is food or any other attractant, and you hunt over or near it, it is bait.

The state got this wrong, just like so much else. If you cut your corn with a bushhog, that's legal to hunt over. If the deer eat all that corn, and you go throw some additional out, that's baiting. IT's all corn, and their regulations don't change that.

The govenments, state and federal, worry so much about the migratory doves in this country, but any shooter can go to Central America and kill thousands in a 2-3 day trip. It's the same flocks that were so carefully protected here, and they are shot over bait there, then fed to the hogs.