So just so I’m clear on what some of y’all are suggesting…….Are y’all saying that you believe legalizing baiting had ZERO impact on our harvest numbers??? Am I understanding that right???

Harvest numbers can and do vary due to a multitude of influences stretching beyond a direct population correlation. More hunters equal more game taken, fewer hunters, less taken. Poor weather during the rut, fewer taken. Great weather during the rut, more taken. Hunter burnout…. Tired of dragging deer, cleaning deer, or paying for processing (especially in this economy and current high as heck processing fees). “ Trophy hunting” as opposed to filling the freezer. This list can go on and on but the point is made. What can’t be made is an assumed cause because of a “perceived” pattern. Perceived patterns within a relatively short time span generally lead to incorrect assumptions of cause. Global warming is an example of seeing something that doesn’t exist. Wait long enough and you’ll likely see a cycle.

you have exceeded your limit of stupid posts for the year already. Please stop.

Just further evidence to add to the list of my disdain and displeasure with the Feb extension in North AL. Never should’ve happened.

I wonder how we’re ever gonna use this data if you’re not ever gonna be proactive with any decisions……Are we gonna just look back at trend data 10 years from now to see what we “should have done”???

No, legalizing corn did not have a major impact. It couldn’t because it was already prevalent throughout the entire state. You’re head has been in the sand if you cannot acknowledge that most hunters in AL were already hunting over corn, long long before it became legal. Every convenience store in every small town has had pallets of corn sitting outside from opening day of bow season until the end of gun season for as long as I can remember. You’re saying that the deer just recently decided they like to eat corn now that’s it’s finally legal and it’s only now starting to affect harvest numbers. Lol. Yeah right.

I know I've been going out tracking for the general public for the last nine years and when I first started the only people sitting directly over corn piles were folks from Louisiana.......Bunch of dang outlaws.

I promise they were not. Lol. I can assume by the properties I visited annually that corn was already being used and hunted over on about 80-90% of the places I went. I personally don’t think corn has contributed much to harvest. I do, however, fully believe that corn with cell cameras and an added 10 days is a BAD combination for deer long term.

A way to look at that would be to look at WMA harvest numbers before baiting was legal through now. If Baiting is a huge factor, I’m not doubting it is, but the WMA numbers shouldn’t change because baiting is still illegal on WMAS.

It seems dang near absurd to me to suggest that baiting hasn’t had any impact. I just cant any fathom how you can come to that conclusion. We’re there people who used to bait before it was legal??…..yes……but nowhere even remotely close to the extent to which it is being done now.

It seems dang near absurd to me to suggest that baiting hasn’t had any impact. I just cant any fathom how you can come to that conclusion. We’re there people who used to bait before it was legal??…..yes……but nowhere even remotely close to the extent to which it is being done now.