The difference in baiting in Texas and Alabama is the the habitat. With Alabama pine plantations, most caloric needs met by supplemental (baiting) feeding and the enormous pressure, deer will become more nocturnal than they already are. There isn't a lot of calories in natural browse so deer must feed several times a day. If they can head to a feeder at night, get most of their caloric needs met , then they can lay up in thick pines all day and never be seen. I wish they'd ban it all.

Since baiting has been legalized in GA, we see far more deer on our little property today than when it was illegal to bait. That is my personal experience.

I would like to see a well documented study.

Since baiting has been legalized in GA, we see far more deer on our little property today than when it was illegal to bait. That is my personal experience.

I would like to see a well documented study.

I'm against feeding/baiting during the season. Just my opinion, just what I like, no studies, etc saying its better or worse. I just get more enjoyment out of hunting a deer in as natural environment as possible with no alterations by man. It wouldn't bother me if food plots were not allowed either. Again nothing more than its what I like.

shucks folks adapt and move on. Things will be just fine whatever happens. I can't believe some sof the petty worries some folks have these days.

So do u plant food plots? Just because it's legal doesn't mean you have to

So do u plant food plots? Just because it's legal doesn't mean you have to

We do plant food plots because our club wants to and I do sit over them occasionally. You are reading to much into this, its just what I like/dislike hunting wise. Nothing more, nothing less. But it will be hard to have a club that will not feed/bait if its legal and small landowners will have to bait to keep deer on their property. Which in both cases will make it harder to hunt like I enjoy it. It really may boil down to that if baiting is legalized that I will give up deer hunting and just hunt feathers. I'm just not a harvester, I enjoy the hunt more than the kill and shooting one over a bait pile or foodplot isn't as much fun as figuring one out in the woods to me. A buddy of mine killed a nice old buck down in a bottom the other morning, nice but certainly not in the category of the biggest he's killed. As we were trying to get him out, we both noted how much more we enjoyed a kill like that than a bigger one out of a plot. It may be that I'm the minority and hey that's fine, if the majority would rather hunt over bait and its legalized, I will either adapt or like I said, quit.

We hunt over bait everytime we sit on a greenfield, greenfield is planes to draw deer and congrefate them. Baiting will not make deer less nocturnal but may make them more nocturnal due to increase human presence around a feeding area. I will keep on supplemental feeding near food sources in troughs, not on greenfields and not just corn but pellets as well.

, but 95% of hunters I've known throughout my life have/do hunt over corn at some point. So I don't really see the huge difference regarding disease,

The difference in baiting in Texas and Alabama is the the habitat. With Alabama pine plantations, most caloric needs met by supplemental (baiting) feeding and the enormous pressure, deer will become more nocturnal than they already are. There isn't a lot of calories in natural browse so deer must feed several times a day. If they can head to a feeder at night, get most of their caloric needs met , then they can lay up in thick pines all day and never be seen. I wish they'd ban it all.

but 95% of hunters I've known throughout my life have/do hunt over corn at some point.

Looks like the 2015-2016 deer season will be the last of its kind. Right wrong or indifferent, it looks like baiting will be part of Alabama�s deer seasons from now on. Hope you all had a good season and will remember the �Way it used to be�.

I went to college in TX back in the late 80's and that is how almost everyone out there hunts. Big guns, long shots, feeders with corrals around them to keep the hogs and livestock out. All were the norm then and I guess will become the norm here.

The "Hunting Club" rules will change a lot as well. Corn, no corn, my stand, public stand, who fills the feeders, who buys the corn, do we still plant or just bait..... All items to work out in the baiting age.

At least the argument over it will cease. Once it passes, it will be here. We will all have to live with it one way or another. I have no doubt I will hunt over corn as well. I already do A LOT for pigs.

Just a few things I thought about yesterday sitting on my stand and watching my deer season fade away.

The difference in baiting in Texas and Alabama is the the habitat. With Alabama pine plantations, most caloric needs met by supplemental (baiting) feeding and the enormous pressure, deer will become more nocturnal than they already are. There isn't a lot of calories in natural browse so deer must feed several times a day. If they can head to a feeder at night, get most of their caloric needs met , then they can lay up in thick pines all day and never be seen. I wish they'd ban it all.

Explain to me how that is different than a food plot? Do you have rules that keep the deer from feeding on your food plots at night? If so, how did you get them to agree? I want to know the secret.

food plots provide food for the deer even after the season goes out

My thoughts, hmm. On the one hand people want to corral deer into one small area to make it easier to kill them. On the other hand too many does are being killed now. On the one hand, too many young less than MATURE old bucks are being killed. On the other hand corral the deer into a small spot to make killing them easier.

The really sad part if the baiters and want a be baiters would actually learn how to hunt instead of wanting to bait or sit and watch grass grow in a green field maybe just maybe they would actually kill deer!! But, of course that would mean getting the heck out of in front of the TV and stop watching with starry eyes all of the TV shows. I would be all for outlawing green fields to by the way. Kind of solves the issue of killing too many does and young bucks, but that's the easiest and best solution. But it doesn't stop the squeaky wheels that will never stop squeaking.

Some of them. A lot of plots are created specifically for hunting season and then let go, redone next season, and so forth. A true "food plot" that is a 3-season or year-round food source for wildlife is rare.

Explain to me how that is different than a food plot? Do you have rules that keep the deer from feeding on your food plots at night? If so, how did you get them to agree? I want to know the secret.

One big difference between corn and food plots that I rarely if ever see mentioned is that food plots provide food for the deer even after the season goes out. Most people who feed put feed out during deer season and stop when it ends.

I didn't say all, I said most, so there's no need to tell me you do it differently....

The difference in baiting in Texas and Alabama is the the habitat. With Alabama pine plantations, most caloric needs met by supplemental (baiting) feeding and the enormous pressure, deer will become more nocturnal than they already are. There isn't a lot of calories in natural browse so deer must feed several times a day. If they can head to a feeder at night, get most of their caloric needs met , then they can lay up in thick pines all day and never be seen. I wish they'd ban it all.

I agree. We should outlaw rifles and compound bows. If we can't kill them with spears then we need to abolish deer season!!!

I don't know if it will change anything. Somebody will make a little more money in the long run.

It will change things over time .. You will not notice a direct change next season . It will change the way young folks learn to hunt, and it will effect how deer feed during winter. I think it's BS and a dumb move .

I've seen deer walk over a corn pile to get to a white oak tree. I've seen them totally ignore it in a food plot and eat the green. I've seen them eat corn.
Corn isn't a magic bullet. It's just another food source.

I've seen deer walk over a corn pile to get to a white oak tree. I've seen them totally ignore it in a food plot and eat the green. I've seen them eat corn.
Corn isn't a magic bullet. It's just another food source.

Your right on the money Bill. It will make the deer even more nocturnal than the already are.

Let the arms race begin. Ye who can afford the greatest number of feeders with the largest capacity shall have the does (and bucks). Ye who shall retain those does on thou property shall also have the bucks cometh rut. Thou poverty stricken neighbors who refuse to plow they income into corn shall cease to see deer come rut. And so sayeth the legislature.

Good bye traditional hunting

The difference in baiting in Texas and Alabama is the the habitat. With Alabama pine plantations, most caloric needs met by supplemental (baiting) feeding and the enormous pressure, deer will become more nocturnal than they already are. There isn't a lot of calories in natural browse so deer must feed several times a day. If they can head to a feeder at night, get most of their caloric needs met , then they can lay up in thick pines all day and never be seen. I wish they'd ban it all.

I don't think it's going to change much, it'll just let the folks that are hunting over corn now to be able to do it legally .

"The Future Of Killing"

Little Johnny ask big Johnny what's a rub daddy? What's a White Oak daddy? What's a scrape Daddy? What's a bedding area daddy? What does a deer eat besides this yellow gold daddy? How do you use a tree stand daddy? Why don't we have to play the wind daddy? What does a grunt sound like daddy? I guess I need to ask grandpa these questions since you don't know the answers?

No different than hunting a greenfield

well , it is a difference . little johnny would learn how to plant/grow some thing .

Little Johnny probably going to be playing travel ball while daddy pays someone to put the fields in

They don't have to come when that timer goes off they can let it lay there till dark and just because you have to work harder to put a food plot in it doesn't make different.its still something man made to draw deer in. You can come up with all your reasons how they are different to make yourself feel better but at the end of the day they are the same thing

Corn is just another poor excuse to not learn anything about hunting or what deer actually do between the time the feeder goes off and the trigger gets pulled other than did Billy Bobby put corn in the barrel and make sure there are some fresh batteries in the spinner. But if that what people want others to think of their great huntin' exploits, then yahoo! TV hunting has done some serious stupidfying of hunting for a quick buck (pun intended)!

The difference in baiting in Texas and Alabama is the the habitat. With Alabama pine plantations, most caloric needs met by supplemental (baiting) feeding and the enormous pressure, deer will become more nocturnal than they already are. There isn't a lot of calories in natural browse so deer must feed several times a day. If they can head to a feeder at night, get most of their caloric needs met , then they can lay up in thick pines all day and never be seen. I wish they'd ban it all.

It will allow people to be more selective if you are after more mature deer. And as one person stated its your choice to even use it. Just like humans everything needs a balanced diet,keep on planting.

It's not my style of hunting but if it's legal and it gets more people on our side of the issue I can live with it

I am sure baiting is going make the fence sitters regarding hunting come flocking to the hunters defense!

That's about the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Hunting over bait is an easy way to hunt if that gets more young people deer sightings and gets them interested in the sport then I'm for it.

I'm amazed. all u guys have been feeding corn for years.