In Florida where baiting has been legal for many years, almost everyone feeds year round and plant summer and winter food plots. If you don't, your neighbors almost certainly do and will pull deer onto their property. Most just turn the duration and frequency down on their spin feeders to cut expenses and time filling feeders. Many also provide supplemental protein in troughs during the antler growing months. Just my opinion but I sure wish Alabama would just legalize it. People are going to do it no matter what. I believe legalizing it would level the playing field for law abiding hunters and stop the confusion.

I was told that a warden in Pickens country will stand at your feeder and look to see if he can see your stand. If so you get a ticket.

That is a little different than being in the stand and not being able to see the feeder. If might be that from your stand the leaves, trees or whatever block it and you cant make it out. I think it is a stupid rule. Either make it legal or illegal. The ambiguity of this law is intentional, so tickets could be written.

It seems everything the government is responsible for, from game laws to the tax code, has to be complicated.

When they passed this new 100 yard rule they opened up the flood gate and it�s completely on the �state� for doing so. It�s open now and completely ludicrous to be ticketing anyone. At this point, just say it�s legal and find something better to do with the wardens time.

There is enough corn being sold at the walmarks and co-ops already that I doubt anyone would even notice a change in the law.

You left out Texas.

Dr. B

Anyone who is supplemental feeding with just corn alone is doing it wrong anyway. Just legalize the chit and be done with it.

None, but do you really want to get into a debate about something that might happen just like this every 40 years?

Yall do realize without the corn, supplemental feeding, green fields, etc.....the deer will still live perfectly fine like they have for hundreds of years right?

I just like seeing pictures of them

40 years? My foodplots are gone by January every year.

My oaks don't produce every year, either. Seasonal food is just that. It wouldn't be any different if someone was feeding.

It's about money, plain and simple.

Making baiting completely legal would kill a lot of revenue from tickets. When it was completely illegal, not as many took the risk and, the ones that did were harder to find because every Tom, Dick and Harry wasn't baiting. The way it's written now, a lot more people will use corn. Much easier for warden's to find bait and then it's your word against his on whether you were breaking the 100 yard rule. It's a revenue generating, money racket.

The deer aren't going to starve to death during our super harsh Alabama winters, without a couple of 1/2 acre fields scattered around a club.

So make a law that feeders require a permit or something on them and charge 10$ per permit. Should make more money with that than writing tickets

Invest in shoe leather and smarts and stop bitching whining about damn corn, good grief.
Most private land that has a huntable population of deer is significantly better hunting even in the "lean" years than the pressured "public" lands(where corning/baiting would not be legal) for the vast majority of hunters.
Where does anything say hunting supposed to be easy??

My corn field has deer in it right now.

Just make all feeding grain illegal. Then maybe more people would actually learn how to hunt.

so the guy that puts in 40-60-80hrs a week working isn't as good a hunter as the guy who can go scout any time he wants?
What is wrong with it being easier? I thought it was about enjoying the experience all this time. I never knew I was supposed to make new hunters, women and kids be miserable and go days upon days scouting, seeing nothing and suffering through the cold.

Just because that's not how you hunt, doesn't mean you can belittle those that do.

hunt: verb: to pursue and kill (a wild animal) for sport or food.

There's nothing in there about how you do it. I'm not saying I'm for legalizing hunting over bait, but don't belittle someone just because they don't agree with what you think hunting should look like.

I don't know how to feel about this.
Please, someone explain to me how I should feel about this.

This, I will get serious about killing a big deer when the rut hits. In the meantime my focus is on taking my kids and it sure makes a difference when they can see deer. The kids are under same managment rules as the members so they seldom get to shoot but we enjoy sitting on a foodplot in a shooting house. I know its lazy but it works for the kids that what we do.