What am I missing here???

Nothing. Was just being silly. Carry on.

Fred can explain the details you were asking about.

"most" game violations will go on a record in that county, usually not on a statewide record.

No diff if you don't show or pay, a warrant will be issued by the court and served by the GW or the SO

What about a property where you can't put in a greenfield/summer plot but want to put a feeder in the most central part of the property to entice deer to hang around and move through your property and your closest stand is 200-300 yards from feeder? Would that be acceptable for the anti-bait crowd?

On pocket Ranger app, under hunting, then, rules and regs, then hunt over bait, it includes the language that was in the digest first year they promulgated the area feed regulation/definition IF AVAILIBLE EVIDENCE SUPPORTS THE CASE THAT THE INDIVIDUAL IS HUNTING BY AID OF BAIT THERE IS NO SPECIFIC DISTANCE OR HIDDEN FROM SIGHT STRUCTURE THAT WILL EXEMPT THEM FROM ARREST.

So, the only difference is who passed it: The legislature or the dictator. That's BS. We have no say with the dictator but can voice our opinions at the polls with legislature.

OK, continue on with the corn debate. My 2 cent: I don't care one way or the other.

IMO if you hunt private land hunt how you want and only thing to me that should be regulated is bag limits. Public land they can control whatever they want.

I heard him say the same thing about his officers not being able to read a deer's mind.

Very same night he said those things he told me there wouldn't be any February hunting in Jackson County too, so who knows what he'd say if pressed on anything.

No sir. It cost the agency more money to pay the officers to convict someone that we get in return. The fines go to the court, not our agency. We get a very small percentage of those fines. If you knew how much you'd say it wasn't even worth it to write one. That's why we are not funded by tickets.

This.

The only thing regulated should be bag limits on personal property. If you are on private land and want to put a couple deer in the freezer, i could not care less if you shot them off a corn pile at midnight. Your land should be yours. Too much private property regulation. Resources would be better invested tracking down road poachers and guys who shoot 50 deer a year and never eat the first one than looking for corn. Jmo.

Most folks I know do this anyway

Any LE entity that depends on fine money for sustaining their budget is in really bad shape to start with. On a $200+ ticket that an officer writes, the agency sees $10 or so. More goes into the Judicial Retirement fund to pay for the judges retirements than the agency sees. On top of that for a municipality the $10 goes into the city general fund budget and has to be budgeted again back to the agency. They may in reality, see none of the fine money. I've tried to explain this on here when discussing speed traps, etc. but people find this hard to believe.

Great Myths of Hunting

"Gotta be freezing weather to get 'the rut' going" ...

"Wildlife Agencies are just writing tickets for revenue" ...

"black panthers" ...

"corn is evil" ...

"It was free range in the big pen" ...

Maybe that was the intent of the regulation for those that had a supplemental feeding program versus those that want a pile of corn or bait just out of site and/or off the edge of the foodplot.

As I recall "hunting" over "bait" as defined by the State did not change. The only thing that changed was from the continual moaning from those that could not define what "area" was so they appealed to the almighty government to come up with a fix so they could work on how to be just as confused and beg the almighty government (you know the ones that they wanted to fix the first "problem") to "fix" their problem again! What will be the next problem that will need to be fixed be with more regulations and laws??

Shoe leather and smarts will kill a lot more deer than posting about how wrong it is not being able to bait deer on an internet thread. Just my 2 cents, carry on!

Nailed it. Especially the last one.

Starting and ending "shooting time."

Oh, wait.

I never said anything about any particular agency receiving any money, or where it was going at all for that matter. Regardless of where it goes, it's generating revenue for someone, somewhere.

All game violations are filed in the District court in the county where the offense occurred and reported statewide via Alacourt (which is a subscription access database that your Supreme Court sold to a private corporation for a song)

There not doing it for the money, there just being Richard heads. Reminds me of this guy at work the other day talking about hunting bears on TV and they put out honeybuns, said it just wasn't right. I asked him how would he hunt them. He couldn't answer.The baiting law is stupid, just like having to wear hunters orange on private property, if I walk in and out in the dark what difference does it make. Game wardens should have to wear orange too, they always crying about officer safety.