Yep, becuse everybody leasing timber company land is free to come in and push out a food plot or three big enough to get a viable stand of corn, and they all have a tractor and the implements to get the job done too.

Heck, just bait 'em then.

Pony up and buy their own land then. Or better yet learn how to hunt, but that's too hard. I do understand the do it the easy way concept though!

OK. Let's get one thing straight. According to Merriam-Webster, a widely accepted dictionary, the word "hunt" means:
To pursue for food or in sport.
To manage in the search for game.
To pursue with intent to capture.
To drive or chase, especially by harrying.
To traverse in the search of prey.

So, if someone tries to kill a deer over corn, wheat, white oaks, waterhole, cutover, or in front of a pack of hounds,IT IS HUNTING!! No individual is going to change that definition for the masses. Therefore, telling someone to "learn to hunt" doesn't reach the goal of holier than thou but only shows you really don't know what hunting is.

Now, I'll go back to not giving a $+&% about the subject of baiting.

I felt the same way the first time I climbed into a shooting house. I didn't have to scout, someone else built it and determined where to put it, someone else planted the field it was sitting on. How is that hunting, I thought??? It was the lazy man's way. Yet I don't hear others disparaging that method, at least too often.

I have since learned to enjoy a shooting house. I even built one and with great difficulty, moved it to a hardwood bottom that I knew they were going to clear cut part of. It has windows, is rock solid and tight. I've even killed a couple nice bucks from it.

Don't tell me I'm lazy or don't know how to hunt. I've put in 1000's and 1000's of hours learning about deer, either through reading, talking to others, and through scouting and personal observation. I wish I knew how many miles I've put in scouting. I spent many years hunting public land. I used to only bow hunt. I know how to kill deer without the aid of bait. If the baiting bill passes, I will put out bait, but I'm sure my approach will be different than most folks. Anyway, it won't make me forget how to hunt, I promise you that.

Well, it is those damn deplorable, free-loading landowners fault that the DCNrhas financial issues and cannot adequately manage the wildlife in AL. Landowners have no role in Managing land. Regulations do that, right???

Oh, my.....what to do, what to do???

Well we already burn food (corn) to fuel our cars. We might as well throw it on the ground for wild animals to eat.

Burning it in our engines is not good either. At least it gets some good use on the ground.