Originally Posted by Goatkiller
Baiting has been bad for me. In general. I simply don't need a corn pile myself and since I own my own land I've been hunting it for 30 years. I've got a pretty good idea of the hunting dynamics under both scenarios. Legal/Illegal......

My takeaway is simply this..... We are living through the "Wild West" era of Deer hunting as it pertains specifically to Alabama. Since re-stocking at NO point in time before today in this State have rules been as lax while also being completely dismissed and ignored in this manner. And no other State in the entire United States is currently or has ever been this flippant about hunting while trying at the same time to claim they are "managing"

Nobody is managing a dam thing in Alabama. There are plenty of people doing research and trying to make it seem as if they are doing something beneficial, collecting pay checks and doing "studies" but whatever it is they are allegedly doing is a failure from top to bottom.

Hunters in this State have lost respect for game laws and the animals we are hunting. Seems like we are all dancing around something. I don't know what exactly that something is, but if the DCNR wants all the deer dead we need to start rifle season October 1st and lower the out of state license costs. Because there is money involved. Because large landowners make a lot of money off their hunting leases. And these have become the decision points.

Love shooting some crappy AL Bucks but it's getting harder and Corn is yet another headwind for those of us who enjoy the sporting aspect of deer hunting. There is nothing profoundly "sporting" about shooting a doe over a corn pile in Alabama. Pouring something out on the ground and hunting over it. That's not difficult given the deer population. The more difficult thing it appears for a lot of AL hunters is keeping their trigger finger in their pocket. The only way to worsen that tactic is to put a fence around it IMO. Baiting is not legal in most States because it's a bad idea. But Alabama isn't most States....Our deer are all 2.5 year old 4 pointers. However, THAT is NOT a shooting a doe over a corn pile problem. That took a lot of work over a lot of years to get here...


Agree.