Chris Niskanen: Hunters pay a stiff price for deer baiting

DNR Law wrote:

The problem IS the people planting food/bait plots are drawing all the deer to eat their food, perfectly legal.
If a hunter does not draw the deer with a food/bait plot the hunter will see NO DEER!
Meanwhile the hunters in my area have planted HUGE food plots AND then they wound deer and don't track them, wanton waste.
These "Hunters" I call Pig Hunters. Feeding the deer and then not killing and consuming them.
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Another senior discount wrote:

<quoted text>I'm pretty burnt on these crotchety old farts and their antiquated mindsets. What is hunting today anyway? Another opportunity for some government agency to fine us, confiscate our equipment and vehicles, and stick us in jail (but only if we can afford to be bailed out). There is a reason the sport is lagging while the deer population is exploding. Current national unemployment is now over 10% and maybe many of these people are looking forward to this deer harvest for the actual purpose of eating. We don't have the luxury of the yesteryears fat pensions, social security, and Medicare to meet the need. Being old does not mean your automatically entitled!

Zamma wrote:

<quoted text>Not True! I see all sorts for deer every year, have no crops and do not bait. If you expect to see a deer behind every tree you need to buy a Playstation and not go deer hunting. Now shut up and hunt!

Elvis Presley wrote:

i say allow poison, machine guns, laser guided bombs! even nukes if we must! kill those woods rats!

lonny wrote:

so how is planting a corn field or apple trees any different than placing a bushell of corn on the ground different?
I dont get it?

leroy wrote:

stupid white hunters.....ruinrd it for everybody...

leroy wrote:

stupid white hunters.....ruinrd it for everybody...

De-baiter wrote:

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So I should fence off our farm to keep deer out? Oh and last time I checked, there have been no reported cases of CWD in MN free ranging populations...you're hyped up about nothing.

jvm wrote:

Kansas and Oklahoma sell 'deer bait' in WalMart and other stores. In a state over-run by deer, it would be good to use baiting as a tool to help control the herds and maybe there would be less road kills.

Racist Alert wrote:

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Race baiting again....huh?
You sound more white then leroy(black).
Stop impersonating and hating on minorities idiot.