Yes or No?


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Just to let you know, old organ is not respected even at the imfamous MM. LOL! We forgive him over there because he's just a young kid who really has a lot of growing up to do yet.

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Wow he is a bad boy huh. LOL

I still and for ever more will defend anything that is legal in the area you hunt. If a pile of corn is legal then I will try it. Like someone else had posted. The big bucks do not grow on trees, and heck, the spiked bucks are rare here.

I guess thats why I enjoy bow hunting more in my state. We can shoot either sex during that season so doe it is. I am not saying that VT has no trophy deer, just not on my 100 acres......

(Sorry GW Smith and Summerflower (and Blackeyed Susan) -still welcome to come and "thin out their numbers...!!!!!")

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Some of you just crack me up. You are not satisfied with getting your opinion read by many of us who actually read the forums. You act like a bunch of kids who are convinced that they and they only, have the “right” outlook, and will not be satisfied until you persuade everyone to get on your team. You are littering this forum in every topic you feel you can bring up this same subject. Grow up… You will not convince everyone to take your side…. It just isn’t going to happen… (I’m referring to both sides of this issue) Have you forgotten how much fun it is to hunt, regardless of how you go about it?

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Yes. Explanation, I personally do not believe in baiting and although I have mixed feelings about food plots as I do not believe in the planting of food plots just to hunt over. We are messing with nature when we plant food plots (or put out bait piles) in that we cause unnatural concentrations of animals where they would not normally be and the animals become dependent upon the food supplied. The animals would naturally be more dispersed and at a lower population level which would be more in balance with the carrying capacity of the land. If nobody baited or hunted over a food plot it would be a level playing field for the hunters and more of a fair chase situation for the hunted.

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There are some pretty basic problems with this question that I think disqualify it as a hunter referendum on food plots or baiting.

First of all, I don't think that food plots and baiting should be discussed as the same topic. There are some important differences between the two concepts that could cause a person to have two different opinions.

Second, it starts off assuming that both practices are already legal and someone wants to remove an existing legal hunting practice. That has an entirely different effect on one's answer than if it were a question of whether or not to add these hunting related activities.

Third and most important is the fact that the question assumes that this matter has been brought up on a public ballot. I'm not sure how other states handle their game laws, but we don't develop our game laws in that fashion here in NYS. Most of the input for fashioning our game laws comes from the hunting community. The DEC does an awful lot of interface with hunting organizations and then they apply good game management principles and develop the laws internally. With just that one portion of the question being worded in that way, I would have to answer "no" as well regardless of whether I agree with the practices or not. There is no way that I want game management turned over to public referendums. That would be disasterous.

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