They are wannabe's.

When I don't feel like going to the stand I hunt off my porch with a cold beer.....

Id also hunt a blind and do it myself rather than pay someone to tell me how to do something

But I respect your way of hunting and see nothing wrong with it.. its nothing more than opinions

Kudos brutha

To each his own. I have done both. I enjoy both. I don't care what others do as long as it doesn't harm me or break laws.

It's funny you put this in the original post. Because on all of the hunting programs I see of Canadian hunts, all of the guys I know that have been up there, they all sit in a blind over feed. So what's your sour grapes really about? Or are you just trolling because it's the boring off season?

I like to hunt period. Spot and stalk is a lot of fun but so is sitting in a blind watching a feeder or oat patch with my 4 year old.

Sorry if my original post offended you. That was not my intention at all.

That being said, I have never hunted up there in a blind or over feed.

No sour grapes here. Just asking and giving my opinion.

Thanks,
CM

I think this pretty well covers it.

I've hunted every way there is to hunt some successfully most days not. Always legal.
With a bow you still have to draw back and shoot them while they are close even if it's a doe eating at a feeder she will bust you.

All hunters try to go where the animals are going to be. Corn is just one of those things that helps the hunter know. Even most hunters that don't hunt over "bait" per se often do, be it a corn or other agricultural field, natural berry patch or other natural food resource, water hole, game trail with good tracks, bedding area, etc. You never hear a hunter say something like, "There is no cover, food, water, or sign here. This is where we should hunt."

I know a guy who is big into the whole idea that hunting over corn isn't real hunting nonsense. He grows the prettiest food plot each year and that is where he hunts. He doesn't understand that he is still using bait.

You haven't been posting on here for long so maybe you don't know and I jumped on you too quickly and too hard. I apologize for that.

We see plenty of instigating threads on here and really it shouldn't be that way. To me that is what your comments were trying to do. Stir the pot and enjoy the bickering. And that's not what forums like this should be about.

As for me I've hunted in several states for varying game. I've use multiple methods successfully and some I am better at than others. I know what I prefer, what I am willing to do and what is legal. What I do though is most often dictated by where and whom I'm hunting with. So if it's over bait on my lease in Texas, in a tree or box stand in wood lots and crop fields of Missouri, doing deer drives or tracking deer in the snow through the swamps and hardwoods of New York or spot and stalk in the aspen groves and mesas of Colorado or New Mexico I will do what is needed to have a successful hunt.

There are several hunts that I don't do, like bear or ram hunts, because they aren't my thing. But I don't denigrate my friends because they choose to go and enjoy those hunts. It's their money, time and enjoyment. When they get back I get to hear their stories of the times they enjoyed and I'm grateful to share that time around the campfire with them as well.

If it's legal, ethical, successful, enjoyable and satisfying to me I'm in. If you have a different way that makes you happy, enjoy the hell out of it.

Because in the end that is what this is about. Being out there and enjoying the bounty God has given to us in a responsible and grateful manner. This is getting away from those things that we have to do to make living possible. The stress of work, traffic and politics. The way we get back to who we were created to be in places that allow us to breath and clear our minds a spirits of all that other clutter. It's how we know when we eat that our hand was in it from the beginning to the end and we take responsibility for the lost life that is on the plate before us.

It's things we will never able to fully understand ourselves much less explain to others.

Cast said it pretty well in a response some ways back on this thread. As for hunting from a blind or not, most of my life I hunted from off an upside down grease bucket or a canvas stool or off a ladder stand. Right out in the rain or snow or just flat cold days of winter. Nowdays mostly I just hunt from an enclosed blind that has a nice swivel chair and windows and a heater. I don't even need to shoot anything, though I truly love to see a coyote walk into range.

When I moved to Texas (from NE Louisiana...Waterproof, LA, if any of ya'll know where that is) I discovered enclosed blinds. Wow! What a great idea. So I made one from treated wood and treated plywood (Man, that thing was heavy) for my Dad. He was in his mid 70's I guess, and was just getting too old to climb trees. He LOVED that blind. Had his swivel chair and heater and sliding windows. His only minor complaint was hunting from it in the rain. Said the rain on the tin roof always put him to sleep.

So happy hunting can be all sorts of things to different folks. Sleeping is even included. Drinking coffee is included also.

The real question is how do you feel about croaker fishing for speckled trout?

I see no foul in hunting deer over any type of food attraction, so long as people consume the resource and obey bag limits.

However, I feel strongly the sport is being threatened by hunters who ONLY hunt deer over food plots and feeders. There WILL come a day when the non-hunting majority will start asking where is the sport that once required more knowledge and skill than changing batteries and sitting in an old office chair.

As long as the chair has Arms...I like arms on my Chair

Growing up I didn't hunt over bait per se, but when the fields surrounding the woods are full of corn, beans and sugar beets it's not as if you aren't. Elevated blinds during firearms season were illegal then so I would try to find a spot where a couple trails intersected and then sit down against a tree. After the first week of a 2 week season, we would get together and drive deer.

Nowadays I have feeders, and hunt out of a ladder stand mostly. The feeders are always at least 200 yards away and in some cases I can't see them from the stand. I still try to hunt trail intersections when possible. I hunt ladder stands because I like to be out in the elements and feel that I can see and hear better. Some days I really wish I had a box blind and a heater.

Never in all my years of hunting have I thought that the way anyone was hunting was wrong or inferior, provided it was legal. Everyone enjoys being outdoors/hunting in different ways. The important thing is that you are out there, in my opinion.

Well Said, a few on here need to make a sandwich out of that quote and eat it

I agree with this. There are times in the deer season when the acorns have dropped the corn will pile up at the feeders.

Is it done different to put out apples and other food in a bait pile and hunt 100 or 200 yards away from it because that is legal in northern states.

In my book that is the same type of hunting. I just hunt and enjoy the outdoors and friend and family

Have no problem with hunting over baits. Have killed a few deer doing so (Some with the help of deer dander, that stuff is amazing by the way.) Have also killed hogs that have been coming in to feed, at night it makes it that much more exciting. As long as it's legal hunters should hunt however they want to. It's fun to spot and stalk and fun to sit in the blind. Hunting over feeders or other baits doesn't guarantee anything. Some years I don't see a thing. The hunter still has to make a great humane shot, be quiet, and be good enough to fool the deer into thinking no one is there.