I've always wondered why no one does the same thing to stop hunting. Not with this much distance though. Anti's could very easily use our own laws against hunters to stop a lot if they wanted to

I know a landowner who has a field that's covered in goat weed. I may just have to ask him if he'll let me hunt it in return for mowing it for him.

do people not understand that most wardens check with local feed stores to see who has bought "excessive" amounts of milo close to Sept..??

All I'll say is the state and I will have a long talk in the courtroom if they decide to shut me down because of something a neighbor did. I did know an old boy who planted a bunch of sunflowers and then hunted over them and the state did shut him down. Since he not only had no intentions of harvesting them nor the equipment it was declared baiting. This was almost 40 years ago.

Heard they are using Bitcoin now for purchases.

do people not understand that most wardens check with local feed stores to see who has bought "excessive" amounts of milo close to Sept..??

Straight cash homey.

doesn't sound like a wise business choice for a feed store to make.

I cannot imagine a GW even being able to get a search warrant for that info. If I owned a feed store I wouldn't share a thing.
Buying seed is no probable cause for a GW to enter and search your property.

My friend Harlon Winters , who had a dog training place outside of Burnet, had a neighbor about 2-3 miles down the road. The guy dumped most of a dump truck of milo/grain into his fields to attract doves. None of the neighbors had any doves , they were all going to the buffet at this guy's place. So the neighbors turned him in to the game warden. Harlon drove up to his place ( 3 miles away from the grain) and there was a sign on his gate declaring no hunting on this property because of the grain down the road.
The next year the guy did not put out the grain
The 3rd year he did and no one turned him in because they could not hunt on their property if they did.
The law of unintended consequences.

OK I'm not buying this story but for the sake of argument lets just say it's true. Would the actions of this neighbor be grounds for a lawsuit by neighboring property owners. Should I have a nice clear bank pond that I've dove hunted over for years and my neighbor decides to put his feeders along the fence line about 100 yards away does this now make the pond a no hunt zone? I can't see being punished for something your neighbor does and damn sure don't see anyway it would stand up in court. Our district attorney will be at the card game to night and I'll run this past him.

Experienced something similar myself about 15 years ago. A friend had a place we regularly hunted that was a natural dove flyway. We would go there early afternoon and catch the birds going to feed, then pack up and go somewhere else around 5:00 if we hadn't finished our limits. There was a big sunflower field two places over (maybe a mile away) that the birds were going to. That landowner also day leased for dove hunting. Totally unbeknownst to us, he had "supplemented" his usual sunflower field one year when the sunflowers didn't make many seeds with a couple of thousand pounds of wheat. We were hunting our usual spots and could hear the lease hunters banging away, but then they completely stopped shooting really early. We were about finished ourselves when the local GW rolled up. We all knew him well, and he knew none of us were law breakers, so the encounter wasn't unpleasant, but he told us he had just busted about 20 hunters and the landowner for hunting a baited field. We weren't in any trouble and he let us keep the birds we had shot, but he told us not to hunt this place for at least a couple of weeks. I don't think it went very well for that landowner because as far as I know, he hasn't leased his place since then.

Experienced something similar myself about 15 years ago. A friend had a place we regularly hunted that was a natural dove flyway. We would go there early afternoon and catch the birds going to feed, then pack up and go somewhere else around 5:00 if we hadn't finished our limits. There was a big sunflower field two places over (maybe a mile away) that the birds were going to. That landowner also day leased for dove hunting. Totally unbeknownst to us, he had "supplemented" his usual sunflower field one year when the sunflowers didn't make many seeds with a couple of thousand pounds of wheat. We were hunting our usual spots and could hear the lease hunters banging away, but then they completely stopped shooting really early. We were about finished ourselves when the local GW rolled up. We all knew him well, and he knew none of us were law breakers, so the encounter wasn't unpleasant, but he told us he had just busted about 20 hunters and the landowner for hunting a baited field. We weren't in any trouble and he let us keep the birds we had shot, but he told us not to hunt this place for at least a couple of weeks. I don't think it went very well for that landowner because as far as I know, he hasn't leased his place since then.

Why baiting doves works

Too much DNA left behind.

Was this in Indian Gap, TX?

does it make a differance if its HF ?

Dang. 3 miles in each direction is 36 sqare miles.
An unreasonable GW.