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We will have to agree to disagree.
Glad you 2 stopped this pissing match!!
BAITERS FOR LIFE
Um....who gives a $hit how other people hunt? As long as it's legal and it fulfills their enjoyment, just be happy for one another's succes! Until this year, I had never hunted over bait and never used a trail cam. Was "proud" to say, I do it THIS way, WITHOUT that...Never use tree stands or ground blinds because I enjoy runnin and gunnin hunting. Spot and stalk. SNEAKING UP ON A CRITTER. ...WOW did I ever find out who I was kidding...ME! I had spent the last three seasons chasing eastern WA muleys (and an occasional big whitey) in the flat scab lands west of Spokane. Put on tons of great stalks, helped a buddy kill a 6x6 muley with his bow, and zipped an arrow under a monster. Always have hunted with these same tactics on forest whiteys. Tried it different this year. Bought a nice ground blind I could hunt with my wife from. Borrowed a Cuddeback (SO BAD ASS). Baited at beginning of late season with alfalfa, corn, a mineral block and even some good smellin' stuff. Took my first Poper and it was the greatest feeling ever. After spending many seasons as a guide for elk, bear, turkey, and a few for rifle deer, during which I watched client after client kill amazing animals, I FINALLY GOT MY TROPHY. My wife is hooked on hunting for life because of this season. (She's a Diamond girl, has a sticker on her back window and she HATES stickers!)I LOVED checking the cam pics! Coolest freaking thing I've ever experienced in my extensive tenure of hunting, which includes my time as a back country elk guide. To see my wife THAT excited to get home from work and see the pics from "our" camera...we baited it together, worked it together, passed on deer over it together in hopes of the nice 5x5 that was only nocturnally coming in. In the end a buck that we had not seen all year came in around midnight of December 9th. The next evening we climbed into the blind (not having known what had shown up the night before; we took the previous nights pics home with us when we left.) In walked my first Poper, I stuck it...and have never felt the kind of excitement we shared together...well except for maybe on our wedding night. I LOVE BAIT. I LOVE CAMERAS. I will continue to hunt this way every year until they decide to change our rules. It brought me GREAT joy and contentment as a hunter. I am proud to tell people this story. If you think I am not a good hunter because I shot a big buck 15 yards from a legal pile of bait, I could give a $hit. What matters to me is the happiness of my wife. BAITERS FOR LIFE
If you enjoy having the hardest part of your hunt be carrying the bag of grain to your stand....more power to ya.
http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,65013.0.htmlFor purposes of seeing what the majority thinks, I started a poll on the subject.
Its this mentality on here that divides us as hunters .. let's argue over hunting rights ..messed up thing about it is theses are the same people who would vote it out on a ballot cause it doesn't fit "their " idea of hunting ...idiots
If were gonna do away with baiting we better take the scopes off of rifles while we are at it, After all, to kill an animal from 500 yards isn't really hunting right, definitely an unfair advantage! Oh and we better do away with "calling" because those sounds don't actually come from other animals....Again, an unfair advantage and not really hunting cause were luring the animals in. How horrible of us to take advantage of a bull elks hormones like that during the rut! Oh and we better get the fisherman to stop using bait!! Afterall its not really fishing if you are using bait!! What about the duck and geese hunters, better get rid of the mannequins they use to lure the other birds in cause that's not really hunting either!!! And what about using dogs while hunting for pheasant, afterall its not really hunting if the dog found it for you right? And while we are at it we should no longer be able to use camo, scents, scent eliminators or spotting scopes. Not really hunting if you cant find it, kill it, and get it out of the woods on your own, using only your God Given senses and abilities right. Oh and no hunting in or near any farmers fields!! (A tactic most any hunter uses to their advantage!) Afterall those fields are baiting the animals! THE SAME ARGUMENT CAN BE MADE FOR ANY METHOD OF HUNTING!! Some people's logic is pretty ridiculous!! I of course don't have anything against any of the hunting methods described! Just wanted to put the arguments against baiting into perspective for those who think they are on a "Higher Road" using other methods.
