baiting big game

[Netminder01]

but several others including myself have another opinion.

I'd enjoy hearing from others with your point of view and I'm not sure you articulated your opinion. In your first post.. "if it grows". Will you spend a minute to clearly articulate your point so there's no confusion?

My opinion is leave baiting alone!!!!!!  We have enough laws.

Ooops - Sorry Hunting7MM, I meant to pose this question to Longrangehunter 338 (author of the original post). More coffee ! 

[pianoman9701]

Hey bud, that could be a slippery slope.WHAT IF I was poor, can't afford a  hunting license, large caliber rifle and therefore my method is to hunt at night with a .22 rifle to feed my family and because I enjoy hunting?

Your comparison is between legal and illegal hunting methods. It makes no sense. It's like saying if you like to ride a bicycle, why not ride a motorcycle without a license.  No one here is saying they'll bait if it's illegal. But even the title of your thread is arrogant. You've decided to tell everyone that they should not do something that's legal because you don't want it. If you don't want to bait, don't bait. I don't. But the difference between you and me is that you've decided everyone else should agree with you. That's arrogance in the most pure sense.

ar·ro·gance noun \ˈer-ə-gən(t)s, ˈa-rə-\ 

: an insulting way of thinking or behaving that comes from believing that you are better, smarter, or more important than other people

[runamuk]

What is with the NEED to control what others do opposed to simply controlling ones self?  I do not get the idea that we need another law.  I dont like clothes we need a law banning clothing.  I dislike the color orange it also should be banned.

Seriously we dont need more new laws people need to just stinkin do or dont do what they feel is proper within the current legal nightmare we call our laws.

[CementFinisher]

I want a law that says every hunter must mind his own business and quit hen-pecking their fellow outdoorsmen.

 

[Bigshooter]

Already illegal....no need to make a change to address that.

Why do you think that method became illegal? Maybe unfair advantage

Nope......someone had an opinion.

[Bigshooter]

My point is that baiting is not fair chase. Legal or illegal people will continue to spot light, continue to bait SO DOES IT REALLY MATTER. AS LONG AS DEER MEAT GOES INTO MY FREEZ THAT IS ALL THAT MATTERS.

Says you.


I don't think hunting in the rut is fair chase.  Or hunting with binoculars.  Or etc, etc.

[Hunting7mm]

Longrangehunter338 if your so against baiting why did you ask for deer and elk attractant recipes. 
http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,165040.msg2175148.html#msg2175148

[pianoman9701]

Longrangehunter338 if your so against baiting why did you ask for deer and elk attractant recipes. 
http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,165040.msg2175148.html#msg2175148

Snap! That's not fair chase.

[Netminder01]

And my opinion is NO BAITING

See we all have our opinions

Why? Because you don't think it's fair to the deer??  If your opinion is rooted in controlling success rate, this is not your decision to make. We all pay licenses and fees to the state to monitor harvest rates regardless of free range, food plots or a pile of apples on private land. Removing this option for hunters will inevitably lower success rates thereby lower the number of hunters who spend time and money in this sport. It would be a massively poor financial move for all the businesses, land owners, guides, etc who's livelihood (let alone personal enjoyment) come from hunting.

- Do you think the placement of decoys should also not be allowed? Deer calls?
- What about attractants like doe estrus or buck bombs?
- Is your opinion relegated to game? What about attractants for fish (smelly jelly, bait fish, etc)?

Net

[Bigshooter]

Longrangehunter338 if your so against baiting why did you ask for deer and elk attractant recipes. 
http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,165040.msg2175148.html#msg2175148

Too funny.

Say as I do, not as I do.

[Blacktail Sniper]

Already illegal....no need to make a change to address that.

Why do you think that method became illegal? Maybe unfair advantage

Just seemed like a weak argument on your point, something to just throw out there because there was nothing else.  And no real comparison to the issue at hand.

I am not convinced that the number of bait hunters out there make that large of an impact on overall harvest, where as a night hunter could.

[CementFinisher]

Have your own opinion but don't go after your own user group. You would be helping bringing the end to hunting.
Fair chaise or ethical, are words antis like to use to catch the attention or heart strings of people, they are words that come from ideas, views, perspectives, emotions, and feeling, that are constantly changinging. they are not facts

[Bigshooter]

Longrangehunter338 if your so against baiting why did you ask for deer and elk attractant recipes. 
http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,165040.msg2175148.html#msg2175148

Is it not legal?

Are you kidding me?  Are you 12?  Last I checked baiting is still legal.

[Hunting7mm]

Longrangehunter338 if your so against baiting why did you ask for deer and elk attractant recipes. 
http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,165040.msg2175148.html#msg2175148

Too funny.

Say as I do, not as I do.

 

[grundy53]

My point is that baiting is not fair chase. Legal or illegal people will continue to spot light, continue to bait SO DOES IT REALLY MATTER. AS LONG AS DEER MEAT GOES INTO MY FREEZ THAT IS ALL THAT MATTERS.

And your the guy who gets to decide what's fair chase and what's not?