Northern Zone baiting is on the table in both houses for The Northern Zone

[BanjoJohn]

If I'm feeding it, I'll have it in a pen so I can eat it later. I'm not wasting my money feeding wild animals.
You actually feed more coons and squirrels than deer.

 

[GeauxLSU]

DNR is a branch of the Executive. The Governor's Order muzzles your wildlife agency's wildlife biologist from responding, providing or discussing the science or any other pertinent issues that would or might be unfavorable to the activity of feeding or baiting or an expansion. But that seems to be a welcome and accepted practice among Georgia's hunters when it benefits their opinions on the issues. If it's acceptable now then it is just as acceptable when it is to your detriment.

Shortsighted defines society as a whole and sadly hunters aren't exempt.
Deal has been a disappointment on several fronts and apparently will be to the end .

 

[GeauxLSU]

Whether it's legal to hunt over bait or not in the Northern zone, people still feed the deer up until the limit of days it has to be removed.
Unless there was a law forbidding the feeding of wildlife (deer) altogether, all other concerns are moot points.
Diseases can just as easily be spread when deer season is closed.

The vast majority happens during season obviously but you are correct. All supplemental feeding of cervids should cease but of course we're running in the opposite direction .

 

[BanjoJohn]

The vast majority happens during season obviously but you are correct. All supplemental feeding of cervids should cease but of course we're running in the opposite direction .

Maybe the DNR could come up with some type of supplements/oral vaccines to ward off the spread of CWD, Blue Tongue, etc, that could be fed also?

I've killed more deer where there are no signs of deer activity. That just means he hasn't gotten there yet, but he's coming. lol

 

[Camohead]

Whether it's legal to hunt over bait or not in the Northern zone, people still feed the deer up until the limit of days it has to be removed.
Unless there was a law forbidding the feeding of wildlife (deer) altogether, all other concerns are moot points.
Diseases can just as easily be spread when deer season is closed.

Hopefully we can end the practice of supplemental feeding sooner, rather than later. If I have employees who are reactive, as opposed to being proactive, I terminate them. I believe our government officials and bureaucrats should be treated in the same manner.

All science points to detrimental effects of supplemental feeding, from disease spread, to creating predation points, to artificially high carrying capacity for the land. It is past time to end the folly.

 

[Bryan]

Is baiting really hunting or just deer shooting?

 

[hikingthehills]

Good thing I picked up those feeders on sail at Walmart this year!

 

[BIKER13]

Is baiting really hunting or just deer shooting?

shooting.

 

[BanjoJohn]

Is baiting really hunting or just deer shooting?

Is sitting in a stand waiting on some random deer to pass by and shoot him, hunting or just waiting to ambush him?

If you sit in the woods and wait on a turkey to pass by so you can shoot him, is that really "turkey hunting"?

 

[GeauxLSU]

Maybe the DNR could come up with some type of supplements/oral vaccines to ward off the spread of CWD, Blue Tongue, etc, that could be fed also?

I've killed more deer where there are no signs of deer activity. That just means he hasn't gotten there yet, but he's coming. lol

There is no cure or vaccine. That's the problem.