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Post by mrlongbeard on Dec 30, 2007 23:14:45 GMT -4
the way the pgc calls it is if you plant for the purpose of keeping deer where you can shoot them it's baiting not improvement
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Post by firefightnlife on Dec 31, 2007 1:35:44 GMT -4
but as a winter food plot it would be improvement, till next year when its baiting
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Post by truegrit on Dec 31, 2007 16:26:32 GMT -4
Your 100% percent right firefightnlife .
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Post by mrlongbeard on Dec 31, 2007 16:35:21 GMT -4
the baiting issue comes down to what kind of mood the wco is in when he comes by to check you.
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Post by dougell on Jan 2, 2008 10:56:17 GMT -4
You can look at it and debate the issue any way you want.However,planted,unharvested crops is not considered bait according to the law.If you harvest it and then place it somewhere else,it's baiting.
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Post by beenthere on Jan 2, 2008 18:55:51 GMT -4
the way the pgc calls it is if you plant for the purpose of keeping deer where you can shoot them it's baiting not improvement Do you know of anyone who was prosecuted for hunting over a food plot?
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Post by mrlongbeard on Jan 2, 2008 20:11:49 GMT -4
just repeating what the book says. if you read it . it has lots of open loop holes on how it could be looked at
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Post by mrlongbeard on Jan 3, 2008 23:18:03 GMT -4
to repeat what the books says. anything including residue that have been used with in the past thrity days, AS AN ENTICEMENT TO LURE GAME OR WILDLIFE. so tell me you planted it for habitat and not to keep the deer on your property for your use. if so i have some ocean front property in ohio to sell you.
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Post by dougell on Jan 4, 2008 11:24:45 GMT -4
Something that is grown and left standing is not bait.If you place corn,grain,,salt minerals etc. you have to remove it and any residue 30 days prior to hunting there.Food plots of any kind are not illegal.
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Post by mrlongbeard on Jan 4, 2008 16:32:59 GMT -4
what if the food plot is corn and sugar beets to attract deer, it then is baiting. habitat is trees and shrubs that all wildlife uses not just deer.
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Post by beenthere on Jan 4, 2008 19:04:18 GMT -4
That may be your definition of habitat, but apparently it is not the PGCs definition. Corn benefits a wide range of wildlife besides deer. If deer eat sugar beets I wouldn't be surprised if rabibts also enough them.
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Post by dougell on Jan 4, 2008 19:15:23 GMT -4
You're missing the whole point longbeard.It's considered baiting if you place it there.It isn't baiting is it's planted and left unharvested.
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Post by richg on Jan 5, 2008 21:05:25 GMT -4
Longbeard,almost any food planted will be eaten by more then just deer.rabbits,turkeys,and grouse all love clover.Turkeys and bear also eat corn.A foodplot or any food planted will benefit alot more critters then just deer. A foodplot might draw deer in but it won't hold or keep them there,cover will.So in your eyes would it be wrong for a landowner to plant cover to hold deer on his land?
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Post by jeffpahunter on Jan 5, 2008 22:22:21 GMT -4
This exact question was asked by a parent to the local WCO we HAD in our area a few years ago during one of the HTE classes I was instructing. His response was that "according to HIS view and interpretation of this law if a hunter was found hunting over a PLANTED plot that he deemed NOT planted for the intent of harvesting/farming then in his mind YES he considers this to be baiting... I'm not saying that I agree with him, nor that he's correct, he didn't say if he ever charged anyone for this and it wasn't asked.....I'm simply stating what his response was as the local WCO at that time.
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Post by richg on Jan 5, 2008 22:51:57 GMT -4
That would be a stupid policy jeff.In that case they could bust a fellow for hunting near an apple orchard if some apples were left to lay on the ground and not all harvested.
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