whitetail ethics question

[RockinU]

To the ones who defend baiting, if it were legal, what's your stance if baiting turkeys were legal? Would you consider it just as ethical and challenging as not baiting?
Just a hypothetical question?

I feel pretty sure that in places that have a fall turkey season, and baiting deer is legal that turkey get shot over bait. Also, I see no connection between challenge and ethics, they are 2 separate things. So as challenging? Probably not. As ethical? Depends on the person's own ethics...if it's legal.

 

[FLS]

To the ones who defend baiting, if it were legal, what's your stance if baiting turkeys were legal? Would you consider it just as ethical and challenging as not baiting?
Just a hypothetical question?

I’m not pro baiting but it’s apple and typewriters.. Turkeys aren’t nocturnal and they can’t smell.

 

[N2TRKYS]

To the ones who defend baiting, if it were legal, what's your stance if baiting turkeys were legal? Would you consider it just as ethical and challenging as not baiting?
Just a hypothetical question?

Why would it be different with turkeys? A food source is a food source. There ain't a lick of difference.

 

[thusby]

Hunting on a farm is baiting. Its just on such a large scale, it ceases to be seen as what it is. Most of the CWD country also happens to be in farm country. People shoot a big buck off the corner of a corn field, thump their chest and claim to be the greatest hunter of all time.

...hunt over the apples and don't feel bad about it.

 

[SticksMcKinley]

In terms of legal hunting, I think it boils down to who cares, and I mean that with all sincerity. I know that I've never fished successfully without bait. The fish don't care. I hunt over food plots, near persimmon trees and acorn trees. I also hunt transition areas. The deer don't care. I don't think it matters to the deer whether you kill it over bait, on the run or standing in a DQ parking lot. I think it comes down to how the hunter feels and how the hunter perceives he or she will be judged by others. There are decisions that I make while hunting that may mean something to me, but nothing to someone else. What matters to me is how I'll feel about a hunt when I look back on it and how my family will view the same.