Originally posted by 76chevy:
Great, but overkill IMO.
We just clean out the bait and remove affected soil.
How do you not hunt the site?
Do you not run summer bait sites on farms you hunt?
Originally posted by tynimiller:
[b] ... I also know there is no way for a CO or a hunter to know if everything has been removed. I've had numerous dialogue with CO's and not only do we dig up some soil into buckets and haul off site, we also fence off and (at times) cover the site to eliminate all possible access to it. Then to top it all off we don't hunt around the site either.
Nope, we don't run bait piles even in the off season. Pops every now and then will throw some apples down that are over ripe for consumption in the summer months but that is pretty much it anymore.
Few years back (probably 2009 at the latest) we used to run corn/hay mixtures post season through spring because we thought we were helping the deer, but quickly learned that is a bad mindset and far too many deer become dependent on the food source and don't move to where better food is always available. Since then though we've upped our overall browse count from hinging and cutting a TON of trees down and have plenty of natural browse for deer to be fine without us artificially supplementing them and spending hundreds of dollars in bait (corn or such).
