BAIT & TRAIL CAMERAS: THE BEST DEER MANAGEMENT TOOLS
Oct 15, 2021
4 minutes
JOHN E. PHILLIPS
I’ve always been adamantly against baiting deer or hunting over bait because of how I was raised.
Growing up in Alabama, baiting was illegal and considered cheating, indicating a hunter’s lack of woodsmanship and hunting skills. Then about three years ago, Alabama began letting people hunt over bait for a $17 annual permit.
Deer hunting is an evolving sport, and we’ve learned much since Southern hunters primarily used dogs and drives. Next, hunters planted green fields with fruit and nut trees around them, and those became legal baiting sites for taking deer. Those green fields were considered silver bullets for
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