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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dirty" data-source="post: 321572" data-attributes="member: 6535">I have 300 some odd deer on my land every winter. Regardless of how many did or didn’t visit a bait pile between April and January, they all rub noses for two months daily between February and March. I just think they are such social creatures that eliminating the small congregations at bait piles does nothing in the grand scheme of things as far as eliminating the nose to nose contact they have otherwise. Deer are very social. At different times of year they are maybe somewhat solitary, or hang out in small social circles, but often enough they congregate in larger numbers. I’ve spent enough time over 30 years in a tree stand up close or in a lawn chair from a distance watching them and the dinner table is not where they do all or even most of their licking and kissing.By the way, I’m NOT a fan of baiting personally and I’m definitely not stretching my neck out looking for ways to defend it. With life in general I’m tired of the trend we have set to always look for a new way to make everything so much easier....striving to have success with minimal effort. But I don’t need to bore everyone with my opinions. Some people equate bait piles to deer hunting...one in the same - can’t have one without the other. Others feel like there is a time and a place for it...youth, elderly, etc. Others are dead set against it for ethical reasons with no exception. I know where I fit in and I get all that, However we change too many things these days just because “someone doesn’t like it”. If there ever is some science that strongly backs up the disease reduction motive I’m on board. It’s just a tough sell for me because I watch deer all year. There are no bait piles on my land and there never will be, but if one deer has CWD, there all gonna get it come February. I worry a lot more about the guy who started a deer farm 3 miles away but that’s a topic for another day.</blockquote>

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