For you guys that have been doing this a lot longer than me, how often are you finding bait piles in public land on National Forest?
I've found two so far this year just piles of corn without really trying to hide it much either. It seems that people are just lazy or aren't willing to put in the work necessary to kill a deer on public land.
This is in Southern California where it's very clear that you can't be anywhere within 400 yards of a bait pile or you are breaking the law. One of the piles had the entire corn bag left behind less than 10 feet from the pile.
The thing that really gets me is that if I hadn't seen these and taken a deer within 400 yards of here I could be sighted for hunting over bait.
Don't ruin hunting areas for OTHER people because you are lazy and don't want to play by the rules.
Edited to remove photos just in case whoever did it might see them here.
I've found two so far this year just piles of corn without really trying to hide it much either. It seems that people are just lazy or aren't willing to put in the work necessary to kill a deer on public land.
This is in Southern California where it's very clear that you can't be anywhere within 400 yards of a bait pile or you are breaking the law. One of the piles had the entire corn bag left behind less than 10 feet from the pile.
The thing that really gets me is that if I hadn't seen these and taken a deer within 400 yards of here I could be sighted for hunting over bait.
Don't ruin hunting areas for OTHER people because you are lazy and don't want to play by the rules.
Edited to remove photos just in case whoever did it might see them here.
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