DIRT BAG!

[HUNTINGS IN MY DNA]

well clearly i think there smarter then that the DEC knows what comes out and if you have a camera up then your def busted I'm not for it nor am i against it! 

[Doc]

What does baiting do to a deers digestive system?  Does it mess it up?  You can read about how supplementle feeding can do more harm than good and also can mess there stomach up.  Wouldnt such things as DirtBag have somewhat the same effect if consumed to a certain degree?  If such things are so attrative to deer do they pass up more native food sources just to get to this crap?  I can not picture in my head this stuff is like a piece of candy but rather a whole bowl of candy to them.  If it is we wouldnt see the pictures of ground torn up all around bait piles.  This has got to effect them negativly other than the potential death by hunter scenario. 

 

Some pretty good questions being asked here.

[phade]

You hear horror stories about corn baiting/feeding doing damage to deer and may kill them. It's the sudden shock to the system (often in winter) when they haven't been eating corn and then all of a sudden eat too much of it (ie the % of their overall diet). It's really akin to us dying of drinking too much water...it could happen, but hysteria makes people think that deer drop dead often from it. When in reality, the total risk is minimal from a numbers perspective.

[Five Seasons]

It seems that the Company that makes "Dirt Bag" may know that baiting is frowned upon, or illegal in some areas, and found a way around it. Look for baits manufactured into the form of dried leafs and twigs, in the not so distant future.

Where someone thinks there's money to be made, there will be someone out there trying go make it. That's just business...

[Five Seasons]

IMO putting out a bag of corn or anything else is the same as planting a food plot. Is there less money and work involved? Yes yet it is still done with the same thing in mind bring the deer to mee and get them away from others. They are both things that are not there naturally a person had to put them there. Dump a bag of crushed beats or plant them they are still being put somewhere nature didn't put them mand put them there. Just my opinion

Not all food plots are meant to "hunt over" do a little research before you make some of those comments. A lot of plots are meant to hold and grow deer. I realize this could be another hot topic, but to help the deer survive the winter, to grow racks and body is what a food plot CAN do. A bag of apples will not.