Well tonight I got a phone call from my dad... Found out I have 4 does coming in every night and eating my bait for 45 minutes... I have 2 rubs and 1 scrap by my stand... My dad has a rub and scared something up while he was walking in... Are stands are I would say 50-60 yards away and offset and cant see one another... Pretty pumped because last year we didnt see anything at all... I hunt in the Pembine area.... I am ready... How about you ??? IT STARTS NEXT WEEKEND !!!! I leave Thursday.... If anbody knows a guy named John Janssen or know as RAT send me a PM... LOOKING FOR THE BIG ONE !!! Hope theres snow too !!!

good luck. i can not wait until next weekend

Not next weekend, opener is the 17th..

That's illegal, you can't bait till 24 hours before the opener. Page 41 of the 2007 Hunting regulations.


Don

this weekend is the 9th 10th and 11th.... Next weekend is the 16th 17th and the 18th... I count fridays as the weekend

Bow hunt...

Catboy,

In addition to that bait pile being illegal, you might want to check on its volume and distance to your (or your Dads) stand.

• The hunter does not hunt within 100 yards of more than 2 gallons of bait on the
same parcel of land.

Doesn't make a difference (Bow or Gun)

Counties where baiting deer is allowed
In the remainder of the state (except for U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service lands), baiting
for deer hunting purposes is allowed only under the following conditions:

Timing: No person may:
• Place, use or hunt over bait or feed for hunting purposes during the closed season
for hunting deer, but may start to place bait for deer hunting the day before the
opening day of the deer archery and deer gun seasons. This means the 24-hour
period from 12:00 am to 11:59 pm on the day immediately before the season.

You may want to take your eyes off NormaJean in 7th hour study hall and read this

http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/land/wildlife/regs/deer07.pdf

Also, no bait can be remaining at a bait location-- from bow hunting, for at least 10 days prior to the gun opener. It must be completely free of any baiting material.

For those who get Outdoor Wisconsin on their local PBS channel this week is there Annual Deer hunting show. They usually have the DNR secretary explain a lot of these rules that most people don't understand. I highly recomend tuning in for it. Milwaukee area is Thursday night @ 8:00 pm. Local channel 10.

For those that think these baiting rules are petty, lots of deer hunters carry GPS units now and can report your illegal bait piles very easily to the DNR. Another reason to be nice to your fellow hunters. I have found lots of illegal stands and bait piles over the years. Nothing worth getting excited over, but if I were to meet a hunter who was a jack A$$ over it, he would get reported.

I know where you guys are coming from.. But I would have to say over reaction... Me and my dad put a gallon by each stand which equals 2 gallons... Not be a cocky kid.. Also I am a person to follow DNR rules thats the way I am... What I did not know is the 10 day thing... I think we will be ok since my dad will be leaving up north thursday morning and the last bait will be wednesday night.. Thanks for the info guys will def. look into that TV show...

Another thing is that I think the DNR has the rules too complicated...

thanks, but i meant the 17th

You are allowed to place 2 gallons per hunter in any amount of piles you wish as long as you don't go over 2 gallons per person, and are not closer than 100 yards from each other. (the piles)

Another DNR bullshit rule!!

I dont think I have ever met a hunter who hasn't pre baited a stand in violation of this 24 hour rule.

Stop in and say hi to one, it's not worth getting an $1,100 fine for a deer.


Don

nice, im pumped too. ive got a place up in pembine, where are you hunting? im not hunting in pembine unfortunatly...going with my gfs family this year

I'm a hunter that has never baited a stand. I don't get a deer every year, but I get my share. This will be my 27th year hunting, and out of those, I only came home empty 8 times. The last 5 years have been hunting with a S&W 357, 8 point, spike, doe, 4, skunked! Bait is for fishing! Scout out where the deer normally go and set up there.

All i can remember is we turn on Cemetery Road... and then we go down quite aways... Turn down another road and your there

I remember now... Take cemetery Road to Bishop

gotcha, im off of hwy 8, then on one mile road

i have not deer hunted in about 8 years. maybe next year ( i say that every year, LOL)


GOOD LUCK AND SAFE HUNTING TO EVERYONE THAT WILL HIT THE WOODS!!

4 more days! I can't wait to sit in 20 degree weather on Saturday morning

deer camp.....cant wait!

I am pumped for deer hunting this year too. Just wondering what kind of groups you guys hunt in. We will have 12 in ours this year. We also practice QDM, got a couple big ones running around the property so it should be a good season.

Baiting is a hot topic with a lot of people, hunters and feeders. Thought I would throw out what our baiting for archery & gun season involves.

Three food plots tended and planted in the summer with clover and alphafa, apx area of each is 1000 sf.
Planted six apple trees accross 200 acres of land. None are of fruit bearing age yet.
Hunt over less than 1 gallon of apples (usually as many as I can fit in my pockets (6 or 7). Ususally pick up all but 1 or two apples in the evening.

Baitings for pussies!

I'm with jpsteder, baiting is for fishing, not hunting, but it is legal, so to each his own! I guess if you count tossing an apple core after I'm done with it as bait, even I do it then.

50 yds apart

been doing it since i was 12... settle down

As long as we are ragging on you for inconsistancies with the law, were you within sight and sound of your dad until you were 14?

We broke that one all the time during bow season when I was 12 & 13. Always within sound but not in sight. Not in gun season however. Stuck by the sight and sound rule while carrying firearms.

You guys need to give the kid a break. Big deal about the friggin bait, who cares????? You guys that are worried about bait piles, good thing you dont hunt in our neck of the woods! Some poeple put out 50 to 100 pounds a time. Why are you worried about the kids bait pile anyways? If it is not directly effecting you, dont worry about it.

afraid of gettin lost gotta stay by daddy

anyways.....got back from school tonight. No classes for a week and a half.......whooooo

anyways, headin out to the stand tomorow to look things over, head out to deer camp friday night. Brought home some genuine Keweenaw Brewing Co Fresh Beer for camp....mmmmm delicsh

I was able to bow hunt most of last week. I would say the rut still isnt in full effect yet. Which is a good thing and bad thing. Good thing is I will see more deer and generally more bucks, bad thing is so will the neighbors so every small buck will be shot before it can mature.

I did see a couple nice ones and one monster that I couldnt get a shot on, he has been bedding in my marsh where I gun hunt so hopefully I will get a chance at him. We have him on several game cams and he well over 20 inches and a very solid 10pts....but he could be on the trail of a doe the night before and be 5 miles away.

Still hoping for the wife to get her opportunity for a nice buck, or any buck would be her first. Size limits go out the windows on young or newer hunters, they just need to enjoy the hunt.

I wish they would have opened up that place when I was at MTU. We had to settle for Library Beer.

Leaving for the cabin Friday after work. Sat through Thursday up there then two days on the Fox river hunting with the in-laws.

Ah yes, the gun deer season,

How can you call it a sport? you are killing something that has no idea whats coming and has absolutely no way of defending itself. Yee haa manly men, why dont you hunt navy seals or special forces and see how well you do when the playing field is a bit more level. The hunters that are really pathetic are the ones that plop a big pile of corn under a tree stand and wait. The guys that actually track and dont bait are at least putting some mention of sport in to it. Now, if you could stalk the deer and chase it through the woods then tackle it and kill it with your bare hands, that is the stuff real men are made of but to shoot it from a hundred yards away with a high powered rifle... you want a nipple with that nancy?

it takes alot of work to get up a 4:00 am thats when i normlly go to bed so it is a sport to me

go eat some veggies

Thats funny. I am a seal, and I like deer hunting. Do you drive a subaru and wear quarter roys? One of those types? Get a life dude.

Good luck boys, shoot straight!

I'm in on the big buck contest at the T-Bird

Im for Manitoba and ive never heard of "baiting' deer before? what kind of bait do u use? does it acctually work?

Read the whole thread please, I list out what we do.

As for "does it acctually work?"
Our food plots are good for late sept and early oct. The deer mow them pretty clean in a few weeks. Not nearly big enough to keep a few deer around longer than that.
Half dozen apples on the ground gets them to slow down to get a good shot off with the bow. 6 apples on the ground usually ends up being 3 apples for the two or three deer that walk in on a lucky day. Squirrels take the others off into the woods.

Wow, a genuine seal,

I always wanted to ask a seal something, how do you keep the red ball spinning on you nose for so long?

You've never heard of baiting because your not a pussy!

Baiting is for pussies!!

Would you rather have more people crash into them with cars? Just think of how the deer population would explode if they weren't hunted.

Got a nice seven pointer at 0745 on Saturday. Then got a sixer for my brother around 2:00. Been a great start to the season.

opening weekend for my group....

I am not disputing the fluctuation in population nor am I saying that some type of population control should be implemented. I am merely asking how gun deer hunting can be considered a sport when the opponent has absolutley no chance of winning the match?. Now like I said earlier, I can give the guy that hangs his suit up in a tree for a few weeks ahead of the season and actually goes out and "hunts" the deer without the use of bait or other attractants some credit. But the guys that walk around Wal-Mart in their full blaze orange suits with their tags pinned to their suit strutting around like they are all that just because they were able to wake up after a night of heavy drinking, sit up in a tree over a big pile of corn just to wait for a deer to come by so they can exploit the deer's natural survival instinct in the most un sportsman like manner possible and then drive it around all day in the back of thier truck or let it get all nice and full of exhaust from sitting in the hitch rack all day is just laughable. If that is a sport, then maybe masturbating should also be a sport, it takes about the same amount of talent.

ROFL!! it is hilarious that you say that, i was at wal-mart saturday and saw exactly this.

You are an idiot. First off, I agree, gun-hunting in wisconsin is a joke. Sitting in a tree all day waiting for deer to come by is not fun. But still, even doing this hunting its not as easy as you make it out to be. We put a lot of time into scouting areas, making stands, and getting ready for the season. Also, you have to stay pretty still and get a lot of stuff ready to do this.

Now, ANY DAY I would choose either bow hunting or Colorado Mule deer hunting over whitetail. Bow hunting takes a lot of time and patience in both practice and time in the stand. If you have never bow hunted before, then you cant have any say in about how difficult it may be. Also, gun hunting in colorado. If you want to go ahead and say that walking 10 miles a day up and down rough terrain, spotting deer hundreds of yards away, stalking them just to get within a 200 yard shot, then packing out the deer on your back all the way back to camp is not a sport. Well then maybe football shouldnt be a sport either.

Also, I agree, people who drive around all day with the deer on the hitch carrier. mmmmm, road salt must taste damn good.