Early buck pics

Got the first good buck of the year on camera.  Too bad he's in my backyard on not where I can hunt.

This has to be one of those BBs I fed in my back yard this winter... my guess is Mommy will be sending him on his way real soon though...

Mamas boy!

ORIGINAL: Dr. Trout

They are at a small salt block I use for trail camera pictures in the summer like so many others here do....

Interesting. So how long is the salt residue present after you bait them ? Do you post the surrounding area say up to a 1/2 mile so in diameter so other hunters don't mistakenly hunt by your baited site ?

Nice pics guys!
 
We just hung one of our cameras up last week, so hopefully I will have plenty of pictures to share.  We have seen a couple bucks roaming around in the fields that look like they are trying to grow telephone poles out of their heads
 
Should be another excellent year...

Interesting how Dr Trout post a pic of deer at a salt block in June and the same old folks have a "field day" critizing.. but here's a post from last year with MANY pictures up and into SEPTEMBER only a few week before the start of archery and there's salt blocks, salt rocks, apples, cocaine, etc, etc..

http://forums.fishusa.com/m_324255/mpage_1/key_/tm.htm

Plus if it's your own house, and no others within 150 yards or permission from the occupants if they're within 150, you can hunt there. 
 
Wasn't there a discussion last year about how large of an area a WCO must shut down if there's bait or bait residue?  Subjective to the WCO, but I think I recall maybe up to 500-1000 yards away could get posted?

So it's OK to bait deer with in a safety zone say 50 yards from an occupied building during archery ? Then if a hunter is outside the safety zone, say 60 yards(archery) it's OK for them to kill a deer on it's way to your bait site where salt residue remains? So tell me what is the "set" distance a hunter must be from a bait site that residue or bait still remains Dr Trout ? This "dummy" would like to know.

This is unreal.  The guy posts a trail camera pic from early June and is attacked for using bait/mineral or hunting over it.  There have been tons of the same type pics posted here and everywhere. 
 
Using bait/mineral is perfectly legal all year long.  It is up to those that placed it to know the game laws and abide by them come hunting season.  I trust that they do.  If not, then they have no excuses.  If a hunter is hutning close by it is the decretion of the investigating officer to decide whether the hunter knew of the bait/mineral or took advanatge of its placement.
 
No laws or ethics issue here.  Just a Pa. sportsmen that wanted to share some of his trail camera pics and is subjected to this.
 
BTW, before folks start with you are just defending one of your PGC supporting buddies, have you been following the Sunday hunting debates.

Wrong again!! DT says he hunts within 400-500 yds of where the food and minerals are placed. While walking to his stand he is a lot closer than 400-500 yds from the area where he had the salt blocks. Therefore he is hunting in an area that is illegally baited and is in violation of the law.

This discussion is not about "perspective', it is about the law and the PA law states that all residual minerals in the soil have to be removed prior to hunting season. What DT is doing may be ethical, but it is not legal unless he and no other hunters hunt within an undefined distance from the minerals or food he places to attract deer.

ORIGINAL: deerfly

What DT is doing may be ethical, but it is not legal unless he and no other hunters hunt within an undefined distance from the minerals or food he places to attract deer.

 
Internet cop at its best or maybe just jumping at any chance to attack folks with whom you disagree.  As I said before, one of the few places where this crap is rampant. 

Deer-
   I do not -will not and have never hunted over bait. It is legal in some areas of CT and I do not hunt on those areas- Fair chase is just that and to me it is what makes hunting a worthwhile experience.
    My point about Perspective is that while I firmly believe in the above things I understand that many do not and that in many areas they are in fact fulfilling all legal requirements when they DO hunt over bait.
   As much as I like to hunt over dogs including a variety of hounds I would NEVER do so for Deer - just not my cupa tea- some do so and have done so for generations in the South.
My point was that there are many ways things are done- and I realize mine is not for all. When I drag in a Deer it was him ( or her) and me period- no outside man made fluences. Welll perhaps a grunt call here and there.
  BTW- how many here who blast baiting participate in Drives- another hot topic I'll bet. In some places thats illegal too.
     I dont mean this to be contrary or argumentative in any way- just pointing out there are different strokes for different folks. And whats illegal here may be legal just over a bit.
  This is not to be taken as a way of saying laws are made to be broken -it is NOT- it is saying that doing the same thing in different places requires doing it in many different ways leading to many different interpretations of what may be right or wrong.  Personally- go to the place that fits your style, thats why I hunt where I do.

Internet cop at its best or maybe just jumping at any chance to attack folks with whom you disagree.  As I said before, one of the few places where this crap is rampant. 

Please note that i did not raise the issue regarding DT hunting over minerals or bait. I simply responded to his claim that the guys that challenged him were dummies because the minerals were within a safety zone and DT was flat out wrong. And, BTW I didn't attack Dt, I just informed him that what he was doing was in direct violation of the PGC regs. Ignorance of the law is no excuse and I didn't want DT to be prosecuted for something he thought was legal.

However , if RSB wants to condone what DT is doing I will be happy to admit I was wrong!!