Found a legal way to bait deer in North Georgia..

[Sharptop]

Our state legeslature passed a bill this year that will allow corn baiting for deer and hogs in the southern zone and corn baiting for hogs in the northern. But I discovered a new legal method for north GA over the weekend at our cabin at the foothills of the Appalacians. I was reading my kindle about 6 P.M. when my drahthaar started barking. I looked down at my hog foam target set about 20 yards off and this deer was sitting there munching on him.

My dog Jude barked and I yelled but the deer kept on feeding so like any experienced woodsman I went to the kitchen and got some ice cubes and threw them at the deer which calmly walked over and sniffed them and went back to eating. Finally I had enough and got the bow out and flung one off to the side and bambi finally took off. Here is some of her work on the hog.

About an hour later the deer came back for more so I shot the target and she took off.Befor I left I sprayed the nibbled areas with Pam and laced it with cayenne pepper.

This fellow was just a few yards away the week before.

[Zbearclaw]

That's pretty funny!

Not sure that preseasoning with cayenne will work this long before the season but I like your style!

[LimBender]

Maybe it's payback for a bad pig encounter at birth.    :D

[straitera]

Enjoyed the pix. Thanks

[ishoot4thrills]

Cool. Good idea.

I was just thinking, I wonder how the deer would have reacted if you had shot it with a rubber blunt instead of sending an arrow close to it? Would that have been legal?  

[Sharptop]

I didn't have any rubber blunts with me but I'm loading up for the weekend.

[Rick McGowan]

I'm almost positivc that "blunting" deer or any game animals is illegal. I remember someone talking about bluntimg their fathers prize bull as a joke and they ended up haveing to put it down due to the injury it caused. A buddy of mine used his rubber blunted practice arrow to shoot a young mulie doe in CO, it made a couple jumps fell over and died. I wonder how many animals have been blunted for "fun" that ran off and died out of sight.

[Zbearclaw]

Yea non lethal stuff often turns lethal.  Many states don't allow wardens to use the nonlethal ammo because it can often penetrate and even if it doesn't kill immediately infections deeper than superficial will most likely end in death.

I would set up a few homemade "gongs".  Hang a small target from a yardsale windchime (the pipe type are best) somewhere near the area the deer come in.  Hit the target, the chime will go off big time, and the deer will not likely come back.

[Sharptop]

I don't know but its probably illegal to throw ice cubes at them, too.

[ChristopherO]

I don't think you fellas read that too close.  He said, "got the bow out and flung one off to the side and bambi finally took off."  It doesn't say he shot an arrow into her side but off to the side to scare her away.  But I understand your concern if it was the otherway around.

[Jake Diebolt]

Maybe the deer had a hankering for bacon. I get that sometimes, so I can relate.  :D

[Doc Nock]

Great fun story! Things critters will gnaw on defies imagination sometimes!

Someone made the comment about blunting, Not Sharptop, I believe.

Blunts have been well covered some years back in Deer & Deer Hunting Mag I believe... usually cause tremendous shock to inner organs and can lead to death as stated above.

If you would just get a good shaggie suit, lie behind the hog target and then rise up screaming like a banshee from hell, that might just fix it!

And the grass will grow well on the escape route from the extra "fertilizer" left behind!

[Sharptop]

Well the thing with the rubber blunts is you don't have to nail them with it. I was just going to sort of launch it at her if she came back but the idea about the gong might be a better idea.

[Rick McGowan]

Probably the easiest and most likely to work thing, would be to just move the target or throw an old piece of carpet or tarp over it. I know the cayenne pepper thing won't work, somewhere in the southwest, the hot pepper crop was disappearing, so they put surveilance cameras on the fields and found deer were eating all the peppers and whitetails are known to eat, poison ivy, poison sumac and poison mushrooms!

[DannyBows]

You could add a few more spices to that hog just before the season opens, then when you fill your tag it'll be with 'Pre-Seasoned' venison.