Do you hunt private or public land?

[waknstak IL]

100% public. Most good private land is either leased up or the owners are too scared of lawsuits to allow anyone to hunt it. Baiting isn't legal here. I doubt I would if it were. No reason to here.

[Brook Trout]

90% Public/ 10% Private, no bait

[Broken Arrow 1]

Both and no i do not bait

[Pointer]

I can only get to public land these days...it's close to home for my usualy day trips. It's not bad but the deer are pressured pretty heavily. Still, no place I'd rather be in October and November.

[GingivitisKahn]

Originally posted by Zradix:
GingivitisKahn ... Scooby Snacks and twinkies on the ground. Heck..I might sneak up behind ya. lol

Another good reason not to bait - scary!  :-D

[griz#1]

public land

[Mr.Vic]

No Bait. Enough stuff on the ground here in Iowa anyhow. As far as Private and Public? I've hunted both. And by the way this year is going be mostly public next year. Money talks and bull dung hunts on public land. Ground getting bought up by Lakosky's and rich people from Michigan.    Where's my ticket?  

[Horner]

Now days I hunt public only.  I always seem to have a problem hunting private land.  

Although it might just be me.  I never did like someone telling me how I should hunt, or what I should harvest.

Ohhhhhh and no bait!!!!!!!!

[waiting4fall]

I hunt public land during the week. I only hunt private land on Sundays, because that's the only way it's legal, in my area.public land is always my first choice. As far as baiting goes, it's not my first choice of options, but I'll utilize this legal method to get some meat in the freezer

[**DONOTDELETE**]

Originally posted by Mr.Vic:
Ground getting bought up by Lakosky's and rich people from Michigan.    

So I guess what I heard was true..

[crookedwoody]

PRIVATE 80% AND PUBLIC 20%.NO BAITING HERE,NO NEED.MOST OF FARMERS SAY KILL EM ALL.SO YOU CAN BE SELECTIVE,OR THEY MAY TELL YOU TO THIN OUT THE DOES THERES TO MANY.YOU CAN USUALLY TELL WHATS OUT THERE AFTER A COUPLE OF HUNTS AS FAR AS DOES GO...CHRIS

[Day Dreamer]

Private and Public prefer Public for the bigger woods. Private land consist of ten acres and houses all around you can hear power tools and people, not very enjoyable. No Bait, seems every year I have at least a few chances at a deer without bait.

[Cody Roiter]

I like hunting both I think they both have good and bad to them... When I can I small game public due to there seams to be more woods to hunt.. Since we dont own a lot of Private land..

Later Guys,

Cody

[MAGICMAN]

I have a deer lease so mostly private hunting. I bait pretty regularly. Id doesnt mean I kill anymore than anyone else. in fact ive seen very few deer over my bait. Up until last year I hunted mostly public land & there is no baiting alowed on public land in Oklahoma.

[leatherneck]

Private mostly. Baiting is legal in Ohio for deer but we don't do it. Unless you consider a 200 acre cornfield baiting.  

[George D. Stout]

People who can't see a difference between an apple pile, and a fifty acre corn field, are people who hunt over apple piles.  I hunt both private and public and baiting is "thankfully" illegal here in Pennsylvania.

[Ragnarok Forge]

I hunt in Washington on public land, we are blessed with tons of it.  I have never baited, but I have shot deer traveling to a farmers salt blocks for his cattle.  I was still hunting the edge of the field ( I had permission to hunt the farm land) nailed nice doe two years in a row in the same area.  About 200 yards from the salt blocks.

[Blackstick]

In Indiana, with a few exceptions, a person is only allowed to take one buck. I do almost my entire bow hunting on public land, stalking and still-hunting for that trophy animal. I own a small hobby farm of 25 acres that I have been trying to develop into a wildlife habitat area. It does have a couple of food plots, which are legal in Indiana and I gun hunt over just to fill the freezer.

[horatio1226]

I am very fortunate. This is only my second season of hunting of any kind and I have 500 private acres between 4 different locations all within 10 minutes from home. No baiting in New York, but the dairy farm I hunt has a hayield that the deer really like.

[Arwin]

I hunt both, no bait on either. Honestly I like public land better because you have more options for moving around.