Virginia Gun Owners Forum - VGOF

by **OakRidgeStars** » Mon, 09 Apr 2012 07:24:47

I'm not sure that sign is possum cop approved :roll:

by **AlanM** » Mon, 09 Apr 2012 08:03:03

Since I'm not a hunter and I have seen deer bait for sale in a WalMart in Ohio I searched and found this site:

State Laws for Feeding & Baiting Deer

Another VERY good reason to not believe that gun/hunting laws are the same throughout the US.
What's perfectly legal in Ohio will get you in deep doodoo in VA.
And vice-versa, it's illegal in Ohio to hunt deer with a rifle.

by **scrubber3** » Tue, 10 Apr 2012 03:58:02

Holy crap. In NC I used to work on a farm as a teenager. We actually grew corn to feed deer. We called it deer corn

. Of course it was nothing more than livestock feed corn, but I thought for sure hunting laws would be nearly identical for NC and VA. Guess that's why I didn't see any deer corn for sale this past hunting season. I never bait anyway, or still hunt for that matter. I track, but even then I won't kill unless I know I'll use every bit of meat. I track just to keep my skills up.

On point though.... That sign is quite funny.

by **Reverenddel** » Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:01:43

BAD DEER! NO SALT LICK!

by **AlanM** » Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:52:21

Reverenddel wrote:BAD DEER! NO SALT LICK!

That's another thing I've seen for sale near the ammo counter of my local WalMart in Ohio when I lived there.

There are still a FEW WalMarts in Ohio that sell guns but not many. The ones that I went to were not on that short list.

Deer are a serious problem in Ohio(MANY car/deer collisions) and complete herds of them are found starved to death each spring in the metro parks near most all of the large cities in the state.

by **dorminWS** » Tue, 10 Apr 2012 13:10:46

In Virginia, you can feed deer. You can put out salt. You can farm all you want and never harvest.

But you damn well better not get caught hunting over bait.