And that's another thing I like about the South- to quote the late Phil Harris-- I once hunted a private farm here in SW MI corn taken off about 2-3 days before we did our morning set-up-- nice 80 acre field, woodlands and a good sized pond, several valleys and drain ditches-

We were all legal- waterfowl stamps, steel shot, plugged magazines- and my companions were fellow DU guys- just as legal shooting opened and a few geese headed our way, a DNR jeep pulled into the lane where we had parked the trucks and the trailer for the field decoys-

We had been checked before, so we held off until the "Raccoon Rangers" did their thing-- After we were checked and passed, the younger of the two walked around and told us, our decoys were set in a "baited field" !! WTF?? The residue from the corn picking scattered on the ground was, in his mind- an illegal bait- so we had 2 choices- (1) Give up the hunt, or (2) clean up all the scattered corn and husks- then and only then would be not in violation of the "No bait" rule-- Figure that one out, if you can.. RWTF

Last edited by Run With The Fox; 03/11/19 04:55 PM.
"The field is the touchstone of the man"..