Baiting small game.

[Snowwalker]

Hey guy, here is the thing. I was just talking to a couple of non-hunters, and was explaining baiting for bear, deer, and other big game. Explained that it is not allowed for things like ducks and geese. Explained the reasons basicly to baiting or not bait and so on.

But after I got done I was thinking that I have never seen anything about baiting for small game one way or the other.

So does anyone know about or can anyone find a regulation that says you can't just put out say peanuts and wait for the squirrels to show up? How about shooting grouse under your bird feeder?

Just a couple examples but you get the idea.

[G Skinner]

With my limited knowledge you can bait everything except : migratory game birds and turkeys
Glen

[dutchhunter]

Lots of guys use coon feeders.to draw coon to areas .Nice for training young hounds .Lots of fresh tracks to run

[Snowwalker]

I have never say put out a feeder to attract squirrel for example, but only because you can just go for a walk and find them all over. If you had a squirrel problem in the garden I guess the feeder would help cull the local population.

[Hawkman]

Nothing in the regs preventing us from baiting for small game.
I see grouse, bunnies, turkeys, blue jays, chipmunks, robins, and many other critters coming to my deer feeders. The camera has recorded bears, deer, raccoons, coyotes and porcupines at those feeders as well. I have never shot anything other than ONE deer near the feeder, but I would have been totally legal to shoot rabbit or grouse.
You don't have to bait the pigeons you shoot, do you?

[Snowwalker]

You don't have to bait the pigeons you shoot, do you?

No they are attracted by the feed put out for livestock( guess that is kind of a baiting) and spilled corn or grain around silos, or roosting in/on buildings and sheds.

I was asking because like I said, No where have I seen or heard anything saying if it is legal or not. After talking about baiting with the non-hunters, the question just kept crossing my mind. In my mind I knew what the answer was, or at least I was sure it was the answer.

[Fox]

You don't have to bait the pigeons you shoot, do you?

Sometimes this helps, gets the birds into an area that has a safe direction to shoot, most barnyards have tons of stuff that can make safe shooting a difficult proposition.

[Snowwalker]

Sometimes this helps, gets the birds into an area that has a safe direction to shoot, most barnyards have tons of stuff that can make safe shooting a difficult proposition.

Or the farmers wife that does not like the noise...

[Fox]

Or the farmers wife that does not like the noise...

A friends grandma came out to find out what the heck was going on but after a shot or two they got smart and flew low between the buildings.

I actually built a pigeon trap, this is not hunting, this is extermination.