Your preaching of ethics on this issue seems awfully funny coming from a guy who has hunted high fence in South Africa a couple times. I guess if it works to your advantage, then it's all good...but then forget everyone else's preferences? Seems pretty hypocritical to me.
Side question; Since when, and who decided that it's unethical to hunt over a bait pile? Is this from some opinion piece article, or is it written into the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation? I really want to know when it became "unethical" or not considered "fair chase" to the crowd...
As a non-resident I have been hunting Montana (mostly eastern) all of my life and this year undoubtedly was the worst I have ever seen for, not just quality, but numbers as well (it seems to be progressively getting worse over the past decade). On public access land, in some places, I saw more...
I get a kick out of the guys on here who say that baiting isn't fair chase, or that anybody who uses bait is lazy. Or that they feel sorry for kids learning to hunt over bait because they will lack learning skills. Or that people who use bait aren't real hunters. You couldn't make it any more...