woodchucker,

If plots, cropfields, white oaks are the "same" as baiting then is it unethical to hunt on crop farms or oak timber?

hunting the edge of a forty acre corn field is nothing like hunting over a two foot pile of corn.  If it is the same then should it be that deer season wouldn't be in the Fall when food supplies are in abundance.  Deer will go where food is available.

I have to agree with Vermonster on this one, the
LAW is the LAW.  We should at least abide by that.
I am in the exact same situation as the original post.  I'm not turning them in, but you won't find me hanging around with them hunting either.  I informed my friend that I would rather not even know what is going on.  Besides that he's not hurting anyone but himself, by cheating.

KB