Posted by JD Seller on October 12, 2014 at 21:32:39 from (208.126.198.123):
In Reply to: Re: OT {feeding deer} posted by Ultradog MN on October 12, 2014 at 20:03:06:
Ultradog MN:
I would say the local hunters are mostly good about respecting personal property but still about 50/50 on doing it. The ones not local are about 25/75 about doing that.
As for not harming me??? Well I get cut fences EVERY SINGLE deer season. Hunters too lazy or weak to throw their deer over the fence. So they cut the fence to either drag the deer through or even better drive their 4 wheeler to get their deer.
Then the JOY of walking around my property having to pickup garbage left by hunters. This includes but is not limited to: deer slugs (yes I find some live rounds laying around just about every year), Beer cans, and the lovely plastic bottles filled with your know what from the guys in the tree stands. This is with no one legally allowed to hunt on my ground but there are always hunters on it.
Then the added work keeping my cattle pastured close to the house for two weeks that gun season is in. The reason; two dead cows and several wounded animals over the years.
So I will admit I have a very poor opinion of DEER HUNTERS. That is why there are NONE allowed on the ground I fully own. I do not have that privilege on the rented ground so I have to put up with the hunters there.
Back to the original post. Food plots are just a fancy way around the baiting laws. Your are still providing an artificial food/cover source. For the purpose of attracting/growing deer. Thus making them easier to hunt. Sound like baiting to me.
The plots do this in several ways:
1) A additional food source so they either grow larger or maintain larger body weights.
2) Acclimatizing the deer to a certain area so hunting them is much easier.
The long and short of it is the entire DEER herd issue is getting out of hand. The deer herd is much larger than it was 30-40 years ago. I think that the food plots are part of this.
PS: Mixing alcohol and weapons just seems like a bad idea to me. I wonder how many deer hunters would fail a blood alcohol test when they are hunting???
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