How many of you fine people were there when this guy was telling his story. That was the word that he used. Would it be the same people that plants food plots and get wild animals dependent on a food source and let them starve the rest of the winter.
Deer food plot
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Lone Hunter
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Funny how these fine ethical hunters are real quick to condemn someone. I don’t bait hunt or hunt food plots but I am not going to take the high and mighty road like some do. If it’s legal and you have a problem with it take it up with the DNR or whatever your state resource is called. Don’t come on here and try to start fights. We have enough problems with the anti’s as it is. Sounds like hitler to me. Do as I say, not as I do, and everything will be alright.
Rye and brassicas- the crops that keep on providing long into winter. FYI -the critical time for deer is early spring (March) right when planted rye, clover, and winter wheat come out of dormancy- it's the first vegetation to "green-up" in spring thanks to a foodplotter who spent the time, energy and resources with zero guarantees that he might harvest a game animal. Not to mention the hundreds of pounds of forage provided during the growing seasons building up fat reserves. What is your contribution to wildlife nutrition throughout the year? Seems like you be the one to allow them to starve.
Schippergreg
Silver $$ Contributor
Sounds like you’re fine with paying an outfitter to hunt an animal but the landowner that plants a patch of clover to hunt over is unethical in your opinion. If a person follows the laws of the state that they are hunting in then mind your own business. As hunters we have enough people against us, we don’t need fellow hunters shoving their ethics down others throats. Who needs antis when fellow hunters act like you?
Lone Hunter
Silver $$ Contributor
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Well Said….
Well Said….
The logic is: If you build a foodplot which attracts and feeds deer in the summer, then the deer will starve in the winter. With all due respect, that's absurd. In fact, the deer will forage through the leftover foodplots, just as they do in a field of alfalfa or a cornfield, just as they do throughout the year. The foodplots actually help them get through the tougher times, especially if some brassicas are included. which stay green all winter for them. But I feel I'm wasting my time.
Yes you are wasting your time. If your story was true farmer would never have to store food for animals for winter, just leave in the field. LOL Yes states make law to permit baiting because the so called hunters are to lazy to hunt. Just set in a blind and shoot a dumb animal out of a bait pile.
Lone Hunter
Silver $$ Contributor
Another TROLL for the IGNORE button. And a non contributor..
Lets take our ball and go home he's not playing the way we want him to. Been a hunter for over 50 years. But not a cheat or cry baby. Call me a HUNTER.
Gargoyle
Finder Outer
Sir, you might have convinced the Asylum staff to call you that, but here you still need to prove you are a decent human being...
You have to catch them by your barehands.
Gargoyle
Finder Outer
I thought "they" said bear hands...
snert
Silver $$ Contributor
I do that over on the cooking forum
Pheasanthunter
Gold $$ Contributor
Food plots benefit and help more animals survive than are taken over them and if they are planted with proper crops they do help all winter long. A farmer can’t just leave his crops out for the wildlife he wouldn’t be farming long if he did. I don’t hunt over food plots or bait piles. However the harvested corn, wheat, soybean, milo& hayfields or acorn, Apple trees & river bottoms sure are good places to hunt by. Otherwise being in the woods and trying to intercept them between bedding areas, water, or food source usually has food involved.
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The below is from the National Deer Association:
$183 million
Amount spent in 2020 alone by deer hunters in 15 Southeastern states to pay for “plantings and food plots for deer hunting.” Their total expenditures generated $100 million for conservation through the Pittman-Roberston Act. The meeting theme this year was “The Value of Deer and Deer Hunting to the American Public,” and to go with that theme, NDA presented some results from Phase 1 of the Southeast Deer Partnership project. Mark Duda, executive director of Responsive Management who gathered this data, shared it in his talk on the value of white-tailed deer to Americans.https://deerassociation.com/14-stats-from-new-deer-research/
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