Originally Posted by Todd1700
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If deer heard health is the real issue, then why is feeding deer legal, as long as you don't hunt over it?


Now come on blumsden. Aren't you aware that the presence of a gun within 100 yards of corn instantly infects it with anthrax? LOL!

Good luck trying to debate the anti feeder guys. It's hopeless. They will not answer you on any specific point because they can't. For every attack they make on hunting over corn there is a counter attack that completely negates their point but they simply won't acknowledge it. Been down this road several times with them.

They will hurl names like lazy slob hunters at you for wanting bait legalized. And then go climb in a shooting house over a green patch. But that's OK because you know it takes all kinds of hard work and woodsmanship to climb into a shooting house over a green patch. You have to walk up those 4 steps; learn to work that latch on the door; and don't even get me started on the skills needed for those plexglass sliding windows. LOL!

You have guys that will rank you one click above a child molester for wanting bait legalized for deer and then board a plane and go shoot a bear in Canada over a bait barrel. Or go to Wyoming and kill an antelope by sitting in a blind next to the only water hole for 25 square miles. What's the difference you say? None at all. But common sense, logic and facts have nothing to do with their side in this debate. Using corn for bait is wrong because they were taught it's wrong and that's basically their only argument when you pin them down.

A corn feeder is bait placed in a specific location by man to lure game into gun or bow range.

A green patch is bait placed in a specific location by man to lure game into gun or bow range.

One is illegal but the other isn't despite there being no moral or ethical difference in the two. And that's the unassailable truth they cannot get around despite all the hair pulling and gnashing of teeth.


Normally, as people get a little older, they get a little wiser. Just because a spread of a certain disease hasn't happened, doesn't mean it won't. --As far as ethics, I wonder what some of these people are thinking when they hunt a waterhole or other attractant. (Only God knows what people are thinking when somebody sits in a hut to hope to shoot a leopard when there is a gazelle hanging from a tree.)
Everybody to their own. Some people aren't able to go into the woods and go up a tree using a climber. They need to hunt, or whatever you want to call it, in any way that can get them into the outdoors. Good luck to them.
Feeders with protein seems different to me than filling them with corn. I guess you can get a deer fat and energized with the carbs. Lots of people get deer plenty of protein with fertilizing and liming native plants. May be a little cheaper.
Using corn for bait may be the future in Alabama. However, how much protein is there in corn.
There is probably no moral or ethical difference in feeding corn or having food plots. While the results may not be what a person wants, the food plot should have better nutrients than corn. Am I wrong? How many people keep feeding corn after the season, while the food plot is still productive?

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