For those on here that fed corn this year and hunted 100 yards from it-Did it help you harvest a deer? I wish we would just say you can or you can't and let it be a simple rule. My club don't allow feeding during season so I have no idea if it helps with the harvest.

I would like to just see it prohibited all together because I know we had deer this year that were pulled off our property by the feeding of corn. We had no acorns on the ground and our hunters shot every thing with hair that walked on our fields this year. Either legalize it and hunt over top of it, or prohibit it and ticket for it. Can't get much simplified than that.

Im with you on this one . I would like to see all or none ! We do have feeding areas on our club and i did kill a doe that was most likely coming off our sweet potatoes . But one thing i have noticed since they changed the baiting law ... We dont see deer on our food plots anymore . Which ot really makes alot of since the deer can go to the feeding area eat tasty taters and not get shot at or can go to a food plot and eat grass and get shot at ! Pretty simple!

yes

Me personally: I wish that they would legalize it all together. No restrictions.

Why: I follow the rules. Many other do NOT. In GA once they legalized baiting we saw more deer on our property. Because the neighbors weren't able to "corn" them away.

im sure it has helped my deer sighting. I have one feeding station in the middle of our 500 acre property I put corn protein pellets and salt out.

I don't think it helped me or my boy kill our deer. What I do think is that it kept several does from getting killed by my ground checking neighbors. They'll kill anything. Never saw a deer at my feeder in the day. Every deer we saw in the day were in green fields or skirting edges probably headed for cover, brousing on the way. But they fed at the feeder all night almost every night. For those who think having a feeder going will stop deer from coming to green fields in the day, that was not so where I hunt. If I had a choice, I would rather have a few acres of standing corn, but I don't have a few acres, I have one.i planted a good Greenfield and put up a feeder 250 yards away. Every situation is different but for me and my situation it worked. Saw deer 75% of our hunts or better.

Deer did not empty our feeders this year like they did last year. No deer I killed was seen or photographed at a feeder after October once the acorns fell they kind of quit the feeders.

Let me also add we see deer on some of our plots in the am but they dont feed in them . They skamper across ASAP!

If any of you want to start supplemental feeding, call the gw office and go over your plan with them. Let them say if its legal or not. If it is, go for it. Then you wont have to sit around worrying about getting caught, or think all season about what you wish you would have done. As long as its legal, do what works best for you.

This was the first year that our club fed during season. Quite frankly we chose to because sightings last year seemed low, and when talking with the GW he told me i was the only guy in town not feeding during season. So we started. Results were the deer hammered the feeders all season. It certainly changed the feeding habits on the green fields also. Early bow season i could see a road bed area where we had a feeder. I watched a six point hang out and circle this area for over an hour. He never came to the greenfield that i was set up on. Historically the greenfield would have deer in it every evening during bow season. turns out the feeder was empty and he was just waiting for more feed. Cant say that the feeders helped us harvest a deer but they certainly changed the deer patterns on some of the fields.

Wow, with the number of threads about corn, I would have thought that it was quite clear that the "baiting law" did not change! How many started their "on going supplemental feeding program" right before season????????? Sounds like there are a bunch of baiters instead of hunters though!

Oh it definitely changes their patterns. I have NEVER had a problem seeing multiple deer on a hunt until this year. Neighbors all around me are baiting with corn and killing the hell out of them. I can't afford to feed damn deer corn and wouldn't if I could. Just another way for the rich to stay on top. First they leased up all the land in the state and then complained because deer don't live on pine plantations and got the law changed to where they can lure them over to their property with BAIT! That's the way I see it. Poor man aint gotta chance.

Yep. A man has to be supper POOR to not be able to fill up a 250 lb gravity feeder! This POOR MAN crap is riddiculus. 8 dollars a bag and 5 bags is 40 dollars right??? In a 250 lbs gravity feeder that will last quiet a while right? Year round feeding is that hard OR expensive BUT it does require some effort. I know cheap azz 500 dollar clubs that have 3 year round gravity feeders on 1400 acres. So if your not feeding it your own fault~

I Love Corn, it helps hold deer better and I manage our deer, so responsibly it is great.

corn is the devil

You mad bro ?

Only if you feed it to a sacred deer.

$50 feeder set to put out 1 $8 bag of corn a week. Guarantee you deer will stay close. I'll pay $8 a week just for the 500 pictures I get each week.

Let me get this straight: You have one (1) acre. You have a greenfield and a feeder 250 yards from the greenfield. If so, that is one narrow piece of property. I'm guessing you can't turn a truck around on it with out doing a 3 point turn.

I hunt a big piece of someone else's property. There's a 10 acre field of which they let me yes 1 acre for a Greenfield. I plant the acre and have a feeder on the other side of the field, over a hill behind some trees( out of sight). The property is 150 acres or so. 1/2 pasture( rented, I can't hunt there) 1/2 woods(I hunt treestands in the woods). Shooting house at Greenfield where I hunt with my son. My situation is different than most folks. They are good enough to let me hunt there for free so I try not to tick them off. I'm gona try to rent the rest of the 10 acre field so I can plant more food and not use the feeder. I always say every situation is different. I try to do the best I can with my situation.