Originally Posted By: ikillbux
Originally Posted By: BhamFred
so a food plot and a pile of corn are the same....? Really?

maybe IF you have a feeder full of corn, year round. Or at least Aug-April or the life of your food plot.

Problem is, in the real world, most folks put corn out on Fri afternoon, or Sat morning when they are at the club hunting. Corn dosen't start till Oct 15 and ends abruptly the last hunt day of the season.

For those who plant spring/summer plots the difference is even greater if you don't keep the feeder fill 365 days a year. How many of ya corn baiters do this??? Way the hell under 10% I'd say.....


But Fred, in the real world I would bet every dollar I'll ever earn that less than 1% of hunters in Alabama plant year round as well. They'd be the same 1% (+,-) that plant for any reason other than attraction. The rest of us are being grossly disingenuous if we say we plant a food plot for any other reason than to pull our deer "right there" so we can shoot them. Any nutritional benefit is simply coincidental.

I don't put corn out because I think my deer are hungry, I put it out so I can make them come "right there" in front of my camera.


I'll take you up on that bet… I guarantee Whitetail Institute, alone, sells to way more than 1% of hunters that plant fields. Then you have Tecomate that isnt' doing too shabby, WMS right here out of Alabama that sells seed to a lot of folks on this site… Even your avg co-op mix includes a couple of different clovers that provide food way after the corn pile is gone… the debate isn't over intent, it's over food either being there or not being there post hunting season.

Last edited by truedouble; 02/10/16 10:30 AM.