CNC do you ever feel like you are wasting your time? Because you should. You can't quantify that baiting makes it easier to kill a deer OR that this means more deer are killed. Someone sitting around blasting deer off a feeder is the same guy that's going to be running around blasting everything he sees in a food plot, riding down the road, etc.

"Easier" is no something you can not quantify. Feeders don't kill does. Just like guns don't kill people. All the feeder does for Mr. Doe Blaster is help him wrap it up quickly so he get back to the camp house and get a beer in his hand. He's going to shoot 1-40 deer either way. The role the feeder plays and the impact of the total number of deer killed is a study in and of itself. I've never seen that data. And probably for good reason it would be very hard to accurately prove. Just like you can't prove that overall numbers of guns in circulation or possession makes someone more likely to use a gun in a crime. That is a complete rabbit hole.

This is your rabbit hole.

Next step is number of deer killed is also a single data point that is meaningless beyond a single value. When you compare it to last year ..... this is real simple now.... all that tells you is more, less or the same number. Also a meaningless data point with respect to what is being discussed above with this Fragmented theory. Which I think is also not accurate.

My advise.... give up and move on..

This is a waste of site resources adds nothing to this forum and is all heresay and made up numbers and opinions of the OP. This thread should be locked the OP warned about trolling and banned the next time he starts this mess. He has folks believeing his crap even though it doesn't take much to see right through it.