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The blight of feeders

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Azmdted:
My wife has a deer feeder set up in our front yard, i.e., her roses, daises and other greenery.  It drives her crazy as she has yet to learn that you don't fight nature, you adapt and live with it.  But, on the good side, he 'deer conflict' is what is making her happy with me getting back into archery.  Too bad she also doesn't understand why I can't shoot the deer in our front yard of a residential neighborhood.  Baby steps.

I'm sorry the pattern changed for you.  I love watching the deer in our yard, much to the chagrin of my wife.

Outbackbob48:
Eric, it is illegal to bait in the state of Pa. except in spec reg areas, usually biggest city areas to try and control populations, I also work part time for boundary surveyor and you can't believe how many corn piles I have found on private property while surveying. Most of these places are posted No Trespassing, always wondered what they were hiding, Mystery solved. I don't like baiting and we now have CWD in Pa. and baiting and disease go hand in hand. There is my rant for today. Bob

PEARL DRUMS:
Food plots will move CWD around as fast as any feeder will. It can spread through anything and everything that comes out of a deer's body. Urine, saliva, feces, sweat, and snot. Short answer, it spreads like wildfire no matter where they feed or how they feed or bed up. The oldest and worst area is out west where most animals never see a crop or bait pile. Its been found in the US, Canada and two other countries since the 1960s.

Mesophilic:
I personally detest the idea of feeders and I'm glad NM doesn't allow baiting of any kind with a certain exception  to quail on private property.

I knew guys in OH who put in a feeder and game cams.  Then marked off the yardage from their tree stands with flags so there wouldn't be any guesswork with their wheel bow's sights.  They knww exactly what time the deer came in and from what approach.  This isn't hunting.

They'd try to poke fun at my stick bow and wooden arrows,  but I'd poke back at their skills as a real hunters and issue a challenge to give up all their high tech gadgets and come with me to public land to do some real hunting.  That usually shut them up pretty quick.  I'd also throw out the term "harvesting" alot, as I refused to acknowledge them as hunters.  Needless to say I got blacklisted.

I get it, for the more destitute families that need the meat, but I have yet to personally rub shoulders with someone who can afford all this gadgetry and still fall in to the destitute category.

PEARL DRUMS:
Like many debatable topics, there are always exceptions and things that will make you think. A few scenarios that are true:

My uncle was dying from cancer and had one more season to hunt, barely, he had to drive his car down a fence row and roll his window down. Baiting gave him a chance to actually have a chance. It never happened and he died 2 months later.

My friend had ALS take over his body and he had all he could do to stumble to a tree and sit against it, scouting and tip toeing wasn't happening. I had to dress him. We put bait down for him to have his one more season before he passed. It didn't work out either and he passed 3 months later.

Sometimes we either have to expand our minds naturally, or, have enough crap happen in our life that our mind expands on its own.

Like cross guns, baiting isn't cut and dry and if I hear its for lazy people one more time I will lose my shred of patience I carry from day to day. Either of the MEN I mentioned above would hunt circles around most of us when healthy.

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