So your solution is to spend more money to plant corn in order to get a depredation permit to kill game animals during summer, when they have to be left in the field to rot and can't be used?

That's one reason hunting seasons are in place, and regs that allow landowners to do what they need to do then. Not by spending more money later.

You're correct about the Midwest. Nutrition and age, which comes from the one- and two-buck limits, helps them have big bucks. Are their deer populations far healthier than those in the Southeast thanks to those minimal limits and older bucks in the population? Is that comparison even possible to be made?