You can’t compare turkeys and deer from a reproductive standpoint. Not even close.

The problem is not the corn. It is the general mentality of the majority of hunters in this state. Kill kill kill. “I’m a big man because I limited out on bucks every year for the past 10 years. Or I killed 19 deer last year see how much of a great hunter I am.” Corn will definitely cause a deer to move through or go onto a small inferior property, but that doesn’t mean that deer has to die. That decision falls to the man behind the gun or bow. Alabama’s problems, herd decline or growth, nocturnal deer due to over pressure, piss poor age structure due to over harvest of young, immature bucks, etc is all 100% due to the hunters in this state and their complete lack of trigger control. Thank goodness there are still a bunch of us that manage deer and have big properties all over the state that can somewhat protect the deer and act as nurseries. If we hunted like some of my neighbors, there wouldn’t be a deer left in our area. Now that it’s legal, we feed corn and beans, not to kill deer over it but to try to keep them from roaming onto to other properties and getting shot.