Originally Posted By: jawbone
Originally Posted By: timbercruiser
I've hunted over corn on the ground a lot of times, it is legal in Florida, and most deer when they get to it will eat a handful or two of the corn and then go on to other food. If it is in a food plot they will nibble some of the grass, and if they are at a trough they will eat a little, but they don't stand there and stuff their stomach with either one. The disease argument doesn't hold water IMHO. If it were true then there wouldn't be a deer in Florida, Texas or the other states that it is legal to feed deer.


FWIW, I know a person that leased a large ranch in west Texas where they fed corn and one year Anthrax, spread by breathing in the spores while feeding with the nostrils in close contact with the ground, lost 95% of his deer herd.


So, if this is a known fact, a possibility, then if this passes it would be safe to say the State has a disregard for the health of the herd. We should NEVER knowingly gamble with a resource....especially an unnecessary gamble.