Originally Posted By: Fun4all
Originally Posted By: dirkdaddy
Originally Posted By: Randy74
I agree that it helps hold and it offers variety. Deer have different nutrient needs and it does offer some of what they need at certain times. As far as it being easier to kill one over a corn pile or feeder; to me that is absolute hogwash from my experience. To me you are far more likely to see more deer and bigger deer over a fresh cut Ag field(corn or soybean). I hunted over a cut soybean fiield back in November with a feeder in it. Saw over a dozen deer with a couple good bucks; only one deer went to the feeder all day. Some ate acorns around the edge, some grasses and briars, some soybean hulls, and one at corn. I could really care less how many people are hunting over it and it's beyond me as to why the state is worrried about it either. I also got the email and thought "what a joke".
Personally, I'd do it like they do in Texas, where "corning" roads (ie slinging out corn from a spinner) is as common of a practice as planting green fields. You can ask those Texas boys how well corn works when there are other things to eat like acorns or nice greenfields. Corn sits kind of in the middle of preferred feed when it's constantly available. Legalize it and end this nonsense that favors outlaws over us regular hunters.


I understand that, but to carry it a step further since you brought it up. "Legalize it and end this nonsense that favors outlaws over us regular hunters.", should it be legal on public land too? Or, should the DCNR favor the private land hunter over the public land hunter? One would conceivably say that private land hunting in the vast majority of instances is better than public land hunting, so why should the private land hunter get a benefit that the public land hunter does not?

I go back to the simple solution of invest in shoe leather and smarts versus the simple quick solutions to actually hunt and be as successful as one wants to be as a hunter. But I certainly understand many want the quickest way with the least effort (physical and mental). I can see simple and efficient if it is a life or death situation for a person, but hunting is not that in this day and age.
favor the private land hunter. We pay taxes. Sounds like you need a lease. And I put in plenty of shoe leather, bossman. I just don't have my head buried in the dirt on this issue. It's called being pragmatic, something our new POTUS is excellent at.