Using corn piles to kill deer/turkeys is plain lazy and takes little to no skill,
And what skill or effort does it take to sit in a shooting house over a green patch? Don't hand me the line about green patches being better nutritionally either because that has nothing to do with the skill, ethics or effort required to hunt over one.
And furthermore corn is not the only thing you can load in a feeder. They make some excellent products in pellet form to feed your deer. Hell, Purina makes about 9 different kinds just to name one company and there are many more companies that sell such products. Granted most people will use corn. But then most people who plant green patches are not planting Imperial Whitetail Clover or 225 dollar a bag joint vetch either. Most just plant winter wheat, rye, or oats which provide a little nutrition for about 3 months. Just long enough for them to hunt over it during deer season.
I am an old veteran of these debates. I have been hearing these same tired lines for years. You know, how lazy, unethical and lacking in skill it is to hunt over corn while green patch hunters are strangely exempted from such criticism. But press people to explain why one requires any more skill or effort than the other and you cannot get a single person to provide one valid reason. How long it took you to plant the green patch is irrelevant to the skill required to hunt over it. That your green patch might have 10% more riboflavin than corn has no bearing on the skill required to sit in a shooting house and stare at it with a gun in your lap.
