BUT, there is absolutely no way that it will provide more, or better, food than a quality feeder that is maintained with protein pellets.
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I agree on a leaf/blade of grass comparison with a protein pellet. However, two weeks after the season is over when the feeder is not refilled (yes, one can bet it will be well maintained during the season) that is where the comparison stops and the food plot far exceeds the feeder in benefit to the wildlife. Which is what the reality is and will be. If "hunters" wanted to do the best thing for the deer and other wildlife regarding feeders that would be to us them when the wildlife needs it most which is after the rut when the deer need to recover and there is less nutritious browse available. But that is not the reason for the baiting in the first place, that reason is to make it easier to kill all of those deer that everybody complains that there are too few of. Thorough lack of common sense and a lot of finding the easiest solution possible is the answer du jour!
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you left out the fact that the deer can be sustained during this time by the fat they have built up, by eating the corn and protein pellets during season. And also most food plots that are planted are accomplishing little to nothing for the deer, a month or 2 after planting. Sure some might, but i would geese that a majority of them are not. Not to mention the fact that deer having been living along time before the food plots were ever planted in the woods. Let me ask you this, How many non-hunters do you know of that plant food plots that dont hunt? NONE! Just like the bait corn, there planted to kill deer off of. You can try to rationalize any way you want, its the same thing.
