No, legalizing corn did not have a major impact. It couldn’t because it was already prevalent throughout the entire state. You’re head has been in the sand if you cannot acknowledge that most hunters in AL were already hunting over corn, long long before it became legal. Every convenience store in every small town has had pallets of corn sitting outside from opening day of bow season until the end of gun season for as long as I can remember. You’re saying that the deer just recently decided they like to eat corn now that’s it’s finally legal and it’s only now starting to affect harvest numbers. Lol. Yeah right.
I know I've been going out tracking for the general public for the last nine years and when I first started the only people sitting directly over corn piles were folks from Louisiana.......Bunch of dang outlaws.
I promise they were not. Lol. I can assume by the properties I visited annually that corn was already being used and hunted over on about 80-90% of the places I went. I personally don’t think corn has contributed much to harvest. I do, however, fully believe that corn with cell cameras and an added 10 days is a BAD combination for deer long term.