Originally Posted by CNC
Let me try to explain it one more time……There wasn’t anywhere for a food plot to exist……it was in the middle of the woods on a 20 acre parcel where someone would have had a hard time killing deer otherwise……Being able to draw them into a feeder though gives each one of these hunters the ability to shoot deer and “fill the freezer” at will now on places where they likely would not have been able to before…..The same as the kid shooting deer in his uncles back yard…..These situations are happening all over the state……Some areas they are happening way more than others due to the average property sizes and hunter densities and that’s why you have some counties more heavily affected.....such as Blount and Marshall just to name a couple



Whats the number of doe harvest for each county since they went to a doe a day. Take the increase in that vs the number of doe increase since they allowed you to hunt over corn? That will give you the correct answer on the deer population decrease, without any dispute since it the does that control the population. Idk the answer to that question but I would bet the number of doe kills went up way more the year after they went to a doe a day, then when they went to allowing baiting!