Originally Posted by abolt300
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

And that same 20 acre property owner, with nothing to draw deer to it, most likely had a corn pile on it years before baiting was legalized. It’s been happening all over the state since the 70s. You just didn’t get a call to track on those types of properties because at the time, it was Illegal.


Most likely? Doubtful. I’ve been hunting a long time. Yes there has always been some who used corn but it wasn’t in any way close to the amount being thrown out today. Ban corn.