Me thinks its gonna be a good year
05-30-2012, 07:35 AM
#11
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: River Ridge, LA (Suburb of New Orleans)
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05-30-2012, 12:59 PM
#13
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Penns Woods
Posts: 1,628
Hunting over feeders is baiting and it's still illegal in our portion of the state. Some of the special regs areas (kill everything that's brown) in southern Pa. allow baiting but not where I'm at thank God, our deer herd is down enough as it is thanks to that @$$-**** former biologist Gary Alt!!!...
BPS
05-30-2012, 01:34 PM
#14
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: River Ridge, LA (Suburb of New Orleans)
Posts: 10,918
BPS, the link is to a camera, not a feeder.
On the feeder issue, our club has feeders on almost every foodplot. They are a big factor as far as seeing a lot of deer activity and enjoying a hunt. But the presence of feeders really doesn't have an effect on our herd. Club rules limit each member's kill to a level below State limits and we've proven more than once that our overall take is the same with or without feeders. For example, because of the high price of corn last year about half of our members didn't run their feeders, but they're kill was right in line with the members who did. We spend a lot more time watching deer than shooting them.
On the feeder issue, our club has feeders on almost every foodplot. They are a big factor as far as seeing a lot of deer activity and enjoying a hunt. But the presence of feeders really doesn't have an effect on our herd. Club rules limit each member's kill to a level below State limits and we've proven more than once that our overall take is the same with or without feeders. For example, because of the high price of corn last year about half of our members didn't run their feeders, but they're kill was right in line with the members who did. We spend a lot more time watching deer than shooting them.
05-31-2012, 03:15 PM
#15
Boone & Crockett
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Eastern PA
Posts: 12,762
I knew you were only joking. But like I said, if he wasn't hunting his stand and knew that there was a nice buck working the area he would tell me to use his stand. I usually tell him no that he did the scouting and work putting up the stand. (which normally isn't true because we help each other with stands.)
