wow the list goes on.... shooting at running deer is a good thing, corn is now healthy for deer, and shooting does is bad. LOL!!!
Cant agree with that. Nothing wrong with shootin a few does. We are not just deer hunters but deer MANAGERS as well. Also dont forget does taste just as good as bucks.
I see what your sayin about seein deer cp but...everyone i know shoots at least 1 doe a yr. I still saw 116 deer this bow season and had 11 bucks in bow range. Also saw 30 does with muzzle. As for the buck in the pic he wouldve been in this yrs challenge if he walked by me. If i didnt shoot him the next guy will. Maybe things are different where you are hunting though.
i guess ill aim for that artery next time they're running by me Whats your defense on corn? With all the big talk i guess i was just wondering if you could make sense on just one of the three responses
Corn does have nutrition, never said it didn't. but if not fed year round they take to long to adapt to it for it to do any good.
6% protein is low proteitn. the highest protein corn can even reach is under 10%. Deer need a protetin intake in the mid teens. High protein foods like i suggested are in the 17% into the 20+% range. Corn is like candy for them and NOT good for them no matter what any homemade biologist says. Its high carb, low protein. If they find corn they will eat eat eat it and touch nothing else. Not only will they end up in low proteing intake when they need it most, and dehydration leading to death, but it leads to dieseases. It can carry mold easily, though much easier when it's alive still, and even worse something called rumen acidosis - a bad bad problem affecting metabolism and the way the body absorbs and digests foods. One side effect is diahhrea. Imagine a dehydrated deer getting diarhea and keeps going back to eat more and more corn... dead. Corn is also VERY difficult for the body to digest, hence when we eat corn its still in out poop. SO, they very limited amount of protetin doesn't even get digested. Combined with the previous mentioned disease.... dead. Digestion obviously includes certain microorganisms in our body to break down our intake. The deer build up these organisms to digest the woody foods they eat. The microorganisms needed to digest corn have not been built up since they are a different food. With digestion problems to begin with and no organisms built up to break down the food... dead. Also, when you artifically feed, even in small amounts as a "supplement" they deer gather around in tight groups fighting over food getting only half of what they would if they were feeding on their natural browse. They'll hang around the feeding site until they starve and are.... dead. 99% of people who feed deer won't hike 2 miles into the woods where the deer natually live every time they replenish the "food", so you're pulling the deer away from their natural habitat as well. ALSO, please stop comparing deer to cattle, they are two completely different animals. I am not a biologist and dont pretend to be, have just done a bunch of reading/research on the topic. I didn't even mention the CWD which some idiots claim doesn't exist lol. I haven't even sraped the surface on why corn is bad but i don't feel like writing any more. I am just so tired of people thinking they are helping and putting out corn because the deer just like the taste of it and its cheap. So whats the argument to this?
http://www.northamericanwhitetail.com/deermanagement/wt_202foodplots/#cont Sorry haven't figured out how to post a link to click on yet, but this article has some interesting facts in it.
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