3030 you just hit bullseye!!
When i was young taking a doe was WRONG!!! boy those old timers just thought that was like killing a nun. now they stress it. the push is on around here to take does. i could if i wanted get like 30 doe tags for my club.
i don't or haven't yet some of my guys want to and i'll probably let someone else work on getting on a management program to do this with the states blessing. i don't know much about it but i know they give them out.
But the feeder issue is a very misunderstood thing. people that can't hunt them usually don't realize they are not like the chuck wagon bell to deer. turkeys yes! deer no!
i would bet you $100.00 turkeys will be at my feeder within 30 minutes after it goes off in the morning.last year i could hear them come off the roost and when that thing went off here they come. that , i think , is why you can't hunt turkeys over corn in arkansas.deer are different i have found. they will walk right by it . i have seen them do it. now in texas it apperently is different.
On the fair chase thing . well....... sitting up a tree out of the line of scent and overlooking a deers natural cover seeing what a perched buzzard would see. is that fair ? kind of like a sniper waiting in silence for the target.
i don't know right now what "fair chase " would really be. i sit in a nice tower stand drinking coffee watching forty acres of pasture. i shoot a deer at 350 yards with my 7mm stw that had no way of smelling me . he was just coming to peak out in the field to see if there are any old lover girls. now was it fair? heck yeah he was fair game and enter cross hair world i just gave him the crappiest deal of the day!
i think you would do the same if you were down here in my world?
anyway i have rambled enough!<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>

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