This year a good friend of mine from PA harvested a beautiful mature 8 pointer with a 17 inch spread on the first Friday of the regular firearms season.

When I asked him about the kill, he said he shot the deer in a field MID-DAY on the first Friday of the regular firearms season. This perplexed me that an older mature buck would wander out into an open field when the shots and hunter presence around him would have easily clued him in that it was deer season.

According to my friend, the field contained 60 acres of "New Zealand Pro Graze" that they planted for the deer.

Why does PA allow planting of crops that are specifically aimed for no other reason than feeding deer? What the hell is the difference between putting out a pile of apples/corn/salt, and planting 60 acres of deer food in a field?

They are both baiting, right?

- Gr8ful