I'm on the fence post on this disscussion my friends because I agree to both sides..

Let me explain please.

I am a member of a hunt club here in Virginia & I see lots of Deer but when the season is over a few Club officers "including my self" will set out some Minerals & a few feeders to help the remaining herd through the rest of the winter, spring & part of the summer & around July we will take all of it out to be well within the legal status of the law, out side of a few members no one knows the location of any of the mineral & or feed sights unless they simply stumble apaun them & since we have marked stand sights 98% of the time members never even get to where these sights are located.
Now I agree 100% with this tactic because we are supplementing the herd with food & vital nutrients that they need to be healthy & possibly become very bountiful for us in the long run but since we do not have them out well in advance of opening Bow season & the fact that not many know of these locations we are not hunting dirrectly over them.

Now I will also agree with having a feeder out during hunting season & hunting near it "AS LONG AS IT IS LEGAL IN THAT JURISDICTION" because like my fathers tract of property which is mostly similar to semi swamp area, Deer rarely go through it & in an instance like this where public lands & ofcorse areas where farmers rarely grant hunting priviledges is a long drive away & the only time that a person has time to hunt is on maybe weekends, I can see where this would be a viable way to entice Deer to visit the only property available to this person but again AS LONG AS IT IS LEGAL IN THAT JURISDICTION.
"just to make it clear, I used my fathers property as an example not that it is being practiced because it is not due to the fact that it is ILLEGAL in the state of Virginia & my father does heve close by public lands available to him."