ORIGINAL: GMMAT
The bait pile will not offer the deer any lasting nutritional value after the season as the food plot would either.
Disagree....unless your farmers leave their corn in the fields all season long and don't harvest it. If a person is supplemental feeding/baiting....and does so all year long....I'd say he's doing MORE to offer the deer a lasting nutritional value.
The intention of the corn in this situation was to kill a deer.
Do we really believe the hunter hunting a corn field edge is not intending to use the corn's presence in his situation to aid in the taking of a deer? You decide.
Deer will feed in a picked corn field all winter long. They eat more than just the "corn", they eat the remains of the plant and discard of the combine. So it is a lasting food source.
Hunting a corn field edge in farm country is different than hunting a big woods oak flat........How?
There is a difference between hunting food sources and bait piles......right?