lunchbucket; the crop damage would work except that my area all cow calf. This is; the land is all pasture, the farmers stock the land with calves in the spring and slaughter in the fall. They' re going to be in big crap if the U.S. doesn' t open the border to beef this fall. Some stores are selling ground beef now for $.69 lb and steaks for $1.29. That' s in cheap Canadian dollars.

But; back to the point, there really isn' t any crop damage. With a couple of hundred head of cattle on their pastures the last thing they want to see is hunters shooting in the same field. We also never lease land for hunting in our area. There are hunt clubs no one would lease in that area.

On the baiting idea. Are you recommending dumping a few hundred lb. of corn in a shooting zone? I' ve really tried to stay away from that and just let the deer use my pasture lands etc. without pressure. But; if I could line up a few people with tags it would work in my immediate vicinity.

That brings up a new question: if I reduce doe numbers in my immediate area. Won' t new does reinhabit the area when they move through my property in the spring. There' s a main trail through my property that they follow when they come out of the deer wintering yards in the spring.

Dan O.