north jeff, you have put a lot of work into your property, something to be proud, but two things that bother me are how you haven' t said if these deer use the land seasonally, or year round, to what extent is it used year round( after winter, of course), and the fact that the land surrounding your land is public land, how do you know that you just aren' t pulling in the deer from there? i guess what i am saying is that while you are drawing more deer to your property, it isn' t as though you are raising them on your land, from what you described, and in fact, some would consider it that you are hoarding a public resource and are unfairly drawing them away from the public. no deer, unless inside pens, should be considered" my deer" . do you allow the public to hunt on your property? by drawing the deer onto your land, how is it affecting your surrounding wintering range? perhaps you could be, if not now, in the future, actually contribute to the destruction of your local wintering range by having to many deer in such a small spot. and lets not forget disease.