Originally Posted by
cabage
I for one commend your self control and ethics!! I 100% agree with your reasoning. Shooting any animal off of a timed feeder is not fair chase as far as I'm concerned. Food plots and other man made food sources are there all the time where as with the feeder you can control when it drops. Where's the sport in that?? Don't get me wrong that is surely one heck of a buck and way bigger than anything that i've harvested, but I would have done exactly the same as you did, and done it with pride. Shooting that buck from under a feeder is some **** that Ted Nuggent would do...
Hey now Ted's Cool...Wack em Pack em and Stack em. But in all Seriousness a Good Buck Seldome and vary rarely approache's a Feeder in the Daylight, there just too smart for that. Doe's, Fawn's and Yearling Bucks will, but the Older Smarter Bucks almost Never do.
I've been on a few Hunts to Michigan years back when all they did there (then) was Hunt over Bait Piles. While I was there you'd see everything but a good Buck show up during light. If that Buck showed up at Falcon's Feeder he MUST be Removed from the Gene Pool, you cant have a Buck that stupid pass his gene's on.
Again and in all seriousness, you did good Falcon, I appalud you. But Im still waiting for you to give him directions to My House.
(BP)