Wow what a buck. Do you feed them there? You should start putting corn out to keep him coming around and maybe you can find sheds close by. Worth a try anyways

You can make an antler trap with page wire fence, Make it into the shape of a V and put the squirrel food in the narrow end of the V and if a bucks antlers are ready to come off when he pushes in for the feed the wire will knock them off.

Wow I missed this the first time around! Cool Thread. Someone taking Atlas to task for something instead of vice versa...kinda funny!
I got no problem legal or not with you feeding deer. As long as if it's illeagle, you are not hunting them there, or on the way to, or away from the area. As for the excuse thatthey are eating my bushes or I'm feeding rabbits (from a hanging feeder). Thats all BS and makes you look like you are trying to justify something.


I don't know why anyones hunting ethics would be brought into question over a non-hunting situation. There are plenty of different ethics andi'll arguewith anyone whosays there are not.
I speed, I'm not always honest when a cashier gives me too much change. Yet I'm faithful to my wife and loyal to my kids, I also try to abide by the game laws.

Ethics are doing the right thing, even if, no ones looking.Regardless if doing the wrong thing is acceptable or leagle.

That is what I was trying to SAY, thx Badattad

This pic is pretty cool, in Northern MI in the TB zone were baiting and feeding is illegal(thank god). This picture shows the exact reason why the DNR(The DNR NOT ME) banned feeding and baiting in TB zone. The DNR claimed the deer noses touched, or ate the sylava of another deer(from the bait) is how TB was spread. People here called BS, but after seeing this picture they(DNR) might be correct. The deer heard in the area is now 1/2 of what it was 10 years ago.

Seems to me you're contradicting yourself, Badatta2d. Do you really think that not being honest with the cashier is "ethical"? I can't count the dollars I've given back, even though nobody's looking.

Great post!!!!!!!!!!! I guess some people don't get it!

Here is a little info on NY law for feeding and baiting deer!

http://www.dec.state.ny.us/website/d.../feedregs.html

Thanks for posting the pics Atlas. I'll be honest I don't always agree with the posts you make.But I gotta sayafter all the valid points RQM has made I don't understand why you don't turn yourself in to thecops right now!?!?!

RQM, I suggest you sit back and read the forums for awhile before jumping in and bashing people. Your opinion might be respected a little more that way.

In defense of atlas (kind of) , I know firsthand that deer destroying a yard is a genuine excuse. We have many suburban areas around here that hold pockets of deer that feed on anything planted in yards , shrubs , flowers , etc. etc.
It has gotten so out of hand that the DNR started having "special" hunts in these areas to remove the deer.

Here's where the "kind of" statement above comes in. Some of these property owners were putting out feed (corn etc.) to attract the deer because they enjoyed watching them. Problem was , when they finished the bait piles they would move on to the shrubs , flowers , etc. The DNR truly thought these deer had no place to go and that's why they stayed in the area. When enough of the neighbors got together with a petition to stop these few neighbors from feeding the deer and approached the DNR with their situation , a new light was shed on the subject. The neighbors who were putting out feed were forced to stop. Within six months the deer vacated the area and haven't returned. Onced winter approached they simply ran out of enough nutritional food to meet their dietary needs and they moved on. The closest block of woods to that area was where I grew up , roughly nine miles away. Don't think just because their surrounded by a concrete jungle they wont travel to a better habitat. I know you probably enjoy watching them (I know I do) , but do yourself and your neighbors a favor and stop feeding them and they will move on. If there is a patch of woods big enough to sustain them right by your property that is off limits to hunting , then your in a different situation and that should be handled the same way it's handled around here every year.
Have all the neighbors who are sick and tired of losing money through shrubs etc. get a petition up and approach your DNR , and chances are something will be done about it.