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Correct, but if you have 200 acres and a 1.5 acre food plot in the middle of it, are you not hunting the area because it concentrates deer? Don't it take some, not all of the guess work out of it. You have now narrowed you hunting area to a food source and finding a trail coming to it is not that difficult at this point IMO.

Food plots do put them right where you want them. In range. I agree to that.

I quess I just see a food plot doing the same thing..........Concentrating deer to a certainarea. Unlike a ridgeline or a draw or a creek bottom, where the deer pass through and browse...... they are coming to the plot to eat. A destination if you will not unlike the feeder.

there are many ways deer will access a large area and many places in the area that they will feed ...... in my area, access routes aren't always easy to see, or even specific ....... bruce, I picked you as the one I would like to iron cage match!

I see what you are saying Rob and I don't completely disagree.I will say though that when you have an ice cream food source in the country that I hunt in where there is no agriculture to speak of you will literally draw deer for miles.It is not at all difficult to determine how deer are using that food source.Much easier than the food sources that we would consider traditional or naturally occurring.

Would it be fair to say that bait, food plots, ag fields, etc. tend to make the deer more predictable and that makes them all the "same" in that they make the deer more predictable. All of us hunt food sources andtrails to food sources at certain times of the year becausethey make the deer predictable. The only real difference is man-made(bait food plots etc.)predictability or natural(oak stands and other mast bearing trees etc.)predictablility

I don't want this to turn into a battle of ethics, but if you see food plots differently than feeders because of the IN RANGE aspect, what are your thoughts on decoy's. Isn't that the point of using them?

Isn't that why they call it hunting and not shooting ?

Iron cage match LOL

You are wrong ,I didn't mean anyone in person.Unless you are one ofmy neighbors that have a reading disability.Trespassing seems to be a word they have trouble with.

IfI were to address you I would quote your very words.And then debate them with you.

Calls
Funnel Hunting
Food plots
Bait
Bait Plots
Scents
Camo
Tree Stands
Blinds
Scent Control Products

The list goes on and on.

The object is to get the deer close and kill them. How any of us choose to do so is up to us as hunters. One way is no better or macho than the other. In the end we hope to have a dead deer.

I used the river to get closer, some might think that is cheating[&:] I really don't care

Just one Question,

If its all about nothing more than simplykilling the deer why do we use bows? []


Yeap, I said that out loud.

Why the need for the sarcasm?Winks and eyeglass's whats up with that?