RE: what is considered a bad winter for deer?
 

Do you feed then that much so they get that fat that they can't run?Luckily , the habitat in our area is so good that feeding would be a waste of time and money. A doe the neighbor shot had so much fat it made it harder to gut.

RE: what is considered a bad winter for deer?
 

i just bought 20 bales of alfahfa at 4 dollars a bale to feed deer.
also 10 ,100 pd bags of corn at 10.50 ea.

all this go to my hunting area to feed a few deer.

we are removing some of our feeders at sportsmans club do to NO DEER coming to them,thats very sad thing for me to see.

i remember many deer at those feeders for a long time.

stink hollow, drakes,diamond rock, mac hollow,are all dead deer areas now that used to hold a lot of deer.

RE: what is considered a bad winter for deer?
 

Planting food plots is one thing, but artificial feeding of deer is not a good idea IMO.
I heard that they don't get anything from the hard corn that people feed them anyway.

RE: what is considered a bad winter for deer?
 

Feeding deer is imparatical and unnessesary.There is no way all the deer can be supplementally fed on the millions of acres of public land in this state.Who's gonna pay for it?

Balance their numbers with the habitat and there won't be any problems.

RE: what is considered a bad winter for deer?
 

The Hunter should pay for it. Pa hunters are some of the cheapest sportsman I run in to on my travels.Some states have a extra conservation fee the hunter pays when they buy their license. That is used for habitate im porovement. The State should have local farmers plant the public land and let them do it for a very low fee,A farmer would jump at the chance to getcheap land to plant for themselves. I dont want to sound selfish , but I dont care about public land anymore. Just like anything else the Government gets involved in it goes to haites and only benefits the politicianand their pockets. Everyone would love a South Texas booner . Hey they dont come free, hunters in Texas lease land to hunt and then feed to boot.No free rides today unless you want to complete the socialist movement in this country sooner. The state should do this,the state should do this,the state should give us this. Boloney we should ,including myself ,pick our butts up and do it ourselves. Cradle to grave security supplied by any government is not what this country was founded on.

RE: what is considered a bad winter for deer?
 

Hunters should pay for it?That's funny.Alarge portion of the hunters in this state are too cheap to pay more than $20 for a hunting lisence.

RE: what is considered a bad winter for deer?
 

thats funny i pay a couple thousand a yr property tax plant stuff for deer do improvements
yet i should help pay to feed deer on public land that i will never hunt
cheap no selfish maybe

RE: what is considered a bad winter for deer?
 

we have been feeding deer in winter here for as long as i know at sportsmans club.


remember i brought up about all camps that wanted to place food plots in woods, they were willing to supply equipment and man power to do it.

DCNR did not want anything to do with it.

i am believer that we should pay a lot of money each year for habitat improvements.

like a 100 dollars would be start.

we just raised our club dues to 15 a year.

if not for CORN given out, we would lose over half our hunter members,we already have because they turned club into HIKERS,BIRDWATCHERS, CANOE AND DCNR KILL THE DOE CLUB.[:@]

RE: what is considered a bad winter for deer?
 

my dream is to see MILLIONS OF CHESTNUT TREES planted in woods.

each year, a hunter should be allowed to plant chestnut trees,i know i would plant 50 a year easy .it does not take a lot to raise a chestnut tree, they are very hardly too.

i had 25 in my compost pile that grew to 6 inchs in 1 YEAR,after 3 years,they will start to put out chesnuts.

just think, millions of chestnut trees all along the pipelines for miles and miles.

let us do it ,let us take care of them too,