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On the bright side, you should be looking at the best deer hunting of your life in a couple years. What have land values done thru this ordeal?

There’s no doubt that it is work. -And hunters are getting lazier, more dependent on instant gratification -lots don’t even clean their own deer… which becomes a problem when CWD is in the news. it discourages harvest People have gotten so caught up in killing a big deer to put on IG that they...

You and I could definitely find some common ground there! When populations are subsidized, hunters have to increase harvest. This is a problem MS has been talking about for some years now. ETA: just to point out some nuance, the line between this and sharpshooting isnt the boldest.

@Bill everybody that has a position on this topic is guessing. Me, and, yes, you. Are you a proponent of the do-nothing approach? Do you think it’s been around forever, which seems to be the growing conspiracy theory. Just curious — it’s hard to tell what your position is. I’ve always felt...

If you were king for a day, you’d promote it? If the entire state of MS or AL looked like NW AR, what do you think would happen to their state wildlife budget? I’m pretty libertarian, but I have to draw a line somewhere.

I’ve been following him too. While I agree with him on everything I’ve listened to, he’s too old fashioned for the deer hunters of today (and this forum). He was the MDWFP deer program coordinator when they legalized baiting; he left very soon after. He’s very strong in his opinions.

I always assumed the point was buying time.

My observation of the new CWD findings over the last 10 yrs in SW MS and NE LA is that they are in large contiguous blocks of timber. These are places that had numbers of deer back when there weren’t many deer around. I generally think of these locations as having relatively high deer...

Lol. The perpetual predator machine.

From Dr Demarais at the Deer Lab (just a quick one I found): “The relative risk comparison showed that almost three times more deer visited sample areas around feeders than equivalent areas within food plots. The more deer that frequent a small area, the greater the risk for CWD to spread...

I’m sure you realize that everyone’s farm doesn’t look like yours. To be clear, you don’t think any research has documented higher disease prevalence at bait sites?

Of those examples, I have never seen shin deep mud, urine and feces, with the food/grain on top of and within it. i have seen that at a bait site. It disgusted me.

Jacobson also originated the mantra “once a spike, always a spike.” It’s the MSU Deer Lab leaders that have most shaped my understanding of the facts on this topic, so I’m glad you brought them up. You don’t think disease and bacteria is more prevalent at bait sites? Or are you just saying...

NB4 “I bait like there’s no tomorrow and I have plenty of birds… <hawk spit>”

I think a LOT of people whistle past the graveyard for the simple fact that they have no idea what they will spend or ARE spending.

Unnatural congregation of wildlife is generally harmful. Lots of general research shows that. Deer-specific research has quantified deer-deer interactions at bait sites compared to food plots and acorn feeding sites. Results didn’t strike me as something I want to promote. Corn in the Deep South...

In many, many parts of life and society there exist standards based on elevating level of effort above some arbitrary minimum threshold. “Effort” seems like a perfectly reasonable measure to me. Game laws have used “level of effort” as a foundation since their creation! Conservation and trophy...

But those inflated cash sales impact the valuations on subsequent appraisals.

Doesn’t sound like hunting land.

He took the words right out of your mouth, huh?