The_Field_Ager

The clue is the name - 'food' plotting.

Nope, they get used to 'em. I have been targeting my tree-stand zones with heavy camera use and in a couple of seasons the deer have become quite accustomed to them. I got a lot of great night-time flash pics of large Bucks last season, along a well used trail . They kept comin.

Heavy snow does not reduce the amount of forage available. It simply makes it very difficult to get at, especially when snow packs down. We had almost a foot of near ice under the snow this last winter. I wonder if those states that do practice supplemental feeding have had issues? Presumably the practice would have been halted?

Personally I think hunting and what happens in nature during sever weather are two separate concerns. The former has little bearing on the outcome of the later. Other states allow a period of feeding during bad weather. To me this manifests a better attitude toward stewardship in these areas. Some folk think that letting nature take it's course is stewardship and management. To me, it is just sitting back and doing nothing, ie, the opposite of stewardship. The argument that states that killing yearlings, when they are going to die anyway, is good management, makes little sense and seems like a short sighted view of things. It might help a little for one or two seasons but we are facing longer term weather trends now. How many years of bad winters and aggressive targeting of yearlings has to pass before we see a negative impact on numbers across the board ? Deer numbers have been going down in our area. Last season was my worst for deer sightings to date, and that includes my pre-hunting years. If indeed we are in for more harsh winters, as is being predicated, it makes sense to have legal, supplemental feeding during winter to assist our deer and reverse the current trend.

This is relevant : Liberals Push To Make Murder Normal

Dostoevsky said that if God does not exist, anything is permissible. Who can argue that we are not seeing this reality unfold before our eyes?

Prove it

Sicko. Don't shoot me bra

Don't fret Dom. The coming economic correction predicted for this Fall will put an end to all this. Hold onto your hats.

They have simply been biding their time in terms of how the can legitimately introduce, control and tax Mary-jane. The Medical aspect has allowed this to happen. Growers are already paying 10 grand just to apply for a license to grow medical marijuana.

The Testing Obsession and the Disappearing Curriculum http://neatoday.org/2014/09/02/the-testing-obsession-and-the-disappearing-curriculum-2/

This is not a hunting thread. I feel obliged to point that out to you, given your past histrionics regarding the stated fact that you come here to talk about hunting and nothing else.

It is expensive self promotion. Very expensive.

Drove through there last October. Pretty depressing. It will be a ghost town in 10/15 years. Buffalo is also a zombie city that is 15 years behind Detroit in terms of total collapse. Sooner if we have that major economic downturn that has been predicted for later this year.

This is how Obummer celebrated Easter: Obama-criticizes christians at easter breakfast ( no word on the recent Muslim execution of Christian students in Kenya) President Obama called out “less-than-loving expressions by Christians” during a White House Easter breakfast on Tuesday. 7:15 mark in video

He still has to fulfill his desire to eradicate all those pesky 'conservatives' he feels are not welcome in NY.

Don't worry. WW3 will ensure big changes at home and abroad in the not too distant future. We have bigger problems on the horizon. A major economic downturn for the Fall is going to make the scales drop from people's eyes. I believe Jade Helm is connected to this. Watch this space.

They one or two times I had 'em seemed related to some nutritional deficiencies, fatigue and just not eating right.

It is not at all surprising that Christianity is undergoing it's most virulent and legal attack to date in America, during this, the most holy week of the liturgical year. The old enemy has taken the gloves off. The old enemy, however, fails to realize that he has already lost as result of the events remembered this week. And while bigoted minority groups rampage in the US this week, they turn a blind eye to the fact that their man in the Whitehouse is making deals with a nation that hangs gays. The irony is not lost on me.

US Muslim soldier: “We would love to do something like the brother in Paris did” If this keeps up, I foresee a day where Muslims will essentially talk themselves out of contributing to any areas of western society that are in any way sensitive or dangerous. http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/03/us-muslim-soldier-we-would-love-to-do-something-like-the-brother-in-paris-did

New development here. Still somewhat speculative, but I guess this will be confirmed or not as the investigation continues. If it is true, we can except a serious German crack-down given the anti-Islamic sentiment there in recent times. The co-pilot of the Germanwings Airbus was a convert to Islam http://speisa.com/modules/articles/index.php/item.1086/the-co-pilot-of-the-germanwings-airbus-was-a-convert-to-islam.html

You would be surprised at the rate of depression in society today, and how many people are operating in a psychotropic haze. It is endemic.

My guess is that he was taking the same psychotropic drugs for depression that pretty much every school shooter to-date was also taking. It effects people in ways we cannot comprehend and that make little sense in terms of the violent actions they often under-take.

I don't think it was terrorism. He made no political statement, knowing his conversation was being recorded, and he could have waited to hit any number of major cities on the planned route. I think this was murder suicide.

A male attendant could do the baby sitting.