Here we go....

[nyslowhand]

I have very strong opinions about how you food plotters justify them or the real purpose of them.

Won't go there, would immediately spark an additional 10 page attack on my views.

If you want to do them & can justify the time, expense & efforts - by all means have at it!!!!

I prefer not to for various reason, mostly personal choice.

[Ford]

"I have very strong opinions about how you food plotters justify them or the real purpose of them."

Hmm, you think it is baiting, yet you "baited" us to reply...

Thats about it yes?

[Ford]

I have very strong opinions about how you food plotters justify them or the real purpose of them.

Won't go there, would immediately spark an additional 10 page attack on my views.

If you want to do them & can justify the time, expense & efforts - by all means have at it!!!!

I prefer not to for various reason, mostly personal choice.

Why, if you disagree with food plots, just come out and say it. I am sure there could be an argument against it. Instead of a pansy way around the issue?

[dave6x6]

Question to you food-plotters; When, if ever do you reach a point of diminishing returns?

Doesn't the labor, time, equipment & overall investment ($$) ever get too overwhelming?

Forget the "Herd Mgmt" aspect!

Curious minds want to know...

Apparently curious minds don't really want to know. Just closed minds..

[G-Man]

Anything done is better than nothing.... even a failed plot causes new growth(native grasses,browse, ect) As for myself is it worth it? my camp has litterlay taken up to 5% of my towns take on average. When everone has a bad year we still take 15+ deer. since starting food plotting/ timber management in 1995 we have harvested 293 deer off the property with almost 1/3 being antlered buck!! I know that we would not be able to take this number without doing management of food sources/ cover. It has inspired several neighbors to ask for help in improving their own property's (deer wander so helping a neighbor is the same as helping myself) now if everyone would learn/ want to let all the little guys walk we would have a gold mine, slowly they are changing their attitudes and wait for a bigger one as they see the better bucks out in the plots in summer, and knowin they are there seems to be the difference maker. So is it worth it ...... it is at least for me and a few others i know...

[wdswtr]

This cracks me up. I can not think of one single fault in a landowner enhancing there property with foodplots. Wait........ nope not one. So since we all can read where this is going, please someone enlighten me as to how its different from sitting over an overgrown apple orchard or underneath that mass acorn crop or a trail leading to the farmers corn field. What some see is a man made field of bait, which is no different than that 80 year old planted apple orchard or the farmers crop you might hunt on the edge of your property blah blah blah.. What you are missing are several factors that are blind to some. Such as giving back for taking. Plain enjoyment of seeing animals of all walks utilizing your work, helping animals get through tough winters, time spent with family turning over dirt and watching it grow, pictures of what animals are in your woods. Some hunt over them some dont. I dont and never have. See I also know what some are thinking and that is foodplotters are a lazy bunch and dont want to put time in a stand to harvest a deer and instead bring them to the hunter. Well to that I have to say have you ever put in a food plot? I can promise that its a long hard tedious process that requires alot more labor than sittting in the woods for a hunting season, even at few hours a day for a couple months is alot less labor intensive. And yet we still do just that as well. You add up the time and work putting in a plot on top of the time in the woods hunting you might be rather suprise exacatly how many hours are involved. You see some things in life you dont justify with cost, you justify it with the love of wildlife and the passion to enhance a piece of property.