I think that ANYBODY that puts up a feed station ajoining SGL or any other public land should to fined and their names printed in the paper.

This is America..

I should be allowed to do anything that is legal on my property that I want to do.. and feeding deer is not illegal...


I don't want you or anyone else telling me what I can or can not do with something I worked hard and long to have...


If I want to feed deer on my property how can the government tell me I can't.. just so some hunter can hunt on some other piece of property .. you gotta be kidding !!!!

Plus remember I do not have anything out prior to archery and rifle deer seasons,you must have missed reading that part


I'll start in the late season after I have stopped hunting here and no one is going to walk the mile or two to get behind my property to hunt this time of year anyhow . never seen anyone there in 30 years during Jan or Feb or even March.. PLUS I have not even seen a car or truck in the nearest SGL parking lot since rifle season ended this year..

Should there be a law that says I can't cut my grass or make any loud noises because some one may be archery hunting near by in the fall and I might spoil their hunt????

If my neighbor is allergic to cats should I not be allowed to have cats on my property for fear it may wonder over to their property ???

Where do you draw the line on government telling a private landowner what he can and can't do on his property that is legal ???

OA would probably love living in one of those developments where they tell you how high your grass is allowed to be or what color you can paint your house ...

So every one of those folks that have bird feeders in their back yards should get the same treatment?

I don't think that is what he is saying at all. The practical effect of what he is doing is putting off limits a quarter mile or so of State game lands to hunting in addition to his already posted personal property.
I have a neighbor who doesn't like me hunting or shooting on my own property and has threatened to put a bait pile on our boundry and call the WCO on me. He hasn't as of yet and I have no intention of quitting if he does, prefering to take my chances in court if it happens and a WCO choses to push the issue.
He is within his rights to place feed on his own property next to game lands but is fully aware that by doing so he has just extended his private reserve on to public property as far as hunting goes. The better approach would be to wait until after hunting season is over.
As far as bird feeders, I know of no WCO in this area that has ever tried to bust someone for hunting close to a neighbors bird feeder. I do know some folks who have been told to take their feeders down due to drawing unwanted critters into the neighborhood.

ORIGINAL: Dr. Trout

but I did notice at one spot near some beechnut trees a couple ears of corn are totally gone.. not even cobs left ... I think the local two gray squirrels may have carried them away ...

crows will fly away with cob

ORIGINAL: S-10

So every one of those folks that have bird feeders in their back yards should get the same treatment?

I don't think that is what he is saying at all. The practical effect of what he is doing is putting off limits a quarter mile or so of State game lands to hunting in addition to his already posted personal property.

Bird seed and corn are no different and considered bait.  There are deer coming to my neighbors bird feeder just about every night. 

If someone has to have thier picture posted in the paper for throwing corn in their backyard, the same treatment should be given to grandma Jones, according to OA. 
 
 

Try hunting near a pile of corn and when caught ask the WCO why he is picking on you and not the guy sitting a couple hundred yards away from grandmas bird feeder. It's some of that common sense RSB keeps talking about. Now, scatter 10# of bird seed around grandmas bird feeder everyday and you have a different story.

I disagree----Corn is the most common baiting practice that was even discussed and allowed by the PGC in some areas with posted instructions on how to most effectively use it. I am also a landowner who has a couple birdfeeders that sometimes gets hit by deer. I know of no case where a WCO cited someone for simply hunting in the area of a simple birdfeeder.
While a landowner has a right to place corn on his property to draw deer if not hunting, in this case, that right is interfering
with the right of the citizens of the commonwealth to use public land for it's intended use. It is probably a mute point as I doubt a WCO would persue it unless pressured and the courts have ruled in both directions in similiar cases.

You bring up a good point that citations for hunting around birdfeeders are not that common. Why is that if the deer are habituated to them? A deer may visit a salt block once every two weeks but the hunter will get busted for hunting around it when there is a birdfeeder close by as well that the deer visit every other night.

Really just points out the inconsistancies, headaches and the difficulties with enforcing these type of regulations. For hunters and LE, both.

Yep--Could you imagine the friends the PGC would make by making hunting within 300-400 yards of a birdfeeder illegal and trying to enforce it. Now, with all the food plots, deer food, etc, that's available it must be a nightmare enforcing. A pile of bright yellow corn under a Hemlock tree, not so hard.
I agree on the mineral blocks 100%. If you want to kill a deer in April-June they would be the way to go. Oct-Nov you are much better off watching a apple/oak tree or crop field. I think with the salt block it is just a matter of being easy to prove the stuff is in the ground not that it gives the hunter much of an advantage.

For the last time == there is no corn present during archery season and rifle season.. ..so the arguement S-10 and OA and Tuna are trying to make is ridiculous.... I am not infringing on anyone's hunting on the SGL.nor am I doing anything that is illegal..


As for the late season .. as I have said.. if I even suspected anyone was back there hunting I would not have it out... I did not put corn out this year until after I was done hunting here ... a couple folks here are the ones saying I did..

As for a WCO "busting" someone here... I have no idea how that could happen... NO ONE would even know the corn was there unless they were well within the safety zone around my properties...
and tresspassing at the same time ....

Hunted public land today and found lots of deer sign. Run across a well beaten path and set up during evening hours. Guessing I was round 200 yards or farther from private land. Looked to be a few buildings in the far distance. Saw deer traveling up the trail toward the buildings but they stopped when a guy began calling his dog. I left the woods at dark and drove past the guys house as he was still looking for his dog. I offered to help him look and we walked to the end of his property. Would you know it he had a feeding station for deer. Now the PGC good book say you must know your surroundings but how can one if you legally can't get close enough without violating a safety zone. Oh BTW the guy was a hunter and shot a deer in archery so feeding deer and drawing them in from public ground was not a concern of his. He only cared about him self and said the other's that hunted public land can fend for their selves.All it's gonna take is for one hunter to shoot one of his so called pet deer or a neighbor's and then the hunter will be charged for hunting near bait since no distance is written. This guy was all about himself and said go screw the rest of the guys who didn't get a chance to hunt yet. A true sportsman !

maybe you should have stayed in your car and minded your own business.