I have been watching " North Woods Law " lately. It appears that in Maine ,
deer baiting is illegal and considered unethical.
If Texas outlawed deer feeders , how much would this affect your hunting.

Just curious

MO

Yeah I'd be screwed.... with the bow for sure!

It would force you to hunt trails, natural food sources like acorns and open fields. It would certainly change up how you hunted. I'd spot and stalk a lot more if no feeders were allowed. It would be similar to other states that do not allow feeders.

meh, adjustments would be made and actually help out the ol wallet

Texas wouldn’t allow that

You'd be surprised. I've killed plenty of deer hunting trails with no feeders with Bow in OK.

It would force a longer season and way more tags issued. Might actually be an ecological disaster

I’m not sure how much it would effect me outside of bow hunting.

Oh I know it's possible, I'm only in my second season bow hunting and most the property I hunt is short mesquite brush so no acorns to set up on just wheat and bait. Not impossible it would just make it a lot harder and probably lower my chances significantly. Have a few stands setup this year on trails leading to food plots so we will see how it goes.

funny, I still remember hunting before there were feeders ... now I am feeder poor maintaining 3 properties

I don't speculate on things that will never happen. Too much money changes hands for this to ever be made illegal in Texas.

Yes, too much money changes hands for that too ever happen. The corn growers would be protesting for sure. I have seen hunters pull their trailers up to a feed store and buy whole pallets of corn at a time. Load em up with forklifts. I have seen non-Texans pull up to convenience stores and be puzzled that stores have a display of deer corn out front.

I've towed a flat-bed trailer with several pallets a time or two....

would it change the way i hunt...absolutely...

would i still hunt successfully?....absolutely.

I've hunted trails and funnels with no feeder plenty of times....the feeder makes it more "predictable"...

I have shot more deer and elk than I can remember, much of them with longbow and wood arrows. Never any place where baiting was even considered, or legal. I have only shot 1 doe out of a deer blind. You would adapt if you had to but south Texas has it's challenges with the thick brush/cactus that is un-penetrable by man, blinds are a very good way of doing it down here. I did not understand baiting and deer blinds until living here.

Food plots or wheat/oat fields would replace feeders. Would be quite a few less deer killed in Texas and the population would definitely grow....so many places here in Texas that spot in stalk doesn't work. It's just too thick to hunt and not all of Texas has tree's suitable for tree stands. I haven't killed many trophy bucks at a feeder anyway, so I personally wouldn't care if they were outlawed. I'll adapt and keep filling my freezer every year.

I have a friend originally from Pennsylvania

He told me once that there was no baiting AND no hunting on Sunday's up there

Sounds ridiculous to me

Pennsylvania still doesn’t allow baiting except in Special Regulation Areas that are near heavily populated areas.
In these areas baiting can only be done on private property.
You still can’t hunt for game animals on Sunday.

With our terrain and rainfall in a lot of the western half of the state the deer population would suffer without the supplemental feeding and watering that hunters provide.

They make doe easy to kill but only a few of our bucks are actually killed eating corn at a feeder. They may walk nearby checking things out but rarely eat as witnessed by years of game cams proving it at least at our place. Our bigger older deer will hit each feeder maybe once in a season and it is never when you expect it. Biggest I got at the lease happened to visit the one feeder I was at opening morning couple years ago. He hadn't been to that feeder for over 3 weeks. Only showed up at one other one the whole time.

I think it would hurt the Texas Economy even worse. There’s no telling how many bags of corn is purchased every year just by deer hunters.

More hunters would be shot staking thru the woods and mistaken for deer.....

I've used feeders for a long as I've been hunting and that is a long, long time.
I've killed very few deer from under a feeder, and I use the feeder mainly to keep the deer in the area.
Hunting the approach trails is what I do, and most big bucks will skirt around a feeder anyway.
I don't have anything against those who hunt a feeder, but I just don't like staring at a feeder when I can see a long ways at deer approaching or moving around in the vicinity.

We buy 3 pallets at a time between corn and protein. We've bought 12,000 lbs since August. 6,000 lbs put out and 6,000 lbs on deck ready to start refilling in October. When that batch is unloaded, we will go down and buy 3 more pallets and have them on deck to start topping off in December.

Alabama allows feeding during the off season. Feeders must be empty 30 days before the season starts. You can feed during the season, but the feeder must be 100 yards or more from your hunting position and you cannot be able to see the feeder from your hunting position.

If your neighbor puts a blind on the fence line and you don't like it. You put a feeder within 100 yards of his blind.

There has been discussion of allowing feeders to be used during deer season. Alabama would charge an annual $50 permit for every feeder. Surprised Texas hasn't checked this one out.

I quit feeding corn about 15 years ago. I hunt trails and openings now and still see plenty of deer. Sure has saved me a ton of money too.

Would definitely have to make changes