Alpine Deer Feeder

[hparrott]

I’ve read a few old posts on deer feeder suggestions. I have a nice buck on camera that I would like to try to get to stick around. Last year after he lost interest in the mineral lick and then he was gone until spring.

I don’t want to use corn or a cob mix with molasses to avoid brining in bears, do bears go for oats or barley or alfalfa pellets? Also, in the surrounding area none of these foods are an available food source to the deer being in the alpine, is there one that may be preferred over another in this case? Thank you

.....Also, should add that the feed will only be used until mid September as I know they can have issues with acidosis and after the end of September the area won’t be accessible anyway

[Bernie O]

To supplement deer or any game animal's food during tough times is a good idea.
To condition animals to stay in one place in my opinion removes fair chase from the situation. It may be legal but is it moral?

[hparrott]

To supplement deer or any game animal's food during tough times is a good idea.
To condition animals to stay in one place in my opinion removes fair chase from the situation. It may be legal but is it moral?

I support all legal hunting methods. You can disagree but there are enough anti-hunters in this province that having hunters against hunters, particularly in this forum, just adds to their cause. Save your breath and scroll on. There is a bit of irony in your criticism of this method of hunting and your post on conserving wildlife. ....I don’t like it so let’s ban it. You don’t like this....therefore it is morally wrong.

In my opinion, whether you set up a tree stand and hunt white tails by a corn field or natural food plot, it is no different than putting the food there. This is a common method of hunting. If you draw a line for supplemental feed, what else is morally wrong? I am comfortable with this choice.

Re: ways to consearve wildlife and still enjoy the hunt so we dont wipe it all out.

Some of you guys sound like liberals. I dont like it[or cant use it] so lets ban it.

[blindcast]

Good point. Regulations outline the framework of what we can legally do. The code of ethics define what we morally do and who we are. Thanks for that.

[Ourea]

To supplement deer or any game animal's food during tough times is a good idea.
To condition animals to stay in one place in my opinion removes fair chase from the situation. It may be legal but is it moral?

And hunting, yr round, even at night, taking whatever species or sex at will is the other side of the coin.

Let's not worry about the legal or moral issues as this scenario is cultural and is ceremonially justified despite negative impacts on breeding parts of the population.

Best pinch your barbs when fishing beside river gill nets that are compromising endangered salmon runs.

Fair chase and conservation......that is being removed at an alarming rate.
Here we are talking about when and what and how long to use a legal tactic to put your annual game meat in the freezer when someone else drives up in January at night and takes a disproportionate amount of game that negatively impacts overall populations.

Something to think about.....

[dino]

Animals "stage" no matter how high or how much food there is.

[Jack Russell]

Lets leave the ethics and morals behind, lets just follow government legislation.

No irony there.

[Scotty76]

https://westernforestry.org/Woodland...er-2014-v5.pdf


this has a ton of good information.

[hparrott]

https://westernforestry.org/Woodland...er-2014-v5.pdf


this has a ton of good information.

awesome thank you

[monasheemountainman]

bears love oats, if you put oats down, you will have bears