deschmidt27
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Registered: Jun 2008
Location: Burlington, CT
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Bruce,
I think there's still a few options to turn the tide...
When I was down South where the much larger leases and hunt clubs exist, and where they allow baiting, those clubs spend a lot of money on corn and feeders and they don't want the squirrels and coon, tearing up the feeder and eating the corn. With those guys and gals, there is the opportunity to help them by removing their "pests" outside of deer season. Sure they wont let you in their year around, but they will give you a place other than public land, for a few months of the year (depending on seasons).
There's also some farmers out there that still think all that laid down corn, is deer and go seeking deer hunters to address it. There's a download on our NHTDA site of a depredation study, performed by Purdue University that puts that confusion to rest. I've shared that information with some farmers and got them to change their mind about me hunting. One even stood up for me, when deer hunters complained, telling them that if they didn't kill as many deer, as I killed coon, he would replace them!
And there's the quick counter-argument, when turned down by property owners, quickly asking if it's because of some deer leasor concerns, and that I was willing to stay out during season. I've turned several "no"s into yes for nine months of the year! Which is better than nothing...
As many have pointed out... anti-coon hunting, or anti-squirrel hunting, or even anti- other deer hunters, is still anti-hunting!
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