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In my part of the world if you don't have a food plot or feeder of some type you don't see many deer because everybody else does. I would prefere to stalk them up but there are too many guns around and they get angry when you cut across " their area". Through the years I have also noticed that the less you tromp around the more deer you will keep in your vicinity.
I spend about 85% of my precious hunting time in my elevated stand with a feeder 120 yds away. I see lots of deer, most of which I just enjoy watching. If a shooter buck shows it's rarely at the feeder. They don't get old by being stupid. And I do feed year round. Most don't.
It's just the way people hunt down here, almost tradition. To call it cheating is a little rash. I wish I had thousands of acres to play Daniel Boone on and truly hunt but I can't so I content my self with as many weekends as I can get in my little corner of a 1000 ac. ranch and my feeder. Hell, I've even got a heater in my stand now.
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