re: Deer protein during offseason, neighbors are "its brown its down". is it worth it?

Not a chance. You could maybe do some good if you were feeding on the whole 2k, throwing major $$ at it for at least 5 years.

Supplementing free range deer in studies, helps the overall deer herd and increases carrying capacity, but it doesn’t increase horn growth with any significance. So, increase health and numbers, but no increase in horn growth. Now, if you can confine that deer, and limit the number of mouths at that feeder, then you can affect horn growth substantially, but not in free range deer, where all the deer have access to that feeder…

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Please, please, please start a thread with this as the title. We haven't had a good "dog hunting is trashy" thread in awhile and the new posters need to see one.

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And they're off....

If you are trying to just hold some deer close, I’d have year around plots there. It’ll keep deer around but won’t really change bucks much. They going where the pussy goes though

I’d consider putting that money toward a new lease or land purchase if your goal is to manage quality bucks.