I grew up with a 12,000 acre deer lease near Burnet
We used feeders to attract deer to the land during off season
You could not bait or use feeders in hunting season
Though I see some exotic import hunting folks with fenced leases get exceptions I think
Squantos can clarify
Some states like my home state of Mississippi have so many deer they now hunt almost 5 months a year
Folks love to point fingers over hunting
I don’t much care
I know what I like
There is not much difference between those plush deer stands and my home. I can shoot the deer at my leisure from my porch. I can cook, watch TV, and stay warm until they cross the pasture and then all I have to do is go out on the porch and set up and shoot. Don’t need an expensive deer stand. During turkey season the gobblers come right up in the yard and I can call them from the washroom window.
Is that feeding during season in texas? I probably know 15 or 20 hunters that take feed out to their feeders when the go hunting.
The particular crappy episode i mentioned happened near houston in 1974.