Dave Packard
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The deer concentration like east of the Mississippi is insane.
So the whitetail deer population is incredible.
And then you got the human population and then you got the state size.
So the smaller the state, the more people and then the more deer.
Yes, you guys need to kill that amount of deer a year just to control the population.
I think it was a four to one ratio between Ohio and Colorado, just in deer.
Something like that.
Like not including deer per square mile or people per square mile.
It was.
So we have half as many people as Ohio, but we're twice the size.
And then we have half as amount of deer.
Wait a minute.
Okay.
Okay.
Baiting is not illegal.
Hunting over bait is illegal.
Like Karen can still feed the deer in her yard, even though she's not really supposed to.
Our buddy Ty is in the chat, the one that's putting that coyote contest on, and I believe he's the one that told me that they were feeding deer out of a feeder, and then they just got used to the sound of the feeder going off.
So then every time the feeder would go off, the deer would be like, whether they were feeding it or not.
Yeah, everything that walks that's not a human is managed in Colorado pretty much, except for like invasive stuff.