It was the coldest afternoon in weeks, and I was in an elevated blind with a crossbow, overlooking a cut corn field with enough waste grain in it to feed a small army of carb-starved deer.

is asking residents to leave deer fawns alone if found alone in the woods. Officials said every spring and summer, SCDNR gets many calls from people who have discovered “lost” deer.

Bucks bank nutrients and use them in summer to develop antlers ... production soybean planting. Woods suggests 80 lb. to 90 lb. of seed per acre for heavy deer populations and a 50-lb.