December 12, 2011, 12:09 PM | #1 |
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Frame capture from video taken Friday 12/9/11 @ 08:39. Big boy under the feeder is a wide 8 but G2&3 not long enough this year, maybe next. Foard County Texas, range from Stand to feeder 220 yards. Full video can be viewed at: http://youtu.be/aO8GbIqdrBU |
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Feeder huh? Must be nice.
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Corn prices were too high for me this year to use a feeder. Tons of acorns on the ground. Nice picture.
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December 12, 2011, 02:33 PM | #5 |
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Living on a farm I have a few differents baits I could use but the state of new york says other wise. Lemme ask this would any sane person go fishing with no worm on their hook?....heck no.
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Love the looks of that Will Lee.
Gotta a couple questions for ya! What did you make the legs for your feeder out of ? Too, as far as refilling the barrel, how have you found it easiest to do and how much corn do you put in barrel when filling? I've got a feeder mounted on the bottom of a 55gal. steel drum with removable top. Want to get it high enough in the air so deer can't knock feeder off and still be able to lower barrel via the cable/winch on ATV to refill. Thanks in advance for the input. |
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Thanks Will Lee, helped alot.
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Deer live in bunchs in the wild. Those bunchs communicate, eat out of the same fields and acorn patchs. They run the same grounds and sometimes a bunch will even join another bunch. Ever witness a group of does join another group and the two dominate does spar for who was going to lead the pack? Then we have buck bachelor groups that run together throughout the summer with bucks dropping out and joining the group all season. Could a feeder help to spread an already existing disease,yep, but if a disease is in a deer herd, more than likely the disease will spred rampantly on its own without feeders. |
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Yeah, feeders are great. Mine is set to go off at 5 PM. The problem here is getting them to show up about 30 minutes earlier.
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I have my feeder going off four time a day during hunting season. 07:30, 08:00, 16:30 & 17:00 We call it ringing the dinner bell. |
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No feeders allowed in Wisconsin. In rare areas where you can bait only a gallon(?) of corn is allowed. SIL got busted big time one year for having too much corn out. I hunt in a white oak woods so the whole forest floor is covered with acorns.
The reason Wisconsin doesn't allow feeders is to control the spread of CWD. It hasn't spread very much since they passed tight laws on baiting so grouping up by feeders will spread CWD. BIL retired from the DNR a couple years ago. Of course he knows everything there is to know so I try to avoid asking him any question which would allow him to talk down to me... Quote:
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