Actually, I hunt both ways. When the acorn crop is good, I take full advantage of it. Deer are not much interested in a feeder when they can get fat on the white oak bombs that fall out of the trees.

Also, I can tell that a lot of the critics of hunting with a feeder obviously have never done it. On our land I bet it is harder to kill our four deer a year limit by onlysitting and watching a feeder than it is to kill 9 or 10 deer a year in a deer a day state like Alabama. That is why I utilize different types of hunting. To me it can get pretty boring watching a feeder especially when you may go a week or moreand not see a deer. Once you burn out a stand site, a feeder is not going to help much.

Unless the feeder is placed on an already scouted out travel route, all you will be feeding is hogs when the corn piles up and sours.

You willnot see a big buck at a feeder in the daytime. In fact, deer will go nocturnal around a feeder. That is when your chances are better hunting in a tree over trails, scrapes, rub lines, etc. That is probably the only way you are going to kill a good buck anyway.

My primary reason for huntingwith a feeder is to compete with the other land that borders our 500 acres because all of the other landis littered with them. It is kind of a necessary evil for me, but if hunting with feeders made hunting as easy a some people say, I would tag out the first week every year.

Actually, if easy hunting was a sin, I think it should be banned in a state likeAlabama.
If 25 or 30 year olds can already have 100-200 deer to their name, then maybe it is just a little too easy.


C. Davis