we use the broadcast kind as well. Having the corn spread out allows for more game to eat and also avoids the close quarters that has potentially been linked to spread of disease. I'm not sure where you are located, but where ours are, in the UP of Michigan, coons aren't the problem, it's the damn bears. They can really beat up a feeder. The spreaders are the way to go though for keeping an area baited with less maintainence. Our camp is about 50 miles away, so it got costly to go up every other day to bait, so we went with the spreaders and it has been real nice.