We have been feeding corn to deer for several years now and have tried several different things from putting the corn on a flat rock, five gallon buckets on the ground, PVC pipe with buckets, a version of the bump feeder and commercial spinner feeders.

For us the best set-up has been a commercial spinner on a galvanized garbage can hanging from a tripod with a winch to lower and raise the feeder. We also had to build large diameter varmint cages to keep the raccoons from stealing from us.

We use timed and dusk/dawn spinners because we want to decide how much corn is used, if we let them eat it free choice they'll eat us out of money, galvanized cans because squirrels chewed through the plastic barrels and emptied them, we hang it from a tripod because we like to move the feeder out of the mudholes and with a winch because we grew real tired of climbing a ladder to fill the feeder.