excited about setting up new deer feeder
05-24-2010, 12:49 PM
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excited about setting up new deer feeder
I just ordered my first deer feeder last night, hopefully it comes by this weekend.
I got a 30 gallon feeder, which by my calculations will hold about 160 lbs of corn (guesstimated based on the fact that a 50 lb bag of corn is a shade more than two 5 gallon buckets).
So the thing is that the property I am going to set it up on is about 1.5 hours from home, so I want to set my feeder up to go about 3 or 4 weeks between refills. If I set it to throw about 5.5 lbs/day, that is about 4 weeks. If I set it to throw about 7.5 lbs/day, that is about 3 weeks. If I set it to throw about 11.5 lbs/day, that is about 2 weeks.
I am actually setting this up to hunt hogs, and I am wondering if you guys with experience could clue me in to whether 5.5 lbs per day would be enough to keep hogs coming back.
Also, when should I set the timer. It seems to me that since I'll be hunting almost exclusively in the evenings, that I should maybe set it to dispense once about an hour before dark and once about 30 minutes before dark.
Any suggestions?
I got a 30 gallon feeder, which by my calculations will hold about 160 lbs of corn (guesstimated based on the fact that a 50 lb bag of corn is a shade more than two 5 gallon buckets).
So the thing is that the property I am going to set it up on is about 1.5 hours from home, so I want to set my feeder up to go about 3 or 4 weeks between refills. If I set it to throw about 5.5 lbs/day, that is about 4 weeks. If I set it to throw about 7.5 lbs/day, that is about 3 weeks. If I set it to throw about 11.5 lbs/day, that is about 2 weeks.
I am actually setting this up to hunt hogs, and I am wondering if you guys with experience could clue me in to whether 5.5 lbs per day would be enough to keep hogs coming back.
Also, when should I set the timer. It seems to me that since I'll be hunting almost exclusively in the evenings, that I should maybe set it to dispense once about an hour before dark and once about 30 minutes before dark.
Any suggestions?
