View Poll Results: What is your prefered method of feeding corn to your deer herd?
Timed Feeder
13
32.50%
Gravity Feeder
4
10.00%
Placed on Ground
23
57.50%
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Feeding Deer
10-26-2009, 07:37 AM
#21
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Texas
Posts: 2,695
hehehe
hey thats me LOL
Back to feeding. if you have the opportunity of being on your place or hunting area all the time, spreading corn out on the ground is better than a timed feeder. But if your not there all the time a feeder is the only way to do it.
Deer are much less leary around feed spread on the ground than a feeder, dont know why but it seems they know a contraption spreading corn is not natural, and danger is near.
hey thats me LOL
Back to feeding. if you have the opportunity of being on your place or hunting area all the time, spreading corn out on the ground is better than a timed feeder. But if your not there all the time a feeder is the only way to do it.
Deer are much less leary around feed spread on the ground than a feeder, dont know why but it seems they know a contraption spreading corn is not natural, and danger is near.
10-26-2009, 09:48 AM
#22
Fork Horn
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Kansas
Posts: 282
I am not sure that I "totally" agree with this. The feeder is just like farm machinery, they get used to it pretty quickly. I am sure at first it is wierd to them but they get adjusted to it.
10-26-2009, 10:24 AM
#23
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Fulton county IL USA
Posts: 4,271
True, it would be very nice to have the option to provide supplemental food sources during periods of high stress, such as late winter and early spring.... if our state allowed it. I believe it can be a great step to the ultimate management plan.
10-26-2009, 11:21 AM
#24
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: North Louisiana
Posts: 3,050
I usually try to have at least one feeder going most of the year, except during turkey season. I like to give the critters a little extra to eat during the Winter. I bow hunt some on a feeder, but not always. I never gun hunt a feeder. By that time, the deer are keying on acorns anyway and rarely come to a feeder during daylight hours, if then. I don't get why it is so immoral to some of you to hunt a feeder or corn scattered on the ground. As long as it is legal, it shouldn't concern you. How do we know the Indians didn't use corn as bait?
10-26-2009, 11:31 AM
#25
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: The Republic of Texas
Posts: 11,900
yeah, its natural to find a big scattered area of corn in the middle of the woods!!! I guess the indians should of came up with that idea, then they might not be so over populated. I prefer to scout and find the deer instead of putting something out that gives me an unfair advantage. Old school son, old school...........
That you Tred? How do you know the Indians didn't bait with corn?
10-26-2009, 01:27 PM
#26
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Oakland OR USA
Posts: 2,929
We tried using feeders but the turkeys were there all the time and the deer got nothing . Then we went to scattering it on the ground with the same results turkeys were always there first . finally figured if we spread it just before dark the deer would get some of it ,seemed to work pretty good so far .
10-26-2009, 02:56 PM
#27
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Texas
Posts: 2,695
