I made a drop feeder today. I took a 5 gallon bucket, drilled a hole in the center of the bottom, took a 3 ft long 1" PVC with a T on one end, slid it through the hole, hung it from a tree. Now when the pipe moves corn falls through the pipe. Works well. Im also going to make one like Bandhunter mentioned. I have a coon problem so hopefully the drop feeder will work.

Here's one I made with a twice a day spinner. It holds 300lbs of corn.

http://www.racksnspurs.com/images/feeder.jpg

I went walking today and found a 4" PVC feeder that was strapped to a fallen tree. I took it of course. So I can test the PVC feeders as well.

I much prefer broadcast feeders to from a tube/where all the deer feed from 1 or 2 openings.....

If you're fairly handy, you can buy the broadcast spread part, and attach it to your own grain bin, ie a garbage can, or a 55 gallon drum, then hang it from a stout branch or on some legs, rather than buying a 100-150 feeder I think you can get the spreader motor etc....for maybe 30 bucks, and you'd have a great set up, just cut a hold int he bottom of the bin to feed to the spinner/motor and spread away! can always order a replacement setup from one of the pre made's if you can't find just a spreader.

the only drawback with the pvc feeder is that the whole thing could be eaten up in one night b/c there is nothing keeping the deer from feeding until it is gone, therefore you better be around often to fill it back up, the deer will also realize that there is corn there all day long and will just go at night to feed when they feel safer, we used to use these and also had a terrible coon and squirrel problem with them. What we now use is a homemade feeder similar to ones sold at stores for $300, all we did was take a 55 gallon drum, bolt 3 steel legs into the sides about 8 feet long, cut a hole in the bottom of the barrel and attach an electric broadcaster to it that dumps out corn twice a day, they are at cabelas for about 30 bucks, it can hold about 300-400 lbs of corn and works great, once the feeder goes off the deer come in like its dinner time, we have 2 of these on our land and love them, only costs about $50 for it, instead of several hundred at the store to buy a premade one

Yeah I agree there. I'm just trying not to spend a bunch right now. Both feeders I have costed about $5 total from me looking around. I'm just trying to get rid of coons and bring deer in. The hanging feeder with hopefully do this.