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Anyone have any suggestions on good homemade deer feeders? Pictures would be nice as well.

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here i something i drew with autocad, i saw this in the woods once.

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i see this a lot too

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Should it be 4" pipe? That way their snout wont get stuck.

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Here is what I made. I have 35 bucks in each one.

http://huntingindiana.proboards52.com/index.cgi?
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ya know i don't remember how big it was. i would guess 6 or 8 inches, if you go buy one you will have to make the call, if not someone here might be able to answer that. also i would drill some small holes in the bottom cap, i assume rain may come in the 2 openings a little bit.

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I have a plumber friend that made me 4 of them...They are 5 feet long (he cut a 10 foot in two)...He used a 2 way split at the bottom...They hold about 20 pounds of corn, deer will eat out of them in just a day or two...At the top, he used a screw on top and drilled 5-6 1/4 inch holes in the bottom cap so water will drain out...

I used to use mechanical feeders, 2 got stolen...I see more deer during the day with the pipes, it takes awhile for deer to get used to the mechanical going off..

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4" PVC cap on top, elbow, cut about 1/3 of the bottom cap so it gravity feeds out. Cheap.

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We have made the pipe feeders using a 5 ft. piece of 6" PVC with a cap on top and a 90 degree elbow that reduces to 4" PVC about 18" long with an end cap. Cut out the top half of the 4" pipe to create a trough and drill holes in bottom to let the rainwater drain. The 6" will hold more corn.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.