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re: What is your opinion on the use of feeders?
Posted on 4/25/13 at 10:45 am to mylsuhat
Posted on 4/25/13 at 10:45 am to mylsuhat
I have trail cam photos of some big deer at the feeder, but it is very rare to see. I was always taught to never look at the feeder while hunting because the big deer won't come to it. That is why you put the feeder in a good spot where there would be deer traffic regardless.
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Posted on 4/25/13 at 10:46 am to AlxTgr
quote:the picture of the decapitated doe was way too graphic and gory for TD
Dude, you have a light saber?
You'd be amazed how much blood the heart pumps out the neck after the head is removed
Posted on 4/25/13 at 10:46 am to mylsuhat
You use futuristic weapons and you bitch at us for using feeders?
Posted on 4/25/13 at 10:50 am to mcneil912
I use them some places. Increases your chances of seeing does and other critters and getting pics. Can make the hunt more entertaining. Don't think I've ever seen a buck, other than some small ones, at the feeder. I don't use then to attract bucks.
Posted on 4/25/13 at 10:52 am to Slickback
Posted on 4/25/13 at 10:52 am to mcneil912
I don't think feeders are as effective in The southeast as they are in arid western states. I've never seen deer come running to my feeder. But I've seen hunts on TV from west texas and they come running like they haven't eaten in weeks.
Posted on 4/25/13 at 10:53 am to mcneil912
Those bucks must have some disease. Look at all that mold on their antlers.
Posted on 4/25/13 at 10:54 am to Nodust
quote:because its their only source of nutrition
But I've seen hunts on TV from west texas and they come running like they haven't eaten in weeks.
we have green grasses year round over here
Posted on 4/25/13 at 10:54 am to mcneil912
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hunter from Utah, where the use of feeders is illegal.
He argued that it is synonymous to cheating. Like shooting fish in a barrel.
All you need to know. Only those who have never hunted over a feeder would ever consider them to be cheating. (I am not talking about high fence operations where the deer come running to a feeder because it is the only real source of food.)
We basically use feeders to keep the does around. The best luck we have had with any feed is to throw a few handfuls across a trail that will get a buck to stop long enough to get a shot. "Hey, corn!" BAM!
Posted on 4/25/13 at 11:05 am to TigerDeacon
On property about 200 acres in the south surrounded on all sides by properties that hunt its just another way to increase deer numbers and visibility
You'll never see the big bucks there during season and makes for a decent attractant if you don't have access to a tractor to plant year round food plots
You'll never see the big bucks there during season and makes for a decent attractant if you don't have access to a tractor to plant year round food plots
Posted on 4/25/13 at 11:09 am to AlxTgr
We have protein feeders that are filled the last day of the season and usually fill the last time in September during work weekends. We used to hunt stricly feeders and shot fewer deer every season. Now we see 10-15 deer every hunt. We hunt in Mississippi so feed is abundant. Now Texas is a different story.
Posted on 4/25/13 at 11:12 am to mcneil912
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The land I hunt on has no high fences, so it isn't like they are caged, tame animals.
Posted on 4/25/13 at 11:17 am to mcneil912
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I have trail cam photos of some big deer at the feeder, but it is very rare to see.
Pre rut and post rut is when they will come to feeders
Posted on 4/25/13 at 11:21 am to MillerMan
At least you took the collars off for the pic 
Posted on 4/25/13 at 11:22 am to MillerMan
I don't hunt over them. We let the women and kids. I feel they are almost mandatory since adjacent camps feed. Our course it does help that we kept all our white oaks and they clearcut their shite. Once they start dropping, their corn and food plots aren't shite.
Posted on 4/25/13 at 11:25 am to Nodust
i'm actually standing out of the frame to the right, the big boy is coming over to eat an apple out of my hand This post was edited on 4/25/13 at 11:25 am
Posted on 4/25/13 at 11:31 am to MillerMan
Then why did you roll your eyes at my "tame" comment?
Posted on 4/25/13 at 11:34 am to mcneil912
Do you really think i'm standing there about to feed that deer an apple?
Posted on 4/25/13 at 11:37 am to MillerMan
Posted on 4/25/13 at 11:40 am to MillerMan
Actually yes. I thought you were saying that was in a high fence place. I have a video of HUGE deer walking calmly all around a side by side and yes you could feed them if you wanted.
This post was edited on 4/25/13 at 11:41 am
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