I used both. It seems like the bucks came to the pipe gravity feeders better. My spin cast all run on AA batteries. It sucked changing batteries. I may invest in the solar panels this summer. It would get expensive using nothing but gravity feeders even with out low deer density. I set my spin cast to go off at 845 am and 405pm. I rarely hunted over them but hunted trails 300 yds away and that seemed to be the ticket.

You have to put a cage around the spinner so they only get corn when you want them to get corn.

I have an All Seasons stand & fill with a solar panel. No battery failures or changes in over a year.

I adjust the spin time based on deer traffic. Early summer, when they have plenty of browse, it runs 1 sec twice a day. Heavy feeding, I bump it up to 15-20 seconds twice a day.

I personally think during season spinners are the way to go. Make them out of 55 gallon drums. Put a flange on the bottom attach a moultrie all in one spinner on it and put a cage around it. We had 5 of these and they been going off twice a day since October on the same 4 lithium batteries. About $100 and deer are there waiting for it to go off every morning and every evening.

I’ve got the bigger type moultrie feeders. I love them because I can control how much feed is going out and I put the deer on a schedule. I had to fill them up about every month in a half

All seasons and green go both sell timed gravity type feeders. Same as spin cast you set the time and amount to drop into the trough. I bought a all seasons this year. So far they are slower to get used to it than the banks gravity feeder.

Pretty sure you have made the exact same feeder I made...works great! That little spinner with a big cage around it means the Coons can't reach in far enough to touch it.

I had 2 gravity and one spinner. Lots of does and babies. Some barley horned bucks but zero mature or even mid aged bucks around the spinner. Had it set for 7 am and noon. No difference in time of deer movement that I saw with it. I’m going trough and maybe boss buck gravity next year.

I have a Moultrie that can be either a spin or gravity.

I've got a few spin feeders from tractor supply. They have the 6 volt battery. I use the single solar panel that was purchased at tractor supply as well. They batteries have remained fully charged throughout the season

I've got a boss buck gravity feeder and two homemade trough feeders. For some reason I get more mature bucks coming to the boss buck than the troughs. It did take them a few weeks to get comfortable enough to use the boss buck, but now it serves as a deer super highway. More tracks around the boss buck than anywhere else on my place. The boss buck is placed in a slightly more secluded spot so that may have something to do with the usage aspect, not sure. Another year running some cameras will tell me more.

A spinner is useless if you don’t keep the coons out.

They're all worthless if you don't keep the coons out. I have pictures of spinner feeders with coons hanging from the motor, pictures of them hanging from the head of gravity feeders, videos of them climbing the steel legs to get to the motors and heads, and videos of 4 at a time sitting in a trough-style feeder pigging out. If you have a high coon population, it doesn't much matter what type feeder you use.

You can put out a broadcast feeder and I can put out a gravity feeder within 300 yards and I can promise you ill have more deer show up at my buffet than you will picking thru leaves. coon are easy to take care of put a couple DP traps around baited with corn youll be rid of them in short time.

I have just put mine on the gravity. It took them about a week to get the hang of it.

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put two out and catch two out every night til you thin them down...place beside their trail going to the feeder...I use marshmallows

How tall would a trough feeder need to be to keep hogs out? If you can.
Generally speaking. Or, how tall is too tall for deer?

In N.W. Fl. I went to gravity versus broadcast last year I wont go back to broadcast. I found bigger bucks didn't want the hassle of competing with several deer for some corn, now they get as much as they want.

I have a total of 6 spin feeders (All Seasons and Foreverlast) and have been very happy with them. The initial cost per feeder was more compared to the Moultrie feeders I've used in the past, but corn loss to coons was minimal and I only had to fill them 2x during season. IMO the $$$ saved on corn and the reduced pressure of having to fill feeders every other week was well worth the extra cost per feeder. My feeders are set for 7am and 4pm and we saw more bucks during daylight hours this year than any other season the last 10 years. I've used troughs in the past, but will never use again due to hogs and coons.