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Re: Gravity or Spin Feeders?
[Re: jaredhunts]
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08/03/20 08:18 PM
08/03/20 08:18 PM
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Joined: Dec 2015
Posts: 22,168 blount county alabama
jwalker77
Pumpkin
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Pumpkin
Joined: Dec 2015
Posts: 22,168
blount county alabama
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It's hard to keep a gravity feeder or trough full. Pricy too. I was thinking exactly the opposite on the gravity feeder. Deer around here will eat 50-100lb a night on the ground. I switched to a gravity feeder to cut down on coons a little. It didnt stop them but I bet it cut down what the coons were getting by 95%. Very little waste. Not every deer is going to eat out of a gravity feeder. It took a few weeks for my deer to acclimate. I get dozens of pics every night now, just like the spinner. Never had a trough feeder
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Re: Gravity or Spin Feeders?
[Re: billw1069]
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08/03/20 08:20 PM
08/03/20 08:20 PM
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Joined: Mar 2003
Posts: 5,914 Pine Hill, Al
Todd1700
12 point
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12 point
Joined: Mar 2003
Posts: 5,914
Pine Hill, Al
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We have had spin feeders out for many years. I have kept game cameras at all of them for most of that time. Most of what I have gotten pictures of at spin feeders were does and small bucks. If I got a picture of a good buck it was typically very late at night.
On the other hand there was one place near my fathers cow pasture where he used to just pour out some corn every day after he got through feeding his cows. I have an album of buck pictures from that spot going all the way back to when you had to have film from game cameras developed. I got 10 times more pictures of big bucks at that spot than at all the spin feeder sites combined. Why? Can't say for sure but it just seemed as if the really old bucks were more leary about coming in to the spin feeders.
Last edited by Todd1700; 08/03/20 08:20 PM.
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Re: Gravity or Spin Feeders?
[Re: billw1069]
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08/03/20 08:52 PM
08/03/20 08:52 PM
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Joined: Nov 2013
Posts: 2,635 Montgomery, AL
Forrestgump1
10 point
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10 point
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Posts: 2,635
Montgomery, AL
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If you go spin route, I’d advised building your own. If you don’t you will pay a pretty good price tag for a quality unit. 55 gal metal barrel and a high quality spinner and your good to go. I feed mine twice a day for about 5 seconds each. I’ll fill up before bow season and fill up again in December. I use to have gravity feeders and went to spin. Equally got pics of bucks utilizing each in the days and at night. I was refilling the gravity every two to three weeks. Doing the math I saved a ton of money and the deer weren’t complaining.
Last edited by Forrestgump1; 08/03/20 08:53 PM.
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Re: Gravity or Spin Feeders?
[Re: billw1069]
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08/03/20 09:12 PM
08/03/20 09:12 PM
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Posts: 10,988 Earth
TDog93
Booner
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Booner
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Posts: 10,988
Earth
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That is what I found to be true Todd - when I use to live in both FL and Arky - those guys have fed deer for years - we are just starting legally. They all commented in the clubs I got In - good bucks do not like the electrical noise of a feeder - you will get pictures of does and small bucks but nothing good In daylight. What I also learned - good bucks don’t like electrical!!!! When I pour on ground especially in the woods - you will see what you got on your place - May take several weeks - but good buck show up when I pour it on the ground. Some guys may get good bucks on the camera with electrical feeder on here - but I Never had luck with it. They use to say you had to raise buck on the electrical feeder to get him to come to it when he is older. I never gave it that much time - don’t do electrical for the scare factor. Everybody is different and whatever works for you though.
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Re: Gravity or Spin Feeders?
[Re: billw1069]
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08/03/20 10:44 PM
08/03/20 10:44 PM
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Posts: 434 Baldwin
collardncornbread
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4 point
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Posts: 434
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Soo... Good post. I have a hanging spin feeder. Last season I bought the permit to hunt around bait. I never had a big buck on film. I had a spike and 6 does with yearlings feed constantly under it,but the only big bucks we're about 200 yards away where I scattered it on the ground. Even then they usually didn't come to it the same day I put it out. I did have a spin feeder on a tripod leg set. It lasted about a week. Then one night I got a pic of a spike running under it. The next day I found the feeder turned over with one leg broke off..LOL. I think it came on while he was feeding and it spooked him. I didn't bother putting it back up.
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Re: Gravity or Spin Feeders?
[Re: billw1069]
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08/04/20 06:13 AM
08/04/20 06:13 AM
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Posts: 5,651 Lincoln, Alabama
blumsden
12 point
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12 point
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Posts: 5,651
Lincoln, Alabama
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I'm going to install a couple of elevated feeders, where they are hooked to a cable and by using a boat trailer winch elevate them up 12ft or so. No legs to spook deer. I'm thinking it will be like just pouring it out on the ground. We'll see if it works on mature bucks. Feed at daylight only, and throw for 20 seconds. Should keep coons away from the spinner.
Last edited by blumsden; 08/04/20 06:15 AM.
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Re: Gravity or Spin Feeders?
[Re: blumsden]
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08/04/20 06:52 AM
08/04/20 06:52 AM
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Joined: Dec 2015
Posts: 22,168 blount county alabama
jwalker77
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I'm going to install a couple of elevated feeders, where they are hooked to a cable and by using a boat trailer winch elevate them up 12ft or so. No legs to spook deer. I'm thinking it will be like just pouring it out on the ground. We'll see if it works on mature bucks. Feed at daylight only, and throw for 20 seconds. Should keep coons away from the spinner. They might take to it and they might think its a trap. Ive seen it work both ways. I think some of them are afraid a nets gona shoot out of the bottom of it.
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Re: Gravity or Spin Feeders?
[Re: jaredhunts]
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08/04/20 06:54 AM
08/04/20 06:54 AM
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Posts: 100 Mobile Alabama
Taylorwelch
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3 point
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Posts: 100
Mobile Alabama
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My local co-op has some stuff called rack attack I like to use in mine. It has Whole roasted soy beans, peanuts, protein pellets, and corn. They love it! It doesn’t get stopped up in the feeder either.
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Re: Gravity or Spin Feeders?
[Re: billw1069]
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08/04/20 07:58 AM
08/04/20 07:58 AM
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Posts: 52,216 Gee's Bend/At The Hog Pen
James
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Posts: 52,216
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My local co-op has some stuff called rack attack I like to use in mine. It has Whole roasted soy beans, peanuts, protein pellets, and corn. They love it! It doesn’t get stopped up in the feeder either. Must've just started adding roasted soy beans to the mix recently, cause i don't recall that being in the mix ( I'm referring to the one G&D mixes themselves) when i first started using it.
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