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Re: Do spin feeders spook deer?
[Re: red neck richie]
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09/04/20 01:39 PM
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No, spin feeders won't scare deer. They get used to them, just like they get used to hunters coming and going, vehicles, tractors and other stuff.
Mature bucks also will come to feeders.
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Re: Do spin feeders spook deer?
[Re: red neck richie]
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09/04/20 10:27 PM
09/04/20 10:27 PM
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You couldn’t be more wrong. It’s absolutely possible to get mature 5yo deer to eat at a feeder. You just have to start when those mature deer are yearlings. I have 4.5 yo deer at feeders regularly but those same deer have been eating at feeders for 4 years now.
To say I’m wrong is a little out there. Anything could happen, that’s what makes hunting fun. Playing the odds it won’t happen though. How many 5+ year old bucks did you kill over your feeders last year? Oldest buck I have killed at a feeder was professionally aged at 7.5 years. I have killed 6 that were over 4.5 in the last few years that were at feeders of that were eating from feed spread in the previous 1-2 hours, and I have seen 40+ bucks over 4.5 years old at feeders, just not deer I was allowed to shoot as a guest on that club. Again, it's what they get used to seeing/hearing. I do not believe that you would have a good chance killing a 5 year old the first season that a feeder is in operation, but once it has been running for 5+ years, they are used to it. The key is year round operation. I never let mine stop running, just adjust the time down when feed starts to build up. I have also killed mature bucks within hours of filling a feeder, but it is in areas where they are used to feeders being filled, as well as after using a road feeder on my way to the blind. Texas? Yup, for the most part. Also in South Carolina. Texas is the acid test for what mature deer will/won't do, as they have been running feeders longer than any other state. I am attempting to duplicate this behavior on my place now.
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Re: Do spin feeders spook deer?
[Re: Clem]
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09/05/20 06:18 AM
09/05/20 06:18 AM
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No, spin feeders won't scare deer. They get used to them, just like they get used to hunters coming and going, vehicles, tractors and other stuff.
Mature bucks also will come to feeders.
I think it depends on how long they've been exposed to them . Put one out in the hardwoods where deer haven't ever seen one this fall and expect to stack up mature bucks standing under them waiting on breakfast and you'll be disappointed .
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Re: Do spin feeders spook deer?
[Re: red neck richie]
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09/05/20 08:53 AM
09/05/20 08:53 AM
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Mature bucks avoid the middle of food plots you been killing every doe that steps out on. If they are avoiding it, it’s because you have it in the wrong place for the most part.
I like to buy the feeders that you can hang, and I generally put them high in an oak tree, nearest I can to a thick spot, where there is already a trail system I know bucks use, and that I can access using the prevailing wind I plan on hunting the area to access undetected. This scenario is usually a good trail crossing a saddle on a south facing ridge. They are usually crossing from East to west or west to East. I try to approach from the south on a north or northwest wind. If you put your cameras on the south side of the trail, the only time you have to put your scent where you are feeding is when you have to add feed to the feeder.
Hang your feeder about 10’ up in the air, as close to the base of the tree as possible or up amongst other branches.
If you do all this, you’ll see more bucks at your feeder.
If someone parked a truck in your kitchen last night, when you woke up this morning and eased down the hallway, you reckon you’d notice it and be suspicious? Same way with a deer and a gigantic corn feeder stuck in a plot all of a sudden right before hunting season opens.
I’ll add this, the smaller the plot, the more intimidating the feeder likely is to a mature deer. Put it in the middle of a big field, they will still avoid it likely, but they may still come in the plot and feed. I’m talking about acres versus 1/4 to 1/2 acre plots.
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Re: Do spin feeders spook deer?
[Re: red neck richie]
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09/05/20 10:31 PM
09/05/20 10:31 PM
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JustHunt
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I have mature deer trying to eat the corn out of spin feeders when it hasn’t spun out as much as they want. They come religiously every day at all different times. But we don’t shoot deer off of feeders. Maybe they feel comfortable. I don’t know.
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Re: Do spin feeders spook deer?
[Re: red neck richie]
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09/27/20 10:19 PM
09/27/20 10:19 PM
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Deer act different On either Side of my property On one side I got deer (Bucks) sticking their snout up in gravity spout (Feeding)
Other side and I never pulled the trigger on that side of property - the deer act scared of the feeder and this is it’s second year out - just took camera off that feeder to try to help it
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Re: Do spin feeders spook deer?
[Re: red neck richie]
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09/29/20 08:05 PM
09/29/20 08:05 PM
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Put some in acreages where deer have never been exposed to them and see what it does to mature bucks during hunting season.
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