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Re: Gravity Vs Spin Feeders
[Re: Coosa1]
#3491240
09/20/21 09:15 AM
09/20/21 09:15 AM
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Joined: Mar 2013
Posts: 14,621 Clanton
Turkey_neck
Booner
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Booner
Joined: Mar 2013
Posts: 14,621
Clanton
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Took mine almost a year and two years later the bucks still won’t touch it.
Would walk over a naked woman to get to a gobblin turkey!
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Re: Gravity Vs Spin Feeders
[Re: Coosa1]
#3491271
09/20/21 10:02 AM
09/20/21 10:02 AM
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Joined: Nov 2002
Posts: 6,631 Moulton,AL
Snuffy
14 point
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14 point
Joined: Nov 2002
Posts: 6,631
Moulton,AL
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I prefer spin feeders. Having the ability to set timer seems to increase daytime movement. Gravity feeders not only encourage night time movement, the deer eat a lot more corn. You also feed more corn to coons and squirrels.
If you always do what you've always done you always get what you've always got
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Re: Gravity Vs Spin Feeders
[Re: Beer Belly]
#3491444
09/20/21 02:23 PM
09/20/21 02:23 PM
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Joined: Aug 2018
Posts: 5,207 Georgia and Missouri
Semo
12 point
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12 point
Joined: Aug 2018
Posts: 5,207
Georgia and Missouri
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I used a 31gal silver metal trash can from home depot. Did not paint it, cut a hole in the bottom side so a golf ball can easily go in and out. Used a can of great stuff to create a form a ramp on the back side. Tied it to a tree, and filled it with corn (holds ~160lbs - if I remember correctly), slung a bunch of corn around it. Took ~2 days for them to find it and start using it. Does & young bucks did seem to hit it first, then the older bucks didn't care.
My next one will be a 55 gal drum with an open top & lid. I am going to glue/caulk a big salad bowl upside down in the middle & cut 2-4 hole in the bottom sides.
I don't seem to have a coon, hog, or bear problems over 3 years (yet). So it works good for me. May not be a good option in other areas.
Out in KS years ago when I dabbled working for an outfitter the feeders were all 55 gallon drums with 2 six inch tall "U"s cut on opposite sides about an inch up from the bottom. Bend the U cutout to control how much they could stick their mouths in. Seemed to work just fine.
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Re: Gravity Vs Spin Feeders
[Re: Forrestgump1]
#3491668
09/20/21 06:35 PM
09/20/21 06:35 PM
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Joined: Dec 2015
Posts: 22,153 blount county alabama
jwalker77
Pumpkin
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Pumpkin
Joined: Dec 2015
Posts: 22,153
blount county alabama
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I haven’t seen anything work as well as casting a couple hundred pounds over a food plot though. Before i start hunting, after Christmas, ill spread a cyclone spreader full(250-300lb) about every four days across an acre or so about 150yds in front of my shooting house. You would be amazed how it has increased my deer sightings
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Re: Gravity Vs Spin Feeders
[Re: Snuffy]
#3491679
09/20/21 06:46 PM
09/20/21 06:46 PM
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Joined: Apr 2021
Posts: 1,292 In the woods
Here4fun
8 point
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8 point
Joined: Apr 2021
Posts: 1,292
In the woods
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I prefer spin feeders. Having the ability to set timer seems to increase daytime movement. Gravity feeders not only encourage night time movement, the deer eat a lot more corn. You also feed more corn to coons and squirrels. This. I have run both and just converted to all spin feeders.
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Re: Gravity Vs Spin Feeders
[Re: Coosa1]
#3492584
09/21/21 08:56 PM
09/21/21 08:56 PM
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Joined: Apr 2003
Posts: 3,294 Autaugaville
trailertrash
10 point
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10 point
Joined: Apr 2003
Posts: 3,294
Autaugaville
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The real question is can you afford a gravity feeder.....?
Last edited by trailertrash; 09/21/21 08:56 PM.
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Re: Gravity Vs Spin Feeders
[Re: trailertrash]
#3492590
09/21/21 08:57 PM
09/21/21 08:57 PM
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Joined: Nov 2011
Posts: 21,782 USA
Remington270
Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
Joined: Nov 2011
Posts: 21,782
USA
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The real question is can you afford a gravity feeder.....? Not right now. Will cost you more than your kids, and that's honestly not a joke.
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Re: Gravity Vs Spin Feeders
[Re: Coosa1]
#3493116
09/22/21 07:29 PM
09/22/21 07:29 PM
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Joined: Aug 2006
Posts: 9,793 The Boonies a.k.a. Pickens cou...
300gr
8 point
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8 point
Joined: Aug 2006
Posts: 9,793
The Boonies a.k.a. Pickens cou...
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I prefer to load up my 350 pound hopper on the pull spreader and go to it. Down bushhogged roads and some in green fields
Two roads diverged in the woods and I took the one with deep ruts,hills and mud.It may be bumpy but WHAT A RIDE!
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