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How often?
#3546477
12/05/21 08:37 AM
12/05/21 08:37 AM
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Joined: Jan 2017
Posts: 546
Columbus ms
Huntnwork
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4 point
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4 point
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Columbus ms
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So how often is acceptable to most to fill a feeder and check a camera? I have six feeders on our lease. 3 with timers with solar 2 gravity and 1 trough. They are “strategically” placed in fields, thickets and open woods as far from the stand as possible yet still easily accessible by atv. We fill them and check camera every 4-5 weeks year round in hopes of getting the deer in a routine of seeing or hearing us at them. Does it work? I dunno but i enjoy doing it and we usually have deer at them at some point day and night year round. Now a feeder isn’t a guarantee we will see a deer while hunting but I don’t think it hurts our chances. Sometimes we see 10 sometime nothing. Too many variables to pin point the reason why some deer come regularly and some only come on Tuesday night. So far the only thing I’ve learned is that our deer don’t like rice bran.
Workin for the man, huntin when I can.
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Re: How often?
[Re: Huntnwork]
#3546489
12/05/21 08:56 AM
12/05/21 08:56 AM
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Joined: Nov 2002
Posts: 6,627
Moulton,AL
Snuffy
14 point
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14 point
Joined: Nov 2002
Posts: 6,627
Moulton,AL
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Personally we use all cell cameras and spin feeders. We hunt strictly by wind direction, stay out of the woods and go straight to the stands. We kill mature bucks every year but we are very selective on what we shoot and we don’t kill does.
If you always do what you've always done you always get what you've always got
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Re: How often?
[Re: Huntnwork]
#3546553
12/05/21 09:54 AM
12/05/21 09:54 AM
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Joined: Nov 2014
Posts: 4,161
chilton, co.
hayman
10 point
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10 point
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Posts: 4,161
chilton, co.
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I can’t go any longer than 2 weeks on my spin feeder and I have it set to feed twice a day for 10 seconds. The deer and coons have figured out how to spin the plate and get corn. I have another section of legs for it but I can’t fill it with them installed.On my gravity feeders it’s about a week and a half some don’t last that long.
“Everything Woke Turns To SH_T” Donald J. Trump
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Re: How often?
[Re: Huntnwork]
#3546578
12/05/21 10:19 AM
12/05/21 10:19 AM
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Joined: Mar 2013
Posts: 14,617
Clanton
Turkey_neck
Booner
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Booner
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Clanton
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I check mine every week. If I don’t they get stopped up, battery dies or run out of corn.
Would walk over a naked woman to get to a gobblin turkey!
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Re: How often?
[Re: jwalker77]
#3546606
12/05/21 10:47 AM
12/05/21 10:47 AM
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Joined: Sep 2014
Posts: 1,277
Slocomb,Al
Young20
8 point
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8 point
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Posts: 1,277
Slocomb,Al
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I fill mine when theyre empty and check my cameras when i want to. Theres grown deer coming to them every day, or night rather. I have no idea how to get a bunch of deer to come out in the middle of the day. I figure thats the real question behind the question here. I think its just a little too populated with people where i hunt. Around here alot of deer will come out late in the evening. Quite a few will linger around the first few minutes after daylight. Some will come out for a bite in the daylight hours. Only pattern ive noticed around here is more deer move when its quiet. Usually, if youre gona see bucks out cruising in the daylight around here, itll be right after the bus runs and everyone has gone to work. Theres a couple hours of quiet time before the people who stay home during the day usually get out. Thats when ive seen the most buck movement during the day, other than that its just low light times. I have no idea how it works in the big woods. Totally agree with jwalker. I'm hunting small parcels in Geneva county. All of them are close to paved or dirt roads with fairly busy traffic. Obviously, when the rut is wide open, I have the best chance of seeing a decent buck during the day. Otherwise, first light or just before dark are the best times. My cameras back me up on this and, what they record, doesn't change much whether I check them every few days or every couple of weeks.
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Re: How often?
[Re: Huntnwork]
#3546608
12/05/21 10:49 AM
12/05/21 10:49 AM
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Joined: Mar 2018
Posts: 16,825
Banana Republic
jb20
Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
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Banana Republic
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I think I've screwed up my best 2 deer by going and feeding...hoping it's just the weather but they been every night consistent until the last time i put corn out
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Ben Franklin
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Re: How often?
[Re: Semo]
#3546618
12/05/21 11:01 AM
12/05/21 11:01 AM
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Posts: 14,299
ArmPit of the south
DeerNutz0U812_
Booner
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Booner
Joined: Sep 2012
Posts: 14,299
ArmPit of the south
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Seems like the only solution is to do all feeding and camera operations at night. Thats when I do mine....I've walked right up on them at nite and it dont seem to bugger them up too bad and it dont associate me out there in the daylight...
Did you know that Beer Nutz are over a Dollar...and Deer Nutz are under a Buck...
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Re: How often?
[Re: jb20]
#3546619
12/05/21 11:01 AM
12/05/21 11:01 AM
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Joined: Mar 2013
Posts: 14,617
Clanton
Turkey_neck
Booner
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Booner
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Clanton
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I think I've screwed up my best 2 deer by going and feeding...hoping it's just the weather but they been every night consistent until the last time i put corn out They are just being deer.
Would walk over a naked woman to get to a gobblin turkey!
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Re: How often?
[Re: Semo]
#3546634
12/05/21 11:14 AM
12/05/21 11:14 AM
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Joined: Jun 2012
Posts: 21,748
Awbarn, AL
CNC
Dances With Weeds
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Dances With Weeds
Joined: Jun 2012
Posts: 21,748
Awbarn, AL
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Seems like the only solution is to do all feeding and camera operations at night. Probably a good idea...... 
We dont rent pigs
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Re: How often?
[Re: CNC]
#3546637
12/05/21 11:15 AM
12/05/21 11:15 AM
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Joined: Mar 2018
Posts: 16,825
Banana Republic
jb20
Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
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Banana Republic
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Seems like the only solution is to do all feeding and camera operations at night. Probably a good idea...... That's when I put mine out last time lol
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Ben Franklin
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Re: How often?
[Re: jb20]
#3546647
12/05/21 11:29 AM
12/05/21 11:29 AM
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Posts: 19,656
Pelham
Ben2
Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
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Posts: 19,656
Pelham
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I think I've screwed up my best 2 deer by going and feeding...hoping it's just the weather but they been every night consistent until the last time i put corn out Could just be dead and have nothing to do with putting out corn
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Re: How often?
[Re: jb20]
#3546650
12/05/21 11:30 AM
12/05/21 11:30 AM
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Joined: Nov 2014
Posts: 4,161
chilton, co.
hayman
10 point
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10 point
Joined: Nov 2014
Posts: 4,161
chilton, co.
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Seems like the only solution is to do all feeding and camera operations at night. Probably a good idea...... That's when I put mine out last time lol I try to fill mine during the middle of the day. Usually not any deer there then to scare off. If I go after dark I’ll scare them off. I have all feeders where I can drive up to them and fill. I’m not quiet at all. As a matter of fact I make more noise than I have to. They eventually learn to stay close to a feeder and they associate the noise with food and like said earlier when everything goes quiet they will come looking and it’s usually pretty quick.
Last edited by hayman; 12/05/21 11:32 AM.
“Everything Woke Turns To SH_T” Donald J. Trump
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Re: How often?
[Re: Ben2]
#3546653
12/05/21 11:36 AM
12/05/21 11:36 AM
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Posts: 16,825
Banana Republic
jb20
Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
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Banana Republic
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I think I've screwed up my best 2 deer by going and feeding...hoping it's just the weather but they been every night consistent until the last time i put corn out Could just be dead and have nothing to do with putting out corn Na these 2 bucks r old n stay close...they alive I promise u, if it were January I might agree... Ya hayman I try to be loud coming in and leave the car on so I don't catch em off guard...
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Ben Franklin
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Re: How often?
[Re: Huntnwork]
#3546769
12/05/21 02:50 PM
12/05/21 02:50 PM
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Joined: Aug 2003
Posts: 42,094
UR 6
top cat
Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
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Posts: 42,094
UR 6
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Don't do the feeder thing. Pull my cameras before season starts.
LUCK:::; When presistence, dedication, perspiration and preparation meet up with opportunity!!!
- - - - - - - -A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take everything you have. Thomas Jeferson - - - - - - - -
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