Feeder times?

[jhbarc]

6:45 am, 11:00 am, 5:30 pm

[westexasagent]

During the rut I will throw and extra time mid-day and try to attract in any does in the area that are being chased. i need to just record the feeder sound going off and play that!!!! i also put out a scrape dripper or two with doe in estrous but the bucks dont hold still for shots long. last year I saw four bucks chasing one doe in circles around me for an hour. poor gals tongue was hanging out! She would lay down and hide from them! I am sure my scrape drippers had them going extra hard also!LOL!

[leasecommander]

My feeders go off at 7AM-7:30AM then at 6PM-6:30PM and throw 3 seconds each throwing on high RPM. I do this for several reasons:
1) With high winds/noisy days the deer have a hard time hearing the feeder go off. The sound alot of the time is what brings ours in so I want to give them two chances to hear it go off.

2)If it is a quiet morning if the deer heard the first throwing a long ways off they start walking that way...then they hear it go off again and i have literally watched them many times start trotting or running to the feeder.

3) If the deer are at the feeder and it goes off a 2nd time the corn doesn't scre them off long. If i want a good buck to re-position himself for a shot sometimes this has helped by it going off and him walking back in a better position. Has messed me up before too but i know it is going to go off and I try to make the shot before the 2nd throwing.

Just my experiences and how i have tried to keep a work in progress. I dang sure don't miss those photocell feeder days of not knowing when he heck it would throw on a cloudy day!!!!!

I do almost exactly the same thing and when you know it is going off at 7:30 it is a good time to get ready to pee after too many cups of coffee.

[mfields75]

any thoughts on the width of the 9 pt?

[Bodey]

My feeders are set at 8 and 6:30 now, which will be 7 and 5:30 in a couple of weeks. As the season wears on those will become too early and too late and could be tweaked about 15 minutes.

[Hunting Consult]

6:40 am 6:00pm For now. I move it every couple weeks. Time change isnt until open day of Gun season