Why I use a feeder

[huntingfanatic]

The other thread on us getting bashed on another forum in regards to cliques, feeders etc got me wanting to post something that I have wanted to for a while now. Below are two random pics of the ranch I hunt. There is over 14,000 acres of the same google earth view. Go ahead somebody please pick out the game trail for me. Food source ??? Just about every bush you see. You might be able to set up on a water source but that's gonna be about it. This is not walking into the woods up north and seeing a trail and being pretty sure it's a game trail cause you don't have hundreds of cattle to compete with. This is from west Texas. Don't even get me started on South Texas where two steps into the brush and you get swallowed up. I would be curious to see what the success rate would be for some of those guys to come and pick a spot, hang a stand( if they can find a tree tall enough) and hunt. Best of luck. I'll just stick with my feeders with no apologies

[miket]

AMEN! I dont tell the people in Ohio how to hunt because I dont know their conditions, but somehow many of them tell us how we should hunt. Now, If there was woods on one side, a corn field on the other and an open field on another side, I wouldnt need a feeder! And I wouldnt wonder where they bed!

[elkbowhunter]

Feeding animals-- draws animals. We are after animals. Some people are just smarter than others and have feeders that draw the animals. Such a silly discussion about feeders. If you dont like them then dont use them. No brainer. GREAT PHOTOS!!!

[Twztid]

I like the sound of a feeder when totally silence and the leaves crunching of the deer poping out ready to eat some num nums


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[viper3853]

i love this site because its TEXAS bowhunters, and i may meet some people here and have freindships with them. not AT or other crappy sites where its everyone and their mom having an imput about something they prob havent done. be it what it be, i LOVE this site and the people!

[Txjourneyman]

AMEN! I dont tell the people in Ohio how to hunt because I dont know their conditions, but somehow many of them tell us how we should hunt. Now, If there was woods on one side, a corn field on the other and an open field on another side, I wouldnt need a feeder! And I wouldnt wonder where they bed!

Exactly! And scouting? Go sit beside the cornfield for 3-4 mornings and or evenings and you will know where the deer enter/exit. Yeah, thats gotta be a tough hunt.

[chris1911]

only problem i have with feeders is.....it runs the price per pound of venison up

[cosmiccowboy]

only problem i have with feeders is.....it runs the price per pound of venison up

LOL

For most guys venison is more expensive per pound than Kobe Beef.

[huntingfanatic]

only problem i have with feeders is.....it runs the price per pound of venison up

Ain't it the truth. I have mine set to run a full second. I cringe everytime it goes off. I wish somebody would invent a timer I could turn down so I wouldn't have to throw so much

[Tex21]

I went to Illinois to hunt with my FIL on a guys land he knew and its way different conditions. The trails through the woods are DEER trails because they dont have cows or hogs that could make trails that beat down. The deer all bed in pretty much the same spot of woods so you can really narrow which trail down. It didnt take me long to figure out where the deer were moving through coming out of the cut bean field.

They dont need to get mad at us for using a corn feeder when they are on a huge cut corn field or bean field. We cant help us TEXANS were smart enough to figure out that putting it in a pile was a great idea.

[jerp]

I'll agree that hunting from a stand or blind along a trail in a heavily wooded creek bottom is great. However on the leases I've been hunting the last 5-6 years, that just is not possible. Your photo is good evidence of how trying to play "pick a trail" will drive you nuts in west or south Texas. Bring a guy down from the midwest and ask him where he wants to set up, and he might say " I like to set up on a heavily wooded fenceline that connects a woodlot bedding area to a feeding area - like a cornfield or an old abandonded apple orchard" but when he sees that the entire ranch looks like a parking lot with mesquite trees and prickly pear, he'll probably go sit by a feeder!

[Smart]

The Yankees complain about our man-made feeders but forget the ag field they are hunting the corner of wasn't planted by aliens. Oh yeah... Then there is that timer myth thing where the Pope and Youngs and Boone and Crockets trip over each other running from a mile away when the feeder goes off.

[Slick8]

Roger That! No apologies needed!

I've always been of a mind to not tell others how to do their business to I'd like the same in return!

I can see some of the Mid-West area’s or any area with an over abundant food source where a feeder is of little use. We see it here every year with Acorns and this year with timely late season rains.

Your picture illustrates what I try to tell people all the time. Our topography, food, water and cattle trails make it incredibly difficult to predict movement. That’s what a feeder is for, to create movement. Even at that it makes bow hunting the wind difficult as you can’t predict which direction the deer may come in from.

Thanks for the post.

[BradBryant1000]

The Yankees complain about our man-made feeders but forget the ag field they are hunting the corner of wasn't planted by aliens. Oh yeah... Then there is that timer myth thing where the Pope and Youngs and Boone and Crockets trip over each other running from a mile away when the feeder goes off.

Yes sir I agree. I posted this story once before but it fits here as well:

Watching a hunting show on TV. The host said I hate feeders because they are not fair. I would not bait. He then procedded to go and sit in his elevated, heated tower stand that overlooked a 20 plus acre soybean field that had NOT been cut. Of course the deer just "happened" to pour into the field and he had his pick of which deer to shoot. Not sure why he would hate feeders so much. Same concept used only diffrence being ones in a barrell and one is planted in the ground.

[DeerGeek]

Feeding animals-- draws animals. We are after animals. Some people are just smarter than others and have feeders that draw the animals. Such a silly discussion about feeders. If you dont like them then dont use them. No brainer. GREAT PHOTOS!!!

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