gravity feed corn

[Master Blaster]

I am thinking about running a gravity feeder with corn this year vs. a spinner feeder and I'm wondering how many of y'all are doing the same. The Leon river busted bank at my lease and soaked some of my feeders...not that I'm worried about it happening again I was just thinking it would be nice to not worry about failures anymore.

[gingib]

uh.....definitely not!

All your deer will turn nocturnal and not coming during daylight

[Black swarm]

we do that here in east texas only thing needs to be in feed pen because of hogs up here

[Clark]

Your coon problem will be significant.

[Master Blaster]

Your coon problem will be significant.

I have legs mounted high on the barrel for that reason

[gingib]

I have legs mounted high on the barrel for that reason

That won't stop them...believe me

I have killed 90 coons in 2 years from my small place on 3-4 diff feeders of all types

[DPElite]

uh.....definitely not!

All your deer will turn nocturnal and not coming during daylight

Exactly well said Gingib
I know of guys that do this drives me crazy!!!

[gmac]

Be prepared for your corn bill to go up significantly.

I have considered the timed free choice option. Think Kirvoman offers that. Seems like best of both worlds.

[huntingfanatic]

Almost all of our bigger bucks are killed at our gravity feeders vs our spinners. The cost is more cause they hammer them but worth it to us. We get a lot of night pictures but they hit them during shooting hours and daylight just as well
Here some pics of gravity feeder bucks

[Master Blaster]

Almost all of our bigger bucks are killed at our gravity feeders vs our spinners. The cost is more cause they hammer them but worth it to us. We get a lot of night pictures but they hit them during shooting hours and daylight just as well
Here some pics of gravity feeder bucks

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got any openings???

[Master Blaster]

uh.....definitely not!

All your deer will turn nocturnal and not coming during daylight

Most of my pictures are at night even spinning only during daylight hours

[Bearcat]

I have a few gravity feeders on trails that are more narrow. I keep Cameras on them. I am in East Texas also.

[BolilloLoco]

I don't have feeders at my best spots. I dump 100lbs on the ground in a pile. Coons and hogs eat their share. But so do the deer. This is in Central and East Texas.

[splitfinger]

I had one a few years ago and had some great success here in Deep E. Tx. However, that was when corn was $3.50/40# and they were eating 2 bags per week at this one feeder. It would be a bit more expensive now to do that but I might make the investment again, just to see if it would work once more. Good luck.

[DaveC]

I elevated a pipe feeder to a tree high enough last year that most pigs couldn't reach but deer still could. I filled it from the roof of my Ranger.
It worked in the preseason and I got plenty of pics then it slowed down when all the other feeders in the area started going off and the acorns began to fall.

I'll try again this year at a different stand.