Who Doesn't Use Feeders??

[Bowhuntamistad]

Feeding is illegal here, so only spot and stalk for me.

[Randy]

I typically don't use feeders.

I do have a feed route I make every evening in hunting season.

I see a whole lot more deer broadcast feeding than when using feeders.

[JW]

Feeding is illegal here, so only spot and stalk for me.

Walk and spook huh.

[Jmh05]

Half of my stands are on feeders, half on travel routes with some hand corning.

[Reaper33]

Not a big deal just thought you came off a little high and mighty on your original post, good luck this season!

OP this ^^^ is not true at all. You came off as respectful and curious as to what others do, nothing more nothing less.

[ram04]

Walk and spook huh.

Lol so true so true.

[JW]

Lol so true so true.

Lol!!!! Yep, well most of the time. Blind hawg finds an acorn every once in a blue moon. I have pulled it off (low %) but I have long come to terms with the fact I am an ambush predator!

[Tmag]

Baiting is not allowed in the TRNWR along the Trinity where we hunt. I have found some nice travel routes around the ends of sloughs and along ridges to hunt.

[backwoods]

I find it more enjoyable hunting a trail than a feeder.
Plus I like saving money from corn and avoiding the hassle of filling feeders.
The corn also attracts more hogs

[10132297]

The larger bucks we have killed were not at our feeders...however they do appear on our cameras at midnite to just let us know they exist...and then we name them according to their physical attributes "Big Nine"," Bump", Droopy", "Bullwinkle", Stickers", then the treachery begins when we claim ownership over a wild animal that we have no control over especially when my son kills "The big one" while texting in a popup blind in an open field with his highly perfumed girlfriend, and your hunting buddy exclaims the famous words "Your son killed my buck" all you can do is hand him a tissue and tell him it will be o.k.

[Patton]

SwampRabbit, great response. I know exactly what you mean by satisfaction from your own set up vs. guest hunting a set up.

[Stick-Launcher]

Baiting is not allowed in the TRNWR along the Trinity where we hunt. I have found some nice travel routes around the ends of sloughs and along ridges to hunt.

Tell me more! Got any GPS coordinates?

[Rubi513]

I don't use them myself. Most of my spots I can't get to with my Ranger anyway, and I dang sure ain't toting corn 1/2 mile into the woods.

[glocker]

I've never hunted a feeder, public land only where baiting is not allowed. I'm too cheap for a lease and enjoy getting out and trying to learn where the deer are. I'm still young in the sport and enjoy walking through the woods looking for signs and snakes....that is until I have to have my wife help getting all the ticks off

[8pointer]

I strategically put feeders in place and then hunt accordingly. Sometimes I set up on the feeder, and sometimes on trails to and from. My gun setups usually overlook a feeder one direction and then I hand corn a well traveled right of way. The hand corn is really just to stop them long enough to look them over. I've hunted up in Tennessee where baiting was not allowed. There I hung stands on game trail intersections, rub/scrape lines and travel corridors to and from bedding.

I like to have feeders in place but I'm not necessarily hunting the "feeder". I've observed several bucks over the years that are cruising for does, and never really come to the feeder. They just get where they can take a peak and then if nothing is there, they move on. I think it is good to be diverse in giving yourself option/choices to choose from. On a year like this year, if you are hunting just a feeder, it could be a long season. Either way, any type of hunting is better than sitting at the house!