feeder vs. handpoured corn

[bowhuntingw]

just wondering if any of you East Texas hunters have ever had better luck with just pouring corn out versus a feeder? nothing but hogs are hitting my feeder, but the other day i poured some corn out on a trail 50 yards from the feeder and got a bunch of deer pics and many in daylight hours. i'm thinking about later on, maybe once december gets here, trying poured corn in an SMZ on my place or maybe near a bedding area.

[texag2010]

I hunt in Wood county and rarely even use corn feeders(unless I want to shoot hogs). I have alot more deer activity at hand poured corn...

[DaveC]

I've got one stand site in Groveton with 3 shooting lanes in deep woods.
One 100 yards to the left of my blind with a feeder that has been throwing since August.
One 100 yd lane in front of the blind.
1 ~75 yard lane to the right of the one straight ahead of the blind.
Kinda like a holding your thumb out and folding your last 2 fingers in.

Anywho.

I corn all 3 lanes with an ATV feeder/spreader and see 9/10's of the deer on the two lanes WITHOUT the feeder.
One a lonely doe or young buck wil go near it.

The other 2 lanes are prime for activity at sunrise & sunset.

makes me want to skip the feeder all together, but I can't show up often enough to corn the other 2 lanes to keep them coming in.
I don't Think ET deer like being pelted by a 12volt feeder .

HAND CORN away from the feeder IMHO.

[SolocamShooter]

I hunt in Angelina county and the difference is night and day between feeders and hand corn. Literally!! I have killed way more deer off of hand corn than under a feeder. And, off the top of my head I think most of the deer I have killed under feeders have been does.

[muzzlebrake]

Run a heavy chum line along a trail somewhere near a bedding area and set up a trail camera. you will likely get pics of dear that you never knew existed. In some areas there are more deer that DON'T visit a feeder than actually do.
JMHO, no warranty implied

Chum line pic a couple of years ago of two youngsters that never were caught at a feeder.

[elhefe]

Hand corn. They come to feeders occassionally but hand corn an area and the activity increases dramatically. Just my observance.

[Rockpit TX]

I couldnt answer until this year when I took my biggest buck to date over hand thrown corn.

[miket]

I've had cameras out for about 6 months out of the year( for the last 3yrs) here in grimes county. One camera is pointed at the feeder and all I get are does, fawns and 1 1/2 year old bucks. I turn the camera around or put up the other cam in front of hand thrown corn and I get pics of deer that I NEVER saw by the feeder. The buck in my avatar was feeding on hand thrown corn. The feeder was 50yds away and I have never had a pic of him near it. Don't know about the rest of east texas but I know without a doubt that the vast majority of bucks here( southern grimes county) will not come to a feeder. I am working on a plan to hoist a 5 gal bucket (with a feeder mechanism attached ) high up in a tree and hidden among the branches to see if it will go unnoticed and will attract like handthrown corn, that will feed at least 2 weeks without the labor of doing it myself.

[bowhuntingw]

if mister big doesn't get it in the next few weeks, i'm going to try handthrown corn next to a couple of dense pine thickets and see what happens. feeders are great to set at and see stuff in east texas and occasionally people get big deer at them, but i think more often than not its just going to be young bucks and does and of course a hog or two.

[hoythunter02]

I just started hunting hand thrown corn about 75 yards off the feeders and it is working in Nac county. Changing my strategy for the rest of this year and next too. Just like everyone else said, I killed my 2 does and a nice spike off the feeder and had two good shooters pass behind me at 50 yards w. no shot in one sitting. Not even hunting the feeders anymore this year. I turned them down to 2 seconds and only throwing in the am.

[bowboy]

txbowkill does both out on his lease but they dumped two bags of corn next to a camera and had 151 or so pics in the first three days of nice bucks, they have harvested a few nice ones this year if u wanna pm him aabout how he feeds

[Hunt NXS]

If you are able to hand throw on a regular basis, it beats the pants off of a feeder for mature bucks.

[hardtner]

I hunt in East Texas. I keep feeders out just mainly for the does. All of my best deer that I have killed/seen/captured on camera are on hand corn. All of my cameras that I run are placed exclusively on hand corn and not feeders.