Do any of y'all hunt over your supplemental feed locations or leave it alone? I can see some pros and cons to both, but curious as to what y'all may or may not be doing.
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Yes we do. Some ranches I’ve been on have “sanctuaries” that are just feed stations that do not get hunted. Personally I think that’s a little over kill unless you are over hunting the setups. All of our feed pens have protein feeders and there will be maybe 1-3 bullets/arrows max shot at deer on a given year at each of our pens. That’s not worth the cost of setting up extra setups for just feed stations for us.
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Originally posted by 8pointer View PostYes we do. Some ranches I’ve been on have “sanctuaries” that are just feed stations that do not get hunted. Personally I think that’s a little over kill unless you are over hunting the setups. All of our feed pens have protein feeders and there will be maybe 1-3 bullets/arrows max shot at deer on a given year at each of our pens. That’s not worth the cost of setting up extra setups for just feed stations for us.
This is my second season on an archery only lease. I have approx 130 (+/- 10) acres all to myself so the pressure will be very minimal but I'm aware that it does not take much intrusion for a mature buck to vanish. I recently set up a spincast corn feeder in one hunting location and will be adding a free choice feeder in the same area . I'm also considering adding a second free choice feeder about 600 yards away that may or may not be hunted.
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Originally posted by 8pointer View PostYes we do. Some ranches I’ve been on have “sanctuaries” that are just feed stations that do not get hunted. Personally I think that’s a little over kill unless you are over hunting the setups. All of our feed pens have protein feeders and there will be maybe 1-3 bullets/arrows max shot at deer on a given year at each of our pens. That’s not worth the cost of setting up extra setups for just feed stations for us.
Agree with the above 100%
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We hunt over corn feeders and and have 4 different protein stations that we don't hunt over. It may be better that way for growing big bucks, but who cares how big your bucks are if you can't kill them. In my experience other people in our area who hunt over their protein feeders have a lot more success putting arrows consistently in mature bucks than us and others just hunting over corn. If it were up to me I'd put my protein feeders in pens with my corn feeders like a lot of y'all.
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