Baiting
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We used it on the farm to keep the bugs down, around the cows. Every now and then a coon would come up missing, so I just thought about it.
KYhunter
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From my experience it takes 4-5 years for mature deer to start using a spin feeder. I run 2 on my Ky property and they have been up for 5 years. Last year was the first time I had mature deer visit it in the daylight. The does and yearlings started using it the after a couple months. My theory was that if I kept the does happy, then the bucks would show up in November. I was mostly right lol so to echo what's been said, every situation is different. But if you wanna have mature bucks visit a spin feeder, be prepared to leave it out at least 4 years. I have noticed that corn lasts longer in a feeder though.
Feeder is just out of frame to the left
Feeder is just out of frame to the left
Ok. Here is our place. This google Earth photo is 3 years old and about 1 year after it was timbered. I used it as it is a little easier to see the logging roads on. Anyway the yellow pins are approximately the corners and the orange is the logging roads/path that I opened up and mowed this year. The blue is the field that I just cleared, planted, and setup a blind on. The red dots are approximately where I have the 2 feeders with ladderstands. The lower feeder is seeing alot more use right now than the upper one. Our camper is the white rectangle that is setup in the field. My future plan is to expand the blue field some and also make a path between the 2 stands with feeders including one out to the far end of the property.
KYhunter
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Absolutely! I've had several matures hit the spin feeder hard horned. Like I said though, it took me 5 years before they started. That's yearlings growing up to 4.5-5.5 living with it and learning it to mean food.
Ok. Here is our place. This google Earth photo is 3 years old and about 1 year after it was timbered. I used it as it is a little easier to see the logging roads on. Anyway the yellow pins are approximately the corners and the orange is the logging roads/path that I opened up and mowed this year. The blue is the field that I just cleared, planted, and setup a blind on. The red dots are approximately where I have the 2 feeders with ladderstands. The lower feeder is seeing alot more use right now than the upper one. Our camper is the white rectangle that is setup in the field. My future plan is to expand the blue field some and also make a path between the 2 stands with feeders including one out to the far end of the property.
What resides in that last building by the wood line? Livestock or just storage? I'd guess hogs...
The building by the wood line is our camper. To the left of the far left yellow pins is a horse pasture.
Here is a more direct overhead view. In this one North is straight up. This is from 2013 as well. The second is the same view but from 2015.
Lundy
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Yes,
The deer in the first picture is the deer on the right in the 6th picture. I tagged all of the deer in the 6th picture over 3 years, middle first and then the next year the deer on the right and the third year the deer on the left. My son killed the deer in the 5th picture. Picture 3, 4, 7 are from last year, dates on picture wrong, and still around unless they were killed off of the property last year.
The three bucks in picture 6
The deer in the first picture is the deer on the right in the 6th picture. I tagged all of the deer in the 6th picture over 3 years, middle first and then the next year the deer on the right and the third year the deer on the left. My son killed the deer in the 5th picture. Picture 3, 4, 7 are from last year, dates on picture wrong, and still around unless they were killed off of the property last year.
The three bucks in picture 6
Lundy
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By the way, I know many are purists that would not hunt over a feeder or even bait for that matter and I'm good with that. I spend over 40 years climbing trees in many states sitting in the cold, wind and rain.
I'm tool old and fat for that anymore. I sit in a warm, dry blind with carpet, a heater and windows and hope to see a deer I want to shoot, or not.
I'm tool old and fat for that anymore. I sit in a warm, dry blind with carpet, a heater and windows and hope to see a deer I want to shoot, or not.
the Lackster
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This may seem stupid but I swear I have seen more deer hit feeders in the daylight in Kentucky than about any other state I have hunted.
Bigcountry40
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My buddy says the same, he'll put out apples and corn in eastern kentucky where there isnt many ag fields and within a day its typically lights out. Same applies for West Virginia according to him, I have never hunted either state.
KYhunter
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Eastern KY is awesome when the acorns crop is down. Pour out a bag of corn and watch them come from all over. Not exactly the same if we have a bumper crop of acorns. This year we have a bumper crop, and 50 lbs of corn is lasting me 2 weeks on the ground. The only bad thing about baiting in east Ky is the things you don't want to show up... Let one of these bull elk find your corn and it's gone in 20 min.
the Lackster
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Haha I forgot all about those rascals being in the east now. How is the population around Barkley doing?
KYhunter
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The population at LBL is steady. They keep them all fenced in so its not free range As far as I know?? And yea we have em all over the east now. They can absolutely destroy a corn pile in minutes.. Had 20-30 at my feeder at a time before, and they will destroy it... But having them here makes shed hunting a little more fun lol