skulker
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« on: July 24, 2010, 09:32:49 pm » |
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is tomany deer feeders in one area not good? Its in a hardwood bottom and they'll be about 100 feet apart
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charles
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« Reply #1 on: July 24, 2010, 10:18:21 pm » |
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shouldnt be an issue, deer r gonna go to 1 or the other or visit both dependn on their travel path to and from feeding areas and bed areas. do some scoutn and try to find the trails they r using and set ur feeders just off the trails but not to far. i got a feeder and food plot set up bout 30yds apart with a heavy trail between the 2, i can sit off the trail in a tree and be able to shoot either the feeder or the food plot. havin a good stand of hardwoods is good, but when the acorns start fallin, the deer wont visit ur feeders as much, or that what i've seen for the past few yrs of scoutn, huntin and just observation during season and not even take the bow with me. dont let my opinion steer u in any direction, compile the opinions of those who post ur thread and gather the info from other hunters in ur area b/c ur area may greatly differ from where i hunt and where others hunt. again just my opinion, hope it helps
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« Reply #2 on: July 25, 2010, 09:59:10 pm » |
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charles thanks for the info went and checked around realy good got 1 big trail going between them and a couple smaller ones jioning the big trail also, set my game camera today when I was checking it out
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charles
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« Reply #3 on: July 27, 2010, 06:06:13 pm » |
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where did u set ur feeder up? if it was me, i would set the first feeder close to where all the trails intersect and put the sec 1 somewhere near the middle of where all the smaller less traveld trails zig-zag through the brush. i put my food plot bout 30-40yds away from my feeder so i can set in a couple trees inbtween my feeder and foodplot so i got a shot on both site with my bow and i can see bout 60-80yds in nearly all directions so them sneaky deer dont hav much of a chance of surprising me by just popping up out of nowhere.
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« Reply #4 on: July 28, 2010, 07:35:48 pm » |
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thanks for the tipI set my first feeder where the all intersec and I did what you suggested on the second feeder. As far as them sneaking up on my I got a hunter alert system which is workinging pretty good so I can cover 3 areas at once
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charles
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« Reply #5 on: July 28, 2010, 08:11:11 pm » |
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what area u located in or where is the huntin area located? just curious b/c all areas are different even if they r in the same zone. i used to live in the lufkin area and now in north east tx and fixn to move back to central tx and i know that between lufkin and texarkana the deer travel and feed different, not sure bout central tx, wasnt there long enuf to pattern anything and only huntd on ft hood but hopin to find an area ovr there to hunt this yr.
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« Reply #6 on: July 28, 2010, 11:33:01 pm » |
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on our lease we had a guy that had five feeders..and a camera at each one...road hjs four wheeler to his stands...and was always mad.. cause one week he would hunt were the deer wasad going to te feeders.. and had pics of them but when he would hunt there.. he didnt see anything...and would check his cameras..to find out where they were at.. so he would hunt there next.. and nothing..we said the deer was playing musical stands with him....its hard to hunt five stands in a two day hunt... we only put out two stands and two feeders at each stand.. and we seen deer all the time... we laughed at him and all the corn and effort he did... we told him to take down som stands and feeders.. but he didnt listen..he also would hunt in areas that wasnt his.. and ran off deer.. a nice guy .. but put out to much food and pressure on th deer.. gave him two years of that bullsh--... we asked hin to leave our lease. and take a;; of his stuff...... now we so even more deer then we did..... sometimes.. if u limit ur feeding in a area.. and stay with it.. they will find it.. and move in on it.. and make new trails.... if u put out to much food...they have several places to eat.. and it could be hard hunting.....but we also hunt brownwood.. and there is plenty of deer there....ive even been told there is axes deer down aroundthe river there also.. but i havent seen them... jmo... good luck this season...... oh ya i shot a 160 buck opening weekend two years ago... out of my hunting buddies stand... his loss my gain....... he didnt stay true to his stand thats why he miised out on it..,.
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charles
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« Reply #7 on: July 29, 2010, 02:22:46 pm » |
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that many feeders in 1 small area aint good. if u put 2 feeders with in shooting distance apart wont hurt. i wouldnt recomend putn more than 2 feeders in a 20 acre spot there for it wont b to hard to to parttern their movements and hav a general idea of their feed and movement times
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« Reply #8 on: August 05, 2010, 08:58:37 pm » |
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charles sorry it took so long to answer it was my daughters wedding, I hunt in harrison county right on big cypress bayuo by caddo lake
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