Here is a really good tip I received prior to going on a trip to our lease in S. Texas that worked very well.
Where we hunt, the bucks do not hit the feeders very well at all. Mainly due to it being over pressured by the previous Leasees.
I asked a buddy of mine who used to run a well known bow only day hunting place for advice.
His tip was to just lightly trickle corn on the sendero 200 yards before and 200 yards past the blind. He said no more than 10 pounds over the entire 400 yards.
Then once in front of your shooting window put a couple handfuls on the opposite side of the sendero in the brush/tall grass or under the cross fence but don't pile it up. Make them work for it. This will also hide their eyes when you go to draw.
So after some thought I realized a regular road feeder will not work for this, I needed something that I could control the flow rate as well as keep the corn in the road and not all over the place. I found the below feeder online and ordered it.
Once received I realized I had to limit the flow rate as there would be no way for me to tug the line at a consistent tightness.
I added some plastic conduit material and then heat shrinked over it to make it more rigid.
Now when at full pull the corn only lightly trickles out when I'm driving.
I also added a brushblocker to the feeder so nothing would damage it when I'm backing up.
Next I built a really good brush blind out of a half fallen down mesquite tree/brush pile.
I used green wind fencing like what is used at a job site and military mesh plus a ton of zip ties.
I hunted this set only 2 hours after completing and had deer in my widow that afternoon.
Both the blind and feeder worked flawlessly and even though I did not shoot a deer I did have over 30 shot opportunities present themselves. (I didn't want to shoot a doe because the rut was just starting and none of the 15 different bucks I saw were shooters according to the lease rules)
Every sit I would watch as the deer would pick up the corn trail and just feed all the way to the blind, once in my window they would find the hidden pile and start feeding head down and broadside.
Hope this helps.
Where we hunt, the bucks do not hit the feeders very well at all. Mainly due to it being over pressured by the previous Leasees.
I asked a buddy of mine who used to run a well known bow only day hunting place for advice.
His tip was to just lightly trickle corn on the sendero 200 yards before and 200 yards past the blind. He said no more than 10 pounds over the entire 400 yards.
Then once in front of your shooting window put a couple handfuls on the opposite side of the sendero in the brush/tall grass or under the cross fence but don't pile it up. Make them work for it. This will also hide their eyes when you go to draw.
So after some thought I realized a regular road feeder will not work for this, I needed something that I could control the flow rate as well as keep the corn in the road and not all over the place. I found the below feeder online and ordered it.
Once received I realized I had to limit the flow rate as there would be no way for me to tug the line at a consistent tightness.
I added some plastic conduit material and then heat shrinked over it to make it more rigid.
Now when at full pull the corn only lightly trickles out when I'm driving.
I also added a brushblocker to the feeder so nothing would damage it when I'm backing up.
Next I built a really good brush blind out of a half fallen down mesquite tree/brush pile.
I used green wind fencing like what is used at a job site and military mesh plus a ton of zip ties.
I hunted this set only 2 hours after completing and had deer in my widow that afternoon.
Both the blind and feeder worked flawlessly and even though I did not shoot a deer I did have over 30 shot opportunities present themselves. (I didn't want to shoot a doe because the rut was just starting and none of the 15 different bucks I saw were shooters according to the lease rules)
Every sit I would watch as the deer would pick up the corn trail and just feed all the way to the blind, once in my window they would find the hidden pile and start feeding head down and broadside.
Hope this helps.
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