I got permission to hunt a small tract of rural land several years ago. This place is riddled with deer and hogs. There are a couple sure enough good deer, but for the most part a lot of the little bucks need to be culled. The first year that I hunted it I thought that it would be a slam dunk. I thought I would be tagged out opening weekend and that would be that. Well as the old adage goes,” you get what you put in” and that is what I got… It seemed like everything had read the script. No matter what the conditions were these are still wild animals. I would see animals by chance, with no real rhyme or reason. These deer and hogs were not on any sort of true daytime schedule. In fact once I put out cameras I noticed that the majority of the activity took place at night. Year 2 I knew I needed to make a change. I was working out of town and did not have a whole lot of time to sit in the stand. A feeder was in order so I could get the wildlife on my schedule. I bought an inexpensive feeder that went on sale one weekend. It was nothing special. This feeder checked the box, it feed animals at a certain time for about 3 weeks at a time. Then I would have to go back out and recharge the battery and fill the feeder back up. Opening morning my son and I had success. A small 8 point walked out and we stuck a well-placed arrow through the vitals. I kept the feeder going just to see what else was coming around. It became very obvious that raccoons and squirrels were really hitting this feeder hard. I decided to buy a varmint guard and a solar panel. Do you think that slowed them down? These animals decided they did not like the 6volt shock they got when they played with timer. So what do they do, they go through the side of the barrel.
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