It wa kind of a loaded question, I knew I would get lots of different views on what is acceptable. Now that I own in, in a few months, I will be starting my feed with corn and protein stating as soon as I take ownership. Also next to each feeder is a large water container, and the property has a creek with a pretty good size pond. I have high hopes and am pretty excited.

So only trophy hunters with pricey stands and feeders are serious?

I guess we are just gonna have to disagree.

What I'm saying is not snobbish or rocket science. Serious people buy serious equipment, again GENERALLY SPEAKING.

If someone is a serious water skier, they are probably gonna have a really nice boat & nice skis. Not a Jon boat & 2x6. Yet both COULD water ski..........

Some of the most serious hunters I know do not use stands or feeders. If they do use stands it is a wood platform in a tree. Best hunting locations many times are where there are no stands and use what is available from nature.

Keeping a projectile on 10 acres 1 time is entirely different than keeping numerous projectiles on 10 acres EVERY TIME.

Yes, you probably keep the bullet on 10 acres SOME OR MOST of the time. To guarantee that you can keep EVERY projectile on 10 acres EVERY time is asinine.

I can tell by looking at a man's feeder & stand set up what kind of hunter he probably is. A shitty corn feeder only running a month or 2, with a shitty plyboard stand, indicated they are not serious, just wanting to "fill muh freezer".

GENERALLY SPEAKING. if you see a guy with good equipment, hes serious about what he does.

If you see a guy with no protein feeder, no food plot, a cheap [censored] $100 Wal Mart feeder, & a POS particle board stand, he's probably not very serious. GENERALLY SPEAKING.

If someone spends time, money & effort on something, it's probably important to them. If they don't, it probably ain't. YMMV.

Same way I can tell GENERALLY SPEAKING how serious a hunter is by his rifle & (more importantly) his scope. If a guy has a $20 scope & another guy has Leupold, which would you reckon is more serious about hunting?

Same with other equipment & other hobbies. Scuba, motorcycles, cars, you name it.

Keeping a projectile on 10 acres 1 time is entirely different than keeping numerous projectiles on 10 acres EVERY TIME.

Yes, you probably keep the bullet on 10 acres SOME OR MOST of the time. To guarantee that you can keep EVERY projectile on 10 acres EVERY time is asinine.

GENERALLY SPEAKING. if you see a guy with good equipment, hes serious about what he does.

If you see a guy with no protein feeder, no food plot, a cheap [censored] $100 Wal Mart feeder, & a POS particle board stand, he's probably not very serious. GENERALLY SPEAKING.

If someone spends time, money & effort on something, it's probably important to them. If they don't, it probably ain't. YMMV.

Same way I can tell GENERALLY SPEAKING how serious a hunter is by his rifle & (more importantly) his scope. If a guy has a $20 scope & another guy has Leupold, which would you reckon is more serious about hunting?

Same with other equipment & other hobbies. Scuba, motorcycles, cars, you name it.

I don't have a food plot yet, I don't feed protein as of yet. I built my own feeders. On one of my feeders I just bought a tripod. On the other feeder we used some sort of agricultural three sided sheet paneled thing and roughed in a blind underneath an oak tree.(Son shot his first fair sized buck on his own land and signed the tag with his name in this thing)Oh and he did it with a little rossi single shot 30.06 wth a Nikon 140 dollar scope. We all shoot 30.06 in order to save funds. I can tell you we are all serious as a heart attack about taking a deer. I shoot an old model 670 that's at least 20 years old and only recently upgraded from a Tasco scope to a low end Vortex. I recently splurged and got my oldest a Savage 111 package with a Nikon bdc.(thing is a tack driver)
We drive about 500 miles or 7 hours one way to get to our place in a truck that I love that will be 20 years old next year. A truck that the camper doesn't match the pickup, but its paid for. A place I've sunk my entire life earnings and everything I have into acquiring.
Based on your GENERAL SPEAKING post. If you pulled up next to me on the road you'd probably glance over at my truck and say, look at that poor bastard he must hate driving. Paints pealing and his camper doesn't even match his truck! That guy doesn't have two nickels to rub together. However you'd be dead wrong! I'm headed to my own piece of Texas! I'm headed to walk my fields and woods and creek bottom and relish in the beauty of the natural world and the spirit of the wild.(Nugent is a friend). I'm headed to watch my own flesh and blood harvest their own protein on land they own and work. Nah we are not serious hunters we just don't get it. Not sure where we went wrong!

GENERALLY SPEAKING. if you see a guy with good equipment, hes serious about what he does.

If you see a guy with no protein feeder, no food plot, a cheap [censored] $100 Wal Mart feeder, & a POS particle board stand, he's probably not very serious. GENERALLY SPEAKING.

If someone spends time, money & effort on something, it's probably important to them. If they don't, it probably ain't. YMMV.

Same way I can tell GENERALLY SPEAKING how serious a hunter is by his rifle & (more importantly) his scope. If a guy has a $20 scope & another guy has Leupold, which would you reckon is more serious about hunting?

Same with other equipment & other hobbies. Scuba, motorcycles, cars, you name it.

I guess I am that guy, but we do feed more than 2 months a year, we start in mid September and shut them off mid December. Our neighbors in both sides feed year around, they have hog problems, the hogs continually tear up their fences, rooting up their fields and generally mess their places up. We don't have that problem, because we don't feed the hogs year around. During the drought we did feed more, but not with auto feeders, we corned the roads and filled troughs.

The 3 blinds were built in the 1980's it works for my son and nephews, I prefer the bedroom window of the cabin, so I can watch TV and the wheat field. Besides I don't see any correlation between how someone's blinds look and how they hunt. Our deer are so used to tractors, I could ride around on the tractor and shoot my limit in a day. If I wanted to fill the freezer I would use the tractor.