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What Attractant do you fill your feeder with? #6364697 07/10/16 09:31 PM
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With so many options for Attractants/nutrition what do you use FOR SPIN FEEDERS.
CORN,CORN/SOYBEANS, PELLETS ETC.

Re: What Attractant do you fill your feeder with? [Re: Antlerking87] #6364701 07/10/16 09:37 PM
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Corn. Sometimes a little smell good/attractant/feed mixed in with corn that the local feed store is promoting.


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Re: What Attractant do you fill your feeder with? [Re: Antlerking87] #6364703 07/10/16 09:38 PM
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Have always used a corn/protein mix, but have recently tried corn/soybean and everything seems to be showing up, including crows, pigs and coons.


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Originally Posted By: Creekrunner
Have always used a corn/protein mix, but have recently tried corn/soybean and everything seems to be showing up, including crows, pigs and coons.
where do you buy that blend

Re: What Attractant do you fill your feeder with? [Re: Antlerking87] #6364749 07/10/16 10:24 PM
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Originally Posted By: Antlerking87
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Have always used a corn/protein mix, but have recently tried corn/soybean and everything seems to be showing up, including crows, pigs and coons.
where do you buy that blend


Strutty's, by my house (Fair Oaks/Boerne), but I think it's mixed in Uvalde. I'd have to look at the tag next time to tell you the name of the mill.


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Re: What Attractant do you fill your feeder with? [Re: Antlerking87] #6364788 07/10/16 11:08 PM
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Thank you

Re: What Attractant do you fill your feeder with? [Re: Antlerking87] #6365131 07/11/16 03:34 AM
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I have put protein in with corn, and won't do it again. If it rains, the protein will absorb the moisture and get sticky. It will clog up at the bottom of the funnel very easily. YMMV.


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Re: What Attractant do you fill your feeder with? [Re: Antlerking87] #6365357 07/11/16 02:17 PM
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I've put Behrend's (Luckenbach) Game Blend or Trail mix in my Sweeney for years, year-round, and have never had the pellets swell. I have seen it happen with other stuff.


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Re: What Attractant do you fill your feeder with? [Re: Antlerking87] #6365732 07/11/16 07:22 PM
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For me..........


I Feed Indian Corn. The deer love it and all the colors make them stay at the feeder longer.
Re: What Attractant do you fill your feeder with? [Re: Antlerking87] #6365738 07/11/16 07:26 PM
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Corn with indian corn flavoring.

Re: What Attractant do you fill your feeder with? [Re: Antlerking87] #6365740 07/11/16 07:29 PM
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Corn, every so often I will mix some c'mere deer in with it but I don't think it changes anything.



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Straight corn works great some times I add some wheat.

Re: What Attractant do you fill your feeder with? [Re: Antlerking87] #6365844 07/11/16 08:45 PM
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Corn in limited amounts but I have a free choice protein feeder in every pen also. I put out a lot corn with the road feeder to put deer in areas where the wind does not effect me when I hunt.


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Re: What Attractant do you fill your feeder with? [Re: HuntnFly67] #6366026 07/11/16 10:27 PM
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Originally Posted By: HuntnFly67
Corn with indian corn flavoring.


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Re: What Attractant do you fill your feeder with? [Re: HuntnFly67] #6367573 07/13/16 03:44 AM
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Originally Posted By: HuntnFly67
Corn with indian corn flavoring.


This...but not too much Indian corn flavoring...cuz it gots to be just right.

Re: What Attractant do you fill your feeder with? [Re: Antlerking87] #6371901 07/17/16 12:45 PM
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Corn

Re: What Attractant do you fill your feeder with? [Re: Antlerking87] #6371925 07/17/16 01:27 PM
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Nothing waste of money.

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I just use Mumme's apple scented corn, HEB sells them. I just use a separate gravity feeder for protein for antler growth and mass.

Chad, try a 55 gallon barrel, its what I used for protein / corn mix and seems that the wide perimeter / flat bottom of the 55 gallon barrel keeps the rain from getting to the feed. It never got sticky or wet. Just make sure you use a heavy duty galvanized lid that covers the outside of the barrel plus a funnel on the inside. I have 3 of those feeders.




Re: What Attractant do you fill your feeder with? [Re: Antlerking87] #6372472 07/17/16 10:58 PM
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There is this new stuff on the market called corn. I had 2000+ pictures last year of deer eating it.


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Nothing but corn. I tried attractant once and ended up with a colony of bees that emptied 300 pounds of corn in a couple of weeks. I will put out mineral licks on game trails but inside the feeder pen either a corn feeder or protein feeder. Just don't mix protein with corn in a spin cast feeder.


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Re: What Attractant do you fill your feeder with? [Re: Antlerking87] #6372559 07/18/16 12:58 AM
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Re: What Attractant do you fill your feeder with? [Re: Antlerking87] #6372627 07/18/16 02:26 AM
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I think those expensive deer attractants are designed to attract hunters dollars more than deer. Plain 'ol corn works as well as anything and it's way cheaper.


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