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anyone see activity at feeders yet?

Posted By: rytheguy84

anyone see activity at feeders yet? - 11/25/14 05:51 PM

I hunt in burnet county and feeder activity just isnt happening! All pics show some coming in at night and last week had 4 doe starting to come in right at dusk and even saw them once during an evening hunt and now after the rains this past weekend seems its back to 0 again. Anyone else experiencing this also or thoughts on why
Posted By: txhunter1010

Re: anyone see activity at feeders yet? - 11/25/14 06:12 PM

decent in coryell
Posted By: PMK

Re: anyone see activity at feeders yet? - 11/25/14 07:04 PM

they still have plenty of food with clover, acorns, etc. I would think the acorns would be getting towards the end and need a good hard freeze to stifle the clover.

I have a place south of Bertram (Burnet County) and only have a few young ones coming to corn so far. Another place is in Llano county and again, young ones and a few does coming to feeders so far. I have only seen a couple of younger buck even pay any attention to corn so far.
Posted By: Weegs

Re: anyone see activity at feeders yet? - 11/25/14 07:39 PM

In San Saba we have feeder activity. I would think you should see a pick-up in activity as the colder weather starts to roll in. Just for fun, when did you start putting corn out?
Posted By: rytheguy84

Re: anyone see activity at feeders yet? - 11/25/14 07:42 PM

Where abouts pmk? I am in between liberty hill and bertram by the pipe place
Posted By: rytheguy84

Re: anyone see activity at feeders yet? - 11/25/14 07:44 PM

We put the feeders up about 2 months before gun season started
Posted By: GLC

Re: anyone see activity at feeders yet? - 11/25/14 08:27 PM

Great feeder activity till the end of September then ghost town. Been hunting same area for five years now, never happened before like this. Minimal night activity too. Few game cam pics. They do move which I have seen sitting in a rifle stand where I can see 100 to 300 yards, just not going to feeders at all.
Posted By: Team By-God

Re: anyone see activity at feeders yet? - 11/25/14 08:30 PM

Were in brown co near grosvenor..we feed year round. Minimal feeder activity, trails are better on our place now.. Checked 2 trail cams today and had alot more activity than feeder cams.. hogs have all but disappeared.. only seen one decent or even legal buck lately on camera.. all feeders are piling up corn with timer set on 1 sec twice daily.
Posted By: PMK

Re: anyone see activity at feeders yet? - 11/25/14 08:33 PM

Originally Posted By: rytheguy84
Where abouts pmk? I am in between liberty hill and bertram by the pipe place

down FM 1174 in the Oatmeal area. I have maintained feeders on the place for the past 15 years, year around, my dad did similar dating back to the mid 1970s while he was still alive.
Posted By: DFWPI

Re: anyone see activity at feeders yet? - 11/26/14 12:24 AM







Posted By: rytheguy84

Re: anyone see activity at feeders yet? - 11/26/14 12:38 AM

Awesome tc pics DFWPI, deffiantly jealous lol
Posted By: Team By-God

Re: anyone see activity at feeders yet? - 11/26/14 12:44 AM

I dont see those pesky oak trees in those pics. Think the acorns may be whats up with my deer, plus im not sure if ours winter in brownwood state park.. they posted some pics of deer i would like to see..
Posted By: Jkd106

Re: anyone see activity at feeders yet? - 11/26/14 02:26 AM

I am in mesquite country no acorns, but deer are still not hitting feeders like they have in past years. The browse was bit pretty hard by frost, figured that would help, but not so much.
Posted By: stxranchman

Re: anyone see activity at feeders yet? - 11/26/14 03:17 AM

I was seeing a lot of activity in my feed pens till it rained the first week of November and again last weekend. Over 4" now for the month and winter weeds are everywhere. Deer have slowed down in the pens on protein but still eating all the corn up.
Posted By: dogcatcher

Re: anyone see activity at feeders yet? - 11/26/14 04:20 AM

One time we will see several, the next nothing, more miss than hit.
Posted By: Texas buckeye

Re: anyone see activity at feeders yet? - 11/26/14 04:33 AM

Finally getting a little action at my feeder with cell cam on it this week. Had a buck this am I legal hours and a buck this eve and three doe followed him. Has been absent for nearly three weeks and then this week they started trickling in...hoping there are more deer hitting my other feeder but won't know until this weekend.
Posted By: BigPig

Re: anyone see activity at feeders yet? - 11/26/14 05:42 AM

Nothing at our feeders in Harrison county. Between 4 feeders we only have 336 pictures since late August. This time last year we had over 2000. We hunted 4 days this past weekend, 1 buck was seen and killed by my dad, that was the only deer seen the entire weekend. I guess the weather just wasn't right
Posted By: rattler03

Re: anyone see activity at feeders yet? - 11/26/14 05:47 AM

The first two weeks of the season I had very few deer at my feeders and not many night photos either. Things have picked up since the third weekend, though. Still not a ton of activity but definitely better. When we get another good cold front with a few days of lows below freezing, I think that should improve things significantly and it'll probably stay that way through the end of the season.
Posted By: Texmel

Re: anyone see activity at feeders yet? - 11/26/14 01:24 PM

In North Brown County, both does & bucks were hitting corn feeders daily in Sept, but only occasional during day or nite in Oct & Nov. I started sitting up on game trails and seen much more activity than at feeders. All the Oak trees are loaded with acorns and many wheat fields in area to keep them busy at nite.
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