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What Attractant do you fill your feeder with?

Posted By: Antlerking87

What Attractant do you fill your feeder with? - 07/10/16 09:31 PM

With so many options for Attractants/nutrition what do you use FOR SPIN FEEDERS.
CORN,CORN/SOYBEANS, PELLETS ETC.
Posted By: ChadTRG42

Re: What Attractant do you fill your feeder with? - 07/10/16 09:37 PM

Corn. Sometimes a little smell good/attractant/feed mixed in with corn that the local feed store is promoting.
Posted By: Creekrunner

Re: What Attractant do you fill your feeder with? - 07/10/16 09:38 PM

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.
Posted By: Antlerking87

Re: What Attractant do you fill your feeder with? - 07/10/16 09:47 PM

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
Posted By: Creekrunner

Re: What Attractant do you fill your feeder with? - 07/10/16 10:24 PM

Originally Posted By: Antlerking87
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


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.
Posted By: Antlerking87

Re: What Attractant do you fill your feeder with? - 07/10/16 11:08 PM

Thank you
Posted By: ChadTRG42

Re: What Attractant do you fill your feeder with? - 07/11/16 03:34 AM

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.
Posted By: Creekrunner

Re: What Attractant do you fill your feeder with? - 07/11/16 02:17 PM

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.
Posted By: Age N Score ?

Re: What Attractant do you fill your feeder with? - 07/11/16 07:22 PM

For me..........
Posted By: HuntnFly67

Re: What Attractant do you fill your feeder with? - 07/11/16 07:26 PM

Corn with indian corn flavoring.
Posted By: rickym

Re: What Attractant do you fill your feeder with? - 07/11/16 07:29 PM

Corn, every so often I will mix some c'mere deer in with it but I don't think it changes anything.
Posted By: lms

Re: What Attractant do you fill your feeder with? - 07/11/16 07:40 PM

Straight corn works great some times I add some wheat.
Posted By: stxranchman

Re: What Attractant do you fill your feeder with? - 07/11/16 08:45 PM

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.
Posted By: Csddarden

Re: What Attractant do you fill your feeder with? - 07/11/16 10:27 PM

Originally Posted By: HuntnFly67
Corn with indian corn flavoring.


rofl
Posted By: Deerhunter61

Re: What Attractant do you fill your feeder with? - 07/13/16 03:44 AM

Originally Posted By: HuntnFly67
Corn with indian corn flavoring.


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

Re: What Attractant do you fill your feeder with? - 07/17/16 12:45 PM

Corn
Posted By: dgilbert

Re: What Attractant do you fill your feeder with? - 07/17/16 01:27 PM

Nothing waste of money.
Posted By: TackDriver

Re: What Attractant do you fill your feeder with? - 07/17/16 02:06 PM

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.



Posted By: TFF Caribou

Re: What Attractant do you fill your feeder with? - 07/17/16 10:58 PM

There is this new stuff on the market called corn. I had 2000+ pictures last year of deer eating it.
Posted By: Halfadozen

Re: What Attractant do you fill your feeder with? - 07/18/16 12:25 AM

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.
Posted By: BowsnRods

Re: What Attractant do you fill your feeder with? - 07/18/16 12:58 AM

Golden Nuggets
Posted By: TexasKC

Re: What Attractant do you fill your feeder with? - 07/18/16 02:26 AM

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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