The only opinion for pens around feeders is keeping the hogs out, otherwise if you like shooting hogs and don't care as much about harvesting deer, no need to put pens around your feeders. I hunt WT and use feeders to attract and hold does and if you don't have these feeders penned, then the hogs will visit 24/7 and the deer will stay away, especially the does and especially the does with fawns as fawns are a favorite meal for a big old pig.

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ahhh, the ol poop method to tell direc,tion of tra vel, the pointed end tells direction of travel, good tip.

hmm, pens around feeders, used ta put the small brick type acorn, apple, & corn flagored small blocks on ground dig shallow hole were top was level, works great, deer will paw &break off small chunks, it more natural same with bigger 25lb blocks for deer. last several years been putting them ab ove reach of the hogs, deer slowly get used to it. Aif hog carring a desease, that hear about, lease chance of it spreading ta the deer. oh, still not alot of movement here.

I thought penned feeders were the norm. Most places have some sort of livestock that you will be paying to feed without a pen. If not then hogs.

I've been hunting on the Eastland / Comanche line for ten seasons. My game cameras show tons of deer feeding all night long. The only day feeding seems to happen in September and October. After that if I don't catch them moving during the first 30 minutes or last 30 minutes of legal hunting time I probably won't see anything at all. It's some hard hunting but sometimes I get lucky.

Try sticking a camera on a trail or put your camera on plot watcher (takes pics every 1, 3 or 5 minutes) overlooking a foodplot. If you don't/can't do a foodplot, try dumping a bag of corn on the ground (no feeder). You will be surprised at how many more daytime deer pics you get.
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Hey Mark!

They follow the moon, this weekend is no moon stay all day! Should be good noon time activity Sunday depending on rain fall amounts sat...

How long before a hunt do you do that?



Not liking your response! Are you near cisco?

Edit: nevermind - you're south of me!



I have the hunting calendar, thanks - 6 stars this weekend - I hope it holds true!

get used to it in that area. I hunt in stephens county and have very few daylight deer pics. Other than summer activity and the rut, most deer in that area are very nocturnal...the rest only go nocturnal on the weekends

Mother Nature has a big part in why they aren't moving real well during the day.... With the moon changing this weekend and cooler temps expected they should be moving pretty well for everybody this weekend may need to hunt all day been seeing activitty during mid-day hours as well.... Good Luck and God Bless

Hope they come out because of cooler temps!

Man me too - I want to de-virginize my new (to me) bow!

Me 2, crossbow...

I've killed my target so many times.

Need to spill blood now

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Hope you guys are right...

Keep out cattle and hogs.

Well I hunted all weekend in grayson county and my deer did not surface in the daylight. Looking forward to cooler weather and rut activity

We had a big bag of nothing come in, until Sunday AM at about 3:45 AM, I think we had the 3 sluts till about 530, and then a single pig at 5:55.

I was so frustrated, I slept in, and glad I did.