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What is the distance between your blind and feeder?
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01/01/14 04:42 PM
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For those that do stand/feeder hunt, I was curious of distances between the two and your reasoning for that distance. We have one as close as 40yds good for hog hunting and one almost 100 yds. for concealment. I was thinking of moving that one and had thought about making it between 150-175.
Curious of what your process is for making this decision. Obviously if you don't use stand/feeder setup, I get it.
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Re: What is the distance between your blind and feeder?
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01/01/14 04:48 PM
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Exactly 113 yards from blind to feeder.. Just looked like a good place to set them up
James
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Re: What is the distance between your blind and feeder?
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01/01/14 04:50 PM
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Most of ours are about 75 yards, but all within 100 yards.
We take a lot of novice, first time hunters (sons, daughters, grandchildren, etc) and we want it close enough as to not create too challenging a shot, but far enough that restless kids don't easily spook their quarry.
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Re: What is the distance between your blind and feeder?
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01/01/14 04:51 PM
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chital_shikari
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Usually wherever I hunt, feeders are set between 70-120yd. When we had our own place, our feeders were at like 60, 80, and 90 or so yards.
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Re: What is the distance between your blind and feeder?
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01/01/14 04:52 PM
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If you're shootin em off a feeder in the first place, why worry about how far away you are? Just get as close as possible to help guarantee a DRT shot...
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Re: What is the distance between your blind and feeder?
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01/01/14 04:53 PM
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I have two that are 100 yards and two that are about thirty yards. The two close ones are for bow hunting mostly and the other two are rifle so we set the as far back as possible but still have a good view of the trails.
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Re: What is the distance between your blind and feeder?
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01/01/14 05:18 PM
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One is 200, and one is 88 yds. I have the 88 yd feeder cycle 15-20 minutes after the 200 yd feeder to pull the deer closer after feeding at the far feeder. The deer tend to relax a little. I do this because I mostly hunt with a handgun.
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Re: What is the distance between your blind and feeder?
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01/01/14 05:21 PM
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Usually I have two set up, this year went with one. It's 140yd from the stand, and the only thing I've shot off it has been a pig. We throw 1/3 of a bag of corn out at two other locations every sit. On at 60yds directly in front of the stand, and the other in the right field at around 100yds. The pig pipe is sitting at 165yds. All deer to date have been shot off the thrown corn. The feeder and pope are just there to keep them coming in the area for us
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Re: What is the distance between your blind and feeder?
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01/01/14 06:03 PM
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110-252. I set up where I can come and go with deer around the feeder and them not know I'm there.
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Re: What is the distance between your blind and feeder?
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01/01/14 06:07 PM
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Of the two I use most frequently and have had the most consistent success with, one is 123 yards box stand to feeder, the other is 13 yards ladder-stand to feeder. I seldom see bucks in my feeder pens, usually does, which I consider the REAL bait, anyway. I rely on my feeders only to keep the girls fat and happy. The girls are what bring in the boys.
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Re: What is the distance between your blind and feeder?
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01/01/14 07:08 PM
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Re: What is the distance between your blind and feeder?
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01/01/14 07:11 PM
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If you're shootin em off a feeder in the first place, why worry about how far away you are? Just get as close as possible to help guarantee a DRT shot... Mine is 40 yards from blind to feeder. But I usually shoot them on their way to the feeder,about 120 yards
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Re: What is the distance between your blind and feeder?
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01/01/14 07:17 PM
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Tomorrow I'm hunting zero feet from the feeder. It is a 30 acre wheat field, I'll be on the edge of. If the does behave this year, like they have for 3 years before they will pop out of the woods 100 to 400 yards from where I will be set up.
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Re: What is the distance between your blind and feeder?
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Re: What is the distance between your blind and feeder?
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01/01/14 08:41 PM
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120-225 I set mine up like rifleman, far enough away so I can get in and out without spooking them.
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Re: What is the distance between your blind and feeder?
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01/01/14 09:07 PM
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jshouse
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i'll be at 18 yards for the rest of the weekend...unless things go extremely well in the morning
If I send my neighbors a text and ask them to give me feedback on my lawn and plant rye into a giant dong pattern, I'm probably going to get some less than positive feedback. Same goes here.
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Re: What is the distance between your blind and feeder?
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01/01/14 09:37 PM
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I try for exactly 100 yards. Like others have said, try to position the blinds so that you can get into the blind without the deer seeing
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Re: What is the distance between your blind and feeder?
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01/01/14 09:40 PM
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I try for exactly 100 yards. Like others have said, try to position the blinds so that you can get into the blind without the deer seeing With that in mind, how far away do you park?
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Re: What is the distance between your blind and feeder?
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Exactly 113 yards from blind to feeder.. Just looked like a good place to set them up I park behind a hill about 600-700 yards from my setup
James
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Re: What is the distance between your blind and feeder?
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01/01/14 09:54 PM
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The land dictates the distance.
75, 65 and 100 yards for where I hunt.
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Re: What is the distance between your blind and feeder?
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01/01/14 09:56 PM
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I have one setup that is on a road with the blind between them. North feeder is 200 yards and the South feeder is around 100 yards. My other setup is about 120 yards.
I park about 100 yards North of the North feeder and have to walk past it to the blind. I have to walk past both feeders and maybe a mile to get to my other setup on the South side of my area.
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Re: What is the distance between your blind and feeder?
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01/02/14 12:14 AM
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We only bow hunt for deer, so they are right at 30 yards apart. We do have some stands that are farther apart for when we hog hunt with rifles.
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Re: What is the distance between your blind and feeder?
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01/02/14 12:26 AM
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Re: What is the distance between your blind and feeder?
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01/02/14 12:29 AM
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Depends anywhere from 25 to abt 140 just depends on where and why the stand will be used. Park 300 to 500 yards away
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Re: What is the distance between your blind and feeder?
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Ours are about 100 yds or just under. One is about 30 yds. That one is intended for bow hunting but we have a gun blind at the same distance.
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