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Re: Out of ideas. Help wanted.
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10/02/19 10:54 PM
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throw something entirely different. This is what I’m thinking. There are a lot of stands on the place. The thing is, 90% of my hunting experience is not hunting over a corn feeder. This is my first lease and I am on it for fellowship and for a place to get away. I would however expect to at least see some deer.
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Re: Out of ideas. Help wanted.
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10/02/19 11:48 PM
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Try a mineral block , mix in other feed with the corn.
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Re: Out of ideas. Help wanted.
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10/03/19 12:58 AM
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I’d think your pen is too small but if you say it’s not
Maybe it’s too hard to get into?
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Re: Out of ideas. Help wanted.
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10/03/19 01:40 AM
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How many acorns around? Which side of Comanche?
I live in Comanche and hunt in Mills & Hamilton counties. In some places, the deer aren’t touching corn due to acorns. In other places, the deer are mowing down the corn as soon as it hits the ground.
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Re: Out of ideas. Help wanted.
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10/03/19 04:36 AM
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How many acorns around? Which side of Comanche?
I live in Comanche and hunt in Mills & Hamilton counties. In some places, the deer aren’t touching corn due to acorns. In other places, the deer are mowing down the corn as soon as it hits the ground. South side towards blanket. There are some hardwoods around my pen, but the other guys on the lease are getting deer on corn all summer.
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Re: Out of ideas. Help wanted.
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10/03/19 10:41 AM
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Get a bag of rice bran and put it down in there.
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Re: Out of ideas. Help wanted.
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10/04/19 10:24 PM
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A flicker of hope.
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Re: Out of ideas. Help wanted.
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10/04/19 10:25 PM
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First deer in the pen in 2+ months.
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Re: Out of ideas. Help wanted.
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10/05/19 12:58 AM
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I have had issues with them getting in a square pen.
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Re: Out of ideas. Help wanted.
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10/05/19 01:17 AM
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A flicker of hope. I’m trying to offer ideas Here’s another I once knew some people that kept a good garden. Anyway, they would run pvc posts about 10 feet in the air maybe every 5 feet. Something about that they claimed deer didn’t like Your t post are pretty close together and extend past the panels. Which reminded me of how their garden was kept
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Re: Out of ideas. Help wanted.
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10/05/19 07:39 AM
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My best feeder is 300 yards from another. I have panels and get a lot of deer, other nothing but put some barb wire around it due to cattle. It is just a pig and turkey feeder. Deer bed there but don't feed there. They just don't like some areas.
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Re: Out of ideas. Help wanted.
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10/05/19 11:11 AM
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I really enjoyed reading the different types of strategies for feeders. Good information for someone like me who doesn't have a lot of experience over feeders. Thanks.
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Re: Out of ideas. Help wanted.
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10/06/19 03:53 PM
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So, I am wondering how much of an area (what size) does your pen cover. Deer do not normally like to jump into small enclosures. They will, but not unless they have no other options. Sounds like they have better options from what you are mentioning, in your thread. Does and fawns prefer to slip under and or through a fence, when they can. Mostly, it seems that the deer don’t like your setup, or they like stuff meone else’s better.
Also, it Sounds like you don’t like feeding the hogs...if that is the case, just thin them out. Many years ago, I quit messing with feeders, as I got tired of the cattle breaking down my pens, tearing the feeders up. (Hogs can do the same thing, just to a lesser extent.) So I just started throwing out a couple bags of feed at several different locations, each time I arrived at deer camp..nothing for the cattle to tear up, and they can’t really get at the corn, if you spread it out enough. Then the hogs showed up, en masse...so I thinned them out (which mostly scared them off to adjoining properties) and I got lots of good hog meat to eat, and left the boars to the coyotes (which I also would shoot for the furs)...because the bait stations were large, usually an acre insize, the deer would show up in groups of 8 to 10 does/yearlings/fawns (instead of ones, twos)...Also the bucks would come in to scent check the does, when they were feeding at my bait stations. Basically, the bucks started coming in more regular than before. So once I started, the feeding stations, I began to put out doe in estrus scent, when I fed out, and even dripped it from my truck on the side of the road as I was leaving the feeding stations. What happened, is that the bucks would temporarily take up residence on my territory, and go into Rut Mode, while I was there...while the results will take a couple days or more to work...a long trip to hunting camp will prove productive...As with anything, the deer will take time to condition themselves to any new strategy. It took me a year to get the deer accustomed to my bait stations, but I encountered many mature bucks, that I had seldom seen previously. Anyway, this method is much less expensive and once successfully adopted, can increase your mature buck sightings. Hope this insight helps! my set up down by creek, had my oats & later the deer mix seeds... Seen the deer tracks coming in. twas well used trail. had put the brick size corn, apriot & acorn attractant ground leavel on trails, ha corn feeder timer, off edge of woods... sound atractaint... Hogs would follow creek. find & tear up area. destroyed my corn feeder. tis b4 ha the cams, & buck only county.. We tride getting 1 doe tag, was told not enough deer. So started ta concentrait on the hog problem...Had lease for deer hunts.. & thar was pletty deer on property. Set up was doe bedding area. working fence & other work around place seen plenty bucks & does... Hunters are the eye's & ears of the woods... pappy now tis high-tech trail cam's... not complaining, i enjoy my pic's... Kept hog preasure on, started seeing less. WMA opened up down road, so grabbed bow in hand & took a stand, deer & hog hunts... Leasing was going ta highest bidder.. Eventualy smith county went 4 deer :confussed: could have taken 4 deer a year LEGALY when b4 only asked for 1 doe tag & told NO not enough deer... stayed with what was doing... had No hog problem's... & still did the WMA hunts archery deer & hogs... Stay with it... Keep your head held high & your powder dry... just my
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Re: Out of ideas. Help wanted.
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10/06/19 04:06 PM
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There are some good suggestions above with the one I would use to be opening up a couple of panels.
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Re: Out of ideas. Help wanted.
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10/06/19 04:19 PM
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Some very good ideas. Surely someone posted a solution. Only contribution I would make is that you mentioned your daughter. I assume you wish her to enjoy the hunting experience. If so I would welcome the hogs. Action is better than nothing, or the occasional deer. I hunt in east Texas and when my son was young we did not have pigs at all, and seeing deer in east Texas is not a guarantee every sitting. I would embrace the hogs and let her slay as many as possible when she is able. Wild pig taste pretty good too.
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