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Worried About Your Feeder Getting Shot?
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12/09/20 03:11 PM
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BbarVRanch
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I have gotten a couple of these new stand and fill feeders. Love them!  But on my brother's ranch, when he switched to the lower feeders, he brought up a valid concern... He's worried that people shooting deer or hogs around the feeder will shoot the feeder itself.  I told him to just make sure his guests are aware of the height... Here's one of mine. Have any of you had anyone shoot the feeder? Just curious.
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Re: Worried About Your Feeder Getting Shot?
[Re: BbarVRanch]
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12/09/20 03:29 PM
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Hello, have your brother tell his "people" not to shoot the feeders.
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Re: Worried About Your Feeder Getting Shot?
[Re: Hudbone]
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12/09/20 04:33 PM
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BbarVRanch
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Hello, have your brother tell his "people" not to shoot the feeders. That's what I told him to tell his hunters. But city slicker hunters can be full of surprises. 
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Re: Worried About Your Feeder Getting Shot?
[Re: BbarVRanch]
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12/09/20 04:47 PM
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We put 10 or 11 of Ramball's 1000 pound stand and fill feeders on our lease...we made a bet on who would shoot theirs first.  One of the guys' kids run a bullet through a leg the first season but that's the only one that's been shot thus far and we are on the 2nd season. So far so good. It's definitely a concern...tell him to post prices of the feeders if a bullet is run through them and those city slickers will tone down the feeder shooting 
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Re: Worried About Your Feeder Getting Shot?
[Re: BbarVRanch]
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12/09/20 04:50 PM
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Re: Worried About Your Feeder Getting Shot?
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12/09/20 06:42 PM
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syncerus
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Just go with a “You shoot it, you eat it” policy. 
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Re: Worried About Your Feeder Getting Shot?
[Re: BbarVRanch]
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12/09/20 07:50 PM
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Not worried about it. Nothing some JB weld and paint can't fix if an accident were to happen (excluding mechanism hits)
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Re: Worried About Your Feeder Getting Shot?
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12/09/20 08:49 PM
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The only time I've ever hit a feeder leg was with an arrow. That was right after I hit a strand of barb wire and right before I hit a scrawny mesquite limb. That big boar hog never knew how lucky he was.
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Re: Worried About Your Feeder Getting Shot?
[Re: BbarVRanch]
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12/09/20 10:58 PM
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I shot a raccoon off a feeder leg with a .22 mag a few years ago. He fell and I left a perfect round hole (looks drilled) through the leg.
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Re: Worried About Your Feeder Getting Shot?
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12/10/20 01:50 AM
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I have shot a feeder leg, but not a feeder. We had several feeders with a hole in a leg or two. Depends on what I am shooting at and how bad I want it dead, if the feeder is behind it, the feeder may be a casualty of war.
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Re: Worried About Your Feeder Getting Shot?
[Re: BbarVRanch]
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12/10/20 02:04 AM
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I shot a squirrel right though the head. Bullet dented the spinner plate behind him. 
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Re: Worried About Your Feeder Getting Shot?
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12/10/20 02:26 AM
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Hard tor me to believe but ive never shot a deer at a feeder, much less shot the feeder. However I can see it happening on a stand and fill. When stand and fill first came out I wondered about the feeder blocking view for a shot or blocking a potential photo shot or game camera shots. I think all those are valid concerns but they sure are easier to fill. All about tradeoffs. I did have a bow hunter friend explain they like them cause it gives you a chance to draw a bow while they are behind the feeder.
Keep your gratitude higher than your expectations. RWH
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Re: Worried About Your Feeder Getting Shot?
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12/10/20 06:21 AM
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I shot my game camera once. It never occurred to me that the deer was standing in front of it. I was shooting from an elevated position, the bullet caught the top of the front shoulder and redirected severely back up and out and right into my camera. Deer was DRT and a lot of bone was found in the heart and lungs.
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Re: Worried About Your Feeder Getting Shot?
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12/11/20 01:07 AM
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I've let a few other people hunt my stand area w/a stand & fill feeder I built about 70yds. away. I was moving it the other day & saw somebody had shot it! It was about 1" below the control box. IDK who did it or when or if they even realized they hit it. There's been 1 pig & 1 coyote killed off that feeder, except for what I've killed. It was probably 1 of those 2.
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Re: Worried About Your Feeder Getting Shot?
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12/11/20 08:09 PM
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Me either, but the main reasons I don't like stand & fill feeders are (1) they block my view and (2) I don't like how they sling corn (at least the ones I have hunted on). They are easy to fill, but so are the feeders we build and they are up high on 15' legs. Barrels are run up & down with a cordless drill. Open view and they sling corn a long ways.
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Re: Worried About Your Feeder Getting Shot?
[Re: BbarVRanch]
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12/11/20 10:30 PM
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Just this day replaced the last of my combo feeders with 600 pound Lamco low & throw. Will add a Tx Hunter protein feeder. Not only obtains much more visibility, the new feeder evenly dispersed the corn throughout the entire 46 by 56 pen. Looking at the pen right now, the increased sight lines tell it’s worth it. ![[Linked Image]](https://texashuntingforum.com/forum/pics/userpics/2020/12/full-66255-269297-b0e9ad78_7d28_47e4_aca5_548943a42def.jpeg) Before we had this -
Last edited by Hudbone; 12/11/20 10:39 PM.
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Re: Worried About Your Feeder Getting Shot?
[Re: BbarVRanch]
#8087535
12/13/20 02:00 PM
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mooney_ag
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I bought a used feeder with a hole in the leg. Made me wonder
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Re: Worried About Your Feeder Getting Shot?
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12/13/20 03:13 PM
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BbarVRanch
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I bought a used feeder with a hole in the leg. Made me wonder I imagine it happens more than we realize.  Had a couple of buddies shoot their electronic caller... One with a shotgun, which is understandable. And one with a rifle. 
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Re: Worried About Your Feeder Getting Shot?
[Re: skinnerback]
#8087863
12/13/20 06:50 PM
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Me either, but the main reasons I don't like stand & fill feeders are (1) they block my view and (2) I don't like how they sling corn (at least the ones I have hunted on).
They are easy to fill, but so are the feeders we build and they are up high on 15' legs. Barrels are run up & down with a cordless drill. Open view and they sling corn a long ways. Skinner, I think you’re right about the feeder being out of the way but, it’s nice to be able to put 1k lb’s in a feeder and not worry about it for a while. The Lamco feeder I have will sling the corn a long way being a 12v. Just like previously said, it’s give and take for these feeders.
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Re: Worried About Your Feeder Getting Shot?
[Re: Homer75]
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12/13/20 07:25 PM
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skinnerback
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True on the 1k + lb feeders.
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Re: Worried About Your Feeder Getting Shot?
[Re: BbarVRanch]
#8095179
12/19/20 12:24 PM
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I have shot my chronograph.......More than once..... 
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Re: Worried About Your Feeder Getting Shot?
[Re: Hudbone]
#8095226
12/19/20 01:32 PM
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Just this day replaced the last of my combo feeders with 600 pound Lamco low & throw. Will add a Tx Hunter protein feeder. Not only obtains much more visibility, the new feeder evenly dispersed the corn throughout the entire 46 by 56 pen. Looking at the pen right now, the increased sight lines tell it’s worth it. ![[Linked Image]](https://texashuntingforum.com/forum/pics/userpics/2020/12/full-66255-269297-b0e9ad78_7d28_47e4_aca5_548943a42def.jpeg) Before we had this - Looks great
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Re: Worried About Your Feeder Getting Shot?
[Re: BbarVRanch]
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12/19/20 05:40 PM
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Road feeder will solve the issue of stand and fill feeders and feed pens in the way of a shots.
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Re: Worried About Your Feeder Getting Shot?
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12/19/20 09:20 PM
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Just add a really steep trophy fee for killing the feeder.
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Re: Worried About Your Feeder Getting Shot?
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12/19/20 09:38 PM
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Just this day replaced the last of my combo feeders with 600 pound Lamco low & throw. Will add a Tx Hunter protein feeder. Not only obtains much more visibility, the new feeder evenly dispersed the corn throughout the entire 46 by 56 pen. Looking at the pen right now, the increased sight lines tell it’s worth it. ![[Linked Image]](https://texashuntingforum.com/forum/pics/userpics/2020/12/full-66255-269297-b0e9ad78_7d28_47e4_aca5_548943a42def.jpeg) Before we had this - Does that mean you need that old, out-of-date combo feeder hauled off?  I was moving it the other day & saw somebody had shot it! It was about 1" below the control box. ... There's been 1 pig & 1 coyote killed off that feeder, except for what I've killed. >>>That you know about. No good deed goes unpunished...especially on a deer lease.
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