I have a feeder 40 yards behind my cabin at my hunting ranch , mainly just for wildlife viewing . I hunt elsewhere . It is popular with the local does . I have not shot any does on my place for about 8 years , just bucks . My does draw the bucks in during the season . Now they are getting too tame . I have had them stay and eat at the feeder as I work outside , they just watch . I went down a few days ago , the feeder had been empty for about 7 days and the does had quit coming . In the morning I shot a big rattlesnake from my porch . In less than a minute 3 does showed up at the feeder . With the shot they knew I was there and came to see if I had put corn out . Now I have deer coming to gunfire .

Same way at our place. We spread corn in the front yard to draw them in to watch. Bucks come too.

They get in my yard all the time. They're eating mesquite beans. I have a protein and corn feeder 150 yards out my back door.

Dang Stompy. Great buck!!

I don’t really like “tame” “wild”life.

I have some very gentle does. I don’t have a house feeder but when I drive up to a blind most come out to the noise of the can am. Not gonna lie, I do talk to them and will toss them feed.


I’ve accepted the fact that the gentle doe I’m talking to today, I might be dragging out in October. I’m just really nice to them in the meantime.

My cousin has deer like that. They still taste good though!

I carry a gallon bag 1/2 full of corn to my ladder stand to throw out every hunt. Every season I have deer that will show up when I throw it out and then watch me climb up my ladder and get situated. Last season I even had a small 8 point follow me 300 yards then cut thru the mesquites to where I was going. Here`s a video from 2020 of a small buck that acted as a decoy most of the season. He even showed up behind me while I was checking a camera at another location with another small buck. I think they see me with the corn in the plastic bag and know where I`m headed. FYI...... these deer aren`t fed year round either. We usually don`t start feeders until first of September or late August.

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A red rider BB gun will get them back to being spooky again.

Cool picture

I put a wildlife feeder out about 100 yards from the house. It's a no shoot feeder, just for viewing. It's nice to look out the window and see deer & hogs feeding. Although my horses think it's their own personal pre-popped popcorn machine. Two years ago we had three 30ish pounds hogs on it multiple times a day. You could drive within yards of them and they would feed. If you stopped they dart off into the woods until you left. I stopped seeing them around Thanksgiving. More than likely my one of my neighbors got them.