Feeder clocks and the switch back to Standard Time

Know anyone who always believes it's necessary to reset the clocks in their feeders with the change back to Standard Time?

So let's have some fun.

If you don't change your feeder's clock from its current setting, will your feeder go off earlier or later according to your watch that has been switched back?

Earlier, of course. Dang thing will magically change from throwing at 7:40 to throwing at 6:40.

I really have known a guy who went out the day before just to change feeding times on his feeders due to the time change.....MERCY!

All my feeders have Atomic clocks on them.............JK

I don't change mine. The deer will get used to it after a few days like I do.

It only affects deer with watches.

I keep mine on the standard time year round.

My deer read the TPWD handbook and so this year they know when the time changes.....I've trained them well.

All seriousness: I have mine set for early December and let em run.

Why touch it....it goes off about daylight and about 30 mins before dark.

I do it just so that when I do go check my feeder, the time is correct to my watch.

I do, too.

This gets to be slightly harder if you are running the analog timers with only hour increments to set time and throwing times. In that case, I keep the throwing at 7AM and 6PM but only set my timer clock back 30 minutes instead of 1 hour, thus effectively throwing at 6:30AM and 5:30PM. I've tried leaving the times alone with these analog timers and it does not work.

This one always confuses me! I will have to drink a beer and think on it!

I throw at 7:00 & 4:00 on one and 7:30 & 4:30 on the other in the same area. Don't change the feeder times but change the camera times for obvious reasons.

I love to watch them running from one to the other. Keeps them around longer.

I usually just change mine after the morning hunt on Saturday.

Exactly! I'm the one who manages the feeder timers for all of the feeders on our lease, so when the guys ask what time they will go off, I have to tell them "Around daylight, and about an hour before dark." If I try to tell them clock times, they start getting confused.

... I usually do the same and change camera time

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Sun up and sun down, clocks don't keep track of them.

Lmao I got in a heated argument about this very subject with a guy I hunt with last weekend. He was so worried about setting his feeder timers back and I asked him why? Just leave them alone, the sun is doing the same thing its just the time on your watch that is changing. We went round and round about it for probably thirty minutes until I just finally said fine, do what you want. Then he said I was a D.A. for not changing mine. I could only laugh. Oh and this guy is like 20 years older than me, I guess that's just proof wisdom don't always come with age.

I'm with the crowd that just leaves mine on standard time year round. Never change the clock unless a battery goes dead and I'm forced to. This conversation does make me wish they could have really perfected the old photo-eyes that went off at sunlight and then again 8.5 hours later. No clock, no guesswork.....but, empty barrels after lightning storms, premature spinning when hit with flashlight, clogged eye due to corn dust.....you remember the issues. Good luck to everybody this weekend!

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I usually spend the night in my feeder pen to change the time back an hour, just like the white house tells us to.


you people that aren't changing the time on you feeders are just going to screw up your hunting! which is fine with me, more deer on my place!

I have tried to explain this to several people, they are educated and still don't get it

my deer never show up before 9 am, so it dont matter!

When we fill up feeders the last time before opening weekend we switch to the new time and adjust our throw times to the gradually changing sun rise and set times. I've made a change this year from my usual 30 minutes before sunrise, to now going off at 7:30 (DST) and having my other feeder which is located opposite side of my blind, go off at 8:30am. Just a new theory.

I get REALLY confused, I might have to drink a sixer to figure this out.