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The blight of feeders

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WhistlingBadger:
Nothing like dealing with really classy people. 

Hawkdancer:
Them coon Hunter's is as crazy as loons and self bow folks!  I can keep up with a miniature dachshund, though!  Hope this is an exercise in a bit of tolerance, but I have been on both sides of the problem!  Wolfhounds will sing with the coyotes, even in town!  Never got to hunt with a beagle that could go into the brambles as well I could!  Had an excellent coon hunt on my first time out, we struck 4 hot tracks just after dark and were at the dance hall by 9:30! Got 4 coons!   Great evening!
Hawkdancer

Eric Krewson:
I worked swing shift for 28 years and was a poor sleeper, all my dogs through the years were trained not to bark with a red ryder bb gun. A couple dogs took two shots to the butt from about 40 yards to learn what hush up meant, my last only needed one shot.

Most dogs are easy to train but there is a catch to success, you have to be smarter than the dog. That is why there are so many dogs out there that haven't been trained to do the simplest things, the dogs are smarter than the owners.

ssrhythm:
Don’t let it bother you.  It won’t take long before the deer know to hit that corn well after dark only.  My buddy puts it out to get pics and he will hunt there some too.  I’ve known him and hunted with him since 2008, and he’s never shot a buck on a stand over or  coming to eat the corn.  I look for travel spots 1000 or more yards from any of his corn, and I have had more close opportunities hunting two weeks per year including skipping three years than he’s had living and hunting there all season every season.  Old deer are rarely fooled by the big accord pile from what I’ve seen.

Eric Krewson:
The deer here have disappeared, bow season opened on the 15th, I suspect there are corn feeders humming in almost every backyard of the people in the neighborhood who hunt. I took down the electric fence around my food plot a week ago, last year the deer covered it up within a few hours after I took the fence down.This year not one deer has been feeding in it yet, I had one trail cam picture of a little 6 point walking across the plot but he didn't stop to feed.

I have the ground covered with white oak acorns behind my shop, every year in the past the deer would clean them up as fast as they fell. This year I put my trail cam facing the tree, in 4 or 5 days only one lonely doe walked by the tree, she didn't stop to pick up the first acorn.

They legalized hunting over feeders in Bama last year. If I kill one his year it will be corn fed and fat, perhaps this is a good thing. I live in a neighborhood where almost every house backs up against big woods. My property line backs up against about 200 acres of big hardwood timber, the deer are overpopulated but always wired, they will run from you if they see you 300 yards way.

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