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Feed times
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10/13/14 07:11 PM
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Adam O
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What times are you all feeding? Once in the morning and evening? Twice?
Thanks in advance.
Adam...KCCO
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Re: Feed times
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10/13/14 07:12 PM
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Payne
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Re: Feed times
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10/13/14 07:32 PM
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Homer Jay
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15 minutes before sunrise 30 minutes before sunset
"Like a slice of fried gold!"
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Re: Feed times
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10/13/14 07:54 PM
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Satch
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Re: Feed times
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10/13/14 08:08 PM
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Troutfisch
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We've always set for one feeding in both the morning and evening (currently 7:00 AM & 5:15 PM).
I don't do all-day sits often and as such I like to condition the deer to visit the feeders after dawn and before dusk.
Last edited by Troutfisch; 10/13/14 08:08 PM.
"In a civilized and cultivated country, wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen." -Theodore Roosevelt
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Re: Feed times
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10/13/14 08:12 PM
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Gone to Texas
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I do 7am and 5pm for 4 seconds each.
So much natural food out right now my feeders are not getting hit all that much.
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Re: Feed times
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10/13/14 08:14 PM
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GHale
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Re: Feed times
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10/13/14 08:44 PM
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stxranchman
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15 minutes before sunrise 30 minutes before sunset This for the most part. But I feed with a road feeder and it is when I getting to the stand. It might be 15 minutes before daylight in the morning and 1-2 hours before sunset in the afternoon depending on temp and time of the year.
Are idiots multiplying faster than normal people?
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Re: Feed times
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10/13/14 08:53 PM
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15 minutes before sunrise 30 minutes before sunset This for the most part. But I feed with a road feeder and it is when I getting to the stand. It might be 15 minutes before daylight in the morning and 1-2 hours before sunset in the afternoon depending on temp and time of the year. Pretty close to what I do. I always set by sunrise and sunset. Since TPWD allows you shoot 30 minutes before sunrise, that's what I set the morning feeding at. When the feeder spins, I can shoot. Evening I do an hour before sunset. I adjust every few weeks during deer season.
"Man is still a hunter, still a simple searcher after meat..." Robert C. Ruark
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Re: Feed times
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10/13/14 08:57 PM
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stxranchman
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15 minutes before sunrise 30 minutes before sunset This for the most part. But I feed with a road feeder and it is when I getting to the stand. It might be 15 minutes before daylight in the morning and 1-2 hours before sunset in the afternoon depending on temp and time of the year. Pretty close to what I do. I always set by sunrise and sunset. Since TPWD allows you shoot 30 minutes before sunrise, that's what I set the morning feeding at. When the feeder spins, I can shoot. Evening I do an hour before sunset. I adjust every few weeks during deer season. Sometimes in the mornings I have to allow for cloud cover and/or fog. Which can make seeing at shooting time almost impossible.
Are idiots multiplying faster than normal people?
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Re: Feed times
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10/13/14 10:11 PM
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Texas buckeye
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I have mine set for 7:30 am and 5:30 pm, in middle of hunting season that will put it right at first light in am and about 30 minutes prior to sunset in pm (accounting for time change of course, but I will not set anything back or change settings when time changes). This weekend it made it right at sunrise and about 90 minutes before sunset.
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Re: Feed times
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10/13/14 11:04 PM
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15 minutes before sunrise 30 minutes before sunset This for the most part. But I feed with a road feeder and it is when I getting to the stand. It might be 15 minutes before daylight in the morning and 1-2 hours before sunset in the afternoon depending on temp and time of the year. Pretty close to what I do. I always set by sunrise and sunset. Since TPWD allows you shoot 30 minutes before sunrise, that's what I set the morning feeding at. When the feeder spins, I can shoot. Evening I do an hour before sunset. I adjust every few weeks during deer season. Sometimes in the mornings I have to allow for cloud cover and/or fog. Which can make seeing at shooting time almost impossible. True, during archery I will run a little later in the morning, hard to see the sights that early.
"Man is still a hunter, still a simple searcher after meat..." Robert C. Ruark
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Re: Feed times
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10/14/14 01:53 AM
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Adam O
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Thanks all for the response!
Adam...KCCO
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Re: Feed times
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10/14/14 02:29 AM
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ctonsmitty
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We tried something a little different this year on the feeders that do not have panels.
Currently the feeders are going off at 8:00AM and 5:20PM. The theory is that if the feeders go off later in morning and earlier in the afternoon we won't feed as many hogs (especially early as in now or October)
We also went ahead and set the time of day back an hour, so that when the time does actually change the time of day & feed times won't change (so we are more or less backing into the feed times as the days get shorter) Once the time does actually change the feed time will be 7:00am and 4:20am
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Re: Feed times
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10/14/14 05:44 PM
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Homer Jay
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I adjust every few weeks during deer season. That is the last thing we do before we leave on Sunday to head back home.
"Like a slice of fried gold!"
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Re: Feed times
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10/14/14 05:53 PM
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jseago
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0630 and 1700, and I do not use tripod feeders here in the Pineywoods. I use 5 gallon buckets and pull them 20-30 feet up in a tree. I have way more success like this.
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Re: Feed times
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10/14/14 06:00 PM
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hook_n_line
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I have a squirrel that feeds the deer so it depends on when he shows up.
Sometimes it's hard being me! But somebody has to do it.
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