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Boss Buck gravity feeders any good? Tired of buying cheap ones for Kansas lease. Whats a good feeder????
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If you have squirrels around, they’ll chew them up. All Seasons and Lamco are good quality (and metal).
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Squirrels have ruined all my plastic feeders over the years. Metal or bust here.
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If you have squirrels around, they’ll chew them up. All Seasons and Lamco are good quality (and metal). This. Our camp put out 2 of the 1000# gravity feeders. Squirrels or coons chewed the plastic funnel. Side note..... A plastic toilet bowl flange fits inside the BB main funnel. Use it as an “adapter” to mount a spinner. Also, buy the feet. And put them on paving stones.. etc. we didn’t. One foot sunk down. Made the feeder un- level. Poured about 500# corn on the ground. 🤦🏻♂️
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I like the notion of the feeder pictured above, but I think our bears would rip off the cage and the mechanism.
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I tried the Boss Buck... our deer did not use them at all for a year. pulled them out and sold them.
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Our deer will only eat from the spinner feeders that throw the corn on the ground. They won't eat from the trough-style feeders. We were just feeding coons and pigs with our troughs. And bears.....
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In our area I’ve had good luck with using 12” diameter heavy wall corrugated pvc pipe in ~ 4’ lengths.
Board on the bottom with the pipe v-notched 3 times and a lid on top. Mount it to a tree about 1.5’ off the ground attaching it to the tree using a 1/4” x 4” lag bolt with a fender washer and leaning a bit forward at the top to keep rain from running back into the feed. Tie the bottom securely to the tree such that it can’t tilt or wobble.
Add a plastic jar of peanut butter with the lid nailed/screwed to the tree and the bottom cut off the plastic jar. Put it about 4’ up and 90 degrees from the gravity feeder to get them started if it’s a new feeder.
Holds about 100#s of corn.
Edited to add:
If in a field, etc., I posthole dig and use a landscape timber to attach the feeder to but a bit lower.
Last edited by Old_Toot; 06/25/20.
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