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<blockquote data-quote="r00s7a" data-source="post: 1349886" data-attributes="member: 9675"><p>I've got half a dozen corn feeders out, all 55 gal barrels on tripods, with Sunslinger motors on them and solar rechargers. Only thing I have had to do is to replace the AA batteries that run the clocks. Some are three years old and have the original 12V batteries in them. They are easy to set the timers, and you can set them to go off however often and as many times as you want, on whatever days you want, for as long as you want. I have had them going off twice a day, at dawn and bout 30 minutes before sundown. I am about to crank them up another notch and have them go off four times a day with shorter increments. The reason for that is, once they go off, the deer know the sound and pour out as soon as they go off. I was sittin there last weekend and there was not a deer around as far as I could tell. Feeder went off and within one minute there were 7 does and one small buck that was underneath the feeder. They quickly cleaned up the corn and wandered off. My buddy shot a wallhanger last year that did the same thing, held in the woods until the feeder went off, then was promptly underneath it. I agree that during the rut bucks are mostly concerened with breeding, but they do eat some. A feeder will do well to attract the does, which in turn bring the bucks, but it can bring in the bucks alone too. Even with acorns on the ground I still have a lot of activity around the feeders. It doesn't have to just be the coldest part of the year when there is nothing else to eat.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="r00s7a, post: 1349886, member: 9675"] I've got half a dozen corn feeders out, all 55 gal barrels on tripods, with Sunslinger motors on them and solar rechargers. Only thing I have had to do is to replace the AA batteries that run the clocks. Some are three years old and have the original 12V batteries in them. They are easy to set the timers, and you can set them to go off however often and as many times as you want, on whatever days you want, for as long as you want. I have had them going off twice a day, at dawn and bout 30 minutes before sundown. I am about to crank them up another notch and have them go off four times a day with shorter increments. The reason for that is, once they go off, the deer know the sound and pour out as soon as they go off. I was sittin there last weekend and there was not a deer around as far as I could tell. Feeder went off and within one minute there were 7 does and one small buck that was underneath the feeder. They quickly cleaned up the corn and wandered off. My buddy shot a wallhanger last year that did the same thing, held in the woods until the feeder went off, then was promptly underneath it. I agree that during the rut bucks are mostly concerened with breeding, but they do eat some. A feeder will do well to attract the does, which in turn bring the bucks, but it can bring in the bucks alone too. Even with acorns on the ground I still have a lot of activity around the feeders. It doesn't have to just be the coldest part of the year when there is nothing else to eat. [/QUOTE]
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