Plastic barrel deer feeders -- do squirrels/coons chew em...??

[two-click]

Chewed a hole in mine-go metal no worries

 

[Parks 788]

If you are in eastern OK you may want to consider buying one or fabbing one to hang from a tree about 10' off the ground. We hunt just outside of Cookson and my FIL continually has bears breaking and knocking over the feeders, destroying the motors, etc.

 

[jalapeno]

I have had them tear up motors an chew the wires but not the barrel

 

[WFT]

Put out a brand new one and in two week went back to hunt it and there was a 4" hole in the side where one of the legs attached. Set there for a few hours watching them come and go out of that hole. Had to wrap an aluminum strip around the lower half of the barrel.

 

[retrieverman]

This is the first year it has ever happened, but I have game cam pictures of coons hanging up side down from my motor and had squirrels eat a hole the size of a soft ball in the side of the barrel.

 

[dlbleak]

lost a barrel to tree rats or coons lkast year but i had i mounted on a platform in a tree. bought a metal trashcan to replace it with. no problems since

 

[Harley1953]

Folks,

Thanks for all the info. Based on replies, I am thinking I will go with the steel barrel.

 

[CCShooter]

Folks,

Thanks for all the info. Based on replies, I am thinking I will go with the steel barrel.

Good choice....especially with the potential of fires right now. Steel good....plastic melt....