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    Default Timing of Moultrie feeders

    What times do yall set the timers for? How long at each time?
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    Any spin feeders I have are set one hour after sunrise only. I do not like making deer more nocturnal by spinning again before dark.
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    Has anyone ever killed a large mountable buck under a feeder?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Model12 View Post
    Has anyone ever killed a large mountable buck under a feeder?
    Yes. More than one. But they had been eating up under that feeder year round since they had spots.

    I set mine 30 minutes after first light and an hour before dark. Every kernel is gone before end of shooting light, every day.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JJ1965 View Post

    I set mine 30 minutes after first light and an hour before dark.
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    I’ve always ran 30min before official sunrise and an hour before official sunset.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JJ1965 View Post
    I set mine 30 minutes after first light and an hour before dark.
    I’ve heard this a lot too, I’ve always set my feeders off before sunrise in hopes that they find it right before the sun is up , feel comfortable, and hang out until I can see. But a lot of guys say they set their feeders after sunrise..
    any theory ?
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    Quote Originally Posted by duckz View Post
    I’ve heard this a lot too, I’ve always set my feeders off before sunrise in hopes that they find it right before the sun is up , feel comfortable, and hang out until I can see. But a lot of guys say they set their feeders after sunrise..
    any theory ?
    If it goes off before sunrise, how early do you plan to get there? I like to be settled in the stand before the feeder goes off. I hate walking in and running a bunch of deer off the feeder.

    Deer at my place are pretty acclimated to feeders and don't run off when the feeders go off. They don't usually get there too early either. Some wait within earshot and come in as soon as they hear the dinner bell. I won't be surprised when I kill one wearing a wrist watch.

    I killed my best racked deer under a feeder. My biggest bodied deer was running behind a doe.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Palmetto Bug View Post
    If it goes off before sunrise, how early do you plan to get there? I like to be settled in the stand before the feeder goes off. I hate walking in and running a bunch of deer off the feeder.
    I’m usually settled in 45min to an hour before first crack of light.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Model12 View Post
    Has anyone ever killed a large mountable buck under a feeder?
    i’m enjoying opening day sitting downstairs in my ac....waiting for the ac man to come help it work
    I stare at 7 I have on the wall that were all feeder friendly.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Model12 View Post
    Has anyone ever killed a large mountable buck under a feeder?
    geetch has
    Ugh. Stupid people piss me off.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Model12 View Post
    Has anyone ever killed a large mountable buck under a feeder?
    i’m enjoying opening day sitting downstairs in my ac....waiting for the ac man to come help it work
    I stare at 7 I have on the wall that were all feeder friendly.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BlackTom View Post
    i’m enjoying opening day sitting downstairs in my ac....waiting for the ac man to come help it work
    I stare at 7 I have on the wall that were all feeder friendly.
    Pictures?

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    Quote Originally Posted by rp View Post
    What times do yall set the timers for? How long at each time?
    Noon for 7 seconds is how I run the few I have. I don’t want it going off while I’m guarding it.

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    We always hung ours from cables in the trees, big bucks killed under them. Then we would try a tripod and no luck. So nobody thought deer would eat under a tripod. New guy joined club and wanted to use a tripod feeder, "we" told him that they won't work, this ain't Texas. Well he had pictures within the week of a big buck eating around his tripod. From the coast to the mountains, tripod feeders, feeders hanging from cables, gravity feeders, ground feeders, etc will work. I've seen Corn land on doe backs waiting to eat. Corn=Doe=Bucks
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    Ohhh, and what JJ said for times.
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    Mine go off at 8:00 right now. I would consider this a mature buck, and he is consistently there 30 minutes after. I just cut the feeder back on a week ago, and he has been there every day since the day I filled it. The feeder has been there over a year, but has not been running since November.


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    Charlie Horse and I have 11 feeders that we run 8 months a year. They have been there for a lot of years. The deer dont mind them at all. I feed for 5 seconds at 8am and 7pm until the time changes. I have hours of Arlo video of really good mature bucks feeding under them.

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    I always see the bigger bucks on the feeder hanging up in the tree

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    in texas we had ours rigged to a door bell switch in the.blind. you mash to set off feeder. deer came 5 minutes later. not my prefered style to hunt. oak tree in creek bottom near the thick stuff

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