Feeder advice

[Vermin93]

If you were going to run a motorized corn feeder with the hopes of doing a post-season inventory of deer in the area, where would be the ideal place to put a feeder? The feeder that I have is meant to be hung from a tree, so it will be about 20 ft up in the air out of sight of deer and trespassers. It's a 30 gallon feeder with 200lb capacity and a motor that can be set to feed up to 6 times a day. My options for locating the feeder on this leased property are:

- Near a small food plot
- Near a huge field where the deer eat clover
- Near one of several known bedding areas
- Near one of many deer "highways" running through mature pine woods
- In or near some hardwood bottoms (there are no acorns)

I have thought about it a lot and I have no idea where the best place would be to hang this thing to maximize the likelihood of the deer visiting it during the winter.

 

[cfmartin1833]

if you have a large bedding area that would likely hold alot of deer, then id probably put it near there. Its kind of a guessing game in my opinion. Probably just depends on the lay of the land.

 

[xtremedeerman]

any where there is deer they will come not much to eat in winter!

 

[Jmed]

Thickest most secluded area you have

 

[Deer Assassin]

Thickest most secluded area you have

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