Well, I got the bossbuck feeders some time back and got them all put together. I set one out to get some pics and to get the deer used to the new feeders. As expected they shied away from it for a few days but looks like they took to them pretty well. It might have helped that I had an old moultrie feeder sitting in this spot all winter though.
Haha, I don't have any pics of any bucks to speak of on that property this year, at least yet. There's about 400 acres of corn 3/4 of a mile north that have pulled all the bucks. A small portion of that corn is mine and is where I've been getting some of the better buck pics I've posted this year. That feeder is basically the only food on that property until I get the new food plots in and some of the old crop ground reclaimed from about twenty years of pioneer specie overgrowth. For those wondering, I stated a while back when I mentioned getting these feeders we would mostly use them post season to help the bucks bounce back after rut and help fawn production. Well, for one thing it's legal in KS to leave them out. Secondly this property is not hunted and there's 60 acres of bedding area brush straight behind this camera. Thirdly we've decided to go ahead and put them out now to help finish off the fawns and help the deer get used to them so there's no lag and transition period in getting winter nutrition into the deer. The new structure of the feeder does cause some tension in the deer until they get used to them. I'm sure they smell like me after handling them so much putting them together. I feel they need some time sitting out in the weather for everything to get settled in. I'd rather have the added pressure on the deer now with something new than in late december or january. The plan is to get them out 1/3 full of feed and let it run out and stay out through season except for a couple of the properties that aren't hunted I may keep them going. That's why I said "mostly".
We eventually plan on having enough to equal one feeder per 100'ish acres of property. It'll be better for the herd health and also make the annual trail camera survey easier to manage. How to Run a Trail-Camera Survey | Quality Deer Management Association
