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Deer feeder slinger amounts.

If the average hopper spins out corn for say, about 5-6 seconds, how much corn hits the ground? One pound, two pounds? What’s your experience I want to feed twice a day. I don’t want to fatten them up, just keep them coming.
 
It depends on the hopper. Mine is a modified metal can that holds about five gallons and I do no more than two seconds. I don't want to feed the crows, squirrels, blue jays, raccoons and all the other critters that feed on corn. For my area, five or six seconds, I'd go through a fifty pound bag in a hurry.

My feeder can, squirrel and raccoon proof:

 
We can’t answer your question, to many variables. You need to set it for a 5 or 10 second spin, and get a five gallon bucket ready to place up and around your spinner. Hit the normally provided “test” spin, place the bucket around the spinner and catch the corn. Since you’re on this forum, I assume you have a reloading scale. Measure ten kernels of corn, and then count how many kernels spun out in your test bucket.
Or, you can use your wife’s weight scale and measure the corn in the bucket! LOL
 
We can’t answer your question, to many variables. You need to set it for a 5 or 10 second spin, and get a five gallon bucket ready to place up and around your spinner. Hit the normally provided “test” spin, place the bucket around the spinner and catch the corn. Since you’re on this forum, I assume you have a reloading scale. Measure ten kernels of corn, and then count how many kernels spun out in your test bucket.
Or, you can use your wife’s weight scale and measure the corn in the bucket! LOL
Thanks, Advice taken.
 
Soybean and corn blends work a whole lot better.
for sure. and the soybeans must be roasted. i used to use triple grip, but the peanuts just brought in the varmints more. now i use rack attract, which is cheaper.

the beans, being about 47% protein, means the deer get their vegetables along with their pop tarts.

in troughs i use soybean meal, but found i needed to add a little red salt and/or rice bran to slow the deer down.
 
If the average hopper spins out corn for say, about 5-6 seconds, how much corn hits the ground? One pound, two pounds? What’s your experience I want to feed twice a day. I don’t want to fatten them up, just keep them coming.
you will fatten up the raccoons if you don't have some sort of controls in place. spinner guard, live traps, night vision. or draw them off with stale honey buns. lol
 
It depends on the hopper.
yup. and the state of charge of the battery, the gap between the funnel and spinner, the time. i try to set mine early enough before dark and stingy enough that the does are anxious to get to the buffet, knowing it will run low before the 'coons move in. 6 seconds is usually max for my moultrie all-in-ones.
 
I have a bow hunting friend that just puts out salt blocks {the ones with a bit of mineral content added and mount on a piece of 3/4” pipe to keep it off the ground} near a known water source and never invades the area till hunt season to keep from leaving scent…
His stalking skills are extraordinary as he has to get within an ethical bow distance before making a shot.
 
What’s the best on timing it to get some of the late night bucks to find the corn?
I think there isn’t a 100% good answer to this. Hunting pressure, available browse, how big a herd and area.

I think putting a camera on the feed is going to tell a lot. Feed changes browsing habits… I put feed down at the home property every evening for convenience, and know if I get a shot it’ll likely be the first few minutes of shooting time to an hour or so of daylight. Ten minutes down the road, I may or may not (too many coons) lay out feed. I’m more likely to have an evening shot there.
 

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