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GAFarmer
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Hunting Season 05
09/14/05 01:59 PM
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Who's ready for deer hunting season?
"I hate lucky people, unless I happen to be the lucky person."- Cody Rehberg
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Re: Hunting Season 05
[re: GAFarmer]
09/15/05 05:09 PM
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Aparently the deer are getting ready. There were two within 75 feet of my mom's living room window this morning at 0900. I saw BIG BUCK tracks within 20 feet of my garage a few days ago. Are they scouting us out? A bobcat was cavorting in the same fileld a couple months ago. Apparently they take turns. A bobcat isn't much danger to any deer but a defective one or maybe a doe in labor or an unaccompanied fawn the first week or so.
I have been thinking of having a timed release feeder about 200 ft from the back porch of the new house. I would pLace it near a wooded sheltered spot nearly a quarter mile away with good cover and move it by stages closer until it is within a couple hundred feet of the porch. The area I would progress through has fairly high deere traffic so I shouild not want for customers.
 Pat
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Re: Hunting Season 05
[re: Pat]
09/15/05 07:18 PM
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It seems like the only day I don't see a deer is a day when I am sitting in my deer stand, freezing and waiting for the deer.
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Re: Hunting Season 05
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09/19/05 04:23 PM
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You're right. I swear, I think the deer have a sixth sense and can tell when you are in the stand. 
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Re: Hunting Season 05
[re: GAFarmer]
10/11/05 11:36 AM
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Deer season's right around the corner but I got this nice pheasant yesterday.
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b209/AaronHats2/Pheasant-SmallImage.jpg
Livin' the dream.
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Miss pheasant hunting back in Illinois when I was younger. 
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Re: Hunting Season 05
[re: Pat]
11/09/05 04:28 AM
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Moving the feeder is good idea, not to just get them closer , but chronic wasting disease is increasing in the US, and can spread by deer feeding in the same area repeatedly. While I have two feeders, I spread feed either by hand or ATV, over a 4 acre field in paths mowed in the high grass. After a path is used for a week, I then move to the adjoining path about 10 feet over. The deer seem to stay longer in the high grass than in the open. Most electronic feeders use a 6 volt battery with alligator clips in which the contact points seem to oxidize, causing intermittent operation. I solder wires onto the contact springs and crimp automotive connectors on to the wires on the electronics and the battery wires. I have extra battery wires made up and just solder them on a new battery in the warm basement, then just swap out the battery at the feeder. Also after changing the battery, it will take the electronics a day or two to reorient itself
to the light levels of the day. I have seen deer do a quick turn after smelling corn and go right to it, no matter how much grass or leaves is obscuring it.
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