I think a lot of it depends on how the deer are raised. Meaning, I put a gravity feeder on my family land this year where I have had a spin feeder for years. The deer figured it out the first night and took straight to it.
My family sold the land late in the season and I moved the feeder to another place that I hunt that has not been legally hunted for 35-40 years. We got permission this past year. I moved the feeder there around the first week of January and went from having 15-20 deer a day visiting poured out corn to 0 deer coming in.
Finally, now a month later, a few are starting to feed around it and from it.
I think the reason that the deer hammered it on the family land is that they have been raised around a feeder since being fawns and going back several generations of deer, while at the other spot, they had no clue what it is and are skittish of anything new. My plant is to leave it out and keep it full and hope that they will get used to the feeder. If not, I will pull it out
My family sold the land late in the season and I moved the feeder to another place that I hunt that has not been legally hunted for 35-40 years. We got permission this past year. I moved the feeder there around the first week of January and went from having 15-20 deer a day visiting poured out corn to 0 deer coming in.
Finally, now a month later, a few are starting to feed around it and from it.
I think the reason that the deer hammered it on the family land is that they have been raised around a feeder since being fawns and going back several generations of deer, while at the other spot, they had no clue what it is and are skittish of anything new. My plant is to leave it out and keep it full and hope that they will get used to the feeder. If not, I will pull it out