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Message: <blockquote data-quote="retrieverman" data-source="post: 3939370" data-attributes="member: 24452">In rereading your post, I got to thinking about drawing deer from the neighboring property, and I’m not sure more corn feeders is necessarily the answer.  In my opinion, food plots and a protein feeder would probably be better.As I said previously, I’m going to try to keep my two protein feeders running all year this year, and I think I can do it due to having timers on them now.  If they were still free choice, there’d be no way.  The deer were emptying my north 1000# feeder in 12 days and the south 1000# feeder is a little under 3 weeks.  For some reason, the deer on the south have never “camped out” at the protein feeder like the ones on the north.  I try to come up at least once a month, but I have the timers set where I think they’ll run for two months without going dry.  My Texas and Oklahoma deer seem to really like the Tractor Supply 13% Natural All Stock, and it’s only $12.49/50# (if you buy 20 bags, there’s a 5% discount too).  If you want to do food plots, I’m planning to offer that service again this year using BFO’s and DeerSlayer’s 4x4 mix.</blockquote>