That's cool! Where is this?

Very cool! Thanks for sharing.

Jetty said:

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That's cool! Where is this?

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Liberty/Chambers county line. We lease a couple thousand acres there, I have hunted it and fished it and trapped it for over 60 years.

Gunny456 said:

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Very cool! Thanks for sharing.

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Welcome. My son and I are about to trap some coyotes off the place but will avoid this area. As bad as coons anger me around feeders, I will give this one a pass, lol.

tu ag said:

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AI just told me that about 1 in every 750,000 racoons are born albino.



does the spinning pvc on feeder legs really work?

oh no said:

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AI just told me that about 1 in every 750,000 racoons are born albino.



does the spinning pvc on feeder legs really work?

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It works well for many things like pigs rubbing, cattle rubbing, Coons can climb about anything, and this setup I think they can get to the top of the pvc, but if you make it tougher it's always better. We ran it to the top of the feeders, as long as it would spin.

oh no said:

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AI just told me that about 1 in every 750,000 racoons are born albino.



does the spinning pvc on feeder legs really work?

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I have tried many things on feeder legs. Probably the best is a healthy dose of grease, coat it on and they won't be able to climb it. However, in time sun and rain will cause the grease to lose some of its ability to deter them.

I have tried those plastic spike things, they don't seem to last too long before the coons remove them, in whole but often in part.

I have also tried those metal shark teeth things, I believe they are sold by Boss Buck. I have found many of them bent and detached at one end of the other. They are very sharp and I think a coon gets one paw stuck to it, goes berserk and rips it loose.

PVC by itself won't work I don't think.

HDeathstar said:

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They lose pigment when 100% of diet is corn.

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The *******s ought to be snow while by now! Though they eat protein pellets too unfortunately.

oh no said:

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does the spinning pvc on feeder legs really work?

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Just remembered I have something else that I bought but haven't experimented with yet. It is a very sticky adhesive, sort of like that glue that comes on those mouse sticky strips. Some really sticky stuff. I suspect after they pry themselves loose from the glue and walk off, the bottom of their feet will have dirt, sticks, leaves, and anything they step on and will be on their feet for awhile. Will see if it works or not.

one safe place said:

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oh no said:

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does the spinning pvc on feeder legs really work?

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Just remembered I have something else that I bought but haven't experimented with yet. It is a very sticky adhesive, sort of like that glue that comes on those mouse sticky strips. Some really sticky stuff. I suspect after they pry themselves loose from the glue and walk off, the bottom of their feet will have dirt, sticks, leaves, and anything they step on and will be on their feet for awhile. Will see if it works or not.

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LOL

I want to try this just to see the raccoons with bird's nest stuck to their grubby thief paws

one safe place said:

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oh no said:

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AI just told me that about 1 in every 750,000 racoons are born albino.



does the spinning pvc on feeder legs really work?

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I have tried many things on feeder legs. Probably the best is a healthy dose of grease, coat it on and they won't be able to climb it. However, in time sun and rain will cause the grease to lose some of its ability to deter them.

I have tried those plastic spike things, they don't seem to last too long before the coons remove them, in whole but often in part.

I have also tried those metal shark teeth things, I believe they are sold by Boss Buck. I have found many of them bent and detached at one end of the other. They are very sharp and I think a coon gets one paw stuck to it, goes berserk and rips it loose.

PVC by itself won't work I don't think.

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We have found grease attracts dirt and does absolutely nothing but make a mess. Pigs and cows do enough of that. As far as keeping coons out, the spring loaded spinner is absolutely a game changer. Have not had a coon on the feeder in years.

I bought a cheap gravity protein feeder to support the whitetail as part of my wildlife mgmt plan just to try it. My property and the wildlife mgmt plan are new to me and I'm not a hunter, so I'm just experimenting and having fun out there. It's a boss buck feeder i just grabbed at bass pro and I put those boss buck shark teeth strips on the legs to keep the coons off. coons finished off 120 lbs of protein before the deer even discovered it. every night for a couple of weeks I'd get pictures of the feeder with about 15 coons around it. they'd stand on top of each other to hoist themselves up to the feeding tubes, some could reach on their tippy toes, I think some just went full send and climbed up the shark teeth. I might try 1) raising the feeder about 4-6" more off the ground with some extra pavers I have out there - thinking most deer could still reach and coons would be relegated to climbing the sharp spikes and 2) adding a second shark teeth strip on each leg so there's spikes on both sides of the legs.. ...but I have seen the pvc spinner method on a number of youtube videos and read about putting grease on the legs- thanks for the input on those methods.

I'm about to seed some lablab in the area to provide the whitetail some warm season foraging, maybe i'll also stay out late over night a few times and thin the coon herd a little bit. would be good practice with my new thermal. the area is in a part of the property with a bunch of mature pecan trees. no doubt these coons are coming from those big trees at night and also why I may never be able to harvest much pecan fruit or even see any pecans lol.

John Cocktolstoy said:

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one safe place said:

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oh no said:

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AI just told me that about 1 in every 750,000 racoons are born albino.



does the spinning pvc on feeder legs really work?

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I have tried many things on feeder legs. Probably the best is a healthy dose of grease, coat it on and they won't be able to climb it. However, in time sun and rain will cause the grease to lose some of its ability to deter them.

I have tried those plastic spike things, they don't seem to last too long before the coons remove them, in whole but often in part.

I have also tried those metal shark teeth things, I believe they are sold by Boss Buck. I have found many of them bent and detached at one end of the other. They are very sharp and I think a coon gets one paw stuck to it, goes berserk and rips it loose.

PVC by itself won't work I don't think.

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We have found grease attracts dirt and does absolutely nothing but make a mess. Pigs and cows do enough of that. As far as keeping coons out, the spring loaded spinner is absolutely a game changer. Have not had a coon on the feeder in years.

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We have had no issue with dirt being attracted to the grease, and it has been the most effective thing I have tried. This place is right at 3,400 acres and has no cattle on it. We do have tons of hogs. With the amount of timber, we do see a lot of trees the hogs have rubbed against.

There are around 45 feeders on the property and I agree with you on the spring loaded spinner. Some feeders have those, some have the wire cages, as far as hogs many of the feeders have panels to keep them out. We also have trended toward demand feeders in recent years. Coons are nowhere near the problem they were 10 or so years ago. Quite a few were killed with Conibears and some may have been done away with Malrin, not sure. Maybe they are in a down cycle. Our main issue is coyotes. I think 15 have been trapped so far. This weekend I will be dying and waxing traps because my son and I are going to start trapping coyotes next week, and will again once the pups are independent.

oh no said:

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I might try 1) raising the feeder about 4-6" more off the ground with some extra pavers I have out there - thinking most deer could still reach and coons would be relegated to climbing the sharp spikes and 2) adding a second shark teeth strip on each leg so there's spikes on both sides of the legs.. ...but I have seen the pvc spinner method on a number of youtube videos and read about putting grease on the legs- thanks for the input on those methods.

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You might want to try PVC pipe rather than pavers to rest the legs on. What we have done to elevate the gravity feeders is take 2" PVC pipe and, for example, cut it into 20" lengths. Then drill a hole all the way through at about 8". Put a bolt through the hole and a nut on the bolt. That gives you two height adjustments, one if you put the 8" section on bottom, one if you put it on top. Of course, depending on the brand of feeder, the PVC section might need to be shorter or longer than the 20". The PVC will not spin doing it this way but we do it when wanting to elevate them rather than buying longer legs for the feeder.

Good luck on your battle!

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Doth blast him to smithereens!