to soy bean or not to soy bean.
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to soy bean or not to soy bean.
Ok im setting up my other spot on my lease.. got a feeder and treestand.. But when i looked at how much it costs to make one of my own.. I just decided to get a tripiod and if a bear tips it over ill just hopefully reuse the bucket..
So here comes the question..
Should i just put Soy Beans in my feeder? Everyone says bears dont eat that and will not mess with the feeder. And it will only attract the deer.. Is this true?
If so im just gonna fill the feeder with beans instead..
So here comes the question..
Should i just put Soy Beans in my feeder? Everyone says bears dont eat that and will not mess with the feeder. And it will only attract the deer.. Is this true?
If so im just gonna fill the feeder with beans instead..
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Re: to soy bean or not to soy bean.
Read some more posts - bears WILL eat soy beans. We used to hunt up in eastern North Carolina, and there were as many bears in the soy bean fields each night as there were in the corn fields and sweet potatoes. Bears eat whatever is available, and as much of it as they can get!
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Re: to soy bean or not to soy bean.
If you just use the steel pole ,you should not have a problem with the bears breaking every thing. 3" pole should work just fine. Sayin.
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Re: to soy bean or not to soy bean.
so get some 3" fence pole and slip of over the existing? and how should i anchor it down?
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Re: to soy bean or not to soy bean.
concrete.
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Re: to soy bean or not to soy bean.
say bye bye to your feeder.....
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Re: to soy bean or not to soy bean.
Bears love soy beans. I don't care what folks say. I have too many game cam pics to say otherwise
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Re: to soy bean or not to soy bean.
well we shall see!
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Re: to soy bean or not to soy bean.
Bears will eat soybeans just like corn. Lay on their bellies and scrape them up in a pile.
We have a serious bear problem where I hunt at Fanlew.
I take a 21 ft stick of 2" schedule 40 black iron, come in 3 ft and bend a 90 in it weld a couple of chain links at the end and the bend. Mount a cabled boat winch to raise and lower the feeder. Plant it 4 ft deep and pour 2 or 3 bags of sakrete around the base. Course thats on a lease where we will use it for several seasons.
Other or temporary option for 5 gallon feeders. Run a 1/8" cable between two trees put a pulley with couple of cable clamps in the middle, place another pulley where the cable is tied off to one tree. Run your rope horizontal from one pulley to the other and vertical down the tree. Bears can't grasp the vertical rope. I tried it with only one pulley and have pictures (attached)of bears shaking the rope to get beans out. If they climb the tree I can't help you.
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We have a serious bear problem where I hunt at Fanlew.
I take a 21 ft stick of 2" schedule 40 black iron, come in 3 ft and bend a 90 in it weld a couple of chain links at the end and the bend. Mount a cabled boat winch to raise and lower the feeder. Plant it 4 ft deep and pour 2 or 3 bags of sakrete around the base. Course thats on a lease where we will use it for several seasons.
Other or temporary option for 5 gallon feeders. Run a 1/8" cable between two trees put a pulley with couple of cable clamps in the middle, place another pulley where the cable is tied off to one tree. Run your rope horizontal from one pulley to the other and vertical down the tree. Bears can't grasp the vertical rope. I tried it with only one pulley and have pictures (attached)of bears shaking the rope to get beans out. If they climb the tree I can't help you.
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Re: to soy bean or not to soy bean.
Like said above bears will eat soybeans. Learn to read sign and terrain and to hunt and not to bait and you wont have to worry about the bears.
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Re: to soy bean or not to soy bean.
hence the term OMNIVORE, more like what won't they eat.
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Re: to soy bean or not to soy bean.
I've had to deal with bears the last few years. I guarantee any tripod you put out even with soybeans is coming down. I suspended a 5 gal. feeder with soybeans 15' up between some pines. The bears didn't get it but when they showed up they would be there for days and I wouldn't get any deer pics for a week. They ate the soybeans just like the corn. My buddy found a good travel route and would lightly hand spread corn and never once saw bears on thousands of pics. If they hear a feeder go off they're gonna come running. If it was me since I'm sure everyone else is running a feeder I'd just hand spread some corn around a nice foodplot each time I got to the property and let the bears run to everyone else's spots. JMO
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Re: to soy bean or not to soy bean.
100% agree.DONY1 wrote:I've had to deal with bears the last few years. I guarantee any tripod you put out even with soybeans is coming down. I suspended a 5 gal. feeder with soybeans 15' up between some pines. The bears didn't get it but when they showed up they would be there for days and I wouldn't get any deer pics for a week. They ate the soybeans just like the corn. My buddy found a good travel route and would lightly hand spread corn and never once saw bears on thousands of pics. If they hear a feeder go off they're gonna come running. If it was me since I'm sure everyone else is running a feeder I'd just hand spread some corn around a nice foodplot each time I got to the property and let the bears run to everyone else's spots. JMO
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Re: to soy bean or not to soy bean.
spreading corn without an established feeder is not legal the last time i checked......just sayin....
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Re: to soy bean or not to soy bean.
is that another of fl's logic? it seems to me you should either be allowed to spread it or not. what diff does it make if it's an established spreader, thrown by hand or dropped from my lear jet.
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