Bucket Feeder

My boy and me whipped out this inexpensive bucket feeder in about 45 minutes. I might have $6 worth of materials in it.
  1. We placed this near an intersection of 3 trails. With some more clearing of dead fall trees we hope to have two different shooting positions on this...
  2. We spent about 10 hours scouting for places to put up feeders and widening trails. It was 111 degrees most of the afternoon. Yes, that sucked!
  3. I made my own portable tree! Since trees don't always position themselves where you want them we made this out of 1.5" PVC. I put two T-posts in the...
  4. We spread a little peanut butter around the plunger to attract the deer. We stuck a little corn to the peanut butter for the heck of it. The idea is...
  5. The plunger is used to make the corn spread out a little instead of falling straight down. The corn falls from the bucket and hits the plunger and...
  6. Here it is hanging in position. It doesn't look it in the picture but it is not near any other limbs where low slung critters can get at it.
  7. I used the same 3/8" rope as I used to hang the bucket. I used some washers to keep the rope from pulling thru and I'm sure it was over kill. I left...
  8. The handle needs to be smaller than the hole so there is room for corn to fall out of. Not to small, not too big.
  9. Using rope thru the plunger handle to suspend it. This agitates the corn and makes it fall out the hole in the bottom.
  10. One cheap bucket feeder ready to be hung. This started life as a laundry detergent bucket, plunger, 2 washers, and a piece of 3/8" rope. My son gets...
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