right around the corner and today we're going to be talking about building your
own deer feeder at home but before we get into that if you like these kind of
videos make sure you hit that subscribe button down below
and don't forget to hit that notification bell so you get notified
every time we upload new videos and remember you can help support the
channel by visiting pilot Patriot apparel comm where you can get some
awesome t-shirts like this right here all patriotic and Second Amendment type
stuff and you can also visit our amazon store we'll have those links below now
there are a lot of reasons for putting out a deer feeder number one is probably
as an attractant if you can get your deer coming to a certain spot on your
property on a regular basis it's really going to increase your
chances during hunting season another purpose for putting out a deer feeder is
to improve the deers nutrition you can put out protein pellets and other types
of feeds that really include a lot of nutrients and minerals to help grow
those big nice books and to keep the phone's healthy in the offseason now it
is important for you guys to remember not all states allow you to hunt over
bait so make sure you check your local and state laws before you go out hunting
over a deer feeder like this now you can't just pour your deer corn out onto
the ground that's what we've been doing for years and it works just fine there
are two downsides to that though in the early season when it's still warm out if
it rains that corn could possibly get moldy and start to stink and your deer
aren't going to touch it anymore another issue we found with just putting your
corn out on the ground is that it's too accessible to the deer if they're really
hitting it hard that corn could be gone in a day or two and you'll find yourself
having to go out into the field twice a week to put out more corn and it's
really hard to keep up with that demand to fix those problems we're gonna be
building our own 55 gallon gravity deer feeder now the first thing you're going
to need is a nice big barrel it doesn't really matter if it's a metal barrel or
a plastic barrel just whatever you can get your hands on one thing I will
recommend is that you try to find with a lid on it that you can take on
and off that's going to make it a whole lot easier when you go back to refill
those feeders and a lot of times you can find these barrels like this for free
which is going to make your overall investment a lot lower versus going out
to the store and buying a whole set up brand new you can look on places like
Craigslist you can also visit local farms or maybe even car dealerships that
keep large barrels like this around the ones we have here I got from a local
farm these were actually pickle barrels at one time the one thing you want to
make sure you do is just clean it out really good with soap and water before
you get started now I did choose to paint my barrels on that's not really
necessary but I did want mine to kind of blend into the area whether you do that
or not is completely up to you next thing you're going to need is a
good feed tube now this is just going to drop down from the bottom of the barrel
allow that corn to drop down so the deer can eat it without all of it just
dumping out onto the ground now I chose to go with the game winter gravity feed
tube this thing is designed to fit almost any barrel and it does have three
feeding ports so three deer can feed at the same time I thought that was really
cool now you can't go out and build your own out of some four-inch PVC or
something like that but at only 35 bucks it's really hard to beat this one it's
nice sturdy hard metal material that's going to last a really long time I will
put a link to this in the description below along with some other deer feeder
accessories if you want to go check that out and get this for yourself now this
is going to come with everything you need to attach it to your barrel all you
have to do is cut a four and three quarter inch hole in the bottom of your
barrel just like this here and you'll bolt everything on now I chose to use a
jig saw for that so I could try to get a nice clean cut but you can use any tools
you won't just try to get a nice clean cut so you don't have large gaps where a
lot of moisture or something can get in there now since this is a plastic barrel
and probably even on a metal barrel I do recommend making sure you use
washers on all those bolts on the inside and outside of the barrel that way you
don't have to worry about those bolts pulling through over time one other
thing I want to show you guys while we have this set up is that it does have an
adjustment sleeve right here on this tube
so you can adjust it up and down to control the flow of your corn you drop
it down lower if you want less corn to come out bring it up a little higher if
you want more corn to come out all right now I think that's looking pretty good
now at this point you really have to ops you can either flip this thing
right-side up and rig it up so you can hang it from a tree limb or something
like that but this thing is going to be pretty heavy 55-gallon barrel can hold
up to 350 pounds of corn if you wanted to put that much in there so I think
what we're gonna do is put some legs on there now if you have some galvanized
fence posts laying around and the proper tools you can build legs for this thing
by yourself just with what you have laying around
and a few extra things from the hardware store but I didn't have any of that so I
went ahead and picked up this Moultrie deer feeder leg kit it's going to come
with it's going to come with all the poles you need and the brackets to
attach it to the barrel now that's specifically designed to be used with
the barrels like this so let's go ahead and get that on here and see what it
looks like and I will put a link to these in the description below too
alright guys this is what its gonna look like when you get it all finished up
finally got the legs on there and I'm really happy with how it turned out one
thing I do want to mention to you guys as I did end up using some caulk up here
under these brackets just to help keep rainwater out since those are on the
side but yeah overall I'm really happy with how this turned out one thing I do
wanna mention you guys is ideal height for this head it's supposed to be about
47 inches and I'm right at 47 inches to the middle of that port there so I'm
happy with that main reason for that 47 inches is supposed to be a good height
for the deer while also keeping other critters like raccoons and stuff from
getting up in here and getting to your corn another thing I want to mention
while we got it set up like this as you can see how nice and wide these legs are
so even your biggest book on your property can get in here and eat without
hitting his antlers on those legs and that's really important because if your
your books get in here and start hitting their antlers on those legs while
they're eating over time it's going to damage their antlers so you want to
prevent that if you can but that's it for how we built this thing now let's
get out in the field get it set up get some
corn in there get our camera set up and I'll show you guys what our hunting
property looks like
all right guys we're standing out here in one of our food plots we planted last
year and as you can see we got the feeder set up everything looks good it
worked exactly like it was supposed to got the corn dropped down and it stops
right there so the deer can eat on it and Morel drop down as they eat if you
were watching we did put some corn out on the ground steel like I said that's
what we've always done and I still like to do that just to help attract the deer
to come to it we did add some acorn rage to the mix and some out here on the
ground that's just a little extra I tried in to help the deer come out to
the feeder now this is a clover plot we planted last year we got a block of
woods on either side through these trees there's a pond through those trees as a
big bean field so this makes a nice staging area for the deer we've got one
of the best books we've ever got on this property in this plot so it's worked out
good for us you know my last recommendation for you guys when you set
up something like this make sure you put a camera on it because all the deer on
your property are gonna be coming to this feeder so let's go ahead and get
that camera set up we'll see you guys in a minute
alright guys the camera we're using is the spot point link s as you can see
it's got a solar panel on top and this is one of the cameras that will send
pictures to your email or to your phone this is really the perfect camera you
can just sit it and forget it and it's never gonna run out of battery you're
always going to get your pictures without having to come out to the field
I'll put a link to this in the description below
alright guys I hope this video has helped you out building your own
homemade deer feeder don't forget to check out the links in the description
below please like share and subscribe and happy hunting