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Posted by Lee Currens Jr. on 03-21-2009 03:40 PM:

Feed BUCKET PROBLEMS

Starting to get a lot of possums.How do you guys
control them?

Posted by Bear on 03-21-2009 03:48 PM:

hang your bucket up off the ground 3-5 feet,plus use a smaller nipple(I use a 1 inch)

Posted by on 03-21-2009 03:58 PM:

Tie your Bluetick close by. He won't bother the coons none but will scare all the possums away.

Posted by Lee Currens Jr. on 03-21-2009 04:06 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by JiM
Tie your Bluetick close by. He won't bother the coons none but will scare all the possums away.

thanks Jim thats about what i was expecting.i tried another way
and it got worse thought i might be double the problem.thanks
SAM for some real input.

Posted by Bear on 03-21-2009 04:11 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by blueticking: it
.thanks
SAM for some real input.

YW,pics on my web site on how I do mine.

Posted by Kevin Self on 03-21-2009 04:41 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by bearhunter
hang your bucket up off the ground 3-5 feet,plus use a smaller nipple(I use a 1 inch)

Longer nipple. I use a 1 inch stainless nipple about five inches long. Oppossum cant reach up in there. Could be good in a hunt if yours is solid broke.

Posted by MikeO on 03-21-2009 05:00 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by JiM
Tie your Bluetick close by. He won't bother the coons none but will scare all the possums away.

lol now thats funny. but im the registered smart a$$ here your taking my material.

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Posted by on 03-21-2009 05:28 PM:

Sorry Mike, I thought it was my turn to piss somebody off.

Posted by MikeO on 03-21-2009 05:32 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by JiM
Sorry Mike, I thought it was my turn to piss somebody off.

awww, if they cant take a little innocent humor they deserve to be pi$$ed off.

seriously though the longer nipple sounds like it would work to keep possums out. i dont know much about feeders but do possums eat soured corn? seems like i read somewhere souring the corn would keep out unwanted varmints.

Posted by Richard Nethery on 03-21-2009 05:35 PM:

Try this, works very good for Coon, and Possom wont bother it.
Take a Tire, Hang it up in a tree, with the bottom of the tire about Chest high. Fill the bottom of the tire with Corn, Cover the Corn with water, make it so the Coon has to reach through the watter to get the corn.
A good spot for this is usually by a creek. When you get ready to turn loose on this feeder, shine the feeder with your light.
If the side of the tire is wet, you have a Coon right there close, and your hounds will have a red hot Coon track to run.

If the tire is dry, skip it, and go to the next one.

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Posted by Lee Currens Jr. on 03-21-2009 05:36 PM:

ha,ha we can take it just bring it

Posted by rance56 on 03-21-2009 07:10 PM:

sounds like you got a dog problem not a bucket problem. save all that money you are spending on feed and go buy yourself a real coondog.

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Posted by heckler on 03-21-2009 07:17 PM:

the thing about feeders in the south is it draws rats and such which brings the snakes too.

Posted by GA DAWG on 03-21-2009 08:24 PM:

I know an ol boy that has a WORLD CHAMPION possum dog..That should do the job!!!! Rance you telling me a real coondog want tree a possum??? LOL........

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Posted by mjflores on 03-21-2009 08:50 PM:

I think trash around feed buckets is a good thing...helps you train more effectively. Just cuz you stop em from eating on the bucket doesn't mean there aint 20 opposum hanging around 30 yards from there.

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Posted by Kevin Self on 03-21-2009 09:43 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by mjflores
I think trash around feed buckets is a good thing...helps you train more effectively. Just cuz you stop em from eating on the bucket doesn't mean there aint 20 opposum hanging around 30 yards from there.

He's probably like me and if the oppossums are eating it it's like wasted money.

Posted by rscott on 03-21-2009 10:04 PM:

Screw your bucket to a tree about knee high. possum wont get on honshes coon will

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Posted by Richard Nethery on 03-22-2009 12:19 AM:

quote:
Originally posted by heckler
the thing about feeders in the south is it draws rats and such which brings the snakes too.

Thats why the Water over Corn Feeder is so good, Rats wont touch it, If you hang it high eneough the Hogs wont be able to get it, and the only thing that will eat it is a Coon.
Try it. When you use a feeder bucket, your drawing up everything in the woods.

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Posted by Lee Currens Jr. on 03-22-2009 12:34 AM:

quote:
Originally posted by Kevin Self
He's probably like me and if the oppossums are eating it it's like wasted money.

you got it

Posted by coonhuntercp on 03-22-2009 01:19 AM:

I put out a feeder to see what it was like, its been out for over a month, I haven't see any signs of anything hitting it, but I have noticed a large increase in possums around. I filled it with dog food and it is still full. Possums everywhere now.

Posted by Doug Bowers on 03-22-2009 01:26 AM:

IF YOU ARE USEING DOG FOOD YOU WILL HAVE OPPOSSUMS,AND YOTS, I USE RECORD RACK DON'T HAVE ,NEVER TREED A POSSUM,ON IT .THAT COON CANDY WORKS GREAT ALSO,GOOD LUCK.

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Posted by coonhuntercp on 03-22-2009 01:37 AM:

I'm not suprised about the possums, but this feeder is in heavy coon and they aren't hitting it. I have a game camera on it and haven't got a picture yet.

Posted by rance56 on 03-22-2009 02:17 AM:

quote:
Originally posted by GA DAWG
I know an ol boy that has a WORLD CHAMPION possum dog..That should do the job!!!! Rance you telling me a real coondog want tree a possum??? LOL........

the day i tell anyone my dog wont do something is the day i dont own any dogs, the day i have so many problems with feeders that i have to go to a message board for advice is the day i get a new dog to where i dont have to hunt on feeders.

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