So it has been a while since I checked on my deer feeder down at my range area and found this mess today!
Squirrels or coons or?? ate up half the battery door, battery wires and were working on the top lid..big WOW!
Spring has sprung. Get out and shoot your Henry
Very hungry critters!
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Re: Very hungry critters!
Interesting. My first guess would be Bear, but then a bear might have made quicker work of it.....
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Re: Very hungry critters!
Someone doesnt like running out of food.
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Re: Very hungry critters!
Deer you think too? Now there is a bear that has been on my trail there but I would think it would have knocked the feeder over.
My trail camera in that area around the feeder broke down a while back and need to get another.
My trail camera in that area around the feeder broke down a while back and need to get another.
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Re: Very hungry critters!
Must say, I have actually watched a bear, during the day, chewing the top of my gravity feeder even though there is the open tray at the bottom. Guess he wanted ALL or none!fortyshooter wrote: ↑Thu Sep 19, 2019 10:40 pmDeer you think too? Now there is a bear that has been on my trail there but I would think it would have knocked the feeder over.
My trail camera in that area around the feeder broke down a while back and need to get another.
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fortyshooter
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Re: Very hungry critters!
Did the damage look like this?markiver54 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 19, 2019 10:48 pmMust say, I have actually watched a bear, during the day, chewing the top of my gravity feeder even though there is the open tray at the bottom. Guess he wanted ALL or none!fortyshooter wrote: ↑Thu Sep 19, 2019 10:40 pmDeer you think too? Now there is a bear that has been on my trail there but I would think it would have knocked the feeder over.
My trail camera in that area around the feeder broke down a while back and need to get another.
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Re: Very hungry critters!
Very similar Forty. Would not rule out coons though. I don't think squirrels could hang on well enough to work that hard.
Too bad the SD card, if still intact didn't catch anything. Time for a new camera?
Too bad the SD card, if still intact didn't catch anything. Time for a new camera?
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Re: Very hungry critters!
I would lean toward bear also. Trash pandas like to get into stuff, but I don't think they'd chew on it like that...not likely a tree chicken did it either.
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Re: Very hungry critters!
The top looks like the holes were chewed. This looks like rodent type chewing to me. Squirrels would be top of my list.
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Same here. Looks exactly like the damage I see on our plastic irrigation lines.
Same here. Looks exactly like the damage I see on our plastic irrigation lines.
clovishound wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2019 11:16 amThe top looks like the holes were chewed. This looks like rodent type chewing to me. Squirrels would be top of my list.
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