Frank's outdoors...

It is that time of year again, time to start the preparation before summer and it gets to hot to do any real work.  I have some lane clearing I want to do, foot plot setup, and feeder maintenance.  The last one is where I really need some help. I have 2 of the Academy brand Game Winner Low Boy feeders .  LOVE THEM.  They are low to the ground and easy to load/unload.  The biggest issue I have with them is the control/timer is separated from the motor box.  You then have this conduit going from the controller box to the motor, and as noted last year the raccoons were hanging on this and did some pretty good damage here... so that is a significant design flaw.  Academy brand Game Winner Low Boy feeder I went to the lease a few weeks ago to get my batteries out and remove the remaining few kernels of corn from the feeders, and found on of my Low Boys was inoperable.  Not sure if its the cable disaster noted above, if the motor died, etc, bu...

Alright folks, deer season is just around the corner, and preparations are well into the works.  I wanted to give a breakdown of what I had done last year (my first year on the lease), and what I am doing differently this year.  I will be heading out to the lease this week/end to take some pictures and do other prep in a follow-up post. Last year I started the season with single "permanent" tripod stand at the front of my acreage.  I moved it up into the trees and added a camo skirt to it for extra concealment, and that worked out quite well.   I also got a tripod cleaning station so I had a place to clean game.  I picked up just the thing from Sportsman's Guide .  I had bought from Academy the Low Boy feeder , and that thing is a beast.  I love everything about it, except that the battery and timer unit are in a separate box from motor.  The raccoons hanging on it caused all kinds of issues and I have had to do some reinforcing.  I had bo...