American Hunter Bucket Feeder Review

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I recently purchased another hunting product and wanted to share what I know about it with everyone.

I am based in Florida and we are allowed to have feeding stations for deer as long as they are established 6 months in advance.

I prefer to broadcast feed by hand but if there are a lot of deer using the site, they can eat a 50 lb sack of corn in two nights! The other draw back is having to go in so often and leave scent around the area.

I really am not a big fan of feeders and hate the sound of one going off right at daylight when noise travels so well through the woods.

With the price of corn so high and expected to go higher it is more practical to use a feeder to sling out just a little at a time rather than feed "free choice".

This put me on a mission looking for an inexpensive feeder I could throw up and not have a pile of money tied up in it.What I found that seemed to fit the bill was an American Hunter Bucket Feeder that uses a 5 gal. bucket for a hopper and a feeder motor underneath with an abs plastic housing. Like most feeders it runs off of a 6 volt, spring type battery.

I think the best thing about it is the price! For less than $30 bucks you've got a feeder that will keep the deer fed up for you when you can't be there. It will save me a pile of money just in gas.

I think this thing will suit my purposes just fine but I will have to come back and up date the post after it has been in operation for a little while.

Good Luck,
Larry S.

Alps Outdoors - Rhino Hunting Chair Review

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After turkey season was over and I was all done with my filming I decided it was time for a new and better blind to hunt and film from. I decided on a Barronett Blinds-Grounder 250 blind. It is a 5 hub design and the setup and take down is as fast as it gets. You can set the blind up in a matter of a few seconds.

Once the blind arrived and I was trying it out, I realized the window sills were right about arrow hgt. for me when I was kneeling. I am only 5'6" so for a taller guy this might not be an issue.

Of course, if you are going to sit in a blind for any amount of time and be comfortable, you need a chair or stool of some sort. That started me looking for a light weight chair with a back support that would solve all these issues.

I settled on the "Alps Outdoors - Rhino Stool". I guess they refer to it as a stool as it only has 3 legs but I would call it a chair. It only weighs 5lbs. and comes with a lifetime guarantee.

The only minor issue I have about the chair is that the back is pretty straight up. I needed to keep the weight down as the blind is 14lbs it self so a larger more comfortable chair was not really an option and it is certainly way more comfortable than a backless stool!

Other than that, it seems well built, gets my arrow above the bottom of the window opening of the blind and provides a reasonably comfortable seat without excess weight to pack in.

I f you are looking for a hunting chair I would definitely recommend it and here is a link where you can get more information or order one for yourself;

Best of hunts,
Larry S.

Wierd Archery Shot!

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Bow season here in Florida is just around the corner. Yesterday, a friend and I brushed the cob webs off our bows and went out for a tune up on a 3D range. I was actually shooting pretty good for barely having touched the bow in months.

We had started off with some spot shooting to make some bow adjustments and moved on to the 3D targets. We had shot about 8 animals when we got to the end of the line where we found a big whitetail buck standing broadside at 42yds. Between us and the deer were several small pine trees and since we were both shooting at the same time, the kill zone was getting crowded by the right pine for me.

No problem I thought, I'll just slide it right alongside the tree and put it right in the pocket!

The shot immediately reported with the loud metal crack of my 2213 clipping a solid object......Damn it!
That arrow's ruined!

We headed down range to retrieve the pieces. What I found was a shot you could never reproduce in a million shots....... the shaft just barely clipped the left side of the pine sending the trailing end of the shaft into the tree. The section of the shaft at the fletching broke in  (2) places. One about 3" from the nock and another about 3" ahead of that, just in front of the forward end of the fletching.

The 3" center piece went spinning off to the left at a little less than 90 deg. and impacted a small pine about 3 1/2 feet to the left. The incredible part was that this piece hit the pine ass backwards, straight on and actually embedded into the tree!

It took me a minute to figure out just what had happened and locate all the pieces. I don't think I have ever seen anything quite like it.

Looks like it's time to build some more shafts!

Larry S.