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Why Killing Mature Deer Over A Feeder Isn't Easy

Unearth the truth about hunting over feeders. This piece shares personal insights on the challenges, strategies, and misconceptions behind feeding stations for whitetail deer. Discover how smart setups can make all the difference in your success in the field.

Why Killing Mature Deer Over A Feeder Isn't Easy
After using onX, a Moultrie cell cam, and a MegaToad Feeder, the author and friend Scott Sanderford patterned this impressive 5-1/2-year-old buck. (Photo courtesy of author.)

I’d hunted whitetail deer with a stick-and-string for six years before I first sat in a stand situated 22-yards from a feeder. I wasn’t thrilled. I was no whitetail expert, but I’d killed a handful of solid Pope & Young deer hunting travel patterns, calling, creeping close to buck bedrooms, etc. The thought of a feeder, frankly, disgusted me. 

Have you ever rolled your eyes in your head? It’s when you want to roll your eyes at someone but don’t want to show bad form, so you do the act imaginatively in your head. I performed an in-the-imagination eye roll as my now good buddy, and owner of

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