bagger: jsut about the cheapest and easiest deer feeders I have ever made were made from 4" plastic PVC. One design is to take a 5' length, cut a 1.5 inch triangle on both sides of the pipe about 1 foot up from either of the ends, put the pipe one foot into the ground, cap it with a rubber cap and fill it with corn. The corn will ease out the triangular holes as the animals take the feed. Locate your triangular holes about 1 or 2 inches above ground level. You may need to put some flat rocks around the base of the feeder as deer have been known to paw the groudn away looking for more feed. You may also have to have wild turkey for dinner a number of times as they like those feeders, too.
A second design is to take a 4 or 5 foot long section of the same 4" pvc, and a curved elbow of the same sized material. Cut the elbow in half, lengthwise, so you wind up with a curved 'cup'. Drill some drain holes in the bottom of the 'cup', use pvc cement to hold it in place, fill your tube with corn and it will lay in the cup. Top the pipe with a rubber cap. Secure the entire rig to a tree with the 'cup' about one foot off the ground. Make certain you secure the rig with something that will let you take it down and refill it.
A third design is to use a 5 gallon bucket with a hole in the bottom. Make up a plunger to cover the hole, fill the bucket and let some corn or feed out, put some molasses on the bottom of the plunger post, which hangs down about a foot from the bottom of the bucket, and when bambi comes along for the feed on the ground, whenever he moves that plunger post, more corn should drop.
Hope this helps. Mikey.
