Darrell

I think this is the right solution. Yogi showed up again yesterday afternoon and turned one of the feeder's legs into pretty good imitation of a pretzel. So now there are 200 pounds of corn on the ground. At least the feeder wasn't really damaged with the exception of that one leg section, and I have a spare. So once the corn on the ground is gone I'll wait a couple weeks before setting up again. That's be a good solution if I had a means to string that cable, then rig something up to lift and lower the feeder, and make some kind of harness for the feeder. I'm sure it would work, but it's not practical for me. Thanks for the suggestion, though.

We have a several coming around here. Sometimes you can see four in the air in front of the porch at a time.

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I spent a little time on the internet looking for something that will do this. But no luck. I fly RC airplanes, and I have a the capability to do the remote part with a servo, but making that work with bear spray might be difficult. I did see some solutions that operate using WIFI, but my feeder is out in the woods with no WIFI out there. Yogi hasn't shown up today, maybe he's moved on to the neighbor's corn field.

Good luck finding it. I got lucky a year or so ago and found a jug at my local pawn shop / gun store, but I've not seen any since then. I like it for loading up plinker rounds for some of my big-bore rifles. It's easy to load and as long as you don't compress it you can't go wrong.

No, I won't be doing that. I have shot into the ground while yelling at him, but it only works for a while. He's been here four times today.

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He's not very big. I'm betting mama bear kicked him out this spring and he's trying to find a new home. He's only a nuisance in that he pulled down one feeder already and tore it up. I share a property line with the Cattoossa Wildlife area, so I will just get another bear if this one is removed. My main thing is to prevent him tearing up the feeder.

Or maybe birdshot.

He's back for the third time today. Sorry about the pic, not that good, but I was using a fairly long lens.

Thanks, Shorty, sounds like an idea worth trying. It's an electric thrower.

I've run the same bear off from my deer feeder a couple of times this morning. Honestly, I don't mind the thing coming around for a little corn, I enjoy seeing bears and think they're beautiful animals. But "something" knocked my last feeder down and tore it up, probably the same culprit. My wife spotted it early this morning, so I went outside and yelled at it to get it to leave. He came back an hour or so later, so this time I put a few .45 rounds into the ground, and he left much more quickly than the first time. My neighbor has a small corn plot, and he told me that he went outside one morning and found a bear sitting on its butt, taking an ear of corn, eating it, then scootching down to the next stalk for the next ear. I'd have liked to have seen that. So, apart from not feeding the deer at all, is there a good strategy to deter bears from the feeder? I've thought of a low electric fence, but my wife and I enjoy seeing the deer and we don't want to discourage them. Maybe I should anchor the feeder's legs into the ground with concrete to make it harder for Yogi to tip it over.

PM to you.

You beat me by 30 seconds!

Yeah, I lit my baby brother's teddy bear on fire with one. My dad was not too impressed, as I recall.