With a tall heavy grade steel pole the bear can t bend the pole or reach the feeders.
Bear proof deer feeder ideas.
This is among the most natural options in the whole list yet still one of the most effective when it comes to attracting deer and offering enough ease for them to use it correctly.
If such removal is not possible two methods of dealing with bear damage of wildlife feeders are recommended.
I have since been using a fairly simple and inexpensive gravity feeder design to avoid paying for spreaders after the get ripped off.
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Elevate it with rocks about 6 to help get it off the ground and away from rain splash then drive 3 4 t posts around the barrel and wrap barbed wire very tightly several times around to hold it secure.
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The bottom of hanging feeders should be a minimum of 8 feet above the ground.
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Most critical factor in making a feeder bear resistant is its placement.
The first method is to use food plots instead of feeders.
Our bear proof bird feeder pole pictured above has worked well to ward off those pesky bears.
Bears are powerful agile and resourceful necessitating that any feeder be placed out of their reach.
The best method for preventing bears from approaching human use areas is to remove all food sources.
The result is no broken feeders bent poles or unhappy people.
One way to prevent a bear s access to your feeder is to suspend it from a metal post figure 1.