After decades of putting up feeder pens, we have come to realize on low fence ranches, the feeder pen has to be huge for big bucks to ever come in and eat and be seen on camera. Our best luck has been using 18 t-posts, and 9 hog panels. It is about 40 foot in diameter. Low fence monsters are not used to being in a spot where they feel hemmed in, and that they can't escape quickly. There are a few spots, on the ranch we are on now, where we can rebuild larger feed pens, but the smaller existing pens were put in with a rock drill. The former leasee owned an oilfield construction company. For some reason smaller pens don't seem to worry does and smaller, young bucks, but I have never had a mature buck go into the smaller feeder pen. They will just eat around the outside edges, and the corned roads. The 180" deer a buddy shot off of our lease, last year, was never seen on camera until we rebuilt a larger feed pen.
CHIEF