say bye bye to your feeder.....
Bears love soy beans. I don't care what folks say. I have too many game cam pics to say otherwise
Bears will eat soybeans just like corn. Lay on their bellies and scrape them up in a pile.
We have a serious bear problem where I hunt at Fanlew.
I take a 21 ft stick of 2" schedule 40 black iron, come in 3 ft and bend a 90 in it weld a couple of chain links at the end and the bend. Mount a cabled boat winch to raise and lower the feeder. Plant it 4 ft deep and pour 2 or 3 bags of sakrete around the base. Course thats on a lease where we will use it for several seasons.
Other or temporary option for 5 gallon feeders. Run a 1/8" cable between two trees put a pulley with couple of cable clamps in the middle, place another pulley where the cable is tied off to one tree. Run your rope horizontal from one pulley to the other and vertical down the tree. Bears can't grasp the vertical rope. I tried it with only one pulley and have pictures (attached)of bears shaking the rope to get beans out. If they climb the tree I can't help you.
Altuck
Like said above bears will eat soybeans. Learn to read sign and terrain and to hunt and not to bait and you wont have to worry about the bears.
