Battle of the Deer Protein Brands – Double Down vs. West Feeds, round 2

I can remember growing up as a kid in the early 90’s, heading out to the deer lease to fill our spin feeders with corn for the coming deer season and taking some shots at dove in the evening hours.

Filling feeders was once a year for the most part. We’d only top off the feeders when we wanted to keep them going for turkey season at the end of the deer season.

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However, towards the end of my tenure in Throckmorton, Texas, we started keeping the corn feeders going year round.

Year round corn feeding was in and here to stay. Fast forward a few years later and a new feed type and strategy was born: deer protein and deer protein feeders.

I remember tearing that “easy tear” seal off of my first deer protein pellet bag and thinking, “man, this stuff smells and looks like one of those bran cereals”.

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I kept that thought until I went to check on a spin feeder we had full of deer protein and moisture had found its way into the barrel. That nutty, graining and fragrant pellet looked like one of Mr. Whisker’s kibble in his water bowl and smelled even worse.

Despite this encounter, we still fed deer protein pellets out of those barrels until we final gave into the gravity fed deer protein feed stations.

I wasn’t wild about feeding protein out of a gravity protein feeder at first but this stance didn’t last long. I quickly realized giving deer the ability to feed on a highly nutritious protein pellet was a good thing and would have a positive impact on Rancho Bandito.

I do not recall there being a battle of the deer protein brands when deer protein first hit the market.

There seemed to be a “one brand serves all” type mentality and it went on like that for sometime. Today its much different.

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Hunters have multiple choices to choose from. This being said, which brand is best? Which brand do the whitetail deer really prefer, or do they even care? Is there a scenario similar to human food where one brand taste like a candy bar and the other tastes like a stick of cauliflower?

Without learning the deer language and sitting down to conduct a survey with them I do not feel we will ever really know what makes them like what and why.

Testing…testing…1, 2…..3?

Tests are really the only mechanism we have to measure attractability in a deer protein pellet. So we set up a test in 2020:

Purina AntlerMax vs. West Feeds vs. Double Down, lets get it on!

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