The 5 gallon Moultrie feeder has always worked for me. It gives me about a weeks worth of feed, so each weekend I have an excuse to head out to the mini ranch and fill it up. This next year I will be using some oil well pipe to extend it into the pond further. If fires a little to close to shore and brisk wind will push all the feed to the shore line before it gets eaten. Sometimes "wants" conflict with "reality". My reality is a $60 feeder. So, I gotta try and make it perform like a $400 feeder, which in this case is to get it out into the body of water further.