Best photo bait?

[jeffcros]

I put a mineral rock out last year and got NO deer using it, this year I thought I would use white saly and buck licker and see how that does. I used white salt in Utah and had over three hundred deer and elk pics in 4 days.(does and fawns) They liked it, what have you guys had luck with?

[willhunt4coues]

I put a mineral rock out last year and got NO deer using it, this year I thought I would use white saly and buck licker and see how that does. I used white salt in Utah and had over three hundred deer and elk pics in 4 days.(does and fawns) They liked it, what have you guys had luck with?

 

Try putting the salt into the ground and pouring lots of water on it. From my experience the deer like to eat the dirt more than just lick a lick. Just my 2 cents.

[youngbuck]

I do agree whitetails will eat dirt before lick a block. i use pellets and granuals most of the time, just water softener salt. Granuals soak in faster and they seem to like the pellets too. If i can, i use a combo of the two. I only use blocks for elk or if the spot is to far to get to regularly, just bacause the block will last a long time, especialy if no elk or cattle are hitting it. Some spots are weird, ive had spots that start out great and others that take a while. One of my best spots took over a year to get hit regularly.

[willhunt4coues]

Here is a video of some bucks at a salt.

notice that they are eating the dirt.

 

Coues deer

[willhunt4coues]

pigs like it too

Javelinas

[billrquimby]

I put out a salt block and a so-called "deer block" where we could watch them from our cabin's bedroom window in Greer four or five years ago.

 

The squirrels and bluejays removed the goodies they wanted from the deer block and a few squirrels sometimes licked the salt, but not regularly. Our deer and elk totally ignored both blocks, and the rain and snow eventually eroded them into the ground.

 

Where the blocks were is now covered with pine needles and there is no sign that deer or elk have ever scratched the ground there. Yesterday morning, my wife watched two mule deer does and their yearlings walk over that exact spot without stopping, even to sniff.

 

My limited experiences with bait and salt tell me deer and elk are not interested in either here in the White Mountains.

 

Bill Quimby

 

[CouesWhitetail]

I put out my cameras on natureal food or water sources.

 

I have very little experience with salt, but I have a friend with a cabin on mt lemmon and he put out white block salt and a mineral block and the deer and birds and squirrels loved the white salt and seemed to ignore the mineral block.

 

here is a fun little video showing four days worth of photos from the salt block. You can see that in addition to eating the dirt around the block and causing the block to essentially rest on a pedestal of dirt, they also will directly lick the salt block (does, bucks and squirrels).

 

http://www.coueswhitetail.com/video_clips/...nian_market.wmv

[Kilimanjaro]

Cool video.. I like seeing those band tailed pigeons! Ive still never hunted them, but I'd like to!

[CouesWhitetail]

Until I put a cam up on that salt block I never knew that bandtails love salt and other minerals. They are very unusual birds and fun to hunt.

 

Amanda

 

[azhuntnut]

I am actually trying some of this stuff at one of my cameras up north. It smells so real and is easy to carry around in my pack without worrying about it spilling. I have a very nice pack out in the garage with some funky smelling scent that spilled inside. David

http://www.trophyblend.com/products.php?p=1

[creed_az_88]

DEER COCAINE!!! Deer around here dig and dig and dig and dig and dig for that stuff. Get it out now so the monsoons can pound the stuff into the soil for you. It takes deer awhile to find it so be patient. I sometimes throw out a flake of alfalfa with the stuff just to let em know its there. Even though they wont eat the deer caine 'til it soaks into the soil they seem to come back if i throw a flake of alfalfa with it when i first put it out.

 

 

 

 

creed