Deer Baits

[Hunterman]

This year I'm going to kill my deer off my little farm...Quick Draw and I are going to put out some bait( deer feed, apple lick, molazes(sp?), and scents, down in the back pasture

I know its a little late in the year,,,but who knows,,,but late buck season, Mr. Big, just might be here looking for a good time( we have been seeing a few does around lately

)Anyway,,,I still have the strawberry plant eater I'm after

Hunterman(Tony)

 

[Whiskers]

Real successful for me is apples sweetened with cider. They run to it.

 

[Hunterman]

I've never tried this before with the blacktails we have here in Washington..They are a pain to try to pattern...If it works here on our mini farm, then I have some areas up in Ashford that I'm going to try it in

Hunterman(Tony)

 

[Gunner46]

Bait works well, for drawing in does, yearlings, and spikes. (If that's what yer after). That's fine. If your after a buck, don't hunt the bait. Hunt the thickest cover around the bait, especially during the ruts. Think of it more as baiting the 'bait'.

 

[Orca Lover]

QD and I checked on the bait today and we realized why we haven't seen any deer down there... a squirrel has been feasting on it. I swear, this squirrel look like it weighed about 10-15 pounds... the thing is huge. And when we were checking it out, a HUGE heron (sp) flew over... those birds just look scarey!!!

OL

 

[Quick Draw]

Next time I go down to the bait site and i see that squirrel eating the "deer" food I'm gonna teach him that he's not a deer. No but really that squirrel was huge maybe not as big as OL says but I'd say at least 5 pounds.
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