Best deer bait
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From: NJ where fun comes to die
How about leaving bowls of beer around their watering holes. They might get a taste for it. Then the deer might be chasing the hunters for more, if they can still walk. I used to have a dog that loved beer.
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From: inver grove heights MN
best bait for getting a buck ??
find a Doe in heat. tie her to a tree, and sit there with an AK47 and wait a couple hours.
seriously... if it isnt legal to "bait" deer there, and im assuming it isnt, dont do it.
im not saying, dont through out 3-4 cut apples 30 yards from your stand... but DONT put out 100 pounds of corn and 100 pounds of apples ( like my neighboor does ) that just isnt hunting...
put in your time in the woods before you pick a location. find spots that the "trails" are highly used- where there are big scrapes on the ground, and rubs on the trees. a dominant buck will rub his antlers on the tree until theres hardly any bark left on it for a 3' section. its hard to mistake a genuine buck rub. deer frequently go back to the areas they rub and scrape.
good luck, and be safe. dont shoot any orange deer.
find a Doe in heat. tie her to a tree, and sit there with an AK47 and wait a couple hours.
seriously... if it isnt legal to "bait" deer there, and im assuming it isnt, dont do it.
im not saying, dont through out 3-4 cut apples 30 yards from your stand... but DONT put out 100 pounds of corn and 100 pounds of apples ( like my neighboor does ) that just isnt hunting...
put in your time in the woods before you pick a location. find spots that the "trails" are highly used- where there are big scrapes on the ground, and rubs on the trees. a dominant buck will rub his antlers on the tree until theres hardly any bark left on it for a 3' section. its hard to mistake a genuine buck rub. deer frequently go back to the areas they rub and scrape.
good luck, and be safe. dont shoot any orange deer.
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From: KCMO
Hunting over bait is illegal in MO. That being said, something that will draw deer in from miles around is a pile of cabbage heads - the riper the better. Almost as good is a pile of apples. The thing is, though, that all traces have to be gone for at least 10 days before the season starts. There's something along those lines that works real good, and is nearly undetectable (which means you can use it whenever you want, and nobody can tell), but I promised not to tell anyone about it, especially on the internet where it can be traced back to me.
Something else that attracts deer - chrome bumpers.
Something else that attracts deer - chrome bumpers.
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From: nevada
Ok, so we're all hunters that do it a different way. It has a lot to do with who you started hunting with, and where you live. some people hunt deer with dogs, not my cup of tea either. I used to spend a fair amount of time in a treestand back east, not enough room to travel without bumping into someone, or landing on no trespass land. The last 10 yrs i sat in the same tree, I only missed shooting a buck that 10th yr.The trick is, sitting in the right tree. Out west you can walk for days, and prob not see anyone. If you do your scouting and spend some time in the woods before season, you can pattern the deer, and not rely on a corn pile. If you hunt the same area yr after yr, you will know where to be on opening morn.
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V10, that reminds me of several yrs ago in elk camp, we used to splash some elk scent on our clothing in front of the cook tent. We came back to camp one night, and noticed a buck scrape 3 ft from the tent flap. He was a 4 pt, (you could see his horn marks in the dirt). we had a good laugh at that, especially since we had an extra deer tag along with our elk tags.
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I'd like to take one of these overweight, crew cab diesel drivin, 18 foot flatbed haulin', 4 ATV toting, 100 lbs of corn tossin', 3 coolers of beer drinkin' hunters and drop him off in the forest buck-naked and say" go get bambi". now that's hunting!
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Originally Posted by gtex
I'd like to take one of these overweight, crew cab diesel drivin, 18 foot flatbed haulin', 4 ATV toting, 100 lbs of corn tossin', 3 coolers of beer drinkin' hunters and drop him off in the forest buck-naked and say" go get bambi". now that's hunting!
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You need someone experienced as a guide. Here we can't bait so we have to track the deer. Several months before the season starts we go out to the area we are going to hunt. We have permission from a local farmer to use part of his land. And we locate their trails and look for scrapes and rubs. Based on the patterns we see we know where to set up our stands. We do occasionally rattle them in as that is not illegal. But generally with a little homework before season starts we have pretty good luck. And also being that the area is wooded next to a creek and a corn field doesn't hurt our chances any either.
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I am a hunter and also a Hunter Education instructor in Ohio. We have 158 acres that we hunt on. We have several food plots and I can tell you our deer love the turnip patches. The first year we planted our plots we fell into the hype of the name brand mixes(I won't name them since most of you hunters know what I am talking about) it took a while and the deer turned on to them. We no longer spend the excessive money for the name brand stuff. Take the label off of a bag to your local co op and they can mix you up the same stuff alot cheaper. Don't wait till 1 day before planting time, as some of the seeds are not normally stocked.
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