Crossbow deer hunting from blind..tips needed on bait

the spank said:
Maybe they have food sources occurring in your area that make it harder to draw them? I see from some of your pics you are in a corn growing area. Maybe they just have no need of something else when there is a smorgasbord of available corn growing around them. Very few if any farms around here grow corn and those that do grow it as silage corn. It is off the field and gone before the cold weather sets in. Believe it or not I have a friend who goes to a local bakery plant in North bay and buys 1100 pound tote bags of bread and puts that out for the deer. I thought he was feeding bears until he told me it was for deer. I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't gone on his rounds with him and watched him dump a bushel at each stand and got to see deer eating at a bread pile he maintains right off his back deck for viewing purposes.
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There are a lot of farms in teh area that grow corn.... but none of them touch on my acreage.... that being said, I woudl have thought that they would eat carrots anyways... but they don't... one of the best tricks to use when there is heavy snow on the ground at end of season is those alfalfa cubes you give horses..... my deer go nuts for them.... but the trick is that the snow has to have fallen and covered all of their natural grass sources...
 
i use red wheat or oats. works great 3 pails is gone in one day so i stared only taking one out every 4 days. i also have about 45 deer comming to my bail lol!!
happy hunting!
 
canadian hunter312 said:
they like apples, corn, pumpkin, squash, broccoli, beans, and various man made goodies. if you're hunting a pressured area the deer could be strictly nocturnal, so a bait pile could possibly be a waste of time for you.

maybe it's you or your blind that's the problem. bad location? stinky? noisy? a climbing tree stand should be on your list of must haves if it isn't already. i've been so disappointed in blinds that i sold my first one, bought another 2 years later, and sold it after that season. i see 10x more deer (and every other critter) out of my climber than a blind. why? i wish i knew.

i'm still waiting on some snow to get out for my first time this year and do some tracking. fresh snow = dead deer ;)
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hi buddy, about trACKING IN FRESH SNOW, wont they smell you or hear you before you get close enough?thanks!:)
 
Jesuswon said:
hi buddy, about trACKING IN FRESH SNOW, wont they smell you or hear you before you get close enough?thanks!:)
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you see a lot of the ones that would normally let you walk right by them. they havn't adjusted to the newly fallen snow so they still believe that they blend in with all the surroundings. meanwhile they stick out like a sore thumb.
 
Jesuswon said:
hi buddy, about trACKING IN FRESH SNOW, wont they smell you or hear you before you get close enough?thanks!:)
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nope. you'd be surprised by how close you can get to deer after you get a good 4"+ of snow the night before your hunt. it makes it very easy to follow tracks in the snow without getting close to them and this allows you to judge where the deer are heading without having to walk right beside the tracks. makes it a lot easier to get ahead of them and gain ground rather quickly. plus you'll get to see more deer and it's far more exciting than if you were sitting in a blind or treestand.

you just have to control your scent, play the wind, be willing to crawl on your belly, and move VERY slowly. i just started hunting this way 3 years ago and the last two i took with the crossbow were 11 yards and the other was 12 yards the following season. i have 8 days left to make it 3 years in a row of getting my deer this way. c'mon snow:D
 
canadian hunter312 said:
nope. you'd be surprised by how close you can get to deer after you get a good 4"+ of snow the night before your hunt. it makes it very easy to follow tracks in the snow without getting close to them and this allows you to judge where the deer are heading without having to walk right beside the tracks. makes it a lot easier to get ahead of them and gain ground rather quickly. plus you'll get to see more deer and it's far more exciting than if you were sitting in a blind or treestand.

you just have to control your scent, play the wind, be willing to crawl on your belly, and move VERY slowly. i just started hunting this way 3 years ago and the last two i took with the crossbow were 11 yards and the other was 12 yards the following season. i have 8 days left to make it 3 years in a row of getting my deer this way. c'mon snow:D
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we got 'er this morning. to bad the season closed a week ago in my wmu. all good though got my freezer filled from the gun hunt. at least we have snow for christmas.
 
ryan32 said:
You could always try to still hunt during the off hours. Late season is the time to do it
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Yeah looks like I will have two more days to try it this week. Then its time to add the tag..to the tag collection :p
 
You have a tag collection too, huh?

Not enough hours spent in the bush this year for me. Next week I'm going to go hard, finish it off with some meat in the freezer.
 
I had three come right out on a line to my 1.5 hour old bait pile! Two left unscathed.

I dumped a fresh bag from loblaws 15 yards from my tree stand and smushed them all to release the scent, then took a few up with me. Ate two to get the smell on my breath then wiped my hands with the cores that I then threw out near the others on the ground. I then smushed two on the tree beside me and left as many of the bits up on the branches to mask my smell and really get the scent up in the air.

Seemed to work like a charm!

Cheers,

Ian
 
Wrong Way said:
Hey USP....drive up here (Midland area) and I'll stick you in one of my stands.....they are all on funnels so I don't need to bait (although the guy baiting just down the ridge from me helps with traffic :) )

My tags were all filled weeks ago, so you are welcome to the stand.

WW
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Thanks for the kind offer WW, I have to use the area down here though as my buddy has it setup. It started to get cold here yesterday so maybe that might help.
 
deeker said:
You have a tag collection too, huh?

Not enough hours spent in the bush this year for me. Next week I'm going to go hard, finish it off with some meat in the freezer.
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Yeah...Turkey, Deer...controlled hunt..all sorts :p
 
Wrong Way said:
Hey USP....drive up here (Midland area) and I'll stick you in one of my stands.....they are all on funnels so I don't need to bait (although the guy baiting just down the ridge from me helps with traffic :) )

My tags were all filled weeks ago, so you are welcome to the stand.

WW
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Very sportmans like behaviour.
 
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