Deer Attractants anyone try them
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I've tried a few commercial deer attractants over the years. So far none of them have done anything. Zip, nadda. Put it on a trail and they will walk through it, put by bait and they ignore it. We repeated a similar process with commercial bear attractants this year.
Real baits work fine.
Real baits work fine.
I use Peanut Butter for my Trail Cams. Read about it a couple years back and gave it a shot. I took the lid off, lag bolted with a washer the lid to a tree. Screwed the plastic jar back on and cut a 3 by 3 inch hole on the bottom. It worked like a charm. Probably wouldn't work that good in an area with bears though. They would just rip it off and mow it down in 2 mins....
I was walking in waterton lake park a few years back- had a crow call in my pocket, and wanted to call a few crows- I blew it a couple of times and 3 bucks come crashing through the bush, hell bent 4 leather looking for something- maybe I blew like a doe in heat or a fawn in trouble I don't know
I would like to experiment with tarsal, preorbital and interdigital glands. I found an old ground scrape in july, I moved the earth with my boot and put a camera. Deer have been flocking to the scrape, licking and rubbing the branches above it and kicking up the earth. I even had a fawn sleep in it for a whole afternoon. A few other critters have visited the scrape too. The deer are clearly leaving their scent and communicating through their glands. I would like to see how they react to another buck (me) marking its territory.
I have baits and attractants in other areas and none have the level of activity the ground scrape has.
I have baits and attractants in other areas and none have the level of activity the ground scrape has.
A couple of years ago I tried quite a few different bags of premixed deer food/attractants. I would dump a small pile of each in front of a camera, sometimes 3 or 4 different types in their own piles in front of a camera. That Rack Stacker Fixation was always the first to get eaten. I wish now, I could remember the other brands tried, but I only remember the one they ate first. Fixation. I have noticed over the years they will hit certain brands of mineral better than others as well. I almost always used that red "Blaze" mineral now. They love it. Not trying to promote Rack stacker stuff, just my personal experience has shown me it works.
There used to be another mineral I bought years ago, it came in a block called 4x4. It was red in color and notched so it could be split easily into 4 parts. (assuming that's where the 4x4 name came from) I can't ever find it now, but the deer around here loved that one too.
There used to be another mineral I bought years ago, it came in a block called 4x4. It was red in color and notched so it could be split easily into 4 parts. (assuming that's where the 4x4 name came from) I can't ever find it now, but the deer around here loved that one too.
Apples I watched a doe eat 21 in one sitting it was fun to watch her from a ground blind 20 yrds away.
Bucks also. But they didn't all get away.
Best is wind fall apples off trees that just grow by ditches on roads.
They won't touch store bought apples it seems. Just sniff and walk away ?
Maybe it's the sprays or something else , I don't know.
But the natural free grown ones look out !
Bucks also. But they didn't all get away.
Best is wind fall apples off trees that just grow by ditches on roads.
They won't touch store bought apples it seems. Just sniff and walk away ?
Maybe it's the sprays or something else , I don't know.
But the natural free grown ones look out !
I've also had decent luck with the rackstacker fixation and the red blaze mineral that I get from my local home hardware. Haven't bothered trying anything else out in the last couple years. It sure brings the bears in quickly though.
