Deer Bait

[moose565]

I am new into baiting deer and i am wondering what you guys and gals use to bait deer.

 

[12magnum]

apples and corn. i have wild apple trees at the back of my spread, and the farmer next to me plants corn in the fields next to my apple trees.

 

[LongPointDiver]

Just make sure where you are baiting is legal.

 

[swailmeister]

We use apples, in the early season, then switch over to carrots when the weather gets colder. The apples rot quickly in cold. Carrots last a long time.

 

[ramtuff]

I've never baited deer, but I'm told that you can't keep deer out of a carrot patch.

 

[Woodsman]

Apples and carrots. Apples are by far a bigger attractant, but carrots last longer.

 

[trevj]

The deer used to prune back my green beans in the garden, before they'd touch anything else.

If I were pounding in a food plot, I'd think for about 2 seconds, before I decided to add in some beans to the mix.

Cheers
Trev

 

[12magnum]

The deer used to prune back my green beans in the garden, before they'd touch anything else.

If I were pounding in a food plot, I'd think for about 2 seconds, before I decided to add in some beans to the mix.

Cheers
Trev

you got that right. i quit planting my beloved green beans three years ago. the damn deer cleaned off 18 rows in my garden in one night.my wife says plant them anyway and then harvest your garden when the season opens, with a .30-06.

 

[heavyBullet]

I find the deer will eat the apples first, then corn second, and only start eating the carrots when not much else is left. I live not to far from a carrot factory i guess you can call it lol, and they will sell you a trailer of funky shaped carrots for around $10. So we filled out trailer full to the top and dumped piles of it everywhere and them spread the rest all over the pasture, and the deer only started eating it after it had snowed and other food was harder to get at. Now we stick to apples and corn.

 

[can14]

since we a on the line of illegal----buy a block of salt--they can't stay away from it.

 

[M12shooter]

Flax, aka "deer candy", sugar beets or alphalfa pellets keeps them coming around for seconds. Just be sure it's legal....with all this bovine tb and cwd stuff going around.

 

[heavyBullet]

since we a on the line of illegal----buy a block of salt--they can't stay away from it.

Not illegal in Quebec. Salt is good in the summer, but not during hunting in the fall.

 

[Fox]

Legal in Ontario only thing they got right here.

 

[Woodsman]

Salt isn't illegal, nor is bait of any kind in Quebec.

 

[Gatehouse]

Legal to bait deer in BC, too...

 

[looch]

I find the deer will eat the apples first, then corn second, and only start eating the carrots when not much else is left. I live not to far from a carrot factory i guess you can call it lol, and they will sell you a trailer of funky shaped carrots for around $10. So we filled out trailer full to the top and dumped piles of it everywhere and them spread the rest all over the pasture, and the deer only started eating it after it had snowed and other food was harder to get at. Now we stick to apples and corn.

We had a guy in our group that used to broker the transport of potatoes from NB to QC. He had the brilliant idea of baiting deer with them.

He is now known as Monsieur Patate - a moniker he will not soon lose (and no, deer don't like potatoes). Man did we tease him.

 

[Kenny_G2]

Not sure about bait but they sure love tulips in the spring. f**kers even dug up and ate the bulbs.

I paid them back in the fall , you can taste the tulip flavouring

 

[aftermidnight]

the vinters in the okanagan area have pretty much had to cage their vines cuz the venison like munching off the grapes seeing as they are so handy at head height..the buggers dont even have to lean down for them...lol

 

[profesional 111]

works

Try a used tampon!!!! you might be surprised , works for blacktails.

 

[Goose25]

I use apples, carrots, and corn for baiting deer.
I use young children for baiting bears.