Deer bait?
- Thread starter saskboy
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- Hillbilly shack in the boonies
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- Saskatchewan
More apple stuff???? APPLE TREES DO NOT GROW IN SASKATCHEWAN! DEER DO NOT EAT APPLES IN SASKATCHEWAN! I tried liquid apple too - it smelled nice and scared the deer away!
We have bunch of crab apples on the ground on the farm but only the coyotes eat them, lol. The coyotes also like to eat carrots out of the garden. I think Ill try the pea's suggestion, lots around here so shouldn't be too hard to get a few pails just from combines spilling over when they miss the semi. Like Longwalker said, its hard to get apples and stuff out here.
heavyBullet
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- Just off the island of MTL
it makes it a heck of a lot easier thats for sure and I really see your point. It would definitly take a lot of the fun out of it but in Manitoba you can throw a rock in any direction and hit a deer with it we have so damn many. Their is absolutely no excuse to bait them here thats for sure.
So what do you consider "baiting"?
Do you hunt over a barley/ bean/ corn etc., field? Is that "baiting" them?
Do you use, scents/ urine...is that baiting?
Do you use decoys?
You are entitled to your opinion...but how about just saying that is not the way I choose to hunt, instead of making a derogatory statement about a certain type of hunting.
Or make no statement at all...and start your own thread condemning the use of "bait" while hunting.
- Location
- Hillbilly shack in the boonies
So what do you consider "baiting"?
Do you hunt over a barley/ bean/ corn etc., field? Is that "baiting" them?
Do you use, scents/ urine...is that baiting?
Do you use decoys?
You are entitled to your opinion...but how about just saying that is not the way I choose to hunt, instead of making a derogatory statement about a certain type of hunting.
Or make no statement at all...and start your own thread condemning the use of "bait" while hunting.
The way I see it..
Bait
Better look at the shot , and the animal you want (cause anyone can kill an animal)
better for folks with little time to hunt, but want to see game.
better for older folks with limited mobility.
and the other animals benefit from the bait (keep it going for the hard part of winter, the animals will love you
Not baiting
See more country side, keeping fit, and healthy.
Scout for that big buck that knows to stay away from bait during legal hours.
No restrictions, change up firearms for heavy stuff, and open country.
Both
Its great to see game coming to your setup , and can maybe track that big buck to its bedding area, kinda like intel on deer.Weather can also make up your mind on tactics...
Bottom line, have fun, relax, take a child or friend hunting , and teach 'em the ways of the out of doors.
Applefarmer
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- Lime Stone City
Buy a bag of rock salt and pour it over a stump. Might look funny a deer or three licking a stump, but it works.
Baiting big game is legal in Saskatchewan.
Deer run off instinct quite a bit of the time. Try pouring molasses and salt together and see if a deer eats it? It will eat it, but I highly doubt a deer has ever found molasses or pure salt in the wild no-matter where it is. I use sugar beets and the deer love them. I hunt mainly in a cedar swamp with a small grass field nearby. I don't think sugar beets grow within hundreds miles of where I hunt. Deer will basically eat anything that meets their nutritional needs. Although liquid apple may smell nice to you, a deer has a rather refined sense of smell and may smell something wrong with liquid apple. If you use real apples, not covered in wax, not processed, not doused with pesticides, and not covered with human scent I find it pretty hard to believe that they would not eat them if presented the opportunity.
heavyBullet
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- Location
- Just off the island of MTL
You know what they say about opinions...............
Let me add one more reason to Levi's list. For those people who hunt on postage stamp sized pieces of land, baiting may be the only thing to keep some deer in the area. Not everyone is lucky to have abundant land to hunt on.
I hunt with one thing in my mind, and thats to put meat in my freezer, and if baiting helps me accomplish that, then all the better.
Rickslady, I know a few people with pear trees in their backyard, and they were happy for me to take them, but the deer did not seems to like them.
Carrots is another bait that is very inexpensive. You can buy trailer loads of carrots that are considered seconds (due to their shape) for only $10-$20. I see many people around here using carrots, but I found the deer only ate them when their other food sources were depleted.
So what do you consider "baiting"?
Do you hunt over a barley/ bean/ corn etc., field? Is that "baiting" them?
Do you use, scents/ urine...is that baiting?
Do you use decoys?
You are entitled to your opinion...but how about just saying that is not the way I choose to hunt, instead of making a derogatory statement about a certain type of hunting.
Or make no statement at all...and start your own thread condemning the use of "bait" while hunting.
The ethics of baiting is a whole different can of worms That probably does belong in a whole different thread. The reason why I somewhat agree with the posters statement is that for my area, when I put out the miricle mix for the deer, no kidding you get a heard. Basically shooting fish in a barrel. If you read up on the boone and crockett web site they talk about fair chase. It is definitly not fair chase to bring a heard of deer into one spot. I believe in fair chase.
I hunt over different types of fields that cover huge acerage. Fair chase still exists because you have to determine which part of the field they frequent and you still have to play the wind and you have to be invisable. I've had to crawl over a mile before to sneak up on deer field hunting. With miricle mix, they don't care so much if you are there. They think it's safe.
Scents are used to cover your own smell, not to lure deer into an easy shot
decoys are illegal in Manitoba.
To agree with one of your statements however, baiting is not how I choose to hunt because of where I live. It really isn't "hunting". In areas where the deer are more spread out and harder to find, I don't see a negative in that. I see it more as leveling the playing field. The pressure of population doesn't exist and the deer will most likely be more hesitent to approach the bait area. Unlike here where every deer is going to be competing to hit that pile first. I feel sympathy for the old generation to.
I do not agree with baiting where I live, yet I do agree for it to be acceptible in other places. Government has released cougars (not the attractive kind but the cat kind!) into the area and they are allowing a large amount of deer to be harvested. If you do bow, muzzle and riffle you could potentially shot 5 deer legally. their is a late shotgun/muzzle season in some areas but I don't know if that entitles a 6th deer. but once the population has leveled, and if for some tragic reason the population sways into the other direction, I would change my mind about baiting in my area.
