Help a noob bag some meat..

[Beer_drinker]

I tried the carrot idea twice. There is a place not far from me that will fill up your trailer for $15 with all the funny looking carrots they cannot sell. My experience in my area was that the carrots would rot unless there was no other food around, or after it snowed and the carrots were easy pickings.

well that blows... probably goes the same with apples unless deer really prefer em over normal feed that the neighbours put out.

 

[DVXDUDE]

I'm just assuming obviously, but around here bucks live in massive swamps where there isnt much feed or bedding area (couple feet of water) but they live there. My trail cam proves it. You can tell they are swamp bucks because half of their legs are stained brown/black but we shoot them in corn/bean fields in the fall. The big ones live where no people go, rarely see them any time of the year besides peak of the rut, they are almost completely nocturnal, they just head to where the feed is then back to their sanctuary.

 

[steve-o1979]

I tried the carrot idea twice. There is a place not far from me that will fill up your trailer for $15 with all the funny looking carrots they cannot sell. My experience in my area was that the carrots would rot unless there was no other food around, or after it snowed and the carrots were easy pickings.

The first year we tried carrots around here it was the same thing... they pretty much rotted away. Now, you can't dump enough... we used 11 bins at our camp last year, and we were the camp that used the least.

 

[oopswasthatyourdog?]

Beer Drinker what part of QC are you hunting in?

 

[crazydave]

clover eh? that stuff is gona stay alive in the cold fall?? i'll look into it

Clover is one of the first plants to green in the spring and one of the last plants to die off in the fall. A good clover patch will almost always have deer hanging around.

 

[Devineus]

I must be lucky, I know a spot near me that there are so many deer that the grass turns to mud along the trail from the amount of travel. There are hundreds of tracks, and not only deer. There are moose. Its like the 401 for wildlife.

 

[heavyBullet]

well that blows... probably goes the same with apples unless deer really prefer em over normal feed that the neighbours put out.

Deer love apples, but so do bears, and if you have any in the area, apples will draw them in. The orchards sell them for like $5 a big bag, and if you have the time and the money to haul them into your hunting spot, it will attract deer, but I think putting a salt block now, plus trying to grow some kind of clover would be better. There are some seeds like "secret spot" and "No plow" from the Whitetail institute that you can basicly just throw on the ground and rake it into the earth without much work that grow well also, and are meant to grow in the woods. There are a couple companies out there that sell this stuff. The two I mentioned have to be planted every year, but they grow well with the least amount of work needed.

 

[Goose25]

Beer Drinker,

where are you exactly in QC?
And how good is your french?
send me a PM.

 

[Goose25]

Beer Drinker what part of QC are you hunting in?

^ oops, read this after posting above.

 

[TheCoachZed]

I've read that you can use carrots pretty effectively if you spray them with apple juice when you put them out.

I've used apple juice in a Windex bottle sprayed all over the place to attract deer. It works.

Also, you should think about bear hunting, if the idea of eating bear meat doesn't gross you out (it shouldn't!). I think they are a little easier to bait than deer, in my opinion. But I don't have much experience baiting deer.