Anyone use any oddball baits out there to bring deer in? Basically anything besides corn, plants, salt, and protein mixes.
I heard peanut butter recently. I was thinking of trying this because PB probably puts out enough smell where a deer can smell it at a long distance. If you really get them hooked on it you might be able to “call them in” with the scent.
I’m going to try to experiment a little this season and see if I can get some good GoPro footage. It’ll save me a ton of time if I’m packing a secret ingredient.
One of my best friends swears by apples. He sits in his tree stand and slowly peels and eats apples, or slices them up and drops them on the ground. He kills a lot of deer.
A couple of us when we were kids, convinced another kid that if he used peanut butter, he could bait squirrels! He went out and smeared PB on stumps and never did get one!
Pears. Not oddball but work too. If you have the ability a freshly plowed area is like crack to the curious critters. Maybe just the smell of fresh plowed dirt? Don’t really know the reason but it will bring them in. and then there is diesel fuel, more of a sent mask and a really good attraction for wild hogs.
And the grand sum, do it all and give them a variety! can’t hurt. Just remember if you don’t have many deer in your area chances are the ones you do will be extra spooky and harder to draw in. imo A lot depends on how much hunting pressure your land and more important the surrounding land gets.
quote:then there is diesel fuel, more of a sent mask and a really good attraction for wild hogs.
An old trick for attracting hogs was to wrap the base of a tree with a burlap bag soaked in diesel fuel, the hogs love it and will rub their bodies all over it. Weird but it works.
I’ve also known people who swore by corn oil for deer and hogs. They would put a roll of toilet paper in a coffee can and soak it in oil. Never tried it myself.
Hang your jar of peanut butter from a limb. Drill a hole in the lid of a “big jar” and run a string though it tie a knot to hold it in place. Tie the other end on a branch so that the lid is a head height for a deer. Then just use a knife to cut the bottom out of the jar and screw it back on the lid. that way when you need to replace it just cut the bottom out of another jar and screw it on the hanging lid.
You can also screw the lid to a tree and the rest is the same. makes changing it out alot easier.
If you can get your hands on a truck bed of sweet potatoes they work great too.
I put Apple scent (I think it was made by Indian) on a tree I was in and an 8 pt buck came right to my tree and licked the branches. That deer was 8’ from me and never smelled me.
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Salty R U dissing us??
BTW - I am planting Magic Carpet this year -comments
I have a pic of an 11pt drop tine. First one ever on any of my cameras.
Hunting, fishing, and poker are my sports. Work when necessary.
Hey
Salty R U dissing us??
BTW - I am planting Magic Carpet this year -comments
I have a pic of an 11pt drop tine. First one ever on any of my cameras.
Hunting, fishing, and poker are my sports. Work when necessary.
Just making an observation. You wont find me putting peanut butter out unless theres a leg hold trap under it to catch a coon. Magic carpet isn’t much and your problem is you have soybeans surrounding your property this year, why not just hunt the trails/travel corridors heading to the bean fields? Magic carpet is a pain and gets full of weeds without a proper burn down/preplant herbicide program and even then with the weed pressure in our area the food plots get overrun with weeds.
I use to have a 92 cummins flat bed. Deer would go out of their way to jump in front of that sum *****, they just couldn’t resist it. That’s why I have a duramax now.
Salty are you using a residual herbicide in the plot? Usually with adequate rainfall and proper application timing the residuals will keep the weeds undercontrol. Pigweed have been catching some nibbles the past few years in our area. I guess they are tired of eating the soybeans.
Salty are you using a residual herbicide in the plot? Usually with adequate rainfall and proper application timing the residuals will keep the weeds undercontrol. Pigweed have been catching some nibbles the past few years in our area. I guess they are tired of eating the soybeans.
round up ready soybeans.
I quit with magic carpet years ago,it was the source of the weed seeds.
Salty are you using a residual herbicide in the plot? Usually with adequate rainfall and proper application timing the residuals will keep the weeds undercontrol. Pigweed have been catching some nibbles the past few years in our area. I guess they are tired of eating the soybeans.
Absolutely, treat food plots just as we would 100acre field in most cases. Problem is there is so much deer pressure summer plots never make it, winter on the other hand usually can withstand the pressure and always look good, mowed down but good. The deer have destroyed a lot of beans and cotton this year and I have yet to see where one ate a pigweed anywhere.
Salty I’ve seen lots of crop damage this year also. The pigweeds were young and tender that was eaten. They do prefer soybeans over the pigweeds though.
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Also the wild grapes should never be overlooked. So I can see where koolaid could be an attractant.
There is a reason 90% of the deer are killed by 10% of the people hunting them, this thread is a prime example…
I would say more like 90% and 3-5% of people hunting them.
Those are the ones that have an overpopulation of deer like most areas around me. As to this thread as an example. ? When I was growing up deer were scarce and a 140-160# 8 point was a prize. My brothers and cousins learned many things from my uncle to increase our chances of killing a deer. I gladly pass on any information that may help a fellow hunter that may only have access to a deer poor area.
You got to remember back in the day most deer hunters were driving them with dogs. Not many still hunters were around. I’d say it is the opposite today.
I was in one of the first off shore seminars this sight put on teaching how to rig Bally-Hoo. I learned a lot from fellow fisherman and the theme of this sight was/is “we won’t leave you fishing for information”.
I’ll give honest (or in political/off topic my take on it) answers to anyone that asks about anything. I have nothing to fear sharing methods learned over my life and will continue to do so. I’d love to see many more deer taken this season, nice to look at but mostly a nuisance imo.
I’m going to put some grape kool aid out just for ****s and grins. Never heard that one before.
