question specifically for blacktail hunters

[RoyBoy]

What is the number one kind of grain yhe blacktail deer like I have two feeders set up but I know they don't care much for corn like white tails do. Would you think cob? Thanks for your help , royboy

[Wolfdog2314]

I've tried the Purina deer chow and they kinda picked through it.

Wet or dry COB works well. But if you have bears anywhere in your area and they find it, it's all over.

I'm going to try a hanging spinning feeder in a couple weeks here with an apple flavored corn, and see how that does.

I don't really like the idea of using gravity feeders anymore. One because the bears find it and demolish all feed. And I've read a few different posts/articles where a big chow session for the deer on grains isn't too good for them.

Very best bet is apples!

[bobcat]

I've had both wet cob and dry cob out for elk, the deer walk by and never touch it.

[billythekidrock]

I have had deer try both wet and dry cob, but they never stick with it. Apples and salt/minerals have worked better for me.

[bobcat]

Funny thing is at the spot I'm talking about, the deer don't touch the apples either.

[bearpaw]

Don't food plots work better for blacktail rather than bait?

[h2ofowlr]

Apples are the best item for BT besides rose bushes and arbrovites.

[h2ofowlr]

Don't food plots work better for blacktail rather than bait?

I've had many buddies try food plots for BT without much success.  If you have property with BT in the area and can plant a dozen or so apple trees or have one or two large producing apple trees you will shoot a BT off it every year if they are not over harvested in the area.

[billythekidrock]

Don't food plots work better for blacktail rather than bait?

No. Apples are the best.

The only "food plots" that truly work for bt's is natural food that sprouts up after a thinning or the plants in your flower garden.

Pretty much everything else plot related is just hype when it comes to bt's.

[billythekidrock]

Funny thing is at the spot I'm talking about, the deer don't touch the apples either.

I have found that to be true in places that they don't naturally find apples. Sometimes it can take them a while to get a taste for them.

[grundy53]

Don't food plots work better for blacktail rather than bait?

I've had many buddies try food plots for BT without much success.  If you have property with BT in the area and can plant a dozen or so apple trees or have one or two large producing apple trees you will shoot a BT off it every year if they are not over harvested in the area.

I've made food plots and the elk LOVED them. The Blacktails would barely ever visit.

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[snowpack]

Don't food plots work better for blacktail rather than bait?

No. Apples are the best.

The only "food plots" that truly work for bt's is natural food that sprouts up after a thinning or the plants in your flower garden.

Pretty much everything else plot related is just hype when it comes to bt's.

  A pruning tool, saw and a rake can make a good bt food plot.  Thin the area and prune some bushes/trees down to their level.  Alder, salal, salmonberry, willows, blackberry, etc.

[lokidog]

As far as feed, I have had much more success with Allstock pellets from Dels than the similar pellet that Coastal sells.  If it has been a while since I have had pellets out, I will usually cut up a few apples to draw them in.

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[Lunchbox1981]

Ya'll are doing the Blacktail food plots all wrong then.

Rows upon rows of roses and you would have every Blacktail in the greater area visiting you plot.   

[trophyhunt]

I've had both wet cob and dry cob out for elk, the deer walk by and never touch it.

I even had a trail camera on the wet cob, not one deer on the pics.  This was in an area that I've seen plenty of bucks. I think the browse habit of blacktail makes it harder to bait them, salt works good but that's done with by hunting season.