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Re: question specifically for blacktail hunters
« Reply #15 on: April 03, 2014, 06:35:12 AM »
I have had success using cobb w/molasses, salt, and apples...what I have noticed is that the bucks will only return with the does in late season, otherwise its doe central...
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Re: question specifically for blacktail hunters
« Reply #16 on: April 03, 2014, 06:41:24 AM »
minerals are your best bet, i had the deer on my place knock the snot out of an apple block, but the best i have found is the little wild blackberries, not those great big rip your clothes off and gash you to the bone bushes, the little vine ones that snake along the bround with a berry the size of the end of your pinky, their favorite food is what we cal a purple cap, its a berry that grows on a sticker that useally has two to three stocks and its like a flouresent green, they really like them when they are young and tender, but no matter how old they are always nipped back, i wish i knew the actual name of them...
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Re: question specifically for blacktail hunters
« Reply #17 on: April 03, 2014, 10:47:56 PM »
Apples and minerals for sure but don't over look planting red and white Dutch clover.  They will come to that food plot over and over again and it helps it when its grazed or cut so it thickens the clover patch. 

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Re: question specifically for blacktail hunters
« Reply #18 on: April 03, 2014, 11:02:36 PM »
They never turn down geraniums in flower pots. Never.


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Re: question specifically for blacktail hunters
« Reply #19 on: April 03, 2014, 11:11:06 PM »
They never turn down geraniums in flower pots. Never.

Hmm now how do I get enough geraniums hanging from the tress in my favorite BT spot  :chuckle:
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Re: question specifically for blacktail hunters
« Reply #20 on: April 03, 2014, 11:14:02 PM »
The blacktails around here won't touch grain dry or sweet, alfalfa or minerals/salt except for a couple of months during the early summer.  I had a bunch of feed left over from finishing off a steer so I made a couple of tube feeders and placed them at my back corner with a trail cam on them.  One tube had straight ground and cracked corn, the other had a mixture or deer chow, wet cob and dry oats.  The deer would take one nibble and never come back to either of them.  The base of the tree where the feeders were was covered with apple flavored buck jam and also had an apple flavored salt block. The deer did like the apple salt block for about 2 months but wouldn't touch it after mid August.  The birds (especially the quail and doves) loved the grain as did the raccoons and squirrels.  The deer really like apples, acorns, clover, berry vines and good sweet pasture and oat grass.  What I have found over the years is that the more "urban" the area that they live, especially on the islands that they are more likely to go for grain based feeds.  In areas like where I live there is a lot of timber and farm land so variety of food is more plentiful.  The deer at my friends place in Hartstine and Anderson Islands as well as in the outskirts of Olympia can be baited in with feed.   :twocents:
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Re: question specifically for blacktail hunters
« Reply #21 on: April 07, 2014, 12:52:13 PM »
i use corn right now and have one one cam over 200 or so pictures. in just one week
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Re: question specifically for blacktail hunters
« Reply #22 on: April 08, 2014, 07:11:09 PM »
Asian pear trees do the trick.

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Re: question specifically for blacktail hunters
« Reply #23 on: April 08, 2014, 07:19:09 PM »
Asian pear trees do the trick.

Wasn't it Erma Bombeck that wrote, "The grass is always greener over the septic tank"?  Maybe that's the secret ingredient :chuckle:
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Re: question specifically for blacktail hunters
« Reply #24 on: April 08, 2014, 07:21:34 PM »
My blacktail prefer pole beans, strawberry, pyramidalis and fruit tree leaves.
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Re: question specifically for blacktail hunters
« Reply #25 on: April 10, 2014, 06:38:52 AM »
I use apples and pears.
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Re: question specifically for blacktail hunters
« Reply #26 on: April 10, 2014, 07:07:38 AM »
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their favorite food is what we cal a purple cap, its a berry that grows on a sticker that useally has two to three stocks and its like a flouresent green, they really like them when they are young and tender, but no matter how old they are always nipped back, i wish i knew the actual name of them...

Actual name is Blackcap berry...  Rubus occidentalis




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Re: question specifically for blacktail hunters
« Reply #27 on: April 12, 2014, 08:51:46 PM »
I've had both wet cob and dry cob out for elk, the deer walk by and never touch it.
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Re: question specifically for blacktail hunters
« Reply #28 on: April 13, 2014, 09:42:12 PM »
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their favorite food is what we cal a purple cap, its a berry that grows on a sticker that useally has two to three stocks and its like a flouresent green, they really like them when they are young and tender, but no matter how old they are always nipped back, i wish i knew the actual name of them...

Actual name is Blackcap berry...  Rubus occidentalis
excellent, thank you, now I know :tup: I wonder why they call them a blackcap when they are purple  :dunno: :chuckle: scientists  :chuckle:
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