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This may be a strange question but things already got strange in here so I suppose this isn't so far out there - I have a shortage of apples on my tree this year from it being so dry but I have more tomatoes in the garden than I could ever use. Has anyone used them for bait before?
time, effort, and money
Quote from: Jarhead Chase on August 27, 2015, 05:53:09 PMtime, effort, and money I started innocent enough...a little salt, with a trailcam. Heck, maybe I'll add a few apples next time I check the camera...couple years later Im buying camera batteries and feed by the metric ton...probably should quit my job so I can focus on my $100/day addiction!
Quote from: idahohuntr on August 27, 2015, 09:01:16 PMQuote from: Jarhead Chase on August 27, 2015, 05:53:09 PMtime, effort, and money I started innocent enough...a little salt, with a trailcam. Heck, maybe I'll add a few apples next time I check the camera...couple years later Im buying camera batteries and feed by the metric ton...probably should quit my job so I can focus on my $100/day addiction!Theres a song about I use to do a little and the little got more and more...... I would consider this a safe addiction. But there probably is a Quack out there that would say different and want you to come to meetings and express yourself about animals and salt and cameras......
Good thing apples are plentiful around here it's all free and all you can pick if you put the time into picking them
Let me clear the air a little. I probably came across as an A-hole....I am actually kind of an A-hole and that's ok with me. Baiting mature white tails is HARD! Killing a mature a mature white tail over bait is even HARDER! I have been trying to accomplish it for 15 years with very little success, if success is measured by Boone and Crocket entries. I have 100's of trail camera pictures of GIANT's but only managed to run an arrow through a couple of them.There is no failed attempt unless you don't learn something from the attempt. My point was simply this.....I think guy's get focused on the wrong issues when it comes to this matter. There are a whole host of factors that go into getting one of these giants into the back of your pickup. Much of which is actually out of our control and sometimes luck plays a bigger role than many of us are willing to admit.The "act" of baiting is pretty simple and the bait you use isn't the key to the deal at all. I have seen white tail eat all sorts of crap and if you are emphatic on the least important part of the process then you are misguided. Being annoyed by that is my problem. Your problem (if you're one of those guys) is that you don't get it.The first time I baited deer was 1998. I used wheat because my hunting partner was a wheat farmer and he had lots of it. It worked amazingly! We were more than 100 miles away from any wheat farms. I guarantee those deer were eating wheat for the first time in their lives. I also watched bears eat that same wheat. I could give you 10 other examples like that. I'm certain there is a post on here somewhere that would claim many inaccuracies' in regards to using wheat as bait.I never saw a big buck eat wheat at my stand and that's why I don't use wheat anymore....NO....my partner was less that 400 yards away from my stand and he put an arrow through a GIANT that season. His success and my lack of it had ZERO to do with the bait.If you put out bait of damn near any kind, you will attract deer if they live there! 1 out of 100 of those baits will produce a true giant and 1 out of 100 of those guys will actually kill one of those giants. I have never attempted to bait or hunt black tail or Mule deer and therefore will make no claim to what does and doesn't work in regards to those deer. I wish some other folks would do the same if the intention of a website like this is to actually help one another.The length of this post is in tribute to DBHAWTHORNE. LOL
Not whitetails !
