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I used to put it out about two weeks before season started and it seemed to work well, then I started putting it out beginning of summer and it seemed to work better. I think the more regular you have it there and the longer the better.
Antler and milk production and tons of green leafy food which is loaded with water depletes them of sodium. As antlers finish and does wean fawns with correlation of food sources drying up the huge draw to salt diminishes
Quote from: Jpmiller on June 07, 2024, 08:26:09 AMI used to put it out about two weeks before season started and it seemed to work well, then I started putting it out beginning of summer and it seemed to work better. I think the more regular you have it there and the longer the better.From my experience and some research, they will be drawn to salt from late spring until around August or so. What I have always done is run salt until August and then transition to a food source
Quote from: vandeman17 on June 07, 2024, 08:48:16 AMQuote from: Jpmiller on June 07, 2024, 08:26:09 AMI used to put it out about two weeks before season started and it seemed to work well, then I started putting it out beginning of summer and it seemed to work better. I think the more regular you have it there and the longer the better.From my experience and some research, they will be drawn to salt from late spring until around August or so. What I have always done is run salt until August and then transition to a food sourceI was archery hunting early season near salt so that very well could be the case. They were hitting it early September (usually still in velvet) and I stopped replacing it for the year after I stopped hunting.
I'll hit ya with another one here.Mineral sites/trail cam is just to take inventory of deer or elk in the area. That's the way I look at it. You may be able to hunt over a mineral site early archery.Later fall hunts,I wouldn't hunt over minerals.You know what's in the area from your inventory,so your looking for track,sign,cover ,that holds that old buck. If that old buck disappears come fall,start grid searching out away from your mineral site.I never see a lot of big bucks killed of minerals in the fall.I've seen a lot killed within a quarter mile,to half mile of a mineral site.That's all I got ,goodluck .These guys are not gonna tell ya this stuff.
Quote from: Jpmiller on June 07, 2024, 10:08:17 AMQuote from: vandeman17 on June 07, 2024, 08:48:16 AMQuote from: Jpmiller on June 07, 2024, 08:26:09 AMI used to put it out about two weeks before season started and it seemed to work well, then I started putting it out beginning of summer and it seemed to work better. I think the more regular you have it there and the longer the better.From my experience and some research, they will be drawn to salt from late spring until around August or so. What I have always done is run salt until August and then transition to a food sourceI was archery hunting early season near salt so that very well could be the case. They were hitting it early September (usually still in velvet) and I stopped replacing it for the year after I stopped hunting.I planned on archery hunting this year so around late August put some corn out instead of salt ? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk