Salt Licks???

[colockumelk]

I have a game camera and wanted to start using it to find deer on Ft. Rucker.  So I've seen pics of "salt licks" and where the animals have dug the ground alot.  So my question is.....

How do you establish a salt lick site.  Such as how much salt, what kind of salt etc.  Do you layer it with salt, dirt salt etc.  or do you just dump a bunch of it on the ground.  Any advice or help would be appreciated thanks.  Oh also where do you put it.  IE in what type of terrain or habitat do you put it where you know animals will eventually come across it. 

[coachcw]

sheep salt with celenium , you can find it at a feed store. block form lasts longer .

[Elk hunter4ever]

I use the sheep salt with solenium as well.Works great!!. Not too expensive. Doesnt matter if you use the block or the loose stuff. I use both at my site. If you use the loose youll have to keep adding every two weeks or so. With the loose, I like to spread it into the dirt and the critters will eat it up like candy.
Goodluck.

[huntnnw]

I just by bags of loose salt, trace minreal and selenium. about $8 a 50lb sack. I dump 1 a year in the same spot.

[addicted]

the germans religously use large red salt cubes.  I've only ever seen a deer lick em once. there are so many of em in the woolds around here that the deer must think they are a naturally occuring plant or something. 

[400out]

What about for elk any luck with this on them?

[addicted]

my uncle uses salt licks and trophy rocks and it brings in the elk pretty succesfully. he places it near a water source and once they lick into the salt for awhile they need a drink so they drink then come back to the lick and repeat.

other people are right though. one salt lick will destroy about a 10foot radius around it from trampling animals and the salt seaping into the soil.

[addicted]

they all like it but nothing's a garuantee 

[Skyvalhunter]

Whitetails don't like salt!!

[NWBREW]

Whitetails don't like salt!!

They sure do at my place. They will even dig into the dirt where the salt has been.......2 feet wide and a foot deep. 

[Skyvalhunter]

That's just your dog doing that!! Whitetails are allergic to salt!!

[NWBREW]

 

[mazama]

Counted 16 mountain goats at a salt lick beside the road where i hunt,the ground looks like moonscape.

[bonkellekter]

I always put a salt lick next to an established game trail and in a good place for a treestand. Last one I set out had animals on it the very next day and within a few days had elk, mule deer, whitetail and moose on it - maybe more since something unplugged my battery about 2weeks into the soak.

Here is the block that I used here
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Here are a few pics from throughout the soak - camera was set on the 3rd and first deer was in on the 4th - last pic on the 19th (When it was unplugged ) camera sat for another week and a half before checking it. By then it was really beat down around the block.

behind the camera is a junction where 3 trails intersect and I have a tree stand off to the left.

[haus]

  Wow you actually caught one on a trail cam! Did it attack the camera after that photo?