blacktail bait???

[duckmen1]

what does everyone prefer to use on blacktails other than apples.
i tried corn with little success and camere deer and swamp donkey didn't work well either and was very expensive for hardly anything.

[elkslayer069]

I cant get them to eat anything but tried it all no luck with any of it

[JimmyHoffa]

I've been told that Deer-Cain works, but am skeptical since all the other things I've tried haven't been working.
Tried:  Corn--they aren't touching it; Deer chow blocks (apple flavored)--they aren't touching that either; and there was a molasses thing they didn't want either.
The only things I've found them to like are apples and mineral blocks. 
I've heard they like bananas and alfalfa.  I'll probably give the alfalfa a try.  I figure I can stack a mineral block and apples on top of it.

[Skyvalhunter]

I have heard that deer are not partial alfalfa as it can upset their stomachs unless they have been eating it all along.

[singleshot12]

Roses

[Skyvalhunter]

they dont seem to be partial to carrots either.

[NW-GSP]

try wet cob, its a crushed corn and molasses mix. guy I know on whidby island has twenty to thirty deer in his backyard every night cause he feeds them every day.

[lokidog]

Our deer really like the All Stock from Del's, cheap too and high in protein.  Other feed stores have their equivalent of this as well.  In the fall the deer by my place will also eat pumpkins like crazy.

For some natural bait, find an alder tree and whack some leafed out branches off, they love that!  Our neighbor recently cut down a couple of cedars and they even browsed down the cedar fronds.

Oh yeah, and anything in a pot....   

[pianoman9701]

I'm surprised that baiting is legal for deer and elk, but it is. If I were going to do it, I would use a salt lick for either and keep it up. It doesn't seem like fair chase to me, though. Anyone have any thoughts on that?

[h20hunter]

I think to each their own when done legally. I've been putting apples out and plan to keep it up. If I shoot a deer (archery) over my apples then I will be ok with it. For me the work put in to hike in the feed, keep it up, justifies me taking an animal just fine. However, if not per your opinion, I'm cool with that as well.

[alwinearcher]

I'm surprised that baiting is legal for deer and elk, but it is. If I were going to do it, I would use a salt lick for either and keep it up. It doesn't seem like fair chase to me, though. Anyone have any thoughts on that?

I agree, I cant believe people would stoop to such a level as to use bait to attract an animal just to kill it, eat it, get it mounted and stare at it daily on their office wall! 

[h20hunter]

Even worse when folks make awesome locally filmed huting dvds, dupe me into buying them, and then watching them over and over and over and over and over! The nerve! People like this probably let their girlfriend shoot a pink bow!

[alwinearcher]

Even worse when folks make awesome locally filmed huting dvds, dupe me into buying them, and then watching them over and over and over and over and over! The nerve! People like this probably let their girlfriend shoot a pink bow!

HAHA.. Of all the wrong doings I have been accused of I agree letting Shannon shoot a pink bow could be the worst . I am working on getting her a real bow, dont worry

Not to Hi-Jack this thread.  I tried baiting blacktail once in OR without much success so I am watching this thread closely to see what the trick is.

[MuleySniper]

Roses

No kidding!!! I have a love hate relationship with the bucks around my house. I spend all summer doing yard work, planting nice trees only to have some trashy ruttin SOB blacky come destroy it come November. Then not to mention all his girlfriends eating every plant in site. My wife won't let me bait near the house anymore
MS

[STIKNSTRINGBOW]

I know out of 4 Cherry trees, 8 apple trees, and 4 pear trees, they wont let the damn pear trees grow, and rub the apple trees.
The birds get the cherries, the deer destroy the pears, but I get a few apples for my kids to eat......
P.S. they eat my Willow trees also.....