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Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: CP on June 25, 2015, 02:07:12 PM

Title: What’s this guy doing?
Post by: CP on June 25, 2015, 02:07:12 PM: This small buck spent over 3 hours in this same spot digging a small hole and licking/eating what came out of it. Including the dirt from what I can tell. Why? What is up to?
Title: Re: What’s this guy doing?
Post by: BULLBLASTER on June 25, 2015, 02:11:43 PM: He saw the camera and was searching for the salt in front of it. :chuckle:
Title: Re: What’s this guy doing?
Post by: Woodchuck on June 25, 2015, 02:12:03 PM: Mineral deposit is my guess.
The spot where I had a salt lick some years back is now clean down to bedrock. :dunno:
Title: Re: What’s this guy doing?
Post by: WapitiTalk1 on June 25, 2015, 02:18:38 PM: Wouldn't be surprised if a human whizzed there.
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Post by: jackmaster on June 25, 2015, 02:33:39 PM: a natural mineral deposit, unless you had pet something there before :dunno: there use to be a pic somewhere of a crater ate into the earth that deer elk and every other critter would come to and eat the dirt, it was a natural mineral deposit, maybe someone alot more skilled than i can find it
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Post by: james98520 on June 25, 2015, 03:22:15 PM: Mineral deposit. Have seen deer do the same thing in SE Alaska through the years. Interesting that's for sure.
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Post by: WSU on June 25, 2015, 03:39:06 PM: I bet he found an especially delicious magic mushroom buried like a truffle.
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Post by: Watimberghost on June 25, 2015, 03:56:56 PM: That's cool to see
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Post by: DOUBLELUNG on June 25, 2015, 04:55:56 PM: Minerals - possibly high in phosphorus, bucks crave minerals during antler growth - you'll see them chewing on antlers and bones, eating mineral soil, scarfing down eggshells
Title: Re: What’s this guy doing?
Post by: Shawn Ryan on June 26, 2015, 01:22:45 PM: Quote from: Phantom16 on June 25, 2015, 02:18:38 PM
Wouldn't be surprised if a human whizzed there.

Photo below is from deer eating the dirt where I pee (at camp) during early archery elk season. Pee in the same place each year. Some years they hit it harder than others. Some years I take extra vitamins during the season, some years I don't.