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Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: Phipps14 on December 25, 2021, 07:15:15 PM

Title: Attracting blacktail to your property
Post by: Phipps14 on December 25, 2021, 07:15:15 PM: I am looking at tips on getting blacktail to come to my 5 acre property, it has dense woods and a few clear spots. Is growing plants that they eat a good idea or some more like putting out corn? any tips help thank you!
Title: Re: Attracting blacktail to your property
Post by: ffhoofer on December 25, 2021, 07:26:31 PM: Apples
Title: Re: Attracting blacktail to your property
Post by: Twispriver on December 25, 2021, 07:38:16 PM: Just plant some things you don't want them to eat - like rose bushes, raspberries, strawberries and young fruit trees. Every blacktail in a ten mile radius will show up as soon as they start leafing out.
Title: Re: Attracting blacktail to your property
Post by: MightyWhite on December 25, 2021, 07:51:47 PM: Me and wife go for drive at least twice a week to look for deer
And we have learned to look for a “late” producing appl trees..these are a magnet
When all the other variaties are long gone….money
Title: Re: Attracting blacktail to your property
Post by: WapitiTalk1 on December 25, 2021, 09:01:50 PM: Quote from: Twispriver on December 25, 2021, 07:38:16 PM
Just plant some things you don't want them to eat - like rose bushes, raspberries, strawberries and young fruit trees. Every blacktail in a ten mile radius will show up as soon as they start leafing out.

What he said :chuckle: Put out a couple of mineral rocks and spread some Blacktail crack around those twice a week (sweet cob and green apples). They’ll be knocking at your porch door, rubbing their arms and shaking when you forget it for a week or so. They’re fans of blackberry bushes also.
Title: Re: Attracting blacktail to your property
Post by: brew on December 25, 2021, 09:17:29 PM: Not only do they love eating young fruit trees--even before they start bearing fruit- they also love a good constant water supply. We've put up 8 foot fencing around our fruit trees but they still come to water
Title: Re: Attracting blacktail to your property
Post by: highside74 on December 25, 2021, 10:49:17 PM: Apples and no barking dogs.
Title: Re: Attracting blacktail to your property
Post by: fowl smacker on December 25, 2021, 11:40:23 PM: Just leave bags of apples on your porch.
Title: Re: Attracting blacktail to your property
Post by: hunter399 on December 26, 2021, 05:13:00 AM: Just a suggestion,
I bet you can find a 100 YouTube vids on baiting deer and different feeder setups.
But everybody has a few tricks to it.
Good info so far.👍
Title: Re: Attracting blacktail to your property
Post by: JakeLand on December 26, 2021, 05:51:15 AM: Fruit trees , laurels and roses
Title: Re: Attracting blacktail to your property
Post by: Southpole on December 26, 2021, 08:04:55 AM: Arborvitae shrubs
Title: Re: Attracting blacktail to your property
Post by: NRA4LIFE on December 26, 2021, 10:03:58 AM: Plant green beans next spring.
Title: Re: Attracting blacktail to your property
Post by: highside74 on December 26, 2021, 10:16:15 AM: Quote from: JakeLand on December 26, 2021, 05:51:15 AM
Fruit trees , laurels and roses

💯
Title: Re: Attracting blacktail to your property
Post by: Stein on December 30, 2021, 11:40:46 PM: Quote from: ffhoofer on December 25, 2021, 07:26:31 PM
Apples

Lots of apples and they seem to have a huge affinity for arborvitae.
Title: Re: Attracting blacktail to your property
Post by: Phipps14 on December 31, 2021, 06:08:25 PM: awesome thanks so much for all the replies will start trying all and put up some trail cams
Title: Re: Attracting blacktail to your property
Post by: lokidog on December 31, 2021, 06:29:01 PM: The best time to plant an apple tree is... ten years ago... or ASAP.

I tried planting clover and they hardly touched it even on Decatur Island where they eat everything.