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Title: anyone bait elk for the cams
Post by: zach1234 on April 09, 2011, 06:03:01 PM: I was thinking about putting up a few trail cams. I know elk are in and out of the area just was hoping i could draw them in a little more any help would be cool thanks.
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Post by: D-Rock425 on April 09, 2011, 09:01:39 PM: Westside or eastside?
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Post by: blacktail luv on April 09, 2011, 09:46:18 PM: Some mineralized salt will get you picks during the summer months.
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Post by: zach1234 on April 09, 2011, 10:32:59 PM: westeide unit 454
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Post by: huntnnw on April 09, 2011, 10:40:32 PM: lots of selenim salt ;)
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Post by: hunterrcc on April 09, 2011, 11:07:47 PM: apples, game blocks from a feed store with the deer on the picture, and pour a little acorn rage jelly on them they will eat it all as long as a beer doesn't find it first.

How much salt do you use and do you do anything to attract them to it??? I will have to try that.
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Post by: huntnnw on April 10, 2011, 01:23:44 AM: 50 lb sack from feed store is a start.. dump some every couple of months..the smell of salt is enough to attract
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Post by: PolarBear on April 10, 2011, 01:35:13 AM: During the spring and summer the elk will push our cattle off of selenium blocks and devour them (the blocks not the cattle), especially just after calving and the grass is green and nothing but water.
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Post by: D-Rock425 on April 10, 2011, 02:45:31 AM: I've found 50 pound blocks of sait pretty licked up before. If you keep salting the same area elk will start to dig it out of the ground.
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Post by: deerhunter_98520 on April 10, 2011, 08:40:58 PM: i had a cam up all summer till a week before season last year and i took a 50lb sack of wet cob out every 2 weeks and they loved it...wouldnt stay away
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Post by: elkinrutdrivemenuts on April 10, 2011, 08:45:56 PM: Salt blocks, they work great plus the elk need salt in their diets ; ). I
Have moose to deal with over here so blocks last longer. Dig a hole and leave half of it exposed so they can't roll it away, cause they will!
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Post by: elkslayer069 on April 10, 2011, 09:15:37 PM: Make apple piles they will come :)
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Post by: NWWABOWHNTR on April 10, 2011, 10:02:28 PM: x2 on the Selenium....
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Post by: huntnnw on April 10, 2011, 10:13:49 PM: Bad thing about food to attract is it doesnt last.. and u have to haul it in, buy, spend time aquiring food to feed elk which could become quite costly..100lbs of apples is nothing for a few elk to eat, not to include deer and bears eating them. 50lb of salt works just as good and its a one time deal and they will keep returning.
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Post by: NWWABOWHNTR on April 10, 2011, 10:20:48 PM: We put the selenium out in late June, early July... then resalt a month later... then refresh just before early season.... put cams up around the 4th of July..... keeps the elk coming in. The selenium gets into the ground and they dig it up... one spot we salt is probably a good 3 feet deep now.... it works...
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Post by: huntnnw on April 10, 2011, 10:54:00 PM: I did a spot on mica with 600lbs.. in 2 years there was a pit the size of a car..I cant get to it anymore :(