Hunting Washington Forum
Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: actionshooter on July 24, 2008, 05:49:33 PM
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Has anyone ever tried to bait blacktails? I've seen a couple of dandy bucks the last month in my backyard and want to try and get some trail cam pics. So far they have been camera shy. :chuckle:
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Apples otta do
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Yep..apples
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I use to try everything to keep them away from my neighbors and the only thing that worked was apples. I tried different blocks, granular attractants, alfalfa, grain, corn etc and none of it worked.
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I was wondering about cob or grain, apples will work ok. I want to get this guy on film, he's a biggie.
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cob and apples. Work well.
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my buddy said to put out some apple sauce with the whole apples. Gets the scent around faster
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I use to smash a few against a tree to get more scent out. Try not to handle them much. Your scent will get on them and will take a while to wear off. It could cause deer to avoid the spot for a couple of days or be real timid.
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I use apples to bait blacktail to my treestand. I wait until the late season and usually have several hundred pounds of apples stored up in buckets barrels etc. I will start baiting around the first of november and they will be good and used to them by the opening of the late archery season. I have noticed that the deer will usually eat the soft spots out of an apple before they eat the rest which would lend some truth to the apple sauce/smashed apple theory. I have greatly improved my luck drawing the deer out of thick cover with apples as opposed to scents, salt licks, etc. etc. It also provides me an opportunity to see a lot of deer from my stand and pick out a nice one. Late in the year the year they will come in and feed for ten to thirty minutes and then move on. I have heard that even with a bait source like that they will still depend on natural foliage for up to 50% their diet. I have seen them eating dried ferns and even leaves off the forest floor at the same time as eating the apples.
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Wet cob with molasses............. They will gobble that stuff up!!! :drool:
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peanut butter. cut a whole in the bottom nail or screw the lid to a tree. they go nuts they will almost eat the container they like it so much.
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peanut butter. cut a whole in the bottom nail or screw the lid to a tree. they go nuts they will almost eat the container they like it so much.
+1
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Rose bushes work wonders as well. My sister can not have roses, since every time she plants them even under her bedroom windows, the deer will eat them down to just the stalks in no time. Even had a 6x6 buck under her window chowing down one time.
Tomato and bell pepper plants work well, also. :bash:
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What is cob are you talking about corn on the cob or somthing else? Just wondering
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My step dad and mom have put out over 200 pounds of apples in the last 10 days in there back yard. I think they may of had a bear come in as well. They live outside of Kingston. The deer love them.
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What is cob are you talking about corn on the cob or somthing else? Just wondering
You can buy it at most feed stores. However, the only thing I can get to eat it is the racoons. :dunno:
