Salt Is Great Deer Bait!

[toppop52]

We have a heard of bucks waiting for rut that hang behind our property in the woods, every evening they graze the back of our land and county fields. About dark they line up and cross the road to the soybean field where a herd of does feed, they stay separated for now. I expect the males to soon start splitting up, two of them are huge with big racks! Anyway, we made homemade ice cream a couple of times recently and I poured the brine into an old stump complex to help break it down quicker. I saw one small buck licking it one evening before dark, the next morning there was an area around the base of the stump about 4' wide that looked like it had been tilled and huge sections of the stump were gone. Those deer worked like a stump grinder and cost way less to operate!

 

[dmccarty]

Too funny. I should go pour some salt on some stumps I need removed and see if the deer will chip them up for me! :laughing::laughing::laughing:

Later,
Dan

 

[nybirdman]

Effective but very "illegal":don't get caught hunting around it.

 

[toppop52]

Effective but very "illegal":don't get caught hunting around it.

That isn't hunt-able property, houses within 250yds and the airport runway safety area is 300 yds a few degrees east of that. I was just teasing about the "bait" part. I'd rather watch 'em than shoot 'em nowadays anyway.

 

[Sysop]

Shoot em with a camera! Pics man!

 

[RandyT]

Still illegal in IL, even if not hunting, due to the laws on chronic wasting disease. No salt blocks, feeders, or edible attactants can be used. Salt, or feeders can be put out for cattle operations legally.

 

[toppop52]

Still illegal in IL, even if not hunting, due to the laws on chronic wasting disease. No salt blocks, feeders, or edible attactants can be used. Salt, or feeders can be put out for cattle operations legally.

I wasn't baiting intentionally, never even crossed my mind. They're there everyday anyway.

 

[FTG-05]

Still illegal in IL, even if not hunting, due to the laws on chronic wasting disease. No salt blocks, feeders, or edible attactants can be used. Salt, or feeders can be put out for cattle operations legally.

I depends on the state.

Here in AL, salt alone is legal to put out and hunt over. Anything other than salt (other minerals, molasses, etc.) is not legal.

 

[woodchuckc]

I depends on the state.

Here in AL, salt alone is legal to put out and hunt over. Anything other than salt (other minerals, molasses, etc.) is not legal.

Same in TN. Doesn't make much sense to use it as "bait" to hunt over, though, as salt usage by deer is low in the fall and winter. My salt licks are used extensively in the spring and most of the summer, especially by pregnant and nursing does. I have noticed fewer pictures being taken by the trail cameras on my salt licks already as compared to a month or so ago.

 

[cqaigy2]

Put some pickle juice on those stumps too. Might as well be tasty.:laughing: