Originally Posted by
Beezer
Being a South Carolina hunter, you probably know of the "corn gene" it seems our deer have. I tested four different things last season...I put a seperate 3'x1' strip of each...acorn rage, dried apples, deer cain and buck grub on a pile of shelled corn. After watching several does feed one day, I noticed something strange. The deer appeared to be pawing the other stuff away to just eat the corn. They didn't touch anything except the corn, regardless of the promises on the label.
My conclusion with these products is simple....if the ingredients in the products aren't something the deer feed on or have access to on a regular basis, they don't bother with it. Not scientific, just common sense. I probably don't have three oak trees within a mile radius of my house, so they pay attention to acorn rage.
Just my .02, and it may not be worth the bandwidth, and that's it.
Same experience here. I'm pretty sure it's like that everywhere. If deer have a preferred food source, they will pass up everything else to eat that food. They probably like corn better than that other gimicky stuff. Just like I have seen deer walk right over corn to eat out of a food plot. It's all about preference.