Originally Posted by
cynikalHC
Is that just a little water in that bucket? Or some kind of bait station? Also, what is that circle around the deer/bucket? Some kind of attractant?
The bucket is just straight hog corn. I don't know why I've always put it in the bucket, but I just always have. It tends to keep better than on the ground. I just drilled half a dozen holes in the bucket to let it drain and it keeps fine.
The circle is a 50lb bag of 12% sweet feed. Everything eats that. I've even got pictures of two grey fox eating the sweet feed. When it rains the sweet feed disloves and is pretty much worthless, but the corn and the oats that are in it stays on the top of the ground. It just helps for when the corn bucket goes dry, and I don't catch it in time, they keep coming to the sweet feed till I can get the corn back.
I go through 50 pounds of corn in 2 "4/8" days. I go through 50 pounds of sweet feed a week.
You guys can buy all this expensive "deer" stuff if you want. But my cheap stuff keeps my deer lot looking like a whitetail whore house on Friday night.
I've used Acorn Rage and Ruttin Apples both down there. They completely went to waste and cost twice what my weekly feed bill runs.
Occasionally I'll cut up a 10 pound bag of apples and throw out near my buckt. They never last the night.