THEMAKKER13,
I have never hunted on or around crabapple trees as I don't own any at my present home. We did own five crabapple trees when we lived in Anchorage and the moose loved them! When they were done with the fruit they would eat the branches. I ended up having to install a 6 foot chainlink fence to keep them off!

However, a neighbor down the road (here in Northern VA) has one and he says the deer LOVE them! I would suspect the type of crabapple would also make a difference as I have seen the small red ones (fruit about the size of a dime and no juice to speak of) and I have seen larger fruit (about the size of a Kennedy half dollar).

Our fruit on our trees in AK would ripen in August!