Salt Block
 

I need to know would i put the salt block in the same place or should i put in the different lotation ,
it's wallow and big hole ,deer are coming at it ,i need to put another one in ,it 's gone from last year ,so what is the best way to do it ?


Thanks
OU812

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I've been putting my salt block at the same place for 8 years now. I put one of those great big salt blocks you get at a farmer's coop. They last for about 2 years. And they're much cheaper than the "specialty" deer salt... (I use the red colored salt block)

During the winter, the deer are yarding quite a distance from my spot and no tracks are visible in the snow in the general area where I hunt, EXCEPT for several tracks leading right to my salt block and turning back from where they came from once they got their salt. They travel a great distance just to lick the block, regularly. I guess my point is, once they know they have a source of salt in a particular area, they can count on it beeing there all the time, keeping them coming over and over, year round. Which is why you want to put a salt block in the first place.

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Thanks for the info
now i'm planning to put in same place .

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i think i'm going to put a couple out up in kentucky. we had a few out a few years back but haven't replaced them.

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If you are just gonna use one I would put it back in the same spot.

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we just buy some bulk stuff from the feed co-op. Red rocky looking stuff. Put them out in the same spots. We don't hunt directly over them, but they seem to draw some deer in and also they're extremely good spots to put out trail cameras during the summer, we got alot of shots of bucks last year at the salt lick.

slayer

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We dont use salt blocks here. We just put a 5 lb Boars head Baloney on a tree stump and tether it down with bungee cords. The deer go FREAKING nuts for it!

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Keep it in the same spot oh and Furync they dont last 2 yrs, I bought a 50lb block and it was gone in 6 mths. If you have a good hole and it rains the rain will melt it away pretty fast, but the salt will stay in the ground.

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I try to put mine away from trees, I've heard they can kill trees.

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Yeah I put some loose salt under a tree and it damn near killed it. It took half the summer to recoup.

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Salt WILL kill most any vegatation and sometimes it will take a while for them to find it if you move it. They will still go to the old spot until the salt leaches out of the soil there.

Put it back in the same place. I think if you can watch you'll see the deer actually lick and eat the "salty" dirt more than they will the block. Those red ones also have trace minerals but they are still over 90% salt.

put a piece of flat rock in the middle of the wallow so when it rains the block won't be down in the puddle and if you put another flat rock on top of the salt block it will last a heck of a lot longer.

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One of the places I hunt had a satl truck spill a load along side the road. The deer have been licking it for years. It's a hole big enough to hide in now.

That bologna is something. Isn't that a meat or is it a cheese like? I didn't think deer were meat eaters.

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Here is a GREAT mixture that makes 200 lbs for only $23. It has been passed along from several members of the QDMA.

WHITETAIL DEER HOMEMADE MINERAL MIX RECIPE
Printable version
Ingredients: Makes 200 lbs. for about $23.00

1 part Di-calcium phosphate, this is a dairy feed additive bought at feed stores.
Comes in 50lb Bags at around $11.00 you need one bag.

2 parts Trace mineral salt, the red and loose kind without the medications.
Comes in 50lb Bags at around $5.00 you need two bags.

1 part Stock salt, ice cream salt.
Comes in 50lb Bags at around $2.00 you need one bag.

Directions:

-Use a 3 pound or similar size coffee can to use as your measure for each part of the mix.

-Mix all together well but not until read to use, keep ingredients separate until ready to put to use.

-Dig or tear up a circle in the soil about 36 inches wide and about 6 inches deep.

-Mix your mineral mixture with the soil.

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Thanks for the advice !!


OU812

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I have the 50lbs kind aswell and they do last me 2 years. I have proof! oh wait it melted...
But seriously, it does last for 2 seasons. I put one out last year at the end of summer and I went to my spot this week-end to see that it's 3/4 the size it was before. It may not last a full 2 year but at least 1 year and 1/2. The point is, you dont have to replace it every week-end :)

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you do what?

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me?

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No i meant zoomer,sorry.Did he say he used bologna for deer?

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if you're putting a salt block out should it be off the ground or do they use it just as much if its right on the groud, i read soemwhere that it shoudl be elevated.

G Lew, KOTW

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I honestly dont think it makes a difference other than probably melting faster when it's directly on the ground. I usually try to put them on an old stump.

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about how logn will it take for them to start using one consistently, becuase i have one out at a heavily used intersection but the dirt around it has no tracks in it!!! and its been a few days

G Lew, KOTW

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I dont really know, I've had mine at the same spot for years and havent put one in a different area so...
If I were you, I'd try attracting them to the salt block... put a few apples or something right on top of the block, it cant hurt.

Goodluck :)

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I've got a salt block and a mineral block outside my kitchen window here for the past 5 yrs and I put it it a dried out stump. It takes about a year or two for the deer to get familiar with it but when they do its like clock work. My salt block now after the winter is worn down and the deer is just digging and wallering out a hole licking the salt in the hole, long after the block is gone. I have even seen coyotes and moose at the lick. The mineral block is not worked by the deer at all but worn by erosion or maybe even rodents, and about 5 yrs ago I threw out some corn and the deer didn't even know what it was as I could see deer tracks going through it, but the squirrels and rodents just loved it. When putting out a salt block its always a good ideal to have a tub of water available because after the salt they'll head for the water trough. Bobby