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what do you guy's think about hunting over salt block's??? and should you clear the ground where you place it??

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Salt Blocks are great. Just hard to get deer to be there when you want them there. As for the surroundings, the deer will clear the ground around it for you :)

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i clear the ground around mine and put a little deer cocaine salt out and they dig deep for th salt because it soaks in.

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i have had better luck in my area going to a feed store
and buying mineral salt. i clean out an area and pour it out.
gets into the soil a lot faster than a block and they will
hit it long after you think its gone. have one spot i havent used in about 5 years and they are still digging the ground there.

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I think you'll get a fine for it here in Indiana, it's illegal here.

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hmm...are you trying to provide nutritional supplement for your deer herd or just trying to bait them in?

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to answer your question yes. but here in missouri it is legal. i want it to help draw them in and to help the herd.

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i took a doe while coming to the trophy rock iset out the previous year, they dug it out, she was coming to do some more pawing but fell to my arrow:D

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I've had best success by clearing a spot of ground of leaves and most weeds, then spread mineral salt....or if you bust up the salt block..... As said above deer and other game dig the whole ground and area up.

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They will tear the ground several months after its gone

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i put out mineral blocks, which has a base of sodium. On my place deer seem to hit it better during the spring and summer months, activity seems to drop off when the temps start to cool down. I dont ever hunt over them, just there to provide extra minerals for the deer

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I use the deer cane in block form and powder form, not to bait but to supplement them. They love it

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Just like us, deer love NaCl, "white salt". But also like us, it does next to nothing for their health.

While pure NaCl is a great attractant, why not make a lick worth something to the deer? It is easy and relatively cheap to do. This mix is roughly the formula I found years and years ago in an article from Auburn U. , based upon their research into managing deer and providing supplemental minerals. Also matched up well with info from Penn. State. All of this is usually available at any feed-seed store. It is granular and bagged in 50# bags.

Mixing Salt .... Almost 100% NaCl .... About *$6.50/50#
Di-Ccalcium Phosphate ... A grayish looking powder. .... About *$25/50#.
Hi Calcium mineral ... Often used for cows with calves at side. Usually off white, sort of like chalk dust. ... About *$15/50#.
* What I paid in January of 2008. Not sure what it is now.

Mix a ratio of about 1-2-2. That would be 250# as a minimum purchase, enough to make 3-5 decent areas for the deer to start in on ... for about $90. I refurbish each every February. This stuff does the most good for the deer across the spring and summer. However, it will attract deer year round. I have found a great place to put this is to find a used trail, and a rather large tree stump along that trail. Dump 50# or so onto the top of the stump. The rain will do the rest.

Be careful, hunting over a mix like this is illegal in Alabama. Not sure about other states.

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i recently gota fre 6.5 lbs. bag ofdeer cane i just wondered if u guys have had any success with this stuff

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I have a salt lick that I have had for about 5 years now. They really start hitting it in April up till around Septan then it starts to drop off. I put about 50lbs ofrock salt in it every year.

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This is what i do as well

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i put out my deer cane block out a couple days ago.. and put out some deer cane liquid out a bit ago..

hers some pictures from early morning today ..no date stamp but it rained last night and theres fresh tracks in this position...

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one more.. seems we have an abundance of does around here..

few bucks on camera.. we've had a couple big 8's but this camera is about 175 yards behind my house too..

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x2!

deer still rub at the ground where i had one two years ago

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nice looking pic ar bowhunter

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Put it on a top a stump. As it rains and rots hey will lick under the stump and smooth it cleaner than sandpaper. As the stump rots over the years they will chew the wood as well. Keepo the salt in the same spot, I always try and get it near bedding areas. Plain old white salt block. In PA we have to pullthem out of the woods 30 ndays prior to deer seasons , in OHio you can leave them.

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so i cleared a three foot area and smashed up the salt block that i bought at the farm store. and put up my trail cam and here are some pic's from the trail cam!!! i was surprised to see that big one!!! and archery season is officialy on now so it is all a big waiting game now.

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I nailed a doe yesterday coming to were a had one earlier

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nice buck you got trailrider

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I just had 2 fawns come in my backyardand eat a little off ofthe block we put out there. Going on that, it would work pretty good.

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If you really want to help the herd, cull some does, let the young buck walk. I know I'll get a lot of S#$T over this, but, an able bodied person shooting deer over salt licks and bait, IMHO, isn't hunting: it's shooting/killing. But, to each his own. If that's what makes you tick, keep winding THAT clock.

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What's the theory in PA for pulling the salt block from the stump. Do the officials think that the stump then quits being a salt lick ??!?! lmfao

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i dont use them i had a mineral block cleared out a spot in the open and it didnt get touched by anything. but now that i think about it my problem was that i found i highly used trail that i see deer on all the time and i cleared out a spot right next to it and i think that might have spooked them

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I have a spot that I typically put a mineral block about May when I set up my trail cam to see what's in the area. It is pretty much a bare dirt spot in the middle of tall grass now. I have only caught a few pics of bucks hitting it, but primarily pregnant/nursing does. I assume they are after their prenatal/natal vitamins.

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Its Illegal here in Indiana, but I still put them out for the benefit of the deer. I usually crush them up and bury them just bellow the surface. Trust me, they will find them and they seem to prefer to eat it when it has soaked into the dirt. Maybe its just not as strong, im not sure.

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Illegal to hunt over them here and most areas I have hunted.

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[quote]ORIGINAL: Roadkillwarrior

Its Illegal here in Indiana, but I still put them out for the benefit of the deer.


















Of course. Why else do it where it's illegal?

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personally i haven't ever hunted over a salt block because it's illeagal in MO, but i do use them for trail cameras and they do bring deer into a specific area and keep them there. the cool thing i love about salf blocks or any kind of mineral is that it stays in the ground and the deer tear that **** up.

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nope as long as it is a pure natural white salt block it is legal to hunt over em in missouri just called the department of conservation and the told it was legal. just you can't hunt over corn or soybean's that was placed there unnaturaly

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I 'have been hunting since 1979 and have saw only two deer at a salt lick.

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Then take does.....and a few of them.

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"If you really want to help the herd, cull some does, let the young buck walk. I know I'll get a lot of S#$T over this, but, an able bodied person shooting deer over salt licks and bait, IMHO, isn't hunting: it's shooting/killing. But, to each his own. If that's what makes you tick, keep winding THAT clock."


Agree with that. Can you imagine how horrible the deer population would be if people didn't help them get their daily allowance of vitamins and minerals?

I've never seen a hunter take a whitetail over bait, but a lot of wanna-be's sure do.........

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ive burried mineral blocks before and the deer will literally tear a hole in the ground gettin to it...they usually dont hit it good until after the rut when they are rebuilding their strength and body fat for the winter