Trophy Rock Success
03-31-2009, 05:42 PM
#2
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: SOUTH Carolina--I've moved!
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RE: Trophy Rock Success
I don't have any trail cam photos but we had pretty good use of the TR. The deer seemed to hit it pretty hard during the summer and early season. After that, they pretty much left it alone.
03-31-2009, 06:36 PM
#5
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: South central Nebraska
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RE: Trophy Rock Success
This is whats left of 1 after a few months. And there still using that spot. I have a few deer pics, but my cam was set to high to see the deer and the rock. I already have a couple purchased and ready to put out in late May or early June.
03-31-2009, 07:28 PM
#6
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: York, PA.
Posts: 1,313
RE: Trophy Rock Success
BS14 I would save your money and use a $6.00 generic 50lb. mineral block like I use or mix your own like alot of the other guys here do.
Either way will be alot cheaper and you will have just as good of if not better results than using Trophy Rock. Here is a link to a thread in another forum called """Best Mineral Block """ Pike
Mineral Block Link
Either way will be alot cheaper and you will have just as good of if not better results than using Trophy Rock. Here is a link to a thread in another forum called """Best Mineral Block """ Pike
Mineral Block Link
04-02-2009, 06:46 AM
#7
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Join Date: Jan 2008
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RE: Trophy Rock Success
JPike and I agree ... you can and will attract deer by the scads to an artificial"lick" made using$6.00/50# bag "White Salt". I don;t have a photo (I should take one), but one of the artificial licks that I started back about 1980 and have kept going by pouring my home brewed mineral mix over a pine knot stump that was sticking out of a hillside .... well the stump is long gone, and the deer have literally dig a 10' high , 5' wide ditch into the hillside.
Iwould suggest that you add about 10#-20# of Dicalcium Phosphate to the mix. It is about $20/50# According to what I have read from studies done by Auburn, LSU, Texas A&M and Penn. State, this mineral helps the deer build a stong frame and helps lactating does manage calcium loss.Rather than pour it on the ground, try putting the mix in a trough made from a plastic barrel cut length wise and buriedalmost to thelip. This will assure theat the deer are getting 100% mineral and is supposed to mitigate them picking up intestinal parasites from the "dirt". But if you don't want to go through all that trouble, dig a shallow hole near a known deer trail and fill it, or bust the bag over a close by stump.
Iwould suggest that you add about 10#-20# of Dicalcium Phosphate to the mix. It is about $20/50# According to what I have read from studies done by Auburn, LSU, Texas A&M and Penn. State, this mineral helps the deer build a stong frame and helps lactating does manage calcium loss.Rather than pour it on the ground, try putting the mix in a trough made from a plastic barrel cut length wise and buriedalmost to thelip. This will assure theat the deer are getting 100% mineral and is supposed to mitigate them picking up intestinal parasites from the "dirt". But if you don't want to go through all that trouble, dig a shallow hole near a known deer trail and fill it, or bust the bag over a close by stump.
04-02-2009, 12:03 PM
#8
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Kansas city, Missouri
Posts: 2,571
RE: Trophy Rock Success
ORIGINAL: bucksniper14
steven your pic didnt come up
steven your pic didnt come up
there we go, now they showed, this only is only two of at least 500 photos i have of bucks over trophy rocks... we have gotten so many big buck pics over these rocks in the past two years. these pics are a few of the "smaller" bucks on camera that we have. the other ones are on my computer at my farmhouse
