g1g

An old friend of mine told me that a good place to watch is around a saltlick (I'm not talking about the kind you buy but a natural one) because many times animals go there. The question remains how do you find one and what does it look like?

iSnipe

The natural salt licks I've seen look like a plain open dirt spot void of vegetation. There's a depression formed from the deer eating it over many generations. It also may not be the salt, if there's any there, but some other mineral the deer crave or need.

I thought about hunting over/near one, but I've always seem to find better spots to hunt in that area. I usually see fresh tracks, several a week, but not enough to make me want to hunt over it.

I don't know if you've seen where a grouse or partridge likes to take a mud bath, but this too looks like a natural salt lick, only on a smaller scale. Natural salt/mineral licks have an aged looked to them from being there for many years. The ones I've seen all have a depression from all the deer digging and eating at them.

iSnipe

Daveboone

Frequently in the old days this would have been a desireable asset, so a cabin would have been built nearby. Thus, probably most have become developed areas. Tough to find. The biggest "salt licks" became cities in their own right-Syracuse NY owes itself to its salt brine...just north, the Town of Salina.