Best deer attractant you have use?
 

Looking to get more deer on camera, want to use so of the best deer attractants out there but there are so many to choose. Looking for some help! Thanks!

a flat out feeder and 300 pounds of flint river mills 20% deer feed. i get 100s or 1000s of pictures a week.i just joined this forum but im gonna start posting some pictures in the near future.

Other than setting up a feeder, i use the deer cane. They love this stuff where i'm at.

Best thing to use.....is the right spot....... find where they move...and feed em

Other than putting our deer Cain licks in areas we know there are already deer. Or having a well cared for food plot or crop fields. That is all we have ever used and we get tons of good deer coming to our cams. A couple years ago WildGame Inovations sent us some of their Crushed Sugarbeets to try. We simply put it around the outer edge of pre-established Cain licks. I was amazed at how fast they ate it up.

If you want to see just what is coming to our trailcams, follow my link below and click the trailcam link to the left side of the page. There are some real bruisers there.

idk of anything that beats a good pile of corn in a well traveld area... IMO

Add a bit o' molasses too!

the mixture i put together myself. works awesome! has dried distillers, rice bran, soymeal, molasses, cracked corn and calcium and phos in it. has beat everything ive tried to put next to it in front of my cams

Regular Deer Cane powder (NOT BLACK MAX) until they come out of velvet anyway.

Acorn Rage mixed with corn worked great for me.

i put a Rack Rock/Deer Cane block in front of one camera. the month before got around 50 pics. this month around 550. big difference.

Right Guard deoderant.

Early season you can't beat a trophy rock mineral lick. Deer in my woods wont touch corn until the weather drops cuz corn is a carbohydrate and warms em up.

Well I have some products you should try!! My brother-in-law and I have a new synthetic deer scent company. We are located in WV and after successfully field testing our products we now have it available to the public "BUCK WILD SYNTHETICS". We have 3 scent formulas available in 4 oz. bottles Pre-Rut, Rut, & Lick'N Branch. We have several pics of BUCKS work'n mock scrapes made with our products and caught on trail cams......check out those pics and our products at WWW.BUCKWILDSYNTHETICS.COM "YOUR TROPHY IS OUR SUCCESS"

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Just make a mock scrape at your stand location and add the synthetic scent you choose to add into the scrape area.....& you can use the LICK'N BRANCH formula above the mock scrape.

GOOD LUCK! From Brad

"spoiled brussels sprouts"

Does anyone have opinions on "C'mere deer"?

One very odd thing that seems to draw (at least one) deer in is the smell of Roundup-type weed killer. Every time I spray large amounts, this spike buck is seen in the area the next day. Perhaps it is the fact that I am putting on gallons of the stuff and the deer is curious.

corn, or Trails End ##07 by Wildlife Rresearch Center - been usng it since 1989.

B12 50/50!!!!!

One of the best things I've used over the years is the Arm & Hammer Salt Lick Recipe.You take a box of Arm & Hammer Super Washing Soda and a bag Rock Salt or even the Water Softener pellets...find a good spot where You want to make a lick and it won't kill Your tree's,if You can find an old tree stump or low lying area that will hold some water/moisture when it rains thats even better and if there's a water source nearby it will be better so the Deer will have some water when needed.Dig up a spot about 4 X 4 foot and break up the soil finely,take the box of A&H and spread about 1/2 the contents on the ground,then pour out about 20-30 lbs of salt on the A & H and then put the other 1/2 of A& H on the top to finish it off...!You can put a little mineral on top of it to enhance it or leave it alone,we usually put some corn or grain on top of the Salt Lick so the Deer will find it and start using it if allowed in Your State?If the Deer use the Lick a lot You can simply refresh it every few months as needed.

The other Minerals/Attractants I have found to work the best is the "Lucky Buck" minerals,it has some of the most Calcium content/percentage than any other minerals on the market and the Deer simply love it....I have also spread some of it on top of my Arm & Hammer Salt Licks just to draw the Deer in for the mineral content too! :cool2:

I have over the years literally thousands of pics over Magic Mix. It is made in East Texas and i have used it since The owner came out with it. A 5 lb back will bring them in and keep them coming in pourning several small piles with a 50 lb bag of corn works wonders on keeping the animals coming in. I have had great success with this product. The product is affordable. www.whitetailconcepts.com or email me [email protected] have 1800 pics from this year. I put 5 lbs in all of my corn feeders 200-300 pound hoppers (year around) cmere dere is 25 dollars for a gallon jug. Magic Mix is 8 dollars for 5lbs. i can get some shipped to you? there will be a picture tab on the web site and i am getting all of the pics for the web site. Highly Satisfied with the product.

Pre-rut and the rut.....
 

right around the corner, I don't think of a food or food type substance. I use and SWEAR by a product by James Valley Scents called "Wallhanger", the Doe in heat product, and the scrape product are excellent also. But the Wall hanger now thru the end of the rut is priceless!!!!

If legal, an established salt, mineral lick is hard to beat for number of photos.

Nothing, learn to hunt
 

Attractants and unnatural products just get you pictures of deer, they will never bring deer back to the area more than a few days after the product is gone. They also teach the deer to travel at night. They also get the deer even more associated with human scent and unusual things, like a pile of food in an unusual place. The times I have deer over a fresh pile of corn they look nervous for the first day or so in the pictures. The flash and the click the cameras make don't help either.

You are much better off putting in some time in the preseason scouting. Best time is from 10-2 on hot days. If you can manage the very best time is from 10-11 and 1-2, they seem to move around noon even in 90 degree heat, not as much though. If you do see deer, turn around and leave the opposite way they ran and don't come back for at least a week and avoid that area and that time if at all possible. Also, make note of wear they ran from. Any spot you see them in the middle of they day is a good spot for early season hunts because they generally stay on the preseason patterns up until the pre-rut.

The best spot for a cam is under a food source in the preseason or on a travel route. In my area that means white oaks. They drop the soonest and the deer love them. Unlike a feeder that may have been in a place for a few years max, a mast producing oak or a heavy trail has been there that deers whole life as well as the parents life who showed the fawn that tree... and so on.

I am very paranoid about placing cameras when I find a good spot. Mainly because I hunt such an unpressured spot I feel that anything unusual could alarm a deer. Also because I work hard to find the good spots and I don't want something as silly as a camera flash or click or human smell to screw up a spot. The mature animals don't get that way being careless, they are easily spooked in my experience. For this reason I will find a tree I can hand climb up to a fork and hang the camera up about 10ft angled down a good distance from the food source or trail. In my best locations I don't even risk a camera. I only visit the weekend before the season to confirm ripe acorns or fresh tracks on a heavy corridor.

Some people don't have the advantage of mast trees and can only manage to attract deer to a certain location. I would use a mineral/ salt lick and put it in at least a couple months before the season. The problem with this is you pretty much have to hunt over this trap in order to kill deer on this type of property, that is called killing not hunting. Unfortunately, hunting is reduced to killing in many cases. I refuse to even hunt green fields, especially with a gun, unless I'm just killing a doe for meat to save my valuable time. This is nothing to be proud of or to brag about though. -Jeff

the hard way
 

Jeff i agree with you on this point. We've turned a primative desire into a commercial interprise of sorts. I have never seen so many wares on the market to take weekend warriors money...so they can brag about killing a deer they have photographed, hog tied, staked down with a bulls eys on it, saying "Shoot me here" with your 7mm mag. I hate seeing those guys shooting deer in Texas on the roads where its obvious they have scattered corn for the mornings hunt. I sound critical and i know dear still have an edge...but we have lowered the bar on what it means to have a trophy on the wall. Big deal today...Not to mention, we shouldn't be surprised when cultural opinion of what they see on these shows turns against us. I'm a devoted hunter and I hate to watch it. Bait and shoot...Ok...my soapbox that has offended probably most of those who read.
Just as Jeff said...learn to hunt...not just shoot something. BTW...if you don't have good acorn trees, and need to use food supplements...plant them or put them where deer come onto your propterty...but don't hunt off them.

simple with minimal work
 

I've had great luck with a 10 dollar, 50lb. bag of salt, dig a hole, dump the bag, and mix the dirt from the hole with the salt in the hole.

easy effective, and long lasting, this has drawn deer in front of my cameras for the last few years, with only one bag 3 years ago.

and in some states, if you wait long enough after you put it there, you can hunt over it without it being considered a baited area.

One very unusual attractant seems to be glyphosate, the main ingredient in RoundUp weed killer. After spraying, the next day there are deer or new deer sign every time. Could be just a curiosity and the fact that quite a bit of it is distributed. Makes me wonder if any strange new smell would work.

I live in British Columbia..With all the available Crown Land around, I'm able to hunt alot of square miles of public land so I'm able to go to where big game animals want to be or need to pass through during migrating periods.. Not sure what's it's like in some places to the South,
but I'd say alot of hunters might be very very restricted in areas they are able to hunt.. So yeah as much as I agree that hunting should be hunting, I also think there is a legitimate place in the hunting industry for animal attractants that cater to those hunters who are
forced to hunt animals in confined areas, cause 100 meters further in all directions it's private or someone is hunting along side of you..
Just putting it out there..

I think most everyone here is in agreement with you. Scents in liquid form are part of the hunt, and legal in almost every (if not every) state. Salt blocks are legal in some states. Also, lack of scent, cover scents, or scent eliminators play an essential role in the hunt.

This time of year I'd say water.

After another spraying of glyphosate again there was deer sign all over. And deer in the area too, as I was in the next day doing my planting and spooked a few. I am going to make up a few scent bombs and put them out as soon as my food plot is up to see what happens. At about 13 cents per ounce of concentrate of glyphosate from an agriculture supplier, this could be a really cheap attractant.

This works well from Kishel's. It doesn't have a shelf life, and you can put it in your pocket...and not a wheelbarrow...
http://store.kishelscents.com/produc...uck-thrasher-2
Can also use to attract bucks to your cam spot.

I have never found anything that consistently beat human urine. It is free, easy to carry and gives you a good feeling when applied.

Any good quality deer urine Ive had decent luck with. I really like preorbital gland too for mock scrapes.