Who has the best luck with mineral attractant?
#1
Spike
Thread Starter
Join Date: Dec 2011
Posts: 65
Who has the best luck with mineral attractant?
I have some of my trail cams out now but I'm wondering what's the best stuff to attract the deer. I just put out a small acorn block and some buck bomb powder stuff. What else is everyone using? What seems to be the preferred stuff? Thank you
#2
Try it-u will like it!
Mac
#3
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Schuyler county,IL
Posts: 286
We ahve been using WI 30-06 for 5 years and the deer dig giant holes into the ground to get it.I have had to start new spots becouse the hole gets so big,bathtub size..I know you can make your own for less $ but this is what we use.Also the trophy rock has worked good for us..
#4
Fork Horn
Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 468
I had a lot of luck with a combination of Apple buck jam, 4lb apple flavored salt licks and sweet feed. I add 1 gallon of buckjam once every 3 months and a salt lick w/8lbs of sweet feed every 2 weeks. You can usually get the salt licks and sweet feed at a feed store and I usually wait until the buckjam goes on sale and buy enough for the year.
#7
Spike
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location:
Posts: 54
I have had good luck with 30-06 in the past.
For the past 3 years I have been making my own which seems to work as good as anything else out there. $50 will make about 200 lbs of the stuff.
2 parts trace minerals
1 part dical 18.5%
1 part ice cream salt/fine salt
For the past 3 years I have been making my own which seems to work as good as anything else out there. $50 will make about 200 lbs of the stuff.
2 parts trace minerals
1 part dical 18.5%
1 part ice cream salt/fine salt
#8
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Nebraska
Posts: 186
Dried distillers, soymeal, dried molasses, cracked corn, and trace mineral. All this mixed in a particular ration will produce wonders!! I have finally got a ration that has been working awesome. As always corn will work good as well but everything else likes it too. That's why this mixture works so well as most other animals will leave it alone. Definitely no need to spend good money on stuff at retail stores!!! Most is a gimmick and consists of stuff you can find on your own for 1/3 the price.
#9
buckmaster, I started using the same the same mix you listed last year and wow!!! We put out three licks last summer at the beginning of july and they used them some but nothing huge... we never really checked them during the season but went back last weekend to put more in them and man was i pleased! We measured one to be 6 ft by 41/2 feet and 3 1/2 feet deep! thats just one year old! I would tell anyone that is looking to put some of these out to save a ton of money and use this