BrutalAttack

I'd just get the blocks, they last the longest. Just figure out a way to keep them inone spot as they tend to push them around alot and will roll them down hills etc.

chuck65

ok thanks BA

Hotburn76

Buy your mineral and salt blocks from your local farm or livestock supply store. You can get a fifty pound block for five bucks. If you buy from cabelas you get a five pounder for nine bucks then you pay shipping, deer dont eat buy name brands at least on blocks. And also put them on some boards, Damp ground and snow will break them down real fast. A mineral block will do wonders for a bucks rack. Good luck!

kevin1

Most folks I know who put out blocks for the deer usually bury them flush to the ground and let the deer find them .

Dan O.

If you put the blocks in the center of an old stump the minerals soak into the wood and they'll consume the stump after they finish the block.

Dan O.

BrutalAttack

Well anywhere you put the blockswill be that way. They'll paw a huge hole and visit the spot for a long time, possibly years to come.

chuck65

thanks for the info guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

chuck65

hey how fast to bucks rack grow? like say a spike how long would it take for it to start to branch out?

BrutalAttack

Ummm it depends on alot of factors but generally by their 2nd to 3rd year they wil be at least a fork if not more on one side.

Wooddust

Watch out what advise you get and take....listen and ask a lot of questions and be ready to use some sweat!

Selective thinning is a good process and will help. But, if you see on TV someone using arsenal herbicide, realize that 1) its a restricted use pesticide, 2) It is designed to kill trees in pine plantations primarily...it kills hardwoods and deciduous trees. You should NEVER use it in a northern hardwood situatioin. Recognioze that many of the TV shows have a decidedly southern bias.

You can thin in your situation with a chainsaw and treat the stumps with Tordon RTU (non restricted use), or you can do a basal bark treatment where you spray Remedy and Diesel...1 part Remedy/3 parts diesel on the bottom 15-20 inches of the tree any time of the year and that will kill that tree.


Develop areas of comfort....food/water/bedding areas and your deer will begin to see your place as home.