Best Mineral Block
03-10-2009, 10:42 AM
#1
Fork Horn
Thread Starter
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: WV
Posts: 419
Best Mineral Block
I am wanting to put out a couple mineral licks on a new area im hunting and cant decide on what to use. So please tell me what you use and if ya got and pics of mineral ruts from that product then lets see em.
03-10-2009, 11:16 AM
#2
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Ohio and Indiana
Posts: 2,088
RE: Best Mineral Block
You could make your own mineral mixtures, there are a lot of home brew mixtures for wildlife on the internet. Last year I used deer cane and white tail institute's 30-06, mixed together in the same mineral site. Bucks and does that are nursing will hit it hard through spring and summer. Ive heard some people not liking deer cane, but on my sites, they've dug out the ground in and around the site to over 10 inches deep, and that is just one year. I am trying "buck jam" this year in front of my trail cams, along with what worked welllast year. I think you'll enjoy watching them dig and chew at whatever you put the minerals in. A fellow HNI member recomended "buck jam" to me, and I'll be covering a rotting stump with it.
03-10-2009, 12:23 PM
#3
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: charlottesville, virginia
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03-10-2009, 02:17 PM
#4
Typical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Blue Ridge Mountains of VA
Posts: 698
RE: Best Mineral Block
I use a mix, and I got it off the internet like bowman said.
1 bag of sweetlix cattle mineral....$15.00...50lbs
1 bag loose white salt....$5.40...50lbs
1 bag di-calcium phosphate...$14.00...50lbs
I mix 4 or 5lbs at a time, and put it out once in early spring and again mid-summer
will last YEARS
03-11-2009, 07:26 PM
#7
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Ponce de Leon Florida USA
Posts: 10,079
RE: Best Mineral Block
Take 50 pounds of trace mineral salt and mix it with 50 pounds of Di-Cal, dig two holes pour in half of the mixture in each hole and dig in some dirt with it. About nine bucks per lick and as good as any of the high price name brand materials.
03-11-2009, 08:19 PM
#8
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: York, PA.
Posts: 1,313
RE: Best Mineral Block
Over the years I have tried everything to get deer in front of my cams from Trophy Rock to home made mineral licks to Deer Cane and Buck Jam and the best thing I have found is generic 50lb. mineral blocks that you can get at your local feed store for $6.00 each. I have gotten pics of hundreds of bucks using these blocks over the last 2 years.
I dont know what ingredients, salt or trace minerals etc. are in them but then again I dont really care since mineral blocks, licks etc. do nothing to benefit the herd but the deer sure do like them!! Pike
I dont know what ingredients, salt or trace minerals etc. are in them but then again I dont really care since mineral blocks, licks etc. do nothing to benefit the herd but the deer sure do like them!! Pike
03-12-2009, 02:46 PM
#9
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Altmar New York USA
Posts: 1,247
RE: Best Mineral Block
The Lamb Mineral Blocks at Tractor Supply contain a better percentage of minerals then the reg. salt blocks. They have more D-Cal, Phosporus, and only a small amount of trace salt, plus flavoring. When it was ok to use them in NY the deer tore them up big time. I figured if going to put something out for them it should be good for them, not just an attractant.