Retrieved these today...the site is a newly planted food plot, with Corn, Sunflower, Sorghum and also 4 diffrent types of clover, we have had plenty of rain right after I planted with warm temps and some sunshine, the seeds are already starting to sprout. Anyways the block is trace mineral bought at the local tractor supply....








The deer stayed around for most of the morning but you get the idea...lol!!

Mine is simalar to haystacks. One bag dical, two bagstrace mineral salt, one bag evaporated salt, and abag of pelleted dolomiticlime. Put out in February, topped off with a bag trace mineral salt in late summer. I read somewhere that the salt leaches faster than the dical. The salt doesnt really help the deer, but it does all the attracting. I dont think deer would eat the dical(calcium and phosphorus) or lime(cheaper form of calcium,a littlemagnesium) alone.

Makes enough for the 4-5 mineral sites. The dical at the feed store went from $14 to $28 this spring. You can still get240 lbs of mineral mixfor $50, not bad.

It is my first year trying the lime, so far the deer still coming as they did before, the extra calcium may or may not help. Iwill tell you this fall! Also if your area has a good mix of cutover, hardwoods, and ag land, the usefullness of mineral sites has been questioned. I figure it cant hurt, and it make a awesome spot to get pics of your bucks inlate summer, they WILL be there.

is it too late to put out that mix now?

No its not to late. The deer will find it pretty quick.

New mineral site- buck jam and time release mineral block




2.5-3 weeks later..Its dissolving into the ground and they'll hit it for a LONG time.

how many mineral sites do you guys have?
do you hunt over them at all?

- 2 sites

- No

and they will still hit the minerals if you have a plot?

I have 3 different locations on 300 hundred acres. 1 site could work for 600 hundred acres though. Bowman had some good advice on where to start a site, along trails. Between feeding and bedding areas and along cover. They will visit more in daylight in the right location as opposed to out in the middle of a field. Deer activity at mineral sites slacks off by hunting season and I don't use them to harvest deer.

I have about 15 mineral sites and some of them are within bow range of my stands but the deer usually stop hitting them by the 2nd or 3rd week of sept.
And yes the deer will still hit the mineral sites in or near food plots, because the deer are using the sites as a source for salt which food plots do not provide. Pike