Salt licks
#1
Fork Horn
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Rapides Parish ,Louisiana
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Salt licks
I went out 2 weeks ago and dug some holes with post hole diggers and filled them with livestock salt for deer.It has came a few good rains and has soaked in good.The deer have just walked right by the holes.Is it the wrong time of yr for salt? Or did I do something wrong?
#5
It is the right time to be attracting, but you are about 6 months late on putting it out. I put mine out in February every year, I top off with a little salt in July, but they have been coming for a few months by then.
Also some spots just do better than others, but I'm not 100% sure why. I think lush vegetation and water are key factors.
Here are a few pics from some of my mineral sites(not just salt)...
Also some spots just do better than others, but I'm not 100% sure why. I think lush vegetation and water are key factors.
Here are a few pics from some of my mineral sites(not just salt)...
#6
Well like that one man said get something to get their attention. I put a salt block out in the spring on top of a stump and they have ate the salt block, the stump and including all the ground around it in a 3 ft. diameter and still licking the ground.
#8
Try a salt lick near a pond that the deer use. i often hunt on 14,000 acres where there are no cattle. Sometimes the deer never find the salt. Every salt lick that i've put near a pond that the deer drink from is being heavily used.