Yeah I am going to try this mineral lick too, do you have to use all the mineral in one spot or can you split it and make two?
I have used this more than once and had zero luck. I am sure it can work but I am telling you for the money that recipe is the way to go. $40 for 200 pounds.
so tribal when you talk about that recipe. you mix everything together and you just shake it over a certin amount of area and the deer just go crazy for that. how long does that typically last until you have to replenish it?
mnbowhunter, My lick started as just a rotting stump about 3 feet tall. I find it best to use one that is already decaying and not extremely hard. Over the years i added stump licker, deer cain, old water softener salt, trace mineral blocks, salt blocks, apple blocks, acorn blocks, buck jam, molasses,...just about everything on the market. I only put cameras directly on it last year (i had cameras about 10 feet away on a trail/corn pile for awhile), and its been a consistent producer of deer pictures. Heres a few from this year: And what it looks like again:
okay sorry but one more question when you say you add deer cain to the stump do you just pour it right on the stump? and around it. because i just bought some deer cain actually and it turns out i have a situation just like yours with a stump not to far from a nice trail by my stand. except its a little hard though. but ill have to try that, im open to anything. cant learn to much thanks
i went and checked my lick today. and the deer cain seems to be working real well. a nice hole is startign to develope. but, i do have one question tho and there is probably a obvious answer to it, but i was just curious. when i checked out my lick i realized there was alot of hair around it? do they bite at eachother or compete with each other? idk i was just curious of why. do you guys have any reasons for it?
Hmm, good question. Maybe they were shedding their winter coat? Maybe its just from scratching at flies and ticks and could be a significant amount do to the number of deer that were around the lick? A deer was killed nearby? I haven't noticed a large amount of fur around my licks and they have been there for nearly 10 years.
huh ya im still puzzeled about it. i have two licks in complete different locations, so a dead deer is kinda unlikly. and its mostly white hair. so either chest or belly. which made the biting eachother a possibility with the chest being pretty easy to bite at.
Is anyone out there using a straight salt block? How is the results for that compared to the other approaches?
