Everyone's always talkin about minerals. So what's your favorite an whats been your least favorite? I already know I'm gonna hear Monster Raxx, I use it to with awesome results. But I'm in need of a quick jump start for a mineral site. Disclaimer; if your new to mineral sites. Never, never an I mean never start one around pine trees. Deer will refuse to use it an waste $$$ an mineral!
So far for me I have been very pleased with the Monster RAXX and the results I have gotten have been exactly what convinced me to give it a try in the first place. This is my first year of using it for my mineral sites. We are seeing more bucks visiting our sites than years past and most importantly the same bucks are returning on a regular basis. I have tried Trophy Rock and the first 2 I used I had pretty impressive results. About the 3rd. one is when I started wondering what was going on. It just sat there and occasionally I'd get a picture or two of a deer at it but it basically whitherd away in the elements. The 30.06 I used I would say gave me the most disappointing results as a name brand mineral. Literally seemed like nothing would touch it other than the occasional deer. There actually was one brand that was expensive and gave poorer results but I, for the life of me, cannot remember the brand. It was my first step into a name brand mineral and sure made me do some research before trying another one. Bag/bulk trace mineral from TSC was a good alternative when money was short and was easy to find. It has mostly salt in it so I am not sure the real benefits we were giving other than it was likely better than nothing. It would attract deer and give us something to look at off of the trail camera, however one buck that would appear today usually wouldn't return for a week or two.
If you put minerals around white cedar they will eat them. Heck, they love to eat white cedar, may eat the tree first
Monster Raxx Apple harvest is what gets poured on my new sites if it even needs a jump start. Sent from my ADR6300 using Tapatalk 2
Well I ran outta that hahah I ain't got the extra cash right now for 10lbs of MR so I grabbed a bag of heartland's lick magic to get a new one goin. A property I have access to already had a MR site but me being a newb an partially a dumba$$ to minerals I placed it in pines which deer I guess don't like the dirt because of acidity. So I picked a new spot in some hard timber. It's near a spot where a couple old an what looked like new trails ran close too. Now to wait an save some money to get my herd back on their Monster Raxx diet!
Lotsa recipes for homemade stuff. Salt and dical phosphate. Cheap if you consider the quantity. Maybe go in with a buddy. As a side note, pines don't cause acid soils... they tend to grow well there because the soil was already acid. And acid soils don't stop deer utilization. There may very well be something in the soil they don't like, but I am going to guess pines are not the problem.
Bahaha no I make the paper for people to deliver. I don't do that. An if you would pay attention I asked people's thoughts on what they've like an what they haven't. Your a thread jacker. So unless you have some actual insight an not just off topic answers I'd appreciate it if you'd shut it Thanks!
Huh, I swear I saw a post on pine tree/ acid soils in there, and something about short on cash and Lick Magic... We were supposed to only mention a favorite antler growth mineral? If you are looking for that, I would recommend Lucky Buck. Out of the many products out there, they are one of the extremely few that actually formulate mineral supplements correctly. Yep, the 2/3 salt one.
My original point is now useless. This thread is DEAD! Oh yeah an by the way Brian, if your company fails. Ill have a paper route waitin for ya
