Where's a good place to hang trail cams I have 4 trail cameras and I plan on hanging one at each of my two feeders but I don't know where to hang my last two. Should I put one by the area I'm cleaning for a food plot to see if anything is there before I plant it? Or should I put them near one of my tree stands? Any help is appreciated Sent from my iPhone using Bowhunting.com Forums
I don't have any food source right now besides feeders and beans in the field Sent from my iPhone using Bowhunting.com Forums
Perfect beans in the feeder. That's where I have all mine. Plenty of activity. Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk
Miss understood feeders should be a good spot. If you have beans growing or exposed on the ground. Both good spots. Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk
How hard is it to make a mineral site? If it's not very hard I'll make one and hang a trail cam by it Sent from my iPhone using Bowhunting.com Forums
Go to the feeder store but a 50 lbs trace mineral block and put it on a stump or burry it halfway in the ground. Might be a little late for them to find it and start using it for this year. Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk
you can make your own mineral site with little effort. From your local feed store (I buy mine at Tractor Supply) get a bag of General Purpose mineral mix, and a bag of fine stock salt (about $20 total). I mix it 3 parts mineral mix to 1 part salt in a bucket; I use about half a 5 gal bucket at each site. Find an area the deer are using, and scrape away the leaves/grass/debris down to bare dirt. Dump the mix directly on the ground in about a 2 ft circle. That's it. The deer will find it, and as the mineral/salt works its way into the ground the deer will start to wallow out a hole and continue lick at the dirt. You will have plenty of salt and mineral mix left over to freshen the sites as needed.
Personally I recommend digging out a little bit of a hole to put the salt in. The deer love to drink the salty water so I want my saltlick to hold water. As others have noted the deer will eventually paw and wallow it out even if you just pour the salt out on top of the ground but I like to just take a shovel and dig a shallow hole 2-3' across and maybe 4-6" deep. This way it will hold water from the start. You will find that the deer will hit it hardest after rains. There is no better way to get pictures during the Summer.
I put one out last week and they found it and hit it in about 5 hours in broad daylight. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I ended up hanging one by the main entrance where there was a lot of fresh tracks and then I hung the other one near the clover patch that has a water hole in the middle of it Sent from my iPhone using Bowhunting.com Forums
