A month ago, I had two bruisers on cam consistently day after day same times. Now nothing from them. Any ideas??
The needs for their body change. They no longer need the same diet or minerials they needed in the summer. Now its about getting fat for the winter. If you had camera's over minerals. Get a bucket of acorns, apples or beans and put them next to the minerials. That should help with brining the deer back to camera.
I've heard of some different ways of doin apples. Ive heard some people will put cuts in them and throw them in a bucket of water pour sugar in and let them soak. Also heard people let them sit and rot, then also heard you just simply dump a pile of them out there. Anyone tried any of that??
Like the others said, make sure baiting is legal where you hunt before you try something like this. When my father and I were trying to get a look at our bucks before season started, we used to use to apples to catch them on camera. We knew a farmer who would give us hundreds of pounds of apples and we would put them through a french fry cutter then dump these in 50 lb piles in front of the camera. Worked great...too great in fact. Saw so many great deer that would never show up in season or ones that would only show up at night. It was great just knowing that those deer where around and gave me a target for that season. Also made me want to move to an area where baiting was legal haha!
I have used apples and they worked great as long as they were busted open. I threw them out without stomping them and they say for a week with no sign of deer. They were still laying there so u stomped them thinking it may work an sure enough, it did. They started hitting them next day. So the next time I put them out I didn't stomp them again just to see if busting them was what did it. Nothing once again for a week or so. I stomped them and there they were again. Another thing that I'm about to try is corn mixed with apple flavored "Buck Jam". I used it once a few seasons ago just pouring it on the ground and it brought them in. I didn't really know anything about hunting so I just randomly poured it on the ground and it took a week or so to see any signs and i didn't run cameras then either so in not sure what sex deer were coming in. I just know after a few weeks it was there were a lot of tracks all over the place around it. Unfortunately, I put it out 2 weeks before season ended and they pounded it for a good month after season was over. It is a lot cheaper than buying apples if you don't know someone to get them from for free or really cheap.
