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How early do you start baiting for Deer?
My trees are so loaded with apples that the branches are breaking and apples are already falling on the ground, same with the pears.
Since I intend to bow hunt is it to soon to being putting out apples and pears? Hate to see them go to waste.
Freeze them……once you put them out frozen and they thaw, deer live them….Quote:
Originally Posted by greatwhite
Bag them up ( throw out the bad ones first) put them in the root cellar.. They last a few months. )Quote:
Originally Posted by greatwhite
If your on private property it’s feeding your intended deer. Keep them happy and at home no need to dump out bushels of apples yet. But if you can keep them coming to your sight looking for goodies it will pay
i see the same thing where we are. seems like they hit the frozen potatoes more than when its warmer out. or it could just be because they know the potatoes are there and its a easy food source in the winter for them.Quote:
Originally Posted by rick_iles
I believe i read somewhere that freezing and thawing does something to the starch structure and makes things more palatable. I know this is true for turnips in the food plot but not positive about apples.Quote:
Originally Posted by rick_iles
Yeah Mikepal I have tried storing apples by I don't have a cool enough area. I will try freezing them and see what happens hopefully my Hunting Buddy has room in his freezer as mine is almost full. I really should have bought a bigger one. Once I put in the vegetables for the fall and some the 1/4 beef I am buying not really sure where I will put a deer and any geese we shoot.
No can't hunt my property I only have an acre. I hunt crown about 40 km from my house. We bait 4 stands.
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Originally Posted by js4fn
I have a few trees I get apples from, some starting late August. I will throw a bucket of them out starting then if I am making a trip to the camp for whatever reason starting early, it keeps the does and fawns in a pattern of going through the area and might help draw in bucks, who knows. I figure it doesn't hurt anyway and gives me more pics for the cams, as well as a reason to be out in the bush.
John
Freezing the apples should be good. I know freezing pumpkins makes them sweeter, perhaps the same is true for apples. I may try it myself........................Daniel
I think now is the right time to start. I used to run gravity feeders with grains some years ago. The primary objective was to inventory the deer by camera prior to season but they were also good to hunt over.
I started them in July and kept Them filled as regularly as possible. The # of pics on camera would constantly build over 3 months. In august I’d be getting 50-100 pics every 2 weeks but By October I’d be getting 600-1000 pics every 2 weeks.
If they like the spot and the feed, and you keep it there consistently their pattern on it will get stronger for sure.
I gave up due to raccoons…..
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I have a few stumps that I use for salt licks and keep them topped off all year long and if I have extra goodies I put that out also nearby the stumps. My old orchard is in a field near the house so the deer may not feel safe there during the daytime but back in the woods they should.
While not necessary to the spirit of the thread ,but hunting deer without baiting is a HOOT!
Worth trying............
I do put bait out, buts it’s done earlier (May&Sept) with the objective of attracting deer to my trail cams. Once the season starts, I can’t be bothered to haul bait.Quote:
Originally Posted by gbk
I don’t feel entirely comfortable hunting over bait as, somehow, I feel it’s cheating. This a personal thing and doesn’t reflect on others if they choose to do it. I wouldn’t have much fun on an outfitter hunt where baiting was the go-to way to hunt.
I like to set up my tree stands in quiet out-of-the way funnels or natural openings.
You want to talk about baiting lol last year buddy cleaned out bottom of his deep freezer. Brought it out 1 Oct. stuff been frozen 4-5 some 7 years ago expired can goods
Brussels sprouts. Didn’t go over big. Last to be eaten
Raspberries one of the first top disappear
Cherries went fast too
He had some frozen hand picked soybean pods can’t remember what they called them they went first
Sweet corn canned stuff expired went fast
Frozen grape concentrate. Deer dug hole getting that.
Funny stuff
I have a crab tree in the yard and the apples would come ripe at this time of year. What I did was pick them off the tree and those on the ground, put them in 5 gallon pails, toss in a bit of sugar and water then seal the pail. Come November the apples had fermented and turned to mush. The smell was so strong it made my eyes water while carrying it into the stand. I then dumped this slop on the ground by my bait pile and the ground was eventually torn up so bad by deer trying to get at the stuff that it was unrecognizable.
It's illegal to get deer drunk and then hunt them!Quote:
Originally Posted by sawbill