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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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by greatwhite View Post
    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….
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    Quote Originally Posted by greatwhite View Post
    Hate to see them go to waste.
    Bag them up ( throw out the bad ones first) put them in the root cellar.. They last a few months. )

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    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

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    Quote Originally Posted by rick_iles View Post
    Freeze them……once you put them out frozen and they thaw, deer live them….
    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rick_iles View Post
    Freeze them……once you put them out frozen and they thaw, deer live them….
    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.
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    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.

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    No can't hunt my property I only have an acre. I hunt crown about 40 km from my house. We bait 4 stands.

    Quote Originally Posted by js4fn View Post
    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

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    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.
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    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
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