Discovered the secret to Deer baiting

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I'm still thinking about the concept of using bait for deer. What size hook do you put the bait on? Is it still fishing or cast and retrieve? What weight line?

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darrell, does aren't my only animals on the hit list, they're just all I have in that particular set of pictures, and that one particular old doe keeps coming back to eat up all the feed. Since hutning season has opened here, she's stopped coming in the mornings. Now she shows up for a few minutes at noon and late night.. she's old enough to know the patttern when ppl leave the woods
 
It's not illegal here in TX, but not much is other than rimfires and dogs for deer.

So you're not gonna tell us the secret?

Well congrats anyway on finding the magic recipe, you're a real "deer master baiter" now!
 
another dinner guest. I put down some artificial raspberry flavoring. cheap stuff from the walmart baitng.. er BAKING goods section.



This bear is actually much smaller than she looks.. and illegal to shoot in this state anyway.
 
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And some deer.. only does. So this should be more like the secret to doe baiting, since so far I've only captured one buck and he hasn't been back that i can tell.
 
Florida. No, they're protected. Can't shoot them at all. The one pictured is a pee-wee, wouldn't shoot it anyway.
 
Now if those deer eat Mary Jane, and dill pickles, have you tried any Mary Jane in brownies yet? Maybe they'd like those too! Just raggin' ya Hoss, nice to have deer that close on your place, lucky man! Good clear pics too.
 
yup, they were almost wiped out in florida. only recently, within about 3-4 years, have talks began about the possibility of limited black bear hunts and only in limited, specified areas of the state.

About two years ago someone totalled their SUV only a few miles from my home outside Tallahassee when they struck a ~300lb bear. That was about 5 miles from where the above photos were taken. The largest one I've seen coulda been about that size, but I'm a horrible judge of size/weight. It looked pretty large on hind legs tho.

I've had to scare off a cub while deer hunting once before mamma showed up.

I know they're not very huge and frighten easily in most cases, but I'm not taking any chances with a mad mamma bear thinking she's defending her cub. And considering the lack of self-control many people have, I don't want to be the reason they aren't afraid of people either. If I find a dead, skinned out bear near-by it'll right piss me off.
They get my heart-rate up, for sure, though and I wouldn't want to tangle with even a small one like this. For size comparison, the palmetto bushes in the pics are about waist high on me and I'm 6'2". So this one is pretty small with some growing still ahead of him/her.

I'm not even sure I could get off on self defense with black bears here, and most people haven't seen one wild, but they sure can be fun to watch.
 
My hunting buds and I, we all get together and have a bait maker party a couple times a year, just like we did long-ago when we were in the scouts together.

We mix some ripe sweet apples and pears right off the tree, sweet feed, some sweet alfalfa-hay, rice bran, raisins, and throw in a dank of molasses, cane sugar, some kiwi's, strawberry preserves, and cooked sweet taters! Throw it all in a garbage can, add some liquid (sweeten apple juice, and orange juice) and roll it around. Then we spread it out in our selected areas that we also plant some wild flowering plants in, for good measure if there an't no creek near by we leave out some 5gal buckets of water and sometimes an old-fashon salt lick too. Oh and to pacify one dude we throw around some of his dried-out sweet corn he grows left on the cobs. Don't know exactly what they like that is on the menu but we always get our limits, and they always leave the corn ?? but eat the rest :rolleyes:

This was passed down from my Dad, Scoutmaster, and our Dads that all used to hunt together. I got some of the ingredient from my Dad "the taters, OJ, and kiwi which he got from his Dad who got it from his Dad" > oop ... my Dad is probably lookin down shakin his head from above as I type :scrutiny: but isn't sharing your hunting experience part of what it's about ;) So open up and share Zombiphobia :( I just did :p

Like my Dad always said ... if it an't broke don't fix it :)

Might seem like a lot of work but like I said ... we all do stock our fridge and have plenty to go around for the neighbors next door too, nothing beats venison ribs on the barbie on the 4th :D

Don't know where Gramps came up with the OJ but have you ever tried that Zombiphobia or is that your special sauce??? Do deer frequent orange groves down there in Florida ??? since you got no apple orchards.
 
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I don't know, but I've put some citrus out there and they don't seem to care about it much, they just got moldy. They'll eat up apples and pears though.

Deer will eat just about anything sweet and/or salty though
 
Oh my goodness Zomb !!!!!

you just gave me an idea ... put a bag of Lays chips and a Vernors to wash it down with on a snack-table for um :p

soooooo what's the secret sauce bro :banghead:
 
That is so much different from here. I was walking down a gravel road to my pickup one day and a game warden stopped and asked how the hunting had been. I was eating an apple and tossed the core into the brush. He said he could write me a ticket for baiting if he wanted to.
 
That is so much different from here. I was walking down a gravel road to my pickup one day and a game warden stopped and asked how the hunting had been. I was eating an apple and tossed the core into the brush. He said he could write me a ticket for baiting if he wanted to.
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Sux to be there. Really, though, is there a reason to allow feeders in Wyoming? Lots of public land and mulies that are easy to spot, if hard to stalk. Feeders are a way of life in Texas and there's a multi-billion dollar industry around them. One can find deer corn at about any convenience store in small towns.

The feeder is working extra good this year. Been so dry there's no acorns, a deer's preferred food. A 10 pointer has eluded me, though. I've gone to hunting ducks and there's eurasian collared doves everywhere right now and the second dove season is open. I plan to attack some of them Thursday.. Shot a 5 point and trapped a hog, so I have meat. They're hanging around the tank (that's a pond in Texas).
 
Before there was an EPA the oil producers used to pump brine into holding ponds or more than occasionally on the ground. My granfather had a well drilled in the bottom and salt water was pumped out on the ground. The only thing that would grow there was cattails but the deer used to keep the ground torn up like hogs rooting to get the salt in the dirt.
 
It is just a different way of hunting here MCgunner. I built a ground blind for my wife to use, but I prefer to hunt while walking and stalking. She gets a buck each year at her stand, I get mine in the sage brush. I really get no satisfaction from sitting in one place and waiting, she has never learned to spot, stalk and shoot offhand.
 
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