bigger bait piles
09-24-2007, 12:51 PM
#11
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Southwest Ohio
Posts: 2,849
RE: bigger bait piles
Deer love apples and if you want to see deer, apples will work. However, the "big boys" tend to be too smart to visit bait piles in the daylight. They don't get old by being dumb.
09-24-2007, 01:24 PM
#13
Thread Starter
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: jorden lake, NC
Posts: 156
RE: bigger bait piles
ORIGINAL: huntingson
Deer love apples and if you want to see deer, apples will work. However, the "big boys" tend to be too smart to visit bait piles in the daylight. They don't get old by being dumb.
Deer love apples and if you want to see deer, apples will work. However, the "big boys" tend to be too smart to visit bait piles in the daylight. They don't get old by being dumb.
09-24-2007, 02:05 PM
#15
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Cobb County, Georgia
Posts: 2,582
RE: bigger bait piles
can you hunt over bait in your state cuz in ga you cant be within 200 yars of it. not even a bird feeder
ORIGINAL: TommyGunn
i dont plan on hunting the pile. i just want to get them to the area and sit about 75yd away from the pile in the direction they will be comeing from
i dont plan on hunting the pile. i just want to get them to the area and sit about 75yd away from the pile in the direction they will be comeing from
09-24-2007, 02:14 PM
#16
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2006
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RE: bigger bait piles
ORIGINAL: TommyGunn
well i hate to have to do this, but corn just aint cuttin it to get these deerto come into where i can hunt. so i was thinking more corn mixed w/ apples, potatos, corn on cobs, grapes, salt licks, minerial licks and the deer cain stuff all in one big area. it would be like a deer buffet. whatcha think? will the big boys like it?
well i hate to have to do this, but corn just aint cuttin it to get these deerto come into where i can hunt. so i was thinking more corn mixed w/ apples, potatos, corn on cobs, grapes, salt licks, minerial licks and the deer cain stuff all in one big area. it would be like a deer buffet. whatcha think? will the big boys like it?
09-24-2007, 05:45 PM
#18
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: White Plains, MD
Posts: 77
RE: bigger bait piles
I think it depends on a lot of vaiables.......food availability, your deer population, the time of year, the area..........I've got one lease I bait with corn, it usually works well despite the amount put out until the acorns drop, then the deer ignore it till the acorns go wormy. I've got another place and it's the same except that when they start hitting the corn again it's always at night (maybe because of the distance of the bedding areas, the hunting pressure, or influence of a dominate doe or buck). I've got a bud that baits behind his house and the population is so large and the food so scarce that they always come during daylight, especially when it's cold.
