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Re: Critters don’t like my watering hole
[Re: Joe4majors]
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07/05/19 07:01 PM
07/05/19 07:01 PM
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jb20
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Just needs more water according to pic 🤣
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin
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Re: Critters don’t like my watering hole
[Re: jb20]
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07/05/19 09:49 PM
07/05/19 09:49 PM
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Joe4majors
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Just needs more water according to pic 🤣 Man, I knew I forgot something!
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Re: Critters don’t like my watering hole
[Re: Joe4majors]
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07/05/19 10:00 PM
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Just needs more water according to pic 🤣 Man, I knew I forgot something! Ha ya the main ingredient helps 🤣..i know u said it was full during drought I just kidding with ya
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin
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Re: Critters don’t like my watering hole
[Re: Joe4majors]
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07/06/19 07:11 AM
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Re: Critters don’t like my watering hole
[Re: Joe4majors]
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07/06/19 10:43 AM
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perchjerker
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I don't and never have hunted water holes or salt licks. If you want to attract deer, add something with scent, like peanut butter. I've had a lot of pics of deer walking thru corn I had put out. Sometimes it took several days before they started to eat it. Joe does your pool have any plastic odor or maybe taste? Your loc on sticks out, deer look up too much now a days. I suggest adding some limbs. Hunt safe.
Thomas Jefferson. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
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Re: Critters don’t like my watering hole
[Re: perchjerker]
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07/06/19 11:04 AM
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I don't and never have hunted water holes or salt licks. If you want to attract deer, add something with scent, like peanut butter. I've had a lot of pics of deer walking thru corn I had put out. Sometimes it took several days before they started to eat it. Joe does your pool have any plastic odor or maybe taste? Your loc on sticks out, deer look up too much now a days. I suggest adding some limbs. Hunt safe. That stand hasn’t been hunted from in years. Just haven’t made the time to move it. I’m not doing this to get pictures of deer. That’s what a salt block is for this time of year. Only have a camera on it to see if it’s getting used. Water is limited on the property so just trying to add a small water source to see if they use it. $8 investment. Plastic smell might be an issue, but don’t see how it would be different than the plastic trash can I used in the other spot.
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Re: Critters don’t like my watering hole
[Re: Remington270]
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07/06/19 06:22 PM
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If your corn was untouched, you don't have many deer, period. I have used corn to help deer find new mineral sites, etc. and never had any problems. Hence the confusion by me. Certainly not high density deer population though.
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Re: Critters don’t like my watering hole
[Re: Ben2]
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07/06/19 09:03 PM
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The plastic likely smells like chemicals and they wont touch it. See this alot with treated lumber used on feeders if they are not left outside to weather before putting them out But they should take to it with time as the smell fades?
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Re: Critters don’t like my watering hole
[Re: Joe4majors]
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07/07/19 08:19 AM
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Is it in a spot where deer travel, between bedding and food or near a food source? Or just in a spot you want deer to be?
I don't foresee the plastic being an issue for very long if at all, and deer patterns change depending on time of year.
Last edited by kntree; 07/07/19 08:22 AM.
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Re: Critters don’t like my watering hole
[Re: kntree]
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07/07/19 08:24 AM
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Is it in a spot where deer travel, between bedding and food or near a food source? Or just in a spot you want deer to be?
I don't foresee the plastic being an issue for very long if at all. Yes, there is an open spot in a nearby fence. Historically frequent tracks in the area. Also 50 yards from our most productive food plot.
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Re: Critters don’t like my watering hole
[Re: Ben2]
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07/07/19 08:43 AM
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The plastic likely smells like chemicals and they wont touch it. See this alot with treated lumber used on feeders if they are not left outside to weather before putting them out I put a feeder out I had built out of a 26gal air compressor tank last year, I had just painted it. Deer would not get anywhere near it for months. Same spot I just had a 5gal bucket feeder the deer stayed under. They feed under it almost every day now. Only thing I could figure was they didnt like the smell of the paint. Might be the same with the pool.
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Re: Critters don’t like my watering hole
[Re: Joe4majors]
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07/07/19 03:22 PM
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Throw some dirt in the bottom of it. If its new im sure the water tastes like plastic. it will season in and they will start using it. We have built several. Some just holes that held water, some with old truck tarps but covered with dirt. Some made of plastic 275 gal totes cut in half.
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Re: Critters don’t like my watering hole
[Re: auburn17]
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07/07/19 09:33 PM
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We have plastic kiddie pools on every food plot on our lease. Deer use them all the time. Only difference is ours are blue, orange, and yellow. We also didn’t bury ours Maybe deer are Auburn fans?
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Re: Critters don’t like my watering hole
[Re: Joe4majors]
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07/09/19 02:39 PM
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The plastic likely smells like chemicals and they wont touch it. See this alot with treated lumber used on feeders if they are not left outside to weather before putting them out But they should take to it with time as the smell fades? Not sure what a pool does
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Re: Critters don’t like my watering hole
[Re: perchjerker]
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07/21/19 08:25 AM
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Deer do love some peanut butter, but the Problem I run into is they eat it up in just a couple days . I have been watching alot of hunting shows here lately, alot of hunters on the shows have been Making watering pools. They make a product That you pour into your water hole that says it attracts deer and makes them healthy and grows bigger racks.
Last edited by Cooperjohn; 07/21/19 08:28 AM.
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Re: Critters don’t like my watering hole
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07/21/19 12:57 PM
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Deer do love some peanut butter, but the Problem I run into is they eat it up in just a couple days . I have been watching alot of hunting shows here lately, alot of hunters on the shows have been Making watering pools. They make a product That you pour into your water hole that says it attracts deer and makes them healthy and grows bigger racks. Another product to separate a fool from his money.
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Re: Critters don’t like my watering hole
[Re: Joe4majors]
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07/21/19 03:25 PM
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I've seen the cattle troughs do really well. Let the grass grow all around it and add some sticks and stuff around it. My lease has 4 branches running through 120 acres.
You can take a man's life, but you can't take his freedom.
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Re: Critters don’t like my watering hole
[Re: Joe4majors]
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07/21/19 03:39 PM
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I hunted at Dry Creek Club in Dayton many years with Nelson Brown. There were three artesian wells on the place with water spigots and when it was a dry Fall,all you had to do was open one up and deer would be there shortly to get some cold water.
Last edited by JohnG; 07/21/19 04:38 PM.
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