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Joined: Jun 2013
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Everything we do to our properties are done for one reason, to attract and hold deer. Plots, mast tree's, both hard and soft, along with mineral supplements, feeders, habitat improvement, and TSI, are all done to attract and hold deer. To me, there all one in the same.
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Joined: Jan 2006
Posts: 1,467 Likes: 1
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Joined: Jan 2006
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If it backs up to a large ag field that's all the bait you need. Just figure out where they're entering the field and pop one. We do not have the rights for those particular fields.
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Joined: Jul 2013
Posts: 1,187
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To the OP, I use corn as an attractant all year for my cameras and I've never had a mature buck come to it in daylight during the season. Young bucks and does will wear it out though. Even during the rut, I only get pics of mature bucks at night. They didn't get that old by being stupid. If your wanting to kill a mature buck I think your best bet is to hunt a food source and stay the heck out of there until the wind is right or the does are hot
"We'll the first man comes along that can read Latin is welcome to rob us,...I'd like the chance to shoot at an educated man once in my life" Gus McCrae
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I can honestly say I get multiple mature bucks each year on camera and a good bit are in daylight. I'm usually good for one if not two mature bucks each season if I do my part. It's not about killing a mature buck that sparks my interest with the feeder. It's the concept that I had bad experiences with them in the past and now I see them working for some members and was wondering mainly the process and how they go about being successful using them.
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Joined: Oct 2013
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Alright booner only going to tell you this if I get a hunting invite to the prime spot.
You know you can hunt outside 100 yds and use the wind. So, put feeder in such a way you can't see it, but they continue to walk by. In other words big pile of brush between you and feeder. Manipulate the feeder so they got to come by your area from bedding area toward feeder. Even build brush up on entering and exit side if open so no questions asked. Stay outside of 100 yds upon entering and exit. Any questions invite game warden out prior to season to verify. He knows it's there and approved it basically. And keep your mouth shut. Find a reason to bait it without anyone knowing during season. No law says you can't bait it at night if you don't have a gun. Carry a gun and leave next to a tree on way in while you bait. You will kill a nice one if no one finds your honey hole. You could even put a top over it with brush to keep fellows hunters from finding it on google earth.
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You can you're just not supposed to
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Yes, I do and believe firmly in my process. I'll plow and plant corn all in the same week in March/April. I will not step back on this property until around July to spray Gly on corn and what will be a greenfield (all the same field). Won't step back on this property until Sept for final spraying of Gly. Won't step back on the property until around Oct. to plow and plant foodplot all in the same day. Will not go back until gun season when the conditions are perfect. No cameras, no putting out corn, no checking to see if foodplot is growing. This place is now baited up!! Nothing but essentials.
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I wouldnt especially not a feeder
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I tried bating when i first started hunting, thinking i was gonna bag that wall hanger but all i did was turn a good daytime spot into a good night time spot.. ive seen alot more deer by finding that sweet spot and just hunting it.
Roads? Where we're going, we dont need roads. ~Doc brown
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If you want to do that, find a spot that you could scatter the corn by hand that you can't see the corn or a deer feeding on the corn,then setup 105 yards away. Go in about every 10 days or so and scatter some more.
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