Salt Licks

[Boho]

Thought some of you might like to see these pics I took today of our salt licks at our deer camp. Got a rain yesterday so one of them has an unusually large amount of water but still some fresh sign there. :)

[tuffshot]

Are the pictures of salt blocks that you put out or natural mineral licks?

And what are you using if you put the salt licks out?

[Boho]

Tuffy, we started the salt licks years ago. We use trace mineral salt and pour it over a stump or a log. The deer do the rest. They will dig out the ground til it can't hold water. You just go in periodically with a shovel and make sure to have a small dam to help it hold water. They do alot of good to hold deer in the summer here because it's hot but you rarely see a deer over one in daylight hours.

[tuffshot]

:cool: I have not tried that method but have tried others such as hanging a mineral block in a burlap bag from a limb early in the summer and as the rain and weather takes its toll on the block it seeps into the ground and deer just tear the ground up under it.

[Boho]

I have heard of people using a burlap sack and molasses and syrup doing that. But I might put out a little peanut butter here and there too. I use crunchy in cut overs and creamy around food plots. Then I can tell where the deer go. :p

[Bill Carlsen]

...do deer tracks show up well in peanut butter? :sbrug:

[van_fl]

If I remember correctly elephants do:lol:

[Boho]

Depends on where and how you put out the peanut butter. :highfive:

[pondscum2]

yeah, not a good idea to smear p-nut butter on the trunk of the tree you are hunting out of if there are elephants around... :highfive: ps2