Posted: 9/25/2009 6:15:25 AM EDT
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We've been putting a salt block on the same place for 6 years now. We've moved from a mineral block to using Trophy Rocks. The deer keep hitting it even when the blocks have disappeared.
If you get one started, keep salting it for several years. It will get visited quite a bit. I don't think it really matters what type of mineral block you use but my son seems to prefer the Trophy Rocks. A $6 block from the co-op will work instead of the $16 Trophy Rocks if you are just starting one. I dropped the salt rock beside the salt lick a couple of weeks ago, then went back and dropped it into the water in the hole the deer have dug. Here's a picture of the spot with the rock out of the water: 
Here are two pictures taken within a week of each other. The camera sometimes won't hold a date but the picture with the doe and fawns was taken sometime around 15 Sept 09. 
There is a ladder stand set up about 25 yds (too much foliage to see in the picture) from the salt lick that also gives a view of the open field near the salt lick. The salt lick is set up near the "edge" of woods to open pasture to have the deer hold for a moment before coming into the open. Even if they don't hit the salt lick, they do smell around it. We don't shoot deer over the salt lick though. The salt lick keeps us from having a surprise when we aren't looking. |
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Here is something my son mentioned to me. I had forgotten when we first started this salt lick we had a feeder near it.
This picture is from the second year the salt lick was started and was taken 01 Oct 05. We had only used salt blocks from the coop to get it going at that time. 
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I have a stand location that I used to use trophy rock at. Last time I put one out was about 3 years ago and the rock is long since gone. the hole however continues to get deeper and wider. the deer keep coming back, 
J- A salt lick is worth setting up if you have a place to hunt year after year. I'd spike that hole again if I were you. I've seen guys set up five gallons open buckets swinging from a limb, filled with rock salt. They punched holes in the bottom for the rain to dissolve the salt and hit the ground. I'm not a proponent of that method. It's a whole lot easier to throw a salt block out. |
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I have a stand location that I used to use trophy rock at. Last time I put one out was about 3 years ago and the rock is long since gone. the hole however continues to get deeper and wider. the deer keep coming back,
J- A salt lick is worth setting up if you have a place to hunt year after year. I'd spike that hole again if I were you. I've seen guys set up five gallons open buckets swinging from a limb, filled with rock salt. They punched holes in the bottom for the rain to dissolve the salt and hit the ground. I'm not a proponent of that method. It's a whole lot easier to throw a salt block out. unfourtunatly we have a baiting ban now in sourthen michigan due to a CWD case last year. only thing you can do is plant food plots now, no feeders, no corn, no licks etc. J- |
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I have a stand location that I used to use trophy rock at. Last time I put one out was about 3 years ago and the rock is long since gone. the hole however continues to get deeper and wider. the deer keep coming back,
J- A salt lick is worth setting up if you have a place to hunt year after year. I'd spike that hole again if I were you. I've seen guys set up five gallons open buckets swinging from a limb, filled with rock salt. They punched holes in the bottom for the rain to dissolve the salt and hit the ground. I'm not a proponent of that method. It's a whole lot easier to throw a salt block out. unfourtunatly we have a baiting ban now in sourthen michigan due to a CWD case last year. only thing you can do is plant food plots now, no feeders, no corn, no licks etc. J- Well, I wonder if the livestock on the place would use a salt block? 
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I have a stand location that I used to use trophy rock at. Last time I put one out was about 3 years ago and the rock is long since gone. the hole however continues to get deeper and wider. the deer keep coming back,
J- A salt lick is worth setting up if you have a place to hunt year after year. I'd spike that hole again if I were you. I've seen guys set up five gallons open buckets swinging from a limb, filled with rock salt. They punched holes in the bottom for the rain to dissolve the salt and hit the ground. I'm not a proponent of that method. It's a whole lot easier to throw a salt block out. unfourtunatly we have a baiting ban now in sourthen michigan due to a CWD case last year. only thing you can do is plant food plots now, no feeders, no corn, no licks etc. J- Well, I wonder if the livestock on the place would use a salt block? unfournately no livestock on the land either, LOL. its only 20 acres surrounded by a couple of houses and farms (which i do not have permission to hunt) but there are plenty of deer moving in the area. J- |