Posted: 9/15/2015 10:07:15 PM EDT
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Background: My family has farmland up in north central Kansas, near the Nebraska border. This is an agricultural area with nearly all land being used for farmland. Usually the only areas with trees/cover are the creek/river areas and those are nicely wooded. The primary crops are wheat, soy bean and Milo on a rotation. Luckily, our land has a creek that runs right through it with a wooded area anywhere from 50 to 150 yards wide. Typically the deer use this wooded area for travel but come up on the fields at night to eat. They also like to walk the edge of the field along the field/tree line.
We have been deer hunting on this land for about the past five years. Unfortunately, we don't live anywhere near this property and so only have access to it when we are up hunting 1-3 weekends a year. This year we are going up in a couple days to do archery/muzzleloader and then will likely be going back up in 2-3 months for gun season. Any recommendations for bait that might work in the 48 hours that we will be up there this time? Also, any recommendations on bait that we could place on this trip that might last a little longer and get more deer coming into our land over the next month or so? Considering the area, I don't think the deer are probably having any issues with feeding this time of year so I don't know if the typical "put down corn" would work. For short-term bait I was thinking something like molasses over a little corn and/or dumped on a stump might work. I also heard that peanut butter in a jar screwed to a tree can work. Any advice? |
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deer have to find your bait, may take a week if they arent normally baited.
Here is a hint. I used to use bait alot in my younger years. I leaned this valuable lesson. Deer eat bait or not. Find what they are eating, find where they are sleeping. Hunt close to what they are eating in the afternoon and close to where they sleep in the mornings and mid day. When you get real good you can hunt where they sleep, but you have to know wind and scent control plus stealth. another hint is deer drink lots of h20, find a water scource. I preach becoming a hunter and woodsman. there arestill times I will throw out a bag of corn and come back 3 days later and paint it red to fill my freezer but then its right back to nature. |