How can salt possibly be this good?

[Knothead]

Notice in the bottom right pic—she showed up around 11 pm. She stayed in that one spot until almost 12:30. Wonder what her sodium levels are?!
Crushed Trophy Rock is the bomb!!

 

[BSK]

Back when I still used salt licks, I would get picture series of deer licking on those rocks for a 1/2 hour to an hour at a time. How can anything consume that much salt?

 

[philsanchez76]

Crazy!! I had a doe earlier this summer who basically single handedly depleted my entire camera battery cuz she would stick on the lick for several hours each night. I got a pic of one buck and then 1000 pics of her!

 

[JCDEERMAN]

Several years ago, I remember having a buck at one of our salt licks on and off all night. Not a constant time there, but every 10 minutes he would show back up to lick and this went on for nearly 7 hours. I remember thinking, "DANG, how much salt do you need????"

 

[JCDEERMAN]

On another note, I HATE getting hundreds of pics of a single deer. In my head I'm thinking, "Get out of here!!!"

 

[Hillbilly Hunter]

BSK,
Why do you not use salt anymore? Is it because of disease transmission?

 

[BSK]

BSK,
Why do you not use salt anymore? Is it because of disease transmission?

Yes. Although I'm not in the CWD Zone, I will be eventually. A salt lick is the perfect spot to transmit prions.

 

[Mr.Bro]

These are the ones that really need to culled out. Battery eaters is what they are.

 

[TITANSFAN2104]

We put some mineral out this spring and i actually had to disable my cell cam. I was getting 300 pics a night. They would visit 2 or 3 times a night and stay up to a couple hours each time. Nothing but does and they basically lived there.

 

[redblood]

Yeah i have a young lone doe that just lives by the salt. Off and on all day and night. If i kill and make jerky with her, i wont have to add any salt to the meat for sure

 

[mossyoakmantn]

I've noticed the same thing. I have videos of deer the same deer on the trophy rock for hours. Salt man puts out a great product. Look on youtube at how they mine the rocks it's super cool.