DeerMan66
Well-Known Member
It's always interesting to see how hunters do things differently and why. What do you use in your mineral sites and why did you make that choice?
do you still do food plots BSK. i talked to a GW on this very subject in a cwd county and he was against the baiting no salt or anything law!!! said those same deer would be slobbering on the same clover as they would the bait station!! no different!!I used to use exclusively Trophy Rock. I was VERY happy with it. Now, west of Nashville, I don't use mineral sites at all. Don't want to increase the spread of CWD.
When I first began putting salt out I made several batches, this one has that ingredient. It worked ok but I soon started using the large trace mineral blocks from Tractor Supply and used them ever since, without noticing a difference.Does anyone mix in dicalcium phosphate? I have read several articles that goes into the benefits of dicalcium phosphate for pregnant does as well as to help bucks recover after the rut. It is also supposed to benefit antler growth. It all makes since. Just curious if anyone has tried it and if you saw any benefits.
We're never going to stop CWD. I question whether we will even slow the spread. But purely for arguments sake, an acre food plot covers 43,560 square feet. A salt lick or pile of corn covers just 2 or 3 square feet. What are the odds a deer is eating off the exact same square foot as another deer in that acre food plot? Maybe 0.01% What are the odds a deer is eating off the same square foot of a salt lick or bait pile? 100%. That's about a 10,000 times higher risk for the deer eating off the bait pile or salt lick. If eating in a food plot is as dangerous as eating off a bait pile, then in comparison, we need to ban all 300-acre soybeans fields, because it's the same risk as a 2-3 square foot bait pile. See where I'm going with this? Honestly, I wouldn't ban anything. Nothing will stop or probably slow CWD. I just personally don't want to do things that absolutely increase the risk.do you still do food plots BSK. i talked to a GW on this very subject in a cwd county and he was against the baiting no salt or anything law!!! said those same deer would be slobbering on the same clover as they would the bait station!! no different!!
No offense directed at you Wildcat32 but Im really surprised that a GW would say there is no difference between a bait pile, salt block or a food plot when discussing the spread of CWD....he or she may need to go back to school and take some more classes.do you still do food plots BSK. i talked to a GW on this very subject in a cwd county and he was against the baiting no salt or anything law!!! said those same deer would be slobbering on the same clover as they would the bait station!! no different!!