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Attention: Master Baiters Only!

Rice bran and sweet potatoes are strong draws without turkey cross over. Have also recently heard some reports of the Big & J liquid attractant working very well. Trail cam pics seem to support it too.
 
I have read about guys taking corn and putting it in a broadcast feeder and driving over a cut corn field and spreading it.. seems natural for the deer and provides food for a long time…

I’ve also read about guys who planted corn for food plots then brush hogged it to create same scenario.


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I have not located rice bran yet, but did put out sweet potatoes. I added some apple corn and sliced one up hoping to give them a better idea of what they are for a sampler, but no bites that I can tell yet. Although I hate it, they demolished the corn from and so far,, the turkeys have not been in that plot since I put it out.
 
My is experience with rice bran (south Alabama) is 50/50. One spot I put it out and and for the next week all my trail cam pics deer looked like Tony Montana. Another place I put it out it molded on the ground cause they wouldn’t touch it.
 
Bwhana said:
I have not located rice bran yet, but did put out sweet potatoes. I added some apple corn and sliced one up hoping to give them a better idea of what they are for a sampler, but no bites that I can tell yet. Although I hate it, they demolished the corn from and so far,, the turkeys have not been in that plot since I put it out.
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If you are going to have dry weather for a bit, protein pellets or alfalfa pellets should work well. Soybeans would work well too but the turkeys would hit them when/if they find 'em.
 
Just a wrap up on my experience with experimenting with several baits. I just came back from Alabama where baiting is a big deal and the locals believe in it for attracting bucks, not just does, during daylight, which contradicts my experience. Locally, I tried sweet potatoes, rice bran, alfalfa pellets, protein pellets, and a few other mixes and commercially available attractants suggested online. None of them were ever touched by deer (based on cell cam and personal observation during hunts), but the raccoons loved them. The only thing the deer liked was corn or apples, and they seemed to prefer eared corn over shelled, and preferred apple flavored over regular shelled. The raccoons also love all the corn, so it didn't help me much and the deer become more nocturnal once I tried putting out bait, so it hurt the hunting. Personally, I wish they would just ban it across the planet and be done with it, not worth the effort or $ here at least.
 
Bwhana said:
Just a wrap up on my experience with experimenting with several baits. I just came back from Alabama where baiting is a big deal and the locals believe in it for attracting bucks, not just does, during daylight, which contradicts my experience. Locally, I tried sweet potatoes, rice bran, alfalfa pellets, protein pellets, and a few other mixes and commercially available attractants suggested online. None of them were ever touched by deer (based on cell cam and personal observation during hunts), but the raccoons loved them. The only thing the deer liked was corn or apples, and they seemed to prefer eared corn over shelled, and preferred apple flavored over regular shelled. The raccoons also love all the corn, so it didn't help me much and the deer become more nocturnal once I tried putting out bait, so it hurt the hunting. Personally, I wish they would just ban it across the planet and be done with it, not worth the effort or $ here at least.
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This had been my observation as well. Baiting makes deer nocturnal, especially bucks. Plus where I hunt it is primarily eaten by squirrels, coons, and bears based upon trail camera photos.

I also thinks it makes us worse hunters. But when neighboring property owners bait it affects deer others hunt. So others think they have to bait to help attract deer

I have found that food plots are the better option but a lot more work. I have seen deer up during normal feeding patterns on them. I have chased deer off of them mid day.



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I love to take kids and let them shoot something. I have an old shed on the edge of a woodlot w/a window to sit and shoot from.I've shot 8 this yr but we're only allowed one antlered. I dump mineral salt and corn and kids can shoot one at less than 10 yards. I'm out of tags and need to kill more if anyone has Ohio tags. You have to be a kid though....No 50 yr olds that I have to babysit.ha..
 
You could take him squirrel hunting and he could get in a bunch of shooting. Small game hunting is what got me started into becoming a life time hunter.
 
Especially dove hunting. Lots of action to make up for a young attention span.
 
Persimmons. Dunno how much they’d cost where you’re at but I used to hunt a parcel that had a couple wild persimmon trees. There were literally rings around the tree and the ground looked like turkeys had scratch contests for generations. Took me forever to figure it out cuz I didn’t know it was a persimmon tree.
My buddy makes a kinda deer block outta molasses and livestock grain.
 
I'm curious about the frozen part also. Unless you have freezing temps don't they become unfrozen pumpkins pretty quick?
 
hokiehunter373 said:
I've heard of pumpkins but never specifically frozen. You break them or leave them whole?
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Pumpkins for sure, deer love them. Around us people will get their front porch pumpkins smashed by deer. I pulled all of ours from the front yard and tossed them near my compost pile and they are pretty much all gone, maybe 3/4 of one left out of 7 or 8 15 pounders?


gameflogger said:
Turnips. You can buy a 50 lb bag of turnip seeds from amazon and plant them in concentrated areas. The deer love the greens that they sprout up
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Also as soon as the temps drop in mid-late November and all through the winter they mow down our brassica turnip plants. When we tracked a deer through the food plot on November 15th you couldn't go 5 feet without finding one dug up and half-eaten.
 
We have brassica, rape, turnips, and Austrian winter peas planted in addition to white clover, but our local deer ignore everything but clover, soybeans, or corn, even after heavy frosts are supposed to improve the taste (have planted them for several years and they just never use them). NC deer are not like most others, probably just too inbred and uncle daddy and aunt mom's genes just make for screwed up herds! Will try millet again this fall, even though it didn't help locally, but saw it being pounded down east several seasons now.
 
hokiehunter373 said:
I've heard of pumpkins but never specifically frozen. You break them or leave them whole?
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Either way. If you don’t break the shell they will stomp the pumpkin with their hooves to get the insides. They won’t really touch them unless frozen.
 
Maverick1 said:
Either way. If you don’t break the shell they will stomp the pumpkin with their hooves to get the insides. They won’t really touch them unless frozen.
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We have a deep watershed on our hunting property, I put the pumpkins on the edge after frozen & watch the year's fawns try to bite them. Roll down and one side & up the other, back & forth until the nanny doe gets tired of it & stomps them. She always eats her fill & lets them have the rest. Usually entertainment for hour or so. They love squash too!
 
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