Mineral Licks

[deputydon]

Heck; You don't need anyone to guard a coors tree!! Now a BUDWEISER TREE hire two men.

[stumpjumper]

I use salt as an attractant. I save up a couple hundred pounds of spent salt that I use on customer hides, capes ect., & dig a hole out by a few of my coice stands, & put about 50 lbs. or so in this trench like hole. Then I cover it up, while mixing the salt with the dirt. Then I will sprinkle a bit more on top. This is something that I do at a few of my stands that I have were someone else is trying to move in on my area. I just try to make it more appealing for the deer to stay where they are before this other dude cuts me off.

I also us this salt in areas where heavy swamps with almost impassable trails do to solid briar walls, that grow 20 feet highcouple hundred yards thick before it opens up into black mud. A place that isn't a fun place to go crawing threw on your belly, even when the water is frozen. Very unpleasant. What I do on this type of terrain, is I find out were they have a trail cuttin' through, & place a stand ussually on the south, south-east side of the trail because of the west, north-west winds are predominant this time of year, & I make salt beds for them deer. This is also a great place to rattle as well. In these thick un-penitratable briar wholes is where the big ol' boy hangs his head. With the combination of the does hittin my salt, & them peeing in the area, alerting the big boy up in his personal kindom, then when nature makes him naturally valnorable, & he hears rattleing goin' on, he will come crashin' outta the thickets to take on any buck fullishly sniffin' one of his girlfreinds.

I don't concider using salt as something that is gonna make that buck B&C or P&Y, not by a long shot. As *D-D pointed out. The big boys got that way because he has more smarts, & LEARNED by his past mistakes & lived. Now it is up to me to out smart this master in his own enviroment. As far as I know, there isn't much in salt to stimulate the growth of antlers. It is just that most all animals, humans as well need a certain amount of salt in our diets. We can get salt already in alot of our foods , where animals have to search. When they find salt, they feast, & helps keep them in the area.

The salt that I use is salt that I have rubbed into the hides of the deer, bear, elk, moose, coon, beaver, otter & anything else that needs to be salted before gettin it ready to ship out to the tannery. This salt already has the smell of the wild in itonce I shake the hides & sweep this salt up. It has a mixture of several differant type of animals in it that don't seem to bother the deer at all. Cool, now I can dispose of this spent salt & have a real practical use for it twice.

[jimh]

stumpjumper said:

I use salt as an attractant.

I don't concider using salt as something that is gonna make that buck B&C or P&Y, not by a long shot. As *D-D pointed out. The big boys got that way because he has more smarts, & LEARNED by his past mistakes & lived. Now it is up to me to out smart this master in his own enviroment. As far as I know, there isn't much in salt to stimulate the growth of antlers.

Cant argue with any of the above, but this mixture contains stuff that will help some in the antler growth. as the article states deer aren't attracted to the minerals, that's what the salt is for, to get them to get the other stuff in there (Dicalcium phosphate , trace mineral) those things will help some.