Baiting Mature Bucks.

[Geezer II]

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[giles]

That’s crazy!

What’s a bag going for compared to market price?

 

[bowhunter1023]

I didn't ask. Not bad though. I got a bag of scratch grains, 2 bags of layer pellets, and 200#s of shelled corn for $60. My guess is they were $7.50 per 50.

 

[giles]

@$3 a bushel, and a sad looking trade market outlook. That’s an expensive bag it comes in! With what you have going on in your future, it might be worth finding and old grain cart.

 

[Stressless]

Yep the Outfitter the mostly surrounds the 500 acres in our co-op sets up bait sites all along the borders - he baits June <-> March tries ( and succeeds) to pull mature bucks off parcels that do not bait nearly that much (Sep<->Dec). Changed the entire strategy of how we hunt the land. Walked the border of a new development, 1-1.5 acre lots, along the East border of an adjacent 400 acre parcel.

Every. Single. One. Had. A. Bait. Site. Going. just off or right on the border of he big parcel.

The biggest issue I see is over forage for 'coons, very few trap or hunt and they are going nuts breeding with all the available calories.

As with this virus - it's a new normal for deer hunting until any laws are changed which I don't see happening until CWD escapes from a fenced herd and covers Ohio.

 

[bowhunter1023]

@$3 a bushel, and a sad looking trade market outlook. That’s an expensive bag it comes in! With what you have going on in your future, it might be worth finding and old grain cart.

He's always high and if it wasn't one of Ohio's oldest independent feed mills where I'm called by name and have credit, I'd never pay it. When I'm ready to stock up, I've got a source at $4.50/50.

 

[TripleA88]

 

[giles]

What is that piece coming down?

 

[switchhitter]

wow
good luck

 

[Bigcountry40]

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You name him yet?

 

[TripleA88]

No, i dont think ever named a deer since 2013 . Now that i have a few under my belt i may try to see if he survives another year.

 

[TripleA88]

 

[bowhunter1023]

There's been a deer at the corn every hour for 2 straight days behind the house. Tells me I'm the first one to start dumping and my efforts to get better cover on our place, is working. The race for opening weekend is on!

 

[TripleA88]

18 points i believe, great deer but i think he could be an allstar next year

 

[mike hunt]

Nice pics, that's a great deer

 

[Iowa_Buckeye]

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18 points i believe, great deer but i think he could be an allstar next year

I agree 100%! Looks like a 3 yr old. Good luck trying to hold off!!!

 

[bowhunter1023]

I agree, also. Tough to pass, but reminds me of Deuce. He added 40" from 3 to 4 and this deer could easily do the same.

 

[TripleA88]

I hope he makes it, i had an 18 point on cam in 2017. He got poached that november, he was 3.5 or 4.5.

 

[Jackalope]

I hope he makes it, i had an 18 point on cam in 2017. He got poached that november, he was 3.5 or 4.5.

171 yards.. Yeah I can make that shot......

 

[TripleA88]

171 yards.. Yeah I can make that shot......

Theyre just deer lol, if one dies or disappears, theres new ones born every spring.