Baiting is lame and lazy. Do you homework and figure the deer out, put the work in


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I've already stated that I'm not really a fan of baiting, but not now I have a large amount of apples at my house.

Really the plan is to hopefully get a spot that some doe come in regular to give my cousin a shot at one as he's never shot a deer with the bow.

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If it's legal put more out. It's benefiting more than just the deer.

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Up until this fall I've used apples at all my camera sights up until a few weeks before season. Now illegal here... Different thread.
My tree dumps hundreds of gallons a year.
Deer pound them hard or soft! Ripe or rotten. I'd say even preferred slightly rotten.

If it's legal I say keep dumping them. They are so sweet smelling... they will draw deer in.

On a different angle. Since it was illegal this year for me. I can say my camera activity dropped 80% since stopping. Wish I could still feed them. I enjoyed the photos greatly.

 

I've seen deer eat apples that were brown and mush. If your deer aren't used to seeing apples they may not take to them for a while.

As far as baiting...don't listen to the high and mighty. They use scents, trail cams, ozone machines, high dollar compound bows, blinds and stands and so on. They will hunt over a small man made food plot yet that's fine. Lol. Every thing we do is to get an advantage. It's no ones business how easy or hard you choose to make it.

 

Yup, if it's legal and you want to bait, have at it. Enjoy and care nothing about the fact that some others may not"approve" of your hunting methods

Have fun.

 

I don't know what to say about apples. I keep reading how deer love them, but at our farm my brother in law planted two trees right in his food plot about then years ago. Big trees and beautiful apples and the deer don't touch them. I have put piles in the woods to get pics and while a few deer are in the pics, I have way more pics of coyotes and foxes coming in and taking them. I don't know what the deal is, but they don't eat them at our farm.

 

I can throw out a sack of apples down here and they will just rot on the ground.

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I guess how well deer will hit apples that you put out depends on what other food sources are available. My experience is that deer clean them up around here. I picked up 20 gallons of crab apples from a property I take care of and put them out in a no hunting allowed area and the deer hit them hard. I do not personally care for baiting as a hunting tactic although it is legal on private property in my state. Illegal on the public I hunt but I still find bait sites with stands set at them.......pisses me off and this season I may report those things but I never have in the past....we will see how it goes.

 

It depends on what else they have to eat. They will pick at them on their way to their regular feeding ground. They are just as likely to be feeding on grass and leaves off the bushes. I live in apple country, and have hunted orchards and this is what I have observed. I have also seen possum and raccoon eat them, so just because apples are gone doesn't mean it was exclusively deer eating them.

 

around here they hammer them hard or soft. cousin has a young apple tree that did pretty well this year, but the deer absolutely cleaned it off as high as they could reach standing on their back legs.