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Other feeds to attract BIG bucks #5775395 06/05/15 05:34 PM
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Has anyone tried "sweet" horse/goat feed to attract bucks? I was thinking about using something in a pellet/cube/granule form to put inside my feeder pen. I have heard stories of older,mature bucks eating with cows and horses when this feed was used. I used to put out "Hi-Fi" and it worked on the deer. I am just trying to get more deer to come to my feeder and have something "different" besides the same ole corn and pellet routine that everyone else has around the ranch.

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I have tried rice bran,peanut butter,alfalfa with little success.I,too,have thought about sweet feed.I will probably try Stocker 10 this year

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How to get BIG bucks at your feeder.... in two easy steps.

First, get some BIG bucks.

Second, put feed in your feeder.

I found this formula works every time, but you have to do both steps. So many folks try to skip a step, and it just doesn't seem to work.

I know, the advice seems too simple and maybe even ridiculously stupid - but I see and hear folks every year spending a ton of money and trying every product in the world, hoping that magically BIG bucks will show up on their lease and ranch. They fall for the commercials and ads that show pics/videos of BIG bucks eating all sorts of the newest feed, nuggets, dust, mineral blocks, etc. But they don't see those folks selling those products first started with Step #1, Get some BIG bucks.

Admittedly, this is the hardest step - which is why some folks tend to skip it and jump to step #2. But it seems to be the critical step.

If the truth be known, I have actually had some success skipping step #2, if I took the time and effort to do step #1. I know, I know - it's hard to believe - but I have actually seen some BIG bucks come to the feeder looking around when there was actually no feed at all in the feeder!

Sometimes it's just impossible to do step #1. If so, then no matter what you do for step #2, it just doesn't work. Yes, Yes, I know that that there's always someone that says differently, and relates tales of BIG bucks showing up from nowhere. But every time I look into these reports, I find one of two things. Either (a) the neighbors did step #1, or (b) it's some random freak case that step #2 really had no bearing on what happened.

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it really depends on what you consider BIG. i know some things that work on deer up up to about 140 or so, and i know of some things that work on deer up to about 180, it really just depends on how BIG of a deer you want to see.






deer love sweet feed, try it out, it was $5.99 a bag at atwoods the other day.


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If I send my neighbors a text and ask them to give me feedback on my lawn and plant rye into a giant dong pattern, I'm probably going to get some less than positive feedback. Same goes here.
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I've tried sweet feed and everything else. And they have all attracted big bucks from the time it gets dark until just before shooting light.


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Re: Other feeds to attract BIG bucks [Re: John Humbert] #5775943 06/06/15 01:22 AM
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Originally Posted By: John Humbert
How to get BIG bucks at your feeder.... in two easy steps.

First, get some BIG bucks.

Second, put feed in your feeder.

I found this formula works every time, but you have to do both steps. So many folks try to skip a step, and it just doesn't seem to work.

I know, the advice seems too simple and maybe even ridiculously stupid - but I see and hear folks every year spending a ton of money and trying every product in the world, hoping that magically BIG bucks will show up on their lease and ranch. They fall for the commercials and ads that show pics/videos of BIG bucks eating all sorts of the newest feed, nuggets, dust, mineral blocks, etc. But they don't see those folks selling those products first started with Step #1, Get some BIG bucks.

Admittedly, this is the hardest step - which is why some folks tend to skip it and jump to step #2. But it seems to be the critical step.

If the truth be known, I have actually had some success skipping step #2, if I took the time and effort to do step #1. I know, I know - it's hard to believe - but I have actually seen some BIG bucks come to the feeder looking around when there was actually no feed at all in the feeder!

Sometimes it's just impossible to do step #1. If so, then no matter what you do for step #2, it just doesn't work. Yes, Yes, I know that that there's always someone that says differently, and relates tales of BIG bucks showing up from nowhere. But every time I look into these reports, I find one of two things. Either (a) the neighbors did step #1, or (b) it's some random freak case that step #2 really had no bearing on what happened.
. Yep you are spot on. Want to kill a big buck? Hunt where there are big bucks Pretty simple


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Re: Other feeds to attract BIG bucks [Re: Hunter Daddy] #5776013 06/06/15 02:21 AM
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Keep out corn for the does. Keep the does around and the biggest bucks in the area will be around the does.


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I'm running a 50-50 mix of corn and roasted soy bean right now. We'll see it pulls in some bigger bucks.

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How to get BIG bucks at your feeder.... in two easy steps.

First, get some BIG bucks.

Second, put feed in your feeder.

I found this formula works every time, but you have to do both steps. So many folks try to skip a step, and it just doesn't seem to work.

I know, the advice seems too simple and maybe even ridiculously stupid - but I see and hear folks every year spending a ton of money and trying every product in the world, hoping that magically BIG bucks will show up on their lease and ranch. They fall for the commercials and ads that show pics/videos of BIG bucks eating all sorts of the newest feed, nuggets, dust, mineral blocks, etc. But they don't see those folks selling those products first started with Step #1, Get some BIG bucks.

Admittedly, this is the hardest step - which is why some folks tend to skip it and jump to step #2. But it seems to be the critical step.

If the truth be known, I have actually had some success skipping step #2, if I took the time and effort to do step #1. I know, I know - it's hard to believe - but I have actually seen some BIG bucks come to the feeder looking around when there was actually no feed at all in the feeder!

Sometimes it's just impossible to do step #1. If so, then no matter what you do for step #2, it just doesn't work. Yes, Yes, I know that that there's always someone that says differently, and relates tales of BIG bucks showing up from nowhere. But every time I look into these reports, I find one of two things. Either (a) the neighbors did step #1, or (b) it's some random freak case that step #2 really had no bearing on what happened.
. Yep you are spot on. Want to kill a big buck? Hunt where there are big bucks Pretty simple


I was trying be a little humorous. smile But it is true that you won't see or shoot big bucks in an area that there are none. Just like fishing on the coast - colors and lure selection is not nearly as important as fishing where the fish are.

Re: Other feeds to attract BIG bucks [Re: stxranchman] #5776183 06/06/15 10:33 AM
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Originally Posted By: stxranchman
Keep out corn for the does. Keep the does around and the biggest bucks in the area will be around the does.


i will have to respectfully disagree with this statement, sir.


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If I send my neighbors a text and ask them to give me feedback on my lawn and plant rye into a giant dong pattern, I'm probably going to get some less than positive feedback. Same goes here.
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Keep out corn for the does. Keep the does around and the biggest bucks in the area will be around the does.


i will have to respectfully disagree with this statement, sir.
I will have to respectfully disagree with you as I believe Ranchman is right on the money with his statement.

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Keep out corn for the does. Keep the does around and the biggest bucks * in the area will be around the does.


i will have to respectfully disagree with this statement, sir.


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Re: Other feeds to attract BIG bucks [Re: stxranchman] #5776221 06/06/15 11:58 AM
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Keep out corn for the does. Keep the does around and the biggest bucks in the area will be around the does.


i will have to respectfully disagree with this statement, sir.
I will have to respectfully disagree with you as I believe Ranchman is right on the money with his statement.


i have 4 years worth of proof that this is not the case on my place, and i am sure i am working on the 5th.

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Keep out corn for the does. Keep the does around and the biggest bucks * in the area will be around the does.


i will have to respectfully disagree with this statement, sir.


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thank you sir!


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If I send my neighbors a text and ask them to give me feedback on my lawn and plant rye into a giant dong pattern, I'm probably going to get some less than positive feedback. Same goes here.
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Skip the "Sweet feed" and put out plain ole molasses, that is what they are coming to. I had friends that had a deer block business years ago, binder was molasses as the attractant.

Pears are a great draw as well.'I use a food plot, corn/protein mix, don't really think you have to think about it much harder, unless your neighbor has something like alfalfa.


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some people make feeding way to complicated...

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Does + Rut = Mature Bucks*...simple math


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You have to watch out with the sweet feed as it tends to plug up the feeder as the weather changes. I mix all kinds of crap together hoping it will attract anything. Does it work? Who knows?? Big Buck recipe -- a remote quiet acreage UNDISTURBED with water, food, does, cover.


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Corn + Does in heat = Bucks. Like Navasot said "Why make it complicated". Oh, and by the way this has worked over 50 years for me. This coming season it will have worked over 51.

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Originally Posted By: don k
Corn + Does in heat = Bucks. Like Navasot said "Why make it complicated". Oh, and by the way this has worked over 50 years for me. This coming season it will have worked over 51.


thats awesome, but year round corn and 10-15 does on camera everyday and i still dont see a mature buck from october to march, my lake rat does must just be ug or something.


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If I send my neighbors a text and ask them to give me feedback on my lawn and plant rye into a giant dong pattern, I'm probably going to get some less than positive feedback. Same goes here.
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Corn + Does in heat = Bucks. Like Navasot said "Why make it complicated". Oh, and by the way this has worked over 50 years for me. This coming season it will have worked over 51.


thats awesome, but year round corn and 10-15 does on camera everyday and i still dont see a mature buck from october to march, my lake rat does must just be ug or something.

Maybe you stink up the area to much..... peep


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Corn + Does in heat = Bucks. Like Navasot said "Why make it complicated". Oh, and by the way this has worked over 50 years for me. This coming season it will have worked over 51.


thats awesome, but year round corn and 10-15 does on camera everyday and i still dont see a mature buck from october to march, my lake rat does must just be ug or something.

Maybe you stink up the area to much..... peep


ha, well the first year or two maybe, but last year that place wasnt even hunted more than 8 or 10 times all year and probably not at all after mid-november...nothing out there but corn, does, and cameras.


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If I send my neighbors a text and ask them to give me feedback on my lawn and plant rye into a giant dong pattern, I'm probably going to get some less than positive feedback. Same goes here.
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Corn + Does in heat = Bucks. Like Navasot said "Why make it complicated". Oh, and by the way this has worked over 50 years for me. This coming season it will have worked over 51.


thats awesome, but year round corn and 10-15 does on camera everyday and i still dont see a mature buck from october to march, my lake rat does must just be ug or something.

Maybe you stink up the area to much..... peep


ha, well the first year or two maybe, but last year that place wasnt even hunted more than 8 or 10 times all year and probably not at all after mid-november...nothing out there but corn, does, and cameras.

Maybe this is his problem....


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Corn + Does in heat = Bucks. Like Navasot said "Why make it complicated". Oh, and by the way this has worked over 50 years for me. This coming season it will have worked over 51.


thats awesome, but year round corn and 10-15 does on camera everyday and i still dont see a mature buck from october to march, my lake rat does must just be ug or something.

Maybe you stink up the area to much..... peep


ha, well the first year or two maybe, but last year that place wasnt even hunted more than 8 or 10 times all year and probably not at all after mid-november...nothing out there but corn, does, and cameras.
Maybe you can thank your neighbors for that.

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yeah, i guess their corn taste better than mine and their does are prettier confused2



not really, they dont get the big ones either, it really is an incredible feat the bucks out there pull every year, we all see them all summer then poof, they gone, no feeder full of corn or hot lil lady can pull them back.

i think stx may have the answer with that pic.


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If I send my neighbors a text and ask them to give me feedback on my lawn and plant rye into a giant dong pattern, I'm probably going to get some less than positive feedback. Same goes here.
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don, i get it, i see all the bucks on here every year killed "chasing a doe" or "under a feeder" and i even killed one myself last year, on my other place.

but this little place in hunt county is different for some reason, and i was really just being sarcastic when i first posted.


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If I send my neighbors a text and ask them to give me feedback on my lawn and plant rye into a giant dong pattern, I'm probably going to get some less than positive feedback. Same goes here.
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