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Best Deer Feed Attractant
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10/23/17 05:34 PM
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Brian C.
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Store bought right of the bag or home made concoction let's here it....
Personally I've enjoyed roasted corn and soybeans with a few cut up apples thrown around.
God Bless Texas!!! Godspeed our Military!
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Re: Best Deer Feed Attractant
[Re: Brian C.]
#6930106
10/23/17 05:35 PM
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Joined: Nov 2010
Posts: 29,635
SapperTitan
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Corn everything else is marketed to attract the buyers aka hunter
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Re: Best Deer Feed Attractant
[Re: Brian C.]
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10/24/17 02:33 AM
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Roll-Tide
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I've tried everything.
Corn, they ain't touching it, to much natural food.
Deer cane, had some stragglers come by to check it out.
Salt lick, nothing.
Peanut butter and molasses, nothing
Rice bran, nothing.
Sugar beet crush, notihing
Persimmon crush, nothing.
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Re: Best Deer Feed Attractant
[Re: SapperTitan]
#6930855
10/24/17 02:39 AM
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TexasKC
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Corn everything else is marketed to attract the buyers aka hunter I agree. Plain 'ol corn works for me.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years.
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Re: Best Deer Feed Attractant
[Re: Brian C.]
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10/24/17 02:42 AM
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If corn isn't working your best bet is to not hunt corn. Everyone is looking for the easy road but there is no magic. Stop doing whats not working and try something new. Hunt trails to and from bedding, water, other food sources. Hunt scrape or rub lines. Sitting there hoping they finally decide to come to an attractant is a sure way to not find success.
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Re: Best Deer Feed Attractant
[Re: Brian C.]
#6931297
10/24/17 02:17 PM
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Joined: May 2007
Posts: 8,169
westtexaswatkins
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Corn for sure. I also have a couple of protein feeders next to my corn feeders. Just about every deer that comes to my corn feeder always jumps in the pen to eat some protein too. The free choice protein gives my deer something to snack on while they are waiting for the corn feeder to go off as well. I feed corn and protein year around. On a side note, my deer took quite a while to start eating the protein but once they got started I can't keep the feeders full.
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Re: Best Deer Feed Attractant
[Re: SapperTitan]
#6939476
10/30/17 05:10 PM
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Erathkid
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If corn isn't working your best bet is to not hunt corn. Everyone is looking for the easy road but there is no magic. Stop doing whats not working and try something new. Hunt trails to and from bedding, water, other food sources. Hunt scrape or rub lines. Sitting there hoping they finally decide to come to an attractant is a sure way to not find success. Yep. Watching an unproductive feeder is a drag. Get out and rattle. Do something different.
Life is too short, as is. Don't chance it. Don't text and drive.
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Re: Best Deer Feed Attractant
[Re: westtexaswatkins]
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10/31/17 07:34 PM
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AdvTX
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Corn for sure. I also have a couple of protein feeders next to my corn feeders. Just about every deer that comes to my corn feeder always jumps in the pen to eat some protein too. The free choice protein gives my deer something to snack on while they are waiting for the corn feeder to go off as well. I feed corn and protein year around. On a side note, my deer took quite a while to start eating the protein but once they got started I can't keep the feeders full. Feel like I wrote that lol I can't keep mine full either
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Re: Best Deer Feed Attractant
[Re: westtexaswatkins]
#6964884
11/18/17 06:04 PM
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DLALLDER
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Corn for sure. I also have a couple of protein feeders next to my corn feeders. Just about every deer that comes to my corn feeder always jumps in the pen to eat some protein too. The free choice protein gives my deer something to snack on while they are waiting for the corn feeder to go off as well. I feed corn and protein year around. On a side note, my deer took quite a while to start eating the protein but once they got started I can't keep the feeders full. Just how long is quite a while?? A month, 6 months or a year?
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Re: Best Deer Feed Attractant
[Re: Brian C.]
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12/31/17 09:41 PM
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DH3
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Had good results with Double Down.  
Old age and treachery beats youth and stupid every time!
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Re: Best Deer Feed Attractant
[Re: DLALLDER]
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01/02/18 09:26 AM
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stxhunter
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Just how long is quite a while?? A month, 6 months or a year?
Started protein this year. Had tried in previous years but failed. This year I purchased a timed protein feeder from all seasons which kept a constant supply of protein out. Had it not been for the timed unit I'm sure they still wouldn't have taken to eating protein (years past with a different feeder coons would dump the whole thing out). It took the deer from March all the way till the week after thanksgiving to eat protein out of the feeder! From the time they started eating through 1 week before Christmas I had over 1k pictures of deer eating protein! Feeding Double Down. Every time I go to my hunting areas, even during off season, I ALWAYS corn the roads. Eventually they get used to the sound of the ATV and know food isn't far behind.
Last edited by stxhunter; 01/02/18 09:33 AM.
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Re: Best Deer Feed Attractant
[Re: Brian C.]
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01/05/18 05:51 AM
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sbushee
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What’s with the pic of the deer being skinned?
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Re: Best Deer Feed Attractant
[Re: sbushee]
#7025637
01/05/18 06:41 AM
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Trenton
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What’s with the pic of the deer being skinned? Maybe showing all the fat on the deer?
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Re: Best Deer Feed Attractant
[Re: Trenton]
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01/06/18 04:08 AM
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What’s with the pic of the deer being skinned? Maybe showing all the fat on the deer? Looks kinda skinny
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Re: Best Deer Feed Attractant
[Re: Brian C.]
#7027043
01/06/18 02:08 PM
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Posts: 641
Buck25-06
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Plant wheat spread corn seems to work best
I know allot about everything-Everything about nothing!!!!
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Re: Best Deer Feed Attractant
[Re: Brian C.]
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02/27/18 01:23 PM
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Age N Score ?
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I Feed Indian Corn. The deer love it and all the colors make them stay at the feeder longer.
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