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Non mineral attractants for trail camera sites

deerhunter93

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The property where I am running my trail cameras currently is pretty small and there is no way I could have a mineral site on it with being able to hunt in the fall. What are some options that I have to attract deer/bucks to my trail camera sites that wont leave a trace so I can hunt close in the fall? I know corn is one option, does anyone have some other suggestions?

I do have a salt block that I could put in a tub or something like that - would that work? This summer has been dry so having a tub flood from rain probably wouldn't be an issue.
 
Find an apple tree and pick up the bad apples that fall off. My parents have an old apple tree that produces loads of apples. I dump 5 gallon bucket of apples out for each cam and get loads of pics. Bucket usually lasts about 8 days in high density areas. Deer clean up every last apple.
 
Find an apple tree and pick up the bad apples that fall off. My parents have an old apple tree that produces loads of apples. I dump 5 gallon bucket of apples out for each cam and get loads of pics. Bucket usually lasts about 8 days in high density areas. Deer clean up every last apple.
I concur - apples are the ticket.
 
I have a local orchard that lets me pick up all of the apples off the ground I want. Good deal for me and the orchard. If you have an orchard nearby, you might ask if you can do that.
 
I'm kinda in the same boat, I hate to lose an area to hunt because there is mineral close. Apples is a great idea! I know of some crab apple trees I can hit up too!
 
I agree with the apples! I do the same every year starting around August or so. Works great!
 
We have an orchard out back and I pick apples from there and toss them in my corn. I agree with apples, easy to pick up too.
 
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