Does anybody use these for hunting? Results?
I used to hunt public land, so I never bothered, didn't want to give up my stealthy spots. Since I purchased my own parcel, I put a couple out last fall. Didn't get a lot of action then, but since about June, the spots where I put them have been getting destroyed. I put both on old tree stumps, and they have since been licked/chewed down to solid green wood and the soil about pawed and licked up pretty impressively. Put a camera on one, and snowshoe hare and deer, heavy on the bucks, have been the primary customers. So much traffic routing to the 2 block locations they've been altering the basic deer movement patterns through the parcel.
I'm using micronutrient blocks from the feed store. Soil is silty loam saturated with acidic bog water and heavy in dissolved iron, so likely natural free minerals are scarce, especially in the basic spectrum. Anybody have similar results with mineral licks?
I used to hunt public land, so I never bothered, didn't want to give up my stealthy spots. Since I purchased my own parcel, I put a couple out last fall. Didn't get a lot of action then, but since about June, the spots where I put them have been getting destroyed. I put both on old tree stumps, and they have since been licked/chewed down to solid green wood and the soil about pawed and licked up pretty impressively. Put a camera on one, and snowshoe hare and deer, heavy on the bucks, have been the primary customers. So much traffic routing to the 2 block locations they've been altering the basic deer movement patterns through the parcel.
I'm using micronutrient blocks from the feed store. Soil is silty loam saturated with acidic bog water and heavy in dissolved iron, so likely natural free minerals are scarce, especially in the basic spectrum. Anybody have similar results with mineral licks?