It's ... A.... TRAP... (liquid deer attractant..eew..)

[SoCalDem]

Buying, planting, waiting for deer
http://www.startribune.com/533/story/650685.html

Land and crop management for wildlife has become more and more commercial, with all sorts of products available to attract animals, particularly deer. The question is, does it work?

Dennis Anderson, Star Tribune

Buying, planting, waiting for deer

No lie -- another whopper

Here's another chance -- the last? -- to get it right

Dennis Anderson: When lakes and DQ won't do it anymore
In the past few years I've become ever more curious about the revolution -- an apt word -- in land management for wildlife, particularly as it benefits deer.

And deer hunters.

At least that's the theory.

Land and crop management have been popular among wildlife enthusiasts and, particularly, among hunters since the days a century ago when Aldo Leopold offered his thoughts on game and game management.

But not until the past few years has the effort gone so commercial. Walk in any aisle of any sporting goods store, be it Cabelas, Gander Mountain, Sportsman's Warehouse or Joe's, and entire aisles are filled with colorful packages of seed. The promise on the bags is that if you plant it, they -- meaning deer -- will come. Of course, among the poorer times to plant many seed varieties is now, in late summer. My friend, wildlife photographer Bill Marchel, for example, has been cultivating his various food plots since early summer, hampered as he has been this year in the Brainerd area by a lack of rain.

Still, during my visits to various outdoors retailers in the past month, I've sought out sales people and let them pitch me on what I should plant on the properties I hunt. One such area is near this northwest Wisconsin town, on land owned by a friend. The other is in northern Minnesota, near Cook, on land my brother and I own. Skeptical as I was that I could get something to grow this late in the season that would benefit wildlife, I nevertheless bought a couple of bags of seed, if for no other reason than to experiment.

Some of my skepticism was cultivated last fall when I undertook a similar exercise. Intrigued then by the many, many jugs of food-flavored liquid deer attractant being sold to hunters at the same retailers, I bought a few of the containers to try the stuff out. I didn't hunt over it. Rather, I poured it on a stump or two in my yard -- a place many deer already frequent, attracted in many instances by an old apple tree that still regularly bears fruit.


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[Jamastiene]

1. The hunters around here use female deer piss to attract

the males. They sometimes wear it into the grocery stores and to work and school as well because they spent the night hunting and hadn't gone home and washed up yet. They also keep telling me I am supposed to fall in love with them too. Let's just say I am NOT all doe eyed yet.

[larrysh]

2. I was antler rattling a few years ago, on my land in E. Texas.....

and was sitting there under a tree, hidden behind a pretty good size
bush. I was covered in doe scent, to the point my wife wouldn't let me back in the trailor later that day. I was sitting there, periodically clashing the antlers (to simulate two bucks fighting over a doe), when
a big buck came crashing out of the woods. He was headed dead at my happy ass....Now I have hunted for years and made some pretty difficult long-range shots...but I was totally unprepared to be ATTACKED, more or less. He must have been awful randy! Anyway, I stood up and started to get a bead on him when he veered to one side, snorting and blowing away,and you know what? Seeing him up close like that, I couldn't bring myself to take a shot...

[SoCalDem]

3. Sounds like you were lucky he did not get more "friendly"

with you.. Maybe you were not his type :evilgrin:

[China_cat]

4. We always used to just salt a spot

It'd bring the deer just as quick as corning one.

[bobbolink]

5. Just plant deer candy -- tulips.

Every gardner in the mountains knows that. :)

[bobbolink]

6. Then wait for the mountain lions to show up.

:hi:

[SoCalDem]

7. Ahh.. the circle of life

:scared:

[BreweryYardRat]

12. Shit, that'd be worth baiting deer for if I'm ever living out West.

I like mountain lions a hell of a lot more than I like deer.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

10. Here we call those squirrel candy

Out of 75 I planted they dug up all but one, It looked so lonely (and more than a little afraid) out there.

The deer eat everything else though. :)

[bobbolink]

13. Ah, squirrels.... You know how Lutherans get rid of squirrels?

They baptize them, and after that they only see the squirrels at Christmas and Easter.

Thanks, Garrison! :hi:

[Lone_Star_Dem]

14. LOL!

:rofl:

Good one!

[bobbolink]

15. Glad you liked it! Garrison Keillor was on a roll about Lutherans

that day. :)

So, you know how we know that Adam was a Lutheran?

What other man would be standing next to a nekkid woman, and obsess about a piece of fruit?

~~gigglesnort~~

[RB TexLa]

8. Talk about a waste of money

Without getting too descriptive, there is a used feminine product that attracts deer better than any store bought product.

[SoCalDem]

9. eew... just eew.. is venison THAT tasty?

:puke:

[RB TexLa]

11. Yes it is. n/t