placing apples by deer stand question

[SmellEsox]

http://fishingminnesota.com/forum/file/userpics/2013/10/thumb-38005-37711-deerbaitingsign.jpg You might want to get a sign like this one.

[BLACKJACK]

It's the middle of October. Firearms season is a month away.

Iffin you put out a couple pails of apples now and they're still there in a month, then there are not any deer in the area. Or any other critters for that matter.

Put em out if you want to. When you go to your stand and there are still apples around I'd think aboot moving to a different spot.

+1

[mrklean]

As far as placing apples goes what for in a way, they have a long list of eats out there right now, corn,alfalfa,grass,acorns,soybeans,we gave hundreds of apples to the neighbor pig farmer and he liked that, also mentioned if you want to pound those honkers in my chopped corn this weekend go ahead ! Woodies in there also. I can see putting the apples to use and getting them out of your yard, ours were getting destroyed by Asian beetles, the cows ate them like crazy also, and you don't have to worry about whether it's bait or not or this 10 day thing. I don't even like putting a trailcam where I hunt in a way, I like leaving things as scent free as possible because I want the deer (mature deer) to feel safe and secure and not change their routes until I hopefully fold him opening day. If I do T-Cam my area I always go in on a nasty rainy windy day to retrieve it so hopefully any scent I leave is long gone, but it depends on your deer experiences where you hunt, where I'm at the mature deer are touchier than a junior high kid who breaks out with acne and doesn't sleep too well the night before.

[MUSKY18]

I was gonna say bigbucks I would hope initially the salt was placed where the deer trails already were, the deer trails in my area have been the same for 40 years and have not changed at all, because the habitat is unchanged for the most part. Salt for most of the deer is not needed in November or December where I'm at as my trailcam is getting 0 pictures unless it's 2 AM and then it's generally a fawn who's momma is hangin in someones yard.

WE have the same thing up where we rifle hunt. I have a salt lick site that I put in about 7 years ago. My girlfriends father is hunting with me this year and kept telling me that salt lick sites don't work. I almost peed my pants when he saw me standin in a hole that is now almost knee deep on me. I placed it right next to a main trail and the deer still use that trail. Heck couple years ago I had 7 does/fawns at the lick opening morning of rifle. Shot the biggest doe and the rest just continued to lick on the salt block. They definately work!

[Fever]

This is an interesting topic. I hunt about 4.5 hours from where I live and run a camera for about 6 months out of the year up there and only check it once in Oct and again in Nov. I went as far back as I could after studying google earth into a oak ridge area with no real defined trails / but many smaller ones. I established a Lucky buck mineral site about 2 years ago. Since then I've gotten thousands of pics and now there are 3 very defined dear highways that come in from 3 ridges that meet in a triangle. That Mineral site is about 18 inches deep and has a 6-8 foot diameter. My stand is about 40 yds to the south east of where they (trails) meet up. When I checked my cam about a week 1/2 ago, I dumped a single bucket of Lucky Buck to refresh the mineral site, a single 3/4 bucket of apples, a bag of rut-n-apples,some buck lickers on a stump, and some molasses. Also made 2 mock scrapes with drippers about 150 yds to the NE of my stand site. And put a camera on one I made with code blue TRF. My intent was to add some more appeal to a small (core travel route where I think bucks cruz for does) area surrounded by thousands of acres of land. I have pine, spruce, and birchy bedding areas to the east of me about 400 yds and to the west of me about 200 yds with Oak stands,ravines and draws, with plenty of acorns running N/S for a couple thousand uninterupted yds. Considering the 950 plus picks of deer alone that were on that card from that spot in 89 days - I'm confident the apples, and other attractants will be long gone by Nov.9th. I'm actually looking forward most to checking my sd cards on the afternoon of Nov.8th. The pics received from Oct.5th - Nov.8th will help me to maintain the sit from dark to dark for the 4 days (if need be) I'll be hunting. Also the info on the pics will allow me to make a better decision of the buck I choose to harvest as I'll know what was there recently. It seems in the last few years, I've had just as much fun running cameras,scouting, and getting good pics of deer (learning about them) as I do with the actual sit,hunt,shot, and harvest of an animal. I wouldn't worry about a bucket or two of apples at all. They will be long gone by Nov.9th unless there are no animals in your area. Then (like stated above) you prob should hunt somewhere else.