How do YOU attract deer?

[Silvercreek Farmer]

With all these deer falling to CBs I though it might be interesting to see how everyone was bringing them in. Last year the owner of the property I hunt had a fall garden so I guess I was "hunting over crops". This year he didn't so after hunting a few times without seeing anything he threw out a little corn, but I don't think any had found it yet, I just got lucky.

[w5pv]

Al ot of it is being smarter than the salesman that want to sell you a lot of stuff you don't need,

[DxieLandMan]

In Alabama most of my time is spent in a deer stand waiting for a deer to come by.

[sixshot]

Baiting of any kind is illegal in Idaho for big game, that includes salt. Most places I've been in Texas use corn or something similar in their feeders.

Dick

[Bullshop Junior]

For moose, you just sit and hope one walks into the field Im watching that is legal to shoot.

The couple times that I have been deer hunting was pretty much the same way, although when caribou hunting, it was more of ride around on a snow machine until i found a herd then pick one and shoot it.

[Friends call me Pac]

No baiting on public land here in Arkansas. I don't have any land other than my yard so public is where I go. Got to know how to beat them at their own game of hide and seek.

[dragon813gt]

No baiting in PA including salt licks. All licks and traces of food(you're allowed to feed out of season) need to be removed thirty days prior to archery opening in late September. That being said people get around it w/ food plots. Most keep it high fenced until this time of year when rifle season starts. I hunt on a farm. This year was soybeans which didn't bring them in. Last year was corn and they were bedding down in it and using it as a food source. The trick is to get there when the combine is running. It's like a dinner bell going off. I've never seen that many deer in the field at once.

[Smoke4320]

peanut butter .. tie a small rod to a string making a T shape .. thread string thru bottom of jar hang on limb open end down and look out ....Deer love it
plus some Sure kill doe in heat scent in a 35 MM film canister with cloth as a wick

[Digital Dan]

They are drawn to my magnetic personality whilst stalking.

[357maximum]

Hmmm...let's see....I spent about $80,000 and several years worth of toil to take what used to be a 23 acre farm field of bare dirt and convert it into a spruce/grass/shrub laden oasis. I am surrounded by a near desert of harvested crop fields come season so my little island is a good place for them to stop, eat and rest a bit....most spend their time here unmolested, but the ones I want to shoot rest in pieces in my deep freeze. In a food rich environment a bedroom is what they seek more than anything else apparently. I sit above the bedroom in an elevated treestand or my "shack" and wait til I find one I want. Wandering around hunting in this area will get you trespassing charges or a bullet depending on where you wander.

[Catsmith]

Early season sut under acorn trees. Rut sit just off of active scrape. Late season green brouse cause they are trying to fatten back up after rut. If i bate for kids i keep rice bran out.

[Wolfer]

Where I hunt on public ground it's really brushy. So brushy the deer tend to have trails they use. I just set up a few yards off where two or five trails come together. This way I have some control over the distance I shoot since I mostly hunt with a 45 colt.
Here at home I tend to know where the deer travel and just set up accordingly. Woody

[longhorn]

Anything my wife buys from a nursery seems to irresistible to the whitetails! Corn is far and away the most popular attractant in Texas. Whacking deer at a feeder isn't exactly what Jack O'Connor used to write about, but it's actually a form of varmint control around here

[nekshot]

40 years ago archery hunting I started tuning in to deer as they communicated. At first I thought a pig was around somewhere. Many calls later I have a call that really works and most of my deer are now taken as a result of calling. I called in two nice buck this year but could not get a clear shot. One was with a hot doe and it is hard to seperate them when the passions are high!

[CastingFool]

I basically sit and watch. There is a natural travel corridor from farm crops , right through my property, to a bedding area and water. Usually, I sit for about 3 hrs in the morning and 3 hrs in the afternoon. There isn't much movement between those times. I have thought of putting in a food plot (although baiting for deer is legal in MI) but other things take up my time and money. The best time to hunt my property is during the rut. That's when I see the most bucks during the day.

[missionary5155]

Greetings
Before I leave my car I rub down my boots, outer garments and bow stuff with apples. Half rotten work the best. When I am within 50 feet of my stand for the day I repeat my boots especially the soles. I have had deer tract me. Deer have licked the screw in steps on my tree stand.
Deer love apples so why not smell like one. But do be carefull when ground hunting. They will sneek up on you. This works real well in East ILLinois river bottoms and woody areas where I hunt.
Mike in Peru

[TES]

free pistol ammo to a buddy that hunts..It's so warm in my loading shack!

[waksupi]

My most effective method it to lean my rifle against a tree. Move away at least 20 feet. Drop my trousers, and hang my nether regions over a log. I also hang a bit of toilet paper from a branch as a white tail imitator.

Works every time.

[bangerjim]

I used a diamond ring, a good engineering job, and money to attract my dear.

WHAAAAAAAAAAA........!

Oh.......sorry........wrong spelling!

Never mind!

banger

[35 shooter]

My most effective method it to lean my rifle against a tree. Move away at least 20 feet. Drop my trousers, and hang my nether regions over a log. I also hang a bit of toilet paper from a branch as a white tail imitator.

Works every time.

waksupi i've found that very technique works on a wide variety of game.
You know, it never fails, i don't care what kind of day a fellow's had, you read through cast boolits forums and you'll go to bed with a smile on your face! Yep.