Mineral site…stump or ground?

I will be putting out my mineral sites soon(still have 6-8 inches snow). Do you guys put mineral on stumps or gound, and why? Thanks.

Nut

They both work. I put mine in the ground simply because I don’t have any stumps. The mineral soaks into both and deer love it. Personally I think they can eat the dirt/mineral more readily than chewing off the stump, but they do that too.

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They both work. I put mine in the ground simply because I don’t have any stumps. The mineral soaks into both and deer love it. Personally I think they can eat the dirt/mineral more readily than chewing off the stump, but they do that too.

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X2 I like to have the mineral mixed into the dirt. The mineral leaches into surounding soil and will last for years. I moved a mineral site about 10 years ago and every time it rains they are back to using the old site

I like to put my granular or block mineral in the dirt, where as I put my liquid mineral on stumps. Really not a ton of reasoning, but I feel like mixing the granular with the soil lets the mineral leach into the soil during precipitation (soil helping to hold the mineral in that concentrated area). With the stump and liquid mineral, I see it more as an absorbing wick that allows the mineral to saturate into the wood between application and precipitation. I found years ago that with granular mineral over stumps the deer nose it around and it all ends up at the base of the stump in awkward root laden crack, crevasses, and trenches that appear more difficult for the deer to work around. More over, I don’t like pouring my liquid mineral in the soil on the spot I want only to have to not soak in quick enough and watch it run towards the edge of my trail camera view (elongating the site overall).

Thanks for the answers. Makes sense, so ground it will be…..when the stinkin snow finally goes.

Nut

Dump it right on the snow in a pile, salt melts the snow…. im goin thru about 10 pounds every 3 to 4 weeks, if i mix 5 pounds of Monster Raxx with 50#s of corn, its all cleaned up in 3 days. Id rather just pile it up and let my deer eat straight mineral rather than having them consume dirt to get the minerals imtryin to force feed them.

I should add i prefer sites with a bit of a slope, i dont have good luck with deer hitting minerls sites when they are briming with water. Placing them on a slight slope helps with run off and rather than having it leach into the soil straight down it leeches across the soil as stated above elongating the soil

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They both work. I put mine in the ground simply because I don’t have any stumps. The mineral soaks into both and deer love it. Personally I think they can eat the dirt/mineral more readily than chewing off the stump, but they do that too.

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There is something cool about watching a stump disappear from the deer eating it down to nothing!