Good call Grouse, I put mineral and a few cams out 2 weeks ago, but this weekend I will be deploying more cams.
I agree on the mineral, it may not help but it sure doesn’t hurt. It’s cheap and easy and a good way to keep your heard healthy.
Yep, I had the A5 gen 2’s out all winter and they are still running flawlessly. Got decent battery life out of them too, but we didn’t have a real severe winter temp wise. I am very impressed with this cam for the price!
What do you guys use for you mineral sites?
Good tcams for the cabbage.
Good post!
Hinged a bunch of trees and setup 2 new mineral site’s a couple weeks ago. It is way to much fun to do habitat work.
What do you guys use for you mineral sites?
Keep in mind that mineral sites are attractive to deer almost exclusively from the late spring to early fall. Now is not a great time to establish a site.
I have 3 mineral sites and they are heavily visited in the summer, but once September rolls around, the deer almost completely ignore the sites. They don’t crave the salt and mineral in the cooler weather nearly as much, so at a “taking inventory” asset, they are not nearly as good of a place to locate a cam.
As far as what to use, I mix my own using a recipe Sticker and Deertracker have shared on this site:
Ingredients: Makes 200 lbs
1 part Di-calcium phosphate, this is a dairy feed additive bought at feed stores. Comes in 50lb Bags you need one bag.
2 parts Trace mineral salt, the red and loose kind without the medications. Comes in 50lb Bags you need two bags.
1 part Stock salt, also called ice cream salt. Comes in 50lb Bags you need one bag.
Blend all 4 bags of the mix together. IME this makes enough for me to put out one five gallon bucket of the mix on each of my 3 sites, and it still leaves enough left over to refresh the sites in the middle of the summer. Save leftovers in a large, plastic storage container or 5 gallon buckets with tight lids.
Pour the mixture directly on the ground and use the same sites year after year.
Grouse
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