Peanutbutter for deer?

[351 WINCHESTER]

I had a guy tell one time that if I put some peanutbutter at the base of a small tree that had been rubbed that the deer would "root it up". Since I always have peanutbutter in my truck I tried it. It never worked. Maybe the deer was no longer with us? I saw the guy sometime later and he asked me if I had taken his advice and I told him I did and he seemed puzzled. Maybe I should used crunchy instead of creamy?

Has anyone heard of this?

 

[Tacbandit]

Did you check the expiration date...??? Just kidding...Heard this once before, figured someone was trying to have fun at someone elses expense...Heck, why bother when you can use C'mere Deer...? Good luck

 

[camoman33935]

yeah....I've used it before

what we do is use a screw to attach the lid to a tree and then re-unite the lid and container. then you just cut the bottom of the jar off and the deer come in and lick the peanut butter out

as far as crunchy or creamy.....it doesnt really matter

 

[moojpg2]

apples

apples work wonders

 

[Big Daddy Grim]

I like using corn cobs

 

[ColeK]

Corn on or off the cob, apples and persimmons work wonders provided you don’t get arrested for baitin’.

 

[Big Daddy Grim]

I do it for pictures not huntin but I wish my huntin went that good

 

[moooose102]

i usually take a couple of apples with me. i smash one, and grind it into a couple of tree trunks, so the smell will radiate. IF there are normally apples in the location, this works. if there are no apples naturally, it SEEMS to work sometimes. not nearly as often as the area that does have apple trees.

 

[GooseGestapo]

Yeah, it "works"!
At attracting Game Wardens......

My all-time favorite are "pine-apple" trees. Apples stuck on the limbs of a small pine trees near rubs and scrapes. A sign of a "green horn" hunter. Or as one of my old-timer hunter-ed instructors who was a WWII vet put it......"you can tell how green the green-horn is by the length of his "sa-word"(sword= hunting knife!!!)".
Peanut butter on trees (peanut tree?), apples on pine trees (pine-apple tree?), smashed apples (pears, persimmons under oak tree), corn under an oak tree (yellow acorns?); all get a real chuckle (and another visit while being hunted) from the g-w's.

I'd write a book, but others already have. Nothing really new to contribute.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Odd that in Deep Southern States apparently you may use dogs to hunt the whitetail, but no bait, but in the Mid Atlantic States you may use bait, and feeders, but no dogs for the deer. I stake out an apple tree. Works fine!

LD

 

[ilike223s]

I uae apples ,hard shelled corn and C'Mere deer
I put a trail camera out, I have pics of Deer eating the C'Mere deer right off a sheet of ply wood.
Down in NC. the guide used sweet tatters,the Deer were eating them up. along with hard corn, but the Deer didnt touch the corn, the hogs did, He said it was to hot for Deer to eat corn this time of year, because it burns there stomachs.beats me, All i know is the Deer i watched never touched the corn, only the tatters,

 

[langenc]

Persimmons-DONT wast them on a deer.

 

[B.D. Turner]

Should have used Jiff

 

[ranger335v]

"Odd that in Deep Southern States apparently you may use dogs to hunt the whitetail, but no bait,"

Nothing odd about it. Baiting is not "fair chase hunting", it's ambushing. We don't take kindly to that in the South.

Deer in the South often means deer in the deep swamps, there is no way to get them out except with dogs. And if you think it's easy to get a shot at them with chase dogs, you just ain't tried it.

 

[BigBuckMaster]

huntin for meat.

i hunted for meat for my family from age 6-18, taking as many as 12 deer a year (we were dirt poor, so didnt bother with tags- we needed meat!) useing a Remington 700 .308 that we got for selling our nice desk. i only baited ONCE, and that was for a big 14 point deer i had been seeing. i used peanutbutter and some rotten appels i got out of a restarunts trashcan.

so, yes peanutbutter works, so do appels. i dont use any fancy stuff to bait my deer- just stalk em or wait for em.

in the 80 or so deer i killed FOR MEAT it was in the deep swamps (with no dogs) in a tree, using rattlin' antlers and a grunt call i sold my switchblade for (i bought it back later) or stalk-n-shoot. i did only 5 deer drives killing 8 deer in total.

i loved hunting, reading every magizean, book- anything with hunting in it. when i was 21 i took my first ele (35 lb x 41 lb). i craved to hunt the world.

little did i know that one day i would be a law dog (lawyer) and go to africa 17 times, S. America 11, Down Under 5, Asia/Russia 8, and Europe twice (about a 1/3 or a 1/4 with my wife by my side, trying to out shoot me. took my son to africa once also)