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Tips for Deer Hunting Over Bait and Attractants

September 6, 2018/0 Comments/in GYT 90 Blog /by GYT90

Deer Bait and Attractants 101

It’s an exciting time of the year for many hunters as we approach the end of summer and begin to entire the cooler months of Fall. The grocery supercenters and gas stations in most suburban and rural areas start setting pallets of one of the highest selling hunting products on the market; deer bait. Suddenly, the timber and fields where we hunt are deposited with concentrated piles of sustenance and we have been practicing this ritual ever since we can remember. Pouring out bait to attract whitetail deer can sometimes be complicated, but it doesn’t have to be.

Hunters have been baiting, attracting, and feeding deer for decades, with the main purpose of enticing that mature buck to come into shooting range during daylight hours. In recent years, and with the wide use of trail cameras, hunters are now using bait to create feeding hubs that generate numerous quality trail camera photos of their deer herd. As we study to learn more about the nutritional biology of whitetails, it’s been discovered that the supplemental feeding of deer shows benefits if done during the off-season. Even with all the complexity and politics surrounding the world of baiting, deer feed and deer corn continues to fly off the shelves across all regions in North America. The basic principles of baiting remain unchanged, however, new products, better strategies, and advanced tactics can dramatically improve the success you might achieve when baiting and attracting deer.

What is the Best Bait for Deer?

A whitetail buck’s antlers are comprised of 22% calcium, 11% phosphorous, and the remaining balance is a mix of protein, trace minerals, and ash. When searching for a feed, attractant, or bait product, it’s important to look for these key ingredients of calcium and phosphorous on the package. By far the most popular and widely used bait for attracting whitetails is corn. Not only is deer corn highly consumed and well received by whitetails in almost every habitat across the continent, but it’s also one of the cheapest options for hunters. Corn contains several of these essential nutrients for whitetails that improve their health and ability to survive leading into winter. Baiting with corn is always a highly recommended source for whitetails and remains as one of the best product choices out there. However, hunters using corn should keep in mind that it can be enhanced.

PHOTO: GYT90’s crude soybean oil content is thick enough to cover the corn kernels with a glaze and acts as an attractant enhancer from its soybean aroma. It also supplies heightened taste and an instinctual need whitetails have for the highest nutritional intake for their time feeding.

One product that is sometimes overlooked, but proves to be highly effective year in and year out, is soybeans. Since soybeans aren’t commercially sold at the same level corn is, outdoorsmen and outdoorswomen don’t seem to pursue it as much. However, if you have ever hunted over a freshly cut soybean field, or a standing soybean field in the late season you have seen the impact they have on deer. These locations can act as a free bait piles and will definitely attract several deer. Corn and soybeans contain a higher combined percentage of calcium and phosphorous than acorns, apples, alfalfa, or clover. Not to mention carbs and fats deer seek in the fall. Without soybeans being readily available, hunters will have a hard time accessing this without planting soybean food plots. Fortunately there is another option!

New deer bait and feed products surface frequently, but only a select few make an impact on everyday hunters. One such product is something that can take standard deer corn bait sites, and enhance them with the nutritional power, scent, and taste of soybeans. The soybean oil based deer mineral and feed supplement “GYT90” gives hunters the best of both worlds when mixed with a standard bag of corn. GYT90’s crude soybean oil content is thick enough to cover the corn kernels with a glaze and acts as an attractant enhancer from its soybean aroma. It also supplies heightened taste and an instinctual need whitetails have for the highest nutritional intake for their time feeding. Deer corn, enhanced with GYT90’s soybean oil based nutrition and 90+ mineral supplement means that your bait site is optimized for attracting deer. Now it’s time to discuss where to put this potent mixture.

How to use GYT 90: Corn

How to use GYT 90: Corn

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The Best Locations for Deer Bait and Feed Sites

With the best deer bait and feed in hand you need to find the most effective locations for hunting, recon, or attracting deer. Specific bait locations can vary based on terrain, wind direction, competing food sources, use, etc. However, there is one common denominator when deciding where to place your bait site and that is its proximity to deer bedding locations.

If you are truly looking to hunt over bait, you need to understand deer movement and how deer would potentially be traveling to and from your bait site. In addition, you need to look at how you might access and hunt that compared to where the deer will already be. Several hunters will throw out bait at a location that best suits their access restrictions or feasibility. One of the biggest mistakes hunters make is placing bait in locations where deer usually won’t access during daylight shooting hours. As successful as deer bait is, at the end of the day its hard to force a deer to travel to a place they do not want to be. Frustration can quickly set in when hunting over a bait site and seeing minimal deer activity, then returning the next day to hunt that same location only to find your bait pile has been almost entirely consumed. Mature bucks may become lazy and purposely nocturnal to avoid exposing themselves in daylight.

Avoid this pitfall by placing your bait near known bedding areas. This will reduce the time it takes for deer to travel when they begin to move out of their beds towards evening feeding locations. This will generate a greater return on your investment of feed and time, and a better overall hunting experience.

Conversely, if the sole purpose of your bait site is to generate a higher quantity of trail camera photos and night time feeding is not as much of a concern, you will have more options for your bait site locations. Generating intel and surveying your deer herd is extremely valuable for in season recon, developing a hit-list, or watching survivors through the winter. The objective is to create a resource or destination point for deer that positions them directly in front of your camera. Bait sites are a fabulous tool to utilize for this activity. You do however want to avoid frequently visiting those sites to minimize intrusion. Using a product and a feeding mechanism that reduces routinely trafficking that area will increase your odds of obtaining quality trail camera pictures.

PHOTO: GYT90 is unique from other liquid attractants in that it uses an oil base instead of a water base. Water based attractants will evaporate and dissipate quicker than oil, which will result in more frequent refills to that bait site.

Deer Bait Station Types

When considering how to distribute your bait, there are several different options available. Elevated feeders, such as open trough style feeders, gravity fed feeders, and mechanized feeders all create methods to raise your bait pile up off the ground. The purpose of placing bait in elevated feeders is to minimize the consumption of non-targeted wildlife such as raccoons, squirrels, wild pigs, etc. The easiest feeders to get your hands on are simple gravity feeders, trough feeders, or more advanced deer feeders that dispense feed on the ground below at specific times.

However, you don’t need to spend tons of money on a feeder to have a productive bait site. In fact, some feeder setups may decrease mature buck usage as some deer just tend to avoid feeder sites and/or camera sites, especially with human scent in the area.

At the basic level the simplest bait site is a corn pile or mineral site for deer on the ground or on some sort of platform, usually in the form of decaying wood logs or stumps. The rotten wood in a dead log or stump is more absorbent than a freshly fallen tree and will soak in the attractant or mineral. However, minerals alone are not enough to keep deer enticed throughout the fall from their summer patterns. Mineral use decreases as deer diet changes from lush summer forage to acorns, grain, and woody browse. Read more about transitioning mineral sites to attractive hunting bait sites here.

PHOTO: GYT90 has the ability to create a bait site without the use of any additional grain or seed mixed in. A couple alternatives to the previously discussed corn mixture include simply pouring out GYT90 over a dead log, rotten stump, or directly on exposed soil. Another advantage of using the GYT90 blend is that it can be used just by clearing away some debris and uncovering the bare soil. Emptying a 1-gallon jug over a few feet of exposed ground will result in consistent heavy deer traffic at that site.

Best Trail Camera Setups Over Deer Bait and Feed Sites

For any bait, feed, hunting, or mineral site a trail camera is a must. Normally, without attraction, trying to funnel deer activity in front of your trail camera can be tricky during certain months of the year depending on the type of habitat that you are in. Minerals, supplemental feeding products, and deer attractants can all be highly desired by deer at various times on an annual basis. Most trail cameras on the market today have settings that let you adjust the picture resolution and the photo/video frequency. Reducing the picture resolution to low and extending the trigger frequency between photos will prolong your battery life and extend the time between visits to your camera. You can get away with longer picture/event durations since deer at feed/mineral sites will spend between 3-5 minutes at least feeding at or licking the site. Adjusting the settings down to that 3-5 minute mark during non-hunting months and then back to a higher frequency of photos (30 seconds- 1 minute) during hunting months. This tactic will prolong battery life, slow down the rate at which the memory cards fill up, and reduce the amount of time you spend checking the site.

PHOTO: Using a 3-in-1 product like GYT90 takes the guess-work out of it and allows you to provide all the best resources that deer seek throughout the entire year in one single bottle. More and more hunters are leaving their game cameras out all year long to monitor the herd even in the off-season.

You also want to avoid pouring your bait in an area with mature foliage and tall vegetation. A location that might be great in the Fall and Winter might not be ideal during Spring and Summer when the temperatures warm and the green-up impacts the photos being taken on your camera. The last thing you want to see when thumbing through your full SD card is 2,000 photos of grass swaying in the wind.

Hunting Setups Over Bait

Using the right bait and placing it at the right location are two key factors when hunting over bait, but hunters often overlook the 3rd crucial element that is equally as important. Stand or blind placement, down to the exact tree or site, as it relates to that bait site must be thoroughly thought out prior to choosing your location. Again, you want to understand which direction the deer typically travel from (the bedding area) in order to reach your bait site. Then you want to pinpoint their direction of travel away from the bait site (a large food source). Next, you want to account for the wind direction that will put all the odds in your favor to go undetected when hunting over that bait site. Finally, you’ll have to figure out how you plan on entering the hunting setup without blowing your wind across the bedding area, bait site, or large food source.

Photo: Form your hunting setup before you place the bait, considering bedding areas, deer travel, larger food sources, tree stand placement, wind direction, and access. More importantly don’t be afraid to shut down a bait site if it’s not working in your favor.

The ideal setup has the bait site in between your stand and where the deer will travel from, with the wind blowing in your face on your hike in and while hunting. Shifting winds that blow your scent over the bait pile will result in poor hunting experiences with minimal mature buck sightings. Consider your stand or blind placement and wind direction prior to creating your bait site. Try to also give yourself options. If the wind isn’t consistent or tends to swirl in that particular location, opt out of hunting it or continuing to bait the site. It’s hard to pick up a pile of corn after it has been poured, but you can seal a bait or mineral site up if you choose to relocate.

Conclusion

Baiting deer for the purposes of hunting is a long tradition that has been refined throughout time. There is a lot more thought and strategy that goes into it than just dumping out a pile of tasty treats. Baiting also has several applications that can be utilized for growing and maintaining a healthy deer herd. By understanding what nutrients to look for and which resources contain those nutrients, you can impact the overall attractiveness of your bait site. Combine that with an effective strategy when scouting and hunting around that bait location and you can maximize your hunting experience year after year!

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Note: Check your state’s regulations for baiting, feeding, and attracting wildlife and deer during any time of the year and especially the regulations concerning hunting over bait.

Note: Feeding corn in the winter months, especially in large quantities to a herd that normally does not have access to that type of food source could be dangerous. Since the deer herd might not have enough of the right bacteria to digest corn it can cause acidosis and death for individuals in the herd. Do not feed corn in the winter in large amounts, and if a feed program must be started start in periodic small amounts to allow for the bacteria to adjust in a deer’s stomach.

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How to Maximize Your Trail Camera Pictures This Summer

June 29, 2018/0 Comments/in GYT 90 Blog /by GYT90

Trail Camera and Mineral Strategies for Summer Bucks

Trail cameras are widely used by most hunters during two times of the year, summer and fall. Trail cameras are a great way to keep track of new bucks, buck movement, and hunt-able patterns during fall. Fall more or less relates to making observations for hunting but summer is when a lot of critical information beyond just hunting can be generated. This summer data includes fawn recruitment, deer density, and making that all so coveted hit list for the fall. Given the importance of obtaining this type of information, how do you maximize your effectiveness of using trail cameras during the summer? Using supplemental minerals and deer feed to draw deer into your camera sites is a great way to maximize effectiveness. This article will discuss where you should put mineral sites and how many mineral sites you need to increase your effectiveness of using trail cameras.

Mineral and Trail Camera Site Locations

The location of your mineral sites is important to maximize the number of pictures you’ll get. When picking locations it’s important to not overthink it. If your goal is to increase the number of pictures you’re getting, then there’s no need to think about placing mineral sites in high-risk areas such as bedding sites. You don’t need to potentially risk pushing deer out of cover to check your cameras during the summer. Instead, place your mineral sites in areas that are low-risk and are already being frequented by deer. These high-use areas are also particularly important when you are first establishing a mineral site. For example, if you don’t already have an established mineral site for deer on your property, then deer have to learn what supplemental mineral is and where it is located before they will use it consistently. Consistent use of mineral sites translates into more pictures for you. Establishing a mineral site close to a food plot or agricultural field can decrease the amount of time it takes for deer to find these sites. Another location to consider is to establish a site along with a travel corridor so deer can use it on their way from bedding to feeding.

One of the great things about establishing these sites is that deer will continue to use them even after the mineral appears to be gone. This is because rainfall will cause minerals to leach into the soil. This doesn’t mean that you should freshen your mineral sites up because you should. Having a fresh supply of minerals will promote consistent use by deer. But having these established sites means you will have consistent areas to place your cameras year after year.

Mineral Site Density on a Property

Choosing an appropriate number of mineral sites for your property is important when trying to increase the efficiency of running your trail cameras. This may seem counterintuitive, but you can actually have too many mineral sites on a property. But how can that be? More is better, isn’t it? Not necessarily.

Having too many mineral sites on a property will give your deer herd more options which will ultimately spread their use out among the sites and potentially decrease consistency. Decreased consistency translates into decreasing the number of pictures you will get from trail cameras and decrease your ability to pattern deer for the upcoming fall.
So how many mineral sites do you need on your property? A good rule of thumb is generally one mineral site per 100 acres. Depending on what part of the country you live in, an average home range of a buck is about 1000 acres and the average home range of a doe is about 600 acres. That means if you have a property smaller than that, deer are also using your neighbor’s properties. Although mineral sites can help you hold deer on your property, the odds that an individual deer is exclusively using your property is slim and putting multiple mineral sites within a 100-acre property is overkill. However, there are always exceptions. For example, let’s say you hunt 100 acres and have two food plots on opposite ends of the property. Establishing mineral sites in each food plot would allow you to draw in deer from neighboring properties while allowing for enough sites to reduce competition among deer. Each property is unique so you may have to adjust the number of mineral sites you are establishing.

How GYT 90 Increases Your Efficiency

Using a product like GYT 90 can help increase your efficiency when placing mineral sites and maximize the number of pictures you will get during the summer. GYT 90 contains 90 essential minerals so you know your deer herd will be getting the nutritional supplements they need to be healthy. But what makes GYT 90 different from other mineral products is the way it is carried. GYT 90 is carried in crude soybean oil which acts as an additional attractant. Soybean oil produces a superior scent and taste that will help draw deer into your mineral site. What does using GYT 90 mean for you? Using GYT 90 will increase your efficiency meaning that deer will find your mineral sites faster and you will need fewer sites on your property because you will be attracting more deer to each site. This ultimately translates into decreased costs for you as a consumer. GYT 90 is a versatile product and can be used by itself by simply pouring it onto the ground or on a tree stump, or can be mixed with grain to provide additional nutrition to your deer herd.

How to use GYT 90: Corn

How to use GYT 90: Corn

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If you are actively feeding deer on your property, the use of GYT90 in the feed could double a site for both minerals and feed, lowering site density but increasing site usage and data potential.

Other Considerations

Although using mineral sites may be entirely illegal in some areas, in other areas they are only considered as bait and can still be used and the area can still be hunted if properly handled. Generally speaking, you will need to eliminate leaching of minerals into the soil so when you remove the supplemental mineral, deer stop seeking out any leftover mineral located in the soil. One of the best ways to do this is to use an oil pan or a large bucket to place the mineral in. If you choose to use a bucket, make sure to take the handle off so deer don’t get tangled up in it. It’s also important to make sure whatever you use can hold enough water without overflowing which will ultimately lead to mineral leaching into the soil. You can also use a decaying wood stump, which absorbs the nutrients and allows deer to still consume GYT90. Once you are done with using your trail cameras in that area to inventory bucks or collect data, you simply remove the mineral and you are ready to hunt. About this time, replacing a mineral site with a mock scrape site in the same area could produce a similar attraction to the site even after the mineral is gone for the fall.
Using trail cameras during the summer is just the beginning of building the excitement for the fall hunt. Try some of these tips this summer to help you maximize the number of photos you get with mineral and deer attracting supplements.

What Minerals are Important to Bucks When Growing Antlers?

What Minerals are Important to Bucks When Growing Antlers?

June 20, 2018/0 Comments/in GYT 90 Blog /by GYT90

Best Minerals for Deer and Antler Growth

Supplemental minerals have become a staple in deer management. Although most hunters probably use supplemental minerals for several reasons, one of the main reasons is promoting increased herd health, and specifically, to increase antler size. So what minerals are actually used by bucks when growing their antlers? Minerals are categorized as macro- (minerals found in larger quantities in a deer’s body) or micro- (minerals found in lesser quantities in a deer’s body). Unfortunately, deer research describing which macro and microminerals are most used by bucks during antler growth is lacking, but this article will discuss what research has shown this far in terms of what the best minerals for deer and antler growth are.

Macrominerals

Calcium (Ca) and Phosphorous (P) are two macrominerals that are major components in a deer’s skeletal system. For example, 98% of Ca and 80% of P are found within a deer’s bones. Although this is an overwhelming majority, there is still enough Ca and P found in antlers to lead Scientists to do research on whether Ca and P are limiting antler growth. Daily requirements of Ca and P can increase four-fold during antler growth, so it would be logical to assume these macrominerals might be limiting in a deer’s diet. Generally speaking, Ca requirements for free-ranging deer herds can be met by deer simply consuming natural forage and although P may be deficient in some areas, deer tend to be able to meet their P requirements by consuming natural forage as well. Even if deficiencies do occur, deer will switch their diet to consume bones, shed antlers, or even snail or slug shells to meet their requirements. This means that when available through supplementation, deer will go out of their way to find the mineral they need. If switching their diet doesn’t help, then deer will reabsorb Ca and P found within their bones to meet their daily requirements, which is not ideal over offering supplemental minerals.

Although Ca and P don’t appear to be limiting to deer, the ratio of Ca to P that is consumed by deer can be a problem. Ratios of dietary Ca and P that dramatically deviate from 2 parts Ca to 1 part P (for example, more than 7:1 or less than 1:1) can reduce the absorption of the less abundant mineral within the body. This can lead to an imbalance of either Ca or P within the body, which could lead to negative impacts on antler growth.

One macromineral that is limiting in a deer’s diet is sodium (Na). Although Na doesn’t directly impact antler growth, it does influence nerve and muscle function and helps regulate a deer’s body fluid balance. Deer tend to have increased Na requirements during spring and summer when the water content in plants is greatest. This increased water content makes it difficult for a deer to maintain a balance between Na and water within its body. To compensate, deer will often times seek out left-over salt that was spread on the road during the winter or even increase their consumption of aquatic vegetation which has increased amounts of Na. One of the easiest ways you can help deer consume an adequate amount of Na in their diet is to provide them with mineral licks which both bucks and does will use.

Microminerals

Unlike macrominerals, there are no established requirements of microminerals for white-tailed deer, though there are some that appear to be important. Most estimates of microminerals comes from what we know about requirements needed by livestock, but using those requirements for deer can be dangerous because livestock haven’t been bred for efficient mineral use as humans provide them with whatever minerals they need. This may lead to overestimates of microminerals for deer. Regardless, one study conducted on red deer (think of the European version of the North American Elk), showed that copper supplementation helped to increase antler mass for adults. Although other studies have failed to show that relationship between copper and antler mass, they have reported that both copper and zinc can improve a deer’s immune system. Offering minerals with trace amounts of these micronutrients will most likely lead to better overall herd health.

Using GYT 90 Supplement to Improve Your Herd Health

While it may not be 100% clear on what the best minerals are for deer and for antler growth, it is generally understood that offering both micro and macronutrients gives deer the opportunity to achieve the level of minerals they instinctively need. There are also other supplements that can help build a healthier herd, not to mention attract deer.

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Deer go through several stressful periods throughout the year. With obvious periods being the rut and winter for both bucks and does, antler growing season for bucks, and lactation for does. Providing deer with both the minerals and the nutrition they need at these crucial periods can help you reach your management goals. So how can using a supplement like GYT90 help you?

GYT90 offers 90+ minerals, covering all of both the macro and micronutrients known to the research that has been done that might be limiting factors in antler growth. Beyond that, GYT90 offers the minerals with crude soybean oil providing the additional nutritional benefits, calories, and fats to deer during these critical periods of nutritional needs.

GYT90 Uses

You can provide deer these minerals and supplemented nutrition a variety of ways. The first and most beneficial is to pour the GYT90 crude soybean oil and mineral mixture over supplemental feed. This can help attract deer to feed stations during these stressful periods. This can be beneficial for several reasons. First, deer have to learn to like new foods that they haven’t been exposed to before. If you live in an area where there is little to no agriculture or in an area that doesn’t have apple trees, how are deer supposed to know that they like those foods? It’s no different than when people try a new food for the first time or the common problem food plotters experience when offering deer brassicas. Pouring GYT90 over these supplemental feed stations can help draw deer to them faster than usual due to the soybean oil, distinct scent, and salt content. Once deer start to visit these stations, they will also benefit from the essential minerals and nutritional requirements found in GYT90.