Anyone ever use peanut butter to attract deer? Did it work for you?
I"ve never used it. Illegal in Mo. To bait deer.
When hunting in Wisconsin had a guy tell me he used a,whole jar screwed to a,tree. He claimed they love it.
I watched a guy do that very thing today. If it works it's a great idea. I would think he would have all kind of critters at his stands though.
I tried it. The only issue I had was everytime I'd head to my treestand I would have to stop and trowel out a double finger scoop of it for myself. :saywhat: Serious though I have heard they love it as well. I may try it this year,but worry that the woodland creatures will just rifle through the stuff. It aint cheap when there going through 1 jar a day. Don't know though,maybe it would last a while. I heard one guy rigged up a timed plexiglass door in front of the jar opening. I also heard he had deer waiting for the door to open. Then they would lick like crazy for a few minutes,door closes,then cycle repeated. He said the deer KNEW when it was almost peanut butter time though. I don't know if he was full of the bull...but an interesting story anyhow. rat'
Yes I use it and I screw it to the tree as said above... They will lick the jar spotless. They will eat a jar pretty quick though, but it is effective and they smell it from long distance and will come to it.
i tried it for bait on a trailcam setup, hoping for some cool pictures of deer with theyr tounges wrapped around a limb covered with it and corn stuck in it....it was a good idea, but it stormed that night and washed it all away...might try it again.
Crunchy or Creamy??? :D
QuoteOriginally posted by RAGHORN 3:
Crunchy or Creamy??? :D
Duh! Crunchy hands down!
Skippy of course...
Skippy? Choosy deer hunters choose JIF!
Do not know about deer but rats love the stuff. So far have killed 10 rats using PB as bait at this location.
My neighbor uses it with great success. I'm just not sure how he keeps the raccoons off of it.
Instead of cutting the end off the jar, drill holes in the end and on the bottom of the jar.
As the warmer temps warm the jar,it will drip and ooze out
Deer and other animals wont empty as fast.
Squirrels absolutley love these.
But deer do also.
You can also just smear on a tree.
Add a banana to it and I might come to the bait. :D
What about bear? It's legal to bait deer in WA, but a no no for bear?
Do you think a game warder would believe that you were only hunting for deer? :p
Squirrels would clean it out before a deer had a chance. Right?
Add a banana to it and we might get a trail cam photo of Elvis..?
;)
Thanks guys.
Try Jolly Rancher green apple suckers. Deer go crazy for these thing even chew on the sticks.
Bear will go nuts over it. deer and coons too. you can smear pnut butter on a small tree head high and look out!
I hunt public land, so I cant use the real thing. I use a peanut butter lure that works very well.
It would be funny to watch a deer with peanut butter stuck to the roof of its mouth. I might have to try this just so I can get a video of it. :biglaugh:
Ive used it alot in the past and yes everything would eat it . It might take a little while for them to get on it because its foreign to them but when they do they lick the jar clean . I used to eat a spoonfull when i left out to go hunting for cover sent . I havnt used it in several years but that was just due to cost and i just like trying diffrent things to see how deer would react .
The NC state record buck killed last year scored 173 and change was killed over it last year.LCH
Here it is legal on private land/ land not managed by the state.
That being said I tried it and it definitely got deer to stop for the camera.
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Deer are like pigs, they will eat almost anything.
Potato chips, corn ships, cheeto's, bread, pop corn, carmel corn. You name and deer will eat it.
Need to add that they like cigarettes also. A friend of mine had a pet deer that was on the wrong side of a busy road. He owned a gun shop and couldn't go get it so he handed me two cigarettes and asked me to coax his deer back across the road. I went to the location, called out for the deer holding a cigarette, he ran to me, he ate the smoke and then I used the second one to lure him across the roadway.
This was probably 30 years ago.
QuoteOriginally posted by Jon Stewart:
Deer are like pigs, they will eat almost anything.
Potato chips, corn ships, cheeto's, bread, pop corn, carmel corn. You name and deer will eat it.
Need to add that they like cigarettes also. A friend of mine had a pet deer that was on the wrong side of a busy road. He owned a gun shop and couldn't go get it so he handed me two cigarettes and asked me to coax his deer back across the road. I went to the location, called out for the deer holding a cigarette, he ran to me, he ate the smoke and then I used the second one to lure him across the roadway.
This was probably 30 years ago.
He died of lung cancer ....
Thanks to this thread... our only jar of peanut butter has mysteriously disappeared!!
Oops.. here comes the wife, gotta go.
:scared:
I tried it a couple seasons ago with a trail cam focused on it. Unfortunately I didn't have much luck which was confusing as this particular spot was a busy fence crossing where I'd typically seen a lot of does. No deer came near it, but the ants sure loved it. This was, however, in the latter part of the season when temperatures were lower (in Texas, that just means "bearable" rather than "scalding hot" or our other only temperature rating, "road construction").
Was just thinking about this recently and wanting to try it again. Will do the trick mentioned earlier in the thread about drilling holes so it will drip; the previous attempt I simply cut the bottom off leaving a bit of a lip so it wouldn't run out.
elkken, the buck, a 5 point had a ribbon around his neck and antlers painted orange so no one would shoot him so some moron shot him anyway!!
I'm stumped.I put out a jar attached to a tree with a camera on it for about a week and when I checked it, all the peanut butter was gone and not one picture of anything,let alone a deer was taken eating it. Maybe the rain washed it out? :dunno:
It takes raccoons about 2 days to find it on my farm and when they do they consume it all. Have a trail cam picture with 9 coons on the tree, on the ground, and hanging onto the jar.
Sorry to hear that Jon ....