Do any of you guys hang a deer just off the ground when baiting?
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Burnsome...
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Always wanted to try it. I'm sure it works well. Too warm here even in winter and my bait pile is too close to the house to avoid the stench.
bohunr
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i read one article where they make frozen baits. they take deer scraps from the processor, put them in a 5 gallon bucket, mix with water and place a good chain in the middle to be used to hang the frozen treats with, after its frozen remove the frozen block from the bucket and hang it with the chain or attach it to a fence post.
that way the coyotes cant drag the bait away but keep picking at it to get the scraps of meat
that way the coyotes cant drag the bait away but keep picking at it to get the scraps of meat
wildflights
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I've hung beaver just off the ground for baits. I have video on one of the old computers of coyotes eating them. In warmer weather it'll let the maggots fall off them. They last a little longer strung up especially if you gut them.
That’s the only way I do it otherwise the bears or coyotes just drag them off someplace else. I not only hang it but I'll put a few wraps of rope around the chest cavity to the tree. Makes them stick around and work a little harder for a meal. And I’ll gut them like wildflights said. Once it’s cold enough and the bears are asleep the carcasses last quite some time. The logs behind are there to make sure they come out front where I can see them better.
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I've never done that in all my years of baiting, but I will now. I take it they stand on hind legs to get at the goods? THX for the pics.That’s the only way I do it otherwise the bears or coyotes just drag them off someplace else. I not only hang it but I'll put a few wraps of rope around the chest cavity to the tree. Makes them stick around and work a little harder for a meal. And I’ll gut them like wildflights said. Once it’s cold enough and the bears are asleep the carcasses last quite some time. The logs behind are there to make sure they come out front where I can see them better.
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coyotekilla83
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Ive heard they don't like their own unless skinned and not to use a buck for bait
wolverines
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I heard this is the way to bait a bobcat so I tried it a few years back. No cats, but the birds loved it! I think just like with everything else, it all depends on your area. I have no issues with just laying them on the ground (buck or doe) and putting a camera on it. I don't even stake them down anymore. With that said, I put one out at a buddies property many years ago and it was gone before I could get out there to hunt over it.
The fisher and the eagle didn't seem to care (three crows also), the coyote looked like he knew the deceased and passed on the meal.
Last year I had a deer carcass hanging and I went to check up close how much of it was left. As I got close a bobcat dropped to the ground out of the inside of the chest cavity. He never heard me coming and I didn’t know he was in there. We both were pretty wide eyed surprised. It only lasted a split second before the cat ran off and I had my first real close up look at a bobcat. My baiting highlight ever…..so far.
Ranches I hunted had an area off in far corner of the ranch where all the coyotes were dumped. Only things that seemed to work on the coyotes were birds.
Each ranch had a bone yard closer to camp where carcasses of game animals were dumped. Shot a few coyotes w/lights over the years at night but had to stake carcass down, as coyotes had no problem dragging off whole deer carcass and those of larger critters as well.
One of the ranches was a perfect setup for sniping coyotes. It has a 6' deep pit about 25 yards long and backhoe blade wide. The arrow below is misplaced; pit is barely visible just left of the road about 1/2" above arrow.
Don and I made it a point at least one morning during our weekly trips to this ranch to slip into the brush and set up (white heart) 275 yards NW of the pit just before dawn and often, while awaiting good shooting light, watched coyotes drag whole (stripped) deer carcasses out of the pit and toward the brush about 25 yards past the pit. This setup more often than not produced two coyotes/day.
Note another of our favorite stands was calling from the cattle guard on roadway south of the pit indicated by two yellow dots.
Each ranch had a bone yard closer to camp where carcasses of game animals were dumped. Shot a few coyotes w/lights over the years at night but had to stake carcass down, as coyotes had no problem dragging off whole deer carcass and those of larger critters as well.
One of the ranches was a perfect setup for sniping coyotes. It has a 6' deep pit about 25 yards long and backhoe blade wide. The arrow below is misplaced; pit is barely visible just left of the road about 1/2" above arrow.
Don and I made it a point at least one morning during our weekly trips to this ranch to slip into the brush and set up (white heart) 275 yards NW of the pit just before dawn and often, while awaiting good shooting light, watched coyotes drag whole (stripped) deer carcasses out of the pit and toward the brush about 25 yards past the pit. This setup more often than not produced two coyotes/day.
Note another of our favorite stands was calling from the cattle guard on roadway south of the pit indicated by two yellow dots.
The birds usually clean up a coyote within three or four days here. The hawk pictured above was on this particular coyote within 20 minutes.
Wind River
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We often hang them on a fence and other coyotes won’t mess with ‘em.