Licking stick

[Jeff]

He's a bruiser!!

[SwampDonkey]

Nice buck!

[newoodguy78]

Is it just me or does that look like a double beam on his left side?

[Magicman]

I don't think that it is just you. 

[Walnut Beast]

Is it just me or does that look like a double beam on his left side?

 

[Jeff]

I've had some small bucks start showing up on the one licking stick, but have not seen and big boys around here. With the work I've put in up here and food prices, I aint waiting to kill antlers. A legal buck comes by and he will be donating to the cause.

[SwampDonkey]

All I see is does around here, and we have buck only hunts.

[beenthere]

Have some good results of the mock scrape branch that hangs from a walnut tree branch. Also, the wood stake in the ground to keep a doe decoy upright still attracts a sniff and a lick. 
Think the hanging branch elicits the smells and scents left by bucks, and it drew the attention of three bucks caught on video camera. Put them together in this video to show some buck activity of three nice bucks pushing and shoving each other around, but still at night. 

I use the Rumble format instead of YouTube, so hope this link is available to watch. They are not monetized. 

https://rumble.com/v1oihex-bucks-rattling-horns.html

[Walnut Beast]

Here is a better picture of the guy on the licking stick. Do you notice it's a rope 😂. I would say the date was off on the other picture 

 

 

[Walnut Beast]

How are you getting along with the Reveal camera Jeff?

[Jeff]

Good, but I would be better served to go out and move them from where they are. Rather than scouting movement now, I think ill deploy them so I know when deer are at a certain location or not.

[SwampDonkey]

I've not seen any tracks around the stick I put up, this year. No deer at all on the trails. The bull moose hasn't been around since last month. I'm cutting wood down in that area so probably scared stuff off, mainly fir.

[thecfarm]

Maybe scared the moose away, but doubt the deer.
Deer like it when I am cutting wood.
Not many moose on my land. 
I did see one early summer. 

[KEC]

Around here, look for where deer have pawed up a scrape under low hanging branches of apple trees and one of those branch tips will be chewed up (a licking branch). I think I've read that if you clip off that branch and hang it in another area, that all the local deer show an intense interest in the scent of strange deer.

[beenthere]

Just hanging a branch has worked for me, to create interest and a scrape. And didn't have to be over a trail. 

[petefrom bearswamp]

Put up 2 last sunday, havent checked yet