Notice in the bottom right pic—she showed up around 11 pm. She stayed in that one spot until almost 12:30. Wonder what her sodium levels are?! 
Crushed Trophy Rock is the bomb!!
Crushed Trophy Rock is the bomb!!
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How can salt possibly be this good?
- Thread starter Knothead
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BSK
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Back when I still used salt licks, I would get picture series of deer licking on those rocks for a 1/2 hour to an hour at a time. How can anything consume that much salt?
Crazy!! I had a doe earlier this summer who basically single handedly depleted my entire camera battery cuz she would stick on the lick for several hours each night. I got a pic of one buck and then 1000 pics of her!
JCDEERMAN
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Several years ago, I remember having a buck at one of our salt licks on and off all night. Not a constant time there, but every 10 minutes he would show back up to lick and this went on for nearly 7 hours. I remember thinking, "DANG, how much salt do you need????"
JCDEERMAN
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On another note, I HATE getting hundreds of pics of a single deer. In my head I'm thinking, "Get out of here!!!" 
BSK,
Why do you not use salt anymore? Is it because of disease transmission?
Why do you not use salt anymore? Is it because of disease transmission?
BSK
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Yes. Although I'm not in the CWD Zone, I will be eventually. A salt lick is the perfect spot to transmit prions.
Mr.Bro
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These are the ones that really need to culled out. Battery eaters is what they are.
We put some mineral out this spring and i actually had to disable my cell cam. I was getting 300 pics a night. They would visit 2 or 3 times a night and stay up to a couple hours each time. Nothing but does and they basically lived there.
Yeah i have a young lone doe that just lives by the salt. Off and on all day and night. If i kill and make jerky with her, i wont have to add any salt to the meat for sure
I've noticed the same thing. I have videos of deer the same deer on the trophy rock for hours. Salt man puts out a great product. Look on youtube at how they mine the rocks it's super cool.
