If you had 8 hunts...

[Pineywoods]

If you had Thursday afternoon thru Monday morning to hunt a place with no stands, no feeders and essentially zero human hunting pressure, what would you use for bait piles aside from corn?

[bmac]

Peanut butter, roasted soy beans, or vanilla extract. If they don’t know what corn is there not going to react like other places. Better finding a good feeding area and trails in and out.


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[lovemylegacy]

Acorns.

[BlessedVeteran0305]

If you had Thursday afternoon thru Monday morning to hunt a place with no stands, no feeders and essentially zero human hunting pressure, what would you use for bait piles aside from corn?

Mock scrapes and a couple piles of b&j as well as a couple piles of sugar beet crush from wild game innovations. Maybe even hang a jar of peanut butter.
I have literally watched bucks dig holes in the ground for the sugar beet powder.

[Bone Thug]

Water….If there are some on the place.

[Southbound 85]

Hot doe pee on a scrape line or Big & J around a watering hole.

[Pineywoods]

Water….If there are some on the place.

I'll be sitting 25yds from the bank of a river in Northwest TX.

[KGreene]

Travel routes. Look at google earth and find out the WHY, I haven’t hunted a feeder for years. I look at the neighboring land and find the funnel points.

[M16]

Nothing. But if the timing was right I'd **** sure have a set of rattling horns.

[Pineywoods]

It's our annual Throckmorton County trip. The property is only hunted one weekend a year. I'll be sitting where I did last year between the water holes from the old river channel and the river Bank. I'll be facing East with a Northeast wind most hunts. I thought about roasted soybean and corn but was curious what other lures yall might use...

[eradicator]

I'm assuming that's the Clear Fork. I would be rattling! Should be about right for middle of the rut

[Bone Thug]

I'll be sitting 25yds from the bank of a river in Northwest TX.

Good deal.

Like said M16 said…You may try some rattling horns as well.

Also, may try some rice bran at a spot and see how they react.

[Pineywoods]

I'm assuming that's the Clear Fork. I would be rattling! Should be about right for middle of the rut

Yes sir, Clear Fork. Being from East TX I've never had much luck rattling but may give it a go up there.

[Yak blue]

If it were I, seeing it’s a 3.5 day hunt I wouldn’t waste much time on stuff they don’t know and have never smelled or eaten, unless it’s maybe a doe
I’d be hunting the oaks if the acorns are dropping. Rutting bucks don’t eat much anyway as they’re always on the move and when they do, it’s pretty quick.
As others said, I’d rattle hard and often and play the wind right with as good a vantage point as you can.

[Yak blue]

Yes sir, Clear Fork. Being from East TX I've never had much luck rattling but may give it a go up there.

I’ve hunted out west a while. They respond to rattling way better it seems than rattling further east and closer to DFW…