Originally Posted By: 6mm06
I pretty much have the bait site down to a fine art now, but it has taken me over 4 years of experimenting to get there.
I've had a bait site going on 3 years now. Only setup alarm for a portion of last winter. Experimenting is the fun part. I plan on setting up in August using deer and elk carcass from archery hunt.
I have a great story about my bait site.
My wife bow hunts and she is darn good at it. In August 2013 she had a shot at a 2x3 buck deflected by a branch. She thought she hit the buck but no blood. We found the arrow but it had no broad head attached. She searched for two days but nothing. She felt so bad she gave up hunting that year.
Fast forward to Sept 2014.
I fill my black powder tag on a 3x4. I butcher my deer at home and put the bones on the bait site behind the house. The birds were working the site pretty hard and after 3 days I went out and checked the site.
I noticed something blue in the femur bone.
You guessed it. Her 4 blade muzzy she put there the year before.
That buck had no sigh of a limp and was healthy. Tough meat though.
The bone sits on my bar and is a great conversation piece.
