This will be my first fall being able to legally bait deer to hunt. Back in PA we never baited, would put mineral sites up in the spring and stop refreshing them in mid summer. I guess my question is how many of you actually hunt over/near your bait piles/mineral lick? I get it that a bait pile isn't a shoe in for getting a deer. I'm going to keep a camera up all fall to see when they're using it and if they start using it at dawn and dusk I'll be switching my patterns to finding their route back to the bedding area. But for opener I was gonna hunt relatively close to where I have my bait piles/mineral sites. Whatcha guys think bout hunting bait piles?
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