This . This thread is not about using a big pile of apples but is more about a guy wanting to put down a pound of mineral salt on a game trail to stop the game for a few seconds to get a clear picture while scouting. I have no problem with any type of bait, including salt to be removed 5-7 days before the archery season starts. Big piles of apples are a problem but a little mineral salt on a trail or in a small meadow is not a big deal. Yes, it does help for scouting purposes but I guarantee very few deer or elk are killed during hunting season over a salt block. With all my experience, most bucks and bulls stop using salt on a regular basis by early August.
First, if a dude ran a cam or 2, over a handful of salt, not a single person would have issues, including myself. But we both know that's not the issue.
Further, I don't disagree, the animals I've seen licking cattle salt are generally in velvet, generally growing antlers still.
But how do we regulate that?
What constitutes "a little salt"? What constitutes "a few cams"?
I think cams banned from 1st day of a season, to last day of a season is fair. Basically mid Aug Jan.
But bait, changes patterns.
I used to get cows to walk up to me with a handful of grain, while the mobile slaughter guy, put a gun to it's head and killed it. Pavlov's(spelling) dog.
If you find a cattleman's salt block and sit it, good for you. Same as if you find a spring, or acorns.
But that's not what is happening, we both know it. Further, my 2 cams are shitty clearance sale Bushnell cams. And they take pics very rapidly. Better cams will catch images without salt.
But AGAIN. Average dude, with a couple cams, and a little salt, ain't the issue. Dudes with dozens, and bags if salt or piles of apples, are. Even worse, the commercial guys with hundreds of cams, and semi loads