Where I live the whitetail are few and large,and bloody smart...If you see a used trail and try to make sure they stay using with an attractant or bait,they'll avoid it like the plague...I called moultrie feeders,and what I've been told repeatedly is to use peanut butter....The only thing I can see that working on is coons and bears...But they were dead serious...Any thoughts...Thanks

I'm sure there are creatures out there that won't eat PB, but I don't know which ones they are. Deer and PB are a good combo.

Hey Charger, Good old P-nut Butter. There is a jar of it in my Hunting Box right now and has been for a long time.

There are some environmental conditions that it works better in than others. I like a very slowly cooling temperature situation(generally means the late afternoon) with a very faint to light breeze. As the temp cools, it tends to hold scent "down" on the groung rather than letting it rise up where the Hawks are. And the slight breeze will push it along the ground and "into" the woods/swamps if it is set up properly. They will come to it "if" they don't catch your scent or see you moving.

I've tried two ways of using it. One is to attach the lid to the side of a tree at about 3' from the ground, screw the jar into the lid and cut a hole in the end of the jar so they can lick it out. Coons will wear it out if they are prevalent in your area.

The way I prefer to use it is to take a stick or corn stalk and run it into the jar. You really do not need a HUGE Gob on it, just use more than one stick or stob and put them upright in the soft dirt along the edge of a field. Later on in the Season when the Corn or Beans has been harvested and the field has been disked, you can easily see how they come to it by their tracks in the soft dirt.

You can just leave them in the field and they will be gone in the morning.
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Some of the land I hunt doesn't grow P-nuts as a crop and I wondered how thw Deer would respond to it there. Easy to remember the first time I put it out. I was planning to hunt a Stand on the corner of a woods called the Cockpit. Due West and North lay large fields that had been harvested and disked. Corn had been in the filed on this rotation, so there was all kinds of stalks disked into short stobs.

Got to the Stand about 3 hours before Sundown and eased out to the field edge. Didn't see anything in the fields, so I set the rifle against a Pine and made a row of P-nut Butter Stobs about 3' apart. Probably had 6 down the West side and 6 along the North side. Only went out in the field far enough to reach the tilled ground.

NOTE:It eventually gets on your hands if the Glob is too big(voice of experience), so have something to wipe them off with.

After FINALLY getting my hands clean, I got the rifle and got in the Stand. Nice warm day and the hawks working the field kept you interested watching them.

Sunset came and passed by about 15 minutes, so Prime Time was rapidly approaching. All of a sudden I could hear a low pounding or rumble that seemed to be getting closer. Didn't know what was going on for a couple of moments, but it sounded like a stampede. Sure enough, that is what it was. A Doe herd of about 35-40 Deer came running out of the woods so fast it was as if they were being run by dogs. Most even ran past the P-nut Butter, but stopped in the open field looking around. Then back they came and were all trying to get to the P-nut Butter.

Just now thinking about it, it sure would have made a fine picture.

They still may not come out to it during legal shooting hours, but they will find it during the night.

It is indeed Baiting, so check your local regulations. Some places allow it and some don't.

Best of luck to you.

I can assure you deer will eat the hell out of peanuts. My Masters thesis was on peanut weed control. I had two experiments completely whiped out because of deer eating the peanuts after being dug. I've never heard of the peanut butter gig but I bet it would work.

A friend told me how he prevents deer from getting into the garden. He takes strips of aluminum foil and attaches them to the electric fence . Puts some peanut butter on the foil.He watched an 8 pointer be driven to his knees when he licked the peanut butter.

Mix peanut butter, soybeans, and corn, then put it in the center of, or near an established salt block or feeding area. Deer will love it.

yes it will work....if you have a tri-pod feeder duct tape the jar to the pole about 3 feet off the ground. cut a hole out of the bottom of the jar big enough for the deer to lick but not so big that all the peanut butter falls out, and put vasilene (sp?) on the pole below the jar to keep coons off. As for bears, not sure about that one. I know peanut butter attracts them but I dont know how to keep them away.

I hunted whitetail w/ an osage self bow and various long bows in the Virginia foothills and mountains for many years. I needed to get very close and had to pick and choose my shots carefully. Not to be used to draw deer from affar, but what worked well for me to draw nearby deer close and hold them in a shooting lane was apple cider. I'd carry a small bottle of cider w/ a few q-tips or cotton balls. I'd usually hunt benches below a ridge line and place the cider off the ground in the area that I wanted to make my shot. It worked very well for me as I've had many deer change their course and go directly to it. I'm sure that different things will work as well depending on the region you're hunting.

As far as peanut butter goes, that and mayonnaise can draw a hungry bear a country mile.

Gary