A Little Elk Scouting

[Jesse Minish]

[LEOPARD]

Nice looking terrain!  

[fireman_3311]

Man, I need to suck up some more, and come see ya!!!!!!!lol....Looks like some kinda fun there!!!!!

[Jesse Minish]

Sure do Brad. Lots of work till Sept. then lots of fun.

[fireman_3311]

Can't wait to see the pictures this fall!!!

[longstick]

WOW! looks like a great place to spend some times in the woods Jesse

[Dave2old]

Jesse -- no disrespect intended, as I may be ignorant of your local ethics and laws ... but is salting legal in ID? And how far did you pack in this 50-pound salt block? And how did you built that elegant stand ... without a ladder? I think hunting should be mostly ... hunting. d

[Jesse Minish]

Dave, No disrespect taken. The lick is going to be gone by hunting season and I will NOT put another one out. It is a good waterhole/wallow that they use all the time and I do it to help them out. I only had to pack the salt lick about a mile. As far as the stand I did not build it an old man did years ago and I was showed by him where it was. I don't know what you mean by you think hunting should be mostly...hunting. Are you implying that the stand is not hunting or the lick or both?

[Rik]

I hope that salt block is not in Idaho. Our laws here don't allow it, and for good reason.

The hunting here is fair and square, you and your bow against the animal. Nothing else allowed.

You'll learn to like it. This is the way hunting is best enjoyed------wild, natural, and free.

[Jesse Minish]

The law reads that it is unlawful to HUNT any game animal by means of baiting with grain, salt of any form, liquid or solid. Yes I know the law and like I said the lick will be gone come hunting season and I will NOT put another one out nor hunt over it if it were still there. I already like hunting wild, natural and free game.

[fatman]

....yes, but the mineral block will have gone into the soil, and animals will continue to eat the dirt to get the mineral...
Not trying to be argumentative, but if the right (or wrong, depending on your position) game warden finds your "lick", he may take issue....

$.02

[Jesse Minish]

Well I guess I will just have to stay away from the area now and I wont shoot a deer on my property that is crossing it to go to my neighbors to eat the hay and lick the salt blocks on his property.

[fatman]

Jesse, my post was NOT an indictment of your ethics;  just trying to save you a citation...

Different parts of the country have different methods, and I'm pretty open-minded.  But your local law enforcement has specific rules.

If your neighbor has cattle, and puts out salt and hay for them, that is his primary reason for doing so...and if deer or other game come to partake, so be it.  But it was NOT put out primarily as a game attractant.  

However, I guarantee you that the salt in that block will create a lick that will be there for YEARS...in fact, it will probably do more to draw game AFTER it's leached into the soil...in five years, there will be a hole the size of a pickup bed where that block sits now, and just as deep...

The wildlife in your area do not NEED that salt, they've been getting by for a long time without it.  And true, if you get lots of traffic and some good rains, the block MAY not be there in two months....although I'll bet it is....

If someone sees a salt block next to a wallow, with a stand next to it, and reports to the game authorities, my guess is you'll have a visitor in a uniform before the season is over...

Like I say, I'm not trying to bounce you about your ethics, just trying to save you some grief.

good luck
   

[Dave2old]

Jesse -- Our collective point is, legal or not, this is not the kind of hunting we like to see celebrated on this site. I think Rik summed it up nicely in his second and third statements. Although we can't all always live up to our own "best hunting" ethics, that's what we want, and need, to celebrate. The harder the better. The less certain, the more challenging, the more woodsmanship sill required, the more we have to learn about our prey and its habitats, and thus the greater the satisfaction when we do succeed. Best luck, dave

[Jesse Minish]

I allready said that I will or would not hunt over the salt. But I will sit over a water hole or wallow. So anybody who sits in a tree stand over a food plot and shoots a deer should not celebrate it on this site and I wont post pics. of an elk if I shoot it sitting over a water hole. I am done with this.

[fireman_3311]

So I guess, legal or not, we'd better quit seeing dead bear pics with a bait barrel in the background?????  And heck no, don't "celebrate" it either???!!!

I've shared a hunting camp with Jesse...NOBODY hunts harder, you can bet on it!

[Rick Wiltshire]

I too have shared a camp with Jesse and will again as I am the fellow Trad Ganger he is hosting.  He is an upstanding fellow trad hunter, his woodsmanship and hunting skills are top notch, tracking ability better than most others, and his willingness to hunt hard and long will leave most others gasping for air.  I look forward to sharing camp with him again this September.

[Jess Minish]

I have shared a camp or 2 with Jesse also (I am his dad)and it sounds like fireman 3311 and Rick Wiltshire know him very well. I have hunted with quite a few people and none come close to Jesse as a hunting partner or as a friend for that matter.He always is willing to go the extra mile and he always wants to help the other guy. I could not be more proud of him as a hunter and a son.

[fatman]

[Jerry Jeffer]

Strange... I see plenty of people here post pics and hunts that involve bait, food plots (bait), feeders (bait), bait barrels. I guess we all better spot and stalk bears from now on, now that would be some thing to celebrate.      I wouldn't bash any one with out knowing the whole story, or situation. Good hunting to all.