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Here is a little buck that has been eating my wife's crab apple trees, he and his brother and his mother and another female deer. I shot this at about 6:40 this morning through a screen window.
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Since I like crab apples, I probably would have shot it at 6:40 in the morning with a .308, but that's just me.
 

I actually tried that one year during deer season... To see if it was a "lure" as I had seen on Michigan Outdoors... Shot a buck right over the spot where I had wizzed not 2 hours earlier... Fluke or something to it... I don't know... He was curious though...
 
Both. The buck is a little scrawny though.

Actually, when I was growing up, my mom would cut up crab apples for baking/apple sauce/whatever. She would throw them in a pot of water and let them float in there for a few minutes. Sometimes I could eat them as fast as she cut them up.
For straight out eating, there are better apples out there.
 
I've heard the"laying down your scent" works for hunting them, but have never tried it with my own scent. This deer was born last spring...his daddy was huge.
 
You"re right about the taste.

James" mom had a crab apple tree in the back yard at the farm.

A couple of years ago he spotted a couple of odd trees - one on the west side of the farm and one on the east in the area we call the bottoms. Turned out both were crab apples. Birds had spread the seed.
 
For anyone with horses, crab apples = MAJOR colic problem. Horses like them as well as regular apples, but crab apples will cause serious colic.

The horse will appear normal as long as the horse is still. If you ride or exercise them, the physical exertion will bring on the colic. I read a long article about this.
 
My friend had the same problem. He installed a hot wire around his trees. This soloved his problem of deers eating his trees. stan
 
BTW, great pics.

You might make some garlic pepper "tea" to spray the trees. The deer won't like it at all and it won't hurt the trees.

In a large pot, mix 1 gal water, chop up 6 of the hottest peppers you can buy - jalapenos, hablanos, etc, add 2 tbsp garlic. Bring to a boil and "cook" for 20 min. Strain off chopped peppers. Pour the "tea" in a sprayer. Spray foliage. Repels animals and bugs. Do not get spray on you or in your eyes.

WEAR RUBBER GLOVES TO HANDLE THE PEPPERS. Your skin will absorb the "oil" from the peppers and if you rub your eye, lip, nose, etc., it will set that area on fire.

If you need more, double the recipe.
 
I'd a shot, too, but it woulda been a rifle. Ad that garlic and pepper tea goes best as a baste, or a marinade, maybe put a few crabapples in that tea, too, MMMMM, that's good eatin!
 
My new garden has been coming up like crazy!! BUT!! I have (had) some quail that were flying over the fence and eating the new plants just as they broke ground. I tried everything I could think of to run them off. Nothing worked.As much as I hated to, I finally had to resort to a very accurate scoped 22 to save my garden.
 
We planted about 70 crab apple trees around the farm to attract the deer looks like it works good.
Ron
 
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