My brother shot a buck last night and I saved the liver cause I’ve seen on some T-man threads where people have used it for dirt holes with success. My question is do you do anything with it before you chunk it up and put it down the dirt hole? I placed the liver along with the heart in the freezer last night. Thanks for any help!

Chunked or ground, it works
Next time grab the fat ( tallow) around the kidneys it works as well or better than liver

Good stuff!

chicken liver in dirt hole w/lure works great for fox & coon. Weasel lure w/blood base works great also as an alternative at dirt holes.

how about deer lung?

I like it tainted a bit. I chunk it up and let it taint in a bucket. It helps to elevate it, as it will release quite a bit of water as it ages. If you’re planning on just using it as it is, that might not be a concern, but if you want to add it to another meat base, it will get runny if you don’t let it water off a bit. Liver also molds pretty easily without methylparaben.

I’ve used it chunked ( 2x2 ) in a cache set or dirt hole fresh , it will taint some in the hole . I did not have any luck using it ground up .

Deer liver, lungs and meat scraps are all I use because they've produced better than anything else I've ever used. Liver produces a lot of blood/liquid that I drain off and use in squirt bottles. I own an archery shop and many of my customers save livers for me so I never seem to have a shortage. I also will sometimes mix in deer hair or tarsal glands or use deer hair at the lip of the hole as an attractor. (Yes, legal in my state). A 2nd flat set nearby will produce too.

Caught this young female this morning using fresh deer liver.

Thanks for the input, I think I’ll try the 2x2 chunks mixed with some deer hair. Might even get some of Dobbins bait solution #2 to mix with half the liver for now. Season starts November 10th so hopefully I’ll get more liver by then and will keep you posted on my success!! Thanks again!

If your gonna use bait solution, I would recommend chunking it up smaller 1/4+1/4 “ . Not knocking bait solution but deer liver is a natural thing that could be found in any cachet set. I would save back some strait liver and do a comparison.

Let us know what you find !

Another one this morning using fresh deer liver and fox urine.

This one fell for deer liver in a dirthole.

Love the pictures! Thanks guys for the input, maybe I’ll just stick to the 2x2 chunks of liver 😂. Nice job on the catches too!!

That’s some pretty white sand y’all got up there. Must not be too far from the beach.

Yup, just under 1700 miles or so....

Just thought I’d give you guys an update. Put 21 coyote sets out yesterday even though I knew we were gonna have heavy rain and 20+ mph winds. Caught this female in a dirt hole set baited with fresh deer liver. Thanks again T-man family!

Thanks for update BadDog; was hoping you would follow up with some results, as I was following your thread and interested in the deer liver response as well.

I’ll keep you posted on the results, I have the next 2 weeks off for trapping and Illinois firearm season. I remade this set trying the deep “V” set that I read on one of the trapperman forums. I’ll get more sets out tomorrow, didn’t feel like mudding any new traps in today.

Still checking traps but this is the second dog on deer liver. 18 more traps to check, will keep you posted!