I'm looking to set up a couple salt and minerale only links

no food or Grain can be used.

what products have you Actually used that work?

I have used "Trophy Rocks" for years but in all honesty, I don't see the deer hitting them any harder than the livestock mineral blocks for cattle that I used before.

TM blocks ?

All I use is the cheap red trace mineral bags or blocks. Probably doesn't have much nutritional value since it's about 96% salt but the deer sure love it.

I used this and the deer dug a wallow out eating the dirt for 4 or 5 years

I might try this

but probably too late for this year

That is what I have been using except it comes in a big rock form that is about 12 pounds or so. Like I said, the deer hit the TM block just as well but this is supposed to help grow bigger antlers. The bears get into them from time to time as well as the rabbits.

which brand...Type?

Salt licks are hit hard in the spring, not so much around now but it helps keep deer on your place. mix the mineralized salt with the nutrients and you got it covered.

Can not use any kind of attractant here in SE. Mn.

I’ve always used trophy rocks but I use the bag that’s pictured above . I put it out at our new place 4 years ago so we can watch them out the back door , what I’ve noticed is the does really hit it all year long especially in the fall and winter , bucks mainly in the early spring and all summer . The hole is around 16”deep and probably 3 foot around now . Here is a post from a few months ago about a mineral lick .

I normally use 2 boxes of rock salt per lick. And it's worked for me for years.

Whitetail Institute 30_06.

I use the same. But have the red mineral block in the back yard and they work them both. I don't know which is better for them though.

I just provide rock road salt several times a year at the same places. They have holes dug . Also on a dead horizontal tree trunk, they are gradually chewing it up. old243

Trophy Rock is no better than mineral blocks for cattle, as said above. For late season, I would scatter some Whitetail Institute No Plow Wintergreens around your mineral area and any other open place by your stand.

Ag salt and dicalcium sulfate equal parts and go to dollar store get a can of coolaid fruit punch dump it on top and make a depr3son or put it on a rotten stump