This is a HIGHLY requested episode that we have had in the works! In this episode, we go over all the whitetail terminology that you need to know to hunt or scout for whitetail deer. We cover terms for deer hunting in flat land, hill county, and mountains - and we cover terrain terms as well as habitat terms. Some of the terms we cover:
Terrain saddles
Bluff gap
Bluff
Bench
Creek crossing
Ridge example in swamps
Ridge top hub
High crows foot
Thermal hub / hubs
Oak flat
Sapling thicket
Oxbow lake / oxbow
Beaver dam crossings
Compounding habitat edges
Select cut
Clearcut / cutover
SMZ
Compounding Terrain features (examples)
Glade
Leeward side of a ridge
Logging roads / road bed / skidder trail
Ditch/drainage
Secondary points
Ridge points
and more! Want more? Here are more videos that go even deeper on some of these terms with map examples:
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