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Number 4...pinch point between river and logging road that make connect to larger tracts of land..look at your map and find the best squeeze point. I like one where I can just step off the road and see all the way to the river. Deer don't like crossing those roads in daylight if they can avoid it. Number 5....where roads on each side of the woods create a pinch point.

@northernforestwhitetail

11 ай бұрын

Good ideas- thanks for sharing

@tjr4483

3 ай бұрын

I don’t have much luck hunting by roads just bc they don’t like to cross em but maybe your talking rarely used roads unlike the spot I hunt w a certain wind. Too much traffic by my spot until things heat up. Landfill (bedding) west of road and ag fields east of it. I hunt the only tree big enough for a stand (enough cover) on a wooded fenceline about 300 yds E of road with 4 apple trees 100-150 yds east of me. Seems like they (nicer bucks) really only move in daylight w a quartering wind (NE) especially on a cold front around Halloween is best. Nice post I’m always trying to learn ways to kill the next buck. I am currently trying to build up some areas in a cedar swamp high enough to plant some apple trees. I cut a half acre clearcut last year. There are some high spots 1-2ft above the water line where bigger maples and cedars were growing on. Problem is they are only 6-8ft circles. A apple tree needs maybe 10-15 ft of space for the roots. Built corrals similar to Lincoln logs around 4 high spots maybe 12ft across. Gonna fill in the low spots w the deadest maples I can find laying the muck. Overtime they will breakdown and fill the lower spots in. Wish me luck hope I’m not pissing in the wind. Bc it’s a half mile walk from the road. Hauled in some bagged dirt I got on clearance last winter w my snowmobile. Made it most of the way w minimal cutting of trees.

Very good video!!!!!!! Love the great educational values

Just wanted to let you know I found the channel and like it. Pretty chill without the commercial presence, feeders and food plots. I hunt & live in central/northern Maine so we share some of the same frustrations finding mature bucks.

@northernforestwhitetail

11 ай бұрын

Thanks I appreciate the note. Yeah the big woods like you and I hunt can be a love-hate thing but overall it has allure that you just can’t get from a feeder or food plot. Thanks for sharing

Great strategies. Like you I enjoy hunting big woods in Northern Michigan. I also enjoy putting in food plots and working and hunting on my own hunting property. as well. Best of both worlds. Thanks for sharing. Good luck this fall. Keep the videos coming.

@northernforestwhitetail

11 ай бұрын

Best of both worlds indeed! It’s a lot of fun throughout the year. I’ve got about 4 spots I still need to prune lanes and walking trails on way back in the big woods. Not going to be fun but I usually wait until later august so all the buds and branches have hardened off. That way once I prune, they don’t grow back before fall. How’s your fall setting up here? Thanks for watching.

@kevinflick4331

9 ай бұрын

All set up in lower Michigan. Still searching for the big woods wall hanger. I have a few questions. Any way I could get your email address so I could chat with you about those? @@northernforestwhitetail

Nice to see big woods hunting tips. Figuring out the most traveled funnels is key to having consistant success in big woods areas and can be productive esp with buck crusuing during the rut.

@northernforestwhitetail

11 ай бұрын

It really is. Big woods settings the bucks aren’t concentrated so it’s critical to find some sort of feature that will make them come by your stand. We mostly just focus on that seeking stage and then peak breeding as well. Early season is tough in the big woods. Need them cruising like you say.

Great stuff thanks !

@northernforestwhitetail

8 ай бұрын

You bet thanks for watching

Just found your channel 👍, I'm in NE Minnesota. I agree with alot of your info. Great info, keep up the good work and great videos.

@northernforestwhitetail

9 ай бұрын

Hey thanks I appreciate that. Always fun to hear from fellow Minnesotans. Good luck over the next few weeks- hammer a big MN chocolate horned swamp buck up there 👍

Interesting I like hearing tactics from parts of the country that I haven't hunted yet. Good Luck!

@northernforestwhitetail

11 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching. Yeah it’s a cool part of the country. Low deer numbers but really remote- few to no other hunters. Wilderness experience. Thanks for sharing and I hope your fall is setting up nice.

Yes sir, in Northern lower Michigan you are 100% right

@northernforestwhitetail

11 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing. Neat country up there. Almost time for me to get mock scrapes out and see what’s trotting around. Good luck this fall.

Conifer on leway sides of ridges they seem to pile up in them on rainy and cold days one windy.

@northernforestwhitetail

8 ай бұрын

I love conifer areas surrounded by hardwoods

Nice video I hunt the same type of land in Michigan’s U.P. thanks for the tips. Question for you - have you ever seen a buck rub on a jack pine? I have seen scraps below them but never a rub

@northernforestwhitetail

11 ай бұрын

Something special about this landscape we get to hunt. I wouldn’t trade it for anything. I feel bad for all the other folks that will never get to experience what you and I do. Regarding your question- yes, I have seen rubs on jack pine. Seems in our area the bucks will run what ever type of conifer is available.

@whitetailwarriorsdeercamp88

11 ай бұрын

@@northernforestwhitetail thanks appreciate you answering me

@northernforestwhitetail

11 ай бұрын

@@whitetailwarriorsdeercamp88 you bet. Hope you guys have some luck in your camp this year. We are already fired up for opening day of rifle season.

Awesome video, I'd love to move to Minnesota some day for the hunting and fishing opportunities. Would you say the wolves have taken over northern MN and impacted the deer herd? That's what alot of people tend to say but judging by your success, it seems that if you put in the work you will find nice bucks

@northernforestwhitetail

11 ай бұрын

It’s great up here! Wolves really made a full comeback around the late 90’s early 2000’s. Since then they are all over north half of the state. Cool animals but yes they are hard on the deer herd. Honestly, the deer find a way to survive still though. Fantastic opportunities on public land still. Just have to work harder than you would in day Iowa or Kansas or someplace like that.

@josephtreadlightly5686

11 ай бұрын

U might want to wait for the pro-wolf crowd in St. Paul to 1st disappear. They r logging public hunting ground & have created loop-holes in the law to accomplish this. If u have alot of money they r always selling public land after they log it due to their manufactured wood agenda. Then they buy other land with hope of doing the same to that. MN in their eyes is on the way to becoming California. 😮

hey, im a novice and live in Northern MN with some private land I can hunt that borders public. Id love to hear your analysis of where to setup and find a buck. If you'd be willing to do so, where could I contact you to send you the coordinates? Does your channel have a facebook page or something? Regardless, awesome channel and info that very much pertains to my area!

@northernforestwhitetail

8 ай бұрын

Feel free to email me- if you go to my “about” tab on my channel home page I think you can find my email on there- good luck!