Thank you for sharing this invaluable scouting info. I will be applying the idea of layering to the public lands I hunt and I know it will help me narrow down the buck bedding.

I just had the Opportunity to shoot my first buck las year. This video will definitely help me know where the bucks are. Thank you 🦌

Steve, just listening to you is for me "a major food source"......I mean an education! ...a priceless education. Thank You!

I wish I had your job Jeff. I love going into a new piece of public stand on my back and figuring out where’s the best place to hunt. Seeing deer on that kind of hunting is so rewarding to me

Thanks for the input. Getting ready for muzzleloader season in Missouri . Hunting down in bottom of thick cover where I spotted a wall hanger in rifle season. It looks just like the place on your video. You confirmed what I was already thinking . Me and my son have taken bucks over 160 there. Great advice !

I hunted my first season ever at 56 this last season. I got my limit with a lot of luck, and just some skill. I had such fun just getting out. I'm learning a lot from your videos! I'm lucky to have about 186 acres in rural TN to hunt on. I can hardly wait to get out and recon my area. I'm going to use your suggestions every chance I get. Thanks for the videos!

As a rookie hunter. This is great! I’m gonna apply all these criteria/tips when I get home in February. Thanks!

Every time I watch one of your videos it reafirms just how much I don't know. I'm playing checkers while your playing chess🤣

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

5 жыл бұрын

John...that was a real nice comment and greatly appreciated...BUT, truly most of all I hope the info helps you! Hope you have had a great season...personally I am looking forward to moving into the scouting and habitat season 🙂 Good luck if you still have a tag!

Your Wisdom is priceless! Thank you Sir, and wish you luck this 2019 Season!

More great tips! After the season ends in Michigan, a friend of mine and I scout new areas because I hunt state land. I know the area I've been hunting (south of Big Rapids) is good. Your tips are making it better. Appreciate what you do! Thanks!

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot Patrick! I stay in Big Rapids roughly 5 times for clients from February to August, soninknow the area well! Really hopr they help you coming up...some great bucks in the area, good luck

Great, Great Great information. I hunt the piney woods of east Texas with bedding everywhere I thought but what I’ve learned is exactly what you say, the does bed close to our food plots and the bucks bed farther away in the same looking piney thickets as the does bed. The bucks just bed farther it’s in their nature. Love your videos man they start my brain working and it just starts to click on the way my deer move around and bed and to why. Keep them coming they are a great insight into what’s going on in the deer woods.

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

5 жыл бұрын

Kent, man I appreciate that feedback so much, and GREAT observations! Very few hunters, habitat managers or even whitetail research biologists understand this behavior...so kudos to you for discovering it! I have seen it take place in 25 states and counting, on public and private land. Thanks a lot too, I will keep the info coming as best as possible!

I was at the gym talking to an aquaintence who bow hunts and we showed each other some pics of a big 7. We later realize we hunt about a quarter mile from each other and it was the same buck. What my friend showed me was he planted a nice food plot where he was. I then later found the corridor (a small strip of woods between 2 backyards in my neighborhood) and sure enough there was a deer trail. It will soon be the site of my first 70 gal water hole.😏 Thanks Jeff!

Coach!! This is the type of information I come to you for. You are by far one of the most knowledgeable and easy to understand Professionals I have ever witnessed! Great Video.

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

5 жыл бұрын

That is awesome to hear...really, your comments mean a lot to me RT! What you actually say and most of all that you let me know that the info is actually helping. I hope it can help you greatly as we get into the office season scouting times! Thank you very much...

Super informative. The most user friendly info I have seen in a long time.

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

5 жыл бұрын

Man that is great to hear Carson ..that really means a lot to me!

So interesting, just got done doing this yesterday in MN,wanted to catch them in there fall patterns before we get to much snow. The bucks were bedding in the spots we thought they were, just outside of the doe bedding ares we made. Need to get the rest of the property set up the same way now.. Thanks for your help Jeff.. and again great videos!

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

5 жыл бұрын

You are very welcome Brian! It's a pretty simple concept and it truly works anywhere! Also you are very welcome and I appreciate being able to be a part of the process with you guys

Thanks Jeff. I feel like I was one of the guys you made this for. And this will be watched over again a few times fr sure. So much good info.

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

5 жыл бұрын

That is great to hear MH...most of all I want to help hunters out, and this is a passionate topic of mine. I've been writing about this for years, but I greatly enjoy having the KZread platform to find more to help. Best of luck this scouting season and I always appreciate your feedback!

Really incredible the amount of valuable information you're sharing. Thank you!

Another awesome video with great information, thanks Jeff!

Thank you for everything you do Jeff.

I'm am so happy you made this video I have been struggling to find buck bedding areas no matter how hard I look and try to find them thank you for the tips kind of funny but now when I go in the woods I ask myself what would Jeff do and look for lol

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

5 жыл бұрын

Haha,too funny Rob...well i thsnk you and I really hope this helps makes sense for you! Far too much emphasis is placed on thr type of bed to atrract bucks, when really that has nothing to do with where s buck chooses to bed. Food-does-then buck bedding. In that order. If you just look for buck beds without considering food, does and hunting presdure...a hunter is just chasing the proverbial tail. Thsbkd avain for thr feedback and food luck hunting today!

Awsome info.. !!👍👍our food plot at camp changed some travel routes and bedding..but def noticed changes in bedded with winds etc this year they all traveled and bedded much closer .. passed a big fat buck called him fat boy had in cam .. he made me shake .. busted up no tine length looked older. ..But shot a doe at home yesterday ..held off til now I agree deer move and change with changes in there surroundings .. and weather moslty

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

5 жыл бұрын

Great to hear Andy! Hope it helps and boy food plots sure change bedding. I've actually seen quite a few major plots put deep in cover that displaced buck bedding by a 1/4 mile or more. They can help a lot or hurt a lot...

On this place I have up the road from my house there’s a thick hillside I never walk round on it. Deer come from this hillside. I’ve walked it prob 4-5 times in the 8 years I’ve had this farm. It’s perfect for them. Thick with small trees cedars briars honeysuckle. I leave it alone. Last time I walked it rubs were all the way around the hillside. Great video brother. You’ve helped me out. I’ve killed 3 deer out of the same stand still got one buck to go. I’ve got my stand on a knob it’s big white oaks at the end of this hillside. I can sneak across the big field around the hillside and get to my stand. There a fence crossing comin to this hillside and where they come through the fence there a cedar there bout 4 inches thick and a bunch of bucks have rubbed it through the years. I leave them alone on this hillside.

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

5 жыл бұрын

Very cool observations Randle...sounds like an outstanding spot! Cool hunt too and access - bet you love it!

Very informative segment )) thanks for dispelling many myths 👍

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

5 жыл бұрын

You are very welcome Jake! There are way too many myths out there about buck bedding...and it really isn't as mysterious and it seems online. Really hope this helps out some folks!

Hi jeff, I'm still enjoying all these great videos. I would like to send you a pic of the buck I was able to harvest this season. You were a great part of my success. Thanks again

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

5 жыл бұрын

Man thank you so much and that is GREAT to hear, I love that kind of feedback and a huge congrats to you! If you send a pic to info@whitetailhabitatsolutions.com I will get it! Well...at least my wife will show me 🙂 That is awesome...thank you...can't wait to see the pic!

@jwoods345

5 жыл бұрын

@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 pic sent 👍

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

5 жыл бұрын

@@jwoods345 my wife got the email and show d me...dang, what a GREAT, heavy, wide mature buck..and huge body too! Really congrats, that is awesome and I really appreciate you sharing that with me!

@jwoods345

5 жыл бұрын

@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 thank you jeff I'm glad I could share it with you. Thanks a bunch

Great advice brother thank you for sharing gb

Great advice. I’m goin to fix some plots on my place up here next spring. I put some out the first two years I got this place by my house and the neighbors threw mothballs in it after I done all the work with a tractor and disc.

@HomeGrownPyro1

5 жыл бұрын

That's sad...there's something wrong with those anti's....After I gave them those mothballs back by shoving them up their ass, I would set up a camera and get footage of them doing it. Then give your local game warden a call to deal with them in the form of hefty fines for hunter harassment

@randlerichardson5826

5 жыл бұрын

HomeGrownPyro I know who done it I’m biding my time. Ill catch them back down there in that bottom one day. Just me and him. I don’t bother nobody. I’ve hunted this 42 acre farm for 10 years bout it. His grandsons are the ones that done it I’m sure of that. It’s just a matter of time. After they done it me and the landowner posted this farm if they step one foot on it I’ll hold them till the Law gets there.

@TRICK-OR-TREAT236

5 жыл бұрын

WOW ! THANKS FOR SHARING DUDE . I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW MOTHS HAD BALLS TILL NOW.

@randlerichardson5826

5 жыл бұрын

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@gregnicklin4742

4 жыл бұрын

In most States it is illeagle to interfere with Hunter's. post the land and report the neighbors to DNR.

Appalachian hunter here away from where agriculture occurs. Most woods are full of white oak. Deer sneak in people's yards sometimes, eat weeds and grass here and there, and acorns. There are no easily defined feeding areas. Also, unless open field or mature, open woods....our woods all look like what other folks call bedding areas (from thick to machete worthy). It's tough to hunt as a result. Best bet is topographic features, barriers, funnels, and deer sign. Finding well defined deer bedding and feeding areas is very difficult. You can follow sign/trails but it does not lead to bedding or feeding, you realize you are just at some pinch point or easy travel route. This fall I hunted a buck's bedding area. It wasn't "A bedding area" because the whole 100 acres was potential bedding area! I just found the particular subbedding area that that buck chose based upon sign and trail cams. Sometimes it is just random where a nice buck picks among many choices. I'd love for a channel to go to public land in the hardest areas to hunt (no agriculture and low land cover diversity where all of google earth is just green) and then show us how to tackle it.

@georgied88

5 жыл бұрын

Exactly, then add 5 hunters for every 10 acres like here in New Jersey and it gets real tough....

@christopherharris2962

4 жыл бұрын

I am also interested in this. I would also like to know how the bucks might change the bedding area as the hunting pressure increases.

A friend and I walked my property today and did some brainstorming on my plans for the 'off' season. 1 thing I hope to do is put a food plot in the mix (never done 1 before so should be interesting). If I have established doe beds and at least know where the buck beds ARE NOT.....what distance from those doe beds seems reasonable to put in a food plot or 2? Once again, loved the videos! Can't get enough of em really.

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you and that sounds great to do for the off-season! Typically does will bed fairly predictable within 50-100 yards fron the food plot, but it is very important to make sure thst the edge if the food plot is screened - switchgrass, hingecuts, conifers...maybe all 3. Good luck, hope that makes sense!

I’d love to know about blacktail in Oregon coast range do the same apply to them will they bed away from does

I went out for a look to see whats around and i seen a new hunting blind set up right were we drive. Must be some farmers getting ready for the season. Its just on the edge of the reserve so they got the right of way when it comes to hunting. Its about 300 yards away from the rez line. I hope they get a monster this year. Ive been walking around and found beds were 4 does live and afew days ago there was only 3 does and 1 buck all of a sudden. Its september 22 . I dot know when the deer season starts, rut and hunting season. i know its elk season right now.

Awesome! Been waiting for a video like this

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

5 жыл бұрын

That's a great to hear...hope it helps you a lot! It is almost time to start scouting...season flew by way too fast!

Great vid Jeff! Wanted to share this unconventional bed finding method. I run all my cameras on scrapes and 1min video in the 120,000 acre management area I hunt in here in the Ark Ozarks. 2014 got a vid of nice buck in Oct around 3am pretty often. No idea where he was bedding. Noted the direction he left most times. Found another scrape several hundred yds that way and got him around 5am. 4 scrapes and 1 mile later I was getting him going up on a knob just before light and coming down just after dark. This took 2 months. I got his video on the last scrape 3 yrs in a row with the same pattern. I hunted him every yr with only one sighting in daylight out of bow range. He could not be approached where he was bedded. Didn't put a camera there this yr and got dropped off to hunt him cause I believe he could hear me park the truck. I don't know if he's still alive. Gonna put a camera in there soon. I did find both 2015 sheds which were his best on a food plot very close to the knob! This is the only time I have tried to chase one with cameras but it worked.

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

5 жыл бұрын

Jimi that is awesome feedback and that is what exactly what I find in wilderness settings...up to a mile from his favorite afternoon food source. Great observations...very, very few hunters have ever picked up on, what you have!

@TRICK-OR-TREAT236

5 жыл бұрын

DUDE ARE YOU REALLY BUYING THE BEDDING AREA BULLSHIT ? DON'T YOU THINK THEY'D ALL BE DEAD BY NOW BUCKS OR DOES ? THERE IS NO BEDDING AREA. A DEER HANGS ITS HAT AT WHERE EVER IT AT COMES DAYBREAK. WHEREVER IT FEELS SAFE. THAT COULD BE A WIDE OPEN WOODS., A WEEDY FIELD, A HEAVY BRUSH AREA . ALONGSIDE A MAJOR HIGHWAY. DOESN"T MATTER. I'M NOT JUST A HUNTER BUT A DEER PHOTOGRAPHER AND JUST A GUY WHO SITS UP IN TREES WATCHING THEM YEAR ROUND. I'VE WATCHED THOUSANDS OF DEER IN OHIO AND I'M NOW 67 YEARS OLD. DEER BEDDING AREA IS THE BIGGEST CROCK OF SHIT EVER. DEER MOVE AROUND THE EVER CHANGING FOOD SOURCES AND COVER. I'VE SEEN BIG BUCKS BEDDING IN WIDE OPEN WOODS MANY TIMES. WHY ? BECAUSE THEY CAN SEE YOU COMING FROM A MILE AWAY. I'VE SEEN EM BED IN THICK BRUSH TOO AND EVERYWHERE IN BETWEEN.

@MyVisualRomance

2 жыл бұрын

@@TRICK-OR-TREAT236 Thats been my experience as well. They move around a LOT, go wherever the food source is at that time and bed down wherever they feel like. They aren’t creatures of habit like they’re made out to be.

Awesome information like always! God bless

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much...really appreciate that!

Just seen my big 8pt / 140" missing his left beam, so with that being said as the late doe season gets underway in some states as it will be here in Michigan, use your binoculars and check that big body doe as best as possible to see if it is not actually a big buck that had shed it's antlers.... It's that time of year....

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

5 жыл бұрын

Boy Norman that is a great point and a great reminder to everyone, for sure! I know a lot of areas that have a very high % of their antlers dropped by the New Year. Appreciate the comment...and thank you!

Awesome videos man. I live in Wv, and live on 15 acres of land, which borders 120 acres that we have a lease on. We are surrounded by a lot of coal company land 1000s of acres that they are currently timbering, “looks like an atomic bomb has went off”. It seems that all mature bucks have totally vanished, and I can’t blame them. How long will it take things to get back to normal, or will it? Also any tips on luring bucks back to the property?

A couple questions about identifying buck bedding in northern WI big woods, public land. What is the biggest identifying factor in believing you have found a buck bedding area? Is it a high rub concentration, high scrape count, a mix of new and old rubs from years past? Is there typically a rub or scrape line leading from an afternoon/evening food source to a buck's bedding area?

Beautiful woods! looks a little like VT where i hunt, Alot of up and down the mountains!

@jarretjordan3837

4 жыл бұрын

Fellow Vermonter here. Essex county!!! Where you hail from?

@leadhead7338

4 жыл бұрын

@@jarretjordan3837 im from Lamiolele County

@tylerhansen7422

4 жыл бұрын

From pittsford vt here

As far as I know there is no absolutes in deer hunting.

Thanks great tips,I just subscribed.

Crops completely surround a old farm. 75 yard wide strip of creek bottom and thick invasive shrub trees overgrown with hedge maple. 2 clover food plots near middle strip. 20 acres of partially maintained crp grass on both sides of middle strip. Does are satellite bedded throughout crp both sides and in edge of timber strip. Where do I look first for the biggest oldest buck?

Nice video, very helpful. Where should I look for beds in a big woods setting where no bait is allowed in upstate NY? There is no ag or fields. I know there are bucks in the woods (have some on camera) There is a stream and a lake and some swampy areas upstream.

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

5 жыл бұрын

Thabkd Zac! You have to eliminate roads, human areas, hunting turnoffs, etx...high pressure areas...and then work back from there. On public land i tend to not care exactly where bucks are bedding...that can be the same as chasing a moving needle in a haystack. Instead I focus on cruising funnels, natural constrictions that I can post up on and expect buck movement all day ling during the rut. Also, small latches of briars, a few blowdowns, red osier dogwood patches...they can all be natural areas for outstanding public land food sources. I search for old sign and clusters of old sign...different ages of sign, in particular within suspected cruising areas. Bucks move great distances during the rut in wilderness or big woods areas. Finding doe hotspots in public land may actually be your best bet, but bucks will be in remote locations with quality diversity, well away from hunters and human areas.

Can you look at Aerial photos and tell where bedding areas are located? Please let me know thanks

I can nearly look a the the land and tell where most deer like to bed. Usually somewhere where its relatively thick. Usually ceder. Trees. Or small pine tembers. Or if your on a,mountian side it might be where and old tree fell. Or on a nob,where there some mountian ivy or rodadendren. Where. A Buck or doe can see. Around him. But feel safe. And. But knows nothing can ease up on em. With out hearing or seeing you first,,,,

I really enjoy your educational videos. Thank you. I have a question regarding the use of grape vines over scrapes. Do your cameras end up taking a lot of pictures due to the wind moving the vine?

@TRICK-OR-TREAT236

5 жыл бұрын

IT REALLY DEPENDS ON THE TYPE OF GRAPES JON.

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

5 жыл бұрын

Jon, Great question! They really do not at all, and some are within a few feet of the camera. I do angle the trail cameras down quite a bit in most, so maybe that helps? But no...they don't.

How close do bucks bed to previous days bed?

Hey, Jeff. Great info, as always and thanks for sharing. I just finished All Weather Whitetails and really enjoyed it. I grew up hunting ridge and valleys like your talking about here. However, I just recently started hunting a large farm where the highest elevation is around 350' to '450 above sea level. Most elevation changes are around 6' to 7', max. It is very flat. However, the surrounding cover is typical of what you would find in farm country in Illinois or Ohio, with lots of drainage heads in the middle of fields running into naturally timbered edge cover. The creek drainages are wide and shallow with no real ditches to speak of. There is some managed timber plantings with different ages of growth. My question is this; how do I apply your info to this tract of land. Should I look into the thickest timber plantings after the season? This has truly been challenging for me. Add to that the wanderings of other hunters on the same property and you have the makings of a hunting nightmare. Thanks for all you do.

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

5 жыл бұрын

Richard that is great to hear...really happy you enjoyed the new book! That's tough where you hunt for sure. What I find in these kind of areas is that high traffic areas...X's in drainage ditches, inside corners, multiple directions of cover...the highest traffic areas that offer the most options for movement, feature the highest doe family group attraction. Bucks will typically located on slightly wider points of cover...away from locations where habitat converges. This sets up great hunting opportunity! You can hunt a random finger away from the X's of movement in the morning...even improve it if possible...or hunt the inside corners and X's for rut cruising and for evening hunting. That kind of area can offer a great stand assemblage from morning to evening to rut...you just have to count in those doe family group major movement areas to set the bedding from doe to buck and scout/hunt from there. Hope that helps!

@richarddavis8401

5 жыл бұрын

@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 Thanks so much, Jeff. That definitely helps! Thanks, again! Hope you have the best of luck in your remaining season and the Merriest of Christmases to you and yours.

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

5 жыл бұрын

@@richarddavis8401 that's great to hear! And Merry Christmas to you and yours too....got to love this time of the year!

Great video and thank you for the sharing. I hunt in north west MS on a small 90 acre parcel. It has a ton of pressure and the surrounding parcels also have a lot of pressure if the gun shots are any clue. The cover is very thick with visibility out to 10 feet in the CRP fields but out to 168 yards on the adjacent food plots.Average visibility in wooded areas is 30-45 yards. It is covered with food and there is not one square foot without a deer track. The deer have gone almost completely nocturnal. With so much deer sign and bedding areas/food plots/oaks and pressure, what is the method you use to narrow down the best spot/time? I know they are there but Im not seeing them. Thank you.

@TRICK-OR-TREAT236

5 жыл бұрын

HAVE YOU CONSIDERED NIGHT HUNT GEORGE ?

@jAke-ou7to

4 жыл бұрын

Small parcel.. Lmao

Would a large apple orchard be considered a food source for deer?

"My hunting season starts the day after hunting season ends." Here the hunting season is 6 weeks so if the weather hasn't changed then maybe that would give me a good indication of where the deer are. I'd just hate to see a buck the day after hunting season if I don't fill both my tags.

I've seen some of your trail camera video clips on here where the deer look like they are beddig in a pretty open timber? I could be wrong. My question is it typically they are bedding in the woods, but near a honey suckel patch or thick cutover, or do you sometimes see bedding in timber that really isn't that thick? I always hear people saying thicker the better for bedding.

@kensalazar5066

4 жыл бұрын

Escape routes can have a lot to do with that, as well as the layout of the land. Both can go hand in hand, some bucks like to be able to know and see where the danger is coming from. If they have multiple escape routes they more comfortable. It's been my experience a mature buck wont panic, and often dont go far (with regards to humans not predators) they will either circle back to there hiding spot or stay just out site and then slowly walk right back to where they came from. ALWAYS being extremely vigilant....

I've noticed that bucks will usually have a thick stem count to their backs, a thicket, briar patch, a log, or a hill plus the wind is usually blowing from that direction for hearing and smell and they usually have a pretty good visibility /escape route ahead of them. Have you noticed this as well? Like you said they don't have to have a canopy but typically I find they'll have some sort of side cover. What's your thoughts on edges, say where a large oak bottom meets thick pines on a ridge top with the food source up on the next ridge over. Would most mature buck movement be on that edge, if the terrain also encourages this line of movement, in the mornings due to thermals rising, doe bedding/scent checking, and limited pressure or would they cruise/bed more in the bottom since the majority of the food is up top with the plots and most acorns are gone by now but there are still privet hedges and woody browse. Also have you noticed a pattern where the bucks cruise the leeward side of a hill as to not get skylighted in the morning thermals while they scent check/cruise? And cruise the bottoms during the afternoon thermals? Sorry I could go on and on. I'll stop there for now lol.

@TRICK-OR-TREAT236

5 жыл бұрын

EXACTLY WHAT I WAS THINKING DUDE ! ESPECIALLY THE STEM COUNT PART.

@diggumvt04

5 жыл бұрын

Military crests offer great visibility, coupled with thick back cover and good escape = bingo

Great video. Question for ya. I own 5 acres of land in between two cow farms. Mostly wooded. I throw corn on the ground with a camera on it. A lot of younger bucks and doe, day and night but I got two beasts bucks that only show up at night. Anywhere from 30minutes after and before daylight. Anything I can do to try and get them in daylight. Thanks for any info. Again great videos for beginners like me.

@Scofari

4 жыл бұрын

Give them what they don't have else where.

Hi Jeff! I've been starting to watch a lot of your videos lately and am very interested in what you have to show and say. I'm from Michigan and have mostly hunted in Gladwin and Hale. Those lands are easy to navigate and to be able to use most of the information you give. Now I have 120 acres in Cheboygan Mi, and this property is absolutely NOTHING like those other properties. Most of it is thick with young cedars and pines and wetlands and hardly an ounce of open land or hardwoods where you can see around a little. So now I'm at a loss of how use your info because most of your info seems to deal with less thick or less dense woods. Do you have videos to help with this?

@brettholt6277

4 жыл бұрын

Robert Burress the swamps. Thicker and nastier the swamp.

What is your opinion on deer bedding in swampy areas? Big portion of land joining the property where I hunt is wet with dry islands, always have bucks coming from that direction 200 yard or so from stand location. They cross pines to come to oaks. Would this be a good area to plant a kill plot? Thanks for the great videos.

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

5 жыл бұрын

Jason there are so many factors to consider...I could easily give you the wrong information. Always keep in mind that food plots displace buck bedding. It is typically a better idea to have the food plot at the end if the line of movement and then hunt in between the bedding area and food plot. Also making it thick enough that he feels happy on the way to and from the food plot.

What an awesome video. I have a northern slope that has very tall skinny trees with zero stems available to deer. Mostly ash, sycamore, and soft maples. I can’t get it to grow any cover because it’s north facing and those tall trees canopy over the floor. The slope is about 300 yards long, 8 acres or so in area. Should I clear cut a large percentage of the low value trees to let growth occur or is it going to take a super long time because it is north facing?

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much! I would definitely cut St least pockets around any benches or small flats. Leaving branches and logs will provide important side cover right now, and then even if regen only is a foot or two high during the next couple of years it will be enough!

@GodsGreatOutdoors

5 жыл бұрын

Whitetail Habitat Solutions thanks I was hoping my thinking was on the right track. These bucks (and does) are laying up on the side of that slope and can see hundreds of yards away. It’s almost impossible to access without getting busted and seeing tails running everywhere. I’m looking forward to attacking this.

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

5 жыл бұрын

@@GodsGreatOutdoors the great thing I'd that it will attract even more deer to a higher degree...AND hide you from them. All a great combination! Be safe cutting, enjoy the hard work and the rewards that go with it!

I hunt on 5 acres oz land but the rest oz the land belong to some body ease but have a lot oz picture oz does and buck in my food plot at night so what should I do to get them to come in the day time

@TRICK-OR-TREAT236

5 жыл бұрын

HAVE YOU TRIED TALKING TO THEM TONY ?

Great video as always. Do you have any videos on reading topo maps for deer hunting?

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

5 жыл бұрын

Man that's a great question and I actually have one coming out this week! I made it to reflect where I am at on the topo map, in relation to stands that we have hunted and filmed on. I talk a little about topo lines, etc...but really trying to give folks a visual on this is where we are on the topo...this is what it looks like from the stand. I hope it helps!

@TheHYENA87

5 жыл бұрын

I second that, I would also love a video on how you break down a Topo map.

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheHYENA87 coming very soon! Make sure to keep an eye out this week...

Great videos . My question is : I have a thick high stem count low lying area that I know is a buck bedding area . This area is also naturally a little wet . With all the rain here in NY this year it’s really wet . My deer sightings were down this season in this area .Am I correct in thinking it was just too wet and obviously deer do not like bedding were it is really wet ?

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much...and for sure! Wet isnt the total problem though. Sometimes the water can be too deep...or too swift for their comfort. However, man if there is just a skin of ice on it, deer can't tolerate bit! With lots of rain this year, skim ice effected hunting quality greatly in some areas, that hadn't been effected for many years. That can actually clear an entire bedding area for an entire hunting season. Not sure if that's what happened to you but whether they have to break ice or bed wet...they will typically avoid the entire area!

@3lynyrd

5 жыл бұрын

No ice , just really really wet with some small puddles here and there . But the whole area muddy ,soft and wet . Thanks for your reply . This area even during a dry year stays moist .

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

5 жыл бұрын

@@3lynyrd you bare very welcome! Deer definitely need a dry place to bed though...that may be the problem! Which of course can vary year to year...

Would love to see this work in the big woods Iam talking about public land and 50.000 thousand acres plus

The problem that I have for bedding, in general, is that I'm using native grasses in my sanctuaries, mostly. The 1st heavy snow n they are all matted down, and most of the deer leave. I have been planting white pine and Norway spruce like a madman, but it is going to take a few years for that to be the difference.

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

5 жыл бұрын

I hear you FF! Switchgrass is the only hrass to ever plant for wildlife in general...only grass thst really has s chance if standing upt to snow. Then, solid grass is bad because there is no browse, which whitetails require twice during their daytime bedding hours. So using switch to surround early successional pockets of non-grass (kill all grass) wood growth, is a combination that can be established in 2 years. Conifers are just more grass...no food, that is. A good compliment but same class as switch. Pockets should make up 40-60% of the field and be surrounded by switchgrass. Adding conifers to the pockets is a good idea...but not more than 50% of the pockets. Hope that helps...it shouldn't take more than 2 years, using that method.

@ChipsOutdoorChannel

5 жыл бұрын

I have a lot of native grasses as well and don't find much of any bedding in there.

@FarmallFanatic

5 жыл бұрын

@@ChipsOutdoorChannel i bulldozed bedding, but once the snow starts, its over

@ChipsOutdoorChannel

5 жыл бұрын

@@FarmallFanatic Yeah, I"m starting to cut some trees, but haven't yet gotten into the bedding part of cutting.

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

5 жыл бұрын

@@ChipsOutdoorChannel so true...terrible choice in most northern states...at least a dozen of them. Solid, single variety switchgrass is really the only grass for bedding. I like to surround a field with SG, also surrounding some type of early successional growth pockets within, to the tune of roughly 50:50 overall she, planted 8-10#s per acre. If you buy SG, don't fall victim to the multi variety bags of seed. It sounds good on paper but you want the tallest, thickest single variety seed as possible. Hope that helps! But native grass combos rarely accomplish much more than great fawning grounds...which isn't lacking in nearly every area.

Its harder in n.y cant have a food plots

You mention that you can pretty much read an area with a topo map... Do you do "desktop assessments" meaning review a topo and satellite imagery? I hunt public land in east Texas. new area, I plan to go after the season is done and take my drone. I want to get Ariel footage and specifically note where the oaks vs pines are, should be pretty obvious with oaks having lost their leaves. Other than that, what could I look for? Water sources? Open areas?... great video BTW

@philjones4995

4 жыл бұрын

Just to add, fairly dense woods, not a lot of open areas or elevation change, in the Pineywoods area of East Texas

Jeff how do I get the bucks to come in daylight they're cloming right after last shooting light

@quincygoodson3531

Жыл бұрын

Getting text messages from the number and they’re saying I won a hoyt rx7 ultra and wanting me to pay shipping but will not answer a phone call

So if you find several rubs in a single area is that a good indication of a buck bed nearby?

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

5 жыл бұрын

Maybe Kevin...but only if it is typically away fron does, food and hunting pressure. There will always be clusters of rubs in staging areas and adjacent to feeding areas...so you have to make sure it makes sense for a bedding area in the first place. Sometimes bucks leave clusters just one time for the heck of it...or to assert dominate for the moment, and then never come back.

I just found a great place in Carter co. 300 acres of 90% white oak where should I put my stand?

@RH-oy4hp

2 жыл бұрын

Outside

How do rubs play into this. Do they rub trees anywhere? or in their bedding zones?

@actiondesignsyndicate7852

3 жыл бұрын

Rubs will occur along travel routes often between bedding and food source.

Approximately how far should the buck bedding be away from food/doe bedding in average?

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

5 жыл бұрын

I think I talked about it in the video but it really depends on the type of habitat. For example most northern wilderness settings does will be withing 200-300 yards and bucks a 1/2 mile to a mile. In northern OH high ag/low cover areas, does can be within 50 yards of food...bucks 200 yards or less because they don't have the room to spread out. General ag areas, a 300-500 yard window between ag field and buck bedding is typical.

What if you hunt in an area where there are no food plots or crop fields and baiting is not allowed.We hunt a small wooded valley with mountains on both sides and no active farms in the valley for 25 years . the old farms are posted. 1 mountain has farms on the other side but about a mile of wooded areas before the fields all private unhuntable land. The other mountain has another wooded valley on the other side of the mountain. It almost seems that deer movement is random. Mostly red oaks with a few white oaks scattered in. but no real concentrated food sources to keep deer in 1 area

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

5 жыл бұрын

John honestly in those areas I typically don't hunt. I hunt public land with no ag land a lot and I always hunt the diversity. Here is a recent video where I talk about hunting public land hardwoods: kzread.info/dash/bejne/a6eOqpuFk8-rgMo.html I have another one within the past 3-4 weeks talking about the same and in my first book I detail a public land hunt and talk bout all of the core concepts of hunt and manage private lands with. I seek diversity. The more the better and have learned never to be married to a spot. Even in mountains though (I've never hunted mountains...just 700-800' change in elevation foothills), there are flats to concentrate on...high value benches, broad points that deer love to hang out on, and a lot of steep elevation changes that actually repel deer. My personal choice would be to hunt roughly a 1/2 mile to a mile back from the ag if possible...which should be right in the middle of buck bedding, whether the terrain is high in elevation or low. I hope some of the info helps...could certainly write a book on the topic!

@johnkendall6962

5 жыл бұрын

@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 Thank you for your reply . For 40 years I hunted on our families farm where my mother grew up and it was very easy to pattern where deer were and how they would move. Lol when my youngest son started hunting I was even able to predict what time he would start seeing deer. The farm was sold and now I have to hunt on public land. Not near as easy to pattern deer .Too many things out of our control but now that I'm retired maybe I can spend more time scouting.

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

5 жыл бұрын

@@johnkendall6962 you are very welcome! That's the great thing about public land...a lot less overall "work"...just more boot time. Then one thing I can't street enough is finding unpressured diversity. Good luck and happy scouting!

could you tell me how much you charge to walk and better understand an area? I hunt public land and have amazing bucks during the off season but as soon as the deer season starts and the shift happens I can not figure out where they go.

@wesleyallenschuller

4 жыл бұрын

I have the same thing happening to me man

@Urlastnow

4 жыл бұрын

To the private land fellas!! the yuppies land that they don't hunt properties how else they get huge with so many hunters I'm in northeast opening day sounds crazy big bucks hide where we are not allowed see it all over

Do you come to missouri

I'm late on my comments but does this apply to georgia as well?

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

3 жыл бұрын

Every whitetail state for sure 👍

What tips do you have about CRP field bedding

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

5 жыл бұрын

Good question and I hope that you like this video! kzread.info/dash/bejne/i2ai1rxvl7yylMY.html Nearly any grass is poor bedding unless it is pure, 100% single seed variety switchgrass. At least in the north 1/2 of the country... I like solid switch to make up roughly 40-60% of the field, surrounding diverse, non-grass pockets of early successional growth.

@TRICK-OR-TREAT236

5 жыл бұрын

@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 KENTUCKY BLUE GRASS IS ANOTHER PRIME BEDDING AREA ALSO AS LONG AS YOU HAPPEN TO LIVE IN KENTUCKY.

Nice talk.

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you Rick!

Just got a new 20 acre ranch style home. Have been putting corn out and doe are eating it up. I have seen 4-8 doe and fawn eating on the corn i place. Is there any tips on how to spot or attract the bucks? I have only seen one spike.

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

5 жыл бұрын

Many times this year bucks are not where does are. Having very thick security cover and Fall food source since late August/early September is a good start. One thing to consider though is that does and fawns take up bedding space. If the area for doe bedding is small enough to not hold hucks too...and the next available bedding cover for bucks is far enough away...then the food will be too far away to attract bucks on a consistent basis. If the Winter gets tough and both quality Fall food and good, unpressured cover is scarce, then you may find bucks moving in later.

@shallNOTbeinfringed-vp9wo

5 жыл бұрын

@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 just wanted to give you a update here. Got my first buck! After 4 days ofhunting I got my first deer ever. A spike about year and a half old. That rush is very powerful ! Can't wait to eat this awesome meat!

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

5 жыл бұрын

@@shallNOTbeinfringed-vp9wo that is so awesome to hear...congrats!! Great meat...healthy mat too? Enjoy and enjoy the hunters high 🙂

@shallNOTbeinfringed-vp9wo

5 жыл бұрын

@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 his fur was very full and nice. The meat is amazing. Been eating lots of deer breakfast burritos. The hide I am attempting to tan on my own. So there has been a good loss of pelt. But I am doing. Thanks for all the help.

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

5 жыл бұрын

@@shallNOTbeinfringed-vp9wo you are so welcome!! Really happy for you, because it sounds like you are full enjoying the entire process...congrats again to you, sounds great!

My hunting season ends when that ice gets to be thick enough. 🎣

It's almost impossible to know exactly where a particular buck beds. But I guess you could know where they have certain beds at if your jumping them up in the same spots /areas time and time again

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

5 жыл бұрын

Not exactly...but definitely an area! Very easy to do. Really when you know where major afternoon food us, that defines die bedding...take out major people areas and hunting pressure locations, that doesn't leave much room left for bucks. Add in the time and direction trail cams reveal and it becomes very definitive. Do it hundreds of times per year across the North 1/2 of the country for my career and it works extremely well! Once you narrow it down to the area, it is very easy to go find his beds within that area. One of my most enjoyable activities on client parcels...although not every client parcel has mature buck bedding on it before I get there..

@mr.skeptical3071

5 жыл бұрын

@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 sounds good

I would like to talk to you and see how much it cost to get you out and look at my place if you have the time.

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

5 жыл бұрын

Would be happy to Brent! My wife schedules all my clients thru info@whitetailhabitatsolutions.com would be great to help out if the timing works out!

Here in North Texas we are one week away from opening day of archery season. I believe I have ruined the hunt by driving my ATV there to fill up feeders we can as we can use down here. I have been binge watching your videos for 2 days straight and i can't stop. I do have a question for you though, is one week away from opening day of bow season too close to actually walk out through the whole 100 acres of property that I have been allowed to hunt, to scout for bucks?

Not sure why all the focus is on bucks.Does taste just as good 👍

How about doing a video on “How to hunt with cattle on same property”?

@TheDamienDeJesus

4 жыл бұрын

Cattle was introduced to the acreage I live and hunt on about a year and a half ago. Almost overnight the cows changed everything from deer travel patterns to their foaling. I find myself always looking for more information on best practices with cattle present these days. Would love more info on best practices!

@manvsdeer

4 жыл бұрын

Steven Thornton i would like to see this one as well

Iv been hunting my land for 4 years now and still cant figure out where they bed could use some help

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Nathan, I hope the video helps a lot! I also visit clients from December thru September every year. A client visit is of course the very expensive option and I always have a pretty set schedule of where and when I put trips together...but again, I have a lot of bedding videos on bedding that may help you out...even a playlist: kzread.info/head/PLmV8Ilexgmhc22FJJNrBPi-BIpcOZRMLT

@nathanhager7082

5 жыл бұрын

@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 I watch ever sign video it helps alot I just believe all my deer on the Neighbors land I've done what you said iv put in food plot bait pills and leave place I dont go in and still cant figure them out I dont understand it at all.

@TRICK-OR-TREAT236

5 жыл бұрын

I'D BE MORE THAN WILLING TO HELP YOU NATHAN . HOW MUCH MONEY YOU GOT ? YOU SAY THIS GUYS VIDEOS HELPED YOU A LOT ? REALLY ? HOW SO ? I'LL HELP YOU FIGURE IT OUT FOR HALF WHAT HE WANTS. ARE YOU WITH ME SO FAR NATHAN ? .................. BOY I SURE THE HELL HOPE SO.

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

5 жыл бұрын

@@TRICK-OR-TREAT236 what I do takes years and years of not only helping people around the country...but first showing for decades that you can do it for yourself. Including killing mature bucks in multiple states, all DIY, on both private and public lands. If you haven't been doing that for deacdes, then it is impossible to develop a competent plan for someone else. Not everyone can afford to hire a whitetail consultant and you sure get what you pay for in this field. That's why I have over 600 whitetail strategy articles on my site and roughly 230 videos on this channel...for free 😉

@johnnytravis6697

4 жыл бұрын

This man knows way more thank ever will, and this is outstanding information....with that being said...I’ve found time and again that mature bucks bed down where you almost NEVER go o your property. He is dead on about the slight elevation change in the terrain and I would also add that the many that I’ve found had multiple(at least 2 but mostly 3 or more) exit routes where they can quickly disappear like a ghost. The change in elevation plays a large part in that, I believe...they will use the elevation to shield their silhouette when escaping.

How much do you charge to go out on somebodys property and help them out like this

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

5 жыл бұрын

It depends on the location? I am booked by location already thru my last trip in September, but still have openings here and there. Regular sized parcels are $2450 per day (up to 160-300 acres depending upon the habitat), $2950 for long day parcels and then $4950 + airfare for 3 day fly-ins. I usually fly to a client roughly 3-5 times per year.

@TRICK-OR-TREAT236

5 жыл бұрын

HOW MUCH MONEY YOU GOT FOOL ? CAN'T YOU SEE THIS GUYS A SCAMMER ? I'LL DO IT FOR HALF THAT COST.

I like it

I like to bow hunting because it is as close to the old way as there is. West Texas bow hunting. I would rather not have as much success than rely on a camera to tell me what is going on versus doing my own homework. To each their own.

is this a wild game farm ? if your having clients paying to hunt there

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

5 жыл бұрын

This is just an average parcel in the area that I lease. There are a couple of different lands within the B roll, but of course the 1 parcel is where I shot the video. No fences, neighbors with 7 stands on the borders...actually one I wouldn't want to actually purchase.for myself. I don't have clients come to me and hunt. Ever. I don't share the lands I hunt myself 😉 Just my family and good friend who is a lease partner. However...I do go to clients and design their lands for them. I visit roughly 70 per year and to date I have worked on over 800 lands in 25 states since 2005. Just an average 45 acres for around here...OK for a lease but the neighbors pressure the lines more than most areas. I don't guide or have clients come to me for paid hunts.

what is "high stem count"

@smalltownwisconsin5271

4 жыл бұрын

Hey Rick Smith, “high stem count” means an area of land where there is a lot of grass/weed cover. Place where the deer can hide themselves a bit from predators and environmental elements. Deer will not typically bed where they are out in the open. Even when you have a mature forest deer will not bed in an open area in a woods, especially bucks. They want a good amount of cover to conceal themselves. Hope this helps!

How can someone contact you?

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Steve other than the thousands of responses on here or other social media platforms, I unfortunately am only able to talk to my clients, podcasts, partners etc. But, here is a link to my services page...that will at least get you to my wife Diane, but largely on scheduling client trips, book questions and general business info. I wish I could help more! www.whitetailhabitatsolutions.com/services

I would love to get you on my property. How do I go about hiring you?

@jarretjordan3837

4 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't that take the "hunt" out of it? Having someone set up your personal game preserve? I've hunted for 27 years. I can't imagine getting the same feeling if I was hunting on a "course". Maybe I'm missing something? Guess I'm just a "thrill of the hunt" kind of guy. Btw, I've shot and tagged 20+ deer in New England. 6 of which were over 200lbs. All on public land ....

@marshalllaw6541

4 жыл бұрын

I’m not looking for someone to put in the work I’m looking for someone to help me by giving me pointers on plot locations, stand locations and buck census. I have never had a lease before this season and I have always just played the luck game on public land. I’m new to deer and Habitat management

GOD BLESS

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you Randle!

@randlerichardson5826

5 жыл бұрын

Whitetail Habitat Solutions your very welcome brother.

Does anybody know how to get ahold of this guy

@alexseiler5291

4 жыл бұрын

Nicholas Wilson google the name of channel and his website will come up

That’s the prob with a farm we hunt. There’s no place on it that people don’t go. The deer are never left alone. They have no place they feel safe.

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

5 жыл бұрын

Man that's a real bummer Randle...but there is ALWAYS a spot hunters fo less...I hunt that spot!

👍

You seem very knowledgable, but your statement about herd sizes in northern michigan is incorrect.

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

4 жыл бұрын

What's that about? I know MI like the back of my had...loved there for 42 years and have studies at least 250 client parcels there...up to 30 per year. I certainly know MI deer numbers per region as much as anyone else.

Do not buy the app no one responds to you when you try to send them an email it goes to a dead end

He said "we don't go in this area" yet there is a ground blind right behind him.

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

5 жыл бұрын

Where I'm standing 😉 hidden access behind the blind and where I'm standing exposes myself to the entire Cereek bottom. First time standing in that spot or walking around in 2 years...even that blind only gets hunted 3-5 times in over 3 months. Sacred spot...

I just watched a different video that this same guy says it's a myth that bucks bed behind a doe...

The first two minutes all this guy did was talk about himself as credentials and what he did get to the point

@TRICK-OR-TREAT236

5 жыл бұрын

THIS GUY IS A LEGEND IN HIS OWN MIND MY FRIEND AND A GREAT BULLSHITTER TOO.

@sierraridgereaper

4 жыл бұрын

The guy has killed more deer than you two combined plus some.

So... Buck beds here, why, and what made you look there.

Hello brother.

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Randle!!

@randlerichardson5826

5 жыл бұрын

Whitetail Habitat Solutions great video people don’t realize that they need places on their land that they need to leave the deer alone.

@randlerichardson5826

5 жыл бұрын

Whitetail Habitat Solutions this weekend has been nasty weather. Sunny tomorrow though. I’ll hit the woods in the morn LORD WILLING AMEN. Well after I get home got a couple errands to run in the morn but if ok I’ll go when I get home.

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

5 жыл бұрын

@@randlerichardson5826 I agree Randke...well, actually i believe thst they do...just most dont realize that means thst the deer shouldn't be able to see them, hear them or smell them. That includes ATVs, noisy stands, scent on the way in or out, getting in or out of food plot stands, etc.

@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751

5 жыл бұрын

@@randlerichardson5826 good luck Randle! Post weather front hunting can be incredible

THIS GUYS A GREAT BULLSHITTER. NOW LET ME TELL YOU THE TRUTH. BY FAR THE BIGGEST MISCONCEPTION IN DEAD HUNTING IS THE WHOLE DEER BEDDING AREA BULLSHIT. BE IT BUCK OR DOE. A DEER BEDS DOWN WHERE IT FEELS COMFORTABLE AT THE TIME. IT MAY BE A WIDE OPEN WOODS OR WEEDY OVERGROWN FIELD OR THICK BRUSH AREA. A BEDDING "AREA" IS PURE BULLSHIT. IT'S WHAT MAGAZINE LIKE TO SELL YOU TO BUY THEIR SHIT. THINK ABOUT IT FOR A MOMENT. IF THERE WAS A BUCK BEDDING AREA .............. ALL THE BUCKS WOULD BE DEAD BY NOW. THATS WHY IT'S NEVER IN THE SAME PLACE OR AREA MOST OF THE TIME. THEY AREN'T THAT STUPID.