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You guys should really read Jeff Sturgis books from whitetail habitat solutions he makes so much sense of food plots and screening. Hell you should try to get him on your show lol. WHS has youtube channel also
Keep em coming guys
An episode with “do it yourself hunter” would be epic!
With a wall like that, you gotta take that logger serious. lol
No doubt!
I really enjoy these podcasts guys. I just found y’all like a cpl weeks ago and I’ve watched a bunch of them. Are y’all coming to the Mississippi Wildlife Extravaganza in Pearl in July?
Not this year, but we will be at the Mobile Hunters Expo in GA this weekend, and the World Deer Expo in Birmingham next month!
In relation to deer movement, do they know where the rub lines, scrapes, food sources and licking branches are somewhere in their day to day movements
Man, I am so glad I found out about this podcast! There’s some unbelievable stuff on here… My dad told me about the turpentine years ago and I almost broke down crying man when he said that! My dad died in 2005 and he was one awesome Deer Hunter! He was the best Hunting Buddy I ever ever had. Clifton Denney is my personal friend & mentor & a pro deer guide I know (Andy McGhee) told me Clifton was on here.. so glad I checked yall out!!!
We have plenty of pines here in Arkansas and I’m certain it will work here too. But this hill country has whip my tail and it is taking me two or three years of studying Hillcountry HUNTING… I’m hoping that things change for me this year!
We hope it works for you! Check out or latest two Monday episode with dr. Bronson Strickland on buck bedding and buck movement with GPS data. It’s very fascinating
My dad was a logger growing u, we’ve Killed a lot of deer while sitting in brush piles.
Yeah clear cut in non pine appalachia mtns called clear cut or logged for a decade basically
They say men cant or dont communicate.Very few people would ever recognize the intimacy and openness of this conversation.
Awesome episode and story from Mr. Kyle - Chiming in on the foodplot theories Dr Strickland discussed. We put a lot of time and effort into our plot construction and maintenance on our lease. They are in fact the ANCHOR for us. My father and brother hunt over them hard but very carefully and are able to take multiple mature bucks each year off them. And y'all are spot on about the restriction in size most of us face. In ALOT of instances we'd love to back our stands off the plot far enough but that isn't feasible in many cases simply due to lease agreements that do not allow you to cut adequate shooting lanes. For smaller plots ( 1/2 up to 2 acres ) I've found that feathering edges and even dividing them up into planted and non planted sections have done wonders for daylight activity - specifically with bucks - over the last several years. Feathering edges can help deer feel more secure coming into a visible area AND if done in the right places can provide the cover you need to get out undetected if your stand placement isn't exactly perfect I also loved what was brought up about the average bedding distance from a food source. Really valuable information that can be put to use.
That’s an excellent take on the part two episode with Dr. Strickland. It’s interesting to here about yalls success with food plots for taking mature bucks. What timing of the season do y’all have success killing bucks on plots? Pre rut, Rut, post rut?
@@thesouthernoutdoorsmen When we first got on the property it was basically limited to New Years through end of the season - your typical bucks cruising and tending does in the plots. But over the last 4 seasons we've had a lot more success earlier in the season. I have been able to kill 1 buck each of the last three seasons over a food plot in the month of October along with my brother and dad each being able to take some in November and December. I believe that the deer have just began to associate the plots less and less with danger over the time we've been hunting them along with the manipulation of the plots edges and structure.
Ol Kyle!
You did a great job with his mount!
@@thesouthernoutdoorsmen it was an awesome buck! Thank you
Crazy your only at 15 thousand susbribers, hands down one of the best hunting podcast out there.
Agreed!!
We appreciate you saying that! It just takes time and people sharing the show. Thank you for watching!!
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Really hard to follow him. His terminology of topographical features is a little off and it took me a while to figure that out. Once I did, at about the hour mark, it made more sense. I have a hard time believing he uses his terminology having served in the military. His idea of a saddle is really a drainage that leads up to a saddle. And the fat lines is really a bench.
Air density has is what causes the swirling winds. You were talking about the smoke bomb experiment and how the smoke cleared most of the field but skirted the edge of the timber and pooled in a pocket. It’s because the air in the tim er is cooler and dense and the air in the field is hotter and less dense. Swirling winds are usually from down drafts of cooler denser air falling to the ground and spreading out like pouring water on a flat surface. I think deer like that, because as you alluded to, they get a better sense of danger in a broader area. Instead of only danger from one direction. Cloudy or partly cloudy days has lots of downdrafts. Maybe they deal like they have a better sense of what is going on around them by their nose with swirling winds and odds are in their favor.
Loving this information
Loved this episode and I've started making a new calendar for a better visual! Would love dor y'all to go into detail about historical trail camera data from early season, say early to mid October and is there a way to "estimate" buck movement like Daniel does for the rut.
Excellent deer information!!! Thx
Is there any data for the average time spent in a bed?
We cover that in this episode. They are bedded for roughly 4 hours in each bed. Average 4 beds per day
The batteries in the collar only last so long so they have to limit the times per day they get a location reading. This way they can get a longer duration of data points. The trade off is the data is more general than what you want to know.
So much great information! That’s for the podcast. I can’t wait for the season to start over here in GA.
Cool stuff! I like the Poirier shirt
I'm a logger so I only get weekends or rainy days so you got to make it count, just found y'all's channel, Roll Tide
5.7k views in 1 day. you think guys might like this topic😅. y'all really got to try and get access to the land they did this study on. actually put eye's on the major travel areas and beds. that would be next level.
My area the best places to hunt is by houses and small patches of woods that other hunters don’t go to.
For me pre rut and post rut is way better than actual rut. That’s when I’ve gotten all my big ones.
Sorry but this is BS. Dude probably hunts very private land and deer have no pressure whatsoever from people. Not hating on him for that as i have and would hunt private land but two different animals when talking big bucks on what I call very private land (land where hunters don’t even risk sneaking on) and public land. There’s like 10000000000 different theories out there, just do u if your successful, don’t change it up if it’s working.
We appreciate you watching! He’s talks more about this in the full episode if you didn’t watch it. He’s been hunting higher pressure hunting clubs and then transferred to public these last two year with success killing great bucks using this. Thanks for the feedback and we hope you check out the two new episode with dr. Bronson Strickland about buck bedding and movement patterns that just released.
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Better give me some tips that work or I want a refund for my time!!!! In $$$$ !!!! Sincerely Kyle F. Karen
Wish I could see his demonstration lol
If you could see his demonstration I bet you will realize he’s using the wrong terminology for topographical features and his way of using phrases describing direction referencing distance is confusing to most people. What he’s calling a saddle isn’t really a saddle.
@@jasonscott5043 I kinda caught wind of something not being right when he went from talking about a saddle then saying the deer side hill across the ridge and a few other things
Really enjoyed this podcast. I think this happens better with more deer per square mile. Here in NH I’ve seen big deer on the same 3-4 day period, but it doesn’t happen in the same spots year after year. I’ve had cameras on a post rub and got two huge deer. The next few years nothing. We have 1-4 deer per square mile where I live. I’m sure you can probably find some spots. Just pretty hard to find here I believe.
Y’all should do a follow up video or podcast where you go to this property, and evaluate these travel corridors and bedding areas that the data is laying out, and see if it matches how you would normally read the sign, or not.
Great episode! I’d like to hear more, specifically on the travel routes. The gps simulator showed all the bed sites and travel routes taken over a period of time. When the simulator stopped we were left with the map of bed sites and travel routes, some of which intersected each other, and some intersections were very dense. If that simulation could be run only with legal hunting hours I’d love to see the difference and focus on the highest density intersections. Essentially “where is he most vulnerable during legal hours and if there is any correlation to what is there”. It would be incredibly tough to kill him in his bed, or to know exactly where he’s bedded (1/4 chance roughly speaking), so specifically look at the highest density intersections and on average what time/times of day he was in them
That is an excellent idea! We will bring it up to Dr. Strickland for a future episode.
As a 65 year old avid lifelong hunter it is great to see this data collected. The hunting as a whole has been manipulated so much by product sales. Even state hunting regulations are impacted due to revenue generated.
Really good interview….😉👍
I'd love to see several studies where it looks at the food plot size, but approaches the size as a percentage of the food plot acre range (4acre was preferred when the range was .5-20acre ~ 20%.) I feel like if you go to a place with very little field food, the smaller the ideal plot size would be?
It would have been fun to review the maps before revealing any of the data to see how well you could determine bedding sites and movement.
That’s a great idea!
Will yall be at the deer expo in Birmingham?
Yes sir! We have another booth this year
I'm a Wisconsin resident and have been bow and gun hunting 21 years and I can say for certain that Halloween weekend is the best for overall rut activity, but I believe the majority of monster buck are killed between November 2 or 3 and 9. I think that's when the big bucks really start to travel as much as they're going to
I wish yall would stop looking at individual beds… we all know it’s a area not a 20x20 spot😂 Second until they tease the info as they say for micro details that is crazy hard and time consuming ur painting to broad a stroke on a situation that has way too many variables to have that broad a stroke… case and point he talked about diet for specific deer can be different… and comparing Iowa to the study was stupid… u can’t compare different areas to one another but u can take away tendencies… in topography bucks will travel and bed in certain elevation lines in steep areas… then cut out the rest and make it as open areas… swamps hunt transitions from wet to dry and cover… rest is dead zone… same thing as Iowa… almost… until they narrow the specifics down on the studies there ain’t much to take away from the honestly
So passed me in subs I see. I should report y’all as spam. 😂
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So true flat river land is crazy hard to figure out deer in for me. Without Terrain it’s like they travel random.
One thing Dr. Strickland mentioned is that they may be keying in on sight a lot when they travel in more flat terrain. As in, if there is some kind of line of vegetation (think of a grown-up road bed going through the woods) they are more likley to follow it.
@@thesouthernoutdoorsmen very nice I will. Hills make since but river bottom is so hard. They don’t do the same things as my public forest. Scrapes our pointless in there. Not sure it’s because of deer population or size of property they Rome but it just doesn’t make since to me.
I would love to see this map with 2 colors one for daytime movement and one for night time!
We are going to try and make that happen in a future episode!
The idea that deer only move into the wind seems sound until you think about it. If that is what they did 80% of the time all the deer in North America would all end up in Washington State or British Columbia. I think they like to bed with the wind in their favor, but that sometimes means they have to travel to that spot ignoring the wind until they reach that spot. Or they will make a swing or J hook when they get close to the location they are going to feed or bed. But most of the travel was just making the move to get the wind advantage.
Is corialis effect shows why that dont happen
Most big bucks I have seen are cutting it at some kind Of an angle when they can’t see and if they can see they don’t care..
another point to consider is local variations in wind direction. In our part of Alabama our prevailing wind is actually ESE - but terrain and vegetation can cause it to swirl and redirect quite a bit. So the weather station may say SE, but on the side of a ridge the buck may be traveling it could be different because of it deflecting off something.
@@michaelyates2498I don't see how that's relevant since the deer don't fly in the air...
@@shaneshonda but the air moves that way thats why
I have never had any cameras to hang so I guess I'm out of the...loop.
I see what you did there lol.
They need to post a random online or Facebook survey of die hard deer hunters asking, what do you guys want from all of this data? A lot of the questions you guys have would be the same questions I’d have. Just an idea
That’s a great idea!
I’m so excited to see the the results regarding the evening bed to food
Hes not accounting for the fact that bucks change patterns season by season according to pressure
Exactly and for food sources.