Top 10 Deer Habitat and Hunting Tips for Small Parcels
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- The best deer habitat and hunting tips for your small parcel, work hand in hand to create the best herd and hunt! After all, you can't have a great herd without a great hunt. These top deer hunting and habitat tips will assist you in teaching your whitetail potential on even the smallest deer parcels. Let's face it, on small parcels you can not afford to make mistakes. Makes sure to use these tips to not only improve the deer habitat on your land, but to help you avoid mistakes while drastically improving the deer hunting potential on your land.
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Used your high pressure-temperature drop strategy and ignored the full moon. I shot my first buck. A nice 8, and followed it up by shooting my first doe in the evening. Thanks for the free education! Couldn’t be happier
I just got a bow so I’m bummed I have to wait until next year unless I pick up a muzzleloader before the end of the season. I just don’t feel comfortable with taking a shot at an animal with only a few months of practice. I can’t wait to apply the wealth of knowledge I’ve learned from this guy.
Hey bud. It’s awesome u do these videos. I’m a single father so I can’t afford to have u come and help me out. So I have watched a lot of your videos and just in one year time your advice has helped me bring deer closer to me. You know what u are talking about and u explain things well. This year my target buck is a 12 point. Biggest buck I have had yet in my woods. And my 12 yr old son gives thanks to you also. I took him out opening day of rifle here in West Virginia and he got a nice 8 point. Before our property only had bucks in it at night and only in day once in a while or during rut. I just wanted to write this to say thank u for what u do. I really appreciate it.
This man knows what he's talking about. Great books-
Jeff, Can't express enough how much I appreciate all your educational video's. I am in Wisconsin and learn something that I can do on my 40 acres everytime I watch you. PLEASE keep the video's coming. Merry Christmas.
I'm so excited about this time of year. I'm going to implement more of your strategies to my new property. Lots of new deer management guys popping on the scene but most of it is to sell product. Breath of fresh air to watch a informative and real life show. Lots of hard work that many of us appreciate.
More good tips, thanks for sharing Jeff!
Hey Jeff, this may be the most informative video you have done to date! I know from my experience the importance of ingress and egress at stands or blinds.If you are seen, smelled or heard golng to or leaveing them you have educated those deer to avoid that area at least during daylight hours or altogether.I also think staying too late will run off Deer that you may not see because of darkness......
Jeff, I really appreciate and enjoy your content. I've been hunting 14 years now and I feel my knowledge has really taken off the past five years just from my own experiences. But watching your videos keeps me wanting to learn more and really fine tune my abilities. You always have new or an elaborated video from something prior that you posted that really explains things in detail.
The area we hunt is very tough in Western New York. The deer can get fairly big, but it seems that our neighboring properties have a lot more attraction and their bucks really seem to blow ours away. Small improvements the last couple years based on some of the things you've recommended have really done wonders. Unfortunately for a couple full-time employed guys it takes a lot of time and money to make quality hunting grounds. It's a slow process here but you've taught me a lot and I always look forward to your videos. Hope you had a great season, have a Merry Christmas, and here's to next season. Cheers.
Great stuff Jeff! 👍
Jeff, great advice as always. I was able to knocked down to 7 pointer opening day NY. I set the waterhole, scrape & liking branch a little late in season. They worked great anyway.
Your insight is ln your face and straight forward. thanks
Really enjoy your videos, I just bought a small property and will be using the information to help set it up. I am really looking forward to the adventure. Thanks for the help!
Thanks again Jeff
Thanks Jeff, got my round-up, 24-D, Princep, switchgrass seed and buckwheat seed already. Putting together my PackerMAXX today. Excited for this coming season.
Great information! I only have 6.5 acres and I'm surrounded almost completely by a private hunt club, so I'm trying to implement all I can to be successful! Thanks again!
I get in from hunts& write on my list of things to do once the season is over. All based on your tips. 365 days of deer!!
Thanks so much for your videos. Unless I’m with my in-laws, I hunt public land. Just from watching and learning from your videos, I’ve been able to apply that knowledge to public land and what I should be looking for when placing a stand or blind. Because of your videos I’ve been able to track where this one herd I can’t harvest goes to eat and the general area they go to bed down
Thanks Jeff!
Yet another awesome video!!!
Ha! Just noticed the game cam in the bush behind you! Love your videos and have learned a ton. Always great content.
☺️ well hidden eh? Thank you very much Nick...really appreciate it!
Five ***** video. Thanks Cris
Hey Jeff great stuff..Checked my camera 2 hours ago..Got pics of a mid 130s 8pt last night at 6:27..He made it along with another 8 and a 5.IThink the big 1 is crossing the main highway. Not good.congratulations on your muzzleloader buck.Can't wait to see it.You guys had an awesome year.
I had 6.5 acres clear cut 5 years ago. Also cleared out a food plot and tree plot. I've planted 7 Chinese chestnuts (only ones in the neighborhood) 4 apple trees, 3 persimmon, and 2 pear trees. It'll be a couple of years until they yield good but it'll be worth the wait, in my mind. I installed a water hole and a mineral stump sight as well. And I'm transplanting 10 cedar trees for screening in switch grass. After having 20 cedars die last year.
Well after 5 years, I'm finally getting deer movement and bedding on my land. Most would have given up, but I'm too stubborn. I'm going to create a smorgasbord that they can't resist.
Alot of helpful info. Thanks.
Good video. Like every one of your videos i try to adjust it to West Virginia elements as best as i can. But very helpful tips
I like the trail cam in the tree 😂
Nice work!
I own a small 20 acre tract but it produces year after year a few nice bucks are always on cam. I cleared off an acre on the top of my hill and added a water hole but let it grow up CRP, deer love it early morning and Eve's. My treestands are usually on the inner portion of the woods near trails.
Great Tips
Excellent video! I have some questions regarding hinge cutting. I understand what hinge cutting accomplishes, I understand good locations for hinge cutting. What I haven’t found a good video on is “hinge cut structure” or “what a good hinge cut area looks like.” How do you lay trees for bedding? Do you stack multiple trees on top of each other? Are trees cut in a circle? Do you lay trees in different directions or the same direction? Seeing or having you explain what a good hinge cut area should look like, especially for bedding would be a huge help for me (and I’m sure many others)! Thanks Jeff!
-Matt
I would like to see a good video on this as well.
I recorded the first mature buck working a licking branch, and quite a few smaller bucks as well. Exciting to have this experience.
I have a nice spot for that dogwood staging area, April can't come fast enough.
That's awesome Rick!
Love the books Jeff. Need some pointers on a big buck in the Deep South, I Missed a four year old last Saturday with a rifle about 11am just outside his bedroom. he was locked down with a doe, didn’t even seem like he realized I was there. It’s an old farm that gets hunted quite a bit but has a strong doe herd. I’ve Never seen him there before. There are four younger bucks that iv seen on the place, I have camera logs they’ve been there since August, all that said do you believe he will hold to his bedroom or hit the road? iv not set foot there all year except to confirm that I didn’t hit him. It just Didn’t seem big enough to hold deer it’s a 150 yard block of walnut and cedars he was in, Very thick and Surrounded by open fields that are just about tall enough to hide a smaller deer He has spent some time there already by the sign. Thanks for what you do Jeff, Your a hero of mine. I understand if you don’t have time to answer rambling questions in the comments you still have my respect.
It's tough here in northwest Louisiana right now. Saw deer first week of rifle season which started last week in October and killed a spike. We have multiple nice spikes a 4 point good 7 or 8 and another good buck in area with unlimited does. I haven't seen a deer since that spike I shot. Pigs running wild also i shot 9 in August but my 30-06 cant kill em all
Thanks Jeff for all your great videos. I've been learning a lot and looking to improve my land habitat in Sheboygan County. We've got Emerald Ash Borer killing tons of ash trees here. Wondering if you have any recommendations on how to best deal with that from a habitat standpoint - selective cutting only, clearcutting, replanting, natural regrowth, etc... Love to hear your feedback in comments or new video. Thanks!
Thank you for all the videos. I only have 5 acres to hunt for the next couple of years and trying to do something to get more of them antlers on my land. Have never seen a scrape or a rub on my land
You are very welcome! Can't wait to hear about your first buck sign...thank YOU!
Started clearing some trees to try a food plot. Have 4 does bedded on the property next to me. Have a lot of red cedars getting rid of for the plot. Been wondering tho is a water hole good or no for me. There a lake about 100 yards from where my plot will be?
I also have only 5 acres I thought it was crazy to try and improve such a small area but I followed what he said. In my research of my own land wherever the most diversity comes together is where all my deer sign is at. Just so happens where that point is gets a lot of sunlight so I put clover in and a mock scrape. If you do the Scrape early enough you will be amazed on the deer movement. However, I made a vow once I did the improvements that I would stay out of my woods. I don't even cut firewood on my own land and heat with wood lol I only hunt with the right wind and see deer almost everytime I'm out. For example our gun season just closed up and I saw more deer on my 5 acres then I saw on my parents 120 acre farm. Pressure is critical. If they feel safe and have the essentials for survival they will be there. Good luck!
@@PathfinderExcavating exactly, I hunt a 4 acre transition line, I hunted it once this year and there were deer all over, I'm gonna put a waterhole in this summer since the only water is a 400 yards away across a cattle pasture. Tiny acreage's can be killer if carefully hunted/managed, iv killed a handful of bucks on that land and have seen more there than on the 100 acre and 70 parcels that I share with 3 other hunters
@@gheft762 Exactly. I don't have the opportunity to hunt a property that provides all of the areas for a deer. I studied it and narrowed it down to the smallest of details. The terrain features these guys explain can be broken down into smaller sizes.
Hi Jeff have you ever seen a good acorn year change daytime bedding?
Great video and thanks for the information
Thanks so much for the content... I watch every video you post! Question on unpressured food plots. How close to the house is too close for a food plot. More than half of my 40 acres is visible from the house. The other half is good browse and cover. Is switchgrass screening enough?
Jeff we have 85 acs in southeast KY big hardwood setting, lowest zone of deer densities in the state. I’ve lived here all my life, and I don’t know of any Ag fields within 3 miles or so in any direction, as a crow flies now days. (Since the ones that were on neighbors land were converted over to wetlands and CRP projects 2-3 years ago. Around 40acs) which has really changed our hunting. The Deer bed there now. LoL Of those 85 acs about 50% is mature hardwood and pine stands. The other 50% is tillable ground. Has been in alfalfa mixed hay production for 20+ years. But not manicured basically at all. Would you recommend summer food plots in an area like this? Than broadcasting into it with fall mixes in the fall? Btw been watching your videos for years now and love the content, I even have all your current books and reading all the time between videos. Keep up the good work.
We have mock scrapes (two) and water holes (two) both within bow range of mineral sites and stand locations. Back off of the possible food plot areas by prob 100-150 yards into the timber. This pre rut walking into my stand for a bow hunt I found 8 new scrapes in a scrape line, heading toward that one mock scrape within 100yds saw 5 deer that first sit most I’ve seen out of a stand in years here. I only hunt cold fronts now also due to you and I don’t hunt same stand over and over, and only on the right winds for each. Thank you for that encouraging sit.
So I guess I’m trying narrow down the question or where to build ...new thickets and or bedding .. in general
Thanks JEFF for another great video.I’m 85 and hunt at the edge of a 100 acre wood lot owned by a good friend . I’m hunting from a ground blind on the edge of 2 1/2 acres of Timothy..I think that it would be inappropriate to ask him to follow your expertise approach.. You are the way I should go , but shooting four 🦌, the largest being an 8 point , 230 lb since 2017 , I feel this is the way to go. I will try your mock scrape and 💦 water hole approach..I like these . Do you have to monitor the water in the summer for mosquitoes? P.S.- I use an Arbelest..Also, I go far enough back to have shot with Howard Hill and ANN WEBER Hoyt ..Good old instinctive days man .. A very Merry Christmas 🎁 to you and yours ..
Hey Jeff another great video brother. One question though, on my 60 acres I only have one food plot about half acre total.. how far away would you recommend if I wanted to put another food plot on the property about the same size. Thanks
Aaron
WoW Jeff you just keep bring it. I do have a quick question. On my 50 acres I may have an opportunity if creating about 5 to 6 acre of a Savannah type habitat through a select cut of trees and prescribed fire. Any thoughts on that type of diversity in habitat management for deer ?
Great video as usual. I am reclaiming 5 acres of agricultural and planting it into trees and switchgrass this spring. Would you set aside one part of the 5 acres for trees and another part for grass, or just space the trees within the grass to achieve the 50% you aim for?
Enjoy watching the video's!. Any suggestions on what do do with poplar trees? Do deer use them for anything, or should I cut them down and let the undergrowth take over? Only have a couple small areas (1/8 to 1/4 acre) of them.
Are water holes effective on small properties with natural water features? I.e. my property is about 20 acres bordered on the North by a small river and a creek on the South. I have a decent deer herd here already but I'm learning a lot from you about how I can improve it so thank you for all you do!
Jeff what are your thoughts on "mineral stumps"? There has been talk on some habitat pages about the research MSU has done.
I have about 120 acres surrounded by a few thousand acres of state game land. The only water source for a mile or two are the two streams running on both sides of my property. Is it worth putting a water hole somewhere in the middle or should I just try to utilize the streams? Thanks for the great vids I’ve learned so much from this channel
you're gonna have them scent hunters talking about you, they LIVE by that stuff
Next year I’m goin to improve my lease big time. Would you put a small corn field in one of the fields brother???? I’m talkin bout on my lease. Bout bow season before go in a bush hog trails through it. Leave some standing and hog some down. I’m thinking about doin that. Putting sweet corn in. Maybe plant clover and alfalfa around it. Maybe a 100x100 field of corn. Or bigger. The ground hasn’t been turned in years.
Jeff you know my land I want to create screening at my foodplot especially by the boxblind would you use switchgrass or Egyptian wheat to complete the task please your thoughts are greatly appreciated
SC swamp land... Should I hinge cut parallel from a canal ditch or perpendicular groups?
Also does it make sense to add apple trees to perimeter of existing plot your thoughts
Jeff thank you so much for your information. I have applied your methods to our hunting land in southern Virginia over the last year, everything from hinge cuts to food plots. Myself and my dad had our best hunting season so far this year. I was able to take a 21" wide and very very tall 8 point this fall, and my dad got a 13 pointer and a 9 pointer. I also was able to get a bear with my bow earlier this fall as a bonus. We put in lots of hours of work and hunting and it definitely paid off! We were able to turn our land completely around in just one year, and almost tripled our deer population. If you have a minute, please check out our pictures of our bucks on our Craft Outdoors facebook page. Thank you again!
I have 5 acres here in NE Ohio. We have a lot of hunting pressure. My property is long and skinny but I have a lot of diversity for being 5 acres. I started using some of Jeff's tips for improving the habit. I put a small clover plot in and towards the back of the wooded parcel I hinge cut some trees. I started a mock scrape off the kill plot in August and since I have had photos of 9 different bucks. Of those 9 bucks 3 are home range bucks and there is 1 shooter 8 point. The problem I'm having is very few does. It's almost all bucks all the time. Anyone know why? I'm not complaining but if I could share the photos with you some of these bucks have bad genetics it's almost like there are too many bucks not enough does.
Hi Jeff ,
I wanna thicken up about 10-20 acres of monoculture tall open woods.. in our new 50 acres has old pine and maple bottle necking down to Irvine then rd down how do I know where to actually Create a new thicket ..?
Can you give me some tips. ..a Generalization ..like do it hinge cut up high on ridges or low .. or middle of hill. we have large hillsides of open boring woods Jeff please let me know basics if you can thanks ... our wind for some reason ...almost always .. it blows towards East direction on our hill ....we don’t have man thick areas it’s either green filed s or. Open woods .. bucks don’t stay ...nick
Awesome info once again. Killing the video game Jeff lol. For cover, Jeff with the Egyptian wheat and switch grass who do you go through for those seeds? I know you've said it before but I lost my dang list of seed providers haha.
Northwoods Whitetail is who he uses mostly I believe the guys name is John, please correct me if wrong Jeff.
Erst Conservation Seed Co has incredible pricing for CIR switchgrass ($6.60 PLS this year). Ordered mine on a Monday afternoon and received it on Friday. Now just need to fire up the tractor and calibrate the drill. Good luck
Best for swampy area to plant for food source? Only 7 acres but surrounded by state land property? They have water just need some mock scrapes.
Need to create waterholes on my dry high ground areas. Any concerns w lak of flow\contamination\mosquito egg issues w them?
When should you mow the red orange dogwood? And is this an easy species to plant as well?
I have a general 20 acre ag feild I'm going to covert. What ratio in acres would you reccomend for switch, corn, beans, brassicas, and within the switch grass would you reccomend? TIA
Man we have 10000 acres in Deep South Alabama I would love to hear your opinions on the land
Would grey dogwood be an option if you don’t have low wet areas?
Love your videos. Thoughts on Poison Ivy? How do you manage it?
J Alton leave it. Deer will browse it in the summer. I’m highly allergic to it, so I will cut the vines on the trees I plan to hunt out of, but I have seen deer browse it frequently.
Any chance you are heading to NY to do site visits?
I have a 12 acre pond and a county ditch running through my property also have that red dogwood... about 80 acres of it... how do I manage movement with that?
Morning Jeff do you think I should put switch grass in front of my boxblind for cover is it hard to grow & based on where it would be do you think it will take also I put 1 ton of lime last year should we do another ton cause that was the original plan 2 tons & what will we be planting this time around sticking with winter rye or gonna jazz it up also will be adding another plot by suzie location please advise
Sue Mellone pull a soil sample and get a pH. That will give you an idea if you need to lime or not. You can do this relatively easy yourself with those quick pH test strips.
Switchgrass is relatively easy to grow ! Give it a try
Got a call to make be back in a bit.
What if you have 20 acres mostly spotted alder and popular with patches of oak and pine , that is surrounded by woods with food plots then ag? I have 40 acres of thick woods next door with a plot and 80 behind me with 3 plots and 40 the other side that 15 is a plot next to a creek and ag. I think i need to work on access, corridors and water holes.
I wish i could afford to have you over i think I've got a little bit of heaven here. I'm just not very lucky or good at tree stand placement. Lol
You often show the plastic water hole. How does the water get there? All from rain? I a in South Jersey where it is flat as a pool table. I don't know that there will be enough water.
Question for you have you ever have your muzzleloader not fire? I had nice buck come out my muzzleloader would go off I had to switch out the 7 primer to get go off. I had never had this happen before. I very frustrated after this.
I’ve had it happen before. Definitely frustrating! I think most folks that have muzzleloader hunted have experienced that “snap”
Trey Robinson thanks I am glad I wasn’t the only one that happened to. The buck I trying to shoot was like 140 to 150 class. Well that means next year he will bigger next year. I have one buck on my wall that is 179 evenly. Maybe next year get him.
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Jeff would the dogwood grow under tall red pines? Gets a lot of sun
Man I wish...really needs full sun
What type of switchgrass do you plant and where did you buy the seeds? Having a tough time finding a place to buy seed.
Hi Kenny! I get mine from John Komp at Northwoods Whitetails... www.northwoodswhitetails.com
Also keep in mind, you get what you pay for. The cheaper blends typically have foxtail or other weeds in the mix, and poor germination rates. I have learned that mistake the hard way 😬
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 Thanks Jeff!
I can't plant food plots since we lease the land for hay. Can I make strips of food plots on the edge of the hay fields, and still get results?
Hi Shannon! It all books down to acreage. Need to have at least 1-2 acres in most situations....
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 it's 40 acres of land with about 12 being woods, creek splits the woods, and high tension power line right of way
Your channel is the only one I watch. Lots of the ones I’ve watched use bad language I’m not goin to listen to that.
Do you have anything that pertains strictly to the southeast? Browse species for us? Also for micro lands, like 10acres or less?
@whitetailhabitatsolutions
How can I contact you about evaluating my property in Pinconning Michigan?
How much do you charge
Do you manage property in Indiana?
Hi Joe, maybe a couple of dozen throughout the year...I think 3 last year. I have 1 schedule within a western IL trip in March...but that will likely be the only time I am in IN for clients in 2020...already scheduled out by location in other states this year.
Hey brother
30 acres is small? Guess my 8 is insignificant. :(
I bought a home in a rural area with 5 acres surrounded by farms. The land was so overgrown by honeysuckle and buckthorn, thorn something, you couldn't walk through it. It literally was a dump, literally a farmer dump, with cars and everything! I cleared out the invasives, though neverending, planted hundreds of trees. 3 years ago I shot the largest 8 pointer in my 26 years of hunting! It can be done.
You can do a lot of great hunting on 8-10 acres You won’t get many bucks living on it but you only need one! Cut trail, small food plots. Natural browse You need to work on it and keep it up. Make it attractive and the deer will come through