How To Hold More Bucks On Your Land
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 พ.ค. 2018
- If you want to hold more bucks on your land during the hunting season, then you need to make sure that you follow the critical cover strategy of, Depth of Cover. From the backside of mature buck bedding to the front side of a food plot, here is how to use food to make sure that you have enough room for mature bucks on your land.
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One of the best habitat videos I’ve ever watched! Keep up the great content!
Great video as always I really do appreciate all the information you put out it’s helped a lot the water holes 🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿 look forward to more videos and eventually become a customer 🏹🦌
Bama Bowhunter got to love those waterholes! Thank you very much and there is a lot more to come. I really appreciate your comments, have fun during the habitat season!
Good info. Less intrusion the better. Pulled my food plots back out of the far end of my CRP, drilled a acres of WSG's last weekend to add another layer of cover.
Catered Whitetail Solutions sounds like a great combo! Not sure where you live but make sure those WSG hold up in November thru March....that is the true test of true cover.
I just love this video. I'm using these concepts for next yr on my new property.
Great video! Thank you very much! Love the example map!
Mark Trotta thank you very much....I try to get some maps in when I can, I appreciate your feedback!
great video i will try these methods this season all i have to hunt is small partials be safe and have a blessed weekend and Memorial Day !
John Willoughby thanks John and good luck! These strategies really work and of applied, I have experienced you can find your lands potential. You have a great Memorial weekend your self and thanks for the feedback!
Awsome info.
Steve Gerber thank you Steve!
Awesome video! What would you recommend if your land is set up wrong? Would you let the natural growth take over again and relocate your field?
Interesting concept. My thought is, this makes perfect sense if this was an isolated 40 acres, with no habitat around. But how does this relate to your neighbors property with food plots. And also if you have smaller sub food plots, how does that change things?
That’s what I was wondering also.
Hello Jeff just like to say thanks and thanks again I'm in North carolina been hunting for years but after looking at your videos like about 50 of them i feel like i have just started hunting or should i say i,m starting over. i have 130 ac plot that i have not hunted yet and wanted to know do you do any online survey of plots. want to start right this time.
Would you look over my plan for next year?
Jeff my wife was able to take the biggest buck killed on our property this past muzzleloader in October. 135" 8pt 4yr old which is a very good buck here in the Ozarks of Ark. He was here for the does for sure but we are holding these does now thanks to your methods! I hav a question about waterholes. The water has turned brackash in 4 months and the deer won't drink anymore. Do you ever have this problem and is there any way to prevent this. In the process of cleaning it out now and adding fresh water. Thank you so much for all you do!!
Jimi Davis thank you and congrats to your wife! I like cleaning my water out every year, some time in the Summer. Seems to help a lot? I take out the garbage inside with a rake, and then flush it out.
I'm in the middle of over a section of hunting land. Would the depth b ok if it was adjacent to the open acres but on neighboring land ? We hunt out in the middle of the field in enclosed stands and wait for the deer to cross the open area moving from one 10 acre patch of timber to another. Can't hunt in the woods as we're busted before getting to the stand.
I have a 240 acre farm that surronded by cliffs on three sides. Could this be good and bad? There is only a few places deer can get in. I have my plot at the end against a cliff top/propertyline.I have 10 pointers that i know are young and havent reached full potential. Im willing to take the chance and let them go. This place really deserves to be on tv. You should come see it. Im wanting to lease it. Big cliffs, waterfalls, 2 ponds, streams. Ajoing 400 acres are empty and vacant.
Boy...sounds beautiful! That is truly a tough call though. It really depends on if the deer can easily get through the cliffs...and if they can bed in the cliffs. Deer in general hate to be confined...I find mature bucks even more so, based on where I find they bed.
Both properties I hunt are kind of unique. I understand the concept but still find it hard to apply it to the 54 and 62 acre properties I hunt due to how they are set up... what to do....
Hi Jeff, I subscribed to your channel a little over a month ago and am enjoying it very much. I have a couple of questions and I apologize if you have covered them and I missed them. I am looking at buying property in Wisconsin when I retire in a couple of years and would like to practice land management for deer and turkeys. The land I'm looking at has a lot of old growth and mature timber so not much forage due to an extensive canopy. I was wondering if you would recommend just cutting some of those trees, quite a few poplars in there along with some old hard mast producing oaks. However, I'm interested in using the hack and squirt method such as Dr. Grant proposes as it is supposed to be safer and just as effective. I was wondering what your opinion was along with the possibility of using prescribed fire to start getting some new growth shooting up for bedding cover for the deer as well as food for the turkey. Thanks for doing such a great job. Learning alot!
Greyhunter thank you very much and I appreciate your comments! In general girdiling or hack and squirt activities are extremely counter productive for wildlife and whitetail improvement or manangement. For example box elder, poplar, badwood and soft maple are some of the best forms of whitetail habitat specifies...but often are the target of hack and squirt projects or girdling.
Also, the best whitetail and wildlife habitats have the least amount of hardwood species. I have a video cing out about poor quality timber equaling high value wildlife cover, so stay tuned!
I also have a video that came out for what to look for when buying land. Great value whitetail and wildlife cover often has very, very little to do with high quality timber value...the two are not one in the same, unless one of your goals is to manage high dollar timber production. I will include th link to that buying guide below...hope it helps a lot!
th-cam.com/video/yIFaCTACP6I/w-d-xo.html
Thanks! Looking forward to the upcoming video too!
Greyhunter a
have you ever hunted Washington state?
Do you hunt other big game ?
I'm in southern Ohio big timber and food. That checkerboard concept I have heard used by someone in sciota county. I wonder now if they are a client of yours? There deer hunting is very good.
Best place I ever hunted was in Illinois and bucks were traveling mikes to get to me in the timber.
Dog I've had a few clients down there...I also hunted the Shawnee for 7 seasons. First year I haven't hunted it and I miss it greatly!
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 I'm in Adams and the habitat sucks. But not for long a new deer sheriff is in town. People here refuse to touch the timber. I aint from there.😀
@@jerimahjohnson8698 ha that's awesome ..smash some timber down and see the wildlife populations explode! I wish most non hunters understood this...heck, even quite a few hunters!
Appreciate the comments Doug!
So would the concept be different if the ground was situated differently ? I have 60 acres of
Scott...always the same concept, but you rarely want a large food plot in the middle of the land unless there are a lot more acres to create depth. It makes it really difficult to hold mature bucks...or to attract them during the daylight.
Can you have to much cover? I hunt a 40 acre swamp in Florida and hurricane Irma laid down 75% of the mature trees, so now its hard to see more than thirty yards in any direction on the entire property. The swamp stays to wet to get any kind of equipment in to it. All the work would have to be done with a four wheeler and a chainsaw. Bottom line is I feel like I have to much cover and the deer can literally bed anywhere making them hard to pattern. Its a great piece of property and before the hurricane I shot and hunted some great deer. They are still there just hard to access and pattern.
Hey Jeff, very informative video! With the 20 acre property you used as an example, what if that property had an ag field all the way along the west side of the property, would you still put that food plot in the same location? I ask this because I have a 30 acre property in south east Michigan with an ag field running the length of my property on the west side and a 20 acre bedding area running the length of my property on the east side. With most of the cover/bedding at the south end of my property, which is where most of my deer movement is from east to west, I'm afraid that if I plant my food plot in the northern portion of my land that the deer won't use it and just go straight to the ag field to the west. Would you still create the food plot in the northern portion or move it to another location? Also, if you still think planting the food plot in the northern portion would be best, then should I place it closer to the bedding area on the east side of my land or closer to the ag field on my west? Thank you!
Boy that is a tough question and so many things to consider. First...ag is bad when it comes to defining daily deer usage. So you always want the bottom of the funnel of daylight movement on your own land...never on another neighboring land.
Thanks tho...I hope the video helps! Really tough tho to know exactly how to answer without a lot more detail....neighboring pressure, food sources, access, etc.
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 It definitely is hard to answer without a lot more details! Thank you, this does help some!
@@dylanhayes7956 good to hear...good luck!
So if u had an opportunity to buy 30acres of land near agg or in large tracts of woods
Witch one would u rather have
Oh boy. But I have 2 quarters of bush. I don't know where to put a food plot.
It depends on tour access...your neighbors...the lay of the topography, etc. Lots to consider!