Deer Bedding Area Detail Work to Help Your Land Hold More Deer (Part 1)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 มี.ค. 2024
- Whether you have a timber harvest done on your property or you do the cutting yourself, as soon as you cut a tree, the successional clock starts ticking. And because of that, you need to periodically do some maintenance in your bedding areas to ensure they're performing to their maximum potential. In this video, I discuss how I'm going to tackle some clean up in a bedding area I've neglected for a few years on our farm.
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Explained very well. People who hate hinge cutting ultimately hate the maintenance involved after the initial work. But thats where the fun and education begin.
Yes sir! No matter what form of disturbance we introduce to the timber there will always be maintenance.
Good Rabbit management too.
Yah we see plenty of those
Great video and really good demonstration of removing dead hinge cuts, blowdowns and working with the natural settling that takes place, I really like that bedding pocket created by the ironwood stump strouts. Its always worth a land managers time to go back a few years later to clean up and learn what worked as planned & what didnt. Once over-seeded that bedding area will rock!
That means a lot Jake, thank you! I've watched these same types of videos on your channel over the years and I've found them to be immensely helpful. Thanks for all you've been willing to share with the next generation of habitat managers!
Keep the videos coming
Will do, thanks for watching!
Great stuff! I love how you worked your way through the cuts. I have been guilty of assuming people know what I'm showing, but this is a great view of it all the way through it.
Appreciate that and I'm guilty of that as well. I get excited and talk fast on consults and sometimes I go too quickly through the detail work.
Love it! Great video
Much appreciated Sean!
Excellent looking habitat - should be some great hunts this fall!
Thanks Matt! Yah this is always a fun area to hunt
Great work as always!
Much appreciated brother!
Definitely think seeding a bedding area is good. Provides a little food for them but they still leave for heavier feeding
Agreed. The real high quality forage is on the food plot
If you seed the bedding area what incentive is there for the deer to move, particularly if it’s an older buck? Food/ security all in one place could mean less travel.
Thanks for the walk through. Do you usually set your stands up so the tree is between you and where you want the deer to come from.
Yes 💯. In a high pressure state mature bucks just don't daylight on food all that often. Most of the time I'm within 80 yards of their bed. And I've shot most of my bow bucks before the rut
Looks great! Are you referring to “Beech Trees” as Iron Wood?
I'm too far north for beech. Ironwood also go by the name eastern hophornbeam. Sometimes the bark gets real smooth on the younger trees and it can look like beech.
Very similar, I have beech northern michigan
Do you have a link for that cutter thing?
It's the stihl fs-131 string trimmer. They have several different brush attachments you can buy
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Great house keeping Sam. Your deer are spoiled
Thanks a ton Randy. And as I said to Jake, thanks for all the great content you've been willing to share over the years. Thousands of us have benefited from it!
What trees are the right species for hinge cutting?
Depends where you live. In our part of MN the best are elm and boxelder with ash and Basswood both being more marginal but some will live
So hard maples don’t hinge well?
For the most part no. Some of those 4 to 8 inch trees may stay alive. But I keep trying and most die
What region of the state are you in?
Otter Tail County
That deer stand sticks out like a sore thumb
Based on where they come from I can use the trunk as cover. I've never had an issue getting busted on that one
Good ideas except its never good to put poison into the habitat.
What about when you have buckthorn? Can I use it then?