I really appreciate you guys focusing on hunting in the south. No one else seems to be doing this. Everyone focuses on the mid- west or out west or the northeast but no one seems to have a focus on the southeast. I hunt in western North Carolina and don’t come from a hunting family. I am figuring everything out on my own. I’m lucky in the fact that I hunt on my family’s 250 acre farm. However, I think that the hunting in the woods of the southeast is probably the most difficult to master. It’s really difficult when you have no idea what you’re doing. Your channel is a godsend for me and I really appreciate it.
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.
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.
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.
I enjoy it when deer hunting myths, that are accepted as absolute truth, are busted. Had a guy tell me he wasn’t going hunting on a certain day because it was going to be too warm and deer wouldn’t be moving. I asked “So, you don’t believe that Deer move everyday?” “He then had this strange look on this face when he realized that deer are going to be moving regardless of temps. I do believe that a cold frosty morning will get them moving, although deer will move everyday.
Just the other day I was sitting with a left to right wind . 2 bucks came by at about 40 yds wind at their back across my front . After they got by me about 50 yards , one of them started to spook. I’m assuming they got into some of my wind. But the funny thing is they spooked right back past me . Had I wanted to take them I had double the chance. My own wind spooked them back past me again.
I am itching to try the smoke bombs on my property. What size smoke bombs are you using? Have you guys tried different types and/or colors? I have some many vegetation sizes and elevation changes, along with creek bottoms. I can look at my weather station, (which is almost always different from the nearest station on an app) and go 200 yards and 60 feet in elevation loss, and the wind is different.
Where I live doesnt have woods, or even more than small streams that may or may not have water. We have open farmland, prairie and some creeks systems (trees, but no water in the bottom).. In cold windy conditions(20-30mph) i just don't see many deer. Moving within cover in most places here I dont think is possible, well not very far anyways without coming back into the open.. I'd love to see radio collar data for here. Cool podcast!
@thesouthernoutdoorsmen south eastern montana. About 70/30 split muley to whitetail(according to harvest data).. The more I listen to hunting podcasts the more I realize how different hunting is in different places, pretty interesting to me. I imagine the deer behave differently according to terrain. And of course mule deer and whitetail are just different animals..
Yes, the pictures of Iowa and the study site are very different. But, as someone who has hunted the ag part of Michigan and someone who has hunted the endless forests of northern Michigan, at the end of the day, they hunt more similar than you’d think. In both cases, you can basically rule out 90% of the ground before getting out of your truck
Really enjoyed this one. One of my favorites. I enjoy the science behind buck movement studies, it's very interesting, but I take it all with a grain of salt. With that being said, I do greatly appreciate and respect Dr. Strickland and I think it's awesome you guys had him on the podcast.
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?
1:02:00 AM vs PM hunts I've spooked many more deer in the AM, just getting out of the truck 30 mins before daylight than walking back from an evening hunt.
I thought you said the one study was done after weekend hunting pressure and it took 48 wand the deer movement was back to normal. That was on the podcast about being undetectable
Are you thinking that deer only bed on one of the 360° around the food source I would think they bed and travel in all directions Any variations would be from topical features or human activity
My opinion but cover is more important than a Dern food plot..Although any good source close to cover is where I always hunt and I always harvest nice deer and also let a lot of deer walk.i love the edges of cutover.
I listened to a guy who sat in 100 ft towers for days and days because he was paid by a rich guy to watch his bucks. And he was blown away by the fact that sometimes the giants walked nose Into the wind and other times he watched that same buck walk with the wind! Alot! Tail wind. He said deer are just plain way smarter than we think they are.
I've watched many deer walk with the wind. Pressure matters big time on how deer move. Not much pressure and they will go as they please. High pressure and they have to be a little more cautious and use every advantage they can
@Dougarrowhead you juat admitted you hunt a place just like what I said. And you may have heard of the guy i am talking about but I don't have permission to use his name. Fiend or not. It was a 100 ft tower on a hunted farm in Kansas. It was an amazing video to watch and learn from. No need to discuss this any farther. I'm not big into talking to people who say multiple things kinda calling me a liar. Have a blessed day and move on. It's the invisible world here man.
Prevailing winds? WHEN WE see deer, & HOW deer USE terrain round clock .. look @ GPS track patterns & correlate to wind.. deer practice inquisition & avoidance.. Knowing their routine, routine changes/departures make more of a difference..I have literal daily schedules of deer..
@@francisconti9085 I'm a professional hunter and guide deer and black bear. I've killed 27 giants and I'm 40. I know more about deer than you will in the rest of your life. And I hunt the most pressured state in the Country. Bucks DONT always care. Their deer aka dumb alot.
I have a theory that mature bucks move with or against the wind most of the time because the flow of information is more consistent than a cross wind route, and they can better distinguish and process the different smells. It would seem thats would make them more at ease to travel that way. And intuitively the small percentage of the time when they are going cross wind is probably cutting doe trails in which case they are looking for maximum information intake. Disregarding a large percentage of smells altogether looking for a specific smell. In my opinion These are probably when most shot opportunities take place, when the buck is going cross wind and isnt as apt to catch every single clue of a humans presence.
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.
Look for oxbows in the river. Deer tend to bend on the oxbows, back to the river. Wind in there face, literally watching the trail they entered the bed on. Deer don't always bed with wind coming over the back. Nothings guaranteed but I've found some monster beds on them. If you can, use the river/stream to access. Thermals will keep your scent at the water. Move slow, and glass along the rivers edge for bedded deer
Crosswind is more indicative of "active travel" by passing scent over BROADLY-CAST AREA, would likely draw quartering rear approach of predators by hitting them with "wake" with certainty of target movement .. deer are about stealth, not broadening scent profile makes sense.. *300° of no scent upwind, not having 180° downwind scent as sweeping scent across terrain makes logical sense
I've had success still hunting. But it depends on conditions. If it's still and dry, forget it. But after a rain and breezy, I can usually get within shooting distance. I amaze the hell out of my Dad. It could take me an hour to go 100 yards. Depends on how much cover there is and how the ground cover is. It works when nothing seems to be moving.
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.
Crossing a river or not: I wonder how much the buck's ancestry has to do with it? Was he born there? Did he cross it when younger? Do his siblings cross it?
Whitetail travel "corridors" are defined by: averting direct lighting, least effort, most "noisy" cover with "situational awareness/visibility" of any threat movements, "alert-support" of other animals utilizing local environment, acess of egress paths for circumventing to obtain cover.. ridges & banks as physical/visual barriers.. Riverbanks are great "message boards" to cite crossings, *EITHER SIDE OF RIVER, ALL CROSSINGS IDENTIFIED..(WHO CROSSES) LOOK @ FACT DEER BED IN SHADE, NOT DIRECT.. MOONLIGHT.. *DEER SPECIFICALLY SET NUTRIENT/TERRAIN MAPS AND ROUTINE DOSSIER OF & ALL DAILY RANGE ACTIVITIES
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
I think that deer use the wind to their advantage however I don’t think they always keep the wind in their nose and based off of the map you just showed with all the betting areas, I think I’m right. That deer went in every direction of the compass.
Super big bucks move when it's windy 15 ton25 mph. Reason. They are so big bodied and antlered the wind and tree clanking hides their noise and allows them to cover more distance.
Hey guys just to let you know the moon phase and the moon position are one in itself depending on the moon phase will tell you the position of the moon
Could you explain this a little more by what you mean? Moon position has to do with the rising/setting times and overhead underfoot positions. These four positions happen every day no mater the phase.
I’ve been obsessed with hunting since I was five. I’m not gonna lie it is cool to confirm things you’ve learned out in the woods.But a much bigger part of me wishes this didn’t exist. There is something about the unknown. How far is too far. You appreciate it more with sweat equity. That’s just my 2 cents. Enjoy your you tube channel ignore me. I just had to say it
Wind…… They will bed with the wind to their back and my experience they move with and against it but I have seen them move perpendicular to it some during the rut. I have trails on my property I know are mainly used by does and the bucks will use a trail on the downwind side of it. They also use these same trails with the after it has changed direction. No trail starts and finishes in a straight line.
The map showing the bedding locations with the GPS collar study.... Could you not go back and check the WIND 🌬️ DIRECTION for all the days that study was done.... And get some idea 🧠 on how the bucks move in relationship with the WIND?????
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.
The moon is light in the dark that hurts their eyes less. In the spring and summer theres leaves on trees so it makes sense they are in the fields. Game changes in the fall when those leave are gone so that moon lights up the woods too.... acorns falling at different intervals... depending on what species oak and how much rain fell all spring and summer etc... the dynamics of why deer do what they do changes constantly so if you can, you have to do your deer chores. Give deer reason to feel comfortable and fed. Don't let areas get overrun with snares and vines, decrease the coyote population with joy and ethics
I can assure you in mountainous terrain i can walk into any large track an find deer bedding simple with just wind direction an a topo. Take me to flat land im lost lol. But i grew up chasing mountain bucks. 9 xs outta 10 there with there backs to the wind. But heavy pressured mature bucks on public land ive seen diffrent. Most generally ive found the older bucks position thereself with wind in there face at a good sound an site vantage point of the most common point of entry. Seen this three diffrent times. An made kills all three times. By slipping through a back entrance an waiting for them to be spooked to one of there escape roots.
I would bet that the 10 you keep asking about scent checks it and due to the hunting pressure on that plot he is conditioned/has learned that that is a dangerous place to be either from some previous encounter on that plot or learned behavior over a period of years.
Have never hunted a food plot, it was not a common thing in oregon nor is it common in southwest mo. Where I live now, see a lot of deer around farmers fields but getting permission to hunt there is 0 .
When you walk your dog, let it dictate where it wants to go…I have a dog who thinks it is a CSI agent and every blade of grass is a murder scene. Her nose is always into something smelling everything. I have noticed her on a number of times raise her head and turn and smell the incoming breeze. I usually walk her the way I want to go but I’m gonna do the experiment and see if she picks a direction on the wind.
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
I have always hunted Tuesday to Thursday. Up here in Atlantic Canada. The weekend So many people are out. They push the deer out of there routine. ATV'n. hiking, other hunters looking for that SPOT. I've always done better on the mid week days. I like don't like People. An Neither do the deer up here.
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.
I really appreciate you guys focusing on hunting in the south. No one else seems to be doing this. Everyone focuses on the mid- west or out west or the northeast but no one seems to have a focus on the southeast. I hunt in western North Carolina and don’t come from a hunting family. I am figuring everything out on my own. I’m lucky in the fact that I hunt on my family’s 250 acre farm. However, I think that the hunting in the woods of the southeast is probably the most difficult to master. It’s really difficult when you have no idea what you’re doing. Your channel is a godsend for me and I really appreciate it.
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!
Great info I think its important to make sure you don’t approach your hunting area with a wrong wind. If you want to screw it up that’s how you do it.
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
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.
That would be very interesting to see. Definitely a great idea 👍
@@williamstormoen140yeah do dat!
I'm an Oklahoma hunter and this channel helps me allot
I enjoy it when deer hunting myths, that are accepted as absolute truth, are busted. Had a guy tell me he wasn’t going hunting on a certain day because it was going to be too warm and deer wouldn’t be moving. I asked “So, you don’t believe that Deer move everyday?” “He then had this strange look on this face when he realized that deer are going to be moving regardless of temps. I do believe that a cold frosty morning will get them moving, although deer will move everyday.
Just the other day I was sitting with a left to right wind . 2 bucks came by at about 40 yds wind at their back across my front . After they got by me about 50 yards , one of them started to spook. I’m assuming they got into some of my wind. But the funny thing is they spooked right back past me . Had I wanted to take them I had double the chance. My own wind spooked them back past me again.
I am itching to try the smoke bombs on my property. What size smoke bombs are you using? Have you guys tried different types and/or colors? I have some many vegetation sizes and elevation changes, along with creek bottoms. I can look at my weather station, (which is almost always different from the nearest station on an app) and go 200 yards and 60 feet in elevation loss, and the wind is different.
I’m so excited to see the the results regarding the evening bed to food
Where I live doesnt have woods, or even more than small streams that may or may not have water. We have open farmland, prairie and some creeks systems (trees, but no water in the bottom).. In cold windy conditions(20-30mph) i just don't see many deer. Moving within cover in most places here I dont think is possible, well not very far anyways without coming back into the open.. I'd love to see radio collar data for here. Cool podcast!
That sounds like some of the area we hunted in Kansas. What state are you in?
@thesouthernoutdoorsmen south eastern montana. About 70/30 split muley to whitetail(according to harvest data).. The more I listen to hunting podcasts the more I realize how different hunting is in different places, pretty interesting to me. I imagine the deer behave differently according to terrain. And of course mule deer and whitetail are just different animals..
Yes, the pictures of Iowa and the study site are very different. But, as someone who has hunted the ag part of Michigan and someone who has hunted the endless forests of northern Michigan, at the end of the day, they hunt more similar than you’d think. In both cases, you can basically rule out 90% of the ground before getting out of your truck
Don't forget the effects of thermal currents on movement patterns. Lol, you just mentioned it as I was typing this.
So much great information! That’s for the podcast. I can’t wait for the season to start over here in GA.
Really enjoyed this one. One of my favorites. I enjoy the science behind buck movement studies, it's very interesting, but I take it all with a grain of salt. With that being said, I do greatly appreciate and respect Dr. Strickland and I think it's awesome you guys had him on the podcast.
Glad you enjoyed it!
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?
1:02:00 AM vs PM hunts
I've spooked many more deer in the AM, just getting out of the truck 30 mins before daylight than walking back from an evening hunt.
Big bucks usually bed with wind coming from in back of them, I've found.
Been deer hunting for 40yrs. In Maine! Yup
Thanks for watch all the way up from Maine!
we have some great deer hunting, just tough. happy to see another Mainer watching this!
Funnt you say that. Big one today i sit and watched bedding with wind at his back
Saturday. 2000 hunters in the woods moving deer from place to place. That's why so many get harvest
A dominant mature buck is a whole different animal…than just a deer
I thought you said the one study was done after weekend hunting pressure and it took 48 wand the deer movement was back to normal. That was on the podcast about being undetectable
Just came across your channel. Great info and I’m a big study/statistics guy! Love the content, Boys! 🤌🏼
Glad to have you on board! Thanks for watching man!
Are you thinking that deer only bed on one of the 360° around the food source
I would think they bed and travel in all directions
Any variations would be from topical features or human activity
My opinion but cover is more important than a Dern food plot..Although any good source close to cover is where I always hunt and I always harvest nice deer and also let a lot of deer walk.i love the edges of cutover.
❤MSU DEERLAB's work!
I want more info on GPS deer
I listened to a guy who sat in 100 ft towers for days and days because he was paid by a rich guy to watch his bucks. And he was blown away by the fact that sometimes the giants walked nose Into the wind and other times he watched that same buck walk with the wind! Alot! Tail wind. He said deer are just plain way smarter than we think they are.
I've watched many deer walk with the wind. Pressure matters big time on how deer move. Not much pressure and they will go as they please. High pressure and they have to be a little more cautious and use every advantage they can
@Dougarrowhead you juat admitted you hunt a place just like what I said. And you may have heard of the guy i am talking about but I don't have permission to use his name. Fiend or not. It was a 100 ft tower on a hunted farm in Kansas. It was an amazing video to watch and learn from. No need to discuss this any farther. I'm not big into talking to people who say multiple things kinda calling me a liar. Have a blessed day and move on. It's the invisible world here man.
@@michiganwoodsman2199 what do people in michigan do with deer carrots after season? Do they stick them up each others butt?
Prevailing winds? WHEN WE see deer, & HOW deer USE terrain round clock .. look @ GPS track patterns & correlate to wind.. deer practice inquisition & avoidance..
Knowing their routine, routine changes/departures make more of a difference..I have literal daily schedules of deer..
@@francisconti9085 I'm a professional hunter and guide deer and black bear. I've killed 27 giants and I'm 40. I know more about deer than you will in the rest of your life. And I hunt the most pressured state in the Country. Bucks DONT always care. Their deer aka dumb alot.
I have a theory that mature bucks move with or against the wind most of the time because the flow of information is more consistent than a cross wind route, and they can better distinguish and process the different smells. It would seem thats would make them more at ease to travel that way. And intuitively the small percentage of the time when they are going cross wind is probably cutting doe trails in which case they are looking for maximum information intake. Disregarding a large percentage of smells altogether looking for a specific smell. In my opinion These are probably when most shot opportunities take place, when the buck is going cross wind and isnt as apt to catch every single clue of a humans presence.
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.
Look for oxbows in the river. Deer tend to bend on the oxbows, back to the river. Wind in there face, literally watching the trail they entered the bed on.
Deer don't always bed with wind coming over the back.
Nothings guaranteed but I've found some monster beds on them.
If you can, use the river/stream to access. Thermals will keep your scent at the water. Move slow, and glass along the rivers edge for bedded deer
Really good interview….😉👍
Crosswind is more indicative of "active travel" by passing scent over BROADLY-CAST AREA, would likely draw quartering rear approach of predators by hitting them with "wake" with certainty of target movement .. deer are about stealth, not broadening scent profile makes sense..
*300° of no scent upwind, not having 180° downwind scent as sweeping scent across terrain makes logical sense
Cool stuff! I like the Poirier shirt
I've had success still hunting. But it depends on conditions. If it's still and dry, forget it. But after a rain and breezy, I can usually get within shooting distance.
I amaze the hell out of my Dad. It could take me an hour to go 100 yards. Depends on how much cover there is and how the ground cover is. It works when nothing seems to be moving.
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.
Crossing a river or not:
I wonder how much the buck's ancestry has to do with it?
Was he born there?
Did he cross it when younger?
Do his siblings cross it?
Whitetail travel "corridors" are defined by: averting direct lighting, least effort, most "noisy" cover with "situational awareness/visibility" of any threat movements, "alert-support" of other animals utilizing local environment, acess of egress paths for circumventing to obtain cover.. ridges & banks as physical/visual barriers..
Riverbanks are great "message boards" to cite crossings, *EITHER SIDE OF RIVER, ALL CROSSINGS IDENTIFIED..(WHO CROSSES)
LOOK @ FACT DEER BED IN SHADE, NOT DIRECT.. MOONLIGHT..
*DEER SPECIFICALLY SET NUTRIENT/TERRAIN MAPS AND ROUTINE DOSSIER OF & ALL DAILY RANGE ACTIVITIES
The Scott Van Pelt of deer science.
Now that’s hilarious and accurate 🤣
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 think that deer use the wind to their advantage however I don’t think they always keep the wind in their nose and based off of the map you just showed with all the betting areas, I think I’m right. That deer went in every direction of the compass.
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!
Random based on feed location from bedding
Super big bucks move when it's windy 15 ton25 mph. Reason. They are so big bodied and antlered the wind and tree clanking hides their noise and allows them to cover more distance.
Maybe. However they also cannot smell as well. Which is a major issue for them
Hey guys just to let you know the moon phase and the moon position are one in itself depending on the moon phase will tell you the position of the moon
Could you explain this a little more by what you mean? Moon position has to do with the rising/setting times and overhead underfoot positions. These four positions happen every day no mater the phase.
Lol, wrong!
I’ve been obsessed with hunting since I was five. I’m not gonna lie it is cool to confirm things you’ve learned out in the woods.But a much bigger part of me wishes this didn’t exist. There is something about the unknown. How far is too far. You appreciate it more with sweat equity. That’s just my 2 cents. Enjoy your you tube channel ignore me. I just had to say it
Wind…… They will bed with the wind to their back and my experience they move with and against it but I have seen them move perpendicular to it some during the rut. I have trails on my property I know are mainly used by does and the bucks will use a trail on the downwind side of it. They also use these same trails with the after it has changed direction. No trail starts and finishes in a straight line.
The map showing the bedding locations with the GPS collar study....
Could you not go back and check the WIND 🌬️ DIRECTION for all the days that study was done.... And get some idea 🧠 on how the bucks move in relationship with the WIND?????
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.
The moon is light in the dark that hurts their eyes less. In the spring and summer theres leaves on trees so it makes sense they are in the fields. Game changes in the fall when those leave are gone so that moon lights up the woods too.... acorns falling at different intervals... depending on what species oak and how much rain fell all spring and summer etc... the dynamics of why deer do what they do changes constantly so if you can, you have to do your deer chores. Give deer reason to feel comfortable and fed. Don't let areas get overrun with snares and vines, decrease the coyote population with joy and ethics
Moon light never has hurt a deers eyes and the rest you wrote about clearing vines is pure stupidity.
I can assure you in mountainous terrain i can walk into any large track an find deer bedding simple with just wind direction an a topo. Take me to flat land im lost lol. But i grew up chasing mountain bucks. 9 xs outta 10 there with there backs to the wind. But heavy pressured mature bucks on public land ive seen diffrent. Most generally ive found the older bucks position thereself with wind in there face at a good sound an site vantage point of the most common point of entry. Seen this three diffrent times. An made kills all three times. By slipping through a back entrance an waiting for them to be spooked to one of there escape roots.
I would bet that the 10 you keep asking about scent checks it and due to the hunting pressure on that plot he is conditioned/has learned that that is a dangerous place to be either from some previous encounter on that plot or learned behavior over a period of years.
Have never hunted a food plot, it was not a common thing in oregon nor is it common in southwest mo. Where I live now, see a lot of deer around farmers fields but getting permission to hunt there is 0 .
When you walk your dog, let it dictate where it wants to go…I have a dog who thinks it is a CSI agent and every blade of grass is a murder scene. Her nose is always into something smelling everything. I have noticed her on a number of times raise her head and turn and smell the incoming breeze. I usually walk her the way I want to go but I’m gonna do the experiment and see if she picks a direction on the wind.
Why can’t they do this in other states ?
Because Mississippi State University only funds studies in Mississippi. Other Universities could do the same if they wanted too.
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
What is a smz?
It stands for “Streamside management zone”
4 and 5th day after every rain
I have always hunted Tuesday to Thursday. Up here in Atlantic Canada. The weekend So many people are out. They push the deer out of there routine. ATV'n. hiking, other hunters looking for that SPOT. I've always done better on the mid week days. I like don't like People. An Neither do the deer up here.
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.
Dude on the left looks like he hunts dark wizards for the ministry of magic
Which guy?
Black shirt looks just like Harry potter.
May want to change the name so the other 90 percent of the Country wants to listen to your channel. Including Canada.
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@@thesouthernoutdoorsmengreat name guys. No need to change the name for any cry babies. Plenty of people are watching without whining about the name.
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That algorithm doesn't add up
I’m sure they pay for view bots
They use brush and funnels. Period. They come and go from were they ate going to eat or fuck.
3.5 year old!? Well then this is useless info.
Pretend your hunting a man..not an animal...you gotta hide real good