I was never taught woodsman ship so by watching you and getting boots on the ground, I am learning to be more efficient when scouting. Thank you for taking the time for what feels like teaching me personally, Dan.
@@Lucas-jy7cvjust gotta get out there look for vegetation that looks like a snip was taken and research that. It's good they eat. Look at trees they like to rub on and scrape under. Research them. Research then whitetail all around and get boots in ground
I love the hard work and passion you put into the hunt Dan! Your willingness to share your knowledge inspires me to be a better hunter. Thank you for all you do!
hi dan i came from a family that didnt hunt i have an amazing farther but he nver took any interest in hunting i have watched a large amount of your content and i just wanted to say thank you for all your wisdom you change the way i think about hunting with each video and interview i hunt all public wma in kentucky your info is very helpful
Thanks for all the great information, Dan started me on becoming a proficient deer Hunter, had my best year last season. Passing the skills on to my two daughters, who love to hunt. Thanks again!
Had no idea you released this on UA-cam. I must've been working overseas at the time of release. This is straight up my alley, I live in the heart of the largest swamp in the United States ( Atchafalaya basin). It's 260 thousand acres and a majority is state or federal land and open to public hunting. Thank you for sharing this Dan, much appreciated
As a beginner this is one of the best videos I’ve seen period. No idea where to start but determined to figure this out. This video helped me understand deer a little better, so thanks!
It's nice to watch a fellow hunter from Wisconsin ( I'm in Franklin). I use to bow hunt the Black River Falls area and over to Neilsville area. Thousands of acres to hunt. Great videos Dan.
There is something about walking into uncharted woods an hour before daybreak that makes your spine tingle. It'll definitely remind you of that feeling of "being alive" that we lose spending 40 hours a week at a desk.
I love it. I have farm access here in North Western MN but I'm drawn, addicted, to the wilderness tracts just a few miles to the east. Thanks for the video Dan.
This is awesome! There is so much info packed into these videos, especially the Q&A podcast. I bet I’ve listened to the podcasts at least 6 or 7 times. Each time I find something I missed or able to relate back to an experience or situation. Thanks Dan, Mario, and Rick.
Dan you are too generous. Charge people, you put so much work in to these videos, you deserve a few bucks. I hope people buy the dvd to have the info all in one place.
You remind me of an old Michigan Upe (I think that’s how they say it) I use to work with. He was a 6’2” ex middle linebacker brute of a man but soft as a a teddy bear when it boiled down to it. Love the videos and love it even more now that my sons are watchin you.
Just moved from northern farm country to southern mountains, by Sumter National Forest.. Really got my work cut out for myself this year... This video series sure will help..
I really enjoy your channel more than any other. Not many guys talking about hunting big woods and big swamp. Nowadays it's all just about growing "food plots", to that I say are you a deer hunter or a deer farmer. I'm a northern MN guy we have our property and it butts up to a 7,000 acre public with hard access because of the swamps on the other side so it's just us and another family that hunt it. And the whole area is loaded with state land because alot is wet so there is no shortage. I'm coming up on 30 years of doing this in this same area and constantly trying to get better. One of your earlier videos about looking at the deer trails in swamps where they funnel to was great advice. I've been scouting some of those places over the winter and I was out again yesterday going to a woods island I thought was going to be good, but i don't think the trees were oaks, the leaves looked maple and I didn't see any buck sign and not even much scat or anything, oh well you don't know till you trek 4 miles through the thick stuff to get there. I did find a place over winter that has a ton of promise. One issue is after finding the place, is to get there during hunting season, if you have a brutal walk out you have to dress for that but then you also have to dress for northern MN conditions in November and sitting all day in it. I've learned alot but there's so much more to know, I'll never know everything but it's the journey that is fun. After almost 30 years I still don't know where our bucks bed. The does are easy but the bucks are so.. mysterious. I don't go hardcore shed hunting and I leave alone some of our known good spots, but I do a ton of scouting and I've never ONCE found a shed. Ever! It doesn't bother me but it's just crazy to me. We have woods but I'd say 65-70% of the land is swamp and all different kinds of swamps maybe 10 different kinds. All interspersed, I love the land but it's such a challenge because I still don't really know what I'm doing haha, I've exceeded my Dad long ago in the effort and thought levels and my little brother is just trying to learn from me so I'm ony own. But we have no shortage of edges that's for sure. In this video I learned about what side they're bedding on for the wind conditions so I will use that for sure. I could've used it yesterday when I was trying to position this stand I drug out to an area in winter by snowmobile. I was probably there for 2 hours trying to pick the best spot for the location.. I might move it again now after watching this video. Sorry for the long ass comment I am still jacked up from a good weekend of scouting and planning and I trapped a nice beaver too.
I had some pieces of the puzzle that just weren’t fitting. Some things you said on here shot a bolt of lightning through this small brain. Thank you so much.
Being from Massachusetts and hunting new England here in the Northeast is by far the hardest and most challenging region to hunt whitetails, we just don't have the numbers of deer like the Midwest and down south, that being said it's made me a better hunter hunting western mass and the big woods in white mountains of New Hampshire you have no choice but to learn to b a woodsman but I always say if I can get it done here I can get it done anywhere , hunting big woods is another ballgame, may not have crazy action with deer movement but it feels good and sense of accomplishment taking deer in the big timber
Thanks dan for putting this on you tube you my hero I'm starting the hunt more Big Woods and thermals now I'm starting to see more deer starting to find more bucks beds you're truly an inspiration to me Dan keep it up
Thanks for the awesome content Dan!! Quick question…. When going out of state to new ground how many areas and what size would you potentially try to look at in a week? I don’t want to spread myself too this with all the e-scouting and run myself ragged when my boots hit the ground. Thanks for the insight!!
Got it! That’s kinda been my approach this far. I put boots on the ground for 3 days mid February and saw a lot of ground. Never touched most of what e-scouted. I’m probably going to end up focusing on 3-4 big pieces and try to have several options within each. I’ll keep on e-scouting and hopefully be lucky enough to see a deer or two next season. Thanks for all you do for the hunting community!!!
Hi Dan, 🏹🦌🎯The craft of woodsmanship teachings around deer hunting has literally been abandoned. This is just my opinion, but TV big buck mania has hurt deer hunting. We want to leapfrog kids into the hunting sports by sponsoring very early late summer seasons for them instead of teaching the fundamentals. I'm 63 now and have some of the best big woods hunting because most hunters aren't to ambitious getting any farther than a mile...all my scouting is done before April 1st.. I spend most of my scouting excursions finding/maping a particular bucks beds..for the upcoming season...once I find his major bed I'll usually prepare a tree preset or two so I don't have disturb the area until the day I'm going to hunt it..love the real deal diy you provide for hunters...thanks brother
Had to smash that like button soon as I saw your shirt! Thank you for everything you have given to the hunting community. Also thank you for backing the blue, and not not backing down to the cancel culture. Keep it up. Thousands of us back you.
Dude! That’s is awesome news… just a quick thought, I have looked for your dvds and can’t find them…. I’m sure it’s because I am not that internet savvy… looking forward to all your future content. You have definitely made a impact on how I hunt.
I currently have the marsh, swamp, and farm bedding dvds. I need to buy a hill country and will for sure purchase the big woods dvd. Appreciate everything you do dan I'm learning alot.
Dan, Sent you an email. Hope you got it. I invite you to come down to southern Missouri. Surrounded by all big woods public. Love your videos and in debt for all the wisdom you share. Brian
Iv been scouting NC public last few weekends some good some terrible, I think I found the one I want to get on but it’s a permit property so I’ll have to get that lottery, has soybean clearing creek on one side wooded on both sides. Followed some tracks towards creek and walked right up on a deer in the bed maybe 15ft till he booked it. Not much for hunter sign so I think I’ll Likely get the invite.
Dan I really would love to buy the beast sticks & stand one day hopefully I'll be able to purchase them great videos you keep me goin even when the goin is tough!! I'm an Indiana boy and it can get tough at times thanks a lot big buck serial killer!!
This is awesome one of the spots I hut is a little over 10,000 acres . From what I've seen there are only a hand full of people that hunt it ive seen some really good sign ive always had a hard time trying to get set up right on them im hoping this will help
Dan you should put together some trucker hats. Flat/ bent bills. I actually found one on Amazon that said hunting beast with your symbol just didn’t like the color. Just a thought though.
I have one public hunting area I hunt that has lots of edges - a swamp edge, a field edge, cattail edge, forest edge, and a few trails, since it's a state natural area. I have found buck rubs in a few areas, one of them I don't know if you consider an edge or not - the highest ground on the land, roughly 50, maybe 75 feet higher than the swamp land. Should this be a spot to hunt, or are those rubs only left there to mark a spot but the deer stay elsewhere? A few of the deer trails lead up to this high ground but is loaded with thorny bushes - tough to hunt, so I'd have to sit right on the trail or try to get up in a tree somewhere.
Love this channel he speaks about how 90 percent of hunters can and do hunt ( the tv networks hunting is for ppl that are rich and can afford to pay to sit on someone farm property .... i cant relate to that
Appreciate the knowledge being dropped Dan, ill be sure to buy the DVDs anyways to support. BTW nice bidan shirt in the opener. We will trade you our clown (Trudeau), for your clown? Man I miss the guy that said mean things. Good luck this year!
Can be great spots if not pressured. But often act as travel corridors for hunters and that can ruin them. All openings and edges have great possibilities.
Hi Dan, where I hunt big woods in northern Wisconsin we don't have white oaks; we only have red oaks. Everything I read says red oaks aren't desirable to deer. Are red oaks even worth paying attention to?
Smaller doesn't necessarily mean cheaper. The expense comes from not skimping on quality and using american components and partners. It may seem expensive, but the process used to make the stand is expensive and when you realize you only need one in a lifetime, cost is pretty reasonable. We machine our platforms much like bow risers. About the same cost to make either, Yet our price is lower than a bow that has a typical life span of 5 to 10 years. Good news is there are plenty of "cheap" stands you can buy, and things you can do to silence and convert them to mobile, bad news is the majority are made in China. To answer your question more specifically though, we are always looking at ways to produce better, and at lower cost. I want everyone to experience and own a Beast stand, I would love to sell them for less if we could...
I was never taught woodsman ship so by watching you and getting boots on the ground, I am learning to be more efficient when scouting. Thank you for taking the time for what feels like teaching me personally, Dan.
Me either I got 3 boys that I gotta try an teach it to so I take in all the information I can
@@Lucas-jy7cv😊😊
@@Lucas-jy7cvjust gotta get out there look for vegetation that looks like a snip was taken and research that. It's good they eat. Look at trees they like to rub on and scrape under. Research them. Research then whitetail all around and get boots in ground
I love the hard work and passion you put into the hunt Dan! Your willingness to share your knowledge inspires me to be a better hunter. Thank you for all you do!
hi dan i came from a family that didnt hunt i have an amazing farther but he nver took any interest in hunting i have watched a large amount of your content and i just wanted to say thank you for all your wisdom you change the way i think about hunting with each video and interview i hunt all public wma in kentucky your info is very helpful
Thank you sir! There's plenty of big woods here in Michigan. I'll hang on every word 👍
Thanks for all the great information, Dan started me on becoming a proficient deer Hunter, had my best year last season. Passing the skills on to my two daughters, who love to hunt. Thanks again!
Had no idea you released this on UA-cam. I must've been working overseas at the time of release. This is straight up my alley, I live in the heart of the largest swamp in the United States ( Atchafalaya basin). It's 260 thousand acres and a majority is state or federal land and open to public hunting. Thank you for sharing this Dan, much appreciated
Read your shirt.. clicked thumbs up.. now I'll watch the rest of the video!!😂😂
Thanks so much Dan for these videos!! I'm self taught, and these videos will help me SO much! God bless!
As a beginner this is one of the best videos I’ve seen period. No idea where to start but determined to figure this out. This video helped me understand deer a little better, so thanks!
It's nice to watch a fellow hunter from Wisconsin ( I'm in Franklin). I use to bow hunt the Black River Falls area and over to Neilsville area. Thousands of acres to hunt. Great videos Dan.
There is something about walking into uncharted woods an hour before daybreak that makes your spine tingle. It'll definitely remind you of that feeling of "being alive" that we lose spending 40 hours a week at a desk.
I love it. I have farm access here in North Western MN but I'm drawn, addicted, to the wilderness tracts just a few miles to the east. Thanks for the video Dan.
This is awesome! There is so much info packed into these videos, especially the Q&A podcast. I bet I’ve listened to the podcasts at least 6 or 7 times. Each time I find something I missed or able to relate back to an experience or situation. Thanks Dan, Mario, and Rick.
The whole DVD on UA-cam! Thank you BIG time!!! Love the Farmland and Marsh dvds.
Everyone smash that thumbs up like button for them. Giving us free hunting info! Smash that like button!
Dan you are too generous. Charge people, you put so much work in to these videos, you deserve a few bucks. I hope people buy the dvd to have the info all in one place.
You remind me of an old Michigan Upe (I think that’s how they say it) I use to work with. He was a 6’2” ex middle linebacker brute of a man but soft as a a teddy bear when it boiled down to it. Love the videos and love it even more now that my sons are watchin you.
Can’t get enough of beast videos! Thanks for all your hardwork
Just moved from northern farm country to southern mountains, by Sumter National Forest.. Really got my work cut out for myself this year... This video series sure will help..
I really enjoy your channel more than any other. Not many guys talking about hunting big woods and big swamp. Nowadays it's all just about growing "food plots", to that I say are you a deer hunter or a deer farmer. I'm a northern MN guy we have our property and it butts up to a 7,000 acre public with hard access because of the swamps on the other side so it's just us and another family that hunt it. And the whole area is loaded with state land because alot is wet so there is no shortage. I'm coming up on 30 years of doing this in this same area and constantly trying to get better. One of your earlier videos about looking at the deer trails in swamps where they funnel to was great advice. I've been scouting some of those places over the winter and I was out again yesterday going to a woods island I thought was going to be good, but i don't think the trees were oaks, the leaves looked maple and I didn't see any buck sign and not even much scat or anything, oh well you don't know till you trek 4 miles through the thick stuff to get there. I did find a place over winter that has a ton of promise. One issue is after finding the place, is to get there during hunting season, if you have a brutal walk out you have to dress for that but then you also have to dress for northern MN conditions in November and sitting all day in it. I've learned alot but there's so much more to know, I'll never know everything but it's the journey that is fun. After almost 30 years I still don't know where our bucks bed. The does are easy but the bucks are so.. mysterious. I don't go hardcore shed hunting and I leave alone some of our known good spots, but I do a ton of scouting and I've never ONCE found a shed. Ever! It doesn't bother me but it's just crazy to me. We have woods but I'd say 65-70% of the land is swamp and all different kinds of swamps maybe 10 different kinds. All interspersed, I love the land but it's such a challenge because I still don't really know what I'm doing haha, I've exceeded my Dad long ago in the effort and thought levels and my little brother is just trying to learn from me so I'm ony own. But we have no shortage of edges that's for sure. In this video I learned about what side they're bedding on for the wind conditions so I will use that for sure. I could've used it yesterday when I was trying to position this stand I drug out to an area in winter by snowmobile. I was probably there for 2 hours trying to pick the best spot for the location.. I might move it again now after watching this video. Sorry for the long ass comment I am still jacked up from a good weekend of scouting and planning and I trapped a nice beaver too.
I had some pieces of the puzzle that just weren’t fitting. Some things you said on here shot a bolt of lightning through this small brain. Thank you so much.
Being from Massachusetts and hunting new England here in the Northeast is by far the hardest and most challenging region to hunt whitetails, we just don't have the numbers of deer like the Midwest and down south, that being said it's made me a better hunter hunting western mass and the big woods in white mountains of New Hampshire you have no choice but to learn to b a woodsman but I always say if I can get it done here I can get it done anywhere , hunting big woods is another ballgame, may not have crazy action with deer movement but it feels good and sense of accomplishment taking deer in the big timber
Thanks dan for putting this on you tube you my hero I'm starting the hunt more Big Woods and thermals now I'm starting to see more deer starting to find more bucks beds you're truly an inspiration to me Dan keep it up
Love Your Shirt!!
Thanks for the great videos Dan!!
Awesome! Love the content you guys put out!
Can't wait to watch more of the tv series! Thanks Beast crew🤟
Thanks for the awesome content Dan!! Quick question…. When going out of state to new ground how many areas and what size would you potentially try to look at in a week? I don’t want to spread myself too this with all the e-scouting and run myself ragged when my boots hit the ground. Thanks for the insight!!
I look at a huge area and never hit it all when I get there... I go straight for the best looking stuff and am often glad I have back up spots.
Got it! That’s kinda been my approach this far. I put boots on the ground for 3 days mid February and saw a lot of ground. Never touched most of what e-scouted. I’m probably going to end up focusing on 3-4 big pieces and try to have several options within each. I’ll keep on e-scouting and hopefully be lucky enough to see a deer or two next season. Thanks for all you do for the hunting community!!!
Everytime I get a notification that Dan puts up a video makes my day. Counting the days down til bow season #addicted
Love the big woods! Nothing like it!
Thanks for this. The swamp dvd was great. Cedar hemlock swamps always trips me up
Thanks for putting this series up. Much appreciated
Dan been watching along time now thanks for sharing your knowledge.
This is awesome, thanks Dan. I'll definitely be buying the DVD!!
You’re the best Dan. Thanks
So awesome that you are releasing these on UA-cam, I’ve always wanted to buy the DVD’s, I wished there was a store somewhere that carried them.
yes been waiting for the big woods DVD thanks so much again Dan for all your content!!!
Hi Dan,
🏹🦌🎯The craft of woodsmanship teachings around deer hunting has literally been abandoned. This is just my opinion, but TV big buck mania has hurt deer hunting. We want to leapfrog kids into the hunting sports by sponsoring very early late summer seasons for them instead of teaching the fundamentals. I'm 63 now and have some of the best big woods hunting because most hunters aren't to ambitious getting any farther than a mile...all my scouting is done before April 1st..
I spend most of my scouting excursions finding/maping a particular bucks beds..for the upcoming season...once I find his major bed I'll usually prepare a tree preset or two so I don't have disturb the area until the day I'm going to hunt it..love the real deal diy you provide for hunters...thanks brother
Had to smash that like button soon as I saw your shirt! Thank you for everything you have given to the hunting community. Also thank you for backing the blue, and not not backing down to the cancel culture. Keep it up. Thousands of us back you.
As a native of northern wi i can relate to the bigwoods videos.
No Dan...thank you! For the content and keeping the off-season interesting!
Love the content Dan. Really looking forward to this series.
Great information, thanks for sharing big woods!
Big woods love it keep um coming guys.
What's nice about you Dan is you actually care about other people and not blow smoke up our ass. Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge.
This is awesome. Like Christmas has come early. Turkey season starts in a week and I'm more excited for these videos
Big woods hunting is like a bicycle wheel and the center of that wheel is the beds with all those spokes/trails coming out ......good luck Lol
We appreciate it! Keep the videos monetized and I'll even sit through the longest of the ads to support you.
My words exactly. This is awesome, after 3 dead months
Big woods MI scouting is tough. Looking forward to this one!! Mid Michigan Bow Hunter
That's awesome. I keep forgetting to order your dvds!
Oh man this is awesome, thanks for putting these together
Thanks Dan your a heck of a deer hunter.
Thank you Dan! And the gang!
Awesome Plan!!
Thank you guys!
Dude! That’s is awesome news… just a quick thought, I have looked for your dvds and can’t find them…. I’m sure it’s because I am not that internet savvy… looking forward to all your future content. You have definitely made a impact on how I hunt.
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I currently have the marsh, swamp, and farm bedding dvds. I need to buy a hill country and will for sure purchase the big woods dvd. Appreciate everything you do dan I'm learning alot.
Awesome video should definitelt help a lot for big woods in West Virginia!!!!
Please show more of that opening hunt with Rick , awesome buck !
Once again, I Love the shirt! And the video.
Thank you for this. Liked & shared!
Dan,
Sent you an email. Hope you got it. I invite you to come down to southern Missouri. Surrounded by all big woods public. Love your videos and in debt for all the wisdom you share. Brian
Free, awesome, info. THANKS!
I will apply the Big Woods chapters to area around the Millstone/ Clarion River watersheds.
Yes! Thank you for doing this!
Thanks Dan . Your the man !
I like your shirt a lot and the video to 👍 keep them coming
Always good stuff!!!
Looking forward to more vids. I hunt Maine northwoods
Wow!! Thanks Dan!!
Nice to know real hunting matters to some people. Alone in the big woods is my drug of choice!!!
I'll buy dvd when it comes out!
Lmao your shirt collection is seriously the best I’ve ever seen. You have to be giggling in the morning haha
Iv been scouting NC public last few weekends some good some terrible, I think I found the one I want to get on but it’s a permit property so I’ll have to get that lottery, has soybean clearing creek on one side wooded on both sides. Followed some tracks towards creek and walked right up on a deer in the bed maybe 15ft till he booked it. Not much for hunter sign so I think I’ll Likely get the invite.
Dan I really would love to buy the beast sticks & stand one day hopefully I'll be able to purchase them great videos you keep me goin even when the goin is tough!!
I'm an Indiana boy and it can get tough at times thanks a lot big buck serial killer!!
Thanks for doing this!
Thanks for sharing Dan, very generous of you! If you ever come to NY to hunt get ahold of me and I can show you where not to go lol!
This is awesome one of the spots I hut is a little over 10,000 acres . From what I've seen there are only a hand full of people that hunt it ive seen some really good sign ive always had a hard time trying to get set up right on them im hoping this will help
I hunt big woods in Southern Ohio. This info is very helpful
Same here
Bow hunting the edges of town is actually pretty good 👍
Ever hunt the western part of the U P of Michigan?
Hellz yah Dan!!!!!!!!
Dan you should put together some trucker hats. Flat/ bent bills. I actually found one on Amazon that said hunting beast with your symbol just didn’t like the color. Just a thought though.
thank you Dan
Dan is the Man!
Thank you Dan!
I have one public hunting area I hunt that has lots of edges - a swamp edge, a field edge, cattail edge, forest edge, and a few trails, since it's a state natural area. I have found buck rubs in a few areas, one of them I don't know if you consider an edge or not - the highest ground on the land, roughly 50, maybe 75 feet higher than the swamp land. Should this be a spot to hunt, or are those rubs only left there to mark a spot but the deer stay elsewhere? A few of the deer trails lead up to this high ground but is loaded with thorny bushes - tough to hunt, so I'd have to sit right on the trail or try to get up in a tree somewhere.
Highest and lowest elevations are key... I will get into that a little further into the series...
Love this channel he speaks about how 90 percent of hunters can and do hunt ( the tv networks hunting is for ppl that are rich and can afford to pay to sit on someone farm property .... i cant relate to that
I hunt north of the Minnesota border on public land. Wish I was hunting on a farm lol. But it is rewarding.
Appreciate the knowledge being dropped Dan, ill be sure to buy the DVDs anyways to support. BTW nice bidan shirt in the opener. We will trade you our clown (Trudeau), for your clown? Man I miss the guy that said mean things. Good luck this year!
Rick Kimble? Isn’t he the Fugitive? Dr Richard Kimble?
Dan- what’s your thoughts on edges off of pipe lines or power lines that run through the woods?
Can be great spots if not pressured. But often act as travel corridors for hunters and that can ruin them. All openings and edges have great possibilities.
Where do u get all the cool shirts
Hi Dan, where I hunt big woods in northern Wisconsin we don't have white oaks; we only have red oaks. Everything I read says red oaks aren't desirable to deer. Are red oaks even worth paying attention to?
They love red oak acorns... Side by side they prefer white, but red is a close second...
I love your show but your shirts are the greatest keep up the great work and content
Awesome info
Yessssss thank you!!!
hey Dan, ever hunt around bemidji MN?
I dint recognize the name...
Following !!!
Love the shirt
Have you considered a way to make your stands smaller and cheaper for us more budget limited hunters?
Smaller doesn't necessarily mean cheaper. The expense comes from not skimping on quality and using american components and partners. It may seem expensive, but the process used to make the stand is expensive and when you realize you only need one in a lifetime, cost is pretty reasonable. We machine our platforms much like bow risers. About the same cost to make either, Yet our price is lower than a bow that has a typical life span of 5 to 10 years. Good news is there are plenty of "cheap" stands you can buy, and things you can do to silence and convert them to mobile, bad news is the majority are made in China. To answer your question more specifically though, we are always looking at ways to produce better, and at lower cost. I want everyone to experience and own a Beast stand, I would love to sell them for less if we could...