A decade plus study of collared bucks revealed that they are in bedding an hour before sunrise for the most part. Hunt evenings anyday and mornings when bucks are cruising (roam) period of the rut and the actual rut. Same study revealed they're on their feet the most daytime during those periods
Jim Ward has his own data from a primo property he used to manage, 500 acres in Iowa. Every buck bed was camera up and the earliest he had bucks back in their beds was 830. That was on a meticulously maintained property with perfect habitat because he worked full-time on it and he and the owner intensely managed their hunting pressure . That’s the data he goes by because the properties he builds and manages are like that one. If you let deer do their thing, and they are not constantly pressured, they don’t gravitate towards darkness like we think they do. Cite your article or the original data and my guess is we will find it was conducted at a large hunting club or similarly pressured property.
Biggest mistake most Hunters in my area , do wrong is Not play the wind, and Bumbing deer out of beds in AM. Tbe problem is opening day of rifle everyone wants to go to there spot, but should wait till wind and afternoon in some places.
Great advice until you started speaking on invasive species. Nuke invasives up front. You minimize your work down the road if you take them all out immediately. It only takes 1 growing season for vegetation to respond and replace it.
Beech provide nuts for alot of wildlife species and are a preferred scrape tree as branches grow lower and maintain leaves longer. 🤷♂️ Boys I can't follow your advice
Beech do not produce nuts every year & the native forbs that grow when you remove that beech canopy has higher benefit than the beech. Its all about balance. Beech trees are marcescent so when you have an understory of beech that hold into their leaves how do you expect to ever get oak regen or native browse? Managing ONLY for hard mast is a mistake so you should reconsider your opinion.
Multiflora rose was given out in our area in upstate NY,wish I never planted it to invasive taking up room of natural vegetation
Best advice is miracle gro as a liquid fertilizer and the redmond mineral on the soil
A decade plus study of collared bucks revealed that they are in bedding an hour before sunrise for the most part.
Hunt evenings anyday and mornings when bucks are cruising (roam) period of the rut and the actual rut.
Same study revealed they're on their feet the most daytime during those periods
Jim Ward has his own data from a primo property he used to manage, 500 acres in Iowa. Every buck bed was camera up and the earliest he had bucks back in their beds was 830. That was on a meticulously maintained property with perfect habitat because he worked full-time on it and he and the owner intensely managed their hunting pressure . That’s the data he goes by because the properties he builds and manages are like that one. If you let deer do their thing, and they are not constantly pressured, they don’t gravitate towards darkness like we think they do. Cite your article or the original data and my guess is we will find it was conducted at a large hunting club or similarly pressured property.
Biggest mistake most Hunters in my area , do wrong is Not play the wind, and Bumbing deer out of beds in AM. Tbe problem is opening day of rifle everyone wants to go to there spot, but should wait till wind and afternoon in some places.
The endurance hunter channel has stolen some of your poison ivy video
Great advice until you started speaking on invasive species. Nuke invasives up front. You minimize your work down the road if you take them all out immediately. It only takes 1 growing season for vegetation to respond and replace it.
yup.
I love invasives
Beech provide nuts for alot of wildlife species and are a preferred scrape tree as branches grow lower and maintain leaves longer. 🤷♂️ Boys I can't follow your advice
Beech do not produce nuts every year & the native forbs that grow when you remove that beech canopy has higher benefit than the beech. Its all about balance. Beech trees are marcescent so when you have an understory of beech that hold into their leaves how do you expect to ever get oak regen or native browse? Managing ONLY for hard mast is a mistake so you should reconsider your opinion.
Beech will be distinct in 50 years anyways. Beech bark disease.