3 Ways to Quickly Locate Deer in the Big Woods

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  • Опубліковано 30 жов 2024

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  • @4martell4
    @4martell4 2 місяці тому +4

    Really agree with your last comment- keep moving until you find the deer. 🦌 sometimes it takes miles and miles.

  • @whitetailwarriorsdeercamp88
    @whitetailwarriorsdeercamp88 2 місяці тому +9

    Awesome video. I will be hunting a 3 yr old clear cut this fall up in the U.P. nice tips. I’ve done some scouting and decided on a area close to a creek that there skirting the side of it. So fingers crossed. Thanks for the great tips

  • @thepatriot8514
    @thepatriot8514 2 місяці тому +7

    BIG WOODS hunting is really fun anyhow!

  • @BeerCheese
    @BeerCheese Місяць тому

    Clear cuts are killer. Great video

  • @charlesleblanc6638
    @charlesleblanc6638 2 місяці тому +2

    Great advice and nice footage thanks.

  • @jaredschaefer-gx7hz
    @jaredschaefer-gx7hz 2 місяці тому

    I love your videos! Very educational! I hunt Northwest Minnesota in ag country and I’ve always wanted to hunt the chocolate antlered bucks in the big woods of Northeast Minnesota!

  • @brushcrawler8612
    @brushcrawler8612 2 місяці тому

    Logging road deer crossings are great for identifying an area where doe family groups live.
    Many times a logging road can be a funnel itself in areas that hold water or contain other movement restrictions such as topography, blow downs, high stem counts or rock.

    • @northernforestwhitetail
      @northernforestwhitetail  2 місяці тому +1

      @@brushcrawler8612 good point. That is a good way spot trails and tracks fast while covering a lot of ground.

    • @brushcrawler8612
      @brushcrawler8612 2 місяці тому +1

      @@northernforestwhitetail Older, overgrown roads are often used as scrape lines in my area. 🦌

  • @waelharp4060
    @waelharp4060 2 місяці тому

    Awesome video man thank you for sharing.

  • @kurzhaarguy
    @kurzhaarguy Місяць тому

    Good to hear from someone in the woods. I’m in my seventh decade, 3rd generation hunting near Lake Superior south shore. I appreciate your thinking but look a bit deeper. What appears to be an identical jungle isn’t. You’re not getting to the point. Deer are creatures of edges when they’re moving normally. 90% of this is at night. Their escape routes take them relatively directly from any point in their territory to a place of cover. They use wind and sound as natural defense. Now, study your property for vegetation edges that coincide with a given wind direction. Find places along this path paralleling water. Find parallel topography. Scout your land for specific places that have those combinations in each wind direction. If you have an edge creek, however tiny, at the low point of an edge you need to mark the spot. Daylight deer are island creatures. Mature deer will virtually always spend daylight hours in an area surrounded by extremely dense, thorny cover and or areas surrounded by water and mud that is not accessible. Mark it down. Know your food sources. Don’t know how to put that any simple way. They transition from graze to browse during hunting season. Between, they feed heavily on mushrooms, nuts, berries, and fruits. Find and mark them. During transition in fall and spring, they more than double their defecation. One deer makes a lot of tracks. If you see concentrations of tracks it’s either used often or by many and virtually always doe and fawns. Watch for very lightly used trails and follow them carefully through dense areas. Horns don’t pass through 2” popples 10” apart. If you follow a trail and it repeatedly bypasses trees 20” apart, use your brain. The most important thing in all of this is marking it on a map. You will eventually, “see”, where they live and the routes that connect. With today’s technology you can make a starting point in an afternoon. But, you must put boots on the ground to understand flora and fauna. That’s critical day by day. I think most educated deer studiers will agree: the regularly use 10% of their territory. If you’re not hunting that, you’re wasting time and hoping for blind luck. Last word of 101, when you find potential mature island hides, avoid them at all cost, except during mid-winter. Have fun.

  • @ericbrooks8573
    @ericbrooks8573 День тому

    Great content...

  • @RKLIFE17
    @RKLIFE17 2 місяці тому +3

    Water and swamps in big woods as well. Big deal. Lots of sunshine and pinch points. That’s big in Michigan.

  • @vench112
    @vench112 Місяць тому

    Watching all these deer hunting videos makes me really appreciate where I live. You guys are hunting agricultural land and sparse forests... I can't find advice for hunting heavy wooded mountains

  • @familylundin709
    @familylundin709 2 місяці тому +1

    Love the new video

  • @matthewwichtner2935
    @matthewwichtner2935 2 місяці тому +2

    Couple nice bucks you got on pic. About the 8:20 and 9:08 clip of the tape. You get a shot at either of them? Looked like two different bucks? And you're right, you need to make sure they're not summer runs. I'd stay closer to the edges. Only time I see a big boy come out in a open clearing, is if he's on a hot doe. Lol. Good vid. Hope all is well😊

    • @northernforestwhitetail
      @northernforestwhitetail  2 місяці тому +1

      Never got a shot at the big guy- what a dandy he was last fall tho. Biggest bodied deer I’ve ever gotten on cam. I hunted that primary scrape last fall and saw some does and younger bucks but not the big boy

    • @matthewwichtner2935
      @matthewwichtner2935 2 місяці тому +1

      @@northernforestwhitetail That's a bummer. Find his bedding. No doubt he has several. But he's got one closer than the others. Find it my friend.

  • @robshipley7543
    @robshipley7543 Місяць тому

    I hunt clearfield cuts in Pennsylvania big woods I break them down like a grid system once I find sign I mark it down and move on for better results if not I go back and break down that area to find the bedding I’m aggressive when it comes to this system sometimes it works out and sometimes it doesn’t hunting the big woods is fun but frustrating all in one good luck to you this season thanks for a great video

  • @andrewcarlson8418
    @andrewcarlson8418 Місяць тому

    Great videos - nice to have someone from Northern MN provide insight! We hunt near Tower, MN and have not seen a buck in a few years. We have more wolves on the camera than bucks. Are you still having success with the low census?

    • @northernforestwhitetail
      @northernforestwhitetail  Місяць тому +4

      Always great to connect with another northern MN hunter! We are a little south and west of you guys. We are lucky enough that our herd has not been completely decimated. But it’s still way below what it was 5 and 10 years ago. Definitely tougher hunting. A real shame what has happened to deer hunting in Northeastern MN. Too many wolves. But it’s like we aren’t allowed to talk about wolves as the problem. Ridiculous.

  • @alexwest4253
    @alexwest4253 2 місяці тому

    Clear cuts are great, but here in north Georgia they quit clear cutting 20-30 years ago. :(

    • @northernforestwhitetail
      @northernforestwhitetail  2 місяці тому

      @@alexwest4253 bummer. So are your woods and landscape just continuing to age then? That will lead to a long term decline in fertility of the woods for many plant and animal species

    • @alexwest4253
      @alexwest4253 2 місяці тому

      @@northernforestwhitetail Exactly. There are lots of dear up to about 60 miles north of Atlanta but once you get up in the blue ridge mountains the numbers go way down and it has really harmed the quail and turkey numbers as well. They do some prescribed burning in some areas. but not really enough.

  • @richardhineman
    @richardhineman День тому +1

    Step one go into the woods.

  • @freecitizen7372
    @freecitizen7372 21 день тому +1

    I have found the fastest way to find a deer is to sit down and start reading a book. Deer will show up in no time at all.

  • @bryonslatten3147
    @bryonslatten3147 10 днів тому

    Where I hunt there are more hunters than huntable bucks.

  • @rickmiller3368
    @rickmiller3368 2 місяці тому

    Flashed the biggest buck I have ever seen in my area back in June, and he hasn't shown up on the camera since.

    • @northernforestwhitetail
      @northernforestwhitetail  2 місяці тому +1

      I’ve always been leery about crowding a mature buck with my cameras. I still use cameras but I’m pretty cautious with where I put them. Sorry to hear that happened to you

    • @matthewwichtner2935
      @matthewwichtner2935 2 місяці тому +1

      @@rickmiller3368 get out there now. Before it gets closer to the season. He came around, scout your butt off. He came from somewhere. Scout scout scout

  • @Shadowaspen
    @Shadowaspen Місяць тому

    Ya it is super easy ..I open the gate from our deer farm and there they are...up to 300 inch..

  • @maineoutdoorsman677
    @maineoutdoorsman677 2 місяці тому +1

    An be careful with sent coming from trail cams sent still comes from the inside ,we think they are sealed tight but sent still comes from them ,always spray ur cams down desent them ,pro tip