Being honest, this is probably the BEST guide ive watched. Ive watched scarecrows, LadyLegends, and all those others but I just never seemed to understand much. But this guide, WOW, i could understand every bit. Thanks for the info, and W content. You've acquired... a new subscriber!! Hope to see more and more content.
Thanks for the view and subscribe! I’m working on about 10 other videos right now, hope to drop one weekly as this is just a fun hobby! Any content that you wish was out there? It was that question that made me want to make this video and fill in the gaps that amazing creators have done with their videos.
Also a note for people who herd manage is really only do if you don't play the game a lot and can only play it for a little bit but if you play the game non-stop it basically devalues diamonds as you get so many where when you see a diamond you won't be as excited because you already have so many
I would agree. I get an hour or so a day between parenting, relationships and career. Herd management is just one way of grinding for a great one to make it a bit more exciting. I have 250+ diamonds and I still get super excited to see a max level animal, I’m just not as excited to add them to my lodge unless they are huge like a 270 fallow, 300 moose or 275 whitetail.
@@JBizHunts amazing, I’ll check out Medved then, it’s next on my list…I’ve only played in Hirshfelden, Savanna, Yukon, Te Awaroa and Emerald Coast so far got 30+ diamonds and 20+ rares. Been playing for about 5 months and I’m totally addicted 😂
@@johncosta6299 I’ve been on COTW since its console release in 2017. Medved has been an amazing map for me! I pulled 11 max level and 8 rares from my solo map. In my opinion it has the best map for moose grinding because the lakes are frozen for easy set up and retrieval of harvests.
What curious timing! I just bought the New England DLC after having not played for a few years. I would like to work on herd managing both whitetail and moose on the map so it's just a paradise of huge, beautiful animals. Already spotted two diamond moose, but didn't harvest them. One thing I wish we had was an easily interactive map where we could take better notes about what the herds and what you're culling from them
I find an image of the map im grinding and print it out (I know, old school). I then mark the zones on the map and indicate if it’s a solo or herd zone and how many bulls/bucks per zone. I usually don’t mark much more other than circling the zones I think have the potential to be my main shooting zones. Once they are managed I cross them off. You could do it similarly on paint or another program, but I play console and it’s nice to have the paper infront of me.
New player question: I have one lake with 3 zones, all off which have a max weight bucks. Would you recommend picking just one of these zones as a main zone and shooting down the others? Or all can be main zones? Also, when picking main zones to stack, zone means a singular drink zone, and not an entire lake right? So the example above about one lake with 3 zones with max weight bucks, I’d count that as three zones if I kept all 3, and find 7 others to stack max weight bucks on? Shoot down the rest? When I’m ahooting down secondary/low Level zones, do I also rotate the main shooting zones that already have max weight or diamond potential bucks? Or do I leave those alone until everything else is shot down? I assume shooting your big deer out of main zones before you’ve managed the whole map is counter productive? Thank you, great video.
@@TnargNoj a lake with many zones can be considered 1 zone in a sense since you can quick travel with 1 tent. You have to keep shooting your main zones to get the little bucks out. The problem with having 10 or so main zones now is that since the July update you should have 16 final zones and try to manage the rest. That way a full rotation going to 16 tents and harvesting hopefully 16 big males will make respawns work the best.
@@JBizHunts Thanks for the reply, great info. To end with 16 good/high level shooting zones, would it be more productive to initially start with managing your 12 to 14 final shooting zones, and just rotating 2 to 4 shoot down zones?
@ yes, I would do 10 main to begin and trying to shoot down 6 others until you are down to your final 16 zones (original 10 + final 6) then there’s your final grind. Keep rotating and then every 250-300 harvests go scout to see if any stragglers made it outside of your herds
I seem to keep getting bigger bucks on my externals, so I just keep shooting them until I finally get smalls? Or do I need to focus on my main shooting lakes more to try to get more big bucks? I have lots of bucks in the lower 200s spawning all over the place but no level 3s except 1. Not sure how to get the bigger ones where I need them and not in the exterior zones
You have to be doing both… that’s why you pick 8-10 zones that you want forever. Always show up and shoot the biggest bucks unless there are level 3’s being stacked which leaves you nothing left to shoot in your main zones (for now)… and always shoot down your external zones the other 6-8 tents. As you shoot those down to small 2’s and 1’s you can pick up that tent and move onto another external zone until you manage all other zones. If there’s 60 zones, you have to manage down 50 zones and leave you with 10 zones at the end that you rotate on basically. Herd management is not for anyone new and it takes a long time to get it in place
@@IFarmBugs it’s when you are using the stacking method and your herd zone that’s your main zone is full of max level animals with no more shooters until you’ve shot down your secondary herds.
after discovering all the zones i just don’t understand where to put the tents because how are you gonna get 50 zones to lvl 1s and small 2s that’s where im stuck at
@@HomieOsa you have 16 tents. You pick 10 to be your main zones that you are always shooting and hopefully get big bucks… the other 6 tents you shoot down the zones to level 1/small 2. Once that happens, pick up the tent move on to the next zone out of 50… until 45 zones are managed down and you are left with 15-16 amazing zones because you’ve moved the big bucks there.. think musical chairs
For a hotspot guide I would suggest ProXCK. It’s where I go to know the hot spots. As for a turkey video, I still need a diamond Eastern Wild and Rio Grande. Maybe I’ll see about setting up some decoys, making some calls and see if I figure a cool guide out for turkey.
I'm a little pissed off, I did the same as in the guide on the revountula coast and it's cool, but when I started grinding on 22 zones on the second lap, 2 males started appearing per herd and 2 watering holes have 1 male each, I know that if I shoot that male, my watering holes will disappear, I don't know what I'm doing wrong and why it's happening
So when im starting should i be shooting the smaller deer from my main zones at the start or do i wait till i have all other zones shot down then move to my mains and shoot the smaller deer and try to get diamonds? Also ive had multiple herds with 8 deer (4 male, 4 female) i shot 2 bucks from it, came back the next rotation and no bucks now only 4 does. Any idea?
@@codyrobison100 you should be shooting main zones and secondary zones at the same time.. essentially what can make the herd management go faster is having your small deer in your main zone swap with a large male from a secondary zone/solo.
@@connor-xt1qs you want to have as much big animals in your main zones as you can, so leaving a level 1 in a zone you intend to rotate on at the end of your grind is not the most efficient. However, I have changed my tune a little bit! Check out some newer Hm videos
Main zones is an easier answer 8-12 probably or basically how many you can get to using 8 tents with 8 pickup tents for fast and efficient harvesting. More harvests means more chances a great one spawns. external zones will be the rest… so 60 zones total as an example would have 12 let’s say main zones and 48 external. Everyone’s map will be unique to them.
Do you kill other zones off if they’re bad zones and say I have two class two bucks one scores 119-159 and the other one scores 210 -251 which one should I be shooting
@@Mitchellsurfs great question! I show the level 2 rack and how it curves in like a basket 🧺… where the antenna rack goes straight out to the sides and does not turn in
@@JBizHunts ok thank you I will use these tips for my next cotw hunt and keep up the great vids man scarecrow and them people are too good and on pc im on Xbox
It means if there are 2 males and 3 females in a zone for whitetail that when you shoot both males that are let’s say level 2’s they come back as level 1s… so in herd management if they are both 1’s you don’t need to shoot them anymore because they are shot down from 2 to 1. Then the zone is considered managed.
Agreed! They have covered it and are amazing streamers. I subscribe to all three. I appreciate the comment and tried to put out content that has a different layout to help people who may learn from a different style. I appreciate the comment! Would love to know what other content you would love to see that may be missed in the community.
@@JBizHunts obviously cannot confirm and I know he grinds hard but idk... Sometimes just seems to good to be true on his channel lol. Seems like a good dude though and it's only a video game so there's that too but.... I'll just leave it there.
Being honest, this is probably the BEST guide ive watched. Ive watched scarecrows, LadyLegends, and all those others but I just never seemed to understand much. But this guide, WOW, i could understand every bit. Thanks for the info, and W content. You've acquired... a new subscriber!! Hope to see more and more content.
Thanks for the view and subscribe! I’m working on about 10 other videos right now, hope to drop one weekly as this is just a fun hobby! Any content that you wish was out there? It was that question that made me want to make this video and fill in the gaps that amazing creators have done with their videos.
99% of COTW channels are pretty unwatchable
Also a note for people who herd manage is really only do if you don't play the game a lot and can only play it for a little bit but if you play the game non-stop it basically devalues diamonds as you get so many where when you see a diamond you won't be as excited because you already have so many
I would agree. I get an hour or so a day between parenting, relationships and career. Herd management is just one way of grinding for a great one to make it a bit more exciting. I have 250+ diamonds and I still get super excited to see a max level animal, I’m just not as excited to add them to my lodge unless they are huge like a 270 fallow, 300 moose or 275 whitetail.
Amazing guide man, keep up the good work 👍🏽
Thanks a ton! What guide would you like next between Fallow and Moose?
@@JBizHuntsMoose guide would be awesome as I’m trying to set up one in Yukon (not sure if it’s the best map for this). Many thanks 👊🏽
@@johncosta6299 I am currently 2000 harvests deep in a grind on Medved! I’ll make moose next!
@@JBizHunts amazing, I’ll check out Medved then, it’s next on my list…I’ve only played in Hirshfelden, Savanna, Yukon, Te Awaroa and Emerald Coast so far got 30+ diamonds and 20+ rares. Been playing for about 5 months and I’m totally addicted 😂
@@johncosta6299 I’ve been on COTW since its console release in 2017. Medved has been an amazing map for me! I pulled 11 max level and 8 rares from my solo map. In my opinion it has the best map for moose grinding because the lakes are frozen for easy set up and retrieval of harvests.
I noticed the rating going up over time I saw a 245-284 ended up 250 so I’m getting closer
@@samhrdlicka1387 that’s the whole thing, the game of musical chairs with grinding takes a while! If it was easy everyone would do it!
What curious timing! I just bought the New England DLC after having not played for a few years. I would like to work on herd managing both whitetail and moose on the map so it's just a paradise of huge, beautiful animals. Already spotted two diamond moose, but didn't harvest them. One thing I wish we had was an easily interactive map where we could take better notes about what the herds and what you're culling from them
I find an image of the map im grinding and print it out (I know, old school). I then mark the zones on the map and indicate if it’s a solo or herd zone and how many bulls/bucks per zone. I usually don’t mark much more other than circling the zones I think have the potential to be my main shooting zones. Once they are managed I cross them off. You could do it similarly on paint or another program, but I play console and it’s nice to have the paper infront of me.
I’m try this out i also play on console an I’ve gotten two great one red deer thanks to theses
Glad you're giving it a shot, my friend! I hope it helps you get more G1s in your future! The antlers for the g1 whitetail are insane
Amazing work thanks for teaching me😊
Thank you for your comment! I really
Appreciate it and hope it helped in anyway!
i just got cotw and pressed new game and i fount a level 5 mouse
Wow! My first diamond was a moose on Layton lakes in 2019… 2 years after I got game! I hope he makes diamond for you!
New player question: I have one lake with 3 zones, all off which have a max weight bucks.
Would you recommend picking just one of these zones as a main zone and shooting down the others? Or all can be main zones?
Also, when picking main zones to stack, zone means a singular drink zone, and not an entire lake right?
So the example above about one lake with 3 zones with max weight bucks, I’d count that as three zones if I kept all
3, and find 7 others to stack max weight bucks on? Shoot down the rest?
When I’m ahooting down secondary/low
Level zones, do I also rotate the main shooting zones that already have max weight or diamond potential bucks? Or do I leave those alone until everything else is shot down? I assume shooting your big deer out of main zones before you’ve managed the whole map is counter productive?
Thank you, great video.
@@TnargNoj a lake with many zones can be considered 1 zone in a sense since you can quick travel with 1 tent. You have to keep shooting your main zones to get the little bucks out. The problem with having 10 or so main zones now is that since the July update you should have 16 final zones and try to manage the rest. That way a full rotation going to 16 tents and harvesting hopefully 16 big males will make respawns work the best.
I would count as one stop (even though there are 3 zones) and try to find 15 other good stops for your final rotation
@@JBizHunts Thanks for the reply, great info. To end with 16 good/high level shooting zones, would it be more productive to initially start with managing your 12 to 14 final shooting zones, and just rotating 2 to 4 shoot down zones?
@ yes, I would do 10 main to begin and trying to shoot down 6 others until you are down to your final 16 zones (original 10 + final 6) then there’s your final grind. Keep rotating and then every 250-300 harvests go scout to see if any stragglers made it outside of your herds
@ thanks man, I’ll
Let you know how it goes.
I seem to keep getting bigger bucks on my externals, so I just keep shooting them until I finally get smalls? Or do I need to focus on my main shooting lakes more to try to get more big bucks? I have lots of bucks in the lower 200s spawning all over the place but no level 3s except 1. Not sure how to get the bigger ones where I need them and not in the exterior zones
You have to be doing both… that’s why you pick 8-10 zones that you want forever. Always show up and shoot the biggest bucks unless there are level 3’s being stacked which leaves you nothing left to shoot in your main zones (for now)… and always shoot down your external zones the other 6-8 tents. As you shoot those down to small 2’s and 1’s you can pick up that tent and move onto another external zone until you manage all other zones. If there’s 60 zones, you have to manage down 50 zones and leave you with 10 zones at the end that you rotate on basically. Herd management is not for anyone new and it takes a long time to get it in place
@@JBizHunts wtf is "stacked"
@@IFarmBugs it’s when you are using the stacking method and your herd zone that’s your main zone is full of max level animals with no more shooters until you’ve shot down your secondary herds.
after discovering all the zones i just don’t understand where to put the tents because how are you gonna get 50 zones to lvl 1s and small 2s that’s where im stuck at
@@HomieOsa you have 16 tents. You pick 10 to be your main zones that you are always shooting and hopefully get big bucks… the other 6 tents you shoot down the zones to level 1/small 2. Once that happens, pick up the tent move on to the next zone out of 50… until 45 zones are managed down and you are left with 15-16 amazing zones because you’ve moved the big bucks there.. think musical chairs
@ ok i understand now thank you do you recommend what zones should be used as main ones im also on Layton Lakes
@ easy lanes to shoot at, with good visibility… respawns are consistent and multiple bucks in the zone
Can we please get a guide for turkey? I don’t see any and everyone says they are all over but shouldn’t they have hotspots too
For a hotspot guide I would suggest ProXCK. It’s where I go to know the hot spots. As for a turkey video, I still need a diamond Eastern Wild and Rio Grande. Maybe I’ll see about setting up some decoys, making some calls and see if I figure a cool guide out for turkey.
On my external zones do I only need to shoot my level 2’s and leave alone level 1’s?
Yes, and you can leave the small 2’s that look like 1’s with the antenna rack
i cant find 55-65 zones on layton, i feel like ive checked everywhere twice but only being close to 40
@sebbe8421 check locations after the drink time and see if you can pickup some need zone indicators
I'm a little pissed off, I did the same as in the guide on the revountula coast and it's cool, but when I started grinding on 22 zones on the second lap, 2 males started appearing per herd and 2 watering holes have 1 male each, I know that if I shoot that male, my watering holes will disappear, I don't know what I'm doing wrong and why it's happening
@@danielbaa9462 they shouldn’t disappear if you shoot one
So when im starting should i be shooting the smaller deer from my main zones at the start or do i wait till i have all other zones shot down then move to my mains and shoot the smaller deer and try to get diamonds? Also ive had multiple herds with 8 deer (4 male, 4 female) i shot 2 bucks from it, came back the next rotation and no bucks now only 4 does. Any idea?
@@codyrobison100 you should be shooting main zones and secondary zones at the same time.. essentially what can make the herd management go faster is having your small deer in your main zone swap with a large male from a secondary zone/solo.
@@JBizHunts so shoot small deer in main zones and big deer at secondary??
@ basically
You said shoot the level 1’s in my main zones all the time? Or at the end of my grind, kinda confused there
@@connor-xt1qs you want to have as much big animals in your main zones as you can, so leaving a level 1 in a zone you intend to rotate on at the end of your grind is not the most efficient. However, I have changed my tune a little bit! Check out some newer Hm videos
How many external zones should i have and how many main zones?
Main zones is an easier answer 8-12 probably or basically how many you can get to using 8 tents with 8 pickup tents for fast and efficient harvesting. More harvests means more chances a great one spawns. external zones will be the rest… so 60 zones total as an example would have 12 let’s say main zones and 48 external. Everyone’s map will be unique to them.
All of my zones our already shot down to ones and small twos and I don’t know what to do
@@Noprepfelons-bz4up go look if there are large solo males and let me know
Should I leave the level 2s with the realy tight rack which score close to level 1s?
You can, the bigger the rack the higher the weight. The lower the weight the better to leave on your map to push respawns higher!
How do you tell how many zones youve discovered so far?
You count your need zone indicators on your map in your codex
Do you want to kill off the other zones
@@CalebDitslear what do you mean?
Do you kill other zones off if they’re bad zones and say I have two class two bucks one scores 119-159 and the other one scores 210 -251 which one should I be shooting
3:53 what is a basket
@@Mitchellsurfs great question! I show the level 2 rack and how it curves in like a basket 🧺… where the antenna rack goes straight out to the sides and does not turn in
@@JBizHunts ok thank you I will use these tips for my next cotw hunt and keep up the great vids man scarecrow and them people are too good and on pc im on Xbox
@ that’s where I play is on console! Love my Xbox! No modded servers here!
I have saw a couple 3’s but there more like 2’s
That’s a good start! Means it’s started to work! Then you will start getting the 270+ Whitetails!
@@JBizHunts Layton that strip ima will a lot of 1nes and does missippi I got lots of 236’s
@ oh awesome! It’s getting closer those 236’s turn into 255’ers
What does shoot down a zone mean?
It means if there are 2 males and 3 females in a zone for whitetail that when you shoot both males that are let’s say level 2’s they come back as level 1s… so in herd management if they are both 1’s you don’t need to shoot them anymore because they are shot down from 2 to 1. Then the zone is considered managed.
Dam bro I had 80 on rev
That is the most zones I’ve heard of on rev! Damn!
noob terms please 😅
@@SimonGiraldo-sy1fs go watch my hm video the original
This shit is confusing
Herd Management is not for everyone and takes a lot of work.
Not like Ibuy, scarecrow, lady legend and every twitch streamer has covered this for the last 7 months💀
Agreed! They have covered it and are amazing streamers. I subscribe to all three. I appreciate the comment and tried to put out content that has a different layout to help people who may learn from a different style. I appreciate the comment! Would love to know what other content you would love to see that may be missed in the community.
Watched all of them, this one still better 👌🏽
U mean Mod-Crow? Lol
@@wookiewarhol5080 Do you think Crow mods? EW wouldn’t allow him to get the early access if he does
@@JBizHunts obviously cannot confirm and I know he grinds hard but idk... Sometimes just seems to good to be true on his channel lol. Seems like a good dude though and it's only a video game so there's that too but.... I'll just leave it there.