How To Attract More Bucks To Your Hunting Land
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
- Attracting bucks to your hunting land takes a lot more that great habitat - it takes a separation of habitat that is not full of doe family groups. Dispersing yearling bucks leave their home due to female social pressure. The last thing that a young buck wants to do, is to move his average mile and a half distance to a new home, only to find that home being overrun by female social pressure. Separated food sources, bedding areas and enough room leftover for bucks to travel and live their daily, daylight life is necessary for your land to be attractive to bucks. Too many does, large, single food sources and open cover creates an environment that is not condusive for attracting bucks to your land. Here are some tips for making sure that your land is attractive to a large supply of bucks, each fall.
You're giving away your knowledge for free! I appreciate it, have applied and enjoyed much of it. I hunt the more pressured states in the northeast & mid Atlantic. It started with your advice on weather that I thought was going to be just like the "moon charts" which turned out mostly useless for me. I've now had most success on cold fronts, drops in wind speeds, high barometer with temp drops, you have proven to know your stuff. Thank you Jeff.
Thank you very much and you are welcome! There is so little quality whitetail info online that it makes me want to work very hard to create as much as possible. That's awesome to hear about your success too 👍
Keep in mind that this content comes out of some of the highest hunter number states in the country ☺️ Probably a great fit for you!
I really appreciate the feedback!
Jeff I did a 3 acre hinge cut the way you have shown many of us.put a 1/2 acre kill plot.about 200 yds from it in the middle of 120 acres.put out 5 vines and scrapes pissed in all of them several times.lol.have a couple vids of the deer smelling the scrapes and pissing with the vine.so cool Jeff there are many gadgets out there for bowhunting.none beats this vine trick.free just a little work and let it do its magic lol.but Jeff I have to say that hinge cut changed everything at the upper end where we put it.all for the best.1st year owning this ground.i applied as much of your knowledge as I could.and it all looks great.i want to thank you from one bowhunter to another very appreciative.also Jeff the one side of this ground has 671 acres boarding it that no one was ever aloud to hunt.so I'm really trying to see what might come out of that ground.thats why we hinged 3 acres.between the ag fields and that 671.trying to stop some of the big boys.again Jeff thanks alot.keep pumping out these great vids and I'm gonna have me a super honeyhole.lol
Pretty sure we are seeing "The change" here in West Central MN. The beans and corn are dying and drying, and the bucks are becoming more active in the wooded areas, and HAMMERING my green food plots(peas, oats, rye and a few soybeans). Can't thank you enough man. It's a great feeling to have success in my very first year of "serious" land management! Makes all of the work, completely worth it!
Your videos are so informative, and I always look forward to watching them and learning. Thanks Jeff!
Thanks a lot John...that really means a lot to me! You are very welcome!
Jeff,
Great comments...we have learned a lot from all your guidance this year., and have made many many changes as per your recommendations. The improvements you suggested are really coming together, and we appreciate all the help during your site visit. We are going to add some more rye in a couple of weeks on the bare spots. I will have to do a little better job next year killing the weeds etc. I'm looking forward to using the golf cart to get a little closer and not disturbing the deer, after my surgery. We still of course have some challenges getting in and out to stands.
thanks for all the help,
Bob
Hi Bob that golf cart will be perfect! I would add that rye as soon as you can too....at least 200#s per acre. More like 300#s if closer to early October.
Okay will do...thanks. Really enjoy and appreciate your comments and most of all your friendship!!!
Say hello to Diane and the boys.
You are a true genius and professional! Thank you for this free information. I've been watching you now for a month. I dont even know how I came across your channel, but thank God I did!
I have 11 acres and its all woods and all woods around. No food sources either. I will start putting waterhole in May, making mock scrape in June, and planting Winter Rye(cereal not grass) Labor Day weekend and then 3 weeks later layer it. Im Southern NY
You answer all the questions I ponder on every season without me having even asked them yet and I love it. So glad I found your channel. Keep on keepin' on.
Absolutely love this video! I think I speak for all of your viewers in saying thank you for sharing your wealth of knowledge!
I get about 3-4 different does behind my house on camera in the summer and two had fawns
And I have four different bucks back there
A 8,10,4, and a spike.
I rarely ever comment on things, or even subscribe. But you've got both from me today.... listened to some of your videos while at work and now into the afternoon.... really enjoy the methodicalness of your videos. Thanks!
I have a lot of bucks on my property. I mean A lot. Anywhere from a spike to a 12 point. When I came to the property last year there where 37 deer on my property including several 4 to 6 points, 12 8 point and 4 bucks that where 9 to 12 point . And they stayed there until gun season was over.
Thanks Dan
Ya up here in ny it’s private land not hunted or deep deep in to thousands of acres of state land. Come to upstate and we shall go hunt state land. Great videos. Thanks
Great information! Guess that explains why I see nothing but does until mid November and then young bucks flood my cameras. Only have a few acres to hunt and about 6-8 does that frequent my food with only one or two mature bucks that move through at night. I’m only about a mile from city limits, so I’m watching all of your videos trying to figure out how to make them feel safe enough to step out in daylight!
I appreciate your videos very much. But the area I hunt in southwest Missouri is full of both bucks and does. A very high pressured area all around me and just last night I watched several does along with 3 bucks one being a 170 class. Year after year they have done this and just like you said the bucks are on one side and the does are on the other. We have unreal thick bedding and the only alfalfa in the area. Outside of my small kill plots acorns are the primary food. Thanks again for good information.
Went out the other day after some big rains checked my 4 cams and didn't see one track except for a bobcat. My love hate relationship with the U.P.
Also havnt read the whole thing yet but really liking your "ALL WEATHER WHITETAILS" book. And highly recommend it to anyone who deer hunts.
Ty for all your continuing guidance & most of all friendship
Thank you Paul... appreciate the friendship too! Keep me posted on your world trade center testing...
I guess I'm not doing as bad as I thought lol. Thanks for the info!
Ha...that's always a good thing ☺️ You are welcome!
Its hard to manage deer in Pennsylvania where its 22 people per square mile. But if i ever trip over some land i definitely will use this advice.
I assume this holds true for areas with very little agricultural because it worked in the UP? Locals here plant summer food to grow deer because farming is so low.
Enjoyed another great video. Thanks Cris
I built a good buck herd on my hunting property several years ago... Each Fall I would have my choice of bucks. However, that shifted to a Spring/Summer herd, and when season would hit in the fall, they would disappear. It has stayed that way, and Fall/winter is sparce with bucks. This is without a doe factory also, it seems I start seeing more does during the rut now, but the bucks arent showing up like they used to.
Did you overpressure it?
Great video very informative brother. I enjoy listening to you. Great advice.
Hey brother I’m behind watching. Weekend after next bow season opens here. I pray it cools down by then Amen.
There is way more to having a great deer population than I thought. Thank you for making this video sharing what you know with us.
Hi Darren you are very welcome! Very easy to attract too many does and not enough bucks. Attracting bucks...so true! There is a lot to it, which is why I find that less than 5% of all deer lands attract bucks...
Last year we only had one doe and fawn. I know to many isn't good, hunting was great with just one. Didn't see a doe on watch all season. I believe we harvested 5 buck. None of the bucks should have been harvested... even my 8pt could of used another year. But these damn Amish next door don't care. Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do
That's my problem. Another problem is I don't own the land. It's sad when you have neighbors who don't understand these techniques. Ive started a food plot, but with so many does they seem to always find the other plot which is about 1/2 mile away. Just stuck right now.😒
This was a complicated vid. I feel I need more explanation why bucks avoid does. Most people assume the opposite. Is it safe to say during the rut this doesn’t apply?
You left out some nuances for us less experienced hunters.
Comment of make a follow up vid?
Liked as always.
I live in the upper peninsula and I’m wondering I have a Barnett crossbow wondering where I should set my crossbow at in feet for good range thanks
Great information as always, love the videos on your channel... would love to see you add some of your actual hunting footage to your content...
What if the surrounding properties have almost no bedding or cover available? In that case wouldn't you inevitably have the herd stay there all year (does and all)? If there's no other cover, where else are they going to go?
Jeff, Thank You again for the words of wisdom,, now I have to get back to work and stop dreaming of colder mornings just around the corner.... :0).
You are very welcome Jeff ☺️ pretty hard not to be dreaming about that chill right now for me...have had a lot of mornings in the 40s, writing in Canada! Can't wait to hunt this weekend with the family...
Whitetail Habitat Solutions Where can we share pictures with you Jeff? I would love to show you what happens on our new muck farm as I apply your principals and practices. Good luck this weekend and be safe...
Always fantastic videos!
Thank you very much...really appreciate that!
This is my property’s problem exactly, the biggest bucks on my land are small six points
I believe it can be changed! Thicker cover, fewer does, no summer food plots and great Fall plots that don't infringe on the depth of cover in the land are all key. Then the table is set 🙂 BUT, if you don't continue those same conditions throughout the entire season, the old bucks that were initially attracted...will leave.
I’m on a property where i know there is deer but there is 160 acres a lot of it is a cattle field but there’s a stretch of woods with a decent size creek running through there I got one nice buck on camera late season cause I only had a camera out for 2 weeks and cows out there I killed a smaller 3 1/2 year old
Where can I learn more about all these things you suggest? I've always had a hard time patterning deer.
I have 300 acres and want to make it great for the deer.
I have 52 acres that is all huntable. It was very well managed. New neighbor moved in and I lost 8 bucks that were in 3 yr old range. I am also missing does. I plant food plots and do manage my does taking only one or two a year. How do i get my herd to recover. I only have 4 bucks visiting my property no where near near mature. Solution?
Great video Jeff! I have pics of a massive 10 pointer checking out a mock scrape at 4am, 2am every 7-10 days starting last month. Public yet unpressured land. What top questions do I need to answer for myself to possibly get a shot at him? I've got buck fever!
Yes can’t wait to layer more rye 250# more per your instructions
Should be perfect timing with that heavy amount of seed! Looking to create a low, lush, thick sod base.
Hey Jeff so I have food plot on my property just heavy wooded area so what do think how to bring the bucks around I have lots off does around I seen two or three bucks so far. Keep up the great work I’m going to invest into your books and going to look into your online course
Will Jeff ever change his shirt? Find out by tuning in on the next episode of Whitetail Habitat Solutions! Lol
It's got to get colder some day 😁 Feel bad for Dylan the camera man...getting ripe after all of these weeks!
Will the stick be out of his zipper too?
Question I hope you would see this to respond I have about 30 acres in New York how come I have giant bucks on trail cams in like July and August then they start fading away through September, October November during the hunting season hardly any big bucks just spikes in 4 points, I don't understand it. And I can have about five or six giants through July and August in velvet then come the hunting season they're gone and I mean not even catching them on trail cams anymore through the hunting season
Great info if you have land....really not much info to me but hope all have a great season anyway
If your surrounded by severe hunting pressure, what percentage of those bucks do you think would be killed by your neighbors ? Let's say you pick up 10 bucks over the course of the season like you say is possible or should be happening. How many do you think would make it to maturity say 5years old or older?
Probably 2. One will get hit by a car, a few will leave or other places, and the rest will be shot. A couple studs will hang around if you don’t harass them
@@Yaboifootchie that’s what happened around me
Have a 10 and an 8 that survived that are starting to come around now
Will cattle push deer out of a bedding area?
Just started watching your channel. Thanks for giving out all your knowledge. The question I have is on your mock scrape. Do you scent your drop stick? And what with. Enjoying your channel.
Randy
I have a 49 acre property with 26 acres tillable, 13 acres hardwoods, 10 acres timbered low-land that seasonally floods. I have trail cam pics of 13 different young bucks and 3 mature bucks. The young bucks are spikes to basket 6 points and the 3 large mature are a huge heavy 8, nice 10 and big heavy 9. I constantly see 3-4 does with only 3 fawns see in pictures. My question is what do I do now? Do I shoot the young bucks to prevent them from breeding? Do I shoot the big bucks? How do I manage my land to continue to be a buck heavy property?
Joined a new club to save money. It is a doe factory and the other was not and there were more bucks. Both locations do very little in the way of managing.
Did you go to college or just self research to do the land management for wildlife?
By the way there starting to hit the food plot does& a spike
Nice...that's great!! Food plot looking green!?
Jeff, I planted a 50/50 mix of sweet peas and soy beans back in 04. I saw no bucks in the front field in front of the house nor does. As soon as the peas got a foot high we drew 10 to 12 bucks, no does, every early evening. They filtered in like clock work and I'm talking good bucks. My question is, are bucks more apt to want to forage on peas cus it was all bucks all the time.....
Instead of using the watering troughs, could you dig a hole and lay in a tarp or plastic drop cloth? Obviously have to secure the tarp and cover the over hang with dirt.
I own 10 acres. 1 acre broken land with home and 9 all trees. How would you suggest I set it up for best hunting chances.
Here is a question Jeff? If I plant say clover mixes, winter rye with brassicas. Great fall food plot forage. Then spring rolls around and my rye and clover is coming on good, should I spray the plots killing the clover to plant buck wheat. Because if I dont then I have spring and summer food plots? Since at least for me spring is when the new clover comes on good it seems it's a waste to even plant the clover. Thanks again for the videos!
I am 14 and live on 15 acres 9 of which are huntable any tips on how to draw in bucks with such little land?
I have a 22 acre parcel, and I have often felt I have too many does, usually I have 2-3 different does with fawn frequent it all year long. Last October I saw 4-7 good bucks come through. But I feel they don’t stick around because of all the doe, I don’t get bucks pics until mid October. When do you know your doe ratio is good, I don’t want to go shooting them all, but how do I find the balance!?
Hey Jeff great videos. Have a question. I have a food plot in the middle of my property that I want to move because its to close to my access, what would you put in the area of the old plot. Switch grass?
Eric, thank you! That's kind of tough without seeing...BUT almost always if it isn't great for a food plot because of the risk of spooking deer, then the opposite is needed. Switchgrass is most often that opposite depending on the region. Good call!
Thank you for another great video! Do you have any suggestions for resources in northeastern Washington? I have 21 acres and some unique challenges I have been facing in trying to grow my herd. Thanks!
Great video! Any chance you have one (or can record one) for hunting big woods / flat terrain? From Tug Hill in Northern NY. BIG snow that comes early and stays late. Thanks!
Jeff,
This year I planted switchgrass in the open fields on my property with food plots in that switchgrass on the end farthest from the woods. The switchgrass made it to about 3 feet this year and next year I was hoping to add diversity to the switchgrass. What would you reccomended having in these pockets? Would you just spray grass selective herbicides and let them grow up on their own or would it be better to let some grow up and plant diversity such as conifers and different kinds of bushes in the other pockets?
In everyone of your videos there is a hanging stick in front of camera, almost all bucks mess with this stick, Is that exactly what its for to stop them in front of camera? or am i making to much of it , and just happens to be hanging in front of your camera
Should I be worried about having no pictures of mature bucks yet this year? I have 30 acres to hunt, most of it is bedding, 10 acres never gets hunted, with a 1/2 acre food plot. I have had increasing numbers of does in the last few weeks, and a slow increase in young bucks but have yet to get a picture of a mature buck. Is this a good thing?
Nice, great video👍
Is there anything I can plant on my food plots through the spring and summer that won't create a doe factory? I'd hate to leave the ground bare for that many months potentially allowing soil erosion. Thank you.
My ultimate no till planting blend with buckwheat would be outstanding for you...not as attractive! Works great. You don't have to till or disc either, in fact that is preferred.
Lots of videos about my no till system on my channel, from the past few months.. Here is one...
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Jeff if I screwed up and planted the winter rye too early can I mow it to ensure as I add another layer of rye here in late sept it stays low?
What should you do if you have too many does? We have 25+ doe's showing up through out the year. And very small bucks.
I’m in Monroe county, not far from you. How long should I wait to hunt my property after a deer is taken? My dad shot a doe opening day and don’t want to pressure the deer off our land.
Jack Ruedy this is my unprofessional opinion but as long as you are not doing heavy drives, you would be fine to go back out that same day. We have shot a buck in the morning and shot another buck the same day out of the same stand on my land.
PA Mountains was sure because most years we try to get a nice buck opening day but seems they tend to hide for a bit after that.
Here in PA especially during rifle season the deer are so pressured. A lot of times the 2nd week of rifle is the best because the pressured deer run to our quite property
Hi there I neet help for my yart got bucks and buy lote of staff don't help
Huh?
I’m able to hunt on a wonderful private property in west-central WI of 40acres, however it isn’t mine. There is a huge social group of does, on the order 15+, and I’m not able to put in specialized food plots. Do you have any suggestions on how to attract bucks in this over populated doe area before the rut besides a well placed mock scrape?
I don’t go into the bedding areas. I attract deer out of the area to the feeding and hunting areas. They have to have a safe place. Don’t make large changes to their habitat. I see guys making unnatural wide trails thru their properties. Animals notice changes and will sometimes avoid the area.
UP sounds like the Adirondaks -
Big wilderness setting for sure...not sure it is vast tho! But for sure Harold
always great info!
Thanks Jeff by the way we have had some pics of does already FYI guess that’s a good thing
You are welcome Paul! And that is a really good thing ☺️
About the same number of does right now?
Jeff just baised on this information would you suggest putting in food plots later in the summer so they are active for fall and not building a summer doe herd?
What is that stick thing at 0:45? I've seen it in some of your other videos. Cheers and thanks for the great info!
It’s a mock scrape. This guy has vids on how to make them
@@trevorlane4845 thanks
Hey Jeff its me again lol. I think i got the go ahead on putting in a small plot next to some wheat. I was planning to do a 1/2 acre clover plot. Do you think this will work for the late October, November, December hunting season? Thanks in advance
How does living on your hunting property effect deer? Driving in and out my dog on in the yard moving the tractor around. Kids playing? Just Normal life.
O actually don't think normal life effects it too much at all...especially if you don't have a giant food plot in the back yard, lol. I think as long as normal life stays where it is supposed to...it does not effect where you hunt.
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 Agreed! On my dad's property in upstate, NY...we can be out mowing the lawn and see nice bucks cruising the side of the hill in the evenings (roughly 125 yards away).
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 I do have a food plot about 100 yards form the back door but it's through about a 50yard thicket of trees
Just a quick question for your thoughts on this. On a 40 acre parcel my family just bought, there’s a giant ag field on the north side bordering the land. On the west side is a gravel road and another ag field on the other side of the road as well, my grandparents previously owned this 40 acre parcel and it wasn’t hunted too often due to lack of really any deer staying on it. I’m just wondering if there would be any benefit to adding a couple of food plots to this land or not in the future. It would be tough to, because the only areas that could have food plots are Near the middle of the land, I could access the land from the gravel road but what I’m more concerned about is the bedding depth for does and bucks
Also what do you think bout switch grass to cover my blind will it grow in a shaded area & if not what do you think will GREAT VIDEO
Logs from clearing food plot works great...also tree trunk from Suzie's tree. Nailed down netting. Sticks screwed to outside to make it look like a ball of brush too!
I am just now seeing bucks show up and during daylight.
I talked to a few neighbors and they have lost their bucks. They moved a bit early this year which works for me because archery season opens the 28th.
But this early movement came with odd behavior. I have sat and watched the bucks and they are already chasing does, the does however are not ready.
I watched three six points, three different ages as if they were siblings from about three years old to a yearling all six points. That yearling is going to be a brute in a few years. All three were chasing does. And that's the third time I have seen bucks doing that including a eight point that was alone.
I have another six on camera that's below my tree stand and a doe trying to run him off to no avail.
This is on my five acre spot that all I can do is get them to come in daily as they pass from cover to cover.
I put out alfalfa for the first time to attract axis deer and that brought the bucks in and a cow of a doe, doesn't normally work that way but it did.
I have another 11 acres that I am cleaning up due to family and working with the neighbors there who also hunt their five acre properties to provide better cover and food sources both natural and feeders to help us all have better deer. Small parcel hunters should try this, it can help everyone.
I love being able to sit and watch deer movement daily and all year, I can with almost certainty tell which deer will come from which direction and at what times.
Even the bucks were predictable until this year.
I started putting out apples in the early season this year eventhough I’m not hunting this land this year to see what happens
And there’s a nice 10 and 8 coming out that my neighbors aren’t getting on camera
They’re getting the spike and the 4
Off topic is it possible that because I have a bear patrolling the area where I installed the water holes I haven’t got any pic of bucks day or night & now also a distant size bobcat
I would suspect the deer in your area to start filtering in during mid October this year? Big woods...but ag in the area they probably aren't any where near the land yet, especially after the disturbance. Hopefully some does will come in within the next 2-3 weeks...then some bucks after that. Next year at this time you should have a lot more deer...2021 even more. Bucks will slowly shift their activities around your land sooner, as the years progress.
Then how do you keep does off your property
Be safe brother GOD BLESS.
Is the ratio buck to doe different for different areas/states
What does it cost to have you come to a property. I’m in upstate New York. With 100 acres
Do you take interns over the summer?
Hello been following you on UA-cam for a long time now I live around Concord mi and you talk about Michigan alot was wondering if we can meet if possible I have a place I'm hunting now with a lot of big bucks on it could make for a grate video
What dose it cost to have you come to a property. I live in upstate New York
That's a typical fly-in area, which is a set fee of $4950 + airfare. I leave early on day 1 and then return late on day 3. I book roughly 1 fly-in trip per month and my next opening is April...they actually fill up pretty quickly! If you are interested Diane schedules all of my site visits at info@whitetailhabitatsolutions.com
Would be great to get back to NY in 2020...I had 3 in NY this year alone. Always love it there!
Could you give me a run down on what that includes thanks so much
Where can I send an email
I’d love to jump in on that MW an keep Jeff around to look things over in Lenox NY ( Central NY, near Syracuse..Go Orange!!)for me at a new fallow farm we just purchased. The wife would kill me , but what the hell... If your serious email me at ChasseurJR1968@GMail.com. Maybe we can work something out with the man....
@@mwilliams4633 that above email is perfect...the info@whitetailhabitatsolutions.com email.
Left cameras out with no cards but I will put the cards back in come black powder because lm not getting pic of bucks is this a good idea m
Good stuff Jeff thanks
What the heck? Why would you leave a camera out and not have it working? All you're doing is leaving out to be possibly damaged or stolen without any return on that risk. If you are not getting bucks either a) be patient, or b) move your camera(s) to different and hopefully better areas. Sometimes all it takes is to move a cam a short distance to a trail deer are more active on and suddenly you see a bunch of deer that you hadn't before.
@@Waty8413 your right going to pull them that is stupid thanks for feedback
What's the strategy of the stick hanging on a string deer sniff, what do you put in it?
It's a grapevine licking branch aka mock scrape. Deer put preorbital scent on the vine and interdigital on the ground. They use it for communication.
It's more like 2or 3 percent for sure .
But the bucks look for does during the rut so you want to be where the Doe's are don't you?
Whats the hanging stick i always see in his videos that brings bucks in. What's it comprised of? Thanks in advance.
It’s just a vine or stick that’s hanging there that bucks like to rub their antlers on
Yup I think we have seen 3 so far
That's good...they will keep coming back the quieter the land becomes...
Any tips for a 40 acre parcel surrounded on all 4 sides by rotating ag crops?
Eric Gilgenbach what does your parcel look like? Hardwoods? CRP? You’re property would probably be very attractive with good cover and a foos source that the deer aren’t getting from the ag such as brassicas, clover, cereal rye etc.
@@JordanCouch1 10 acres of hardwoods on the high ground. 8 acres of open ground with a house and 5 acre ag field oats, peas, & alfalfa. The remainder is thick stuff...popple clear cut, dogwood, grass and willow thicket.
Is there a average ratio of buck to doe fawns born?
Honestly, I think it's 52% buck, 48% doe but that is just from off the top of my head. Maybe 51-49, but I believe ever so slightly more buck.
50/50
@@warrenlilly6244 thanks
Come November if you got the doe on your land you will have the bucks
I get a big buck in one of my spots pretty much every night at about 10 at night and I have no idea where he is coming from. Would you have any idea on far away he is coming from
A few miles if it’s late at night
Hey if you want to put me on a buck in the ups I’m down. Me and family are still homeless from the fire in paradise, California. We could use the extra meat. We have migrated to Knoxville, Tennessee to live with my family. If you now any land in East Tennessee let me know. Sept, 28 is opening day.
Did anyone else notice the stick
Are you talking about my mock licking branches? That's a system I developed 15 years ago and have a couple dozen videos about. They are in virtually every video...
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No I meant the stick that you have propped at the zipper of your pants lol was it placed there or accidental ?
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 I meant the stick propped at the zipper of your pants lol
What Part of the U.P. were you from? I'm from Western End.. Bessemer..
Hi Brad...Munising area. Diane was born and raised there...I was a transplant troll for 14 years 🙂 My kids are all true yoopers tho...all born and raised there! We visit often...
What I have seen is take half your land and never go in it. Deer will find it and stay there. Then hunt the edges. You may have said this. Haven't watched yet
No matter how it fits together...1 contiguous area that your site, sound and scent never enters. Compliment that with food within that area and that entire location should always be at least 50% of your land on 40 acres and less...and then % of efficiency should invest with the size of the parcel, including up to 80%.
That percentage is your efficiency level of the land. Most lands are less than 10% efficient...many are zero. You need at least 50% or a landowner is wasting acres...