Attract And Hold More Bucks On Small Parcels

[@Sandwichking-hikes]

Brilliant analysis

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Thank you...

[@mikemellon80]

Very interesting stuff

[@Eastky23wildlife]

This guy has got me hanging licking branches on every intersection 😆. Vines and pine tree limbs.

[@markmeyer2757]

Jeff, Always great content! Thanks for all the free information, its great to watch early morning with a cup of coffee!

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Thanks a lot Mark...really hoping that it helps! I'm having my morning coffee right now before shooting vids ☺️

[@markmeyer2757]

@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 You are one passionate deer hunter and habitat consultant! Glad to watch your vids almost everyday. Kudos to You!

[@mr.mr.3301]

So shoot more does?

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

That's a part of it if needed. BUT, the first step is to eliminate Summer food sources if does need to be reduced. And create fall food and cover. And to hunt without spooking deer.

[@normyoder2622]

I don't have anything to say or ask but I'm sponging it up . Thanks Jeff. great stuff.

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Hey Norm...you said enough and I GREATLY appreciate it 👍 Thank YOU!

[@dalehicks1996]

What is your take on mineral blocks?

[@Bassinwithjesse]

Really trying to figure out which videos apply to my situation. I have 14 acres with a couple small plots, all wooded area is high stem count . Trails running through with heavy traffic sign. A ton of rubs throughout the property. But no significant bucks on camera. I’m surrounded by big open timber from the neighboring properties. Both neighbors do not hunt. No ag within a reasonable distance

[@johnthefisherman7047]

On a micro parcel under 10 acres does it really matter what the doe: buck ratio is if the parcel is just a pass through for deer?

[@jonmessing2606]

How big of an issue do you think thermals are in low hilly regions, say 50-100 feet?

[@nate_bachert]

extremely helpful thank you!

[@jarrettmims452]

How do you feel about cut over

[@brianlenneman5032]

Wow!! Great info Jeff!!

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Thanks a lot Brian!

[@HabitatManagersTV]

Great video as always. Keep up the great work. You inspire us all to get to work in the woods.

[@WHITETAILKINGS]

Excellent example Jeff. Quick question, hopefully I can paint the picture... Square 50 acres. Pennsylvania big woods to the West, North, North East, and South. Access from the southeast.. What corner are you putting main food plot in like you did in this example?

[@supermanutube123]

Jeff, thank you for all the great content. I am currently on 28 weirdly shaped acres in a central Minnesota development surrounded by mixed ag and other wooded properties. The cover is coming along. I'm applying your concepts and rearranging my property to keep the does and fawns close to my biggest food plots and making small plots connected by clover trails on the outside edge. I will stop using the middle and keep my movement to the outside on cooperative wind days. Switch is going in to block views from neighboring homes. Thank you for helping to turn around my doe factory setup.

[@randlerichardson5826]

Great video brother as always and GOD BLESS you and your family and crew brother Amen 🙏. Keep the great videos coming GOD BLESS

[@shaneschuler5316]

How many doe per acre is considered too many??

[@rfb7117]

As always very informative and interesting...thanks for sharing!!!!!

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

You are very welcome Bob ☺️ Hope you are having a great morning!

[@mr.booyah8518]

Just checked my cams, I have about 7 buck , 3 , 9pts , 2 , 8 pts a 4pt and a one giant I call high tower he's a stout 10pt . I have 8 acres howbdo I hold em I know most won't stay

[@mikelangenkamp9160]

Great information. Question, if you have a food plot right next to human activity that is surrounded by switchgrass will it become a nocturnal site only? There are other secluded food plots farther back on the property.

[@chrismacomber9727]

Greatvid Jeff had time to watch it on the way to tge job this morning...

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Nice Chris...so many folks are with you ☺️ Don't crash! Hope you had a great drive and I appreciate you including me along the way 👍

[@chrismacomber9727]

@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 lol dont worrie im not driving ...thanks for all the help can't wait for this nexed season ...

[@Chalz108]

My uncle and I had a conversation about food plots. He talked about doing soybeans for "antler growth" and that his food plots in the past have always been eaten to dirt and a waste of money. I showed him your channel and invited him to watch lectures. I hope I can recruit one! He has a hard time believing me when I tell him about the winter rye.... lol. I hope he will watch and learn from you. He is another one who just says "throw some corn they'll come to it"

[@joshandhuntersadventures5046]

The biggest problem I have is I have nice bucks in late summer get good camera pictures and then about mid September they disappear and don’t show back up till the rut. I can not figure out where they are going. I don’t check the cameras but once a month in the summer months so I don’t think I am pressuring them out. But when rut roles around they are back and new bucks to just none in early now season

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

That means typically Summer food and good summer cover for bucks...but bucks require the exact opposite of cover and food in the Fall. More Fall food and only fall cover is a great start! Typically where bucks are at during the summer they are not at during the Fall...you don't want to have just a rut property ☺️

[@billiejopeets7783]

Great video!!! So I started 2 years ago with 11 different bucks during the hunting season, and now up over 25 different bucks on 211 acres. Where should I stop and say I can’t maximize anymore. Most are 1.5’s and 2.5’s and never much older. It’s hard to get a 3.5 or older to stick around...

[@Silver_Coin_Outdoors]

We attempted two food plots last year, they didn't go as well as we'd hoped, but we know what we did wrong & will change them this year. We're also going to do more land management & make it great for deer.

[@jjhoran1273]

Layers and edge, we are converting some of our ATV trail that borders the property into food plot trails, added to our other main food source and the bedding layers, should be a good season, it’s like a narrow circle track of food!

[@miikesternberg6947]

Keep it coming. I am watching and listening. Been at this a long time. Still learning.

[@suzmell1]

Fantastic video love the passion this man puts into doing & giving such great info to us each & every time wanna ask you off topic was up to my land last week did some frost seeding for switchgrass if it all goes well when will I see my labor pay off

[@kurtpearson8597]

Thanks for another great video ! Hoping you could address how to approach when depth of cover dictates that buck bedding is on neighboring land? We have food, does and fawns, then young bucks, but the big guys have best depth just beyond our borders!

[@kurtpearson8597]

Are we limited to that late afternoon feeding?

[@marshalllaw6541]

Sorry to hear about your dad I also lost my dad but in November. On a 15 acre property with a good buck to doe ratio how many doe should I have?

[@beauschumacher]

Say something such as corn or beans is in that large field, what kind of crop would you suggest to put into the smaller plots?

[@stevedenoyer5956]

Providing more secure food throughout the property as well as pockets of cover?

[@markr.1547]

Jeff do you think mature bucks also displace the yearling bucks?.... Reason I ask is I’ve set up my land to your recommendations and it’s been great so I’m not complaining but I’ve noticed way more 2+ year old bucks and only 3 or 4 yearly bucks. Is this a reason to be concerned?

[@dmouse522]

So comfy chairs by the kitchen island for the girls and a bowl of chips by the recliner for the boys. Everybody is happy.

[@huntermatty33]

Jeff, thanks again for the great content. I feel like I keep learning so much with every video you put out.

[@stark_outdoors]

Quick question. I pulled my cameras yesterday and I got pictures of a fawn with spots in January. I'm in northern ohio about 25 min from Michigan 10 min from indiana. Just curious if you've ever seen a fawn that young at this time of year or what that might mean?

[@stark_outdoors]

@@russelllangworthy8855 no its definitely a fawn. I have nice cameras, cell and non cell that I check regularly. I've seen it in person, so has my wife, my dad and one of my friends. I have multiple pictures with the correct date and time with snow on the ground to prove it.

[@chadmiller3679]

Hey Jeff! Been watching your videos for awhile and was wondering if you could do a video on what to look for when purchasing a new parcel? Maybe some tips on what information to look for when looking at pictures and descriptions online and what price range is good for different amounts of property based on information that you can see online. Thanks!

[@benmicheau6046]

Part of my property is a swamp, do you think that bucks could bed there on islands or pockets of land?

[@spartansteve369]

Love your videos! Keep em coming. I just put a water trough and mock scrape like you suggested. Looking forward to trail camera pics. Already had 4 buck all at the same time in a couple of days ago. Another pic had 10 doe (unless a couple were bucks that dropped horns already).

[@kevinb6396]

Thank you Jeff for your content and great maps to explain your management techniques. For me, it's akin to watching a land managers version of "Painting with Bob Ross".

[@johnkirkbride9750]

Is there a reason why our does are having more bucks as offspring than does? Not complaining but it's very hard to hunt out property for the mature bucks because the dominant bucks very rarely move from their secluded areas where they bed! We have a 12 acre pond on the very southwest part of the property. I only take my boat across the pond 1 or two weekends during the rut other than that I cant hunt that area.

[@loganmullins3762]

If I only got a mature buck on camera like 3 times here recently around the end of January but haven’t gotten any pictures of him after that, what does that mean?

[@Buck2218]

I get that every year, its usually during the rut and its tending a doe for a few days,or some are at the end of the rut when its just passing through probably making its way back to where it normally beds and you only catch it on camera once.

[@loganmullins3762]

Buck2218 so do you think I will get a shot at him next year, I don’t really have a lot of does on my property I got maybe 8-10 and then I have ab the same amount of younger bucks some spikes and stuff then some small 8 points but no really mature bucks ive a couple of them but when I get a picture it’s just a couple over like 2 or 3 days then I don’t get him anymore and haven’t got him since then

[@Buck2218]

@@loganmullins3762 On a small property maybe, maybe not. bucks can travel a long way during the rut. unless there is a physical feature you can identify its hard to say you are seeing the same deer even if you have a good deer come through next year. A lot of times I try to judge if I am seeing the same deer based on shape of the horns and some of the biggest deer I have had on camera only once or twice I don't think I ever had come through again.

[@z06supervette13]

I have a crazy doe factory. They ran all the bucks off. I have a really nice setup but all the does are killing me. This hunting season is nothing but shooting does. I know that’s my issue and that’s my plan for this year. There’s alot of nice bucks around but hardly ever around my property. Thanks for the info Jeff I know how to correct my problem!

[@thomastaylor3419]

Question: when you lived in the U.P. did you see the SAME bucks return to your land after wintering in a yard, sometimes miles away?

[@randlerichardson5826]

Hey brother how’s your night going I pray great Amen 🙏

[@myronlaidler8034]

Good stuff once again Jeff.i have often heard that mature bucks don't have to breed but mature does do. would you think this is caused by social pressure within the age structure?Younger bucks pushing older away?

[@genehalteman882]

I have a long narrow 24 acre property. My neighbors have high numbers of does and fawns on grass/clover hay fields. I've counted (35) deer in one of their 7 or 8 acre field. I get a ton of overflow does and fawns on my property especially when the white oaks are dropping acorns. What do you do if your doe problem is overflow from neighbors who don't shoot many? Most of my big buck pictures 120"-150" here in PA, are late summer and then sporadic nocturnal pics through most of the fall.

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Hi Gene! You need to make sure that you have ZERO Summer food, and then really good high stem count cover...for starters. Of course low impact hunting practices too...Fall food off to the side of your land and not in the middle of your land.

[@genehalteman882]

@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 Hey thanks for the reply! That's the line of thought that I've started on since I started following you. I'm redesigning my access this year. Part of my problem is that I have a really deep narrow hollow (mostly too steep for breeding) that runs up the center of my already narrow property so I'm thinking of utilizing it as access. Is that smart or am I thinking backwards?

[@genehalteman882]

I meant too steep for bedding🙄😅

[@whitetailevolution]

The Law of DOEminishing Returns!

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Ha, I love that!

[@steveaveryrafteraranch5408]

Everytime you post a video I have more work to do. Glad it's staying light longer. Lol

[@jerimahjohnson8698]

Jeff what kind of drone are were you flying in the Minnesota video while it was snowing?

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Hi Doug! That's a Mavic Pro 2. Incredible little drone! I can highly recommend and Dylan and his crew has a lot of experience with them...it is their favorite one too.

[@jerimahjohnson8698]

@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 thanks great footage..I hunted camp Ripley in the 90s and it was good

[@cordelldutoit5236]

Hi Jeff Thank you so much for all the free content. I need to ask a favor. Can you please create a video (maybe series of videos) discussing where to start from scratch. What I mean is where to start when there are really low deer numbers in your area. I live 100 miles north of Toronto, Canada at the northern tip of lake simcoe. We seldom see deer feeding in daylight on large AG fields etc. You have mentioned before that you did a lot of work to build the deer herd when living in the U.P. of MI. Perhaps you have covered all of this in different separate videos etc and could just create a "starting from scratch" playlist? I need to grow the deer numbers in my area and am wondering if the cardinal rule of "control the herd during daylight, during hunting season" is pretty much all that one need focus on? I know you have spoken extensively on this regarding growing bucks to the next age class.. what about does and overall numbers in general? Anyway, really appreciate all the free content you put out. Been a big help. Thank you.

[@DanPurcell45]

Jeff, great content, keep it coming. I'm waiting for snow to melt in upstate NY. I'll be applying your hunting strategies to 100 acres mountain top/with saddle. Can't wait. Thanks

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Daniel, that sounds great! I love when the snow melts...we are getting a good rain right now...it will help greatly! Enjoy that mountain top saddle...that's where I shot my buck in PA this season on public land love those areas!

[@wolfpack4128]

"Only way to get more bucks is to have all the does on your land, can't shoot any does". If I had a dollar for every time I hear that sentiment. My response is always, you know bucks are kicked out of their mom's home range to prevent inbreeding right. Funny thing is people know that's true but still won't change their ways.

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Ha, I love it tho...because those stubborn hunters have zero ability to build a great herd or hunt. Not EVERYONE can have a great herd or hunt...so...much easier if your neighbors hold those beliefs ☺️ Especially when they turn a deaf ear towards solid information that is readily available...

[@mike81399]

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