Attracting and Holding Mature Bucks on a Deer Hunting Property in 18 Months

[@michaelanthonyoutdoors]

Awesome stuff Randy!

[@FarmallFanatic]

I used Amish to do my logging....zero damage

[@VaajmooByte]

Deer will love it if you have food plots and deer cover for bedding

[@case8987]

Couple questions. What trees do you try to hinge and what trees do you avoid hinging? Also, do you ever set fire through an area after you hinge?

[@publiclandhunter3896]

Awesome video!!! Super informative.

[@PrairieThunder]

This is a badass video and representation of the hard work you and the land owner put in. Congrats, please keep this content coming!

[@ronrussenberger5085]

Great video , not boring . thank you very much

[@habitatsolutions360llc3]

Those mature bucks are in trouble now on Johns property, awesome plan & work you did on his Maryland farm Randy!

[@SeeMoreBucks]

Thanks Jake!

[@4thgenfarmer371]

Man I would love to have you come to Missouri. I've got 45 acres of woods. And no bucks. I was watching about three or four nice ones over the summer. And they all up and left right before hunting season. I've got between 6-10 doe in my food plot every night, And only young immature bucks tending them. Where are the big boys at?

[@brodycampbell2990]

I didn’t think deer bedded in switch grass as it got too thick.? Most habitat management people have said it’s about screening to stand locations. I see this isn’t the case

[@ericzielinski2209]

What a great feeling when the plan comes together.

[@jarrodlambert3914]

Great video

[@Craigh4597]

Great video. I hope you will still have some great ideas left next week, when you get to my property on the Garden Peninsula. See you then.

[@courtofficermcilvaine7928]

Fantastic planning, execution and results. Congratulations!

[@runningpranch68]

Awesome Randy. -Gabe

[@dennisb1224]

I would usually skip this style of video, but you did a great job editing. To get those results so quickly is just great.

[@FarmallFanatic]

Switch grass hold up to heavy snow?

[@SeeMoreBucks]

Not heavy snow, but it usually stands back up after snow melt

[@FarmallFanatic]

@@SeeMoreBucks We get heavy snow here in Northwest Pennsylvania

[@travissmith-wz5nc]

How long would it take a clear cut of popular and maple mostly soft & some hard to regenerate enough to hold deer? Can u hinge cut popular? 4 to 7 inch diameter size?

[@SeeMoreBucks]

Poplar will root sprout very fast if you cut in when dormant. Good cover in 3-5 years. It will not hinge cut successfully. Maple will stump sprout

[@travissmith-wz5nc]

@@SeeMoreBucks that's not as bad as thought

[@chrismays7642]

@@SeeMoreBucks Randy is right on about root sprout on the popular tree. I cut 25 of them along my property line due to farmer complaining about them invading his field. To my surprise they are three times as thick with the sprouts being 3/4"- 1" in diameter and 6' -7' tall. These are all coming off stumps. Have alot of rubs on them sprouts. The initial cut was done two years ago.

[@NeedsMoreToys]

I’ve always been told and is my personal experience that deer typically don’t bed in tall switch with zero visibility to each other. Why is this different?

[@Habitatacres]

Awesome Job.

[@etruedus]

would love to see this year's followup here

[@buddyitzy9899]

What type of switchgrass&source did you plant?

[@TruthSee-Ker]

I have a property that is super thick but the thickness comes from honeysuckle taking over our woods. Would you say there is a difference between thick areas from honeysuckle and thickness from hinge cuts/ opening the canopy from timbering? I have a brush cutter on order to start knocking out the honeysuckle but that will thus open the woods wide up. Thank you for the help

[@SeeMoreBucks]

I think deer prefer hinge cuts done right over honeysuckle. But honeysuckle is also great cover if you can clear paths through it and keep it under control

[@tidecoys]

@@SeeMoreBucks Honeysuckle takes over…cover, but not food.

[@jbra2342]

Great video!

[@brycenmobray2533]

How much does it cost to lay out my 50 acre of land

[@mikebaker1044]

What is all them bare spots is that bedding

[@SeeMoreBucks]

Cleaned sticks out of spots for deer to lay down after hinge cutting was done. Leaves will blow back in again which is fine.

[@mikebaker1044]

I see thanks

[@715outdoors2]

That's awesome, can't wait for gun season to end so I can start. Now I just need to convince the old man it's not for firewood LOL

[@richwinder9122]

So the website does not work.

[@SeeMoreBucks]

strategichabitat.com

[@richwinder9122]

@@SeeMoreBucks I click on it, and my computer blocks the site. I am trying to figure out whats going on with my firewall, and allow me access to the site. Do you work on small parcels? Currently own 12.665 acres.

[@RandyVanderVeen]

@@richwinder9122 Yes but it depends on your location. Text me at the number in the description

[@briansupermag3918]

I just booked market your website. If i ever get that property in KY in the next year or so You are getting a call. Amazing work.

[@brotherbrovet1881]

Hire a forestry mulcher

[@Imyourfather225]

awesome, I wish I had the means to build something like this .

[@danieloakes6637]

I have someone hunting the edges of my 5 acre plot that connects to 15 acres of mature pines the pines are a 90 degree buffer that’s the side and back perimeter of my property. I have all the mature bucks in that part of the county moving through that perimeter and hitting my feed plots. I’ve seen more mature bucks there on that 20 acres than any other parcel in my life. And I’ve built farms and cleared land for 15 years. That’s saying something. However this guy is driving his golf cart through access and easement paths all through them woods and even shot a deer 30 yards onto my property and drug it back into the pines and loaded it onto his cart. The property he’s poaching connects to me and he’s probably gonna end up catching a 180grain because them pines are my line of fire. Neither of us know who owns the 15 acres because when I confronted him he asked if I owned it. Started to lie and say I own it all and verbally trespass him because he’s ruining my hunt on my land that my son and I have busted ass building up the past 3 years. I would like to kick his ass truthfully and just might before it’s over but fighting in the woods armed could turn ugly quickly. Any suggestions?

[@danieloakes6637]

And I wouldn’t piss n the game warden’s mouth if his back teeth were on fire so that’s off the table.

[@masonsayler9658]

Barbed wire fence. Deer don’t care but it makes people think twice about crossing lines.

[@stevedenoyer5956]

Great stuff Randy!