Bad Science For Small Deer Hunting Parcels

[@Ammubition]

Jeff, you have the best content on whitetails because of how informative and experienced you are. Nobody can change my mind. Keep up the good work!

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Thank you very much Ty, can't tell you how much that means to me! BTW, I have a lot more coming soon 🙂 Still 8 new more videos to release out of recent shoots...

[@deercamp3479]

Jeff this is an outstanding video in so many ways! Your experience in deer and habitat management on small parcels is second to none. I have gained so much knowledge from this advanced level whitetail channel! You are second to none in the business. Thanks for all the information and keep bringing it!!

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Thank you David and you are very welcome! I will try to keep the content coming as best as possible...I feel I have a lot more in my head that I want to discuss 🙂

[@jeremyfoss505]

Thank you brother! Greetings from West Central MN. I am completely hooked on wildlife management, mostly because of finding your channel. If you ever make it over this way, beers are on me!

[@sullimd]

Best land expert on KZbin, hands down. You give those of us with small parcels (40 acres, and 80 acres down the road) hope. Everything you’ve said, I see on my property - the PROBLEMS that is. LOL

[@wisconsinwhitetail9744]

I shot my 9 pt buck this year on a windy day over a water hole during the rut, I have learned so much from you Jeff. All your videos relate to each other and you can learn so much! thank you so much.

[@randlerichardson5826]

Round here it’s 75% maybe more of hunting pressure. It don’t matter if it’s posted or not to people round here. I’ll try not to comment to much brother I just enjoy responding to you on your videos. Great informative videos. Now that I’ve limited out on turkeys here in TN and as soon as I get my nephew on one I’m goin to start on my lease.

[@rfb7117]

Jeff, As always GREAT INFORMATION!!! Congrats on your land purchase. Having a few setbacks on the surgery. Weather isn't currently favorable for the spraying. thanks, Bob

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Thanks a lot Bob...well we are praying for you and I hope nothing major? We close today...

[@johnmortimer1334]

Jeff, thanks for the videos. They are by far the best when it come to hunting whitetail. I have been watching and listening to take in any bit of knowledge you have and it has payed off. Your experience has help many others I’m sure. I hunt Maryland, eastern and western. I’m still new to hunting(5yrs) so I have a lot to learn. Thanks to you I will be doing this as long as I’m able. Thanks again Jeff

[@blazeice111]

Thank you so much Jeff. These videos give my old man and I a lot of validation. We have tried many different techniques and strategies put out by qdma type online sources that absolutely fell flat on their face. We started doing what we felt was best for our small parcel and many of your videos, including this one as a climax, have given us validation that we are managing our property at least semi correctly. Really appreciate you doing what you do.

[@danplanck4058]

I agree with u 100 percent on the timber part. We try to do both on our land but our worst woods are the best to hunt for sure!

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Oh for sure...the lower the timber value almost always equals the best lands for wildlife.

[@richardhuebner4144]

Your a 100 percent right. Woody browse is king. Woody browse equals buck bedding area, they go hand in hand. Willows, briers, dogwood, box elder in lowlands get my blood boiling. I see firsthand what you are teaching.

[@dougbarber3400]

WoW Jeff you just keep putting the great info out and I keep socking it up.

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

That's great to hear Doug!!

[@MySliceOfHeavenoutdoors]

You are full of information Jeff, Thanks forsharing your knowledge.

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

You are very welcome...my pleasure!

[@joshoutman4269]

Hey Jeff, would you cut a travel corridor through a patch of red pine. I have two patches split by a creek in the corner of my 25 acre property

[@schaffersoutdooradventures4071]

I only have 11 acres and it is loaded with deer everyday. There is also plenty of cover, food and 2 small ponds.

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Sounds perfect!

[@davidhickenbottom6574]

Hang a stand and enjoy.

[@redskin4040]

I've never had luck hunting on windy days. Maybe I don't know wind direction to good?

[@jeffhamblin7644]

Really enjoying your channel and your new way of thinking. I am implementing your strategies this year.

[@fueledtohunt2173]

I recently had a wildlife biologist come out to my 20 acre piece of land to help me create a wildlife plan for deer management and improving the overall deer habitat. I have alot of hedge apple trees and honey suckle trees growing that are over taking the nice hardwoods. I was directed to cut out about an acre of these trees to create an area for food plot and was going to be referred to a forester for timber stand improvement. while i was starting to cut i noticed the area i was cutting was right in the area of a perfect buck travel/bedding area with rubs and an area that looked like a bunch of logs piled up where a buck might lean up against to bed. should i continue with this cutting or is it detrimental to holding deer on my land by cutting out this bedding area? as of right now the deer seem to bed everywhere and there is limited access to stands without spooking deer and i feel there is a lack of defined movement.

[@triforceconstruction3705]

What about 20 acres? With 18acres of cover and a home on 1.5 acres? Possible to benefit deer???

[@Grizzlife]

I'm planning a tree planting this fall. Saw tooth oaks, pine and chestnut for food and cover. If I plant box elder, soft maple and Aspen should it be for henge cuts in the future and where should I plant them, on the edge of cutover near my plots or mixed in the patches of hard and soft wood trees I plan on planting? I have 44 acres of cutover pine in Tn with rolling hills and 200 acres of large mixed timber joining my property.

[@randlerichardson5826]

As always brother a great informative video. I’m getting ready to start using what I can of your advice. It’s raining here now but the next dry spell I’m hooking to the bush hog and then the disc and start putting a couple plots in. Be safe out there GOD BLESS you and your family to Amen. 🙏🏻🙏🏻 until next time.

[@finhunter]

I have 5 acres. How do you manage that?

[@masonsayler9658]

I have a spot that is along a river which runs N. that produces very well when windy. Mornings with a heavy west wind in November I will sit this spot. The biggest bucks in the neighborhood travel right along the river bank knowing that they can smell everything on the upwind side of the river and nothing will kill them from the water. The only chink in their armor is that my stand wind blows over them and I can get 7 yard shots all day.

[@alexlindekugel8727]

always the first question should be asked from a forest manager( what do you want to do with the land)

[@mikedavin7700]

I'm in California and hunt blacktails.... we don't get much rain in the summer and fall.... can the whitetail habitat management and food plot discussion also apply to blacktails?

[@mikedavin7700]

Love your videos Jeff!

[@williamlasure6301]

Are u coming to vt this year. Still working on strategy. To plant switch grass without spooking or sending deer to neighbors. I have 120 ac parcel. Deer herd down tough winter and neighborhood whacking mature doe

[@isaacjoy1512]

Sorry for being nosey. But what do you mean by clients? Are these people that you paid to hunt on their land or are these people that pay you to make their land habitable for deer?

[@tomlastname9163]

We have many large gum trees. What do you recommend we do with them? Are they good for anything? Thankyou

[@bkuz7344]

Cam you tell me about the swinging stick?

[@jerimahjohnson8698]

Your thinking bucks in southern Ohio can and do move miles a day? I'm seeing the same things as I think they come from a long way off??? I don't know where

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Hi Doug, they sure do seem to move a long ways in those giant public land blocks in southern OH. BUT, they also concentrate heavily around major food sources...which can drastically cut there daily movements I have experienced.

[@jerimahjohnson8698]

@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 good cause I'm gonna be that food source

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

@@jerimahjohnson8698 make sure you are that Fall food source! Sounds really good 😉

[@jerimahjohnson8698]

@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 I'm hoping to be. Leaving 10 acres standing corn and beans. 3 acres alfalfa and another 3 clover. Starting a 60 acres clear cut next week. I got paid$$ wink wink and the timber was wide open. I will have the d Best food and cover for miles

[@ChipsOutdoorChannel]

Are you saying you want junk trees so that you can hold deer or you can grow bigger bucks? Oaks are a big draw in different times of the fall depending on the species, so I would think they would be a component of attracting bucks with high nutrition. They don't have much vegetative benefit, so I can see that side of the coin. It won't give them food all year, but it will give them high nutrition in a section of the year, so diversity is important. I have a hard time discerning the hatred of oaks.

[@houstongroeneveld2122]

Thank you jeff! Awesome video!

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Thank you very much Houston...I really appreciate it!

[@randlerichardson5826]

A feller will be surprised what on the 20-50 acre parcels now.

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Ford sure Randle, happy Friday!

[@brettstottlemyre7175]

So would it benefit someone with a big parcel to only manage about 50-80 acres of it?

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

It would if you would be spreading your resources so thin on the rest of it, that you can't effectively manage it. Otherwise you are always better actively managing it all...if you are fitting it together enough per scre

[@alexanderpegg134]

Thank you agin. I have a 10 acre's and took 20 walnuts last fall for timber value.any recommendation on what softmass tree to plant.PLEASE ,AND THANK YOU for your time!

[@williamlasure6301]

I planted apple and pear. They ate the crap out of them. But expensive food source to have to replant. They ate whole tree no fruit on them yet. He had a video recently on that.

[@davidhickenbottom6574]

Check the stumps of the walnut for regeneration. I cut one in the front yard it sprouted like crazy.

[@suzmell1]

Good morning Jeff nothing better than a cup of coffee & being educated by you well getting close to that magic date I know you have much more luck reaching Ross I get the fact that he’s busy but be advised I bought into what you said regarding the disconnect in not having the plan that you will draw up getting executed anyway I’m sure when he has 5 minutes he will implement phase 2 of the project I hope have a great day & shout out to diane GREAT VIDEO

[@danplanck4058]

Thanks for the info and vid Jeff!

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Sure thing Dan you are very welcome!

[@Flicky_doodle]

Hey jeff, long time subscriber, newer hunter here. I started watching your videos summer 2019 and this was my first season getting out there. I wasn't able to do any improvement to the land as It's private property and the owner said yes to hunting but no to planting or cutting anything. I've learned so much about how crucial access really is this year and that leads me into my question that I really hope you'll get to read and respond to. I want to buy property this year but I'm young and not very weighted in the pockets. I found an acre and a half that butts up to state wildlife management lands on 2 sides. It has good trail activity thru it and its a long rectangle shaped property with lots of scrubby pines, oaks and tall grass. Do you think I could effectively hunt that property for multiple years? As it hasn't been hunted before, I believe the first year ought to go well. My concern is the future. Im not looking to live there just hunt there. Please any advice, suggestion, or expiernce you could impart on me would be greatly appriceated. Also for reference I live in north central Florida. I know you are more used to up north areas but the hunting pressure is low here compared to more northern states.

[@davidhickenbottom6574]

Deer trails oh the good old days hunting in Ohio. I live in New England deer trails practically non existent. You need to experience the big woods of the NorthEast.

[@michaelneely4185]

I see areas of tall native grass in many of your videos. (Switchgrass?). Is that useful as part of deer habitat?

[@chrisgoodwin5857]

Michael Neely cover is always a useful tool for the elusive whitetail.

[@Just_in_time_outdoors]

Another Awsome video Jeff. you give people that lease and small property owners hope we can make a difference. Are your books available on prime. Dont laugh at me. My wife asked , how about that 👍

[@stevestarkey6183]

good info jeff.agree 100

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Thanks a lot Steve!

[@chadknutson848]

Love your site but there isn't many properties were you and I live that are going over 200 acres let alone 500-1000 just saying

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Great point Chad 😉 That's why nearly everything that I do is based on 20-60 acre parcels. Even 1/2 of my clients are 60 acres or less. Bottom line with most of the science for deer hunters, is that it is based on 500-1000 acres or more, mostly large public or private land holdings. So that's where the info from this site comes from. Hope that makes sense! Unless the size of the parcel exceeds a whitetails yearly range...the science largely doesn't apply that is discussed in this video.

[@Haakonson55]

Jeff, my ears perked when I heard about your client with the red pines. I am in the exact situation now but half the size (15 of 30 acres) of mine are straight red pines with no undergrowth. I had a forester come out but I wasn’t interested in what he had to say. Do you clear cut, select cut and add diversity?

[@davidhickenbottom6574]

You have to have diversity for sure. I'm in Massachusetts my property had been cut for fire wood before I bought it white pine seedlings took over. I've hand cut thousands of them to open up holes. Logger was a pig left a horrible mess. Hardwood regeneration is coming back. We have zero ag here. I will be hunting here for the first time in 5 years.

[@matthewreno8844]

Great segment I can apply to my 40 acres.

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Very good to hear Matthew...really the perfectly sized whitetail parcel!

[@matthewreno8844]

@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 Thank you. I have been watching your videos and implementing many of these very techniques over the last three years. My property is perfect in that I have a huge protected (300 acre) sanctuary that borders my 40 to the south (light hunting), with big Ag across the street on another property I have sole permission to hunt. Life is good on my 40 acres on the Easternshore of Maryland.

[@randlerichardson5826]

Hey brother that’s like my small lease of 46 acres.

[@dannysage97]

You can definitely manage your woods for money and wildlife at the same time. And oaks also have value to wildlife…. You confuse me sir.

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

You surely can...but that means losing some money in the timber value, and also going against standard timber management practices. The more you slant your efforts towards timber value the lower your wildlife value will be. The more you focus on wildlife value the lower your timber value will be. Balance is so critical! However if you manage with traditional timber management practices you will be woefully behind when it comes to wildlife management.

[@dannysage97]

@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 Selection cuts vs selective vs high grade cuts & clear cuts. Do you have a video covering this? I totally agree if you let the timber company take what they want they’ll leave you with scraggly crap trees. I prefer to do a selection cut where you pick a balanced mix(age and species) of trees that you wanna keep and the rest is fair game for the logging company. I’m managing my softwoods on a rotational basis so I have a continual payout every 10ish years. While eliminating competition for big legacy type oak trees (100+ years old) that produce my early season kill sites. it really does help creating those edge travel lines from aspen regeneration while selectively pruning back some of the excess softwood stems that will die before the stand reaches maturity and leave the healthiest ones to be your next round of harvest. Really just breaks down to having multiple age structures of forest and managing for the overall health and continued production.

[@randlerichardson5826]

Them two monster bucks fighting there lolllllllllllll. Future trophies if they make it.

[@kevingardner3677]

1000 acres is a small parcel lol wtf 🤔🤔u must be rich as fuck lucky u