How To Find And Create Buck Beds

[@jimpeterson3806]

Hard to beat a Sunday morning cup of ☕ watching Whitetail Habitat Solutions 👍👍👍

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Thanks a lot Jim I hope thst you really like this one...maybe long enough for 2 cups 😁

[@LillyLegacyWWOD]

Absolutely!

[@ethand9061]

Best whitetail youtuber in the game

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Thanks a lot Ethan...that really means a lot to me but most of all I hope that it all helps!

[@ethand9061]

@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 for sure helps, this is my first year hunting alone and a lot of your tips and how to’s have helped a lot

[@lena_4466]

@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751Still rings true 2 years later. Major Kudos & Thanks Jeff!!

[@Sandwichking-hikes]

Your videos are the best, makes me so excited about deer hunting the whole year

[@saypuppy]

This video, along with "What to Cut," are my current top favorites. This one painted the picture perfectly. Ive been out with winters best friend, Stihl, for several weeks now, so your timing is perfect. Its obvious a lot of your followers appreciate the "here's what im doing now" methodology of your content. Thanks Jeff. Treasured info. God Bless.

[@MrRABland]

These older videos are always current and fill in the blanks of your books like Whitetail Success By Design. There is just so much of your knowledge that just can’t be included in a book that these videos are priceless. Thanks!

[@romanthompson1503]

Jeff, I would just like to say I think this might be your #1 video for the 2020 hunting season. Simply for the fact, unlike so many others in this industry with HEAVILY EDITED videos with music n junk added... this Video was simply taking a simple walk thru a piece you hadn’t been yet!! And “informing” us what you look for. That Raw footage and being able to learn creates the greatest content. Exp minute 23:00 you walked down the trail and see those 2 oak trees and you got excited!!!! And that led into a discussion. Something heavily edited or bad acting videos wish they could achieve!!!! I hope we can see more of these raw videos perhaps waking onto new/customer pieces even, what your looking for and those steps. Thanks as always Jeff. You are THEEEE True Monarch when it comes to this.

[@kevinfowler6065]

I went in yesterday for the first time since August. I feel your excitement it being your first time ever!

[@revoltingwoodsman8543]

Fun fact: That Freezing Fog is actually called “Pogonip.” Was a term used back in the day by the natives meaning “white death.” Found that out as a weatherman in the navy 20 years ago. Thanks for the videos Jeff. New Michigan land owner, learning all I can.

[@mitchellgenz1373]

Just spent this morning catching up on your vids from this week. I did take my largest WI buck during this past gun season, didn't get one with my bow. I attribute my success with what I learned on your channel and your books. I look forward to doing more work on my property this upcoming spring.

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Hi Mitchell really appreciate your feedback...awesome you got thst buck, so happy for you!! Enjoy the planning and work for next season 🙂 I'm still hunting late January...can't wait to get back from my current client trip and climb a tree

[@legendaryhabitatllc7649]

Great quality information in this video Jeff! There is a lot of miss information and you keep it simple and easy to visualize where bucks want to bed.

[@anthonymalueg3520]

I love watching Jeff with a cup of coffee.

[@brianstiff5680]

Visuals are great, they can really help with knowing what to look for and direction to move towards if the situation fits.

[@NorthOf8]

My favorite channel. Your content is fantastic.

[@markhumphrey855]

Awesome video , funny thing is, we have been cutting for bedding since beginning of January and you put out a video on it. Thanks for the tips..

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Thanks Mark and that is great that you have been out! I try to get the timing right 😁 Have fun!!

[@perrymerkes7693]

One of your best videos, really makes it crystal clear, thanks

[@michaellewis7117]

I cant wait to retire and get a piece of land to apply all Im learning from your videos. Congrats on a good season for you and the family.

[@ClemsonFAN251]

Just walked our 30 acres yesterday while squirrel hunting with my buddy game planning for 2021. I love the scouting and prep almost as much as the hunt. Gonna be a good year 😁

[@derekhamilton7224]

Love your videos. I've tested many of your described methods, before and after I began watching your KZbin videos. Keep em coming 😎👍

[@tacticalsnoopy]

Love your videos. Saving notes on my drive auto drafting money to buy land. Wife is on board. Moving in the direction to have my own whitetail land soon. Thanks Jeff

[@jamesgillies3710]

Great insight, and instruction. Love to see your explanations.

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Thanks a lot James I really appreciate it!

[@jamesgillies3710]

@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 This is becoming my new passion. Thanks for the insight.

[@mike81399]

👍 Have a great day all!

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

You too Mike!

[@scienceaddict77]

If it hasn't been said, that ice from the fog is called "Hoarfrost". Thanks for the educational videos!

[@dswish1730]

Took a walk yesterday..Found a bunch of the spots you mention.Som big hemlock came down and the deer have them ate off as high as they can reach.The first one I looked around and found a 3 point side .After another half mile but only 150 yards away saw another downed tree.And my dog picked up the match.Still a little early but we have 5..

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Wow that's great D!! I'm still seeing some of the big ones holding both....will be hunting hard for a target buck the last 10 days of the season. Can't wait!

[@travisethridge4062]

Thanks, congrats on your yr. My first year chasing an actual trophy buck and I failed but daily thinking of what I learned, what I could have done better, and so on. Thanks for all info. By the way, had a buck bedded behind my barn once, but think he liked the shade lol.

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Hi Travis thank you! You didn't fail tho...bet you learned a TON!! Crazy how much they will seek shade when hot...especially out in the open where they can get away from the bugs in the woods! I've seen a doe living in an old barn in the summer with high heat and a lot of bugs...we spooked her thru the barn wall!

[@bobbygray8781]

Jeff Thanks for the videos. I think it is great that you share your knowledge the way you do. I learn from all your videos and assure me I'm doing some things right. I will definitely be working on this bed layering. By the way I created my first mock scrape yesterday.

[@glenswenson6493]

Yes sir...I like how you think. I don't own land but I keep in mind the type of cover your creating. Then try to find it on public land, so I can set up on a good spot for a mature buck. It's difficult where I'm at because the Dnr cut out all the trees in the public land area's to promote pheasant habitat and stop predator birds from killing ducks and geese. West central Minnesota...Big ag flat lands... It's a huge challenge. It'll pay off someday, just have to play my cards right and have patients... Thanks for the strategy training...🔎🏹🦌

[@brianlenneman5032]

Great video Jeff!! Perfect illustration!!

[@therealgabrielcash]

This reminds me of walking the property with my dad planning for next season. Another great video, Jeff, thank you!

[@blakeensing7376]

Good stuff. I’m going to do some more layering here soon on one of my pieces. I wish there was more elevation changes on it, and more ground cover.

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Thanks Blake!! Those layers will help so much...enjoy the habitat work!

[@blakeensing7376]

Thanks!

[@chrismacomber9727]

Great show brother always like getting out walking around this time of year alot easyer to spot trails ..

[@jasonabays]

Great property Jeff! And great teaching.

[@brandonorlando2338]

Hi Jeff, Have you ever worked on the west side of the Mississippi River across from the natchez, Mississippi, north to vicksburg but on the Louisiana side. Concordia and tensas parishes. Its the flat farm land side of the fault line Miss river?

[@kybucks5086]

I made some deer bedding last spring was stoked a week ago when I finally went in and checked it and seen it was working Got to have lots of bedding to hold all the neighbors deer 🤫

[@scottclark1168]

Really enjoyed this video,my lease has some rugged terrain near uwharrie mtns NC and this helps m out a ton

[@SuperWhitetail1]

Great video Jeff!! I watched a video recently, of "The Other Guy" designing a central Missouri property. Spent the whole video yelling at him for making a nocturnal parcel. Food in the middle, no layered bedding, bedding all around the edges. Smh. 100% chance of spooking deer everytime you entered the property. I felt bad for the property owner

[@kencarmack4934]

Another awesome informative video thanks Jeff

[@markmasa8533]

Mourning everyone, Jeff i just met u and Diane this past summer in northern Wisconsin. U guys were very friendly, thanks for your time. I started planting food plots two years ago, following all your advice. I have one 1/2 acre and two 1/4 acre food plots. Problem is i cant even get the buckwheat out of the ground. Only have 6-7 deer per square mile but they wipe it out the second it sprouts or the bears swarm in and actually eat the seed. Crop is then rye with clover in the shady areas in fall. How did u deal with this in the UP, sounds like u had similar conditions? Anyone have any tips, eager to learn. Been deer hunting for 49 years but am new to food plotting. Thanks.

[@barryhager2054]

Loved this video!!! Our land sets up exactly the SAME. Wondering how wide to make the prairie grass on the wood edge. We have plenty area to work with. Thanks.

[@littleindian3050]

Thankyou for sharing your expertise!

[@chrismays7642]

Walked a piece of property yesterday and I seen where some beaver have been chewing down almost all of the popular trees growing along property edge that butts up to a creek. Will these trees provide side cover if they are not chewed all the way through?

[@randyh.6019]

good stuff Jeff! you said your going to sprinkle plantings of cedar trees in wherever you open up canopy. So you wont put a fence around the cedars? and where will you purchase those cedar seedlings?

[@InPrimer]

Love your channel, Jeff. The roughly 5 acres of woods we have on our home property is gonna get worked over to provide some better cover, browse, and at least create the potential for bedding. Southeast MO, kind of a river hills topography. Quasi-suburban with some big chunks of row crop and timber in between. Understory is way too bare to have any consistent daylight presence of deer. Too much smallish hard maple that i will be thinning out. Wondering what to do with the American elm that is pretty dominant in spots. Drop it and let it regen from the stump? Hinge cut it?

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Thanks a lot Nate...sounds like some good deer habitat fun coming soon for you 🙂 I would hinge the elm if up to that 6-8" range...or cut it completely if larger. Will generate some great shoots!

[@ryno2323]

careful with those Elms! Thats Morel country.

[@loisbuttray2937]

From PA.. We have a terrible amount of Spicebush that has run rampant in our woods. It seems when we cut trees Spicebush grows rapidly. We are not getting regeneration of Oaks due to the Spicebush shading it all out. Any ideas how to eradicate the Spicebush??

[@jdholthe]

Would it be a good idea to move tree tops from logging from sloped areas to the edges of the flat layers to promote bedding?

[@scottypuckett2440]

Great information as usual ! Can't wait to apply what you have been teaching us on a new parcel of land that I just gained access to. How many people can hunt on a 70 acre parcel that has 50 acres of huntable area ? Thanks !

[@ryanmeland2935]

Any updates on the food plots and how they turned out

[@justinboehler2041]

Thanks for the information Jeff I have a food source at the base of a hill do you see a difference in depth of bedding because of the hill side.

[@jimmac144]

Love the content Jeff! It’s helped me tremendously. One thing I’ve got going on is I want to do some frost seeding this year (Michigan). Currently the areas (have snow on them) but consist of grass and goldenrod. Obviously it’s all dead right now but how do I get the most soil exposure to increase seed to soil contact? What methods with limited tools or will that seed find its way down. Then treat chemically at appropriate times in spring.

[@thomastaylor3419]

Usually you will prep the ground the year before you plan to frost seed to make sure you have a fair amount of soil exposed going into winter. I wouldn't frost seed into a heavy thatch of golden rod.

[@jimmac144]

@@thomastaylor3419 I was afraid of that. Thanks for the input!

[@redelfoutdoors9668]

I have jumped several bucks who bed on points where grass is in a tree top over the years( before I made sanctuary areas). Do you recommend short grasses in bedding areas or just work on opening canopy and let it develop on its own? Thanks! Another great vid!

[@benwatson5012]

Can edge feathering be just as effective for screening if you can't afford switchgrass around food plots?

[@IslandsPC-hf8nd]

Just bought your books. How do you deal with thermals on this property? Looks like they deer are all coming up to the food at night. I've realized that thermals have been killing me on my property and I'm now moving a lot of stands.

[@travisschreiber2186]

Great video. When you say the bucks bed behind the does do you mean that literally? Can the does bed on one side of plot and bucks on other side? Thanks again for all the free content!! :)

[@jongregory5181]

How important is it to keep Hinge cut trees from falling onto existing deer Trails? Thanks For the Vids

[@dustinpaul8968]

Love the channel. Have you thought about expanding it to rumble? I’d love to follow your channel there.

[@mikehamm4987]

Hi Jeff. I used the sweet feast brassica and the whs blend. The blend seemed to have a lot of oats and the deer didn’t touch them. Could I do the mix with no oats or just make a different mix instead of using the blend?

[@jamesstewart4966]

What if you don't have ridges and valleys. I live in the flatlands of lower Michigan

[@jasenrivero1673]

Do you always drop a hing cut downhill or is that just this situation?

[@bullrun1]

Jeff - very interested in having you to our property in Western PA -- do you still have openings for 2021? Thank You

[@stickjr.3715]

Best deer attractant in the world for big bucks!. Stay out!. 😁.

[@jonathanbalfe9412]

Do you have any safety concerns in regard to using roundup? There have been a number fo successful lawsuits in regard to glyphosate being a carcinogen.

[@guyrosenbarker5113]

You have your work cut out for yourself sir on that new property! Can’t wait to tag along as you transform that property to be just the way you want it.

[@connorwilliams3370]

So if there are 11-12 rubs all in one spot, is that a sure sign of a buck area?

[@klayvonisme]

That frost is called “hoarfrost”

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Pretty cool stuff!

[@saypuppy]

Actually its rime ice...according to the meteorologists. Either way, it was pretty for the first 3 days, and then it was depressing not seeing any sun for so long. Lol.

[@jaifethroberts4193]

Hey Jeff, I've got a 1/4 acre plot that I'm putting in this year, should i put in a food plot in the spring, and when that dies putt in a fall plot, or should find a mix that will go all year round?

[@SuperWhitetail1]

Buckwheat... unless you're trying to grow a herd.

[@brianstielow9169]

We have flat land can I use our marsh as a staging or bedding area than switch grass than food plot

[@SuperWhitetail1]

Can't bed deer in water my friend. If it's not a protected wetland, you might be able to make islands

[@brianstielow9169]

There are little islands through out the marsh. Just wondering if the deer would use those to bed. Than henge cut before the food plot

[@SuperWhitetail1]

Yes they will. Just hold the does against the plots

[@off-gridengineering3377]

How big of a tree is too big to hinge cut?

[@mxgangrel]

So I'm just after 15 minutes and you keep talking about hinge cutting, but I'm not understanding why you want to hinge cut these trees or cut these trees and in the downhill pattern?

[@Mo75149-j]

Jeff, thanks for all the awesome content. Once cedars get mature with no lower branches for side cover, do you hinge them since they are just blocking sunlight and not providing much lower cover?

[@lewislighting7776]

Found a badass spot but only there at night it seems

[@John_Turner2]

With food resources like that, the venison must be delicious eating.

[@adkbowhunter5140]

Is that a tick on your eyelid Jeff?

[@adkbowhunter5140]

I see it’s a mole, I’ve watched 100s of videos and never noticed that before.....

[@illuminati_killr9322]

omg,it's 2021 and this hunter is still using Roundup, cmon bro, if eat wild game to stay health then why would EVER wanna use Roundup???? ..defeats the purpose altogether.