How To Fix Nocturnal Deer Herds

Is your deer hunting land a nocturnal mature buck wasteland? Then you can use these highly proven tactics to change your hunt this season. No more hoping mature bucks will cruise your land during the daylight. Instead, make your land the #1 daylight destination in the neighborhood! The Great thing about fixing a nocturnal deer herd is that it only takes 1 season...
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[@aaronc1942]

Thanks Jeff! Best way to spend my moment of morning solitude on the throne. Now it’s choring time

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Ha...enjoy the chores Aaron! Really appreciate you watching from the throne 😁

[@alquinn3562]

I’m not going to tap into a consultation on line because your time and expertise is valuable and you should be paid for it. I feel fortunate to have access to 1200 acres of oak habitat. 2 ponds a 5 acre field and a 30 acre field which is bedding and during the rut has bucks running through it fairly consistently during. Many bucks die of old age there. Too much food. Mainly brush and acorns are so thick you can slide on them rolling under your feet, and really no prospect for ag plantings due to rocky sandy soil. Huge properties surrounding with no ag. Oklahoma ranch country where cattle and oil wells are the main activity. All this to say I love the info and the strategies. If I could ever control access and do a few impactful things you talk about I’m sure the hunting could be improved greatly. Kudos Jeff! Great stuff.

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Thanks Al...sounds beautiful!! I hope you have a great weekend 😊 I really appreciate you always watching

[@alquinn3562]

@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 Actually hunting bedding areas in the morning and food sources on the evening has paid off nicely. Thanks to you sir. 160 inch 12 point two years ago. 140 inch ten point this past season. Now if I could only learn patience…..

[@chrismacomber9727]

As always great info brother ..if I can keep people from trespassing should be a good season lol

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Ha, man I hope you can! Thanks and a have a great weekend Chris!

[@lenkurzynske8735]

I sure could of used Your (accurate)information in the 90s and 2000s. I did everything wrong. I’m a better hunter since I’ve read your book in 2015,had you visit and subscribed!🦌🦌

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Hi Len I really appreciate you! Always like your land a lot too 😊 Hopefully making sure that those one size fits all approaches are a thing of the past! Have a great weekend

[@brianlenneman5032]

Great info Jeff! Hope all is well!

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Thanks a lot Brian...all is great 😊

[@db2955]

The best in the game Jeff&team .. I love how no one has spoken of hinge cuts switch grass amongst others things till Jeff .now you see everyone trying to be like Jeffy with there videos 👍lol

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

I appreciate that a lot DB! The cool thing is unless those guys truky have lived this stuff for years at a very high level...it exposes them more than helps them 😊 I just enjoy trying to convey what we learn in the field to you...really appreciate you watching!

[@db2955]

@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 always a pleasure watching listening and learning, when time is right will love to have WHS set my land up properly, thanks again for all u guys do 🇺🇸🏹🦌🍺

[@alexpinnow6509]

Great video Jeff! Not sure if I have a complete daylight parcel yet but it appears as though hunting has been improving over the last couple years which is good!

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Thanks Alex and man I love hearing that! So happy for you 👍 Very enjoyable process to watch develop and hunt!

[@alexkreger316]

Another great video Jeff! Thank you

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Thanks a lot Alex I really appreciate it!

[@kdacoustics7577]

Used some of these tactic tactics throughout the year to try and see some more life to the property I hunt, which isn’t all that big 6-8 acres at most. Through late winter into spring/summer I had seen crazy numbers sometimes up to 7 doe at once and a couple bucks around early to mid morning to later in the afternoons(roughly 1-3 hours before dark) but around early to middle October everything seemed to have went nocturnal. I’m taking the educated guess on saying that it’s more than likely their patterns changing, maybe a spook or two from others who own property through here, and the hunting pressure is mostly minimal. Now approaching into peak rut, with cold mornings and relatively warm afternoons, I know their coming in close to dark because the other day I had two doe come in close but I let them walk due to believing off their action there was a buck behind them, outside of that I would’ve been ecstatic with one of them does. All of this being said, is there any advice you could give me if you see this comment that could help my success this season with their only being a week left of gun season and maybe having 2-3 more sits?

[@majorshong4951]

Hey Jeff. About how many acres of food plot would you use for 40 acres? I live in a place with a pretty even split between ag and woods. And thanks for these videos that are super helpful.

[@ShockTrauma19]

Following..

[@apoc8265]

General rule of thumb for most people is 3% of the total acreage... so 40 acres equals equivalent to 0.1114 of a acre or 4,856 sq feet roughly ⅛ of a acre foodplot... Personally i don't think that's enough i try to stay with ⅛-¼ acre per 10 acre ratio, make multiple plots in various places that makes sense depending on you're property layout, also depends if your property has ag around, don't try and compete against farmer's you will lose that battle. If you have ag in area I'd focus on targeting something else to make your property stand out! just my opinion though hope it helps

[@williamprice1542]

Great advise as always 👍, can't thank you enough for everything you've shared with us

[@peterj727]

It’s unbelievable how even people I know talk of using your methods of setting up their property and then accessing their stands by walking right through the middle of their property, through two food plots right to a box blind in the wide open without regard to wind direction. I just shake my head 🤦

[@alanruechel2240]

Those people have low hunting IQ and are lazy, and maybe dont care if they shoot mature bucks

[@bowman8316]

Thanks for the video ! Could you touch on bow sights for aging eyes sometime... getting hard to focus on a pin and target at once. Thinkin a red dot may work ??? Ty 👍🏼🦌

[@mitchvamos5827]

One of my favorites

[@jasonweigle3624]

Jeff, have all your books, watched all your videos and you have helped me soooo much. How early in the fall should you have daylight pics of bucks....I got some bucks early fall, but most my bucks are 20 October and later. I keep thinking I need bucks earlier in the fall and not sure how to do this. Is this property run only. I feel that my summer presence.....doing plots and such pushes bucks away

[@whitetailhabitatandhunting]

Thanks Jeff!

[@ragnarw6600]

Nice, was literally just talking about this with my cousin.

[@justinbarney2524]

I have my doe bedding and buck bedding very tight to the food(does 50ish yards) (bucks 150 -200 yards ish) and there is no good way to get between the food and bedding so I simply don’t do it. I have good morning stands and perfect to access muddy blinds on the food sources. Any tips on getting between the food and bedding?? Our farm is 400 acres so I feel like I should be to! Thanks for the videos Jeff!!!!!

[@mattalderton3723]

Hey Jeff last fall for the first time I planted 3 layers of winter rye for the first time in my woods (in an attempt to have some type of food plot) to attract deer im 3 miles south of MIO and im in pure sand (I removed a few trees for sunlight but ofcourse I don't get all day sun (I removed Leafs and twigs of course) is there anything you can share with me that I should plant in addition??? I know you make great sound suggestions (and I respect your knowledge) so if you get this message I have 10 acres and wooded ( again so small parcel and wooded ( and all sand) tks Jeff awesome videos 3rd year following your videos ( ps sorry you didn't get venty)

[@naomicreech9870]

Yippy!!! I’m excited to do some Turkey hunting!! See how some of my new access points feel…. Stealthy or not! lol

[@rankedrecruit6590]

Our problem is we have land that is mostly fields so we have food but so does everybody else’s land and it’s closer. There is a small woods in between all the fields that we know they are in almost all the time. Problem is we could only ever be hunting upwind of the deer plus the guy who owns it doesn’t even live in the same state and nobody knows him. The deer almost always will come out about 60 yards from the woods and go back in after eating some corn or beans.It’s been years since the last time we got a deer. Any advice would be great thanks.

[@jhjeiyffebj78939]

Thanks for your advice I’ve used a lot of it to help me get more mature bucks during day light hours my question is I hunt a woods that the land owner sold some trees this year and is cutting down about 25 big trees in a 40 acre lot should I wait and not hunt this woods this coming year to let it settle down

[@bradylenius6313]

To encourage woody browse in an old farm field, you just spray the grass with a grass specific herbicide?

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Yes for sure that is one way...the grasses do really nothing for wildlife in terms of food or cover...unless a true cover grass like switch to the north or native grasses mid country

[@bradylenius6313]

@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 thanks for getting back to me! I will give it a shot!

[@larrymyers5429]

I live in east TN on the Cumberland Plateau, Rhea County, this year there was not one deer on my property in the daytime in November and December, I only have 15 acres of hardwoods, I have red ocher coming this month to plant along my creek, but I am getting out the bow and will bow hunt again, I will contact you for help

[@richardbryan6781]

Can I hire you to come to our camp for an evaluation? We have plenty of deer but bucks are almost totally nocturnal. We have gravity feeders on all of our food plots. could that be the problem?

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Hi Richard! I think I'm booked up thru Sept, but we will begin scheduling for next year in Sept/October. The WHS group goes to over 300 clients across the country, but we book up pretty quickly... You just need to go thru Jessi at [e-mail].

[@dylanthrall5657]

Hey Jeff I'm at 22 acre parcel I have tons of cover with conifers like cedar and pine and very few clear cuts and they're surrounding properties are the same except just thickness and I'm not sure if they would work do you recommend it if so what do you recommend Just woods no ag around

[@alquinn3562]

Perhaps a better communicated question might help Jeff.

[@bowman8316]

Ps. Get us a pic of venti mounted !

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

I wish I could...he died on opening day of gun season about 2 parcels away. Never was really hunting him this year would have been nice to see him grow 1 more season. Oh well!

[@dennybirchfield]

I could of beat everyone I just don't anymore lol

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Ha, well honesty is the best policy 😁

[@dennybirchfield]

Do u still come to Ohio or is just Kevin for Ohio now

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Hi Denny! I still cover Ohio...mostky eastern and south/eastern. I am booked right now thru my my Sept OH trip and then will begin scheduling my Jan/2023 trip during this Summer.

[@fredmcintyre9889]

Present, 😂

[@dennybirchfield]

That's the best one I've heard so far

[@davidredford3111]

If it wasn't for nocturnal bucks ar deer herd would get animated leave them be stop baiting deer

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

If it wasn't for bad hunters we wouldn't have nocturnal bucks 😉👍

[@davidredford3111]

@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 oh ya well I'm in New York your right about that these deer get hinted so hard if the bucks weren't nocturnal they would all be dead the poaching is so bad these days because of all the lands getting leased guys turn to hunting after hours and the baiting is out of control and I hear it from Pennsylvania hunters to

[@bobwiese6128]

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[@Outdoorswithcorey]

First

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Very fast!

[@NittanyMountainProStaff]

There’s no such thing as a nocturnal buck..