Hunting FEED TREES for MATURE BUCKS - Targeting Oak Trees for Deer Hunting In the South - Ep 486

Today our buddy Scott Seales is back on the show to discuss his bread and butter - hunting mature bucks on feed trees! Most of our past guests who talk about feed trees come from a big woods, riverbottom setting - but Scott has found success with this tactic in hilly pine country in central Alabama. This is a must-listen episode of you are wanting to target feed trees for mature bucks! Subjects include:
Why you NEED TO BE hunting mornings in early season
Feed trees in TIGHT SMZ's or very skinny hardwood bottoms
Finding THE feed tree that a mature buck is bedding close to
How Scott finds feed trees then runs his "circuit"
How positive and negative terrain are FLIPPED in early season
Finding low spots that COLLECT ACORNS and attract bucks
Using THICK pines to get in tight to bucks without being detected
Why early season feed trees are the best time to tag your target buck
What. buck sign Scott needs to see in conjunction with feed sign to get him excited
Do bucks prefer feed trees on STEEP slopes?
and TONS more. We know a lot of listener success stories will come from this episode! If you get something out of it, make sure you share it with a buddy.
Listen to more from Scott in episodes 428 and 435!
Jscobs spike we mentioned in the podcast - 10 YARD BOW KILL FROM THE GROUND! Tennessee Public Land Deer Hunting
Watch Andrew's successful mountain hunt from 2022 - Hunting Community Scrapes for Trophy Bucks in BIG WOODS! | Alabama Public Land Deer Hunting
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[@jacobmyers6479]

Love hearing Scott Seales on the show.

[@thecedarridgechronicles]

Fantastic move putting the podcasts in video format on KZbin

[@scottseales1925]

Great evening guys. We almost dodged the weeds! Lol

[@michaelhollier]

Omg I was in my summit one evening an kept falling asleep. I was scared I’d wake up at 10pm with a search party shining flashlights at me. I set my alarm for 2 minutes after shooting time. 😂

[@thesouthernoutdoorsmen]

🤣🤣🤣

[@southerndraw12]

Man those were some great questions! Great job guys on disecting the way of early season hunting! Way to go guys

[@deerhuntingwithrickthepeas7870]

Just to let you guts know I was listening to your podcast and heard the "feed tree" advice. I went out looking for "feed trees' and found a few. One of them made a nice set up based on the wind and along came four bucks. Opening day Wisconsin no less.

[@waynepike7074]

Y’all never used a Tree Lounge absolutely the most comfortable stand ever!😳🤣

[@reddawng43x91]

That stand falls under the category of “too” comfortable imo lol

[@stevenjohnson9855]

💯

[@chrisgarrison1158]

I can see what Scott’s saying about the hardwood tops out there. You find high protein green briar is one of the few things that grow under it like little browse plots. Now I’m not totally against doing pine with fire in areas with some faster growing hardwoods like maple and sweetgum that shows up anyways. Just because the amount of phosphorous available from the regrowth. But cutting older growth forest these days just shouldn’t happen.

[@southernhood5145]

got to find the feed trees

[@thesouthernoutdoorsmen]

Won’t be long until it’s time to hit the woods with a good pair of binos to start locating them

[@johndenver5029]

​@thesouthernoutdoorsmen when does one begin the acorn scout?

[@southoutmcknight3263]

Great podcast. I enjoyed it smz’s are deffinitely travel corridors and acorn holes.

[@Dan_Akins]

Nice lumber! Always enjoy the content!

[@thesouthernoutdoorsmen]

Thanks for watching!

[@gordonc615]

Freshest is the bestest lol

[@thesouthernoutdoorsmen]

Yep. Maybe we oughta make that into a T shirt design 😂

[@BrothaAustin]

Mine

[@Ken_Hardee]

Was the podcast with Travis on KZbin?

[@bigg9101]

What kind of whiskey you all sippin on?

[@BrothaAustin]

What word did they bleep out?

[@reddawng43x91]

The name of the public they hunt

[@reddawng43x91]

U know wt seperates the big buck killers from everyone else who bow hunts! The answer is when he says he don’t give a damn about timber rattlers walk-in to his spot!

[@hieuhn99]

What's smz?

[@randydeskins9359]

Stream side management zone. Logging operations cannot log too close to stream or water source. The only mature trees that do not get cut.

[@reddawng43x91]

The dude sittin next to Scott sounds like joe Biden when he talks! 😂 he gets lost in a sentence and doesn’t make sense at anything he says lol

[@shugman3090]

Should’ve cut his section out and saved 30 minutes

[@stdavis22]

that shit was painful

[@reddawng43x91]

@@shugman3090 rite!

[@christiancameron8]

Physically painful to listen to Cody talk…