7 Ways To Improve Your Hunt In 2025

[@markmasa8533]

Only saw one doe sighting for 8 days of Wisconsin gun hunting, but had 23 wolf sightings. Sure I would have loved to get a buck but how many people in America are lucky enough to get to see that. All about having fun and I still had a great season deer or not. Thanks for all your videos Jeff.

[@stevenarcuragi5807]

Jeff, Hope you read the later comments too. You’re looking good. Thanks for always keeping us on our toes. You will live and die a legend. Thanks again. ❤

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Thank you so much Steven, we really appreciate you!! Have a Merry Christmas!!

[@benwright67]

Merry Christmas Jeff and gang! Have been subscribed for a few years and have learned so much from your channel which has made me a better and smarter hunter. Thank you.

[@brianlenneman5032]

It’s a never ending task, always things to improve!! I make a list on my phone all season in my notes, things I want to improve or adjust.

[@RushOutdoors]

Great info guys! Like Dylan said hunting when its the best is what makes more success. Mike and I say it all of the time Mikes phrase sometimes "Less is More" Straight up truth! Merry Christmas to all of you and your families.

[@RS-ms1bz]

Beating my head against the wall was my biggest mistake. I relied on food plot success as the main ingredient for the hunting season the last few years. Huge mistake as the late summer and fall droughts the last four years essentially destroyed my attempts. So this off season I am going full bore into habitat improvement such as regen and bedding pockets, and creating travel corridors in between those areas. My head is sore from beating it against Mother Nature…time to put the odds in my favor and show her who’s the boss!!

[@janitorialguy4436]

Thanks Jeff, as always great points

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Thank you very much... really appreciate it!

[@davidvasquez5313]

Good info. Always gotta be thinking ahead. Learn learn learn. Every hunt should be a lesson. Helps me alot.

[@robertflannagan6093]

Happy holidays!! Your knowledge is priceless and must say i have seen more bucks this year with the improvements including my target buck but still learning on him yet theres always next year for him

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

So awesome Robert...NEXT YEAR!! We appreciate you...and Merry Christmas!!

[@steveo2129]

MERRY CHRISTMAS JEFF AND FAMILY. 🦌 🦌 🦌 🦌 🦌

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Merry Christmas to you Steve, we really appreciate it!

[@06rm250]

I needed to hear all of this!

[@scottpulver4920]

Merry Christmas 🎄 thank you for all the intel…I wish I had the time and money to do all the improvements…..slow and steady. Once I hopefully fix the dog problem in March while shed hunting I’m going to drop some trees in the largest wooded 15ac piece of the 105ac. Then plan on switchgrass to make a 6ac and 9ac fields smaller. Eleven hours away is rough.

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Man Scott, 11 hours away is rough for sure! I wish you the best this year in pulling it all together... Merry Christmas!

[@kurtpearson2793]

Have a safe and wonderful holiday WHS family 🎄 I know I’m already dreaming of food plots for the new year-

[@ironlife227]

Hey Jeff, great content as usual! I have 106 acres in mid Michigan, had 60 of it logged off 4 years ago so we have plenty of natural browse and plenty of deer most of the year. The problem is after the first rut, typically around November 15th all my shooters "disappear" I'm guessing because of lack of winter food sources. What would you recommend for late season/winter food sources in Bay county Michigan.

[@transamguy9073]

Great video. Would you consider a 1/4 acre plot w food plot. We sit on it quite a bit on the right winds. We see alot of deer there. We have great access to it. And my son killed a nice buck on it for youth gun. I dont feel like we are hurting it hunting it

[@Pwrcritter]

Id like to add predator control. My post season pastime.

[@craigkowalczyk3516]

I know I pays to have a flexible schedule but gone are the days of just picking a week on the calendar and hunting. Now I’d rather not do that and just look at the weather forecast the week before or week of and hunt ideal days. Whether it’s bow hunting, sitting the plot, or tracking bucks in snow. Had a great season here and did both. Tracked a mean broken beam and tined buck on snow and shot my target buck on the soybean/brassica plot. Couldn’t be happier

[@MacMcCabe2456]

Jeff, any sightings of L L Beams on any property's ?

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

We actually had a maybe sighting. Big, mature buck that has already shed...looking rough but couldn't see the side the shot was on. Hopeful!

[@ripperlipper1016]

I have hunted hundreds of acres but now I’m down to land that’s only big enough for maybe 2 stands I had 2 out but they where kinda close so found out just 1 was better sometimes you can only have 1 stand

[@danmiller6714]

Been following you for a while and member of HuntWise. Would love to see some content from other States like coastal North Carolina. It seems all your content is northern content. If your expertise is not dealing with sandy soil and pines would love for you to recommend habitat manager consultants in your store. I have 144 acres and I have paralysis on how to start.

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

One thing I recommend is to not get bogged down in the details of soils and habitat....that will NOT lead you to success. Instead focus on the concepts...in fact the 7 points in this video you need to embrace before you can even come close to your potential level of success. Unless you master the points, you will fail. And the concepts taught on this channel are critically important anywhere a whitetail roams. Not finding success because you are in another state would only be an excuse 😊

[@danmiller6714]

@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 I also left message in your seed company to find the best seed we can plant in our low ph sandy soil for cover and food plots.

[@BG-bx4ey]

I hunt Louisiana, and we use many of Jeff's tactics to find great success down here. I recommend getting his book, Whitetail Success by Design. It is much more thorough and broad in how it outlines what to focus on than these videos.

[@blackmambaram7034]

I think my south louisiana swamp hunting land layout would be your most difficult challenge you've ever done to apply these tactics you talk about in your videos.

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Probably not too hard? Have completed hundreds of swamp and wilderness parcels around the country. Quality food sets the table for the entire parcel. As a whole, big woods and swamp parcels are the easiest parcels...parcels surrounded by AG are fairly easy too (easiest to find results on), mixed ag big hills are the more difficult parcels. Flat and swampy anywhere, are fairly basic. Lots of absolutes make any land easier....

[@BG-bx4ey]

I hunt leased lands in Louisiana where we don't have the freedom to impliment all of Jeff's tactics exactly as he does, but they still apply. We use bait and feeders instead of food plots, use natural screening and ditches to access areas, spread pressure around, play the wind and weather, hunt morning stands and evening stands, etc etc etc. We went from killing little forky's, spikes, fawns, and does, maybe taking a 3 year old buck every other year, to taking a few 4+ and a handful of 3 year old bucks every season now.

[@kurtpearson2793]

Question: should I adjust my food plots when the adjacent agricultural switches from corn to soy? (Year to year)

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Hi Kurt...never. you always want the consistency to be on your own land. Same food that holds the deer on your land, gives them a place to consistently eat every afternoon and then send them off to the ag land of the moment for after dark.

[@MatthewDavis-u7f]

Is there some properties that now matter what you do to improve the property with food plots, hinge cutting and waterholes. Don’t have the best enter and exit route for certain winds unless it’s a east wind. Is it time to sell the property and move on to another property?

[@OleSmokey]

High winds and high temps killed great buck. Halloween night.

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Can always happen at any moment. Kind of like winning a hand of poker with a pair of 4s...it can happen!

[@BG-bx4ey]

One time, on a prime morning, I got burned out after 8 straight days hunting all day. Ieft my stand at 7am and just started wondering around and blasted a big buck. It was awesome, but I wouldn't go around claiming it was 'THE' thing to do to find success.

[@connorkropp6017]

🦌😁

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Have a blessed Sunday Connor!

[@keithbuesing6912]

🧑‍🎄🎉✌️

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Merry Christmas Keith!!

[@ripperlipper1016]

If you don’t hunt on food in northeast fl where I live you will never get a chance to shoot a deer hunting down here is all together different and a lot harder there’s times there can be a deer 50 yards and you’d never know it was there because how thick our woods are hell your lucky if you even kill a deer down here in a season

[@kurtpearson2793]

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[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Yes for certain Kurt!! I think Jen gave up...at least for today, haha