Proven Gun Season Opener Tips

Depending on where you live and the timing, there are several tried and true gun season strategies that you can count on to deliver for the gun season opener and beyond. Here is how to hunt the gun season opener in your area, as well as how to navigate the rest of the season...
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[@ryancadwallader9933]

Like the PA specific info 👍

[@gaelewis6623]

Thanks sir on website now.

[@cougariog8817]

It's a special time of the year!

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It sure the heck is!!

[@Bow-Man]

Woo Hoooo 🦌🤸👍

[@zachniverson8816]

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[@j.cooper2246]

Sat all day this year.saw 30 deer.6 bucks.no shooters..nothing moved from 1130am-2 pm.was long sit.hunted a funnel. 2nd day hunted all day saw 7. 3 in am. 4in pm after 330pm.

[@nathanstewart2168]

Love how you are responding to everyone! Thanks for sharing your skill / knowledge, I have learned a lot the past few years of watching!

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Well I appreciate that Nathan...I can all the time tho! But I truly hope it all helps and I appreciate you watching for so long!

[@Bradb-bp4si]

1987 was my first rifle hunt on northwest side of michigan. 7pt with pump 870 open sights. Good memories

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Man Brad ..those are great memories!!

[@blaynec7404]

My first bow season and 10th gun season. I’ve learned so much more from you in one month than I have my whole life

[@REDBEARD.SYLO.260]

Heck I wanna be in the woods 4 hours before sunup that way i can call all night and set scents out and have the deer come to me waaaay before the gun hunters get a shot I always try to outsmart what me neighbors will be doing

[@robkienapple141]

I think I'm suffering PTSD from all the gunfire this past week! This is a really good video!👍

[@jackelinemeter8914]

Going for my first sit this coming Saturday in N Georgia

[@nicschaalma3508]

How early before sun up are you in the stand opening morning ? When looping around.

[@sidneyrosen9159]

Love your use of science and tactics! Just harvested an 8 point during bow (ground hunting, public land, natural blind, and without bait) in the UP utilizing your advice by positioning between bedding and their food source. Thank you!!

[@timhatfield6367]

Good job!

[@CobyCurtiss-cf5hr]

Jeff, have a new Illinois 164 acre property. Didn’t have time to get many “morning” set ups in since the time we bought it. Have a big 60 acre field in middle and blinds basically surrounding it. You can’t get in mornings without busting deer. It kills me to not hunt AM opener but think it may be smart to only hunt nights this weekend. Thoughts? Thanks!

[@shawndickmann8215]

Sit all day, don't move. Take some food. Let others move the deer. Dark to dark.

[@naomicreech9870]

Rock and Roll! Great tactics pointed out. Thank you Jesus!

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Thank you very much Naomi, good luck!!

[@markmilner563]

Great info. Thanks a ton for all the enlightenment. Whacked a 9 yesterday using ur strategies(entry points, food plots, extreme patience, wind directions). Thanks again

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That is awesome!! Congrats to you...really happy for you!!

[@menumlor9432]

For wisconsin public land, where do I find deer during the gun season? Every year, they vanish. Do they bed in hills? Slopes? Middle of nowhere? I need help.

[@skipgriser7751]

2 weeks to go in PA. Didn't have a good archery season, a lot of factors, but, applying your teachings. I have a son who I want to get his first deer. Purchasing a see through blind to help.

[@ironlife227]

I live in Bay county Michigan, November 15 (mi,opener) is the " last day of the season" cause we don't see a hair after the bullets start flying!😂😂😢

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So dang true!

[@timhatfield6367]

Would be nice if firearms season was last..let em go through the rut without so many hunters blasting them into nocturnal movement. Bow season is about over when guns start blasting.

[@mjuberian]

Pennsylvania where there are actually more hunters than there are deer... unreal.

[@cray-z7404]

I’m disabled and have chrones disease & cancer so does the QUIET CAT offer anything for discount for the disabled ?

[@gaelewis6623]

Gm sir? What's the name of those quite hunting clothing so I can purchase them?

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I wear the First Lite Solitude a lot...

[@janitorialguy4436]

Thanks Jeff, not a gun hunter yet maybe someday

[@kurtpearson2793]

My first season was ‘87! (Born in 1970😂) I can still see the shot!

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So dang awesome Kurt! Burned in your brain forever 😊

[@zachschultz3534]

Have you shot any this year?

[@marklohman965]

I call crowds of orange not fun. More annoying than anything.

[@adventurerhoades]

Stay safe shoot straight. Be a good sportsman foe all hunters. Nice video Jeff

[@tylermueller946]

Did you start tiktok page?

[@whitetailhabitatandhunting]

Thanks Jeff! Me and dad shot does last night! We were starting to get too many!

[@liammcgee1845]

Going on a rifle hunt at the end of the week! Going for the last couple days of our rifle season here as it opened on the 6th. Im not expecting anything but I’m hopeful now and this was some good insight! Hopefully I can get my first deer down! Thanks again for another awesome video 🙂

[@Bow-Man]

Good luck 👍

[@myronlaidler8034]

Loved those old days in Decker- Snover on your hunt property and the Amish deer drives. Good times!!

[@adams2300]

Thanks for all the great information. Do you have a video on how to hunt tops bottoms and bowls when dealing with swirling winds?

[@classicrocker889]

I wish all of you a Great Hunting Season this year and the years to come.

[@JosephAho_Archery]

Thanks for the video! I hunt in the U.P, and I was wondering if there are any specific tactics for hunting up here?

[@timhatfield6367]

I got big 11pt @1 o'clock sunday with my osage/sinew longbow with flint arrowhead i made! 5 yard shot,double lung show stopper from the ground no blind! Now what kinda challenge is next? Love your show Jeff..

[@remilambert172]

Alberta, Canada

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Nice! Would love to hunt there sometime!

[@benborgschatz9525]

I rattled in a buck this morning but couldn't get him to jump over the fence and come onto my property.

[@jasonis043]

Would love to have your gear line and love all your content. I Just don’t make enough. I greatly appreciate you. Thank you Jeff and give thanks you to your team. Best of luck and happy hunting this year and many more to come.

[@brandonsmith7286]

Is it possible to have a (mostly) un-pressured bait pile if you only hunt it a couple days during the season? I’ve been packing in 1/2 mile during bad weather days to a little spot. Hopefully it pays off!

[@BrunellHoneycutt]

Wisconsin

[@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751]

Can't wait for this weekend!

[@jjs283]

Jeff, how about post-opening day hunts in the hills of NW PA public where pressure is high? Later in the week was dead for me last year and it was frustrating. How can I better utilize things like clearcuts as deer magnets, especially during afternoon hunts?

[@drewharman1690]

Trying not to get myself discouraged with all the big buck pics getting posted around me! Still going to keep hunting smart

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For sure Drew... hopefully you have been picking some up on cam!

[@ML-ks2lj]

There are more trust me they are like ghosts.

[@cray-z7404]

Don’t get discouraged cause I’ve missed and grazed my target buck 2 years in row and it’s sickening to say the least … I’m still going to stay in his ass and keep flinging arrows until I connect with my new SWAT X-MAG CROSSBOW BROADHEADS WITH 8 cutting surfaces (coc) and it’s a nasty head and the THE SWAT motto is : DRAIN YOUR GAME ! 🩸 I have new broadheads and new confidence to take this reclusive creature…

[@curtisdecker3175]

How would you hunt a public wma that is in Northwest Arkansas about 1hr from the Missouri state line.... this public land has 185 food plots This place is unique because it's only open for modern gun permit for 5 days and then it stops... it ended on the 9th. How long should i wait for these pressured deer to go back to normal patterns?

[@ML-ks2lj]

Lets see if i can get redemption here in the thumb area. Shot a nice public land 6er and lost his blood. I waited 3 hours before tracking. Lots of gun hunters busting brush to find their spots for the 15th. I shot this deer on the 12th. He kept getting bumped to the point where hunters wete find my blood trail. I was so bummed i tracked for over 500 yards in circles and the blood just dried up. One last slip in the bloody mud the absolutely 0 blood i could find. Cant afford the dogs either heck i cant afford a new limb thats about to shatter on me sooner than later. Sucks.

[@JB-JB-JB-JB]

DOB- on Gun day: Happy fun gun day to me! Goodbye Fontainebleau suite (very swanky) back to Bama! Thank 🙏🏻 the lord! Had fun but my cameras were on 🔥past 3 days and need to get back to the woods. 👉🦌🔫

[@Pwrcritter]

Say what

[@JB-JB-JB-JB]

@@Pwrcritter Born on whitetail rifle season. Too many acronyms for you?

[@zachniverson8816]

Boooooo to gun hunting. Way less of a challenge to kill em with a boom stick. Try stick and string the rush you get from not being able to move at certain moments and trying to get it done so close. You just can't move make noise or make mistakes in general that you can when gun hunting because the deer can be so much further away. I started out gun hunting but once I killed one with a bow shooting one with a gun just didn't feel like a challenge and just didn't interest me at all. I think guns should be banned completely with the advent of crossbows. I actually wanted to advocate for making crossbows only legal during gun season but the more I think about it I just would ban guns completely and just have one continuous bow season. Traditional compound or crossbows. 2nd weekend in September to 2nd weekend in January. But anyways Boooo to guns

[@Bow-Man]

Ok Stalin

[@frankspataro9714]

Doosh bag

[@ClintonSmith-op5gb]

While i only bow hunt and agree it is far more technical and skilled. Let ppl gun hunt. The experience is what we are all after. And besides xbows are designed for women and the old. Lol jk

[@danorris5235]

"Traditional Compound" is the funniest thing I've heard about this subject matter. A compound bow user is doing literally nothing that isn't either made significantly easier to do to the point of not having to worry about it or is being done entirely for him by his equipment when compared to traditional archery. How do I know? I've done all three, and did traditional for years. I was also an infantryman and I hunt with rifles and shotguns regularly. In fact, between archery, slinging, and shooting I'd say the only two things I'm not comfortable hunting with are semiautomatic pistols due to ergonomic issues I don't seem to have with revolvers, and thrown weapons like javelins and stoning. It's all archery with bows, compounds, and crossbows, and running around with your Star Trek phaser comparing it to technology that was around a millennium ago and thinking its remotely similar is not up for discussion. And just because there's a similar (yes, only similar) motion in drawing does not mean you're utilizing a traditional archery skil set whatsoever when you use a compound bow. Despite being just as fast and hard hitting (yeah, science is in and it does compound no favors in a "contest" compound-only people are the only ones who remotely care about) as a modern crossbow overall with only negligible functional differences between certain models of bow and crossbow for overall FPS and ft/lbs in kinetic transfer, the compound has several advantages over a crossbow. Which I'll break down in a hot second. There's no reasonable comparison to a rifle either in any way, shape, or form because of pesky things like psychics. The only thing similar is the trigger system function for the end user. An arrow is an arrow. But, you know, I understand why compound guys would be confused because they think they're similar to traditional archers. Makes sense if you add a mountain of ignorance into that recipe. Your equipment is lighter, easier to stalk with, and easier to loose with out of tree stands, saddles, and blinds or just randomly when afield. I can't tell you how many times I wished I had bow that day instead because I can't loose without cracking a limb on something that'll destroy my equipment. And then there's the follow-up potential, which is minimal. But it is never going to happen with a crossbow under any circumstances remotely considered normal. With a compound bow? That's a definite maybe if you're competent. So how about a little respect for archery in general when you're rolling around pretending you're out there roughing it and realize that without the traditional and crossbow people backing the sport your season would get trimmed back by months, traditional bow would have a its own season cutting you out of yours, you'd get kicked out of the woods for rifle and muzzleloader, and crossbow still would edge you out of your season because everyone else is getting theirs? Thankfully you're in the very small minority of compound bow users. Unfortunately they're very vocal. I'm just glad most hunters are decent people who don't whine about their elitism nonstop and try to ban everyone else from enjoyment for their supposed gain which doesn't exist. And a big thank you to every compound guy who isn't an ignorant wipe.

[@zachniverson8816]

@@danorris5235 🤣 your entitled to your opinion sir as am I. And I meant traditional bows, compound bows, and crossbows, just so you know.... And since when is having an opinion that affects 0 people other than myself, make me an elitist? Lol your really special ain't ya! Good ol keyboard warrior know it all! Congratulations 👏

[@BrunellHoneycutt]

Wisconsin

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It's coming!!