Thank you for having me Bill. The video turned out great!

This is one of the best videos I’ve seen. Every property owner would love to do this.

Bill, you will be fulfilled with building this farm. Lower density makes it challenging and rewarding. Cant wait to see that smile upon harvesting a monster.

Great tool to figure out what the herd looks like overall as well as where they are primarily bedding. Thanks Bill and Jack for sharing this with the community! Brandon

thanks for giving DDR a platform to exhibit what they are capable of Bill!some great tech and I sure hope the game commissions and DNRs around the country educate themselves on what DDRs mission statement actually is!

Very cool. I have a drone without thermal. This is great technology. I embrace it. It’s just more knowledge to have as a hunter. The deer will always have the advantage and we will still seemingly be one step behind most of the time. Gathering valuable information Bill.

wonderful episode. this technique was used in a 9mile long by 1.5 mile wide remote roadless area here in Pa. that the game com. claimed had 19-20 deer per sq. mile turned out to be 9-10.

Thank you for making all this Great information available to all of us hunters!

Great video! I bet yall cant wait to see what the Jordan buck turns into this year! Good luck Bill and Jordan🙏

Again, very interesting. Good to know that the jordan buck made it. Great information well done. Thanks again, bill. Another awesome video. Keep the good workup.

Interesting video, had to be a cool experience to verify/find new pockets of utilization on the farm. I could definitely see a benefit in this for a habitat plan of attack when you get on these larger parcels.

This was super interesting. I'll bet you guys had a great time

Wow what some kool information. Never would have thought of this . Thanks for sharing Bill

Very interesting Bill. So neat to see the deer bedded. And be able to count them. Nice video. Take care.

We track wounded deer and bear with trained tracking dogs and also utilize a thermal drone. I can’t say one is definitively better than the other, as both are tools in the toolbox for game recovery and both have their place/application. However, seeing a drone operate in person is definitely eye an opening experience. Our clients are blown away by what wildlife is using their property at any given time. Nice job with the survey!!

So cool thanks for sharing Bill

Very Interesting. I would think the state wildlife managers could really benefit from this type of information when setting permit quotas and harvest strategies

This was interesting!

That was really cool. Great intel on your property. Would be great to do this before buying a property.

Bill that is a great video and a excellent idea! Interesting idea. Wonder if it would be interesting to see if number changes closer to the season. Meaning seeing that the property is setup for whitetail and not farm or pasture if you draw more deer in the fall from the neighboring properties. or even if you can control the numbers based on food and layout! very cool Bill Thanks for sharing!

I am glad I am a loyal follower. You constantly have some tremendously interesting videos. No excuses, LOL, for Jordan not to take that buck next year.

Hope you had a great Resurrection day. I've never seen a stack wagon in person. Didn't realize they were used in your area. Don't think we have as high of density in Pa now. 30 years ago we were super high. Lower quantities now but better quality

Seems very useful for preparing a purchase on a farm.

70 deer per sq mile seems like a lot to me, and that's coming from MI, but what do I know. What's crazy is that you had a bunch of sits where you didn't see a single deer. What a cool way to check on your properties population. Great video!

This was extremely interesting.

We have about a 40 deer/sq mile down here on our place in eastern MS. We are in the heart of pine country, but we do provide about 20 acres of food plots on our 200-acre parcel. We definitely see your thoughts about lower deer density leading to higher scoring bucks playing out. It can make for a lot of slow hunts, but generally speaking, we have an opportunities to harvest multiple exceptional sized bucks each year.

Very interesting technology.I could see this used for good and for bad.At the very least, it confirms your hunches on where deer may be using or not using on your farm and the numbers of deer.

Interesting 👍👍

Very cool. This would be awesome to do and travel around with jack to see what he sees

The Wisconsin DNR use a camera program to monitor wildlife, 90% of which are deer. The investment to manage the program has to be substantial. It seems that drones could be a very useful tool to compliment the camera program. Interesting video Bill.

Very cool. 👊🏻

Great video. Very interesting. I have no idea how many deer I have on my place, I have cameras out, but I have about 200 acres, I never had a camera on yet. This kind of info would really help on some decision making as I continue to set my place up

Dream Big brother 🙏

Pretty cool idea to check your population out!!

Good stuff. A lot of great knowledge. Bill you should have had him come in late January or early February for a better buck/do ratio. Love your farm

Very cool video Bill. Have you thought about doing a traditional trail camera survey and comparing the results?

Would be interesting to do an identical survey every year and track the density progression as the property gets transformed through habitat improvements.

Bill don’t let the todays technology take away from the hunting aspect. One of the greatest aspects of bow hunting is the unknown… To become so familiar with a thing is to lose its first valve, the unknown then known.

This is amazing technology.

Most areas that I hunt in SE Ohio the density is closer to 40-50 per sq mile. And buck to doe ratio is more like 5 does to one buck. Great info to have if you’re a conservationist. Far as it being a poachers tool yeah probably but nothing is going to stop them aside from arrest. Cell cameras are a larger threat than any thermal drone because they’re being used to “legally” target bucks in real time by mass numbers. Most people are using them and are successful because of them.

Awesome video! Will you utilize this service every couple of seasons to plan your harvest numbers the following fall?

I'm s drone pilot as well. It's amazing what these things can do

Bill im all for using these types of tools for conservation purposes. Recovering deer and in season scouting, count me out. The guy from Ohio deer drone recovery has a drone big enough to fly a deer out of the woods n straight to the butcher lol He’s got a video on KZfaq. Dan

WOW What a great tool, for managing your land. Im thinking you can increase, only base on all food still available. Now that you‘re working the grounds for better timber and browsing & bedding. Be very interesting, do you have better quality bucks vs increase of deer. Couple years we’ll see. Cool seeing the Jordan buck. Looking to see his size next year.

At 70 deer per square mile, I would think you would have to harvest a lot of deer each year just to stay around that level if there are no other factors causing mortality.

Really neat technology Bill! I was wondering, is the Jordan buck reserved for Jordan only or are you allowed to take him as well?😂

Takes some of the fun out of scouting, and learning your woods while keeping human pressure at a minimum. Bill do you think they didn’t bed on the westerly sides solely due to the wind direction? Or is that some of the steepest parts of the farm?

I wish Indiana DNR would use this technology to have a better understanding of our deer herds/numbers. Iowa is great in that the gun season is later in the season.

Were the majority of deer, especially the bucks bedded in the “traditional” driftless bedding locations of ends of ridges, points, saddles etc? And were they all the way on top or just over the crest of the ridge/ponts?

Love the application of using for survey for land ownership. Of course some small population of jokers will abuse the tech.(but those are the lousy hunters that can’t get close anyways )I like to think many would use this for data and still hunt the way most of us do.

Cool video! Maybe I missed it, but what was your buck/doe ratio?

Wow. 60 to 70 deer per square mile is unreal. Around my area I bet it is 5 to 6 deer per square mile.

Strange that you have this amount of deer, but when your hunting, your lucky to see a few deer while hunting. Did you see deer using ares you didn't think would hold deer?

Cool thing, most of those deer were on the ridge tops or military crest it appeared from the marks?

Hey bill, what a tool for herd managers. Any big suprises by viewing them in real time? Now to spend the next 27 days fishing the detroit river walleye run hopefulmy my last as a employee.... i need a job with deer i like them better lol

I'm curious, how close were the Bucks bedding near the Does?

Hey Bill - would you agree that most deer are back to their summer grounds at this point in the upper Midwest? Wonder how that could maybe impact your numbers in this survey if they’re not.

Got a Lone Wolf at 13

What did it cost to have the survey done? Is it per acre or by time?

70 deer per sq mile is crazy considering how many sits you had where you seen nothing. DNR recommends >25 deer per sq mile here will start affecting oak regen.

0 yea your doing good I always think those bucks like all the does around they can get they won't wander far with all those around maybe 2-1 what's it hurt. I also think you'll get a more potentially meaner bucks with real good knockem down fightem up thats what they like. They gotta have reasons too be the top bucks and what more could there be but who has the most does under his spell... then when a buck can't hold back on a doe that belongs to someone else man they go gonzo beserk like fight to the death beserkers thats what ya want...when you harvest them big boys it looks like they fought in wwone haha...But you didn't mention too much about turkey estimates what I always saw was the more I hunted and I always hunted alot spring and fall which meant they heard alot of calling because I've always called alot for everything waterfowl whatever you name it but back to the point is those turkeys felt more at home more comfortable and consequently made the area home and then of course your flock just takes right off year after year it gets larger until they sub branch off. Another thing about turkeys I see is never try too figure out where they like the flock roost only they can pick the perfect spots. Seems like some deer to get attached too laying near human area they know your there maybe their curious or maybe their trying to say thank you for your efforts...

Wow and you guys thought Crossbows would be the end of Mature Bucks😂😂😂😂

Just saw a good video program today Bill it's called turkeys for tomorrow not sure if your familiar with it you can find it on youtube. The program was on fire today and I'll tell ya those guys got it down too a science well they should their all PhD professors and field biologists and have performed fires in the fields for decades. If you get a chance check it out if your not familiar with it already but fire is a developed science by these people and everywhere it can be successful. It's more complex than you would think and as I said anywhere their are methods and solutions in the goals. I also post there.

Im just here for the comments…

electronic means of pursuit sounds like cell cams to me

very cool. would love to see this done mid summer then again Oct 31-Nov 9. guessing these numbers will very a good amount. or would on most properties as they shift ranges. food and cover would of course affect the shift

Did they said what it cost per acre $$$ or per visit ????

is it legal to use a 2 way radio to hunt deer in iowa

Does he flys in Tennessee?

Poachers are people that think they are going to cheat system because they can’t do the real hard work. They will use whatever is available to poach. It’s sad to think people have to cheat and poach. Unfortunately there will always be people like that.

Wow only 80 deer per square mile I’m in a good area in Michigan and we have 3 times that here Altho there’s a lot of farms that don’t hunt like metamora hunt nothing to see one hundred in fields on both sides of the road before dark I’ve lived here for 35 years and probably one of the biggest hunters here I don’t believe that large herds of deer stress at all if there’s food and we have plenty of that and every year we shoot 200 inch big boys in this area great genetics age is the only thing stopping us here

How much is the service?

Drones are not legal in Missouri. I looked into deer drone recovery two years ago and was told absolutely not. It clearly states drones may not be used to track wildlife in the regs.

Not legal in Wisconsin

I really like Bill and all of his educational content. He loves to work and I respect and emulate that. I'm just totally against drones for deer Intel in any capacity. There is too much potential for misuse. Spying on neighboring deer and identifying exact beds of your own deer seems unfair. Love all the content except this one.

You never hear a farm say he ways less cows

Your old farm is for sale again. I’d sell!

My point is all you money guys promote QDM land prices go through the roof no more knock on door free permission now make it look cool to drone scout this will be a new chapter

i know it is illegal in kansas and missouri

This technology is fantastic! I really cant get my head around all the controversy for using drones for taking an inventory of deer or tracking wounded deer. Did you notice any of the deer being disturbed in any way by the drone?

Cool tech but wow, what a slippery slope. I guess I'm old school, but I still like being surprised by what walks down the trail. With cell cams and drones, you have the potential to know every deer on your property....(boring)!! This sort of thing draws parallels to LiveScope "videogame" fishing! Yuck.

I generally like your content Bill but this one I don’t like. If I were your neighbor and didn’t know or give you permission (whether needed or not) to fly a drone over your property but also tour the “neighborhood “ as you say. I’d be pissed. There’s too much intrusion into private space as it is. I don’t agree with this at all.

i don't worry about you and me we have both killed deer old school " no cell cams"

Had one fly an area I hunt for a census. A few things based on my experience with a professional pilot and equipment. IMO- anyone using these unethically or illegally should be cited hard. They’re so much more of a poaching tool than a thermal scope. Someone could recreationally fly any property, recording and inventorying it.. perhaps even scaring game in a certain manner. They’re an amazing tool for recovery but so deadly in the wrong hands… and they’re easy to find with anyone owning one. His four hour estimate was alarming. My experience would’ve be more along the lines of 20-30minutes for you farm focussing on every mature buck in a high stem count, high deer density area. I was alarmed at how noisy it was. Last part- they’re MRI. Our flight indicated a very different observation/perception of what cameras did just 24hrs prior. Take everything contemporary with a grain of salt.