Scouting Tips for Deer Hunting

Scouting Tips for Deer Hunting | Big Woods

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2 жыл бұрын

In this scouting video I talk about deer scouting in the spring in a typical northern Wisconsin or Minnesota habitat type. Snow is about melted, and there's generally still just enough ice to walk on. In this video I cover a couple specific buck bed locations, transition lines, identifying doe bedding, scrape locations, and finding buck cruising trails.
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@jamesmartin7282 2 жыл бұрын

Your knowledge of Whitetail deer is phenomenal! I have been deer hunting for 38 years and you're still teaching me new things.

@statgenie6575 2 ай бұрын

Great video qualify, thanks for sharing

@SpikesandGills 2 жыл бұрын

Thoroughly enjoyed! I've watched many of your deer hunting/scouting videos every year and just find you easy to listen to. I learn a bunch simply because you really seem to have what it takes to teach.

@DIYSportsman 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@Foreverbowhunting84 3 ай бұрын

I always learn so much from your videos brother. Thank you!

@jaredmccartney2035 10 ай бұрын

Excellent video my guy !

@seansoutdoors 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the upload brother. Hope we can get together again soon.

@samivey8416 2 жыл бұрын

Great to see someone doing what I enjoy. Keep up the great work

@sarafayelawton652 2 жыл бұрын

good to see you and Sam back up on youtube! This is a really good one for me cause I'm continually trying to put the puzzle together. Thanks!

@bowhuntingfiend7098 2 жыл бұрын

Loving the breakdown!

@brianlooney3032 2 жыл бұрын

Good instructional video

@nhbowman2242 2 жыл бұрын

Nicely done video keep up the great content

@SlowEarl1 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing your knowledge . I am a new hunter with a recurve and now Subscribed

@davidtisch5237 2 жыл бұрын

Great break down I always appreciate the whys when deer are doing something I’m learning more pieces of the puzzle in deer behavior I don’t hunt hill country but being well rounded in all terrain’s makes me a better hunter Hope you guys come back to ND again this opener really enjoyed your North Dakota hunt I learned a lot

@Pwrcritter 2 жыл бұрын

Big woods is wht we own, and it can be quite a challenge.

@josephtreadlightly5686 2 жыл бұрын

Glad to see u both breaking down the details. 2 large areas I just finished for hang & hunt 2022. 2 areas 30 miles apart. Deer in 1 area go north & south where the bucks go west & east. In the other area it is the opposite. The buck in 1 area I have December video of I have a lot of wasted video of when some dumbass blew it up b4 he even hunted it. I found in March his travel route. I have 2 setups with a slightly different wind. Hung a woodvine from above with paracord in each spot. My eastern spot got blown up so I have a central & a spot west of that. He will be coming to acorns with each spot. The western spot is interesting. He has a thick brushline to walk through. Then @ the end of it to his other side is a huge oak blowdown. Once he gets to the end of the blowdown on his other side on the edge of a huge cattail swamp the willow brush starts. Now he has a thick woods of brush with cover on the other with a clear path to my ambush 30 yards ahead. The other spot is just another great staging area on the edge of one of the best mast crop areas on the property. Always be ready to be where they hangup as u lose shooting light than hoping they will take 1 of 4 routes through a woods to feed in it. It's important that we all define edge style travel routes as being areas the deer makes them feel safe to travel while having cover but not so much that they have no visibility.

@danielbethanyweltzin1918 3 ай бұрын

Great video!! When is your favorite time to hunt scrapes?

@DIYSportsman 3 ай бұрын

I like them early September close to bedding whenever I happen to stumble upon an active one, also late October is the classic timing. I've also see early December see a minor spike coinciding with 2nd rut if you have that occur in your area.

@charlesleblanc6638 Жыл бұрын

Once you start spotting these parallel trails, sign laid down starts making a lot more sense.

@h-minus2212 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the thoughtful content. I live near some vast swamps and scouted them extensively last winter. However, trying to get into them during the fall was brutal due to the swampy terrain. How do you determine access routes when the frozen terrain conceals all the swampy pitfalls? Thanks again.

@DIYSportsman 2 жыл бұрын

Sometimes there's only so much you can do. You know that walking through non-frozen swamp is going to suck no matter what. Some years are better than others. Some swamps have firmer ground, and others are dense muck. I try to connect the dots from high ground to high ground to minimize the tougher walking, but at some point you just gotta use the hip boots and embrace the challenge. Sometimes trekking poles or mudder shoes can help.

@DaCajun1 2 жыл бұрын

Dude?!? You been slacking. Hope everything is alright on your end. Haven’t seen many videos the last year :-( Keep ‘em coming bro 😎

@dualthreatoutdoors 2 жыл бұрын

Good stuff! Will you have any hill country scouting (dry ground), videos coming out soon?

@DIYSportsman 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, I plan to do at least one in cattail marsh and hill country. Possibly riverbottom too.

@dualthreatoutdoors 2 жыл бұрын

@@DIYSportsman nice! The public areas I hunt in north central PA are all hill country, very few swamps around

@underdogoutdoors 2 жыл бұрын

Scouting this time of year is awesome. I don't respect all the industry Fraudsters with the giant racks, year after year, it's not reality, but it is entertainment. The most satisfying experience is hunting decent realistic (& of course really big, lol) bucks by grinding it out like this. Anyone can pile up huge trophies when hunting in fantasy land, or off limits to most/gray areas. The best hunters come from areas where the hunting is tough, Michigan, Pennsylvania, the northeast states etc..., not Iowa & Kansas although I myself wouldn't mind only hunting those fantasy areas, lol.

@claycomboutdooors 2 жыл бұрын

Good stuff Jared! Just wondering... did you get a new camera? If so, what did you buy? Footage looks really good!

@DIYSportsman 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I'm using a Sony A7s iii that I bought last summer.

@MexicanMovie 2 жыл бұрын

lol, minor detail but his name is Garrett, not Jared. Just a little fyi in case you're interested. I'm getting ready for next season as well, happy hunting!!!

@josephsutherland6144 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for all the podcasts and good advice. What camera did you use to film this?

@DIYSportsman 2 жыл бұрын

Used the A7siii to film this one.

@Wiscobowhunt 2 жыл бұрын

Are you setup in your tree at gray light or do you walk in after day break?

@DIYSportsman 2 жыл бұрын

If it's a rut hunt and I have a tree planned and ready, I'll try to be set up before light. But I also won't sweat it if I get there late. Any time can be a good time in the rut, especially mid day. If it's earlier than the rut and I'm set up near a bedding area I like to get there early afternoon. Or if on a morning hunt super early before light so they aren't too near the bedding when I'm getting set up.

@dajahvue 2 жыл бұрын

Maybe still to early for trail cameras?

@DIYSportsman 2 жыл бұрын

You can see shed bucks and does on cameras this time of year or find out how any other guys shed hunt or scout the area. But for most of my intel I'm not really interested in getting them put there until August. Sometimes I set them up during the season if I scout my way into good sign and have learned a lot with that strategy as well.

@TheBuckPsych Жыл бұрын

great stuff bro I always look for some sort of breakup in the thick transitions, usually that's where the bucks like to bed Also man i really need to start picking trees in post season for my hunts the next season. I've missed a ton of opportunities the last 4-5 years being in the wrong tree . do you mark your trees with tacks or something? or just on spartan forge app?

@DIYSportsman Жыл бұрын

I just mark them on the app. I usually don't like advertising my spots if I can help it. I do often take pictures that I'll attach to the waypoint in Spartan Forge so that I can get a mental refresher of what the tree looks like and how I need to set up in it before heading into the spot.

@Lucas-jy7cv 2 жыл бұрын

You see alot of bear when you're out?

@DIYSportsman 2 жыл бұрын

Every now and then. I get them on trail cameras a bunch though.

@Lucas-jy7cv 2 жыл бұрын

@@DIYSportsman is that a scammer in the replies?

@mbm460ns5 2 жыл бұрын

I msged you on Facebook today. Someone is pretending to be you doing a free bow give away in the comment sections of your videos

@DIYSportsman 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks. I appreciate reaching out to let me know. That mimicry account should be banned now but I'll be sure to keep an eye out for that type of thing in the future. I saw it hit a couple other channels too.