You're giving away your knowledge for free! I appreciate it, have applied and enjoyed much of it. I hunt the more pressured states in the northeast & mid Atlantic. It started with your advice on weather that I thought was going to be just like the "moon charts" which turned out mostly useless for me. I've now had most success on cold fronts, drops in wind speeds, high barometer with temp drops, you have proven to know your stuff. Thank you Jeff.

Jeff I did a 3 acre hinge cut the way you have shown many of us.put a 1/2 acre kill plot.about 200 yds from it in the middle of 120 acres.put out 5 vines and scrapes pissed in all of them several times.lol.have a couple vids of the deer smelling the scrapes and pissing with the vine.so cool Jeff there are many gadgets out there for bowhunting.none beats this vine trick.free just a little work and let it do its magic lol.but Jeff I have to say that hinge cut changed everything at the upper end where we put it.all for the best.1st year owning this ground.i applied as much of your knowledge as I could.and it all looks great.i want to thank you from one bowhunter to another very appreciative.also Jeff the one side of this ground has 671 acres boarding it that no one was ever aloud to hunt.so I'm really trying to see what might come out of that ground.thats why we hinged 3 acres.between the ag fields and that 671.trying to stop some of the big boys.again Jeff thanks alot.keep pumping out these great vids and I'm gonna have me a super honeyhole.lol

You answer all the questions I ponder on every season without me having even asked them yet and I love it. So glad I found your channel. Keep on keepin' on.

Absolutely love this video! I think I speak for all of your viewers in saying thank you for sharing your wealth of knowledge!

Pretty sure we are seeing "The change" here in West Central MN. The beans and corn are dying and drying, and the bucks are becoming more active in the wooded areas, and HAMMERING my green food plots(peas, oats, rye and a few soybeans). Can't thank you enough man. It's a great feeling to have success in my very first year of "serious" land management! Makes all of the work, completely worth it!

Your videos are so informative, and I always look forward to watching them and learning. Thanks Jeff!

I rarely ever comment on things, or even subscribe. But you've got both from me today.... listened to some of your videos while at work and now into the afternoon.... really enjoy the methodicalness of your videos. Thanks!

Enjoyed another great video. Thanks Cris

You are a true genius and professional! Thank you for this free information. I've been watching you now for a month. I dont even know how I came across your channel, but thank God I did! I have 11 acres and its all woods and all woods around. No food sources either. I will start putting waterhole in May, making mock scrape in June, and planting Winter Rye(cereal not grass) Labor Day weekend and then 3 weeks later layer it. Im Southern NY

Ty for all your continuing guidance & most of all friendship

Great video very informative brother. I enjoy listening to you. Great advice.

Great information as always, love the videos on your channel... would love to see you add some of your actual hunting footage to your content...

Went out the other day after some big rains checked my 4 cams and didn't see one track except for a bobcat. My love hate relationship with the U.P. Also havnt read the whole thing yet but really liking your "ALL WEATHER WHITETAILS" book. And highly recommend it to anyone who deer hunts.

Great information! Guess that explains why I see nothing but does until mid November and then young bucks flood my cameras. Only have a few acres to hunt and about 6-8 does that frequent my food with only one or two mature bucks that move through at night. I’m only about a mile from city limits, so I’m watching all of your videos trying to figure out how to make them feel safe enough to step out in daylight!

Always fantastic videos!

Hey brother I’m behind watching. Weekend after next bow season opens here. I pray it cools down by then Amen.

Jeff, Great comments...we have learned a lot from all your guidance this year., and have made many many changes as per your recommendations. The improvements you suggested are really coming together, and we appreciate all the help during your site visit. We are going to add some more rye in a couple of weeks on the bare spots. I will have to do a little better job next year killing the weeds etc. I'm looking forward to using the golf cart to get a little closer and not disturbing the deer, after my surgery. We still of course have some challenges getting in and out to stands. thanks for all the help, Bob

always great info!

Nice, great video👍

Jeff, Thank You again for the words of wisdom,, now I have to get back to work and stop dreaming of colder mornings just around the corner.... :0).

There is way more to having a great deer population than I thought. Thank you for making this video sharing what you know with us.

I guess I'm not doing as bad as I thought lol. Thanks for the info!

I appreciate your videos very much. But the area I hunt in southwest Missouri is full of both bucks and does. A very high pressured area all around me and just last night I watched several does along with 3 bucks one being a 170 class. Year after year they have done this and just like you said the bucks are on one side and the does are on the other. We have unreal thick bedding and the only alfalfa in the area. Outside of my small kill plots acorns are the primary food. Thanks again for good information.

I have a lot of bucks on my property. I mean A lot. Anywhere from a spike to a 12 point. When I came to the property last year there where 37 deer on my property including several 4 to 6 points, 12 8 point and 4 bucks that where 9 to 12 point . And they stayed there until gun season was over. Thanks Dan

Jeff, This year I planted switchgrass in the open fields on my property with food plots in that switchgrass on the end farthest from the woods. The switchgrass made it to about 3 feet this year and next year I was hoping to add diversity to the switchgrass. What would you reccomended having in these pockets? Would you just spray grass selective herbicides and let them grow up on their own or would it be better to let some grow up and plant diversity such as conifers and different kinds of bushes in the other pockets?

I get about 3-4 different does behind my house on camera in the summer and two had fawns And I have four different bucks back there A 8,10,4, and a spike.

Its hard to manage deer in Pennsylvania where its 22 people per square mile. But if i ever trip over some land i definitely will use this advice.

Ya up here in ny it’s private land not hunted or deep deep in to thousands of acres of state land. Come to upstate and we shall go hunt state land. Great videos. Thanks

Thank you for another great video! Do you have any suggestions for resources in northeastern Washington? I have 21 acres and some unique challenges I have been facing in trying to grow my herd. Thanks!

Just a quick question for your thoughts on this. On a 40 acre parcel my family just bought, there’s a giant ag field on the north side bordering the land. On the west side is a gravel road and another ag field on the other side of the road as well, my grandparents previously owned this 40 acre parcel and it wasn’t hunted too often due to lack of really any deer staying on it. I’m just wondering if there would be any benefit to adding a couple of food plots to this land or not in the future. It would be tough to, because the only areas that could have food plots are Near the middle of the land, I could access the land from the gravel road but what I’m more concerned about is the bedding depth for does and bucks

Jeff if I screwed up and planted the winter rye too early can I mow it to ensure as I add another layer of rye here in late sept it stays low?

Great video! Any chance you have one (or can record one) for hunting big woods / flat terrain? From Tug Hill in Northern NY. BIG snow that comes early and stays late. Thanks!

Here is a question Jeff? If I plant say clover mixes, winter rye with brassicas. Great fall food plot forage. Then spring rolls around and my rye and clover is coming on good, should I spray the plots killing the clover to plant buck wheat. Because if I dont then I have spring and summer food plots? Since at least for me spring is when the new clover comes on good it seems it's a waste to even plant the clover. Thanks again for the videos!

Thanks Jeff by the way we have had some pics of does already FYI guess that’s a good thing

Yes can’t wait to layer more rye 250# more per your instructions

Jeff just baised on this information would you suggest putting in food plots later in the summer so they are active for fall and not building a summer doe herd?

Great video Jeff! I have pics of a massive 10 pointer checking out a mock scrape at 4am, 2am every 7-10 days starting last month. Public yet unpressured land. What top questions do I need to answer for myself to possibly get a shot at him? I've got buck fever!

Be safe brother GOD BLESS.

Where can I learn more about all these things you suggest? I've always had a hard time patterning deer. I have 300 acres and want to make it great for the deer.

Hey Jeff so I have food plot on my property just heavy wooded area so what do think how to bring the bucks around I have lots off does around I seen two or three bucks so far. Keep up the great work I’m going to invest into your books and going to look into your online course

I assume this holds true for areas with very little agricultural because it worked in the UP? Locals here plant summer food to grow deer because farming is so low.

Hey Jeff its me again lol. I think i got the go ahead on putting in a small plot next to some wheat. I was planning to do a 1/2 acre clover plot. Do you think this will work for the late October, November, December hunting season? Thanks in advance

Great info if you have land....really not much info to me but hope all have a great season anyway

Hey Jeff great videos. Have a question. I have a food plot in the middle of my property that I want to move because its to close to my access, what would you put in the area of the old plot. Switch grass?

Jeff, I planted a 50/50 mix of sweet peas and soy beans back in 04. I saw no bucks in the front field in front of the house nor does. As soon as the peas got a foot high we drew 10 to 12 bucks, no does, every early evening. They filtered in like clock work and I'm talking good bucks. My question is, are bucks more apt to want to forage on peas cus it was all bucks all the time.....

I live in the upper peninsula and I’m wondering I have a Barnett crossbow wondering where I should set my crossbow at in feet for good range thanks

I’m able to hunt on a wonderful private property in west-central WI of 40acres, however it isn’t mine. There is a huge social group of does, on the order 15+, and I’m not able to put in specialized food plots. Do you have any suggestions on how to attract bucks in this over populated doe area before the rut besides a well placed mock scrape?

Also what do you think bout switch grass to cover my blind will it grow in a shaded area & if not what do you think will GREAT VIDEO

Should I be worried about having no pictures of mature bucks yet this year? I have 30 acres to hunt, most of it is bedding, 10 acres never gets hunted, with a 1/2 acre food plot. I have had increasing numbers of does in the last few weeks, and a slow increase in young bucks but have yet to get a picture of a mature buck. Is this a good thing?

What if the surrounding properties have almost no bedding or cover available? In that case wouldn't you inevitably have the herd stay there all year (does and all)? If there's no other cover, where else are they going to go?

Question I hope you would see this to respond I have about 30 acres in New York how come I have giant bucks on trail cams in like July and August then they start fading away through September, October November during the hunting season hardly any big bucks just spikes in 4 points, I don't understand it. And I can have about five or six giants through July and August in velvet then come the hunting season they're gone and I mean not even catching them on trail cams anymore through the hunting season

What should you do if you have too many does? We have 25+ doe's showing up through out the year. And very small bucks.

I own 10 acres. 1 acre broken land with home and 9 all trees. How would you suggest I set it up for best hunting chances.

Last year we only had one doe and fawn. I know to many isn't good, hunting was great with just one. Didn't see a doe on watch all season. I believe we harvested 5 buck. None of the bucks should have been harvested... even my 8pt could of used another year. But these damn Amish next door don't care. Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do

I have a 22 acre parcel, and I have often felt I have too many does, usually I have 2-3 different does with fawn frequent it all year long. Last October I saw 4-7 good bucks come through. But I feel they don’t stick around because of all the doe, I don’t get bucks pics until mid October. When do you know your doe ratio is good, I don’t want to go shooting them all, but how do I find the balance!?

Did you go to college or just self research to do the land management for wildlife?

Is there anything I can plant on my food plots through the spring and summer that won't create a doe factory? I'd hate to leave the ground bare for that many months potentially allowing soil erosion. Thank you.

Is the ratio buck to doe different for different areas/states

Will Jeff ever change his shirt? Find out by tuning in on the next episode of Whitetail Habitat Solutions! Lol

I built a good buck herd on my hunting property several years ago... Each Fall I would have my choice of bucks. However, that shifted to a Spring/Summer herd, and when season would hit in the fall, they would disappear. It has stayed that way, and Fall/winter is sparce with bucks. This is without a doe factory also, it seems I start seeing more does during the rut now, but the bucks arent showing up like they used to.

Will cattle push deer out of a bedding area?

This was a complicated vid. I feel I need more explanation why bucks avoid does. Most people assume the opposite. Is it safe to say during the rut this doesn’t apply? You left out some nuances for us less experienced hunters. Comment of make a follow up vid? Liked as always.

What is that stick thing at 0:45? I've seen it in some of your other videos. Cheers and thanks for the great info!

Do you take interns over the summer?

In everyone of your videos there is a hanging stick in front of camera, almost all bucks mess with this stick, Is that exactly what its for to stop them in front of camera? or am i making to much of it , and just happens to be hanging in front of your camera

Off topic is it possible that because I have a bear patrolling the area where I installed the water holes I haven’t got any pic of bucks day or night & now also a distant size bobcat

Instead of using the watering troughs, could you dig a hole and lay in a tarp or plastic drop cloth? Obviously have to secure the tarp and cover the over hang with dirt.

Hello been following you on KZfaq for a long time now I live around Concord mi and you talk about Michigan alot was wondering if we can meet if possible I have a place I'm hunting now with a lot of big bucks on it could make for a grate video

I have a 49 acre property with 26 acres tillable, 13 acres hardwoods, 10 acres timbered low-land that seasonally floods. I have trail cam pics of 13 different young bucks and 3 mature bucks. The young bucks are spikes to basket 6 points and the 3 large mature are a huge heavy 8, nice 10 and big heavy 9. I constantly see 3-4 does with only 3 fawns see in pictures. My question is what do I do now? Do I shoot the young bucks to prevent them from breeding? Do I shoot the big bucks? How do I manage my land to continue to be a buck heavy property?

I have 52 acres that is all huntable. It was very well managed. New neighbor moved in and I lost 8 bucks that were in 3 yr old range. I am also missing does. I plant food plots and do manage my does taking only one or two a year. How do i get my herd to recover. I only have 4 bucks visiting my property no where near near mature. Solution?

This is my property’s problem exactly, the biggest bucks on my land are small six points

I am 14 and live on 15 acres 9 of which are huntable any tips on how to draw in bucks with such little land?

That's my problem. Another problem is I don't own the land. It's sad when you have neighbors who don't understand these techniques. Ive started a food plot, but with so many does they seem to always find the other plot which is about 1/2 mile away. Just stuck right now.😒

Whats the hanging stick i always see in his videos that brings bucks in. What's it comprised of? Thanks in advance.

I’m in Monroe county, not far from you. How long should I wait to hunt my property after a deer is taken? My dad shot a doe opening day and don’t want to pressure the deer off our land.

Then how do you keep does off your property

If your surrounded by severe hunting pressure, what percentage of those bucks do you think would be killed by your neighbors ? Let's say you pick up 10 bucks over the course of the season like you say is possible or should be happening. How many do you think would make it to maturity say 5years old or older?

What's the strategy of the stick hanging on a string deer sniff, what do you put in it?

What Part of the U.P. were you from? I'm from Western End.. Bessemer..

I’m on a property where i know there is deer but there is 160 acres a lot of it is a cattle field but there’s a stretch of woods with a decent size creek running through there I got one nice buck on camera late season cause I only had a camera out for 2 weeks and cows out there I killed a smaller 3 1/2 year old

UP sounds like the Adirondaks -

Just started watching your channel. Thanks for giving out all your knowledge. The question I have is on your mock scrape. Do you scent your drop stick? And what with. Enjoying your channel. Randy

I get a big buck in one of my spots pretty much every night at about 10 at night and I have no idea where he is coming from. Would you have any idea on far away he is coming from

Joined a new club to save money. It is a doe factory and the other was not and there were more bucks. Both locations do very little in the way of managing.

I don’t go into the bedding areas. I attract deer out of the area to the feeding and hunting areas. They have to have a safe place. Don’t make large changes to their habitat. I see guys making unnatural wide trails thru their properties. Animals notice changes and will sometimes avoid the area.

Yup I think we have seen 3 so far

Any tips for a 40 acre parcel surrounded on all 4 sides by rotating ag crops?

Left cameras out with no cards but I will put the cards back in come black powder because lm not getting pic of bucks is this a good idea m Good stuff Jeff thanks

I am just now seeing bucks show up and during daylight. I talked to a few neighbors and they have lost their bucks. They moved a bit early this year which works for me because archery season opens the 28th. But this early movement came with odd behavior. I have sat and watched the bucks and they are already chasing does, the does however are not ready. I watched three six points, three different ages as if they were siblings from about three years old to a yearling all six points. That yearling is going to be a brute in a few years. All three were chasing does. And that's the third time I have seen bucks doing that including a eight point that was alone. I have another six on camera that's below my tree stand and a doe trying to run him off to no avail. This is on my five acre spot that all I can do is get them to come in daily as they pass from cover to cover. I put out alfalfa for the first time to attract axis deer and that brought the bucks in and a cow of a doe, doesn't normally work that way but it did. I have another 11 acres that I am cleaning up due to family and working with the neighbors there who also hunt their five acre properties to provide better cover and food sources both natural and feeders to help us all have better deer. Small parcel hunters should try this, it can help everyone. I love being able to sit and watch deer movement daily and all year, I can with almost certainty tell which deer will come from which direction and at what times. Even the bucks were predictable until this year.

By the way there starting to hit the food plot does& a spike

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Come November if you got the doe on your land you will have the bucks

How does living on your hunting property effect deer? Driving in and out my dog on in the yard moving the tractor around. Kids playing? Just Normal life.

Hi there I neet help for my yart got bucks and buy lote of staff don't help

It's more like 2or 3 percent for sure .

What dose it cost to have you come to a property. I live in upstate New York

Is there a average ratio of buck to doe fawns born?

is this possible to accomplish on 5 acres or less?

I like the theory of attracting dispersing yearling bucks. And feel I must be doing something right since we have a fair amount of them. But what I don’t have is 2 1/2+ yr old bucks. How do I attracted them?

What does it cost to have you come to a property. I’m in upstate New York. With 100 acres