As a first generation hunter, I want to thank you so much for posting this video. currently planning my first hunt here in Texas, and I'll tell you, it's very intimidating going out for my first time. your guidance is helping me and my son out tremendously, and for that I say thank you!

Another great video by Seans Outdoors, always a pleasure. God Bless and good luck this year. Keep the videos coming!

Great tips Sean, and a lot of your tips also apply to me, who is blessed with private land. Good luck this year and may your hunts be blessed with success!

Wow, first video i've seen from this guy and he does a very good job. Thanks for the great tips. Wish i wasnt watching this 1 month before i go into the woods.

Thanks for the time you take in making these videos. I am an avid hunter also but it is good to get another perspective on tactics.

This last year was my introduction to hunting at age 45. I didn't get anything, duck, grouse, rabbit - nothing. Public land is like a parking lot. I will take some of your ideas and try them next year. That means more bushwacking and swamps. Looks like I'm gonna get my feet wet!

Great tips! I hunt public land and I appreciate your insight.

Great video! A good refresher!

great advice on hunting public land! i will def keep your tips in mind when im out there this year. i cant believe its almost that time of the year again! good luck and be safe this year on your hunting season!

Awesome video and great information. Thanks for telling others some of your knowledge. God bless.

Hey Sean thanks for this vid! as a rookie hunter living in western pa(beaver) I really learned alot. I'm so pumped for opening day! Can't wait

Great tips! Especially having multiple locations and setups

Thanks! Very helpful.

great video, you're one story about your friend getting on at 11 an hour after he got to the stand reminds me of my uncles buck. He was hunting public land in PA and he was drinking at the cabin the night before. everyone got up early and went he woke up around 11. walked up a hill and sat down on a log. only 5 minutes went by and a 140" 11pt came running down the hill, he thinks it got pushed by people deeper in. but it's crazy how things work out, ill def be using your tips thanks!

great video and tips! I hunt PA game lands and it's tough for sure... no sign of the rut in York right now but sure love the time in the woods and will be thinking of all of your tips this Saturday!👍🎯✌

I love your videos Sean. I walked upon a buck once and he jumped out of the brush into plain sight and then stopped to look at me or what spooked him. I was able to take the shot. I also hunt in public land here in Kansas City.

Awesome video Sean!

Thank you man, very helpful info. :)

Another great video

Thanks for tip, good luck

Thanks for sharing brother. Hope you have a great successful season. God Bless

Good tips Sean!

Good tips Sean. In our area of Nor. Mn., I like using the bottle necks, and structure created in the back country swamp land by the forest engineers, the Beaver. I also use bigger Beaver dams as natural bridges to get into very thick areas were no one else gets to. Thanks again! DB.

sounds like youre hunting near me. Best tip video ive found on public land hunting.

Great video. Thank you. I have a cousin who does alot of what you mentioned in this video and he is successful on public land. Also just want to say I hunt privately owned land deep south Louisiana so it is very swampy. Tough to hunt and lots of deep water to cross but no one hunts the property. myself and a very few others have permission to be on the property.

Very good info! I've never hunted public land before and lost my lease. I may have to try public land this year in Texas!

Wow! I live in Cook Forest, PA and primarily hunt in State game lands. Mountain forest hunting where I live and Allegheny Nat'l Forest just 5 minutes up the road. Great way to think about tree stands by others and find the best placement when the deer try and avoid the hunter tree stand that was just put up a week before season comes in to drive the deer towards me! People come from all over to hunt this area. I climb what I call heart attack hill and cross rivers where I know the deer feel safe. Pressure comes from other hunters looking for easy access points and drive the deer to me. That's how I get my doe's. Patience Lisa. Wait for the buck and don't take your first shot at a large doe. If you do take a doe leave the tarcal glands to cover my scent.

Great video and information

that's what I thought happened good job on that I done the same thing last year

Good job man God bless you

pretty much my formula, looking forward to a super successful year, been checking and it looks like a bumper crop of acorns in all my early season spots. Come on October!!!

excellent video thanks

good job

Nice vid! I like to get in early on public land. Like sasquatch gonna get me early. Then the woods settle, and I wait on some boob to come crunching in around dawn looking for a deer. Instead they push one to me. That's worked out many times. I also like to get in around 9am and set up around the main parking areas like someone else said for the same reason. Then go in to my areas around 11am or so. Deer often move around 1pm It seems, long after everyone has left. Pouring rain even better.

Good tips. I hunt California public land for black tail deer, that's a whole different challenge.

I just go where my buddy Rusty points me. He hunts that land more than anybody else. You know, he moves like a deer. Sometimes I think I am by myself and he just appears.

thanks!

Some great tips here the wader one is my go to. If you walk a mile from your vehicle you eliminate almost 90% of the other hunters. Another one is don't hunt opening morning especially gun opener but drive around and look where other hunters are. A lot of hunters especially gun hunters hunt the same place year after year. Than scout where they didnt go. Or instead of parking at the public hunting parking lot park on the road.

Great Video Sean, thank you. You mention setting up multiple stands, covering lots of ground, and accessing more remote areas. Do you use a GPS unit to keep track of your spots and make sure you don't get turned around in the woods? Thanks for the advice!

Good tips. I hunt public land in the deep suburbs of Metro Detroit. A lot of pressure but the deer are there. I quit watching the "pro hunting" shows long ago. Anyone can hunt from a ridge line overlooking 5000 acres of corn or soybeans or on a ranch if given the opportunity. What I am amazed at is how tight lipped sportsman are about lending information. I hang out at gun and archery shops trying to learn (I do not come from a hunting family and we don't have land) and they are very hush-hush as if I'm going to hunt in their spot on their private land. I've looked for hunting mentors and some people want $25/hour, cash for their time. No thanks. Videos like this definitely help.

Thanks for a great video. First-time hunter here looking for some useful strategies and you've provided heaps to think about. Do you have particular thoughts regarding the use of these approaches in the Rockies?

thanks for the reply Sean. Didn't realize you had a website, I'll be sure to check it out. Are you able to turn this passion of yours into a full-time entrepreneurial endeavor?

Be in your stand when others are moving, go a little deeper in the woods than others. My group's longtime hunting location recently turned to shit. ATV riders no longer care about the ban during hunting season. Other hunters have opted to be more cutthroat, stealing blinds/bait etc. Unfortunately, some of the worst gun owners are hunters

Hey Shawn how are you man? I'm really really pissed off this season. Reason is......I put in a lot of time money and effort and decided to hunt at a "friend" of mine private property which I met through my hunting club upstate NY Monticello So every year prior to this one I hunted with the club which we have about 800 acres and there’s only 24 members so this year I hunted not that far at this guys property he has 64 acres so I put in a lot of time money and effort to put up tree stands and cameras going upstate New York from Brooklyn New York every week checking the cameras out doing a lot of work and finally the season comes we hunted hard for a couple of nice bucks that we are running around we had them on camera nice one 120” 130” so opening day comes so we started hunting like crazy every chance we had I was upstate New York so After a few weekends during bow I see him looking out the window at night where he threw food in front of his window at his house all of a sudden a nice buck comes out with one doe chasing around he finally stops what does he do picks up the crossbow and shoots it from 15 yards at night 11 o’clock at night through the window of his house I couldn’t believe when I seen that so I don’t know what to do now so next morning I told him just leave it the next morning he go out there brings the deer and guts him i don’t know what to do I have all my stuff in his house ...long story short gun season comes and again a monster buck and night puts up feed comes right in front of his window 5 yards and he shoots it with a 7 mm that’s it man I am fuming so next day I just packed up my shit then I drove back to Brooklyn and I’m like I’m done with these motherfuckers I got a buy my own property I am just so disgusted after he was talking to other people on how he shot these two bucks “legit” which it was at night of course Then another good friend of his does th same thing and shot possibly one of the biggest bucks shot this year upstate ny at night through his window different property WTH is going on And the way they bull shit to others on how they shot it legit just makes me wanting to punch them in their faces But like I said from now on I will definitely do a hunting trip Illinois Ohio etc once a year until I buy my own property upstate..... BTW I shot a small 6 LEGIT last day of bow to put meat in freezer

So when do you normally set up a tree stand for a certain spot? How late is too late? I was thinking that it's almost never too early to do it but it's possible that the deer could switch to a new pattern or food source by the time the season comes around. I'm also pretty loud trying to hang a set so I will have to take that into consideration if I'd decide to hang one close to a bedding area or during a time when I will want to hunt the stand almost immediately.

I don't even use trail cams. I simply go blind, but hunting scrapes, bedding areas, and food sources.

I only hunt public land and last year missed a monster buck. What are my chances I'll see him again in that area? This was during gun season he was with a does, should I hunt that same spot again? Or should I try to hunt the are I think he might of came from? Very informative videos, good job..thanks

Any tips for small public hunting areas? I am trying to hunt an area maybe 1/2 mile wide by 1 mile long with many public hunting entrances.

Great tips, it all comes down to being at the right place at the right time. I've tried and tried to hunt these 160" public land bucks around here, it's nearly impossible, I miles back into the woods Hunting, and it all comes down to right place right time. Although like you said in the video Hunting where people don't go, I hunt in the thickest stuff I can find, I've managed to see more deer than most Hunting around here, would you happen to have any advice on Hunting late season mature bucks? So far I've seen 8 does and 2 bucks this entire season and I hunt probably 3-5 times a week and there's not many deer, where do the deer go late season? And is Hunting small springs and mountain runoffs good for Hunting?

Do the winds in the woods change frequently or can you usually bet on them being the same?

Great video! Two questions, are you not afraid of the bears? How did you shoot that deer in the bottom of his chest? Was is on a hill or ridge?

how in the world did your arrow go in upwards in the does belly did you do a spine shot and follow through with a lung shot as she was on the ground

The area I hunt,is packed with ppl.I've hunted it for over 30yrs.I know this place better then my home.Just ask anyone.Well,from my experience, most parking lots,can be the best place to be.I'm not kidding!! Most take yr and two yr olds.Me I'm taking 4n5 yr olds.90%,of my spots are no more the 150yrds,from the parking lot.I watch everyone,where they go,how they approach. Its real simple.I'm climb trees,right next to the parking spot.Ppl laughing at me,asking what I see.I can't say a word!!Now in the parking lots I take my tripod n camera out."shoot I'm just a bird watcher.lol..And I NEVER TELL ANYONE WHAT I SHOOT!I did that once.Then my stands come up missing. Funny thing is,there stealing my stuff,but I'm shooting deer.

I've never seen EGGcorn's where I hunt in Vermont lol. Maybe that's what I'm doing wrong!!!!!

What should I do if I’ve hunted the same spot twice and can hear a buck grunting but I cannot draw him out with grunting or rattling?

at 0:56 can you explain the shot? I can see its a kill shot. but how did you get that low on the deer ? Was she climbing a tree ?

How did you get that shot angle on that doe?

So I recently found a late season bow hunting spot in a area that is normally heavily pressured. Im pretty sure that It is just outside of where the bulk of the pressure comes from. I hunted the area twice and had no action. After the second hunt which was a morning hunt i decided to scout some more and actually bumped a bedded buck that i believe is working the scrape and rub line that i found. He was about 80 yards down wind of his scrape. The area that i bumped him in was actually where i had marked a potential bedding area. I know he didn't see me and i would like to believe he didn't smell me. I think he heard me. He was bedded on the other side of a fallen tree with the wind to his back. I hope that I didnt disturb him too much. What I decided to do was leave my trail camera over looking his scrape and give the area some time to cool off. I sprayed my camera with some cover scent. Do you think i should have handled the situation differently? I am hunting Sherburne WMA in Louisiana. Very hard hunting here especially regarding the crazy weather.

How did you shoot that 4yr old doe on an upward angle like that?

Sean, Can I ask where you hunted in New York? I'm going to give this a shot (no pun intended) I have a huge amount of public acreage to utilize here in central NY. Especially to bowhunt.. they don't get pressure until firearm.. I use a climber as we're not suppose to use ladder or chain-on leaving them in the woods. Thanks for sharing

Any good public land hunting in N cali?

In the Adirondacks, there's tons of state land. Down here, in the lower southern tier, forget it. I live in Southern Dutchess, and it sucks. The land is poorly managed, and the number of hunters outnumber the acres available. Excessive development has also put a beating on this area, which has forced many hunters I know, right out of the sport. I'm afraid I'm next. I'm actually the last of four family members who once hunted. They have literally built us right out of the sport, and it has also resulted in a 50% reduction in deer harvest in this area. Quite frankly, the DEC doesn't give a damn about the lower portion of the state, just the Adirondacks.

how can I get a Sean's outdoor adventure hat?

How did you shoot that doe that low?

What gun would you recommend me buying for a first time deer hunter?

So step one is drive by hunting spots and scout....okay let me jump in my car and drive....5 hours later.... ya kinda hard to do sometimes but still fun :)

what state are you hunting in?

What month do acorns fall?

the constantly changing background is distracting, good advice, keep in mind that not everyone hunts from a deer stand or hunts close to home

Anywhere around albany?

how many pounds are you using

Took two bucks last year that were hanging by a cabin.

how did you shoot her from underneath

Shouldn't you be busy coaching the LA Rams?

I'm scared I'm gonna get shot public hunting

you ever hunt in Ohio or Indiana?

Lol. Eggcorns.

Dude, it's acorn not eggcorns.

Lol

Green screen

He’s not a real hunter. He can’t go out in the woods. He has to use a green screen