We got a stand thats creeky as hell and has been for years. It's a great spot only on a windy day. The deer hear it all the time in the wind. I KNOW it's an exception but the stand works..
I use my ATV to replenish my feeder. Usually an hour or two after i see deer come in on my trail cam. It's almost like ringing the dinner bell. Of course , i don't use it while i'm hunting only to retrieve a deer i may have shot but i do think they get used to certain sounds over a period of times. Also, the big matures won't come back around until a day or two after i fill up my feeder. They didn't get that old from being stupid. lol. Great info. I enjoyed the video. Happy hunting !
The coughing issues has never given me a problem while hunting. I, like the old man, cover my mouth and cough threw my nose actually. And Ive had deer at 25 30 yards when this has happened and yes they might look up but then go back to feeding or whatever they were doing.
That's why I'm in my stand a hour before day light. Because some people go to there stand 20 mins before day light with big head lamp on hoping they push the deer to me.
My neighbor is a lifetime hunter and bags a buck every year with an unorthodox approach. He says to walk normally in the bush as deer are not quiet themselves. He pretends he’s a buck himself making their sounds and leaving behind the same signs and he’s consistently successful. Interesting approach but it doesn’t work for me. I’m more along your approach. Whatever works and there’s more than one way to do it.
Always more than 1 way for sure, but you always have to grade a hunting approach by the track record of shooting the oldest bucks in the neighborhood...not just any buck. Big difference!
Scent…. What about peeing in the woods? I’ve read both it is a sea buster for your hunt and I’ve also read that there is no effect. I’m inclined to think it’s gotta spook them to some degree. I’d appreciate your thoughts.
On my properties I usually have to give up something. Often the ideal wind for on stand is different than the ideal wind for access? Do you take a chance during access with deer smelling you in a bedding area or open field?
I normally walk to my stands but some areas are quite a distance up and down some pretty steep hills. What about a truck (no aftermarket/loud exhaust systems)? The area in question I would classify as sub-rural, so they’re not unused to people and vehicles.
It's better to buy a few smaller tracts instead of investing in a large piece of land, in areas where big properties are the standard, cheaper too! I learned that a long time ago.
My problem is the bad access. I have to go through fields to get to the top of a ridge. Its terrible trying get there theres no way possible other than spending the night there lol.
Ok so I have a question regarding atvs, our property is a lot of steep inclines and rough terrain and most us have bad joints and long term injuries. And the distance, walking really isn’t a viable option for the first part of the entrance in. And a battery operated golf cart say just doesn’t have the power to climb some of the hills…. What’s out best way to address this. Once we hit a certain spot we can walk cuz it’s relatively flat again. But will going in part way and walking a half mile into the stand. It’s almost a one and a half mile ride just to that spot
That's why a deers ear are like oval cuped ears. sound I think is better to a deer that's like if you take your hands and cup them around your eRs and listen and it makes you hear better. I tried a hearing aid one time man it will drive you nuts you can hear everything.
I have to disagree on my property 100 acres that they are a more spooked when I walk then when I drive a quad there you’re still here” but when they heard people walk it’s a different story that’s just from my experience I have driven by there at 50 yards on the ATV they do not get spooked but once I get off it’s they takeoff
I avoid cough at all cost but if I have to, I unzip every layer and shove my face below my base layer and enclose my face, not saying it's not heard but it for sure mufflers the heck out of it.
Because of my disability’s… I have no choice but to use my ATV… and I have a permit to shoot out of it… I know it effects my Hunt… but my choices are limited… in low light conditions I have a balance problem… Add uneven ground and I’m really screwed. I try to get in hours before shooting times… and try to stay all day, So I don’t get to the field as often as I would like… spreading hunts out every three to four days instead of everyday… I wish I could change it… I wish i didn’t suffer injuries from the Global Was On Terrorism… but I always enjoy my time in the field, Successful or not… it’s a slice of the great outdoors… and for that I am thankful 👍
Man quiet Kats are expensive should just get a rad rover. It will get anywhere a quiet kat will for a 3rd of the price and the company actually has good customer service.
This may seem like a stupid question but how close is too close to use your ATV? I have no problem getting too my stand but I not up to walking in mile after mile. Just wondering where you draw your line.
Nothing drives me crazier than ATVs. Great tool to get deer out. I know a camp in NY that used to shoot lots of bucks. Not anymore. Every guy rides a quad to there stand now. Laziness has no place in deer woods.
I agree with the atv to a degree but if you use it outside of you're hunting area it seems to work my grandpa has to use one and he just rides up the field behind his house and sits in a trailer with a food plot and he does better than me sneaking in heal to toe scent killer and clothes stored in pine branches climbing a stand blah blah. I hear deer blow at me in the dark sneaking in super slow all the time
I never had anyone teach me how to hunt. I’m just a first generation hunter, hoping to pass on a legacy of sportsmanship and conservation to my boys. And I just have to say, I’m learning so much from your channel. I’ve pretty much already blown every “dont” for this year, but I’m backing off my private parcel and gonna let it heal for a bit before going back in for gun season. I’m in Oklahoma. Thanks, Jeff.
I have been hunting for 32 yrs and have to say Jeff is one of the best in what he shares .Lots of these professional hunters that have all the sponsors are pushing for their products and not always what is best for the hunters ...
I think every property is different. I have 34 acres In NJ. I killed my 2 biggest bucks driving my quad in at 4:30 am. And I parked it about 100 yards away. Or maybe it was just luck
I still say the best way to mask your scent is to smoke or at least let a cigarette burn...you are correct, deer are curious animals and it's a smell that brings them in. Try it...Thanks also for all your great tips! Appreciate your time!
Also as far as spooking deer goes, how do you ext a food plot at night if you already have a dozen deer in the field? Do you ever have somebody drive a vehicle to the field to spook deer?
I live in Pennsylvania. I do have a apple orchard I hunt and get buck on camera however for the life of me can't forgive were it beds . Any tips on how I can get him if I show you the map location ?
Great stuff Jeff- I held one mature core buck, followed your advice on so many levels, chipped away at outside stands until the wind and WX was right, Ebiked in, sat in one stand for 5 mins - winds were hinky - bailed and went across the bottom to better stand with good thermals on a legume food plot overseeded with cereal rye, he walked out at 70 ydrs - went to a licking branch at 30yrd, and I shot him at 18 yds on 26 Oct. The biggest buck of my life on my parcel. 151 4/8 on my first sit of the season in that stand// Happy Vets Day - 30 year Vet here and want to thank you for all you do for us. 🏹🦌
Sound. 💯! This year I alerted a nice buck because the quick detach plastic buckle “clapped” against my range finder when I was putting it back in the pouch. Thankfully he continued his path but just that little noise perked him right up for a few seconds.
My neighbors blew my chance at a mature 10 point last night by coming out of the bush with 2 vehicles just roaring through the bush AN HOUR BEFORE SUNSET!!!!!! It was a perfect set up and opportunity thanks to your tips Jeff and another 10 minutes he woulda be down. He circled from a bedding area up on a pine ridge south down a bottom (which is an extremely thick mess of ironwood and maple saplings flanked by white pines) inbetween that ridge and a hill that leads up to a pasture last night. My scent was blowing northwest (SE wind) into one of my pastures so he couldn't get downwind of me unless he climbed the hill and went out into open pasture. He was 5 yards from where I could shoot him and these guys came flying out of the bush and by the time the 2nd vehicle passed through the small timber cut regeneration on the neighboring land he took off like a bat out of hell crashing through that thick bottom and all I could see was white. I'm still fighting mad about it. This wasn't a one off either. Every evening I've sat in that stand those guys have come out of the bush in 2 or 3 vehicles 30 mins to 1 hr before sunset. Last week some of them were staying in a cabin back in the middle of their parcel running a generator from an hour before dark until dawn. Opening morning they were out walking the bush with several guys banging something in sequence that can only be described as sounding like pots and pans. The entire 2 weeks of gun season (2 days left as of tonigjt) has been messed right up. I've been deer hunting since I was 10 years old (22 seasons) and I've seen some stupid things but I've never seen anything as ridiculous as this crew. They were back there in the middle of their parcel the 3 days leading up to season opener sighting in their rifles. This is my first season since moving onto this homestead in big woods up here off the opeongo mountains in ontario canada and had I known or been able to see the grass Laneway into the bush running where it is I never would have set up in that spot. Though it's an amazing location. At least they don't bow hunt lol. At least I have till the end of December for that
I don't necessarily any of that technology spooks deer...but I don't believe in it enough to ever see myself using it either 😉 No matter how much someone paid me...
Its the last day before gun opener Indiana. Front just rolled through. Huntwise is at %100. Im watching youtube because the wind is no good. AND ITS KILLING ME!!!! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME!??? 😆
My area I'm hunting has a busy ATV trail... there are 2 bedding areas within 200 yards of it. A highway and 2 busy roads boarder the area. See deer from the road all the time. Got within 50 yards of 3 deer late this summer on my dirt bike in the same area. The deer just don't care, otherwise they would be running scared all the time. All the noise is great, covers up any noise I make sneaking in and out. In an area where ATVs are rare, or only out during hunting season, I agree they would spook em.
Took your advice and waited (on couch) for perfect wind/ weather to hunt my best stand. connected on a 151 inch, 233# field dressed monster this morning! Thanks for all you do, Jeff
I have 132 acres that was logged 3 years ago. I have not hunted it much at all since its been logged because it's so thick with undergrowth. Whats the best thing I can start to do this peice of property. I have just started watching your videos and I believe that you are the most genuine person I have seen on RUclips on giving people tips. Thanks Jeff
Sent control and silence and knowing how to play the wind, bring plenty milkweed good luck this season yall bucks are tailing does in southern oh right now
The buck creeped up on me. Came from behind me and to the left. Then he stared at me about 15 feet away. I thought he might charge me when he put his head down. He jump back. Then doe walked by. He backed up about 30 yards then followed doe. The doe came around the bog out into the clearing. She took about a minute to cross. Gave me lots of nice shoot chances. Then buck came across. I barely had time for a shot. Try a yell but didn't slow down. Next day fawn came up 5 feet away. I then said to fawn "What are you doing?" It looked at me funny and walked away. Then bedded down 15 feet away along side driveway. Yesterday a doe spotted me across bog in the brush. She kept bobbing her head at me then walked off and never came across the clearing. I am just old guy hunting. Red flannel sitting on a log. I am quiet. I watch a musk rat and play on phone. The buck I call Sassy because he is in woods snorting at me and kids when we are outside. I thought Sassy was the doe until I heard him snort at me. I am hunting on small parcel with lots of cover and good food sources. And the deer are used to seeing humans. Sassy scares the kids at the bus stop in the mornings. Up north on the U.p. property deer never see humans, so 200 yards and they are running.
Totally agree your access to your stand is the #1 way to spook deer. I have a stand that is located in such a good spot, that I can hunt it as often as I like, as long as there is a N NW wind. Its a thin strip of public that starts down in a canyon and ends way up top and butts up to a neighborhood of half million dollar homes. I park at the bottom and make the exhausting 40 minute hike to the top in the dark. there is a trail that hikers and tourists use to view the beautiful canyon. The trail intersects with an old logging road, that I follow for awhile, then I shift to the canyon edge and go another few hundred yards to my changing spot. The hardest part is packing all the extra clothes and heavy jacket and bibs. I tried hunting with the sweaty base layers once, but got cold 3 hours into the hunt. Once I have changed I hike straight up and climb into my stand. The buck I killed in there last season took a few hours to recover, I used my game cart and the logging road. This is my second year hunting this jem, and still no sign of another bowhunter! There is the occasional dog walker that comes from the houses, but they don't even spook the deer much. Out of my 10 stand locations, this is my favorite due to the fact that a buck can easily reach maturity here!
I'm on a buck right now he keeps out smarting me. I pick my stand and. I matter what stand I pick he keeps coming behind me and winds me and disappears. I guess if I can sit tomorrow I will be having the wind on my back
Hey brother I hinge cut my woods just like you suggest in your videos. My little 11 acres are eat up with deer. I also planted a food plot trail like you suggested in your video of the 10 acres by the golf course. I have counted over 10 to15 different bucks in my woods since 10-31-2021. Thank you.
What’s your tip for cold weather, and walking a long ways? I stop 100yds away from my stand to put cold weather bibs, after walking 1/2 to 1 mile. I work up a heavy sweat if I wear the bibs.
I know you say if you got to pee pee out the stand and I do. But I drink coffee and at times when I pee I can smell the coffee. But I have peed out of stand and had deer come in 5 mins later.
I know your not supposed to walk through food in the dark, but what do you do in a situation coming off a afternoon hunt when most of your bucks are nocturnal and wont be in the food till after dark. If you circle around the woods you can be bumping out and spooking bucks taking there time getting to the food. This always bothers me and I usually leave my stands 15min early trying to beat everybody to the fields. I still wind up putting out a few tails in the grey light, but I feel I have no other options.
Great point about the smaller parcels. I shot 3 nice bucks 3 years in a row in wood lots smaller than 10 acres in northern Ohio. This years buck came into a 5 acre woods, he was the 7th buck I saw that morning in that tiny woods. If you’re on them you’re on them and people who own tons and tons of acres that try and hunt like the guys on tv make small neighboring properties all the better.
I've made noise getting up into popples all kinds of trees up in big woods country and rattled mature bucks in 2 hours later. If you have have heard piliated wood peckers they make alot of noise including breaking sticks so I like to tap on tree etc if I accidentally make to much noise it works I still try to be quiet though lol. Thanks for all the vids. Unfortunately I couldn't find my buck I shot Monday night quartering away alot of blood backed out. Last shoot of blood 2 huge pools then only a speck 100 yds later.
Best 👍👍 video yet more like these I love learning from people who actually know their stuff like you thanks so much for all you do it truly has changed the way I do things
I finally decided its time to take a week off on my new land. May have blown it out too early, only a few nighttime bucks and never day time anymore. Tough lesson to learn but thats why i keep watching this channel!
I honestly enjoy the slow dark hike out in the mornings. It sets the mood for the hunt... don't think it'd be the same with an atv. Thanks for all the vids, those too set the mood the night before when prepping everything for the following hunt. Cheers sir.
Agree, most of the time. Just got back from SE Ohio with more poison ivy than when I went down there. All scraped and bruised, humbling. When your gps doesn’t work because of all the tight deep canyons in Appalachia that you use reliably every year in Idaho and the Midwest the walk out can be frustrating! Also, my second biggest buck this year, from central WI, came on a morning below freezing a mile in (hour and forty five minute walk). I filled my rubber boots with water after falling through a bog, and the log broke crossing the creek, sending me falling 5 ft down into 18inches of water. Phone got wet too. I would of called the hunt early because I was so cold but kept seeing deer! Going back in later this week with the rifle, lol. 130am wake up and waders this time
@@AH-mw8vi that's what I'm talking about! That hike will make more of the adventure than the shot. Sorry to hear about your poison ivy mishaps, it certainly happens. Could.always be ticks and redbugs though :) .
True! The adventure of the hunt and the feeling of being more alive is what I always tell people. I also feel more in tuned with myself, others and the Creator. I don’t care about the trophies anymore, although the goal is to shoot mature animals. I enjoy the challenge. I’ve been on plenty of easy hunts and saw a ton of animals on premier private land but my favorite hunting includes camping, a loaded heavy pack and a long walk in the dark x2 at least lol! Great hunting!
I'm in year 2 of hunting a crown grazing lease. This one has strict access control. No ATV allowed. No more than 2 guys on the 3 quarter section lease at one time. I was assigned Nov 6&7 this year. Couldn't scout before access so I planned based on last year's doe movements. I sat for the early morning. Then at 10:30 I got up and walked the ridge to see any recent scat. NADA! At the end of the ridge I walked down to the small lake. I then walked the cattle trail along the lake to find current routes to water and make a plan for the afternoon. As I walked that trail I saw a white flash about 60 yards up hill. HELLO 5X4 BUCK! Up here in Alberta they are fat this year. Bang! 😁 I've filled my mulie and whitetail tags now. Next mission after butchering tomorrow is to help them fill their tags. We all work together.
Hi Jeff. Better to access through on open field after first light or walk 400 yards through the woods to access a stand? Not blowing scent into a bedding area of course.
I've learned that when it comes to your land that the less you do to it the better. Learn the deer movement patterns and set up accordingly. Also the biggest thing you can do it play the wind. Always make sure its blowing away from where the deer will be walking. If the wind is not right for your stand either go to a different stand or don't hunt. Another thing I would add to your list is using flashlights when walking into your stands. Since I have learned to walk in the dark the number of deer I see has increased. Last weekend I had a doe standing very close to my stand as I walked in(trail cam alerted me). I was very close to that deer but I never spoked it. I couldn't see it and I don't think she could see me ether. I was able to climb into my stand and sit down and she was still very close and slowly walked away. If you can learn to walk in the dark it will pay off.
@@Kraig5821 haha you got that right. When I had a deer under my stand last weekend the thought crossed my mind what would happen if this thing charged me? What if it was buck that wanted to fight? Luckily that didn't happen. I dont have any bears or wolfs where I hunt so I know I'm good haha.
All good advice !! I use electric golf cart when I can, biggest issue I have the way my private small plot,50acres,is access without spooking, it's so diverse the deer love it ,all of it, the does bed all around the perimeter, biggest problem, I have one access point that works best on my eve stand, kill bucks every year but so far nothing bigger than an 8, I've seen up to 16 pointers on it down in the bottom swampy area's, thicker type cover, what I did this year I know it not be the best thing short term, took a,dozer and cleared out the old logging roads so I can stalk and get to my better morning stands easier
Has anyone ever used natural smoke from leaves to help with scent? My family has done this for a generation and has been proven to work in some instances. No matter what if it’s downwind it will spook, but to eliminate scent in the area. If anyone has any knowledge or opinion on this I’d love to hear it. Almost nothing can be found on the internet of this being used.
Ive used an atv when the the spot is 2+ miles back but id stop and park couple 100 yards away and walked the rest. Also i ride recreationally and pass a bunch of deer along the way and they dont spook. I think the difference is if nobody rides that woods unless hunting or if people ride all the time deer just get used to it.
I have ag fields below and above the woods. I continually spook deer in the morning or when I leave at night. Any way to get around them and not spook them?
Yes I muffle my coughs, asphalt smoke is bad for you and I smoke also...... I use an inhaler and if I breathe steady without getting worked up too much I can keep it under control but yes, coughing in the woods will spook em for sure! Question, have you ever heard a deer cough cause I have and it sounds like clearing your throat or something like that?
Supposed to get snow this weekend in central Michigan should be good hunting. I missed a good 8 point yesterday morning with my cheap center point sniper 370 crossbow. Hoping to see his grandpa instead this weekend.
Hey Jeff, I used some of your tips on Mock Scrapes and I have an 8 pointer 🦌 that has been responding to it. Closing in on him. Thanks for your help...👍
Thanks for being real about scent. Ive worked with a K9 bloodhound handler several times and have picked his brain. Your person is always generating what he calls a scent cloud just staying in one place. Everything has a scent. From what ive read deer can smell better than a blood hound.
Sometimes deer ARE used to ATVs. They can see them and know where they are because they are noisey. If someone drops you off, they watch the ATV arrive, and then leave. Same with a vehicle, or a combine. Or you can walk through them, maybe they won't run far.
I love the videos, they are usually spot on. I do disagree somewhat on the issue of coughing. I have watched numerous deer when I could not keep from coughing and they actually didn't pay much attention to it, not to mention the countless times I've sat over deer feeding and heard them cough, sneeze, or fart, sometimes all 3, and it doesn't sound noticeably different than a human. I do try my best to muffle it when I absolutely can't stop a cough, but I'm not leaving the stand because of it. I do keep something in my pack for it if I have been coughing. Of course I'm just talking about the occasional cough, not one that is continuous.
Hey Jeff. Huge fan of your channel as well as your profession. I use your tactics and tips religiously and I’m grateful for your content. In your videos I’ve seen you wear some WHS apparel and I’d love to get my hands on some to support you and your business. Would love to purchase some. Thank you!
Man, so true on the ATV’s. I was in a turkey club on the Cumberland plateau, and they had a rule, no ATV’s in the bottom during turkey season. 1200 acres of land. Inevitably, the fat lazy old guys would eventually drive into your midday setup on the road ignoring the rules. One day my son and I hiked halfway up the mountain on a bird only to have someone crank up an ATV to leave at 9am!! and spook them off. So frustrating!!!
So what about those spots where there are lots of people And the deer Like to camp out right there when there's tons a human Sent lingering around The place I am talking about is in Maine it is aShipping company so there's lots of workers coming in-and-out of a parking lot lots of truckers coming in-and-out of the parking lot But the amount of deer is crazy So they're cohabitating with humans Must be thinking it is a safe zone But my 25 acres but to rate up against it not not so safe on the other side of that fence what are your thoughts
I’ve been considering buying a quietkat. I hunt areas that have some rolling hills. I’d like to see a video of what the quietkat is capable of in hunting situation’s
Okay I have a question. I live in southern Indiana and I live on a 200 acre farm. My neighbors also farm but we do have a lot of wooded areas around us and also 20 acres of woods in my land. Deer hear the engine noise 10 months out of the year. My question is do you think that engine noise will scare them or do you think they get over it and accept it?
It's such information overload for a new hunter without any hunting buddies to help. Every spot I come up with is either bad access, bad wind, no way to get there without spooking deer. It seems like I'll never find a slot. Been out 8x this year and have yet to see a deer. It's frustrating and humbling.
dude just sit as close to the road or backyard as you legally can and wait for the deer to come down or attract them with food plots. sounds ridiculous but you wont leave scent in the actual woods or field and you wont make noise much outside normal human range
My grandpa can’t walk that well so he drives his four wheeler about half way out to my stand, right by a major bedding area that I sit on the other side of. I bet it affects my hunt a lot, but I can’t avoid it
I can not thank you enough for your passing of knowledge. I know have I stated this before but you have provided a lot of food for my family because I listened. I have a very limited window due to hunting pressure so getting it done early is essential. You help make that happen.
Man...that means so much to me and I really appreciate you watching. Most of all you bringing more venison home to the family...man, that is what it's all about! Thank you...
Jeff, what can I do about my climbing stand? It seems like it takes way too long to get it on the tree and get off the ground asap. Any tips? Video on climbers?
Another spot on video 👍
3 layers of Scentlok works for me pretty darn well
We got a stand thats creeky as hell and has been for years. It's a great spot only on a windy day. The deer hear it all the time in the wind. I KNOW it's an exception but the stand works..
I have used my grunt call with a cough. Not the best but, Better than nothing.
Great video
Severance rd. East side of 53 near cass city. I hunt near there! On shabbona rd east of 53.
It's funny you talked about cass city. That state land you talked about was right down the road from where I grew up. I know it well.
I use my ATV to replenish my feeder. Usually an hour or two after i see deer come in on my trail cam. It's almost like ringing the dinner bell. Of course , i don't use it while i'm hunting only to retrieve a deer i may have shot but i do think they get used to certain sounds over a period of times. Also, the big matures won't come back around until a day or two after i fill up my feeder. They didn't get that old from being stupid. lol. Great info. I enjoyed the video. Happy hunting !
I will Be More Quiet this year. First time able to hunt on my Ranch, had to clean it up to be able to hunt.
The coughing issues has never given me a problem while hunting. I, like the old man, cover my mouth and cough threw my nose actually. And Ive had deer at 25 30 yards when this has happened and yes they might look up but then go back to feeding or whatever they were doing.
That's why I'm in my stand a hour before day light. Because some people go to there stand 20 mins before day light with big head lamp on hoping they push the deer to me.
My neighbor is a lifetime hunter and bags a buck every year with an unorthodox approach. He says to walk normally in the bush as deer are not quiet themselves. He pretends he’s a buck himself making their sounds and leaving behind the same signs and he’s consistently successful. Interesting approach but it doesn’t work for me. I’m more along your approach. Whatever works and there’s more than one way to do it.
Always more than 1 way for sure, but you always have to grade a hunting approach by the track record of shooting the oldest bucks in the neighborhood...not just any buck. Big difference!
What's your take on Saddle hunting? Does it offer many advantages?
Scent…. What about peeing in the woods? I’ve read both it is a sea buster for your hunt and I’ve also read that there is no effect. I’m inclined to think it’s gotta spook them to some degree. I’d appreciate your thoughts.
On my properties I usually have to give up something. Often the ideal wind for on stand is different than the ideal wind for access? Do you take a chance during access with deer smelling you in a bedding area or open field?
I normally walk to my stands but some areas are quite a distance up and down some pretty steep hills. What about a truck (no aftermarket/loud exhaust systems)? The area in question I would classify as sub-rural, so they’re not unused to people and vehicles.
It's better to buy a few smaller tracts instead of investing in a large piece of land, in areas where big properties are the standard, cheaper too! I learned that a long time ago.
My problem is the bad access. I have to go through fields to get to the top of a ridge. Its terrible trying get there theres no way possible other than spending the night there lol.
Ok so I have a question regarding atvs, our property is a lot of steep inclines and rough terrain and most us have bad joints and long term injuries. And the distance, walking really isn’t a viable option for the first part of the entrance in. And a battery operated golf cart say just doesn’t have the power to climb some of the hills…. What’s out best way to address this. Once we hit a certain spot we can walk cuz it’s relatively flat again. But will going in part way and walking a half mile into the stand. It’s almost a one and a half mile ride just to that spot
What about electric ATVs
That's why a deers ear are like oval cuped ears. sound I think is better to a deer that's like if you take your hands and cup them around your eRs and listen and it makes you hear better. I tried a hearing aid one time man it will drive you nuts you can hear everything.
I have to disagree on my property 100 acres that they are a more spooked when I walk then when I drive a quad there you’re still here” but when they heard people walk it’s a different story that’s just from my experience I have driven by there at 50 yards on the ATV they do not get spooked but once I get off it’s they takeoff
You have any experience hunting florida panhandle. Its so different from hunting Indiana or Oklahoma. Its a frigging jungle.
I avoid cough at all cost but if I have to, I unzip every layer and shove my face below my base layer and enclose my face, not saying it's not heard but it for sure mufflers the heck out of it.
Such good advice...so helpful for sure!!
Because of my disability’s… I have no choice but to use my ATV… and I have a permit to shoot out of it…
I know it effects my Hunt… but my choices are limited… in low light conditions I have a balance problem…
Add uneven ground and I’m really screwed. I try to get in hours before shooting times… and try to stay all day,
So I don’t get to the field as often as I would like… spreading hunts out every three to four days instead of everyday…
I wish I could change it… I wish i didn’t suffer injuries from the Global Was On Terrorism… but I always enjoy my time in the field,
Successful or not… it’s a slice of the great outdoors… and for that I am thankful 👍
to keep deer ticks off of you on your walk in, will permethrin scare deer?
Man quiet Kats are expensive should just get a rad rover. It will get anywhere a quiet kat will for a 3rd of the price and the company actually has good customer service.
Lost a double drop tine on the draw
This may seem like a stupid question but how close is too close to use your ATV? I have no problem getting too my stand but I not up to walking in mile after mile. Just wondering where you draw your line.
Nothing drives me crazier than ATVs. Great tool to get deer out. I know a camp in NY that used to shoot lots of bucks. Not anymore. Every guy rides a quad to there stand now. Laziness has no place in deer woods.
I agree with the atv to a degree but if you use it outside of you're hunting area it seems to work my grandpa has to use one and he just rides up the field behind his house and sits in a trailer with a food plot and he does better than me sneaking in heal to toe scent killer and clothes stored in pine branches climbing a stand blah blah. I hear deer blow at me in the dark sneaking in super slow all the time
I never had anyone teach me how to hunt. I’m just a first generation hunter, hoping to pass on a legacy of sportsmanship and conservation to my boys. And I just have to say, I’m learning so much from your channel. I’ve pretty much already blown every “dont” for this year, but I’m backing off my private parcel and gonna let it heal for a bit before going back in for gun season. I’m in Oklahoma. Thanks, Jeff.
I have been hunting for 32 yrs and have to say Jeff is one of the best in what he shares .Lots of these professional hunters that have all the sponsors are pushing for their products and not always what is best for the hunters ...
@@naturescoper3936 spot on. Phonies sell gimmicks. Experts share experience and do so for the love of it.
I think every property is different. I have 34 acres In NJ. I killed my 2 biggest bucks driving my quad in at 4:30 am. And I parked it about 100 yards away. Or maybe it was just luck
I still say the best way to mask your scent is to smoke or at least let a cigarette burn...you are correct, deer are curious animals and it's a smell that brings them in. Try it...Thanks also for all your great tips! Appreciate your time!
I understand not taking an atv when you go out hunting. How do you feel about about using one to pull cards and too put out corn?
Also as far as spooking deer goes, how do you ext a food plot at night if you already have a dozen deer in the field? Do you ever have somebody drive a vehicle to the field to spook deer?
I live in Pennsylvania. I do have a apple orchard I hunt and get buck on camera however for the life of me can't forgive were it beds . Any tips on how I can get him if I show you the map location ?
Yeah I've spooked a couple deer coughing
Great stuff Jeff- I held one mature core buck, followed your advice on so many levels, chipped away at outside stands until the wind and WX was right, Ebiked in, sat in one stand for 5 mins - winds were hinky - bailed and went across the bottom to better stand with good thermals on a legume food plot overseeded with cereal rye, he walked out at 70 ydrs - went to a licking branch at 30yrd, and I shot him at 18 yds on 26 Oct. The biggest buck of my life on my parcel. 151 4/8 on my first sit of the season in that stand// Happy Vets Day - 30 year Vet here and want to thank you for all you do for us. 🏹🦌
What do you use to cover up your blinds
I also feel blessed using my quietkat in Wisconsin, public Vernon County.
Extremely blessed, right? Good luck Tom!! Can't wait for the gun opener 😊
Sound. 💯! This year I alerted a nice buck because the quick detach plastic buckle “clapped” against my range finder when I was putting it back in the pouch. Thankfully he continued his path but just that little noise perked him right up for a few seconds.
My neighbors blew my chance at a mature 10 point last night by coming out of the bush with 2 vehicles just roaring through the bush AN HOUR BEFORE SUNSET!!!!!! It was a perfect set up and opportunity thanks to your tips Jeff and another 10 minutes he woulda be down. He circled from a bedding area up on a pine ridge south down a bottom (which is an extremely thick mess of ironwood and maple saplings flanked by white pines) inbetween that ridge and a hill that leads up to a pasture last night. My scent was blowing northwest (SE wind) into one of my pastures so he couldn't get downwind of me unless he climbed the hill and went out into open pasture. He was 5 yards from where I could shoot him and these guys came flying out of the bush and by the time the 2nd vehicle passed through the small timber cut regeneration on the neighboring land he took off like a bat out of hell crashing through that thick bottom and all I could see was white. I'm still fighting mad about it. This wasn't a one off either. Every evening I've sat in that stand those guys have come out of the bush in 2 or 3 vehicles 30 mins to 1 hr before sunset. Last week some of them were staying in a cabin back in the middle of their parcel running a generator from an hour before dark until dawn. Opening morning they were out walking the bush with several guys banging something in sequence that can only be described as sounding like pots and pans. The entire 2 weeks of gun season (2 days left as of tonigjt) has been messed right up. I've been deer hunting since I was 10 years old (22 seasons) and I've seen some stupid things but I've never seen anything as ridiculous as this crew. They were back there in the middle of their parcel the 3 days leading up to season opener sighting in their rifles. This is my first season since moving onto this homestead in big woods up here off the opeongo mountains in ontario canada and had I known or been able to see the grass Laneway into the bush running where it is I never would have set up in that spot. Though it's an amazing location. At least they don't bow hunt lol. At least I have till the end of December for that
Jeff - Any encounters with Ventti yet?
Do you think ozonics works or spooks deer ?
I don't necessarily any of that technology spooks deer...but I don't believe in it enough to ever see myself using it either 😉 No matter how much someone paid me...
Its the last day before gun opener Indiana. Front just rolled through. Huntwise is at %100. Im watching youtube because the wind is no good. AND ITS KILLING ME!!!! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME!??? 😆
My area I'm hunting has a busy ATV trail... there are 2 bedding areas within 200 yards of it. A highway and 2 busy roads boarder the area. See deer from the road all the time. Got within 50 yards of 3 deer late this summer on my dirt bike in the same area. The deer just don't care, otherwise they would be running scared all the time.
All the noise is great, covers up any noise I make sneaking in and out.
In an area where ATVs are rare, or only out during hunting season, I agree they would spook em.
Wow what a wealth of knowledge from experience! Your’ve earned my subscription. Thanks
Took your advice and waited (on couch) for perfect wind/ weather to hunt my best stand. connected on a 151 inch, 233# field dressed monster this morning! Thanks for all you do, Jeff
Just wanted to thank you. I shot my best buck, a decent 9 pointer, a week ago. All your videos helped me harvest my buck a lot.
Thanks Jeff. I continue to pray for you and your journey. Good Luck to you now and always! Bob
Haven't watched it already smarter
I have 132 acres that was logged 3 years ago. I have not hunted it much at all since its been logged because it's so thick with undergrowth. Whats the best thing I can start to do this peice of property. I have just started watching your videos and I believe that you are the most genuine person I have seen on RUclips on giving people tips. Thanks Jeff
Sent control and silence and knowing how to play the wind, bring plenty milkweed good luck this season yall bucks are tailing does in southern oh right now
The buck creeped up on me. Came from behind me and to the left. Then he stared at me about 15 feet away. I thought he might charge me when he put his head down. He jump back. Then doe walked by. He backed up about 30 yards then followed doe. The doe came around the bog out into the clearing. She took about a minute to cross. Gave me lots of nice shoot chances. Then buck came across. I barely had time for a shot. Try a yell but didn't slow down. Next day fawn came up 5 feet away. I then said to fawn "What are you doing?" It looked at me funny and walked away. Then bedded down 15 feet away along side driveway. Yesterday a doe spotted me across bog in the brush. She kept bobbing her head at me then walked off and never came across the clearing. I am just old guy hunting. Red flannel sitting on a log. I am quiet. I watch a musk rat and play on phone. The buck I call Sassy because he is in woods snorting at me and kids when we are outside. I thought Sassy was the doe until I heard him snort at me. I am hunting on small parcel with lots of cover and good food sources. And the deer are used to seeing humans. Sassy scares the kids at the bus stop in the mornings. Up north on the U.p. property deer never see humans, so 200 yards and they are running.
Totally agree your access to your stand is the #1 way to spook deer. I have a stand that is located in such a good spot, that I can hunt it as often as I like, as long as there is a N NW wind. Its a thin strip of public that starts down in a canyon and ends way up top and butts up to a neighborhood of half million dollar homes.
I park at the bottom and make the exhausting 40 minute hike to the top in the dark. there is a trail that hikers and tourists use to view the beautiful canyon. The trail intersects with an old logging road, that I follow for awhile, then I shift to the canyon edge and go another few hundred yards to my changing spot.
The hardest part is packing all the extra clothes and heavy jacket and bibs. I tried hunting with the sweaty base layers once, but got cold 3 hours into the hunt. Once I have changed I hike straight up and climb into my stand. The buck I killed in there last season took a few hours to recover, I used my game cart and the logging road.
This is my second year hunting this jem, and still no sign of another bowhunter! There is the occasional dog walker that comes from the houses, but they don't even spook the deer much. Out of my 10 stand locations, this is my favorite due to the fact that a buck can easily reach maturity here!
I'm on a buck right now he keeps out smarting me. I pick my stand and. I matter what stand I pick he keeps coming behind me and winds me and disappears. I guess if I can sit tomorrow I will be having the wind on my back
Actually I've sat in the tree and watched deer cough...but yea good point
Hey brother I hinge cut my woods just like you suggest in your videos. My little 11 acres are eat up with deer. I also planted a food plot trail like you suggested in your video of the 10 acres by the golf course. I have counted over 10 to15 different bucks in my woods since 10-31-2021. Thank you.
What’s your tip for cold weather, and walking a long ways? I stop 100yds away from my stand to put cold weather bibs, after walking 1/2 to 1 mile. I work up a heavy sweat if I wear the bibs.
I know you say if you got to pee pee out the stand and I do. But I drink coffee and at times when I pee I can smell the coffee. But I have peed out of stand and had deer come in 5 mins later.
I know your not supposed to walk through food in the dark, but what do you do in a situation coming off a afternoon hunt when most of your bucks are nocturnal and wont be in the food till after dark. If you circle around the woods you can be bumping out and spooking bucks taking there time getting to the food. This always bothers me and I usually leave my stands 15min early trying to beat everybody to the fields. I still wind up putting out a few tails in the grey light, but I feel I have no other options.
Great point about the smaller parcels. I shot 3 nice bucks 3 years in a row in wood lots smaller than 10 acres in northern Ohio. This years buck came into a 5 acre woods, he was the 7th buck I saw that morning in that tiny woods. If you’re on them you’re on them and people who own tons and tons of acres that try and hunt like the guys on tv make small neighboring properties all the better.
Amen to that Clayton...all so true!! I love small parcels...and those using ATVs around the lands that I hunt 😊
Good morning Jeff. Hope you are having a great season! Thanks for the awesome content
Thanks Josh, Good morning! I hope you are too, and you are very welcome!!
I've made noise getting up into popples all kinds of trees up in big woods country and rattled mature bucks in 2 hours later. If you have have heard piliated wood peckers they make alot of noise including breaking sticks so I like to tap on tree etc if I accidentally make to much noise it works I still try to be quiet though lol. Thanks for all the vids. Unfortunately I couldn't find my buck I shot Monday night quartering away alot of blood backed out. Last shoot of blood 2 huge pools then only a speck 100 yds later.
Lol I know that area hunted quite a bit in argyle...
How come my most active days are the days huntwise tells me i wint see anything lol
Way quieter than atv..not Indiana
Spell check? ⤵️ did that!
Best 👍👍 video yet more like these I love learning from people who actually know their stuff like you thanks so much for all you do it truly has changed the way I do things
Thanks a lot Denny, I hope that you had s great sit with your son the other night 😊
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 we did saw 2 nice bucks just not the one I'm looking for hope the search for venti is going well
I finally decided its time to take a week off on my new land. May have blown it out too early, only a few nighttime bucks and never day time anymore. Tough lesson to learn but thats why i keep watching this channel!
I honestly enjoy the slow dark hike out in the mornings. It sets the mood for the hunt... don't think it'd be the same with an atv. Thanks for all the vids, those too set the mood the night before when prepping everything for the following hunt. Cheers sir.
Agree, most of the time. Just got back from SE Ohio with more poison ivy than when I went down there. All scraped and bruised, humbling. When your gps doesn’t work because of all the tight deep canyons in Appalachia that you use reliably every year in Idaho and the Midwest the walk out can be frustrating! Also, my second biggest buck this year, from central WI, came on a morning below freezing a mile in (hour and forty five minute walk). I filled my rubber boots with water after falling through a bog, and the log broke crossing the creek, sending me falling 5 ft down into 18inches of water. Phone got wet too. I would of called the hunt early because I was so cold but kept seeing deer! Going back in later this week with the rifle, lol. 130am wake up and waders this time
@@AH-mw8vi that's what I'm talking about! That hike will make more of the adventure than the shot. Sorry to hear about your poison ivy mishaps, it certainly happens. Could.always be ticks and redbugs though :) .
True! The adventure of the hunt and the feeling of being more alive is what I always tell people. I also feel more in tuned with myself, others and the Creator. I don’t care about the trophies anymore, although the goal is to shoot mature animals. I enjoy the challenge. I’ve been on plenty of easy hunts and saw a ton of animals on premier private land but my favorite hunting includes camping, a loaded heavy pack and a long walk in the dark x2 at least lol! Great hunting!
My buddy never see's big bucks when he hunts...........he's on his cell phone texting in the stand.
I'm in year 2 of hunting a crown grazing lease. This one has strict access control. No ATV allowed. No more than 2 guys on the 3 quarter section lease at one time. I was assigned Nov 6&7 this year.
Couldn't scout before access so I planned based on last year's doe movements. I sat for the early morning. Then at 10:30 I got up and walked the ridge to see any recent scat. NADA! At the end of the ridge I walked down to the small lake. I then walked the cattle trail along the lake to find current routes to water and make a plan for the afternoon. As I walked that trail I saw a white flash about 60 yards up hill. HELLO 5X4 BUCK! Up here in Alberta they are fat this year. Bang! 😁
I've filled my mulie and whitetail tags now. Next mission after butchering tomorrow is to help them fill their tags. We all work together.
Hi Jeff. Better to access through on open field after first light or walk 400 yards through the woods to access a stand? Not blowing scent into a bedding area of course.
The cough is the worst.
I've learned that when it comes to your land that the less you do to it the better. Learn the deer movement patterns and set up accordingly. Also the biggest thing you can do it play the wind. Always make sure its blowing away from where the deer will be walking. If the wind is not right for your stand either go to a different stand or don't hunt. Another thing I would add to your list is using flashlights when walking into your stands. Since I have learned to walk in the dark the number of deer I see has increased. Last weekend I had a doe standing very close to my stand as I walked in(trail cam alerted me). I was very close to that deer but I never spoked it. I couldn't see it and I don't think she could see me ether. I was able to climb into my stand and sit down and she was still very close and slowly walked away. If you can learn to walk in the dark it will pay off.
Yep (walking in the dark), just started doing that this year. I must say it is a little spooky at times though.
@@Kraig5821 haha you got that right. When I had a deer under my stand last weekend the thought crossed my mind what would happen if this thing charged me? What if it was buck that wanted to fight? Luckily that didn't happen. I dont have any bears or wolfs where I hunt so I know I'm good haha.
All good advice !! I use electric golf cart when I can, biggest issue I have the way my private small plot,50acres,is access without spooking, it's so diverse the deer love it ,all of it, the does bed all around the perimeter, biggest problem, I have one access point that works best on my eve stand, kill bucks every year but so far nothing bigger than an 8, I've seen up to 16 pointers on it down in the bottom swampy area's, thicker type cover, what I did this year I know it not be the best thing short term, took a,dozer and cleared out the old logging roads so I can stalk and get to my better morning stands easier
Has anyone ever used natural smoke from leaves to help with scent? My family has done this for a generation and has been proven to work in some instances. No matter what if it’s downwind it will spook, but to eliminate scent in the area. If anyone has any knowledge or opinion on this I’d love to hear it. Almost nothing can be found on the internet of this being used.
Ive used an atv when the the spot is 2+ miles back but id stop and park couple 100 yards away and walked the rest. Also i ride recreationally and pass a bunch of deer along the way and they dont spook. I think the difference is if nobody rides that woods unless hunting or if people ride all the time deer just get used to it.
I have ag fields below and above the woods. I continually spook deer in the morning or when I leave at night. Any way to get around them and not spook them?
Yes I muffle my coughs, asphalt smoke is bad for you and I smoke also...... I use an inhaler and if I breathe steady without getting worked up too much I can keep it under control but yes, coughing in the woods will spook em for sure! Question, have you ever heard a deer cough cause I have and it sounds like clearing your throat or something like that?
Need to plant a perennial screen for access on my food. With switchgrass getting 4-5 ft. Tall is that enough or what do you suggest
Supposed to get snow this weekend in central Michigan should be good hunting. I missed a good 8 point yesterday morning with my cheap center point sniper 370 crossbow. Hoping to see his grandpa instead this weekend.
Hey Jeff, I used some of your tips on Mock Scrapes and I have an 8 pointer 🦌 that has been responding to it. Closing in on him. Thanks for your help...👍
Thanks for being real about scent. Ive worked with a K9 bloodhound handler several times and have picked his brain. Your person is always generating what he calls a scent cloud just staying in one place. Everything has a scent. From what ive read deer can smell better than a blood hound.
Sometimes deer ARE used to ATVs. They can see them and know where they are because they are noisey. If someone drops you off, they watch the ATV arrive, and then leave. Same with a vehicle, or a combine. Or you can walk through them, maybe they won't run far.
I love the videos, they are usually spot on. I do disagree somewhat on the issue of coughing. I have watched numerous deer when I could not keep from coughing and they actually didn't pay much attention to it, not to mention the countless times I've sat over deer feeding and heard them cough, sneeze, or fart, sometimes all 3, and it doesn't sound noticeably different than a human. I do try my best to muffle it when I absolutely can't stop a cough, but I'm not leaving the stand because of it. I do keep something in my pack for it if I have been coughing. Of course I'm just talking about the occasional cough, not one that is continuous.
Hey Jeff. Huge fan of your channel as well as your profession. I use your tactics and tips religiously and I’m grateful for your content. In your videos I’ve seen you wear some WHS apparel and I’d love to get my hands on some to support you and your business. Would love to purchase some. Thank you!
That was a real good talk about number 1, people don't let the amount of hunters set in unless they hear it from someone else! Thanks for that!
Number 1 way most people spook deer.... Hunting even though the wind is wrong.
Man, so true on the ATV’s. I was in a turkey club on the Cumberland plateau, and they had a rule, no ATV’s in the bottom during turkey season. 1200 acres of land. Inevitably, the fat lazy old guys would eventually drive into your midday setup on the road ignoring the rules. One day my son and I hiked halfway up the mountain on a bird only to have someone crank up an ATV to leave at 9am!! and spook them off. So frustrating!!!
Any comment about Arkansas? You dance around Arkansas all the time lol! Thanks for the videos.
I use my mountain bike, elct. is too much $$ for me.
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So what about those spots where there are lots of people And the deer Like to camp out right there when there's tons a human Sent lingering around The place I am talking about is in Maine it is aShipping company so there's lots of workers coming in-and-out of a parking lot lots of truckers coming in-and-out of the parking lot But the amount of deer is crazy So they're cohabitating with humans Must be thinking it is a safe zone But my 25 acres but to rate up against it not not so safe on the other side of that fence what are your thoughts
I’ve been considering buying a quietkat. I hunt areas that have some rolling hills. I’d like to see a video of what the quietkat is capable of in hunting situation’s
Okay I have a question. I live in southern Indiana and I live on a 200 acre farm. My neighbors also farm but we do have a lot of wooded areas around us and also 20 acres of woods in my land. Deer hear the engine noise 10 months out of the year. My question is do you think that engine noise will scare them or do you think they get over it and accept it?
It's such information overload for a new hunter without any hunting buddies to help. Every spot I come up with is either bad access, bad wind, no way to get there without spooking deer. It seems like I'll never find a slot. Been out 8x this year and have yet to see a deer. It's frustrating and humbling.
dude just sit as close to the road or backyard as you legally can and wait for the deer to come down or attract them with food plots. sounds ridiculous but you wont leave scent in the actual woods or field and you wont make noise much outside normal human range
My grandpa can’t walk that well so he drives his four wheeler about half way out to my stand, right by a major bedding area that I sit on the other side of. I bet it affects my hunt a lot, but I can’t avoid it
I can not thank you enough for your passing of knowledge. I know have I stated this before but you have provided a lot of food for my family because I listened. I have a very limited window due to hunting pressure so getting it done early is essential. You help make that happen.
Man...that means so much to me and I really appreciate you watching. Most of all you bringing more venison home to the family...man, that is what it's all about! Thank you...
Jeff, what can I do about my climbing stand? It seems like it takes way too long to get it on the tree and get off the ground asap. Any tips? Video on climbers?