Hey Jeff, I love watching your videos and learning. I’m 17 years old. This is my fourth year hunting and I have 116 acres and Indiana all to myself. Trying to avoid putting any pressure on my two ladder stands . Thank you for all your advice
Put more stands up. Because of wind. Find or create the x pattern of movement. Sit along the path and not just at the destinations. Hunt the weather. If you can, get cell cams and learn the mature buck patterns. Once established, only go when you know he is coming through to minimize pressure. Say from the east in the am is his common path, use that data. Probably most importantly don’t kill 3.5 year olds no matter how nice they look. Just pass and wait on the ones he talks about that are on the move prowling late rut until you have several core 3.5 year olds that feel safe. Good luck and I hope you stick with it.
From Batesville down south by Kentucky, if you don't pressure your area deer will flock to it. Over hunting in our state is huge if you don't pressure your area deer will naturally go there because all the area around you is pressured, best of luck!!
As someone who went out my first year bow hunting not knowing anything about it and was fortunate enough to kill my personal best to date bye raddling him in in early November i went out out the next 2 years doing everything a bow hunter shouldnt and wondering why i wasnt seeing deer i started watching ur videos last year and learned so much about deer and their movement i took what u talk about and got a beautiful deer last year and seem to understand how my property i hunt works thank you for everything's and keep it up! Happy hunting and good luck this year
68 retired hunt last 4 days October and first 2 weeks of November in south east Nebraska. Have 5 farms all to myself (family). Great video always learning been deer hunting over 40 years archery ONLY for all of it. Life is great 🦌🦌🏹🏹
@@Lewisdovefam at my age I just go out and sit with the best wind for the day and see what comes. I have 28 ladder stands and I saddle hunt so really have unlimited places to hunt. I just enjoy nature with every sit. Good luck hunting this year 🏹🦌🙏
I had a few nice bucks and one monster on my cameras in August and September. They absolutely disappeared and not even does were showing up on camera with regulatory. I had a camera in a spot that just looked right. Faint trail going through laurel opening up inside the cover, big historic rubs, where two drainages come together at the top... I slipped in today in the mid day heat and found that a seriously nice 8 was hitting my mock scrape I put in just two days ago at 4:30pm. That first significant temperature drop in October got him all fired up Along with a couple other nice bucks. They were tearing up that mock scrape like it stole their lunch money. Thursday will be an almost 20 degree temperature drop, same winds, same temperatures. I've already put in for the day off with my boss. I'm hoping for a nice mile and a half drag... Thanks for your great videos!
Jeff Love your Show n insights !! Wanted to thank you for my very Best Food plots after 20 years of cutting one corner or another.. Obvious you Love Whitetails ...hunting them n Learning something every year about these Amazing animals ...was laughing out hunting about your comment of early hunts ....getting in shape and our Hunting instincts fine Tuned ...Have some great big buck sign in my Oak Flats waiting for Temp drop Thursday !! Continued Success ... Shoot Straight !! Thx again 😎🇺🇸
I just killed my biggest buck with a bow because of you. I'm located in WI! We had a cold front that recently came through. The weather was in my likings. I setted up 100 yards from a food source, going down into a creek that funnels into a bedding area on higher grounds. Wind was blowing SE and I was set up perfectly. Waited for the right conditions and everything played out perfectly. Really learned a lot from you. The pre rut is right around the corner. can't wait for rifle season. 👌
I haven’t made it into a stand yet this year. Every time I’ve had a chance to get on stand the wind hasn’t been my friend. I only have a 5acre wood lot to hunt but by following the rules that Jeff lays out, I have the opportunity to harvest great bucks every year.
@@samrichmond2940 this is why I always say each location needs two stands with opposite wind advantages. Both with good access. Build something out of scrap wood if you can’t afford new stands. They are easy. In the 80s we’d make them all the time as kids. I’m not sure you can have too many stands. One of my plots is 60 acres and has 8. Could use two more to be honest. Just depends on the layout I guess. But always be thinking wind when hanging stands. Then hang two.
Jeff I can attest to what you said about the pre rut on Sunday October 30th 2022, eve of halloween and I shot a buck that has been my first of hopefully many on my grandfathers land on a cold front where the buck woke up in the afternoon and started moving. I hope you continue to do this as the years go on and it would be a dream to work for you for the knowledge you shared. Thank you for helping me shoot my first buck in lower Michigan.
here in northeast mo i normally get pics of good bucks starting in july but this yr nothing, i was getting depressed until saturday night when i pulled some cards and counted 13 different bucks 4 of them were shooters , this next weekend should be good.
I’ve hunted one time this year so far, October 7th. I killed a really nice 8 pointer. Sitting on a field edge and not my rut stand. I don’t plan to get back in the woods until November for my best rut stand.
Another great video. Im still waiting on my bucks to show up. Should be any day now. I would have to say one of my favorite days in the woods is the 31st
Good morning. Love learning new strategies on how to do things the right way. I live and hunt in northern Minnesota and have tons of wolves here more now than I've ever seen in my 43 years. The number of deer has dropped significantly and not sure exactly why but does wolves play a big part of why I'm not seeing many deer in my area
Where I have my main set up for this year is on a public hunting area that no one is allowed in the area tell the day before the black powder season opens October 25 in OK. Very high hopes setting in a thick travel corridor with open woods on one side and pressure on the other side.
I was out hunting yesterday morning. I can so close to getting the mature 145” 10 point I was after. I had him and 7 other deer within 20 yards of me. He was two steps from getting into one of my shooting lanes but never gave me a shot and the deer spooked. Hopefully he didn’t get scared too bad.
I am waiting patiently here ,.. i want to go now. But my years of hunting the rut tells me to wait. Soooo, i wait. Next week the end of October is near, the moon has peaked and is getting ready for the new moon. This is my time to gear up and clear my mind to hunt the rut. The woods will light up with bucks chasing does. Its why i wait. Come on magic in the woods.😊
Hope all is well Jeff,walked my development this morning at 9:00 am,I saw 3 Small bucks in different areas of my development but the Buck's were definitely showing rutting behavior,as the 3 Buck I saw were all bumping does,not overly aggressive but definitely were interested in breeding.
Great video as always. One piece of info overlooked, some state's seasons don't allow for the timing you are suggesting. For example, NH this year, firearm season opens Nov 13 with muzzleloader preceding is by 2 wks!! So if you don't have the means to bow hunt or invest in a muzzle loader good luck-missed most of it already.
As a guy that hunts all seasons in NH , Mass and ME I like that firearm doesn’t start November 1 or second. Let’s the bow guys that have been putting in the time enjoy a few days of the rut without the drives and noise In the woods. But I don’t think it should be as late as it
Had a little buck walk past me this morning in VA about 20 minutes in the stand. 30 to 40 minutes later, he's walking back past me both times at less than 30 yards
Haven't been in the stand yet here in northern WV. The above normal temps up until this week has kept me out. The first weekend in November looks to be killer with a massive arctic blast setting in. Perfect timing for the pre-rut here.
I took your advice and put a mock scrape stick 20 yd from my stand the only thing I did different was I went to another location and cut down a small tree where a small buck had been rubbing already and we just had a temperature drop I'm in Western Kentucky the high today is 56 so I think I should go out there
This week in New England the weather forecast shows a 20-30 degree temperature difference between midday and early morning for consecutive days in a row. The wind is mild and there’s no frontal movements until next week. With that being said, will those temperature fluctuations alone increase deer movement?
I’m in North Texas and hunting an 80acre private land. I didn’t have a lot of notice or history of the land at the first of September when getting it and placing stands. I say all of that to ask if it is too late to hang a ladder stand in a funnel area where my son saw lots of movement yesterday in that area.
Going to my first hunt of the year gunna be hot but it’s opening day of muzzleloader and that’s also opening day for this parcel of public too going to be an almost perfect wind with hopefully an early thermal rise Oklahoma runs about 1.5-2weeks behind y’all so the bucks ought to be making scrapes and finding out the pecking order in the area I’ve got some special dirt from a scrape on a deer farm in an are with 1.5s&2.5yo bucks gunna sprinkle alittle on one of the annual scrapes see if I can piss off a mature buck in the area…of course without touching the dirt itself no human scent allowed lol good luck everyone!
Was just given permission for a 40 acre of marsh and hardwood with heavy travel sign. Does that sound like a morning or evening set up? Don’t have cameras to scout.
So don't bother with mid day but the clocks change in the first Sunday of November and it's dark at 4:30 pm after that so is it even worth leaving mid day? Just to walk out eat a sandwich and have to walk back in to be in the stand for 3-3.5 hrs before dark.
This morning, my dad went to one of my best, remote acorn crops which is next to our best buck bedding. Due to the approach and the timing deer use the area, it is an EVENING ONLY stand. He shot a doe, wounded her, tracker her all through the buck bedding and even bumped multiple bucks hard. Now he's getting a tracking dog in there. How discouraged should I be? Our pre rut is still 2-3 weeks away
If I have a day that’s 79 and the next day is going to be 69 but the day after that the daytime high drops again to 52 which day should I hunt? Skip the first 10 degree drop and hunt the 52 day or hunt both? Winds are right on the 52 day and low. The 69 day they aren’t the best winds for my good stand location
Do deer move face into wind, wind blowing toward their tail. Do they move across the wind? No one ever taught me how to hunt a stand based on wind direction ? Help!!!
What's crazy is I was getting tons of movement on my cameras up until the 9th of October, just when it started getting colder . I've gotten way less photos since temperature drop . Very odd for sure must be the does are switching bedding . I saw lots of buck activity from September 15th to October 9th haven't seen a buck since.
I’ve had the same experience here in Indiana. My target buck showed up the 3rd, 7th, and 10th during day light and haven’t seen him or any of the other bigger bucks since.
Mid October in middle TN-hunting a brand new property. Counted 12 does during scouting. Put a couple cams up, have only had 2 bucks come in. Is it too late to kill a doe or two?
Hey Jeff, so in most situations pre-rut or not, is it better to hunt the day of the cold front when the temperatures first drop? Or in the days following? Just trying to understand to the best of my ability
Jeff, The property we hunt is about 60 acres. It’s mainly 40 acres of soybean field, with ruts running through in the chunks of timber. Nice chunk of timber to the north, and an open field with no crops to the NW. and a neighborhood to the west. We have the only crop within about 500-600 acres and the mature deer are primarily using it during the night. And I mean from 9 PM all the way til 4-5 am, I’m getting the same big deer on camera all night. They come from the NW and then 8/10 times they leave through the NW, but it’s before the sun comes up. What’s your advice to try and kill these big deer?
I love all your videos Jeff, but I feel like you never say “Maryland”? Where’s the love for the old line state? Thanks for all the amazing info you’ve provided over the years!
Love the videos Jeff. Western PA hunter here. Forecast shows warmer weather except next Thursday for the foreseeable future. My rutcation starts on Oct. 28th-Nov.9th. Should I cancel some of the vacation days at the last few days of October because of the warmer temps and hope that we get a good cold front the week of Nov. 11th or would you plan to hunt? Thanks!
Heading put to public ground this evening so I can hopefully save "home turf" for a bit later on in rifle season when public ground gets swarmed by the orange army.
Hey Jeff. I’m in west Tennessee. We are in the middle of a cold front right now. Temps are set to go back up on Saturday. I sat today and plan on tomorrow but haven’t seen anything yet. Should I wait on the next cold front? Is it too early for pre rut?
Had a trail camera stolen on my own private property. (Gen2 Reveal) , pretty sure the neighbor was checking out what's behind all my screening, boarders, and switchgrass, lol!!! Neighbors hate good hunters
"You have to hunt harder on private land" is the most outlandish thing a deer hunter has ever said 😂 I have hunted private land my whole life until the past 4 years. Been hunting multiple public land plots since in my home state of Missouri. Hunting pressured public land is by far waaayy tougher than private land. You do know your stuff but that comment was wild.
It's easier. Very little money. Very few hours working. No stress about decisions or ruining the land for next week or next month. Just go hunt. Very relaxing. I hunt public land every year to take a break. Heck, I've shot over 30 public land bucks I can honestly say I've spent less than 3 days of hunting, per buck. So much more relaxing in so many ways...it ain't even close.
@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 maybe it's a Missouri thing than (our non resident tags are amongst the cheapest in the country) soo we have ALOT of out of state hunters that hunt public land in missouri all season. The pressure is super high, I've had soo many hunts ruined by small game hunters or people walking through my sit. Many times I'll go in and someone is literally sitting 20 yards from where I planned to hunt. You don't have to worry about any of that on private land. On private land you worry about ruining or blowing out your own spots. Not someone else doing it. You control what happens and which location to hunt. I've killed several deer over the past few years on public land but man. I've scouted, put in the time and made gameplans on some nice deer. Only to have it ruined by other hunters. I took my daughter out for youth season last year and literally had a rabbit hunters hound walk into our blind. Soo I definitely do not agree with you. It might be relaxing IF you have private land to hunt and public is an alternative but it absolutely isn't easier or less stressful if public is the only option. The only thing I've figured out is that makes it a little easier, especially during rifle season...is to let other, lazy hunter do the work for me. Let those guys that like to hunt with their vehicle in sight at all times push the deer to me deeper in the woods. It's Def less fun for me though. You get what I mean?
@@aroettgen87remember Jeff walks in several miles on public land, typically past where others go. So I think he sees less hunters there than you prolly do. But I see your point
@rippleforeskinxrp358 that's the only way to be successful on public land. I do it as well. You have to go where nobody else wants to go. Sure does make for a long ass drag though lol
All he's saying is that if you have a small private plot to hunt and you blow it up, it's done. Your hunting is a lot more likely to hold mature deer. You hafta be more precise. 1000 acre public you get busted, just stay mobile
It is embarrassing to admit I'm new to hunting. I just went for the 1st time last week. I've watched a few of your videos. I bought a scent-removing kit yesterday and something to make calls with. Are those worth buying at all? I'm not using a bow; I'm out walking. I live in Idaho Falls, and if you have any advice, that would be great. If this isn't allowed, I apologize. Thanks for all your videos. I appreciate it.
Why would the local DNR prefer to have doe season late after regular Deer season, wouldn’t it make more sense to have it before the regular Deer season,before the superior bucks have had a chance to do their thing
Good content. I hope my neighbors don't watch your channel! You're giving away all the secrets! Also refreshing to hear the truth about private land. Public land guys often diminish my success, like I'm hunting a game farm. The amount of time invested into food plots, becoming proficient with my equipment, knowing when and where to hunt...and I'd also include calling techniques contributes to success.
Movement is picking up for sure, I got a new 1.5 yr old showed up about 10:30am this morning! This moon is helping with this cold front also I think. My buddy killed a 150 class clean 8 Monday
Want a tough spot to hunt?I have 1/2 acre of woods i own in a creek bottom to hunt that borders open oaks that's heavily hunted. The wind constantly bounces around the creek bottom. Almost can't hunt with being winded.They open oaks are posted.Welcome to my world.Trying the ozone producing products.We'll see?
Too bad I always have to work during late October and early November. I have plenty of personal and sick days, but no one will cover my classes in the inner city. I just go to work. It's not fair to the kids.
You could really do some damage in the post rut over some corn(if legal) next to a known bedding area or in a tight funnel/long distance travel corridor. Also if you have any younger sapling thickets they’ll be hammering that woody browse when it’s towards late December and all the acorns have been gone for a week or so. Goodluck you gotta make the most of what yu got.
It's easy to kill a buck on MI public land...very hard to kill a certain mature monster on Lakosky's land, unless you have a lot of experience already killing mature bucks somewhere. Anywhere.
Jeff really knows his stuff. I'm about his age and already figured out much of what he has. He reaffirms most of what i preach. I use to have alot of time. Now I don't. So I load woods with cameras and get stands ready in August I have not hunted yet for as he says it won't happen until Halloween that I see it is time to strike. First sit is usually a kill In last 3 yrs though October 25th is a great evening by camera history I can't wait!! As for the hunting industry i enjoy watching but most are guided hunts with a guarantee. I admire jeff and lee lakosky Lakosky works hard almost year round for what he has. We'll deserved
But u can hunt private and public. harder to hunt public hands down. can't bulldoze pinch points, bedding, food plots, cornfields, control human pressure...huge difference. I hunt private and public in the middle of Michigan. People everywhere
Much, much less stress hunting public land in MI or PA where I do. No hard work. No difficult decisions. Very little strategic planning. And best of all if you mess up a spot you just move to plan B. I just talked to someone today, for example...that destroyed 4 parcels by adding food plots. Very few get it right... The money, time, level of strategy and amount of work spent on private land would be staggering to someone with little experience managing a high quality, successful private parcel.
I hunt public and private both and I disagree 100% with your statements. If you are putting in the work to locate a mature deer on public you have to be just as careful as you do on private, it’s even tougher because there’s a lot more things out of your control. You act like you can just move spots but in many parts of the country there aren’t mature bucks around every corner on public land they are few and far between. It sounds like you don’t take hunting public land seriously which is fine but to say it’s easier is just wrong if we are talking about taking a mature buck. On my private I can predict right when the big ones will show up because I do what you are recommending here, but on public I don’t know if a bunch of rabbit hunters went through the bedding area while I wasn’t there. If it’s easy to kill mature deer on public land why should anyone bother to manage their private property? Why not sell it and shoot slammers on public?
😂 he act like there's a mature buck on every public land. He said if you spook a mature buck on your property he'll be at the neighbors. 😂 Try spooking a mature buck on public, he aint ever coming back.
I think his channel specifically caters to private land folks. I completely agree with ya man. Public land is hard as shit to hunt. It might be relaxing in terms of not blowing out deer in ur property but it’s not even remotely easier to tag a deer on public. I’m hunting natural food sources out here, not food plots and water holes 👍🏾
Don’t think he said “easier”. Just less stressful on public. The way he hunts public is like most, just get a shooter. No target buck. That’s what he meant
Public land to relax? Funniest thing u ever heard. The most physically demanding hunts are public if you want to get away from hunters. Mentally? You still have to study, study, study. You can move all day and not help yourself.
Unluckily....or luckily....I live 3.5 hours from my hunting spot where a 200"+ could walk by any time during the rut. We were going to make it down mid October but because of my dad passing, plans have changed and we won't be there until peak rut. I know that occurs from the 6-12th in my area, and nobody that I know of has been back in those woods since I shot my buck last year. I'm expecting nothing but action, if only the weather will cooperate!
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Hey Jeff, I love watching your videos and learning. I’m 17 years old. This is my fourth year hunting and I have 116 acres and Indiana all to myself. Trying to avoid putting any pressure on my two ladder stands . Thank you for all your advice
Put more stands up. Because of wind. Find or create the x pattern of movement. Sit along the path and not just at the destinations. Hunt the weather. If you can, get cell cams and learn the mature buck patterns. Once established, only go when you know he is coming through to minimize pressure. Say from the east in the am is his common path, use that data. Probably most importantly don’t kill 3.5 year olds no matter how nice they look. Just pass and wait on the ones he talks about that are on the move prowling late rut until you have several core 3.5 year olds that feel safe. Good luck and I hope you stick with it.
Good luck this season!
From Batesville down south by Kentucky, if you don't pressure your area deer will flock to it. Over hunting in our state is huge if you don't pressure your area deer will naturally go there because all the area around you is pressured, best of luck!!
Some states they don't even live that long bc predators ill take a 2 year old if that puts meat on my table
Lucky little fker
As someone who went out my first year bow hunting not knowing anything about it and was fortunate enough to kill my personal best to date bye raddling him in in early November i went out out the next 2 years doing everything a bow hunter shouldnt and wondering why i wasnt seeing deer i started watching ur videos last year and learned so much about deer and their movement i took what u talk about and got a beautiful deer last year and seem to understand how my property i hunt works thank you for everything's and keep it up! Happy hunting and good luck this year
68 retired hunt last 4 days October and first 2 weeks of November in south east Nebraska. Have 5 farms all to myself (family). Great video always learning been deer hunting over 40 years archery ONLY for all of it. Life is great 🦌🦌🏹🏹
Will work for hunting permission! I’m in Lincoln and hunt mostly public land
5 farms? Woooooooow. 🤔You should be able to find a target buck quick like.
@@Lewisdovefam at my age I just go out and sit with the best wind for the day and see what comes. I have 28 ladder stands and I saddle hunt so really have unlimited places to hunt. I just enjoy nature with every sit. Good luck hunting this year 🏹🦌🙏
@@bryanmoorefield8890 that's awesome. What a blessing. Thank you sir and good hunting to you also this year
I had a few nice bucks and one monster on my cameras in August and September. They absolutely disappeared and not even does were showing up on camera with regulatory. I had a camera in a spot that just looked right. Faint trail going through laurel opening up inside the cover, big historic rubs, where two drainages come together at the top... I slipped in today in the mid day heat and found that a seriously nice 8 was hitting my mock scrape I put in just two days ago at 4:30pm. That first significant temperature drop in October got him all fired up Along with a couple other nice bucks. They were tearing up that mock scrape like it stole their lunch money. Thursday will be an almost 20 degree temperature drop, same winds, same temperatures. I've already put in for the day off with my boss. I'm hoping for a nice mile and a half drag... Thanks for your great videos!
Good luck, go get em!
Jeff Love your Show n insights !! Wanted to thank you for my very Best Food plots after 20 years of cutting one corner or another.. Obvious you Love Whitetails ...hunting them n Learning something every year about these Amazing animals ...was laughing out hunting about your comment of early hunts ....getting in shape and our Hunting instincts fine Tuned ...Have some great big buck sign in my Oak Flats waiting for Temp drop Thursday !! Continued Success ... Shoot Straight !! Thx again 😎🇺🇸
I just killed my biggest buck with a bow because of you. I'm located in WI! We had a cold front that recently came through. The weather was in my likings.
I setted up 100 yards from a food source, going down into a creek that funnels into a bedding area on higher grounds. Wind was blowing SE and I was set up perfectly. Waited for the right conditions and everything played out perfectly. Really learned a lot from you. The pre rut is right around the corner. can't wait for rifle season. 👌
I haven’t made it into a stand yet this year. Every time I’ve had a chance to get on stand the wind hasn’t been my friend. I only have a 5acre wood lot to hunt but by following the rules that Jeff lays out, I have the opportunity to harvest great bucks every year.
@@samrichmond2940 this is why I always say each location needs two stands with opposite wind advantages. Both with good access. Build something out of scrap wood if you can’t afford new stands. They are easy. In the 80s we’d make them all the time as kids. I’m not sure you can have too many stands. One of my plots is 60 acres and has 8. Could use two more to be honest. Just depends on the layout I guess. But always be thinking wind when hanging stands. Then hang two.
Jeff I can attest to what you said about the pre rut on Sunday October 30th 2022, eve of halloween and I shot a buck that has been my first of hopefully many on my grandfathers land on a cold front where the buck woke up in the afternoon and started moving. I hope you continue to do this as the years go on and it would be a dream to work for you for the knowledge you shared. Thank you for helping me shoot my first buck in lower Michigan.
Thanks Jeff I needed that pep talk.
NE Ohio here. Bucks have been moving like crazy during daylight past 3 days
Thanks Jeff
Jeff I caught the early cold front rut oct.15 tagged out with one of our shooters.
That is awesome TS... CONGRATS!! Man you got to love those cold fronts 😊👍 really happy for you!
@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 thanks alot good luck to everyone
Jeff, I've been saying that for years! Public land is almost essentially easier, low stress. People look at me like I'm crazy. I love public land!
Northern MN bucks are moving!
Thank you! I have been hunting whitetails many years and your info is spot on! Always learning!
here in northeast mo i normally get pics of good bucks starting in july but this yr nothing, i was getting depressed until saturday night when i pulled some cards and counted 13 different bucks 4 of them were shooters , this next weekend should be good.
Cold front coming in next Thursday and Friday here in New York. You bet your bottom I’ll be out there!
Looking really good!
I’ve hunted one time this year so far, October 7th. I killed a really nice 8 pointer. Sitting on a field edge and not my rut stand. I don’t plan to get back in the woods until November for my best rut stand.
Another great video. Im still waiting on my bucks to show up. Should be any day now. I would have to say one of my favorite days in the woods is the 31st
Multiple bucks hitting scrapes this week all morning, with the cold front.
biggest deer was at 11 am. Edge of bedding
Good morning. Love learning new strategies on how to do things the right way. I live and hunt in northern Minnesota and have tons of wolves here more now than I've ever seen in my 43 years. The number of deer has dropped significantly and not sure exactly why but does wolves play a big part of why I'm not seeing many deer in my area
Thanks Jeff, still waiting haven’t hunted yet, rough though
Well I hope you can get out later!
Where I have my main set up for this year is on a public hunting area that no one is allowed in the area tell the day before the black powder season opens October 25 in OK. Very high hopes setting in a thick travel corridor with open woods on one side and pressure on the other side.
I was out hunting yesterday morning. I can so close to getting the mature 145” 10 point I was after. I had him and 7 other deer within 20 yards of me. He was two steps from getting into one of my shooting lanes but never gave me a shot and the deer spooked. Hopefully he didn’t get scared too bad.
Same thing happened to me. But he didn’t get spooked just turned and went into the woods 5 yds from me. Yesterday morning as well
Next Thursday I'll be going to a morning pre rut stand in southern michigan.
Amen Ethan...me too over here 😁
Just shot a tank buck in an afternoon sit two days ago! Wooooo hooooo
I’ve had 7 sits so far no luck my friend sat and got lucky to tag a doe in after this big 8 pt wide frame
Im in SE alabama. Jeff has a ton of wisdom. Ive found that i have to add 6-8 weeks to his timing. Not because he's wrong, but because of geography.
Same here in Panhandle Florida.
Love the videos guys, thank you!
Thank you very much for watching!
I am waiting patiently here ,.. i want to go now. But my years of hunting the rut tells me to wait. Soooo, i wait. Next week the end of October is near, the moon has peaked and is getting ready for the new moon. This is my time to gear up and clear my mind to hunt the rut. The woods will light up with bucks chasing does. Its why i wait. Come on magic in the woods.😊
This next weekend will be incredible...
Hope all is well Jeff,walked my development this morning at 9:00 am,I saw 3 Small bucks in different areas of my development but the Buck's were definitely showing rutting behavior,as the 3 Buck I saw were all bumping does,not overly aggressive but definitely were interested in breeding.
That's pretty common for younger bucks to do that.
Great video as always. One piece of info overlooked, some state's seasons don't allow for the timing you are suggesting. For example, NH this year, firearm season opens Nov 13 with muzzleloader preceding is by 2 wks!! So if you don't have the means to bow hunt or invest in a muzzle loader good luck-missed most of it already.
As a guy that hunts all seasons in NH , Mass and ME I like that firearm doesn’t start November 1 or second. Let’s the bow guys that have been putting in the time enjoy a few days of the rut without the drives and noise In the woods. But I don’t think it should be as late as it
Great Great Info!!
Thanks a lot!
What are your thoughts on calling during this time.?
That B roll buck is a stud Jeffrey!
Had a little buck walk past me this morning in VA about 20 minutes in the stand. 30 to 40 minutes later, he's walking back past me both times at less than 30 yards
Great info Jeff, appreciate ya!
Down here in SWVA we are looking that first week of November! Still have made only 1 sit due to no daylight pics of him yet?
Haven't been in the stand yet here in northern WV. The above normal temps up until this week has kept me out. The first weekend in November looks to be killer with a massive arctic blast setting in. Perfect timing for the pre-rut here.
I took your advice and put a mock scrape stick 20 yd from my stand the only thing I did different was I went to another location and cut down a small tree where a small buck had been rubbing already and we just had a temperature drop I'm in Western Kentucky the high today is 56 so I think I should go out there
This week in New England the weather forecast shows a 20-30 degree temperature difference between midday and early morning for consecutive days in a row. The wind is mild and there’s no frontal movements until next week. With that being said, will those temperature fluctuations alone increase deer movement?
I’m in North Texas and hunting an 80acre private land. I didn’t have a lot of notice or history of the land at the first of September when getting it and placing stands. I say all of that to ask if it is too late to hang a ladder stand in a funnel area where my son saw lots of movement yesterday in that area.
I would put the stand up for sure it shouldn’t hurt anything
Going to my first hunt of the year gunna be hot but it’s opening day of muzzleloader and that’s also opening day for this parcel of public too going to be an almost perfect wind with hopefully an early thermal rise Oklahoma runs about 1.5-2weeks behind y’all so the bucks ought to be making scrapes and finding out the pecking order in the area I’ve got some special dirt from a scrape on a deer farm in an are with 1.5s&2.5yo bucks gunna sprinkle alittle on one of the annual scrapes see if I can piss off a mature buck in the area…of course without touching the dirt itself no human scent allowed lol good luck everyone!
Was just given permission for a 40 acre of marsh and hardwood with heavy travel sign. Does that sound like a morning or evening set up? Don’t have cameras to scout.
Gotta get more cell cams here. We have so much big timber it’s hard to pick a spot. I have to hunt public
So don't bother with mid day but the clocks change in the first Sunday of November and it's dark at 4:30 pm after that so is it even worth leaving mid day? Just to walk out eat a sandwich and have to walk back in to be in the stand for 3-3.5 hrs before dark.
bucks are already chasin does in NY
This morning, my dad went to one of my best, remote acorn crops which is next to our best buck bedding. Due to the approach and the timing deer use the area, it is an EVENING ONLY stand. He shot a doe, wounded her, tracker her all through the buck bedding and even bumped multiple bucks hard. Now he's getting a tracking dog in there.
How discouraged should I be? Our pre rut is still 2-3 weeks away
If I have a day that’s 79 and the next day is going to be 69 but the day after that the daytime high drops again to 52 which day should I hunt? Skip the first 10 degree drop and hunt the 52 day or hunt both? Winds are right on the 52 day and low. The 69 day they aren’t the best winds for my good stand location
Do deer move face into wind, wind blowing toward their tail. Do they move across the wind? No one ever taught me how to hunt a stand based on wind direction ? Help!!!
What's crazy is I was getting tons of movement on my cameras up until the 9th of October, just when it started getting colder . I've gotten way less photos since temperature drop . Very odd for sure must be the does are switching bedding . I saw lots of buck activity from September 15th to October 9th haven't seen a buck since.
I’ve had the same experience here in Indiana. My target buck showed up the 3rd, 7th, and 10th during day light and haven’t seen him or any of the other bigger bucks since.
You never mention MA, is our rut time the same as yours? Thanks in advance, God bless.
Our prime rut is the usually the 6-18/22 of November. I can’t wait because you know how big our timber is. It’s hard to find them big boys
Mid October in middle TN-hunting a brand new property. Counted 12 does during scouting. Put a couple cams up, have only had 2 bucks come in. Is it too late to kill a doe or two?
If you actually hunt, you understand. Thank you, sir.
Seeing more and more bucks on the Tactacam moving mid morning and late afternoon. We're close.... :-)
We had 0 acorns this year and no AG land around. Food plots only support does. it's Oct 17th, 0 bucks 😢
Hey Jeff, so in most situations pre-rut or not, is it better to hunt the day of the cold front when the temperatures first drop? Or in the days following? Just trying to understand to the best of my ability
Right when it bottoms out...and just after
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Agreed they’ll rut(move) at night but a cold front keeps them on their feet just alittle bit longer may be all you need goodluck man.
Lets go!!!
Jeff,
The property we hunt is about 60 acres. It’s mainly 40 acres of soybean field, with ruts running through in the chunks of timber. Nice chunk of timber to the north, and an open field with no crops to the NW. and a neighborhood to the west.
We have the only crop within about 500-600 acres and the mature deer are primarily using it during the night. And I mean from 9 PM all the way til 4-5 am, I’m getting the same big deer on camera all night. They come from the NW and then 8/10 times they leave through the NW, but it’s before the sun comes up.
What’s your advice to try and kill these big deer?
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I love all your videos Jeff, but I feel like you never say “Maryland”? Where’s the love for the old line state? Thanks for all the amazing info you’ve provided over the years!
Jeff, it's gonna be in the 70s here through the 30th of October and lows in the 40s. How do you this will affect the pre rut?
Love the videos Jeff. Western PA hunter here. Forecast shows warmer weather except next Thursday for the foreseeable future. My rutcation starts on Oct. 28th-Nov.9th. Should I cancel some of the vacation days at the last few days of October because of the warmer temps and hope that we get a good cold front the week of Nov. 11th or would you plan to hunt? Thanks!
Heading put to public ground this evening so I can hopefully save "home turf" for a bit later on in rifle season when public ground gets swarmed by the orange army.
I'm In SE PA and I have a new spot I been saving when the heck should I go in? Another week and half I'm thinking I'm getting antsy
Hey Jeff. I’m in west Tennessee. We are in the middle of a cold front right now. Temps are set to go back up on Saturday. I sat today and plan on tomorrow but haven’t seen anything yet. Should I wait on the next cold front? Is it too early for pre rut?
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Had a trail camera stolen on my own private property. (Gen2 Reveal) , pretty sure the neighbor was checking out what's behind all my screening, boarders, and switchgrass, lol!!! Neighbors hate good hunters
"You have to hunt harder on private land" is the most outlandish thing a deer hunter has ever said 😂 I have hunted private land my whole life until the past 4 years. Been hunting multiple public land plots since in my home state of Missouri. Hunting pressured public land is by far waaayy tougher than private land. You do know your stuff but that comment was wild.
It's easier. Very little money. Very few hours working. No stress about decisions or ruining the land for next week or next month. Just go hunt. Very relaxing. I hunt public land every year to take a break. Heck, I've shot over 30 public land bucks I can honestly say I've spent less than 3 days of hunting, per buck.
So much more relaxing in so many ways...it ain't even close.
@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 maybe it's a Missouri thing than (our non resident tags are amongst the cheapest in the country) soo we have ALOT of out of state hunters that hunt public land in missouri all season. The pressure is super high, I've had soo many hunts ruined by small game hunters or people walking through my sit. Many times I'll go in and someone is literally sitting 20 yards from where I planned to hunt. You don't have to worry about any of that on private land. On private land you worry about ruining or blowing out your own spots. Not someone else doing it. You control what happens and which location to hunt. I've killed several deer over the past few years on public land but man. I've scouted, put in the time and made gameplans on some nice deer. Only to have it ruined by other hunters. I took my daughter out for youth season last year and literally had a rabbit hunters hound walk into our blind. Soo I definitely do not agree with you. It might be relaxing IF you have private land to hunt and public is an alternative but it absolutely isn't easier or less stressful if public is the only option. The only thing I've figured out is that makes it a little easier, especially during rifle season...is to let other, lazy hunter do the work for me. Let those guys that like to hunt with their vehicle in sight at all times push the deer to me deeper in the woods. It's Def less fun for me though. You get what I mean?
@@aroettgen87remember Jeff walks in several miles on public land, typically past where others go. So I think he sees less hunters there than you prolly do. But I see your point
@rippleforeskinxrp358 that's the only way to be successful on public land. I do it as well. You have to go where nobody else wants to go. Sure does make for a long ass drag though lol
All he's saying is that if you have a small private plot to hunt and you blow it up, it's done. Your hunting is a lot more likely to hold mature deer. You hafta be more precise. 1000 acre public you get busted, just stay mobile
It is embarrassing to admit I'm new to hunting. I just went for the 1st time last week. I've watched a few of your videos. I bought a scent-removing kit yesterday and something to make calls with. Are those worth buying at all? I'm not using a bow; I'm out walking. I live in Idaho Falls, and if you have any advice, that would be great. If this isn't allowed, I apologize. Thanks for all your videos. I appreciate it.
Why would the local DNR prefer to have doe season late after regular Deer season, wouldn’t it make more sense to have it before the regular Deer season,before the superior bucks have had a chance to do their thing
Have you hunted in guernsey county ohio?salt fork state park
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Mid week temp drop coming up next week !!!
We got a week of heat.
This is the second week in Ben started
Im getting pics right at dark should I wait for a day light pic 😅 thanks
Meanwhile in Alabama ☀️
Good content. I hope my neighbors don't watch your channel! You're giving away all the secrets! Also refreshing to hear the truth about private land. Public land guys often diminish my success, like I'm hunting a game farm. The amount of time invested into food plots, becoming proficient with my equipment, knowing when and where to hunt...and I'd also include calling techniques contributes to success.
First! Bucks are on their feet!
They sure are!!
Movement is picking up for sure, I got a new 1.5 yr old showed up about 10:30am this morning! This moon is helping with this cold front also I think. My buddy killed a 150 class clean 8 Monday
My cousin got a nice 8 on Tuesday evening just cruising@@troybrake5686
15:03 gonna burn some people there! Totally true though!
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Want a tough spot to hunt?I have 1/2 acre of woods i own in a creek bottom to hunt that borders open oaks that's heavily hunted. The wind constantly bounces around the creek bottom. Almost can't hunt with being winded.They open oaks are posted.Welcome to my world.Trying the ozone producing products.We'll see?
Too bad I always have to work during late October and early November. I have plenty of personal and sick days, but no one will cover my classes in the inner city. I just go to work. It's not fair to the kids.
Hey but you get the week of thanksgiving off right?
Also fall break a week or so ago?
You could really do some damage in the post rut over some corn(if legal) next to a known bedding area or in a tight funnel/long distance travel corridor. Also if you have any younger sapling thickets they’ll be hammering that woody browse when it’s towards late December and all the acorns have been gone for a week or so. Goodluck you gotta make the most of what yu got.
I’d say i hunt wayyyyy harder on public than private. I cover so many miles on public. Private u sit on ur butt and wait
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It's about time!!
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it's way harder to kill big bucks on Lee and Tiffanys property compared to Michigan public😂😂😂
It's easy to kill a buck on MI public land...very hard to kill a certain mature monster on Lakosky's land, unless you have a lot of experience already killing mature bucks somewhere. Anywhere.
Jeff really knows his stuff. I'm about his age and already figured out much of what he has. He reaffirms most of what i preach.
I use to have alot of time. Now I don't. So I load woods with cameras and get stands ready in August
I have not hunted yet for as he says it won't happen until Halloween that I see it is time to strike. First sit is usually a kill
In last 3 yrs though October 25th is a great evening by camera history
I can't wait!!
As for the hunting industry i enjoy watching but most are guided hunts with a guarantee.
I admire jeff and lee lakosky
Lakosky works hard almost year round for what he has. We'll deserved
But u can hunt private and public. harder to hunt public hands down. can't bulldoze pinch points, bedding, food plots, cornfields, control human pressure...huge difference. I hunt private and public in the middle of Michigan. People everywhere
Much, much less stress hunting public land in MI or PA where I do. No hard work. No difficult decisions. Very little strategic planning. And best of all if you mess up a spot you just move to plan B. I just talked to someone today, for example...that destroyed 4 parcels by adding food plots. Very few get it right...
The money, time, level of strategy and amount of work spent on private land would be staggering to someone with little experience managing a high quality, successful private parcel.
What he’s saying is going over ur head you can ruin a small private real fast
I hunt public and private both and I disagree 100% with your statements. If you are putting in the work to locate a mature deer on public you have to be just as careful as you do on private, it’s even tougher because there’s a lot more things out of your control. You act like you can just move spots but in many parts of the country there aren’t mature bucks around every corner on public land they are few and far between. It sounds like you don’t take hunting public land seriously which is fine but to say it’s easier is just wrong if we are talking about taking a mature buck. On my private I can predict right when the big ones will show up because I do what you are recommending here, but on public I don’t know if a bunch of rabbit hunters went through the bedding area while I wasn’t there. If it’s easy to kill mature deer on public land why should anyone bother to manage their private property? Why not sell it and shoot slammers on public?
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😂 he act like there's a mature buck on every public land. He said if you spook a mature buck on your property he'll be at the neighbors. 😂 Try spooking a mature buck on public, he aint ever coming back.
I think his channel specifically caters to private land folks. I completely agree with ya man. Public land is hard as shit to hunt. It might be relaxing in terms of not blowing out deer in ur property but it’s not even remotely easier to tag a deer on public. I’m hunting natural food sources out here, not food plots and water holes 👍🏾
Bud Jeff knows what he's talking about there is a reason why land owners all over the country ask for his help
Don’t think he said “easier”. Just less stressful on public. The way he hunts public is like most, just get a shooter. No target buck. That’s what he meant
Public land to relax? Funniest thing u ever heard. The most physically demanding hunts are public if you want to get away from hunters. Mentally? You still have to study, study, study. You can move all day and not help yourself.
We love the low stress of public land....MUCH less work. Just more boot time...which isn't much stress to me 😉
Unluckily....or luckily....I live 3.5 hours from my hunting spot where a 200"+ could walk by any time during the rut. We were going to make it down mid October but because of my dad passing, plans have changed and we won't be there until peak rut. I know that occurs from the 6-12th in my area, and nobody that I know of has been back in those woods since I shot my buck last year. I'm expecting nothing but action, if only the weather will cooperate!