Don't Make These 5 Common Deer Bedding Area/Hinge-Cut Bedding Area Mistakes
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- Опубликовано: 6 янв 2024
- A lot of great habitat work comes through trial and error. I've learned a ton since the first day I fired up the chainsaw and decided to start transforming the habitat on our farm. Much of what I've learned came from me making mistakes. Here are 5 common bedding area mistakes that I've seen on the properties I've walked and ones I've made myself.
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Just walked one of my bedding cuts yesterday. After watching this, I realized it's far too thick. Headed back in to open it up and create a trail network. Thanks!
Awesome to hear! The deer will let you know when you have the right balance of open and cover
Thanks for the video. Perfect timing, one pheasant trip left than it's habit work time.
Good deal and good luck!
I need to buy some land. I can’t wait to be able to manipulate some habitat. Currently only hunt permission farms and I don’t have anything that looks like this to hunt in and around.
It can definitely be a grind to get to that point. I'm rooting for yah brother. In the meantime, finding some of those natural blow down areas or recently logged areas on public can be money. Keep grinding!
Nailed it! Great information, Sam. I can totally relate from what I see from clients who don't understand bedding area maintenance.
Thanks brother! Creation is the best teacher! Like many things in life I've had to get a lot of this wrong before I could learn how to get it right
@@PFHabitat likewise!
Great video!
Another great tree to hinge cut is diamond willow, it puts great browse tips down at their level. And grows up into a great screen to access deer stands.
Very good addition. I haven't cut too many of those but the few I have have hinged very well. Very soft and malleable wood makes for a nice hinge and they sprout tons of new browse and cover off those trunks.
Great video. I like the idea of using the downed tree tops to protect new oak seedlings until they can get established. We have a high density of deer where I manage (VA), even with a good effort to reduce numbers each season, so some additional physical protection is ideal. I think this might work well.
Yah we have harsh winters so the deer yard on us in the winter. That's when the woody browse gets crushed on our farm and the deer will definitely select the oaks first. Tree tops have helped a lot. Putting them under/near existing oak trees works very well.
Spent all last weekend with the kids doing exactly this!!
Nothing better than spending time in creation with the kiddos!
Thanks sir I learned so much from this video. I’m just about to hing an area. Thanks so much !
Glad to hear you found it helpful! Have fun and good luck!
Very good video . 👍🏼 my small parcel is pretty narrow . What’s the closest you think I can get a Bedding Area to a access trail ??
Much appreciated! Boy that would just depend. If it was a morning access I would be okay getting it pretty close. But if you have to get near it in the evening I'd want to keep a good distance. Tough to give an exact answer without seeing it. I do have some bedding cuts I get within 80 yards of in the evening but they're heavily screened off with either switchgrass, edge-feathering, and even spruce I'm some circumstances.
@@PFHabitat thank. You for reply . This is my biggest work around . Only 200 yards across 🫤. My parcel is deeper then wide
@figandcloverranch5871 that could be tough but possibly doable. If the neighbors don't use their boundaries I have no issue setting up bedding closer to a boundary and accessing on the opposite boundary. Or a better option could be setting up the deepest portion of your property as bedding and hunting the front with the possibility of a stand near or even in the bedding as your homerun stand right during peak rut. Again, this is all speculation given I haven't seen it in person.
@@PFHabitat yea thanks . It’s been hard . But I keep working at it 💪🏼 . Thanks for letting me pick your brain 🧠⛏️
@@figandcloverranch5871 no prob, good luck!
You mention trails 3-4 feet wide. Would ATV wide work? It would make working on the area easier if I could drive the atv through there and would encourage trails that are wide enough and easy to get around on.
Yup right at the width of an ATV would be about perfect. That's roughly how wide most of my cuts/trails are.
Any reason to cut up or not cut up trees that lay across the deer trails?
If it's a trail I want them to use I'm always cutting it up so they can get past it. The only time I'd leave it is if I'm trying to redirect movement a different direction.