When To Hunt Bucks In The Morning
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- Is it time to hunt bucks in the morning? While I rarely hunt bucks in the morning, when I do hunt in the morning those hunts account for well over 1/2 of all of my oldest bucks! Herr is when, where and why to hunt bucks in the morning, this Fall...
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Biggest advantage for morning hunts, wife likes it when I’m at home in the evening.
The sheer amount of knowledge I gain watching WHS is insane
He’s smart and has a ton of experience but don’t take everything he says as 100% if you don’t hunt the same areas or same states he does. For me the mountains are way different! I’m sure it’s a lot different in the Deep South too!
Yeah man I learned thermals from him, now see twice as many deer
have ya tried the licking vine branch yet? makes checking the cameras even better!👌🙌
@@robertmosley181 I have to try that
Jeff is the man!
since following Jeff 3 years ago, i've had 3 trips to the taxidermist....prior to this i was happy just to see a spike or doe once a year... that was the norm.
Pennsylvania here. Hunting last evening. Had 2 fawns under my platform, then I saw a flash of antlers up the ridge. A year and a half 4pt. Tiny dude. Came in chasing and grunting pushing the fawns around. It was awesome. Big boys will be out strolling soon!
I just shot the biggest buck of my life yesterday in the evening
Congrats
Sweet !
Great job congratulations
@@patrickanderson5727 thank you
@@Jkhelm0124 thank you
I enjoy the pre rut more than the actual rut. It's more enjoyable watching the does tell on there counterparts. Does will come into my stand. And they will tell on the bucks even though I don't see them the. Does will stare in the direction from where the bucks are. My daughter killed a 9 point last year on Halloween using this strategy. She was ready before we ever saw that buck.
You are spot on for your time. I hunt north central Missouri. The real fun begins the first cold snap or cold front the last few days of October. In Missouri the firearms season starts in the middle of November. We really only have about two weeks of the best bow hunting. The wheels fall off for bow hunting after that for a while until the deer settle down from the gun season hunter activity.
I have video of my biggest buck at 0930. Good times.
Man that's awesome!! Got to love the AM!
You are my go-to for intelligent, no-bs deer information
Could watch these all day!
Well I greatly appreciate that!
Your right on about everything I have learned over of whitetail hunting the last 42 years!
Thank you for all the great information Jeff! The knowledge you provide and the experience you speak about has helped me greatly with my hunts! I’m currently hunting my 3rd year of archery. Just watching your videos has definitely increased my chances of success in the woods. I wait on every video you post just to gain more knowledge and take notes. I cannot thank you enough!
Tyler that means so much to hear that...really keeps the fire going inside me! But most of all, so happy for you! Thank YOU
Being a Georgia hunter can be great, with the rut taking place at different times across the state. We are very blessed with the opportunity we have here. Once you know an area and when the rut takes place, you can start hunting the pre rut and rut in October on one end of the state and finish up the season hunting the rut on the other side of the state. I personally have 3 areas I target. One are the rut is going well on during the 1st week of November. Pre rut starts around the opening of gun season. Then another property I hunt the pre rut starts about October 31st and around the 17th is prime time. Then I hunt some property where the pre rut starts about Thanksgiving and prime time is about the second week of December. It makes for exciting hunting all season and gives a great change of scenery as well.
Tagged out October 1st in Kansas this year on a morning hunt, HuntWise helped the decision to make a push for my best spot
I love morning hunts, I have night blindness and it's tough to hunt in the evenings for me, just when it's getting good, I can't see. I don't have to worry as much about spooking deer as much in the mornings
I have way more interactions with deer in the mornings than evenings especially bucks. I have noticed I can kill does around my house easier in the evenings but bucks almost always come to my grunt early in the mornings between 8-10 am when it’s cold!
Jeff, you have really elevated mine and my friends hunting immensely since we started watching your content! Keep the content coming, it is appreciated!
I’ve been a student of your channel and web class for a few years now. I found this video and the recent evening sit setup a next level and very high yield video for where I am at in developing my strategy. Thanks for taking us from playing checkers to playing chess.
Joel, is the giveaway real? Did u respond to it??
@@derikgarry2045 this is a scam. I confirmed this with WHS. There is no give away.
Prefer morning kills as well to field dress and pack out during daylight!
I see more deer in a.m, but all my best bucks have come in evenings.
We own 388 acres in the hardy area in Arkansas, how much do y’all charge for a over the phone consultation or do y’all even do that ? If not y’all should look into doing that y’all could take a look at someone’s property from the comfort of your own home obviously it wouldn’t cost as much as having you in person but could take a look at some maps and get some information from the client and things of that nature I think you’d be surprised on just how many people would sign up for that hell I know I would, thank you so much for all the knowledge I have gained in such little time I just found this channel a month ago and I’ve literally watched almost a years worth of videos, shared all of them, told all my buddys about this channel anyone that will listen really and some that weren’t listening
The problem with that is boots on ground shows a lot that aerial photos cannot. With boots on the ground of a property you can get a much better idea of what it needs and exactly where it needs it than by looking at a picture. Think of it like scouting public land. You wouldn't just go hunt a new area from a picture that you saw would you?
@@papajohnsy6659 not at all but there’s plenty that can be done from looking at maps and plus its not like anyone would be making people pay for the service but they would be lined up around the block wanting to do a zoom call or something any type of call.
Nice to see an up north guy recognize that we don’t have a true rut here in Florida, especially the properties I hunt in Central Florida. We’re literally hunting a different animal.
Another great video. Your channel is a great source of knowledge and you have great insight.
On another note…..there’s someone who is trolling these comments saying we won a giveaway contest from you. It’s a scam.
Thanks Jeff!🦌🦌
Wish I could've been in my stand Saturday morning with the temperature dropped here in KY. Huntwise said it would be a good day. Had a buck I'd never seen on camera hit my vine mock scrape at 8:20 a.m. Your videos make me more confident to seal the deal on him eventually! Thank you
Love listening to your videos I usually download them and listen when I'm mowing and doing fall cleanups. You have a easy voice to listen to, again thank you, also is it right time to plant switch grass for next year in Central Michigan?
I would love a weekly podcast that was simply the four shows in audio form. (I listen while at work!)
Zach, I'm hunting Southern Michigan and plan to plant it in December. I want to say go back and watch his Switchgrass planting video's, very helpful. He stressed weed control. I believe he said anytime later in October even when there is snow on the ground
If I really think about it, most of my buck I have shoot have been in the morning. Very few in the afternoon. Yes my nicest buck was in the afternoon at like 3 in the afternoon coming in for water but most of my buck I have shoot in the morning about 8-10 in the morning.
Western pa here. I’m grateful for your content, made me a better hunter. Thanks!
Thanks Jeff!
I was just thinking about this at work this morning, I want to sit tommorow morning n was unsure of what to do! Thanks for everything these past few years Jeff! Love this game
Hey Jeff. Just wanted to say thanks for all the effort you guys put into the channel! Harvested my first deer last night. Can confidently say it would not have happened without your help!
Great Video , I have learned alot from you and it's made me a Better Hunter especially small tips that equal big results in the woods.
This guy knows a lot. Thanks Jeff!
I agree totally, I have only killed one good buck in the evening and one in early afternoon. a our farm over the yrs we have taken at least 2 dozen bucks over 130 and almost all have been in the morning. My friends on their properties have similar results.
Thank you for including Missouri a bit more in your recent videos!!! I really appreciate it!
Always good, by following Jeff’s advice and staying out of plots i could literally hunt does in those plots everyday til almost noon. So great to see, love to watch deer
I often think I should skip the first 1-2 hours of daylight so I can sit till noon without getting cold. I feel like most of the big bucks I see are after 9am
Halloween week is the best time for harvesting a buck. The peak rut has always been the same. Hot weather or Cold weather does not stop a buck.
5th cold front of the season since September in NDAKOTA. This year acorns and AM sits have been unreal this year but every season is different. Weather cold fronts and natural food changes year to year but this acorn crop has been a AM game changer this year along with these cold fronts. Reminds me of 2020 conditions some really nice bucks already hitting the ground do miss out waiting for the rut this year
Interesting you do a video on this. I missed my normal morning time last weekend and when I pulled cards as I was leaving and checked them I found my target buck was at my stand location actually bedded down in the morning and heard me walking in LATE. Got up and quietly strolled off safe and sound hahaha
Awsome information bud thank you for everything you do you educate even the most weathered hunters.from lapeer county michigan
Jeff your videos are always a highlight of the day. Quality info full of knowledge. Love processing ideas in my head of how to improve my strategies to become more successful. Thanks for sharing your knowledge 👍
Appreciate all your hard work Jeff! That shot of your trophy room made me change my undies!
Love the information you teach! Love the HuntWise app and can’t wait for the Pre-Rut to begin in middle part of Ohio so I can start hunting my morning stands! 👍
Thanks Joe, good luck!
Good luck to you too Jeff!
Your the man Jeff! Wouldn’t get my targets with out your knowledge
I've also seen the bucks move all through the day prerut in rainy weather.
Have to agree with you on the southern rut. Pre rut don't usually start till the mid week before Thanksgiving here in North Texas
Thank you Jeff for all
Of the knowledge and experience that you’re relaying to the rest of us. It’s really appreciated.
For Southeast Arkansas the peak of the rut doesn’t start until the first week of December so our pre rut starts around when gun season starts around November 12 but if I get a good cold front during late October bucks will be coming into areas looking for where the does are going to be during the rut. I will usually hunt morning in late October if we get a good cold front and it looks like we are going to get a good one next week and I am like you I will hunt in the morning on the gun opener then after that because of hunting pressure picks up I will hunt from noon until sunset and a lot of the mature bucks I’ve seen have showed up between 12-3 do to hunting pressure the hunters will make bucks move when most hunters are going to their stand around 3pm love your show it is very informative instead of just hunting like a lot of hunting shows that’s why I like Roger Raglan deer hunting shows and videos his shows are very informative too, I put out a waterhole in early summer this year I am glad I did it because it’s so dry here only waterhole and big creeks have water we haven’t had rain in over a month. Thanks for your show and how informative they are.
Getting on that time here in Virginia at least sub freezing temperatures came in and daylight buck sightings skyrocketed. They seeming a bit rutty too here's to a good Halloween 🎃
Jeff says, hunt the mornings in October. So I make the weekly hunting negotiations with the wife and children for yesterday. (No Sunday hunting in Maine) after nothing all morning I get down and swap cards on my cam.
Monster walked by at quarter to 5 Friday night 😂
I get into my two stands in the morning and evenings with no camera intel and see what happens.
Another great, I agree with you on when to hunt 👍 So many hunters, especially young ones have to hunt opening day !! It's time to hunt!! Here in Oklahoma it's 90 degrees Oct 1st and they go hunt. See a couple of does and fawns and spikes but no big bucks, makes no sense. lol. If a big cold front is coming I will hunt trails but not get to carried away to pressure my big bucks. I call it scouting sits to kinda see what's going on without ruining a good spot. Me personally I don't really start hunting hard until Halloween. To me if it's cool that's when I'll start seeing mature bucks in daytime either in person or on camera. The next couple of weeks after Halloween start to get exciting, again if it's cool. In hot weather still not much daytime activity from the big guys because they have on a winter coat and it's just to hard on them. Everyone waits for rifle when the best time in the woods is the week before rifle. Bucks are chasing does everywhere! Great job 👏
Opening day of rifle seasons are a lot different than archery openers. Keep that in mind when saying "opening day"
Getting ready to go sit a food plot.Starting to see some activity.Had a small buck nosing around a doe early this morning off my deck.
I dont get why you dont have more subscribers. Your info is top notch, Great channel
Appreciate the South Carolina shout out, saw a big buck this morning just not what I was looking for, let him walk.October 11th open day of rifle season
Thanks a lot for watching Jonathan! Good LUCK! BTW I don't mind passing up deer early so I get to hunt more...and learn more 😊
Did I win the Bow or is it a scam.need to know before I send money for shipping?????
I strongly dislike scammers
Thought I had me a new boe there for a second
Im wondering the same thing...received a message as well...
Did they tell you, you won a Hoyt RX7 Carbon?
Good sound advice,Thanks!
100% this man is responsible for several really good bucks on my wall. People don't realize how much he gives out for free if your just willing to watch and listen. But people would rather watch the idiots on on TV
Your lectures are GREAT. If someone is hunting in an area that you have experience hunting.
Otherwise...they are USELESS.
Rut timing, AM/PM hunts are SITE specific.
And in ANY county...the timing of the rut may vary by several days if not weeks.
Whitetail hunting is NOT one size fits all!!!
Neither is land management!
Also you are dead on about bedding areas I found a very large spot of beds close to my food plot and behind my stand and I know from cameras the bucks are 100-150 yard further back. Now I have to change up my stand positions (I use a climber) to get the shot I want
Love your videos Live in Northeast Colorado Love to see you do a video about White tail in this area
They started working scrapes and rubs the last week of October last year here in Nebraska. I arrowed my 9 point Halloween morning
Good luck...man its going fast!
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 right back at ya! I got a doe a couple weeks ago. Thank you for all that you do. You've been an invaluable source of information since I started my archery journey 4 years ago
I was waiting for this video! Vindication!
Morning just better I always used to hunt last weekend of October because it's the opening weekend of pheasant and always thought pheasant hunters would kick em up and I have never had that work out
I have only got 3 deer in the morning majority of my deer come in evening but I think that has to do with the fact that 2 of my three locations are farms loaded with crops
Great info and points, but SW Mississippi is a totally different hunting environment than up North. I've seen fawns in early June, all the way into mid October. Most years the Best Active Rut is the last week of Dec to the 1st week of Jan. Harvested my best Bucks on a Waxing moon.
Jeff, I noticed you had your fuel tank door open on your truck around the 8:10 mark. Do you use it as a gun rest while getting ready or to hide your keys possibly? Just curious.
Because of my schedule & family, morning is almost all of my hunts.
Got a good feeling about Haloween weekend this year in Northern Michigan!
I killed a big 10pt at 9:30am Oct 4th on public land. I was the only one on 2000 acres, no hunters to blow the area out. That’s why I hunt mornings early season, reverse psychology lol
We are having our first frost down here in Louisiana. Can’t decide if I should hunt in the morning or wait till the evening. It’s been windy all day today but supposed to die down tomorrow
Yall better be hunting these cold morings..ive several studs between 645 and 930
Finally heard you talk a little about the effects of the moon on movement. Do you have a video on this. Mostly wondering about how a full moon bright night affects the next days hunt.
Love your videos
But are pre rut and Rut times are inlign with yours...
Southern Missouri
do you have a video on how you determine where deer are going to bed, eat/travel? like when you go scout a property what are you looking for to determine where they will bed down at and where they will move to for food etc
Very few opener days if I had good luck I've been hunting for over 30 years it seems the neighbors always dick it up they're either in my stand when I come out to it or they're making a bunch of noise or smoking cigarettes or they shoot a deer and they just get down and track it while you're trying to still hunt I'm a Bowman I get in there I take out all the nice ones that I want and then everybody else gets to get what they can get and then after they all get tired and the gun season is over I slip back in there once the deer start relaxing and I start whacking them again and that's just how I roll
There is iron in your words
I personally like hunting the mornings because of the movement I see around my area. At the same time this year alone we have a early season cold snap for the first time in 5 years. How would you hunt early season cold weather? Does that increase the rut movement in a year where it's a unusually cold year?
New to channel great information.
Sir, I’m having some trouble with my property and my target buck, do you think we could discuss about my property over messenger or something, I’m not financially able to pay you to come out and do your job but if you could give me some pointers or advice me of anything I’d be more than willing to learn, I could send you satellite pictures and tell you what I know of the property already, my name is Christian bracken, if your too busy then no hurt feelings buddy, can’t tell everyone I know enough of how great of a teacher you are on this channel
Thank you sir
These are great videos and very informative but I've hunted North Florida and South Alabama my whole life (besides 3 trips to Brady Texas with a friend where I killed 2 giants on his free range place and saw more bucks than I ever have) so some of this stuff isn't relevant to me. The woods are soooo thick in north Florida and in Bama the hardwoods are where it's at. Luckily for me my Bama lease has a giant creek runs through the middle of it east to west and a couple small ones that go north/south and east west. It's all different 2hundred to 5k acre parcels all around for 2 counties. Some great hunting in south Bama but north Florida isn't worth a shit unless you have 2k acres and throw up a high fence. Dog hunting and no buck restrictions leaves no growth for bucks in Florida. "If it's brown it's down" should be the state whitetail hunters monicre.
I almost never see deer in the afternoon during the entire season. Most of the deer I have seen and shot have been in the morning only. The property I hunt is more of a "pass through" property, which makes the deer movement kind of wonky.
I've seen in last few years lot bigger bucks were I'm from move more around 8 and 12
Great video
Curious, you talk about not spooking deer in the morning around food sources. How do you view standing corn? The reason I ask is one of our best scrapes is on a corn field/wood line edge. This cornfield is sandwiched between hardwoods and a large CRP section. Sitting close to that scrape all day feels like the right call as it's a scrape location that pops up every year. It just feels odd to hunt near the corn field edge in the morning, so wondering what you would suggest. Do you treat standing corn like bedding even though it is a food source? I'm debating accessing this stand in the AM along the edge of the standing corn for the first pre rut sit this coming weekend.
Jeff brother killed a nice 3 2/2 year old with recurve yesterday! Do you ever have stands you can hunt morning or evening?
Can you do a video based solely on Deep South hunting strategy?
About another week!
Anybody know why deer only hit soybean when green and later on when pods are brittle ?
@Number 1 Western Fan thank you ! 👍🏼🏹🦌
They just don't like that stage of growth for whatever reason...taste, pesticides/herbicides sprayed on them, nutition value.
I have observed the same behaviour....and am wondering g the same thing.
Cheers!
Almost all of the hunting tips and content online is East coast or central US related. It is almost impossible to find content specific to the pacifc northwest or eastern Washington. Help! There are a lot of hunters here who could use your insight
Question Mr. Sturgis on September 16th shot a nice 150 class 4 yr old long story short,bad shot! Hired blood dog found nothing. GREAT effort though! But nothing, 2 weeks later comes back which was great in itself that he was alive and well but 12:30 at night what should I do in your opinion??? Thanks love everything u guys do!
Some of your information is becoming more subjective in my opinion like, big bucks lay more scrapes then little buck during pre rut, imo you just have a higher density of big bucks in your area that have to fight for does so they have to lay more sign, in New England I find the smaller bucks rip up the woods through all times and a big buck will more dominate one particular area with his rubs and lay big scrapes instead
Big cold front coming it's mid October here in southeast Michigan, do you try a morning now or just hunt the evening? They are Making scrapes and we have noticed some new rubs .....
What is the smallest gap in weather that a temperature can drop an effect deer. You think it take more than a 5 degree change or would the temperature have to change more or less. i know it relative to area but is a small weather change possible just as good as a 15 or more temperature changes also I mean high am low change not one or the other so if the overall temperature drop is 5 degrees just as good as 10 or should I wait on that 10 degrees or more of change ?
The bigger and nastier the weather change and temperature drop the more it effects deer movement, but anything around 10 degrees I've found to get deer moving longer and earlier. Less than a 10 degree drop, and I'm looking at wind and precipitation. If the temp is the same but there's a downpour and 40mph winds, the day or evening after it subsides works really well for making deer move.
@@papajohnsy6659 thanks for the reply know storms have good effect sometime before but mostly after around here i just have big buck an ik what time the year I catch him daylight mor often just hoping to have the weather help me out this year cause it’s been hot here intill November the last few years but there’s years cooling off alot quicker
When you talk about a temperature drop is that referring to the drop from high to high or drop from low to low
The time to hunt bucks in the morning is whenever I have time to hunt in the morning!
I only hunt my best rut stands when the conditions are very good...and I shoot a mature target buck about 50% of the time 👍
Ok I'm sorry but there is no 2nd rut. Doesn't work like that.
Thanks for this info. I haven't hunted in about 20 yrs or so I don't have all the cameras to take advantage of seeing deer travel back and forth. I am hunting public and basically still hunting (saving for a treestand). Any advice that I might be able to take advantage of in the future while scouting for deer? Thanks
Give Arkansas some love! Lol thx for the info Jeff!
Lol...dang, I will do that! My bad for sure!!
Ur out huntin while ur videos are playing, & everybody is home watching ur video's. No wonder you get all the deer... (laugh).
There's only one rut that's from the last week of October to first week of February. These guys have tons of knowledge and advice but there is no 2nd rut.... There's like 3 "peaks" obviously the first in Nov that last the longest and is the strongest then the next in Dec which is not as long and not as strong same in Jan that's very weak compared to even the second "peak". I like watching you guys and learn a lot but facts are facts there's one long "marathon" of a rut.
Agreed.
One long marathon of a rut with bucks, waiting for does to go into heat