How I Scout Public Land Bucks For Bowhunting Success! “Think Like A Deer”
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- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2024
- Come along for a beautiful afternoon scouting adventure in the river bottoms of North Alabama on public Bowhunting Only land by canoe! I’ll share my tips and techniques on how to get on a mature buck and adapting to the pressures of other hunters and “Thinking Like A Deer “.
These types of videos are whats missing in todays main stream hunting videos good luck and keep these coming for as long as you can. Great stuff right here
Thank you and I sure will!
Jeff, I fully and thoroughly enjoyed this video. More of this would be great. I am so happy I found you on RUclips.
@@57koop Thanks brother I really enjoy getting after bucks on public land and I actually did kill a really nice 10 point and a doe on December 16th just on the other side of the creek and only got video of him coming in , I shot the doe first not even aware he was trailing her but I shot him at three yards! God is good!
#2 bucks with #2 Toyota Tacomas, cant wait to get another truck and go see the public lands and ALL is glory, carry on sir! AWESOME BLOG
Hey Jeff. Love your videos. My grandfather is Donald Dobbs, friend of the great Howard Hill. He said he would love to talk to you sometime if you cared to! I'm sure it would make for a great conversation. Thanks!
Absolutely love your videos Jeff, but this one honestly takes the cake. I love scouting videos and learning more about woodsmanship. Also huge congrats on the buck the other day!!!
Thanks Matt!
Loved it !! I recently lost my Private Property farm area and will go back to my old Public Land routine. This was great !! Thank You ! Only difference is Im a ground hunter.
Jeff, thanks for sharing your process on finding hunt-able bucks. Looks like a neat place. I wasn’t surprised when you found that camera… same here in PA. I moved 2yrs ago in to PA and find good hunting public areas has been harder than I expected. Keep walking and keep looking. I jumped a large buck several weeks ago n a very unexpected place and am trying to pattern his non-rut movements now. May tge Lord blest our efforts.
Exactly! Thanks brother 👍🏻
Great video brother! I live 15 min from wheeler I travel for work alot hope to do a lil hunting soon! Stay safe God bless
Love your work keep them coming 😊
Go get that monster Jeff. I hope you can get it on video🤞
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Enjoyed the video I appreciate y’all that do this to allow us to be apart of it I thank the lord he allows us the opportunity to hunt and scout I was injured at work this past year so I was not able to hunt but thanks to videos like this he still allowed me to be apart of the hunting season though I’m suck laid up at home I will say I enjoy scouting just as much as I do hunting and killing big deer hope you have a blessed rest of the season
Absolutely my friend and I hope you have a wonderful upcoming season!
Awesome video Jeff that's what it's all about woodsmanship
Yes sir that’s how we were raised up, my Daddy had me out on this Refuge when I was a kid reading deer sign and I still love it!
enjoyed it, that’s what drew me to my love of archery in the first place, hunting deer. Here in Mn. The rut is usually right around the 8 th Nov, give or take. Hope you get a crack at him.
Very nice for you to take us along on this scouting trip. Nice!
Thanks I always enjoy getting the chance to bring reality adventures to you guys like it really is!
I subbed! Can't wait for the next videos too come. Great info. Thanks
I liked it. It was nice to see the difference between there and where I am in north Wisconsin. Great video.
Lol I’ll bet it is quite different! That’s what I love about the south it’s cold sometimes but great bowhunting weather most all the time!
New subscriber here, so happy a friend of mine shared this with me! But I’ve a question, in those mud flats how do you access to your tree? Straight shot to it, leaving your canoe on plain sight or parallel to the spot leaving the canoe out of sight? Thanks!
Man jeff I just found your scouting video now im trying not to get a ticket because you made me late for church! 😂
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@@instinctiveaddictionarcher8998 thanks for your instructional videos Im new to trad and sharing your experience has helped me immensely! I heard you mention that camera you saw on public land around wheeler…. I did not know this until recently but there is a TVA public lands map that shows a lot of those creek channels around wheeler actually fall on TVA land and not federal. Im over in Scottsboro which is why I seen the map looking for camping spots. If that part of the land was close to the main lake the guy might actually be legal. I could be way wrong too but thought I would mention it. Again thanks for your vids brother!
@@dannyfoxworth3113 yes especially on the south bank of the Tennessee river tons of hardwoods to hunt with big deer!
Be careful walking mudflats, especially at flood control lakes where they drop the lake water level fairly fast. The mud can be a foot deep when the receding water first comes off of it, and you can get into trouble real quick trying to walk cross it. Look for gravel, or rocky lake bed areas to access woods from a boat. Also can be a nightmare trying to get a deer out across mudflats when you can barely walk across them without dragging a deer.
You go that right!
I bought a cargo wagon from Tractor Supply with the fat pneumatic tires to get them out. Worked way better than a deer hauler cart.@@instinctiveaddictionarcher8998
Hey Jeff, public land scouting vids are in serious short supply. so thanks for this, did you get this deer? ,also what is your scent control regimen/process?
@@timbo749 thanks and I’m not sure if it was him or not but I did get a really nice 10 pointer approximately 1/4 mile from this exact spot and honestly I only spray down with scent killer before walking in and nothing else because I’m convinced if you’re down up wind you’re busted no matter what, I just don’t want deer to smell where I’ve walked in 👍🏻
Hi, what are the bow only WMA in AL? I didn't know there were bow only public lands (except during bow season, of course, when they all are -- ha!) Thanks!
Yes sir Wheeler is a federal refuge and they generally go by state laws other than they limit it to bow only other than a short flintlock season, Seven Mile Island on the Tennessee River chain offers great bowhunting only opportunities as well, there are several others adopted into the forever wild programs that way but most WMA’s and open permit public lands allow gun hunting 👍🏻
Thank you, and thanks for all the wonderful knowledge you share here! 🏹
Trail cameras are legal on wheeler you just cant leave them overnight i have killed many many bucks over the yaers on wheeler i know the area you are in good luck
Thanks brother and you’re exactly right on that but this camera had a lock on it lol definitely left overnight 😆👍🏻
Yea some people don't follow the laws or they probably didn't read the permit close enough
What's your shop name I may have you build me a setup
Its been 12 days how are things going down south my friend
I got him today! Didn’t get to video the hunt but he came in grunting after a doe which I actually shot and didn’t know she was hot lol he gave me a 3 yard shot nice 10 pointer! I’m tagged out now just gonna have to hunt does lol but that’s okay!
Jeff I know you’re trying to be helpful, and you are. But you’re giving out way too much information and it is not exactly hard to tell exactly where you’re at especially when your say the public land you’re on. As a fellow hunter who has harvested deer from the the very spots you’re showing, I wish you wouldn’t but that’s your own choice. Your descriptions are too accurate and you’re blowing up the spot. Especially when you show and say where you killed a nice buck. I’ve seen more than one canoe/kayak hunter in that launch spot every weekend and another 5 cars at the gate to the fields. I know there are no secret spots on wheeler but come on man!
If you’re blessed to hunt weekdays thats great but blowing up a spot means weekends get crowded for us weekend warriors.
Hope to meet you out there some day. We hunt the same spots. Kind regards.
I completely understand and that wasn’t the intention at all being that 99% of the channel subscribers and viewers aren’t local guys who can visually identify the spots and will probably never travel to Alabama to hunt traditional but yes I’m aware of the massive influx of public hunters in the past couple of years and I certainly don’t want to cause you or anyone else any harm or give away any exact locations but I’m all about sharing my experiences with the traditional hunting community it’s who I am and I love bringing it real.
Im from uk and would love to bow hunt and live your vids but this just seems daft showing ya spots u could do same teaching about fieldcraft them deer gonna get hammered now 🤣 then on next vid be moaning no deer to hunt anymore in ya area.🤣
These RUclips hero’s are going to keep name off hunting land until there’s not one spot left worth to hunt.
Could name 4 or 5 personalities right now that have already ruined several pieces of public land but hey if it makes you look good on RUclips go for it I guess.
Then come back here and complain to us when you have to fight ppl out of your stand.
All these guys could still make informational videos and never give up all this information.
No I don’t hunt wheeler but that’s not the point. It’s obvious all these guys care about is making a name for themselves regardless how it effects anyone else.
Yes sir I completely understand however Alabama for one has a total of 721,000 acres of public land to hunt and several being limited to bow only which has relatively tough access and most people aren’t even utilizing the recourses we have and lots of other states have great opportunities as well so my point is that good hunters especially hard core bow hunters aren’t a threat to the massive amounts of land available.
Yea I had a RUclipsr blow up another water access NA public land spot. Of course the deer are still there but it went from never running into anyone to fighting to get to spot first, and even people hunting on top of you even when you get there first. That’s not what I want my hunting experience to be.
I actually killed my first deer right where Jeff is showing. I know there are no secret spots on wheeler but that doesn’t mean spots don’t get blown up. Videos like this don’t help.
And none of this land is hard to get to. You can walk in from the north, east, and west. And canoe in from the north or south. You’re not getting away from people on wheeler, everyone and their brother has a canoe.
I know it’s not jeff’s intention, just a byproduct of helping people and showing them the ropes
Regardless, have a great season.
Land of the FREE!!! lo Hunt, camp ,gun, bow market is HOT!! Enjoy
Name the place most wont even GO!!!! Enjoy the know how and camera work involed@@instinctiveaddictionarcher8998