Making Tiny Deer Parcels BIG 

Shot a beautiful 12 point buck up in NE Wisconsin on smaller acreage following Jeff's videos and books. No atv during deer season, water holes, the start of food plots, mock scrapes, and most importantly A PLAN!

Jeff, this video made me realize that this is another key element of why I got to take👈🏼 this buck this year..... Everyone else burned up their hunting spots and I stayed out till the time and wind was right! Your becoming my most favorite hunter! People don't like to admit it but just listen to you and taking into consideration your knowledge and what I know will really help make you a better hunter! Thanks man, I can't wait till next year!

Can’t believe i missed this Video! So much info in 20min! Thanks Jeff this videos a game changer 🇨🇦

Bought 12 acres of steep woods two miles from my house a few years back. Found this channel & bought the books as I improved it. Got a 7 acre parcel this year in the pines about 4 miles away. Sure is cheaper than buying 400! 😏

Just getting started with your principles. Working with ~8 acres in suburban/ country/small ag area. After getting some of the plan going this past summer this hunting season I've gone from seeing 5 doe and 2 bucks last year on average to seeing 17 doe/yearling and 6 bucks this season, and I even totally messed up the food this year. The depth of cover & nonintrusive principles alone have blessed us bigtime. Thanks for sharing your experience with us

I’ve been hunting over 30 years and after watching your videos I’ve taken 2 of my nicest bucks in two different states , amazing what I learned . Thanks and keep up sharing your experience.

Thanks for the constant stream of videos Jeff. An awesome service to the deer hunting/habitat community to be able to watch these for free.

Here's a video I've wanted to see, right up my alley! Thanks Jeff!

Thanks for another great video, looking forward to all of your knowledge on my property this February. Enjoy the rest of your season

Thanks Jeff 👍 Great content as always. Have a great day all!

Thx, Jeff. You’re a good teacher everything you say makes sense.

We have a 40 acre farm we're hunting a buddy owns, it's extremely thick.. it's half of an 80 acre wood, our half is the thick stuff, the other half not owned and not permitted to hunt is the timber, they have feeders I've hunted in the back of our land and heard them kick on, but unsure exactly where they are at, there's a small clearing maybe a half acre we cut out to put a food plot in with a Amish built box blind on the north end, we have several small bucks on camera and very few does, there isn't much for large enough trees for stands and the ones that do have stands are basically useless at this point because they're on the outskirts of the property where they are affective when certain ag fields are planted was beans this year and not corn so the deer aren't there, I was given permission a week into season, and also given full permission to alter the land with the land owner however we see fit. It has so much damn potential it's just a bear to figure out. I'm gonna grab a copy of the book mentioned to read up on, but man I'm sitting on a cherry here but need some serious help, to make it what it deserves to be.

Hey Jeff...I've been watching your videos for a couple years now. Practicing several of your concepts on my tiny parcel here in Western Wisconsin. Incredible hunting adventures both last year and this year. Keep the videos coming!

This really hits home for me.. This is great info. Thx for sharing your knowledge with us. I have been hunting most of my life and always learning.

Thanks Jeff, great information 👍

Hey Jeff! Love your content! I'd love to hear more about how you divide up access on larger parcels, especially the valley system that you mentioned in this video! Thanks for putting out such AWESOME content!

Thank you for this vid! I’ve been waiting for this one

Jeff...love the video. I am trying to implement all of your ideas. However, this year has been very rough. I added two food plots and I think I changed the deer flow on the property.

Nice video Jeff!

Thanks... Always have helped!!!

Hi Jeff, is today a good day to hunt in this high wind. Great info

Just gotta say. Started watching your videos just before this season. And your advice works. Shot a big 8 pt nov 1 during bow and big 10 pt on nov 19 during gun. Playing the weather and wind was a game changer. In total 4 big shooter bucks were taken this season on my 70 acre lot.

Jeff, all your content is great but you hit a home run with this episode. Hunters and landowners need to watch this one over and over until they get it. Depth of cover is the number one key to holding deer on a property, especially in daylight hours. We all have heard of and seen a farm that “hunts bigger than it’s size.” You are preaching the truth here. Fantastic episode sir.

Wow, this is a true eye opener. I’ve got 120 acres of almost pure old untouched forest surrounded by public land that holds few if any deer. Hunting has been horrible the last few years since I moved here. I’m buying your book to try to rehab it. A lot of work, I know.

Awesome video! Never thought of the depth of cover concept. Makes perfect sense as I have a small foodplot on brothers-in-law's 12 acre parcel and it just holds does. He has his house up front of this long narrow parcel and has close neighbors up front with maybe 2.5 acres of woods at the very back and probably 2.5 acres of CRP in front of that(it does stand year round). Neighbors nearby have heavy cover on one side, 35 acres of CRP on the other side and heavy timber over beyond that. My foodplot, corn pile, mock scrape, and mineral site, have some great bucks at night and I'll randomly get good bucks on cam through the rut if I've got a hot doe. Very limited good buck sightings in daylight so this makes perfect sense with how I currently have this property. At the very back of the propery and surrounded on the creek bottom on one side, I have a foodplot back up against the woods, then the 2.5 acres of CRP giving cover to the house and the neighbors from viewing the foodplot. Anyways, thanks for the video, you have my mind rolling now!

I'm new to hunting, it's my 2nd year. We live in North Florida in the panhandle. I have about 15 acres and have been working on turning it into a great hunting land. We have an abundance of rabbits, squirrel, pheasants and does, but not many bucks caught on camera though. I appreciate all of your knowledge and the fact you share it with us. Thanks man.

Nice edit. Thanks for the info 👍🏼 🦌

As always great information

Thank you for the video.

Great video!!

Your youtube videos are very informative about what is needed. In the purchasable video series, do you cover what to look for on your land and "where" to put these things?

Our property is 300'X1000', up the hill is 100+ acres of oak trees, down the hill is a swamp with lots of hemlock and white pine. I can't compete with that and just try to slow the deer down as they're moving between points. In order to get to either they have to cross our property.

Great ideas that I never really considered, but my little six acres is not conducive to holding bucks and the bucks and does normally come around at night to feed, and tracts have been within 30 yards of my house.

In the stand now, raining hard, #HuntWise says we got some fun ahead in an hour when it stops! Great content brother

On public land there are certain areas where most of action concentrated. You can customize a small private land parcel to be that 10% of area deer spend 90% of their time

Last day rifle season in Pa. But there is still a late archery season with a unpressure food plot I feel should have more success this late season. I feel I always keep learning when I watch your videos!!

Great watching, love the information, what happens when a neighbor keeps dumping thousands of pounds of corn, is there a fix? Thanks, Andy.

Thank you for all your advice. If you could add a link on your video or your website to the devices you use - like this portable seeding device, that would be extremely useful. Thank you!

Last day of rifle season here in the armpit so glad it's about over lol

hi Jeff , love the videos , have a timber harvest of 250 trees starting in January, all huge 100 yr old plus trees. i am planning on this being an absolute mess of deer cover afterwards, how many deer trails would you open up in say a 40 acre patch of woods?

Great video i like the pictures that u draw the picture in these video will help me out alot these season switch grass i want the best kind where to get it?

hey Jeff another great video just wondering what the ideal Ratios would be on big woods area vs ag land ??

First! In the stand now, Thanks Jeff!

Would you recommend putting a mock scrape near a bait pile?

I plan to put your teachings to work this winter. The area where I plan to bed my does next to food source is a few acres of large black locust. I'm worried that cutting those locusts will ignite an explosion of young locust sprouts covered in thorns. Will this create good or bad results? In short, will a high stem count of the thorny brush hold deer or will they avoid the thorns?

Would you add switchgrass on the edges of the access road to the deer stand since the road is more open?

What kind of trail cams do you use? How much maintenance do the need updates, batteries, etc….

I have a small 24 acre spot in the family that has multiple habitats within. Corn, small chuck of pine, tall grass near the back and woods to the road with a creek running threw. Its the shape of a long rectangle. Anyway, I haven't hunted it at all this year, either has anyone else. I put a camera on the woodline a few weeks ago on a rainy night, so Im confident I didn't spook anything. I have pictures of doe coming in like clockwork and feeding an hour before dark. The problem is just that. Only doe and turkey on camera. The buck sign is on the property, however the camera says otherwise. I understand it's hard to say with jusr this comment but any advice jump out at ya? Or have an idea how I should go at this? Love the videos and have learned alot already so keep them coming👌👍

Morning Jeff any advice on thinning out a 60 acr probably 8 yo clear cut in the south lol

Hi. At 19:01 "Stand Assemblage" there's a brief clip of a 2-swivel seat platform stand with a shade / drizzle rain cover. Where do these stands come from? There are a couple spots on my place where I'd really like to place one of these. Thanks!

Will bucks still bed towards the “back” of a property with proper Depth of Cover if the neighboring parcel has high pressure?

Jeff we have like 20 acres and 15 of which is taken over by cedar so we are really only hunting but 5 acres and I would like to know how I should go about the cedars? Any help would be greatly appreciated

Hey Jeff, love watching your videos. Just one question, if I am accessing along my borders, how far from my border do I plant my food plot?

Hi Jeff, how much depth of cover do you think is needed to be adequate on private land in a wooded setting (scattered food plots and clearcuts around the neighborhood, but closest Ag is about 1.5 miles) ?

What are y’all using to create cover? Have 25 acres in upper Michigan with food at the far eastern boarder. Want to create that depth to cover ratio.

My wife and I recently purchased a small amount of land and I’m wondering how do I determine where I should be adding the food plot 🤯❓

Jeff, I’m confused when I hear you reference large Crp tracts as poor cover. Do you reference just laying cover? I have crp (15 acres) that stands well till late winter, and the deer use it all through hunting season. Especially after pressure hits from surrounding property. I routinely watch bucks cruising trails through it, and watch does get pushed into it by mature bucks during hunting hours. Keep up the videos. Alway good info!

Morning Jeff. Question for you my friend. I haven’t been spooked yet I am curious as to how I can get the deer to start coming during the day every single day at the same time within reason they’re on the trail camera about an hour after dark at the pile I am located in South East Georgia any advice is greatly appreciated.

You talk about the 40 acres as if it were an island. What's if it's connected to additional timber....your depth just increased

Jeff, most of my regeneration is sassafras trees. Will the deer eat that or should I try to eliminate it?

Would switch grass be considered thermal cover?? If not why?

Jeff what do you suggest on hinge cutting big oak trees where there is a portion of the property that is open that I could make more bedding to eliminate open hardwoods? Or should you clear cut?

Are there vids/tips when it comes to sugar sand land 20 acres. About 5-6feet of nothing but sugar sand when it comes to food plots 10acres open oaks, pine other 10 red cedar, oak,pine heavy brush never been cleared or messed with.

I am sure you have covered this before, but a wide open 40 acres, if you have 5-10 acres you can so SOMETHING with, would you concentrate on food or cover? For reference, this is in heavy ag land, but no planted ag on any boarding land, with cover on only 1 bordering property.

Morning Jeff John here just a quick question your Killzone and what I mean by that is what are you shooting your bucks at all different Heritage are usually good 30 and under or 40 and under or 50 and under I'm just curious everyone has a kill range right before you go to spot and hunt you just don't go out and your auntie know there's a deer at 60 and try to shoot it you got to have it kill range what what is your rain gentle everyone has a different one but I'm just curious

Found this from a 2015 blog of yours.......still hold these to be true for food plot screening options? IMMEDIATE FOOD PLOT SCREEN TIMING 1. Egyptian Wheat 2. Earthen Berms 3. Sorghum Sudan Grass 4. Hinge Cuts MID-RANGE FOOD PLOT SCREEN TIMING 1. Switchgrass 2. Quick growing, low food value pines such as Red Pine, Jack Pine or Scotch Pine. 3. Various shrubs or quick growing trees such as Speckled Alders or Hybrid Poplars. LONG-TERM FOOD PLOT SCREEN TIMING 1. Spruce 2. Red Cedar

Make more videos when your actually hunting like getting into the stand film walking in the woods to show people how it's done. How to sneak out without being busted. How to be quiet in real time. How to make the actual hinge cut. Ect....

How far from the borders where you travel should bedding and food plots be? 100 yards?

Your 20 acres and 40 acre example is all a square or rectangle....you put the food on the property line, that should make the neighbor happy. I know if I were the neighbor I'd have a stand near the line

Wow I wish 40 acres was $120,000 in my area.

Im trying to build that Depth of cover on my land converting an old open golf course to a deer parcel. The deer are eating everything I plant, its crazy I cant get anything to grow without it being nipped and dying. Any tips you could reccommend? I dont have enough money to spend on caging everything I plant either

Got a quick question if you’ve got time to answer. I’ve got a 30 acre parcel that’s almost like a marsh. It’s got some trees and high stem count all over. It’s full of bedding during early season, problem is that once all the tall grass dies in late fall and winter the deer disappear. Should I plant a food plot to see if they’ll stick around? It does have one small creek and a larger creek running on ends of the property

Can you successfully manage deer on 40 acres and use it for other recreational things? Me and my wife want to buy land and we have 2 boys 5 and 9. Does the land have to be 100 % deer hunting to be successful at managing? I hope you can see what I'm asking. Keep up the great videos and happy holidays!

I need to turn 10 to 400 my man

I do not want to spray poison on my food plots! Can i still grow good quality food plots without using weed killing practices?

Thoughts on 40 acres with the house in the middle?

Our deer bed in CRP all over the property. We have high grass that grows in the crp. The deer use it heavily. I’d have to disagree about the CRP comment you made.

Great video, thanks Jeff! Quick question. On our 40 acres, our new house is on top. I want to establish depth of cover, but worried about putting food plot too close to house with noisey kids always out playing in yard. How far back should I put food?

Me only having access to 17 acres (including a house and farm) 😔

I hunt with my grandpa. Might as well take a baby in the woods. He makes me hate the hunt when "we go".