Jeff's Deer Blog
Food PlotsCritical Late Season Food Plot Hunting Tips
The 2nd 1/2 of the deer season can feature the perfect setup for hunting herded deer on high quality food plots. However, if you aren't extremely cautious when hunting your late season plots, your first hunt can easily turn into your last. How you hunt, is even more critical than the quality of your food plots!
Mature Buck StrategiesHow To Hide In A Treestand While Deer Hunting
Hiding effectively in a treestand takes a lot more than just great cover. In fact, the more you focus on the amount of cover surrounding you, the less likely your are to keep from spooking deer while you hunt. Stand placement, staying off food plots and hunting moving deer are your best bets for remaining completely hidden.
Mature Buck StrategiesPrime Time Mock Scrape Buck Census Results
The 2017 annual prime time mock scrape buck census results are in, and should be totaled on the majority of parcels across the North 1/2 of the country by now. The buck numbers that you collect from mid October to mid November should be the foundation of your entire whitetail strategy. How did you do?
Mature Buck StrategiesEvening Thermal Hunting Tips For Fooling Whitetails
Using thermals to fool a reclusive old buck's nose, goes much deeper than the basic tip of morning thermals rise and evening thermals fall. While you are much safer planning your morning hunt as long as you are above the deer to take advantage of rising thermals, simply relying on falling evening thermals can spell disaster.
Mature Buck StrategiesGun Season Morning Hunting Burnout
The opening day morning of gun season in any state, is often ripe with a combination of buck-infused anticipation and the sacred reverence of hunting seasons long gone, but not even close to being forgotten. However, once the warm haze of the gun season opener has passed, it's easy to fall victim to the morning hunt burnout.
Mature Buck Strategies5 All Season Monster Buck Timing Opportunities
A seasoned old monster buck can shift in and out of your hunting pursuits on what seems like a weekly basis. "Here today - gone tomorrow" is a fitting quote, for the attempts of timing a mature buck. However, what is great about an experienced old beast is that although he has come and gone, he will usually come back again.
Mature Buck StrategiesPowerful Rut Cruising Whitetail Habitat Setups
When you combine mock scrapes, a waterhole, giant rubs, natural habitat funnels and a few minutes of chainsaw work, you can easily create multiple high powered whitetail rut cruising stand locations. And when you do, don't forget to hang a trail camera to make sure that you don't miss out on all of the rutting action!
Mature Buck Strategies2017 Post Rut Forecast Alert - Don't Miss Out!
We strategize, plan and work all year for the deer season, as the months and many weeks of hope and anticipation drag on. Then it happens. The Pre Rut, Peak Rut and Post Rut fly by so quickly that Christmas is just weeks away. However, don't worry because 2017 Post Rut opportunities are coming in hot!
Mature Buck StrategiesSurviving The Rut During An All Day Sit
Let's face it, when the rut is on, it is sometimes appropriate to sit all day in one tree stand or at the very least be in the woods all day, in multiple stands. However, when you sit all day, do you have enough gear to climb Everest? Here are 3 basic all day rut strategies to keep your pack lite and your success rate high.
Mature Buck StrategiesCritical 2017 Rut Lockdown Sick Day Alert
Do you feel a cough coming on? If so, you are in luck, because Monday's forecasted combo of temp drop, pressure increase and a probable rut lockdown slowdown, will explode mature buck activity from MN and MO, to OH and KY. Also, don't be bummed from PA to NH, because your sick day rut lockdown forecast will be here Tuesday!
Mature Buck StrategiesHow To Hunt The Rut Lockdown Phase
The whitetail rut lockdown phase is very real and it requires a different set of hunting strategies than the pre, peak and post rut phases. By switching gears to bedding areas and remote food sources for just a few days, you can not only learn to survive the lockdown phase, but to hunt it with a level of predictable success.
Mature Buck Strategies2017 Peak Rut Forecast Alert - Go Time!
It's GO TIME in the whitetail woods, just about anywhere in the country, and the forecast isn't going to be disappointing the hunting masses! The 2017 Peak Rut is already here or coming in hot for the next 10 days and the more time you can spend in the woods, the better. However, not every day is created equal!