Jeff's Deer Blog

Mature Buck Strategies

Stand Timing for Mature Bucks

Dead bucks don’t lie. When a mature buck dies…does it give you a touch of sadness?

Bowhunting Tactics

Stretch Your Archery Limits for Bowhunting Success

​Every year my family went on a week-long fishing vacation towards the end of the summer in MI’s Upper Peninsula. That was often my most important event of the year!

Mature Buck Strategies

Public Land Mature Buck Patterns for Success

In 2009, Jake, my 7 year old son went on his trip of a lifetime! We sat one day in the rolling hardwoods of PAs public land rifle-season opener and from start to finish he had that wonderful perma-grin that every parent recognizes.

Mature Buck Strategies

Deer Bedding Area Tactics

I wrote this article in 2008, but it is still true to this day. To learn more, please take a look at a couple of my most recent bedding area tactic articles as well...

Mature Buck Strategies

Buck and Doe Bedding Locations...why here, and why there?

​Often to understand both doe family group and buck bedding behaviours, you have to understand the deer themselves.

Habitat and Herd Improvement

Whitetail Parcel Layout and Design, from a Habitat Designer's Perspective

Wow....my deer season is over, and it's "Habitat Time"!! I feel extremely fortunate to either manage deer habitat or hunt deer year round and as my friends probably remember me saying often, "I'm pretty lucky!" as it relates to being able to do what I do.

Food Plots

Food Plot Patterns for Deer Habitat Designs

With good results or bad, food plot patterns can be created on your land. Back in 2005 I began coining the phrase, “Patterns of Use”

Habitat and Herd Improvement

Whitetail Habitat Dead Spots

What are whitetail habitat dead Spots? Why should you recognize them on the lands that you hunt?

Habitat and Herd Improvement

Whitetail Habitat Lines of Movement

​What are whitetail habitat lines of movement? They are a defined travel corridor between bedding to food, food to food, or bedding to bedding, basically between hotspots of deer activity.

Habitat and Herd Improvement

Whitetail Evergreen Power for Small Parcels

Hands down the majority of the best mature buck bedding areas I have known, including individual beds, have involved conifer in some manner...