Habitat and Herd Improvement
Habitat and Herd ImprovementAn Easy Way To Raise Or Reduce Deer Numbers
One way to raise or reduce deer numbers is by applying a little or a lot, of trigger control. However, I've experienced a much easier way to control the deer population on your land, and it works on a range of poor to perfect habitats, across the entire Country. It all begins or ends with a concept I refer to as a doe factory.
Habitat and Herd ImprovementCreating Staging Area Habitat For Big Bucks
Creating staging area habitat for the biggest bucks in the neighborhood is no easy task. In fact, very few landowners get to enjoy the privileges of owning a successful staging area, all season long. While creating a staging area isn't all about big bucks, you will find that you can't have one without the other.
Habitat and Herd ImprovementHow To Plant Switchgrass For Wildlife Cover
Switchgrass is one of the easiest forms of wildlife cover to plant and if planted correctly, switchgrass can be fully established after only 2 Summers of growth! Learning how to plant switchgrass by either frost seeding or using a no till drill, will offer you 2 sure-fire ways to establish a deer and small game habitat magnet.
Habitat and Herd ImprovementDeer Parcel Buying Guide: Finding The Perfect Whitetail Property
Finding the perfect whitetail parcel to buy or lease isn't easy. If you desire to capture your whitetail dreams, then you may need to think outside the box of traditional deer land ingredients. After scouting nearly 700 parcels in 25 states since 2005, there are 20 deer parcel qualities I have experienced, you should consider.
Habitat and Herd ImprovementHow To Attract Whitetails To A Monoculture
If you've ever wondered how to attract more whitetails to your land than you know what to do with, then make sure that you add habitat diversity pockets. By adding daytime browse you can easily turn conifer, switchgrass or shrub plantings into a high powered habitat attraction for whitetails, that is anything but a monoculture.
Habitat and Herd ImprovementFood Plot Screening For Creating Buck Bedding
Let's face it folks, without effective screening, food plots can be risky to the entire deer herd. Screening your food plots offer several great strategies for the savvy land manager, in particular if your goal is to create buck bedding areas. Do you want to have bucks that bed on your land? Then screen your plots first.
Habitat and Herd ImprovementHighly Attractive Deer Sanctuary Improvement Strategy
While most hunters plan for deer sanctuaries and even have fancy signs to establish their boundaries of sanctuary habitat, very few hunters get to experience a highly attractive sanctuary. The #1 test for how attractive your sanctuaries really are, is to calculate the % of acres that deer never see you, smell you or hear you.
Habitat and Herd ImprovementTop 5 Off Season Whitetail Habitat Improvements
While a food plot is likely the most powerful whitetail habitat improvement on the planet, these 5 off-season improvements are pretty darn good too! Waterholes, deer bedding areas, bowhunting travel corridors, mock scrapes and wildlife switchgrass plantings can be awesome additions to your favorite whitetail habitat.
Habitat and Herd ImprovementWhy You Need To Create Winter Deer Habitat
When deer hunting parcel sizes are 500 acres and smaller, you can't afford to neglect creating Winter deer habitat. While there is an overabundance of quality warm season whitetail habitat in the North 1/2 of the country, cool season bedding cover, daytime deer browse and quality Winter food sources are often severely lacking.
Habitat and Herd ImprovementThe Most Strategic Time To Shoot A Doe
If and when you need to thin the herd or fill your freezer full of venison, the best time to shoot a doe is when you will spook the herd the least. That's why the best time is also the most strategic time. A case could be made that either shooting does early or late in the season is best when instead, both are highly strategic!
Habitat and Herd ImprovementDeer Census Strategy For Better Hunting
Coming up with a deer census strategy for better hunting in simple terms, can boil down to the phrase, "you can't hunt, what you don't have". Of course, that's pretty darn simple! However, an accurate deer population count at the right time of the year, can provide much more than just a hunting forecast.
Habitat and Herd ImprovementWhy To Use A Vine For A Mock Scrape
Using a vine for a mock scrape, may be the best licking branch that you can find! Why? Because while scouting deer parcels in 22 states for my full time career, two things have become incredibly obvious: Vines are the #1 licking branch and in nature, natural is always best.