10 Acre Micro Parcel Design w/ Home
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- čas přidán 20. 08. 2024
- This is a very simple and clean micro parcel design that can apply to a whole lot of small acreage hunting parcels with homes! I hope you enjoy this 10 acre deer hunting design...
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Love the small parcel videos Jeff, I have 3.5 acres that touch my moms 12 acres.. we have about 10 huntable acres thats it, so these small parcel strategy videos are perfect for someone like me.. Plus it helps keep my hunting expectations realistic.
That's awesome JJ! I have a few more to come too and I really hope they help!
Your videos are very helpful. I am buying lots of land around my 150 acres, so I'm on a tight budget till I'm done buying. But I have a big picture in my head from watching your videos
Thanks Jeff for these small parcel videos. I only have 5 acres total with a house. But I’m surrounded by wood lots some of it recently logged. Also some ag nearby. I’m trying incorporate your suggestions on an even smaller scale. I have low expectations but am hopeful that with the right plan I can reasonably successful. I welcome any suggestions. Please keep the videos coming. Tim
Man..just keep watching WHS and you'll find what works for you. I have same scenario here at my house.
I only have deer passing through along creek bottom here at home. The deer seemed to always cross through my little valley here at home in a kinda hurry. I've since planted switch grass to block view from road and line of sight to my house.
Helped 100%. Slowed the deer down alot by making it a little more private all around my dinky little food plots here at the house. I have 1100 acres I can hunt north of here on my wife's family farm. Just frost seeded switch grass around future food plots 2-19-23 for this upcoming fall.
I'm able to use my plots here at home to experiment,with what I have going on up on the wife's farm. To bad it's 85 miles north.
Anyway good luck..don't be afraid to try. Weed control and patience is key. Oh yeah sometimes it's hard to be a Tim... lol
Just what us tiny parcel guys need. Thank you. With your instruction, I've gotten started on the habbit changes. Thank you tons
If you want a tough one: 26 Acres of mostly thick conifers, on top of a hill, surrounded by neighbors and hardwoods with a right-of-way all around. Ag/backwoods area.
I’d love to see more videos like this! I really enjoy these! Thanks Jeff!
Love small parcel videos. You can have great hunting on small parcels, I’ve got 10 acres and I see lots of deer and couple nice mature bucks. Follow Jeff’s advice and you can make dramatic improvements to your hunt.
That is very similar to our 12.5 acre parcel. Only we don’t have neighbors right next to us. I also need to plant some screening on the edge of our food plot. Like the videos!!!
Thanks a lot Casey! Really hope this example helps you out 👍
Love all your videos jeff. My wife and i just bought a house with 10.5 acers last year in northern vermont i have slowly been improving the property over the last year.hope this fall i will be able to harvest a deer outback
Yes! This is more up my alley. I would prefer more but at minimum 10-15 acres.
We need a video going over what to do when your parcel is on two different sides of the road 150 on one side and one 150 on the other.
Thanks Jeff, you do a lot with a little. Good stuff
So much to do with small parcels...wait until you see the next one 😊
I need to get you out to my 23 acres in Pa. I do food plots lots of cover. Neighbors property who is family plants corn, wheat, and grain. I plant clover and winter peas/ radishes. My problem is I see them all summer long as I feed them corn. But in Pa you can’t bait during hunting season so we have to stop 30 days before bow season. Once season is in bucks are gone. Have plenty of does and small bucks on property. Big ones I see all summer leave. I usually see a shooter every other year a buck chasing a doe.
Love the parcel design videos.
Thank you very much Mitchell!
I agree. This type video in invaluable to the do it yourself guy on a tight budget…
I got a doe. Only saw two bucks and they were young. Have meat in the freezer, so I guess I can't complain too hard. Wish a big boy walked by me though. I want to keep the does building herd. My land is only 12 acres, so this video is awesome for me. I do a 2 acre food plot.
I'm getting my property in very good shape for food n cover n it sure is paying off.
That's awesome Exotic I love to hear it!
My favorite videos-design!! Is it common to place plots by the house so the depth is away from sent sound sight?
Yes, a lot more common than not! Also so the plots aren't placing as many deer on your neighbors during daylight.
I will have a lot more to come Kurt 😊
Congratulations on the new seed blends. Just wondering if you could provide what’s in the blends and what ph and fertilizer recommendations with them
Hi Mike! The fertilizer and pH recommendations should be provided to you with a soil test. But, we do offer some general recommendations that you can use with planting instructions that are included in the bag. Some seed blends are proprietary...most are listed by name within the website when it goes live later this week.
Thanks Jeff!
You are very welcome Isaac!
Killed a 7.5yr old this year in Pennsylvania on 17acres. Watched him for 3 years n so did all the neighbors. What I did different then my neighbors was not going in the woods a hour before daylight. Instead I waited for grey light to stalk my way to my blind. Hunted 30+ days n didn't spook one deer. I also left 10 acres as a sanctuary n planted a .5 acre food plot on the edge
Man that is perfect Trevor! It doesn't take much but it takes doing it right. That sounds perfect...great job!
Love to hear it! Congrats man!
I used to do the same thing on a parcel I had in Missouri decades ago. The only access due to terrain and property lines was through the ridge top fields. That is where the deer were at night and you were sure to bust them out plodding through. My buddy killed a 160 5min after leaving the truck slipping down the edge slow working to his stand.
I use the same strategy here in south on public. I get "close" in a good wind direction before daylight but leave the last 200-300 yards for after I can slip in and see.
But another public I get there an hour before daylight cause everyone pushes the deer to me during the morning rush..
Used the same
Love these videos, Jeff!! What's the smallest parcel that you've worked on??
This video hits home for me and my 20 acres. Got any videos on swamp hunting or swamp improvements? Already planning on red osier dogwood patches and maze cutting thick brush.
I have a lot to learn.....
Don't we all 😊
Looks like a new first lite hoodie……?!!!
Yes for sure...and the link is in today's video description I just put out too 😊
Jeff, you guys would love our 9 acres. Very close to the Indiana Dunes lakeshore and boarders parks department woods.
I basically have the same thing I am working on. I have 5 acres . 1 is hay out front by the road. And about .3 acrea as a fenced I'm backyard and the rest is thick woods that's attached to 1000s of acres ..I plan on putting in a late season plot kinda out front but screened from the road and also screened from the house ' my dogs go insane when they see them' but I have drainage from the Ag fields that runs through the woods and then goes into all the woods behind me and runs for miles..The big plan is to get more deer to use the drainage to access the fooplot and catch them in between. It's gonna be tough because the foodplot won't be much off my driveway but last season we had deer in the yard and in the spot I plan on planting ..And I look it at like what do I got to lose? Little money in seed and some time ..
I love small parcels. Hopefully they have a good relationship with their “crazy” nature loving neighbors when they need to track a shot deer.
My neighbors determine whether I bow hunt or use the 300wsm...
It’s crazy that’s literally almost an identical setup of are land except ares is a cow field instead of a food plot and without the loud neighbors
I had a 5 acre parcel that I killed plenty of deer on. Not anything huge back then. About 1.5 acres of woods that backed up to 80 acres of woods. My neighbor had the same. We had a pond, pole barn and house as well.
My food plot was about a 20 foot circle of clover.
I also had a crazy neighbor. Would run over to my house anytime he was suspicious. Went out to the barn for a screwdriver at 10 pm. He was in the door in seconds. "Whats wrong? I saw the light on!!". One time he called one evening, "I see smoke coming from the tip of your house!!!" Yes, we have a fire in the fireplace. Sadly, the 80 acres was a land of poachers. We had 7 different people tell me they owned the land. One even told me that he owned my treestands on MY property! Regardless, you can certainly kill deer on smaller parcels. Nice now to be on 40 acres with larger parcels all around.
Not related to this video but…. Wolves have taken 2 deer out of my yard in less than 3 weeks. A video on predators and cover for deer would be great! My land is super thick, maybe too thick?
This looks identical to my set up except all 3 parcels would be my property minus the small square that has house in it.
Would you add a small green path inside the new thicket to get the deer moving in a certain direction. Just asking. This would be the size I could afford
Iam on 5 myself and am leasing 4 behind me. I live in the middle of the five. Very hard hunt. People hunt adjacent land around me. Not alot of bedding and one.of.the owners just cleared cut and of course it was one of the close bedding areas. Oh my very hard hunt
@@jeffsturgis Thanks Jeff but I'm not sure how to do this. I don't see a number
Hey Jeff I’m a big fan watch all of your videos. My dad is actually friends with someone that is good friends with you they said here in Michigan. I hunt on 90 acres with a river running through the middle of it. I have a couple questions about food plots and where I should place them?
Do you ever reccomnd an 8ft deer fence so shot deer can't go on bad neighbors ?
I'm sure they wouldn't allow blood trailing
That's a tough one...only in very serious cases. And then stand locations would change too. In this case they have the cooperation of neighbors. In most cases a fence would be a last resort...it's kind of extreme!
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 makes sense... thanks
Yup... almost impossible to not be a fence sitter on a 110x440. Deer go both ways though! Neighbor relationship is paramount.
Being so close to property lines, are you afraid of the deer running after being shot onto the neighbors property and dying? With that war, is there concern of being able to recover the deer?
Not in this parcel because of the cooperation with the neighbors. But on a different parcel this design wouldn't potentially fit because of those concerns.
What software do you use on the iPad do design your property? I have been searching for something for a year or two. Love watching all your videos. Outstanding information and extremely helpful.
Jeff I hinge cut a soft maple the other day that was leaning and was t caught a really small tree and didn’t fall! Should I just let the wind take care of it?
Hi Drew! There are a few ways to get that down, but I strongly encourage you to get it down because it can be a widow maker to you or someone else in the woods. Do you have a come along or something to winch it down from the side? That's the safe way anyways...
How do I keep the deer and other critters from eating all of the seed I spread on my plots.
Hi Joe...really focus on dragging seed in, drilling in or especially you can make sure you seed right before a rain...
Would you hinge-cut bedding in their open woods relative to the stands you've planned back there?
Not in the case of just a few acres of woods....meaning not just on either side of the stand to sit between bedding like on a larger parcel. Instead, I like to complete whatever type of cutting is needed (in this case zero hinge cutting) to within about 10 yards in front of the stand...deer trail at 20-25 yards from the stand.
recommendation where get 10' grass
Hey guys, do you have a seed blend for canada in a zone 3 habitat that is woodland almost no ag?
Low exquipment (4weeler with a realy smal tractor
Oh my god ... lol. You put tracks on your 1100c. Come on this is Michigan not Alaska lol.
Mine gets through anything quite alright with the agressive atv tires.
pretty cool though.
It's actually MN and we have 3 to 4' drifts, much colder than MI and 300 to 400' changed in elevation. We can't even get that or our ranger with aggressive tires off of the country road, let alone 100 yards onto the land in any direction 😉 We can't even get the side by sides or ATVs into the hollows with wet ground and tires, so we leave them on the Ranger all Summer. Literally have to park them for 4 to 5 months without tracks...
Do you think you can have seed blend recommendations by region, I think it would be a great site feature
Does this landowner worry about deer recovery from the not-so-friendly neighbor's property with the parcel being only 110 yards wide and having stands right near the property line? If they are concerned, do they have any ideas to prevent the situation from arising or becoming an issue? Thanks.
They don't worry just because they have cooperation with their neighbors. If they didn't their plan would be quite a bit different.
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 Oh okay. Your video implied that they didn't get along with the neighbors to the East which I figured to include them being uncooperative on all fronts.
Jeff Which of your seeds blend would you recommend for summer food source and be able to do a no till for fall and late season plots?
What about 1 acre parcel?
It depends on what's around you. If you have good cover around, a little hidden 1/8th acre plot can be money if the deer don't recognize the pressure
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 yes sir thank you for the response I'm surrounded by 500 acres or more of timber I do have a hidey hole plot and a good acron tree that I have a trail cam on but everything I have is nocturnal there is a pond about 400 yards away from my land so they use my land to cross and go to the water source
I'm located in the piney woods of East tx so alot of pines and pine needles on ground
I kill a deer every year on my 7 acres my home is on a secondary road where the deer will cross north of the house or south on a hedgerow. The north piece is 5 acres and seeing deer is a given. Big woods behind my house and across the road is an 20 acre of old clear cut full of whippets and brush you cannot walk through that my neighbor owns and behind that agriculture.. the only thing is you have to listen to an occasional vehicle.
Curious how the laws are there. Can’t hunt within 50yards of property lines without written permission from the neighbors in Illinois
You sure about that? Source?
Do you ship seed to Canada?
Yes we do, but you have to email Jessi at info@whitetailhabitatsolutions.com. She, Wes or Jen figure out shipping and then they send you an invoice for the seed and shipping before sending...
We are trying hard to make that work for you!
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 Thanks Jeff. I sent an email as you suggested. Need some guidance on what seed would work best so included that inquiry in the message. The Deer Fence seed sounds like it would work to screen my long/skinny food plot from the yard/house on my property. A bit more info on what kind of seed is in some of the blends would help the decision making, like for the Dry Soil Forage Builder, which might work for me.
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 You've got some new blends already listed....might be a good video topic to discuss what's in 'em and where they would be best used.
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I think so Kurt!
The neighbor thing is a pain to live with let alone hunt by. So the neighbors are obnoxious but only to themselves? They don't really bother your clients other than being nosey?