HOW TO HUNT BIG WOODS BUCKS! - Mapping Whitetails

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  • Aaron, Ted, and Jake are scouting big timber for bucks!
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Komentáře • 134

  • @lukerville
    @lukerville Před 5 lety +109

    You guys somehow make summer scouting look cool...meanwhile I am walking through the timber swatting a stick at spiderwebs looking like I’m casting a spell against Voldemort.
    Great content!

    • @pewpewkachew4735
      @pewpewkachew4735 Před 2 lety +4

      underrated comment here hahaha I can relate to this so well

    • @lisamolenaar5888
      @lisamolenaar5888 Před 2 lety

      You really realize how beautiful they are.🌻LM

  • @cantgetenoughoutdoors3258

    Going in a small creek walking it down to the end of the public line looking for buck crossings love it!

  • @blessedhighlyfavoured557
    @blessedhighlyfavoured557 Před 5 lety +1

    I wanna thank u all for all the info you guys share!!! I have devoured hours of your content. My scouting has improved tremendously and I've learned so much about bedding areas. I feel really good about this upcoming season! Thanks and keep it coming!!!👍👍👍

  • @kingpingpongpow
    @kingpingpongpow Před 3 lety

    I had this video saved so I could go and rewatch it before I go scout a spot just like this near my house. I’m so excited to get out in the woods! You guys are so awesome

  • @michaelbruns3870
    @michaelbruns3870 Před 5 lety +11

    LOVE these videos! Getting pumped for season to open

  • @lastbreathtv4332
    @lastbreathtv4332 Před 5 lety +2

    Thanks for the video, love the explanation you guys give on the concept of a thermal funnel. Such an overlooked advantage that they have!

  • @bobswan3535
    @bobswan3535 Před 5 lety +3

    Thanks to you guys I'm finding more bedding areas and I ever had before📌🍻 psych for the season

  • @samp3087
    @samp3087 Před 5 lety +1

    Pre liked! Excited to hear your ideas. I'm a big woods guy. Northern Michigan Big Woods, few deer, no big ones, lots of Hope and hollow enthusiasm!

  • @michaeloverstreet1500
    @michaeloverstreet1500 Před 5 lety +1

    Great advice. I appreciate y’all doing these kinds of videos.

  • @jcarman1978
    @jcarman1978 Před 4 lety

    This was the best video to help me get to that next level. Upstate SC public land is rolling hills and terrain just like this. Thanks guys!

  • @unclemoe5733
    @unclemoe5733 Před 5 lety +1

    Aaron and crew, this was a very clear, concise, well explained vedio. It will serve me well on the farm i hunt. Can't say thanks enough. Love all your vedios.

  • @dougcounts3383
    @dougcounts3383 Před 5 lety

    THP kicks ass! I love watching and applying what I see. You guys be careful and keep up the good work.

  • @TheWVgoodguy22
    @TheWVgoodguy22 Před 5 lety +1

    Thanks for sharing these great tips and tricks on mapping out whitetails. This one reminds me of where I hunt around our house in the Northern Panhandle of West "By God" Virginia. Still looking for the right places to put some stands and arrow my first deer even though I have had my bow since 2006.

  • @danielzaborowski9845
    @danielzaborowski9845 Před 3 lety

    This video is solid gold. You guys make me want to ditch all of my other sources for deer hunting strategy. This video helps a lot!!!

  • @katiecrowley3417
    @katiecrowley3417 Před 2 lety

    Very helpful, thanks for the video. I'm hunting a similar area with ridges and drainages this year, though there are red oaks and hardwoods up on the ridges, and conifers down along the steep drainages. Now I know how to tackle that landscape a little better!

  • @tylerbraschler7072
    @tylerbraschler7072 Před 5 lety +1

    Love it. Would like to see your take on mapping agriculture/small tree grove plots. I’m in South Dakota. The deer spend 80% of their time in the corn, which usually doesn’t get cut until during or right after the rut. They sometimes bed in my groves but I usually find them bedded in the corn, once in a while they will hit beans in daylight, but it’s mostly after dark. Very flat ground as well.

  • @codysmith9975
    @codysmith9975 Před 5 lety

    Best channel there is love yall. Michigan hunter here... only ever shot does... such a pressured state of hunting but still learning every year. ill get mine soon i hope!

  • @robadams6298
    @robadams6298 Před 4 lety

    One of the most helpful vids I've seen.
    Thanks guys

  • @gunnartaylor1459
    @gunnartaylor1459 Před 5 lety

    Great video guys, gonna help me out a lot this fall!

  • @johnhayes2299
    @johnhayes2299 Před 5 lety +28

    I was so stoked to watch this video but I have to say boys that doesn't look like big timber to me. I hunt in the Missouri Ozarks. Its miles and miles of open hardwoods. Big timber....I mean to big for so climbers. I mostly use terrain features such as saddles, draws, military creast of ridges to determine deer travel. I loved the segment about the wind and crosswinds. You guys still remain the most educational hunting show out there in my opinion. Keep'em coming guys!

    • @hillbillysportsman5818
      @hillbillysportsman5818 Před 5 lety +1

      Yea , don’t look like big woods to me either. I hunt the mountains of southwest Virginia.

    • @jimmyperez5881
      @jimmyperez5881 Před 5 lety +2

      Definitely not like our big woods of Pennsylvania but good info guys 👍👍

    • @davidday1494
      @davidday1494 Před 5 lety +2

      I think when they say big woods they are referring to a large segment of woods that has no other type of terrain to break it up. I'm looking at a large tract of public right now with that same lay out. The nearest crop field is more than a mile...

    • @gheft762
      @gheft762 Před 4 lety +2

      Good info I agree but not really big timber, at least not for where I hunt in the ozarks where mature timber stretches for miles

    • @likeabossbww
      @likeabossbww Před 4 lety

      @@gheft762 like finding a needle in a haystack to find a good clearing on public in the ozarks. At least one that doesn't have 100 other people on it.

  • @331slash
    @331slash Před 5 lety +2

    Incredible, loved this

  • @scottb6098
    @scottb6098 Před 5 lety +1

    Great job boys....really enjoyed. .

  • @rondell130
    @rondell130 Před 5 lety

    Great video fellas. I'm getting pumped for September to roll around.

  • @daneplaisted2076
    @daneplaisted2076 Před 5 lety

    Fantastic help on something that is hard to understand for new guys, i get it now. Thanks guys

  • @cantgetenoughoutdoors3258

    Jake looked like a squatch there for a second! Love these episodes!!!!

  • @brendenwesterfeldt95
    @brendenwesterfeldt95 Před 5 lety +2

    Well that had great detail in it!

  • @tboonejr
    @tboonejr Před 5 lety +4

    The one i'm been waiting on.

  • @bromma1979
    @bromma1979 Před 5 lety

    This is going to help me out a ton! Thanks boys!

  • @brandonnapier2117
    @brandonnapier2117 Před 5 lety

    You guys are pretty good at scouting. I have a nice piece of property that I just can't seem to get figured out. It has hardwoods, ridges, willow thickets and lots of tall grass for bedding cover. I'm moved cameras and stands trying to figure these deer out but, just can't quite pin it down. Kudos to you guys!

  • @austinmiteen652
    @austinmiteen652 Před rokem

    Thanks for making this video Im working on setting myself up better this season for a big buck.

  • @Huntfishalaska3006
    @Huntfishalaska3006 Před 9 dny

    Thank you this may have cleared up an issue I was having hunting a certain ridge spot.

  • @patcarder238
    @patcarder238 Před 5 lety

    Great video guys love it.

  • @harrystanley9921
    @harrystanley9921 Před 5 lety

    Great information guys👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

  • @irwinkennon805
    @irwinkennon805 Před 5 lety

    Informative vid that can be applied to most hill country. A well groomed Jake looks a helluva lot better.

  • @AlecAllphin
    @AlecAllphin Před 5 lety +1

    Love watching your guys videos. As a public hunter your videos have always helped me out with scouting and finding new areas that are overlooked by most hunters!! Thanks for all the great content over the years!

  • @tylergarren5626
    @tylergarren5626 Před 5 lety

    I love these videos!

  • @Gabucks1
    @Gabucks1 Před 5 lety

    Looks like the timber I hunt in South Georgia..nice!

  • @crossbowjoe7500
    @crossbowjoe7500 Před 5 lety +4

    Will we see any videos on how you guys approach hunting saddles, draws and pinch points? Interested to see what you guys have to say about how the wind effects stand positioning for saddles

  • @cajunoutdoorsman5570
    @cajunoutdoorsman5570 Před 5 lety

    Can u guys do a vid on hunting flat terrain. I hunt in the Deep South and there’s almost no change in elevation. I also hunt big woods but most of the stuff y’all covered in this vid was dealing with elevation change. Thx keep up the good work!

  • @Isaiahb876
    @Isaiahb876 Před 5 lety +1

    Love the videos! Could y’all do a vid about how to hunt deer in the south. You know, real thick wooded areas. That would be my favorite video of this series. (bc I hunt in the south)

    • @TheHuntingPublic
      @TheHuntingPublic  Před 5 lety

      Isaiah Bolton check out our scouting workshop videos from last February

  • @kevindice1092
    @kevindice1092 Před 5 lety +1

    Nicely done. Did anybody else notice the chanterelle mushroom standing in the one deer bed?

  • @jakehembree3859
    @jakehembree3859 Před 5 lety

    Thanks!

  • @joshglaubitz6793
    @joshglaubitz6793 Před 5 lety

    Quetion for the podcast..hill country bedding and terrain like this are what I deal with...I cant seem to. BUy that top 1/3 for bedding concept ...this video also confirms for me that the bedding is much lower on the hill/mountain

  • @MrShysterme
    @MrShysterme Před 5 lety +2

    Dense forest without agriculture around is a different game. Maybe there are a few grass fields within a mile. Then add in high hunter pressure.

    • @swalker9482
      @swalker9482 Před 5 lety

      Yep. That's what I hunt in Tennessee. Mountain ranges. Acorns for food. As many hunters as acorns in the trees.

  • @samshepherd9252
    @samshepherd9252 Před 5 lety +4

    Reverse engindeer!!! Amazing videos! Great series!

  • @nataliedeyton6829
    @nataliedeyton6829 Před 5 lety

    Hunting season starts in a week or so in the low country of SC. We need a hunting video get in the move fellas🤣

  • @chief1193
    @chief1193 Před 2 lety

    Thermals are dropping on a cool morning, they rise as the morning heats up. You get on the leeward side of the mountain just over the top you can be scent free from the deer, but you have to time it right

  • @Grizzlife
    @Grizzlife Před 5 lety

    Good stuff!😁😁

  • @rtolbful
    @rtolbful Před 5 lety

    look into Pennyrile State Forest in Western Ky. Holler at me if it's something yall are interested in doing.

  • @garretsuttle219
    @garretsuttle219 Před 5 lety

    Watched this one twice looking at my area maps, anyone hunting West Virginia needs to study this one.

    • @thereelaccountant9246
      @thereelaccountant9246 Před 5 lety +1

      I can imagine WV would be rough hunting. BIg country but damn some steep ridges!.

  • @chuckiewestmoreland3353
    @chuckiewestmoreland3353 Před 5 lety +8

    Jake done cut off all his warmth didn’t recognize him.

  • @markb.1259
    @markb.1259 Před 5 lety

    Awesome video! Thanks THP!!!
    What model Vortex binocs (Mag & Diameter) would you recommend for the type hunting areas y'all hunt in middle America (Iowa, Missouri, Kentucky, Ohio, etc...)

  • @kevinjamieson7899
    @kevinjamieson7899 Před 5 lety

    Would like to see u guy breakdown the Adirondacks. Nothing but beechnuts roll after roll all being and looking the same. Need a place to do a video , I got a camp surrounded by 100,000 plus acres u can stay at !!! Lol good video 👍

  • @alersjjoutdoors6526
    @alersjjoutdoors6526 Před 4 lety

    Good video

  • @michaelbryan8541
    @michaelbryan8541 Před 5 lety

    I have been using these techniques in northern MI and having great success with finding buck bedding areas. I feel like I am not spending enough time in these ares scouting though. How long are you guys scouting? How much do you pick an area apart? I scouted a 120 acres ridge with a buddy in about 2hrs, but we got in, found our sign and trees and left. I feel like we did pretty good but we left out a lot of areas. Maybe its just that we were able to eliminate a lot of it due to focusing on specific spots but I feel like we rushed through it.

  • @dustinavery5099
    @dustinavery5099 Před 4 lety

    @thehuntingpublic I know this is wind specific bedding, but what time of day would you suggest hunting a setup like this? Mornings?

  • @cantgetenoughoutdoors3258

    Oh yeah

  • @trevorbyrd1519
    @trevorbyrd1519 Před 5 lety

    Dig through the ditches, and burn through the ridges, I slam my arrow in and dragggggggg!

  • @cdp50359
    @cdp50359 Před 5 lety +10

    Another awesome video. Now y'all go get some permethrin before y'all get lime disease from those ticks

    • @cdp50359
      @cdp50359 Před 3 lety

      @@icet6668 they do now. That video was from last year

    • @maxharvest2028
      @maxharvest2028 Před 3 lety

      We don't have ticks in michigan we are lucky

    • @jimh7015
      @jimh7015 Před 3 lety

      @@maxharvest2028 what are you talking about lol we have TONS of ticks in Michigan

  • @fortrax300
    @fortrax300 Před 9 měsíci

    I want to see y’all bring this strategy to kisatche national forest in Louisiana

  • @603Christain
    @603Christain Před 5 lety +5

    Would love it if you guys came to New England and hunted its probably 90 percent woods here in NH lots of big timber over the counter tags let me know when your headed this way keep up the good videos and look forward to fall!

    • @yourmomgoesT0C0LLEGE
      @yourmomgoesT0C0LLEGE Před 5 lety

      Naaman Traffie NH probably top 3 toughest places to hunt and score a mature buck

    • @603Christain
      @603Christain Před 5 lety

      @@yourmomgoesT0C0LLEGE Yes it is for sure but makes it that much more rewarding when ya do.

    • @patrickluft7298
      @patrickluft7298 Před 3 lety

      Greg Stevens lol is Connecticut 1 or 2?

    • @KylePinkHam365
      @KylePinkHam365 Před 2 lety

      Vermont has to be up there.

  • @Patrick-wu6kt
    @Patrick-wu6kt Před 5 lety

    I hunt public ground very similar to that but the ditch lies east to west and we have a predominant wind out of the west. Where would you expect the deer to bed in that situation? Along the small draws coming up out of the ditch?

  • @mattd8411
    @mattd8411 Před rokem

    You guys could make a living just traveling in the summer and showing guys where to hunt if people had questions. I been hunting east tn for 15 yrs and just now finding good government land but still don't know quite how to set up on it.

  • @c_turfgrass7773
    @c_turfgrass7773 Před 3 lety

    Crazy deer intelligence 😉

  • @virginianative847
    @virginianative847 Před 3 lety

    Ridges and ditches he’s spittin

  • @WilliamsonProductio1
    @WilliamsonProductio1 Před 3 lety

    Please come to southern Delaware or eastern shore Maryland and hunt would like to see your take on hunting flat land here

  • @Makete100
    @Makete100 Před 5 lety

    Are you going do a teaching on ground that has no oaks, just maples, some black cherrys, beech and poplar? We live just outside the oak range and I don't think there are any in Canada.

  • @cantgetenoughoutdoors3258

    Hey guys really love everything you do! Is there any way I could listen or find out what song is used on the intro? Please it’s awesome thanks guys

  • @stephaniewells4126
    @stephaniewells4126 Před 5 lety

    How bout that Jim Ryser? Love his jams

  • @The_Pottenger_Way
    @The_Pottenger_Way Před 4 lety

    What do you consider big woods?

  • @JM75814
    @JM75814 Před 5 lety

    Lol ooooo I’m getting the itch. I love summer but it should be named almost deer season... love ted.... oooooh ok tough guy... can we make shirts named ted-isms

  • @JoshSmith-md8cd
    @JoshSmith-md8cd Před 5 lety

    Can you guys please make a video on your bows

  • @RichardtheCelticWolf
    @RichardtheCelticWolf Před 5 lety

    Can you guys do a side by side breakdown of your archery set ups and go into who shoots what in terms of rests, sights, arrows, broad heads, releases etc and do a little compare and contrast as to why you each choose similar or different gear? Not so interested in brands and whatnot but who shoots drop aways vs whiskers, who shoots fixed blades vs mechanicals, 1 pin vs 3 pin vs 5 pin etc I'd like to hear the pros and cons to each in on place with a compare and contrast sort of setting.

  • @rickhuff5197
    @rickhuff5197 Před 4 lety

    Is there a compass feature on screen for onX

  • @lisamolenaar5888
    @lisamolenaar5888 Před 2 lety

    How are the habitat for Eagles preservation.🌻

  • @mrcollier1641
    @mrcollier1641 Před 5 lety +2

    Kill a buck in that stand the the first two weeks challenge

  • @ObamaOsucksOass
    @ObamaOsucksOass Před 2 lety

    Looks like Texas with that much poison ivy!

  • @stevecarlson9819
    @stevecarlson9819 Před 5 lety +6

    "there's fields way out that way where they're heading to feed at night" To me that's not big woods hunting. Try the vast sections of woods in places like northeast MN, northern WI and other areas with no ag fields. It's harder hunting but still fun and rewarding.

    • @jthorpe454
      @jthorpe454 Před 3 lety +2

      I was just thinking the same. I hunt northern Cass County in MN and there is zero ag. Tough hunting but we’ve managed to get a few big bucks through the years. However, there is not rhyme or reason to our tactics. Wish I could learn more from you guys on this.

    • @katiecrowley3417
      @katiecrowley3417 Před 2 lety +1

      Yes, same in most areas around here. Little to no ag fields, especially when I'm up in Cook County MN.

    • @Twitchisatrick
      @Twitchisatrick Před 2 lety +1

      Some public Kentucky don't have ag fields and it's been rough for me. I usually hunt Indiana where I'm from

    • @MountainMassOutDoors
      @MountainMassOutDoors Před 2 lety +1

      Ya here in the Adirondacks of NY no corn feilds or farm fields just straight woods

  • @matthewsbardsley9305
    @matthewsbardsley9305 Před 3 lety

    Would you hunt/ scout, moose the same way you would deer. 🤔?

  • @andyw237
    @andyw237 Před 5 lety

    You guys seem to enjoy scouting season as much as i do. Buck turds are the thing i look for the most, it is the most reliable evidence of deer travel. also i think its cool you guys look for old buck rubs from the previous season, i do this as well and compare them to new rubs i find when they become active again. so far i found a TON of deer sign where i plan on hunting this season, opening day cant come soon enough!

  • @davidhowie584
    @davidhowie584 Před 3 lety

    I just got OnX...scouting today I marked some waypoints...Came home too find they where not where I saved them....1/2 or so away..3 hours of scouted shot,,,time is limited truck driver...WHAT I"M I DOING WRONG?

  • @im2kraz
    @im2kraz Před 5 lety

    So I want to know when your gonna let a viewer hunt with you? And I’d like to put my name in the drawing!

  • @diggumvt04
    @diggumvt04 Před 5 lety

    You prefer those stand spots for morning or evening hunts?

    • @TheHuntingPublic
      @TheHuntingPublic  Před 5 lety

      diggumvt04 either but the last one would probably work best in evening

  • @racker7855
    @racker7855 Před 5 lety

    Who’s this Jake guy? He has a clean face now. I only know him with the beard!! Ha

  • @WesternNyBigfoot
    @WesternNyBigfoot Před 5 lety

    Jake? From state farm?

  • @ShaneSimpsonHunting
    @ShaneSimpsonHunting Před 5 lety

    You mentioned that on a cool, windless morning that the thermals would be rising. Wouldn't the opposite be true?

    • @TheHuntingPublic
      @TheHuntingPublic  Před 5 lety +5

      You would think so but.....we seem to have better luck hunting low on mornings like this because the scent tends to hang. Especially as sun just starts to come up and warm the ridges around you. Wind isn’t blowing hard enough swirl and kick back up the ridges. It behaves in very strange ways in different scenarios but hunting low on calm, cold mornings has worked for us

    • @ShaneSimpsonHunting
      @ShaneSimpsonHunting Před 5 lety

      @@TheHuntingPublic I was more thinking predawn.

    • @TheHuntingPublic
      @TheHuntingPublic  Před 5 lety +1

      Shane Simpson seem to get a similar effect predawn as well but only when super calm and cold

    • @justinteichman6534
      @justinteichman6534 Před 5 lety

      use milkweed n find out for ur spot

  • @_jurist
    @_jurist Před 5 lety

    Now with the video overlays, of the topography, which I know took some time just to make. That was excellent. Otherwise you just got some guy standing there pointing in the woods, which doesn’t mean anything.

    • @TheHuntingPublic
      @TheHuntingPublic  Před 5 lety

      Jurist Thanks Jurist! Hope your doing well! That’s actually an overlay from OnX. We didn’t do a ton of work on it - pretty much just took a screen shot from their website but it does certainly help explain things

    • @_jurist
      @_jurist Před 5 lety

      The Hunting Public well then you must’ve used Keynote, to create the animation between still shots. Correct?

  • @steveporteroutdoorsohio4739

    Our public in Ohio is big like that but no ridges or ditches

  • @stvidz_597
    @stvidz_597 Před 5 lety

    Swamp?

  • @Gumshara
    @Gumshara Před 5 lety

    Awsome video later thanks ✌OUT later

  • @cameronhunter1176
    @cameronhunter1176 Před 5 lety +6

    Nice vid can I have a shout out my name is Cameron Balfantz and I'm 11 yrs old and I liked, subscribed and turned on post notifications me and my dad love watching yall

  • @codac493
    @codac493 Před 5 lety

    Any plans on oklahoma someday?

  • @Tbowie13
    @Tbowie13 Před 5 lety +1

    Uhhh, JAKE man bro…just my two cents but you should stay clean shaved. I want to clarify, I’m not left footed, but you look much better without a beard. Some folks need a beard to hide their face and it helps em, others have a much better face without a beard…you are in the second group. I honestly didn’t recognize you at first. So thats what I got out of this video…hahaha. Jokin…this was very helpful, I’m in NC where everything seems to look like what you showed on the map!

  • @whitewiskerz2577
    @whitewiskerz2577 Před 3 lety

    I just don’t understand all this . Im trying just dont get it

  • @24blunt
    @24blunt Před 3 lety

    you know i keep trying 2 watch other hunting shows, but they just don't come close 2 you guys. no kind of IMPORTANT INFO just its a monster buck we've been looking for and what do you know here he comes

  • @MrJWishart
    @MrJWishart Před 5 lety +1

    "big turds" doesn't mean big buck, it is clumped up pellets and has to do with what they have been eating. Any deer tracker will tell you that

  • @tastemycannon
    @tastemycannon Před rokem

    d