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Hi Jeff,
Enjoyed the video, great job! Can’t wait to start “hollowing out some spruce in Kalkaska County, Mich. Mother Nature has done a job on us with the snow lately, I think Munising was dumped on too. I’ll send you some pics later in the year and hopefully a nice buck or too! Ken
Thanks a lot Ken! I can’t wait to hear about your property…so much potential and great food in a high cover area, you guys have already done so much to build a deer herd. It will be cool to hear how you do…what you see, get pictures of. Please keep me posted and send me anyquestions that you have.
Great video………do you have a link for your other YouTube videos?
Charlie…not yet, but more are on their way very soon and I look forward to sharing them!
Great stuff Jeff!! Looking forward to more.
Jeff..enjoyed the video. Looking forward to learning more. I feel a person can pick up a tip nearly every time they go to the woods or watch something like this.
Thanks Clif and John…Clif, that’s great to hear and I appreciate it! I look at it that every time I enter a whitetail woods it is an opportunity to learn so I sure can relate to your comments!
Jeff,
How big of an area did you hinge in the video?
Charlie that area is roughly 3/4 of an acre, but scattered with the habitat. Lots of full sun…but with small pockets of both hinge cuts, and scattered quality timber. The bedding is large the closer to the field edge you get, and both smaller an more separated the further into the cover you go.
“Scattered Efforts” is something I really oush, meaning by spreading the same amount of work over a larger area…you improve the entire area, instead of putting that same amount of time into just one location with too much detail. However…I am going back into that area this weekend for some more detail work…across the entire location. Hope that makes sense!
Jeff,
Thanks for the response. For me hinging large areas just isn’t possible. I have so many trees that are larger then I can handle. I don’t feel safe hinging or cutting them down on my own. What I have been doing is hinging small workable pods 1/8 to ¼ acre in size. I try to link each pod together with brush or scrape-lines. I just hope I can hold deer in these small pockets?
Charlie
Hi Jeff;
Your website is looking real good. Thanks for sharing your ideas.
Jeff,
Great information!
You talk about switch grass between the timber and the food plots.
Also about enclosing the bedding area.
Would it be a good idea to have a strip of switch along the timber leading
out into my food plot?
If so how wide would you recommend?
I have a 30 x 200 yard winding strip of food plot along my timber/bedding area
Thanks
Terry
Justin…I really like hinging maple, box elder, basswood, ash, smaller oak, hickory, butternut, and ironwood is “ok” but not great. Aspen/poplar, hemlock, spruce, pine, and fir have little to no survival (in the case of the conifer-zero). Thornapple is ok but brittle. Some of the poor survival trees like ironwood are very good to form a bridge at chest level to hinge too. Cherry is ok but sometimes brittle like pin cherry…birch is decent.