Ep. 331: Transforming the Back 40 for Whitetails with Jeff Sturgis

Wired To Hunt Podcast

MeatEater

Wilderness, Sports

4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2020

⏱️ 123 minutes

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Summary

Today on the show I'm joined by Jeff Sturgis, of Whitetail Habitat Solutions, to get his first impressions on our Back 40 property and his tactical recommendations for improving it for deer and deer hunting.

Topics discussed:

Sturgis' first impression of the Back 40 after walking it during late August 2019
The importance of sanctuary and the perceived security of deer
Factoring hunting and access routes into the locations of your habitat improvements
Why Jeff recommends linear food plots and how he chooses their paths
Where Sturgis recommends we place food plots on the Back 40 and what we should plant
How Jeff believes we could incorporate switch grass and pollinator pockets to transform our old fields
The importance of screening cover
Jeff's recommendations on specific hunting locations on the Back 40

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1:07.5	Welcome to the wire to hunt podcast your home for deer hunting news stories and strategies and
1:14.6	Now your host Mark Kenyon
1:19.3	Welcome to the wire to hunt podcast I'm your host Mark Kenyon and this is episode 331
1:26.3	TAYLON the show we're joined by Jeff Sturgis of Whitetail habitat solutions to get his on the ground reaction and
1:33.7	Recommendations for improving our back 40 property
1:41.3	All right welcome to the wire to hunt podcast brought to you by on X today on the show we got a couple things going
1:49.7	Coming up here soon
1:51.5	We're gonna have the main event which is an interview a sit down
1:55.7	I did with Jeff Sturgis Jeff Sturgis as many of you guys know probably is the founder of Whitetail habitat solutions
2:04.0	He's the author of a whole bunch of books related to deer hunting and managing properties for deer and deer hunting
2:10.3	He's a consultant. He's a youtuber. He does a whole lot of stuff related to helping you become a better deer hunter
2:17.0	And how to improve your property to do that too. So what I did is I actually brought Jeff down to Michigan in
2:26.0	late August
2:27.6	to go see the back 40 and
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