How To Become A Deer Habitat And Hunting Consultant
How To Become A Deer Habitat And Hunting Consultant
So you want to become a deer habitat consultant? Whitetail habitat consultants are a dime a dozen because, most never master the level of proven hunting skill and success first, to actually be able to quit their day job. Here is a glimpse into my professional life, for what it has taken to rise to the top of the deer habitat consultant industry. If you want to become a true deer habitat consultant, you need to watch this video and proceed into the hunting industry with your eyes wide open…
Confession time. I sent you a couple of emails to inquire about your services. Hadn’t heard back from you and now I TOTALLY understand why. You are working at a furious pace and you give away far more advice than you sell. I have watched scores of your videos and have learned much about how to manage and develop my own farm. This will be my 50th year bow hunting. I have a degree in Agriculture and years of farming experience. With all that I did not have the skills to develop my 127 acre farm strategically. I have a lot of work to do but I am excited to get started! Thank you!!!
Jeff, thanks for putting me in your video…lol ( I seen my name when you were scrolling thru the questions from viewers) anyway love your content. I look forward to it every day…..p.s. maybe you’ll answer that question I keep posting. Thumbs up brother.
Thank you so much for posting this! It’s very encouraging. I’m where you once were. I’m 35 and have hunted my whole life. When I turned 30 my whole mindset changed towards managing our land for wildlife. I have absolutely consumed every bit of info I can on whitetail habitat since then on a near daily basis and have been working to transform our property as well as help friends and family on their properties. I’d love to start consulting but I also know I need more time to build my credibility. If I’m asking people to pay me to step foot on their property they’ve put a lot of trust in me and the last thing I want is to take advantage of that trust. Hearing your journey has been very encouraging. There may be a day I take that leap, but that’s likely several years down the road. In the meantime I’ll keep learning. Thanks for all you do! Even though I’ve never met you you’ve been a great habitat mentor.
Best job in the world!
Passion passion passion it makes up for a lot of shortcomings
Jeff Sturgis = A wonderful human being
Forgive me if my questions has been asked before or touched upon Iv watched a lot if your videos I love the content but I’m sure Iv missed some.
Public land hunting. Harassment and gear being stolen. Im hunting an area that’s 300 acres maybe it’s mostly public but 60 or so is private. The hardest hit area has access via a power line road (easement). It’s all private property but everyone rips the signs down and does what ever they want. The land ownership has just changed and they aren’t active with the land at all they aren’t going to post it I’m sure. I’m expecting things to get worse. Most people don’t know how or can’t access the other half it’s to hard to get to no place to park. I can walk there from my house and walk in off a main road. It’s a small sliver of land between two houses then it opens up an acre or so back to the full public 300ish acres. Lots of swamp in the middle so you can really travel between the two sides of the 300. I’m hunting this side for the first time this year. I’m already getting a lot if side eye walking in from neighbors. One of the neighbors kids starts screaming at me for no reason just walking out on a Sunday…. Iv had a lot of year stolen over the years off land where I had private access to land locked public land etc. I’m afraid the kids or neighbors are gunna rip a stand down steal my cameras etc. I’m not going to say ok I guess I can’t hunt where I live because my stuff gets stolen better go some place else. Should I talk to the neighbors drop a note in their mail
Box hey this is who I am I live down there street we have never met I’m legally bow hunting out here this is my contact into call me with any concerns? Or call environmental and be like hey I’m already being harassed over here to get it on record? I’m also trying to keep the access hush hush lol do you have better security options? Like hide the cameras in a certain way lock the stands? I also own a small business in town I really need to be delicate with how I respond to any issues i see this year.
Are you willing to come to Tennessee for 11.24 acres?
Thank you for mentioning God and Family as priorities, keep up the good work!
Have watched your content for quite some time now and every video I have learned something new! I’m looking to buy one of your books, do you recommend a certain first book? Thanks!!
As a 2017 client of Jeff’s my 80 acre parcel is proof that his teachings work very well. I have completed 99% of the work that he had implemented and it’s has paid off tremendously. We bought our property in 09 and I was focused on trying to harvest mature deer. In the first seven years we struggled with nocturnal bucks and after that 12 hour day we spent with Jeff in February of 2017 we have now harvested 5 mature bucks and have had a massive increase in day time activity. I look forward to every single new piece of content like a kid a Christmas. Thanks for sharing the knowledge you have Jeff it has made our hunting so much more enjoyable knowing we are now doing things the right way!
Do you go to Eastern Outdoors Sportsmen show in Harrisburg PA? Would love to hear more on micro (5 acres or less) properties in urban areas like the Mid Atlantic.
Thanks for all the videos Jeff. I know I mentioned a while back about me voting for you for president but I credit alot of what Ive learned from you and your vids. This was my 2nd year back bowhunting and I got my first mature Georgia buck with a bow. Ive learned alot and im pleased that a friend I hunt with asked me to check out 32 acres he was considering buying. Needless to say we found 5 scrapes in 15 minutes and the track had a ton of diversity with bedding and feeding. My friend bought it and has seen nice mature bucks on camera. He now wants my advice on setting up stands. I laugh because Im not anything close to you but it makes me feel good to put some of your knowledge to good use!! Be blessed and thanks for being a blessing!
This was a great video. You answered the questions that I have always wanted to know. It helped me a lot in what I need to do in the way of wanting to do this for a job and helps me look at what my limitations are and think about how I can work around those limitations to make this a career. Thank you and God bless you and your family. As a side note I now know what I have to do for next season to improve my hunting opportunities and for shot opportunities as well.
I really like your honesty and approach. This video was so informative on many levels. The part where you were approached by an essentially non-hunting potential competitor with a PhD in Wildlife Management…… priceless. I would never hire a consultant who wasn’t a hunter first and foremost. I started bowhunting when you did, my father was a gun hunter but nobody in my family was a bowhunter. I was blessed to have gotten a bow from my parents for Christmas too and I had a 7th grade science teacher who helped me and a buddy get started. Not really any bow shops so we learned to tune our bows through a lot of trial and error. I think I read every bowhunting magazine back in the day. Great content and I agree, you are blessed! Thank you for sharing the blessings of your knowledge with the rest of us. Can’t wait for your webinars. I have had some decent success as a hunter but am closing in on retirement and want to up my game and challenge and opportunities for more big bucks every year by hunting for large bucks on public land in a few states rather than just my own. I think the ultimate challenge is going in somewhat cold to a new area and trying to figure things out to harvest a nice buck. Webinars with that in mind would really pique my interest!!!
You said you are so blessed.and it’s obvious you know where your blessings come from, but you are blessing all us viewers ,sharing with us that which you’ve worked so hard at ,,not holding anything back we appreciate what you do
for us. Thanks a ton
Can you do any videos off a client property that have some lowland areas on how to use phragmites to your advantage
You have a Caduceus on your forearm…. What did you use to do prior to this being your profession?
As a 2019 client of Jeff’s I’ve had plenty of follow up questions for Jeff, but I usually answer them myself by referring to his books and videos. But as a client, it is good to know that if I can’t figure something out on my own, Jeff would be there, in time.
Great look into how dedicated you have to be to be a business owner, I have a small business myself, the freedom is great but your always on call, so much info on this channel, I look forward to your content and rewatch them so I don’t miss anything, hope I have the opportunity to shake your hand one day and thank you in person. This used to be something I did for fun, but now it’s a true passion in my life thanks to you. Your very appreciated sir. 🙏🙏
Man, what you do is really impressive and greatly appreciated! I can’t wait to get you out to my parcel in Southern Ohio! We have already modeled so much of our management plan off your content! Thanks for all you do!
Marcellus mi marsh apprx 4 acres question will it grow switch grass if i spray the marsh grass down? If not can you recommend a bedding product that will help to fill in this marsh. There is some trees in it black willow and maple but i can see the whole marsh. There is a creek that runs through middle of it so there are water saturated portions of the marsh
Hey Jeff! I was wondering if you’ve ever had any clients in Texas! Is it too far out of the way for you?
You sr are the Johnny Cash of habitat management. There will never be someone with your level of knowledge on Whitetail in this industry. We can all only hope to be as talented as you someday
love your videos ! If you ever are near northeast Missouri I would love to engage your services
First class, appreciate your videos!
I appreciate you doing this,
Jeff. You have earned your success!
I think you have found your niche. It seems there are so many people trying to get in “the industry” these days and here you are doing your thing helping your fellow hunters rather than trying to sell us on something.
Thanks so much for the insight Jeff! This is encouraging 👍
Would you recommend hinge cutting pine trees along with switch grass to screen food plots. Or should I just keep them standing
You Never did answer my question I left on the micro hunting video 5 days ago.
I think this is my favorite video of all the videos that you have put out! Passion for hunting and being outdoors is what drives us all in this sport we love. When I get home from work I’m either thinking about improvements I could be doing to my lands, actually doing improvements or enjoying a hunt on those lands. If I’m not doing that I’m watching shows like yours to give me ideas on how to improve my land. Thank you for doing what you do because when I’m done guarding our nation’s northern border I’m looking to your videos to inspire me to do better with my ground and make better hunting opportunities for family and friends!
Thanks Jeff I definitely appreciate what you have taught us with your videos. God bless
Your a "hall of famer" in my book ! Appreciate everything you do !
Jeff, I’m curious, do you ever work with clients that want to incorporate cattle onto their property? If so, how do you approach that scenario differently? I’d love to see some content on that if you do. Thanks for everything!
Jeff really enjoy all your videos that you put out and all the hard work you guys to in all the free information and offer us novice enthusiastic. Like the old saying says try and try again always learn something on your channel
Is flying to Austin TX too far out of the way? Property is a 45 drive from airport
Thank you for all you do Jeff. I’ve learned a lot from you. I’m grateful to your family that they can share your time with us as well. You are passionate about your work and it shows.
I bought your book, and am excited to jump in to the challenge of better managing my 7th generation family farm in North Florida for whitetail success!
Do you ever virtually meet with clients to go over plans they drew themselves?
Jeff, as I’ve been following you, by reading all of your books, and I think I’ve watched the majority of the YOU TUBE videos , it seems that all others try to mimmick everything you do ! I have learned, and applied so much of this free info , to my very small{ 7 acres }, and has went from zero to hero property. Thank you so much !!
Ok jeff ita Sunday got my coffee waiting on the new video…lol
Sounds like Jeff has a tendency to be a perfectionist. Learn to take it easy on yourself.
Do you ever upload to any podcast? I watch mainly listen I run CNC lathe and mill. Just wonder so I can have a way to listen and shut my screen off to save battery
I think it’s one of those careers that you are meant to do, meaning you have the knack for it. Like some people are born into being a pro athlete, or born into being a musician. I think very few could learn it and become a successful habitat person by trade. You fit into that mold, and I’m so thankful you share so much for free. I can’t imagine traveling 140 days a year. You have all my respect and definitely earn your keep.
Good ideas but if you see this I’d like your advice wats the difference between you and Tony laprat
I’ve learned far more from watching your videos than any other source. You’re a great guy – in many ways. Thanks & your success is well deserved.
It’s too bad for me you don’t come to NC
Those classroom type videos are gonna be great! More info on those please.
I love your show cause the honesty!! It’s easy to tell a hack from a professional. I see it all time on YouTube
Aside from mentioning the obvious things that you are talented at, you have some great marketing skills. Not like a used car dealership type lol The way you’ve pumped out very high quality content, and developed such a strong presence. I enjoyed listening to how you go about it all. many would burn out fast, probably even myself. I would just like to show up with a chainsaw, tractor or skid steer and do the grunt work.