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The 1-page deer habitat checklist.

The pass to print, fold into a glove box, and run before you walk a property. Five sections - cover, food + openings, travel + access, stand sites, pressure + light. We mail the PDF straight to your inbox.

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What ships in the checklist

Five sections. One printed page.

The same sections the paid $29 Starter Workbook opens with, but condensed into the pass you can run on a property in under an hour.

Cover
Cover
Mast oaks, native browse, bedding security core, conifer/cedar thermal cover, water that holds through August.
Food + openings
Food + openings
Food plots inside 200 yards of bedding, edge feathering, soft mast, secondary plots at the far end of the property.
Travel + access
Travel + access
Corridor mapping, creek bottoms and fence-line funnels, scrape lines on the downwind side, access that doesn't bump deer.
Stand sites
Stand sites
Three sites per bedding core, 30-40 yard shooting lanes, thermic-wind entry and exit, sight line from the road.
Pressure + light
Pressure + light
Neighbor boundary, monthly (not weekly) camera coverage, no tractor or chainsaw within 48 hours of a hunt.
  1. 01

    Print it on letter, or open on a tablet with a stylus when you're back at the property.

  2. 02

    Walk the property once before the season - the checklist turns the walk into a baseline.

  3. 03

    When you're ready for the full design (corridors, browse matrix, year-one improvements), the $29 Starter Workbook has it.

Going deeper

When you're ready for the full design.

The $29 Starter Workbook expands every section of the checklist into a worksheet, a baseline survey, and a year-one improvement plan.

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