– Scouting Properties –

Scouting properties testimonials at bottom of page

For 2022 and beyond, my son Jon will be taking over the scouting properties. Jon is 49 years old and like me has exclusively hunted public and knock on doors for free permission properties and has hunted from a saddle for 37 years and has used ScentLok as long as I have and has paid zero attention to wind direction for 21 years.

Jon has taken many bucks off public land in Michigan and has 11 bucks from out of state with 2 being over 160 inches. He has only went on one out of state hunt where he didn’t take a P&Y buck. Jon is an excellent bowhunter that I would put up against anyone concerning every aspect of bowhunting.

An avid hunter can spend tens of thousands of dollars on property and hundreds to thousands of dollars each year on a hunting related vehicle, quad, gas, and hunting equipment, and will spend at least a couple hundred hours of time scouting, preparing locations, and hunting. Why, because like me, it’s their passion?

Many hunters also get motion pictures or know of big bucks on the property they hunt, yet fail to hang a tag on them. Are you one of those hunters?

Proper; scouting, location preparation, scent control, entry and exit routes, knowing when and where to do what, having a seasonal and daily plan of attack and many other detailed aspects of hunting are the foundations for consistent success.

Whether you hunt public land, free permission, family owned, leased or managed properties; let John scout the property for site locations and have him create a strategic plan to make you a serious threat to any buck on the property.

After all, over John’s 54 seasons he’s scouted 17 different parcels of public land and several dozen free permission properties in Michigan and has 31 bucks listed in the Michigan record book from 19 different properties and one of them was a state record from public land. During Michigan’s gun season (John doesn’t gun hunt) John’s also taken 19 P&Y bucks from 13 different properties on his 22 out of state trips to 5 different states.

What separates John’s accomplishment of having taken 50 record book bucks from 32 different properties from any other hunter in the country is that he’s exclusively hunted on public and knock-on-doors for free permission properties without the aid of bait, licks or food plots. In fact he believes hunting over anything that’s not natural to be a hindrance to taking mature bucks with a bow.

A full day of scouting would consist of; scouting for new locations, assessing your current locations and how their prepared, proper location preparation of tree, shooting lanes and entry and exit routes, assessing the property your hunting and the surrounding areas hunting pressure and how it may affect where on the property and how you need to hunt, teaching a total scent control regiment, showing tools used for location preparation, discussing daily and seasonal hunting strategies and techniques, scouting bedding areas, discussing if and where to use motion cameras, locating natural food sources, locating any primary scrape areas, discussing how when and under what circumstances to use fake tactics (calls and decoys), importance of being patient, and every other topic imaginable that has to do with aiding you in capitalizing on your opportunities by putting punched tags on mature bucks. And if you bait, John’s goal would be to ween you from it.

John has the experience and knowledge to show you how to utilize whatever property you have access to, to its fullest potential and will welcome questions as he feels there is no hunting situation he hasn’t dealt with during the 54 seasons he’s been hunting in the most heavily pressured state in the country.

Act now and contact John to discuss your personal hunting situation.

After speaking with many workshop attendees I’ve made the difficult decision to not scout any properties unless the person or persons have attended a 2-day in-field/classroom whitetail workshop. I don’t want to put my credibility on the line by scouting and suggesting locations only to; have the locations be improperly prepared, be hunted at the wrong times of day and season, be improperly entered and or exited, and the many other details that are conducive to success. I also want to assure that whether or not the person or persons take advantage of it, they at least have the knowledge to incorporate a proper scent control regimen as that is a huge part of being consistently successful.

I hope this doesn’t come across as being egotistical, but to be consistently successful at taking mature bucks in heavily pressured areas requires a lot of things to be performed and done correctly and just walking a property and picking out locations and then leaving and assuming there being prepared and hunted correctly doesn’t sit well with me.

A location may have the best mature buck sign in the world at it, but if it’s prepared and or hunted incorrectly, its potential is immediately compromised and I am not willing for my reputation to take a viral social media hit by someone stating my advice was wrong when in reality they didn’t know how to take advantage of the advice.

Many of the bowhunter’s that have attended my workshops had immediate success the next and following seasons and I’ve been told in testimonials, over the phone and via emails that witnessing how; my locations were prepared, my entries and exits were planned out, I use daily and seasonal timing, a proper scent control regimen is acquired, and much more, aided in their success.

2021 Scouting costs and Eberhart Whitetail Workshop dates and costs:

Scouting properties costs will be done on a case by case basis with the base cost being $1,000 per day. Issues influencing additional costs will be travel days, flights or driving distance, overnight stays and the amount of hunters that attend. Please call John for details on scouting properties.

Weekend Workshops will be held near Edmore Michigan and the 2021 dates are; March 27/28 (full), April 10/11 (full), April 24/25 (full) and May 15/16. Click on the Workshop link at the top of the home page to access the workshop attendee information sheet which has all the pertinent travel and hotel information.

Each 2 day in-field/classroom Workshop event will cost $600
Lodging and meals not included

If attending a workshop please put the weekend dates you will be attending and your phone number in the lower left memo portion of the check or on a separate note and make check payable to and send to:

John Eberhart
1219 Queensway Dr.
Weidman, Mi. 48893

Call John in evenings or on weekends at 989-644-6067 or e-mail John at deerjohn51@gmail.com to schedule an available event date or to ask him workshop or scouting related questions.

Payments are non-refundable but John will be happy to re-schedule on a future date.

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