Deer Habitat

A possible layout change for next year could inclued enclosing the entire plot with the screen and also creating two dividers within the plot.

Whitetail Weekly, Improving Food Plot Layout

June 6, 2013

We’ve moved through winter, made it past the initial spring green up and have started running our trail cameras. The weather is warming, the velvet is starting to grow and food plot work is in full swing. It’s the rush of the summer “off season” and I can really feel it starting to drive me. [...]

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The sound of the water running through this creeek filled the valley.

Whitetail Weekly, The Spring Bloom

April 15, 2013

The initial plan for my most recent trip to the property was to bring my son along with me and allow him to spend the day with me out in the woods. Unfortunately the weather didn’t really cooperate and with the morning temps foretasted in the 30’s I wasn’t sure taking a 3yr old with [...]

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While all stands tend to be placed in areas of good deer movement it takes more than that to make a great stand.

Whitetail Weekly, Getting Your Stands “Spot On”

January 24, 2013

As any deer hunter knows, getting your stand in just the right spot can be a process of trial and error even when you think you have it all figured out ahead of time. Often times when you think you know just how a deer will behave they show you that you were close, but [...]

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An “EHD” Start To the 2013 Whitetail Habitat Site Visit Season

January 14, 2013

*southern lower MI EHD victim Starting with 3 clients in northern WI between Christmas and New Years, followed by 5 clients in southern to central lower MI the next weekend…the old truck is now up to 322,000 miles! Maybe time to get a new one? In lower MI my client and I ran into what [...]

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This picture (taken 11/24 as opposed to 9/24) shows how comfortable some deer are in our secluded Southline Plot.

Whitetail Weekly, Bow Hunting the Late Season

December 11, 2012

Early antlerless season is a distant memory, the main bow season is long gone and the firearms season is done and over with. Some area’s are into muzzleloader season now but if you are a bowhunter at heart like I am than you are smack dab in the middle of the late archery season. The [...]

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While a treestand can be a great way to ambush a whitetail, sometimes you have to think outside the box and try something different.

Whitetail Weekly, Changing Things Up

November 12, 2012

With this season being unexpectedly slow for us I was a little surprised when I came to a rather interesting realization the other day. Looking back through my journal for the season reveals a lot of slow hunts and multiple sits where no deer at all were seen. While it’s hard for me to explain why things have [...]

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This picture of The Goofy 10 was taken a mere 20yds from where Bradley shot him.

Whitetail Weekly, The Season’s Off and Running

October 25, 2012

As I sit and write this we have put three full weeks of the 2012 deer season behind us already. Holy cow, that’s the first time I’ve looked at it that way and it’s actually a bit depressing!! It seems like it just got started and now we’re nearly through the first month of the [...]

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This is a view I could be seeing again in a few short days.

Whitetail Weekly, The Season Begins

October 3, 2012

3……..2………1………HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! Welcome to the 2012 deer season! It will have been 272 days from my last hunt when I take to the woods the morning of October 1st. If you are wondering that is 6,528 hours or 391,680 minutes since I last played the role of “predator” against a whitetail deer. It’s a [...]

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Deer Water Holes Improvement 101

October 1, 2012

This is the water hole location that started it all for us…at least the importance of water when it comes to evening feeding patterns and all day rut activity! Starting with shovels and followed by a lot of expansion throughout the years, our first waterhole was in need of improvement. Using the same 110 gallon [...]

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Whitetail Weekly, Last Minute Deer Season Preparations

September 21, 2012

Most of the year the sands of time seem to creep through the hourglass at a painfully slow pace as we work towards deer season. It seems as if the new season will never get here, it’s sometimes hard to believe we’ll ever take to the woods again. Then, as if somebody cranked open an invisible [...]

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