Food Plotting

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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My son inspects our small clover plot to see how Dad's frost seeding efforts worked out.

Whitetail Weekly, The Next Generation

May 4, 2013

As I loaded the car I double checked the backseat to make sure that I had all the usual stuff for a day trip to the cabin.  Boots..check, backpack..check, trail cameras..check, spare clothes and some bottled water..check and check.  All the usual suspects were accounted for and it was business as usual up until I [...]

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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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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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This buck is one that we can't seem to get a real good look at. We have several pictures of him but still haven't been able to get a really good look at him.

Whitetail Weekly, Buck Hit List

August 15, 2012

Every year when the calendar flips to August I suddenly realize that the season is right around the corner.  I also realize that I have roughly a million things left to do before I am ready to hit the woods.  This year is no exception and once again I have have a pretty long list of things [...]

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This buck was one of several that browsed through our clover plot.

Whitetail Weekly, Food Plots in Drought

July 19, 2012

By the time the sun rises on October 1st, 2012 and I get my first glimpse of the new season all the work and sweat of the summer will be a distant memory.  Unfortunately we are still a long ways away from that morning and we still have a lot of projects that we want [...]

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