The Big 6 was a buck that hung around our deer cooperative until he was killed at the age of 5.5 by my neighbor Luke Kennard. His presence transformed our deer cooperative from a rather loose group to a tight…
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An all day sit on my 43 acre property with almost continuous deer activity
This video is aimed at showing how active the deer are on my property in daylight. So many hunters fail to see deer in daylight on their properties because they either have poor habitat or the deer feel too pressured.…
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The December Rut
Plenty of people think that the December Rut does not really happen in the Midwest because they don’t see it. I get the pleasure of observing the December Rut every year at some time or another. In this video I…
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REHINGING A HINGE CUT TREE: 21 YEARS LATER
In this video, Mike Hartges, who has been doing hinge cutting for deer habitat longer than anyone I know, shows us a tree that he hinge cut in 1995. It is still alive, with a number of robust sprouts coming…
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2015 Early Archery Season Highlights
I didn’t hunt as much during early archery season as I usually do, but I still had a great season topped off by joining my friends Brad “brushbuster” Robinson and Dan “farmlegend” Timmons to see their big Hillsdale County bucks,…
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December Hunting in Michigan — More bucks per hour than any other month
I normally see twice as many bucks per hour of sitting in December as I do in November or October. Probably more than half the bucks in my area have been killed by then, yet I see more? Why? I think…
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How to Adapt to Disruption of Your Small Deer Property
My buck this year finally came on the last day of the Michigan archery season, November 14th. Three days earlier, disaster came in the form of two hunters tracking a deer through my sanctuary of my 47 acre…
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How a whitetail busts your trail to your stand
Many hunters worry about getting busted while on stand. Most people think a scent bust involves blowing and tail waving and running of deer. But I believe most scent busts happen without the hunter ever seeing it or knowing they…
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Stages of Life of a Whitetail Buck
When it comes to whitetails, the word mature has many meanings. It is often used to discuss a 2.5 year old or older buck. But in fact, from a biologists’s perspective, a whitetail does not reach maturity, defined as attaining…
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Whitetail Wisdom with Jim Ward
On Saturday, March 14th, 2015, I had the great opportunity of following Jim Ward of Jim Ward’s Whitetail Academy around on an all day habitat tour on Andy Hayes’ 63 acre property in west-central Indiana. I have known Jim for a…
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