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Habitat Podcast #409 - In today's episode of The Habitat Podcast, we are back in the studio with Brett Smith!

We discuss:
-Brett explains why he scouts aggressively during the rut instead of waiting for a buck to come to him.
-He recalls bumping the same buck four days in a row and weighs the pressure difference in Michigan.
-He targets leeward ridges and the top third of draws where cover, wind and fresh sign come together.
-He walks the road between public-land parking areas to enter overlooked cover without going miles deep.
-He uses concentrated rubs near bedding to plan morning sits instead of trusting every fresh rub line.
-He J-hooks into a setup to keep his scent and boot tracks away from approaching bucks and does.
-He shakes dry oak branches and follows with a grunt to mimic a buck working a scrape near bedding.
-He picks an average tree in the right location over a perfect tree farther away from the action.
-He explains how he uses rising morning thermals and evening drainages to manage his scent.
-He shares why he stopped scoring and posting bucks and wants hunting to mean more than a number.

And So Much More!

Chapters:
0:00 How Many Times Can You Bump a Buck?
1:16 Meet Brett Smith and His Approach to Land Management
6:15 Scouting a Lease Before the First Rut Sit
12:36 Public Land and Overlooked Roadside Access
16:41 Leeward Ridges and the Top Third of Draws
20:08 Entry Routes, Ground Scent and Rubs Near Bedding
24:57 All-Day Sits, Taking Breaks and Mobile Setups
29:48 Rattling vs Shaking Branches and Grunting
37:06 When to Move and How Often You Can Bump a Buck
39:49 Water Access, Wind and Morning Thermals
44:57 Why Brett Stopped Scoring and Posting Bucks
47:59 Rapid Fire: Gear, Cover, Food Plots and Broadheads

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Habitat Podcast #408 - In today’s episode of The Habitat Podcast, we are back in the studio with Art’om Rank!

We discuss:
-Art’om splits one overgrown cedar thicket on his 8.5 acres into three separate bedding areas.
-Trail cameras show bucks moving cedar to cedar as the wind shifts, and he sets up in the gaps between.
-He studies forestry at Glenville State and gets a key to the college farm so he can hunt before class.
-He splits an acre food plot into five zones of sorghum or miscanthus so a buck has to walk in to check it.
-That divided plot puts a buck he calls Mr. Clean at 18 yards, exactly the way he drew it up.
-He plants one or two Chinese chestnuts near where he wants to kill a buck, then backtracks him on camera.
-A buck’s core bed tells him the cover type, so autumn olive bedding points him to every autumn olive patch.
-A noon trail cam photo of a target buck means he hunts that evening, opposite the way the buck is facing.
-An old oak limb with no scrape under it works as a “doorbell” every deer touches coming onto his parcel.
-Clover seeded on his access trails pulls deer into brassicas wrapped by an overgrown apple orchard.

And So Much More!

Chapters:
0:00 Three Cedar Thickets on 8.5 Acres: Meet Art’om Rank
1:17 Deer Camp, Gavin’s Referral and a Fresh Set of Eyes
5:43 Splitting One Cedar Thicket Into Three Bedding Areas
8:23 Southwest Michigan, Forestry School and a Key to the College Farm
14:49 Mountain Bucks, Public Land and the Buck With 13 Beds
19:45 No Bait: Splitting a Food Plot Into Five Zones
24:27 Chestnut Trees and Backtracking a Buck to His Bed
28:44 Noon Trail Cam Photos, Doorbell Branches and Mock Scrapes
36:44 The Cold Front Weekend Plan and Out-of-State Tags
43:46 Cutting Trails With a Walk-Behind Brush Cutter
48:20 Acorns in the Regrowth and Clover Access Trails
54:59 Drawing Up the Food Plot and Never Forcing a Bad Wind
1:01:44 Tagged Outdoors, the Buck Pole and Rapid Fire

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Habitat Podcast #407 - In today's episode of The Habitat Podcast, we are back in the studio with Mike Hlavaty!

We discuss:

-Mike hunts a coal strip mine in Muskingum County alone at age 10, long before youth seasons or hunter safety.

-He and his brothers build ladder stands out of electrical conduit, hammering the steps flat and painting them.

-Mike crossbow-shoots a buck in the head the night before Ohio's gun opener, and it runs him over in the dark.

-He escapes by ramming the buck's head into a TV antenna tower, then waits it out from his stand for hours.

-An antler opens his neck up behind his ear, he's in the ER until 6 a.m., then goes back out and shoots a doe.

-Mike buys land with tillable ground so the farm rent pays 100 percent of his real estate taxes.

-A reappraisal tripled some of his property values, and he calls a tax on owning land a sin.

-U.S. Fish and Wildlife's partner program designs his wetland units, built on clay-core "mushroom" berms.

-His excavator bids nearly 50 percent under the other contractor and saves Mike a bunch on the build.

-In the spring his wetlands hold 500 to 1,000 pintails at a time, plus hundreds of swans.

And So Much More!

Chapters:

0:00 A Buck Attack, a Floodplain and Ducks: Meet Mike Hlavaty

1:26 Mike's Ohio Lodge and His 2021 Land Plan

3:29 Hunting Alone at 10 and Homemade Conduit Tree Stands

8:50 The Buck Attack: An Arrow to the Head and a TV Tower Escape

18:08 Four Parcels in a Floodplain

19:45 Buying Land That Pays Its Own Taxes

24:28 Clay Berms and a Blown-Out Ditch

26:24 Building Wetlands With U.S. Fish and Wildlife

32:03 Tile Drains, the Newest Parcel and the Spring Migration

34:47 What to Plant Before You Flood

38:08 Deer and Ducks on the Same Ground

39:53 Jared's Wrap: The Internet Crash and the Cold Front

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Habitat Podcast #406 - In today's episode of The Habitat Podcast, we are at deer camp with the Habitat Podcast Patreon Hunt crew!

We discuss:

-Twelve Patreon members hunt Michigan state land from Latitude saddles over the archery opener.

-Jared holds at full draw for 55 seconds before heart-shooting a doe while Matt films from 50 yards.

-Andy and Matt find a ditch of dropping pin oaks that holds the most sign they saw all weekend.

-Matt climbs four sticks above an old ladder stand in a cottonwood to watch most of a thicket.

-Drew and Clyde paddle a canoe across unfamiliar water in the dark to reach their opening-morning spot.

-Clyde loses his first deer since he started hunting in 2019 after a 500-yard blood trail goes cold.

-Corey says the camp hit roughly 50% success on public land in just two days of bow hunting.

-Jeff takes his first deer out of a saddle, less than a year after learning at the last Patreon hunt.

-Scott, a private-land hunter from West Virginia, is caught off guard by Michigan's public land pressure.

-Joel watches a big buck quarter away toward the CRP and passes because the angle is wrong.

And So Much More!

Chapters:

0:00 Opening Weekend at the Habitat Podcast Patreon Hunt

7:22 Matt Zahl & Andy Hutchens: A 55-Second Draw and a Ditch Full of Sign

13:33 Corey, Drew & Clyde: Canoe Access and a Tough Recovery

20:36 Jeff Piette & Jason "Bones" Rogers: First Saddle Kill and a Broken Bow

24:13 Dan, Scott & Joel: Michigan Public Land Pressure

26:58 Joel's Big Buck That Walked Away

31:21 Scott's 44-Yard Shot and Dan's Camp Antics

34:28 Jared's High, Low and Why You Should Come to Camp

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Habitat Podcast #405 - In today's episode of The Habitat Podcast, we are back in the studio with Gavin Sodders!

We discuss:

-Gavin transforms his family's roughly 26-acre Indiana hayfields through fourteen years of habitat work.

-Gavin watches more than 500 persimmon trees emerge naturally after years of trial-and-error habitat work.

-Gavin learns why oversized square food plots and mowing the entire property leave deer without cover.

-Gavin uses a central access trail and a button-hook approach to reach stands before deer hit his scent.

-Gavin plants six micro plots, favors clover, and keeps most of his roughly 26 acres in thick cover.

-Gavin uses five cell cameras for inventory and past movement patterns instead of chasing fresh pictures.

-Gavin builds a close-range funnel with old hinge cuts, fence openings, a cedar stand, and mock scrapes.

-Gavin adds kiddie-pool water holes even though a spring-fed creek already runs through the property.

-Gavin stays off his property ahead of its prime rut window instead of hunting it hard in early October.

-Gavin shares why family memories matter more as his parents prepare to sell the property.

And So Much More!

Chapters:

0:00 14 years of transforming hayfields into habitat

3:16 Gavin Sodders and a lifetime of deer hunting

9:13 The 26-acre Indiana property and natural persimmons

13:25 Food plot mistakes, too much mowing, and overhunting

16:33 Access trails, rut timing, and family hunts

23:42 Six micro plots, native browse, and thick cover

31:21 Neighbors, hunting pressure, and surviving bucks

36:44 Trail camera placement and historical patterns

41:06 Habitat equipment, water holes, and working on a budget

44:26 Ten-yard funnels, mock scrapes, and stand access

50:02 The story behind Whitetail Bloodline

52:46 Rapid fire: venison, gear, cover, and favorite trees

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Habitat Podcast #404 - In today's episode of The Habitat Podcast, we are back in the studio with Cory Franceus and Chad Fike!

We discuss:

-Chad goes from years of small bucks to big Michigan deer after three trips to Tony LaPratt's boot camp.

-Cory reads an 80-acre Big Rapids-area rectangle by what surrounds it: ag, cattle and a block of wet cover.

-Chad splits two wide-open fields that blew deer out every hunt into about ten plots across six acres.

-A rifle blind on the hill by the house covers the whole bottom field without anyone walking through it.

-The landowner's wife hunts a blind 40 yards off a seasonal road where a bear sleeps on the step.

-Chad row-thins two pine stands north to south for sunlight and leaves a 10-12 foot scrape perimeter.

-Cory keeps any autumn olive that holds a bed, rub or scrape and would spray the rest of them.

-Cory's nightclub analogy explains why one big open field sends a mature buck off your property.

-The Marriott blind has power, two heaters and a Wi-Fi booster, so the owner takes Zoom calls from it.

-The owner dug the farm's two ponds on an excavator at age 11 and swore he'd buy the place one day.

And So Much More!

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Chapters:

0:00 Cold open: the farm you couldn't hunt without spooking deer

2:20 From small bucks to Tony LaPratt's boot camp

5:23 Reading the 80 acres by what surrounds it

8:15 Breaking up two open fields and placing the blinds

11:47 Thinning the pines, a scrape perimeter and autumn olives

17:29 The blind 75 yards behind the house

19:31 The nightclub analogy for food plots

21:52 Ten plots in six acres and still seeing bucks late season

24:01 The Marriott blind: heat, Wi-Fi and Zoom calls

25:49 Escape routes and a hinge-cut buffer on the west line

29:19 He dug these ponds at 11 and bought the farm

30:50 The buildings, the timber and the deer numbers

35:44 The listing, a big 10 and coyote control

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Habitat Podcast #403 - In today's episode of The Habitat Podcast, we are back in the studio with Cory Franceus and Matt Zahl!

We discuss:

-Hutchy gets poison ivy and cellulitis prepping one stand in southern Ohio in 95-degree heat.

-Matt plants a sixteenth-of-an-acre plot in the middle of his swamp after a year of rain.

-The crew picks cereal grains and oats as the late plant if you're still stuck in a drought.

-Jared asks whether deer that survive EHD in Jackson County come back with any immunity.

-Matt builds an 8x8 hexagon blind with 13 plexiglass windows for about $1,200 on a bad knee.

-Cory won't shoot his 4-year-old from the same Banks blind because it felt like a video game.

-Cory's small fixed blade sat in an Iowa buck's lung for four days before a second arrow.

-Jared shoots a heavy high-FOC arrow but says fixed blades never bleed like expandables.

-Cory estimates a buck's score from ear length, eye spacing and base size in the field.

-Cory explains the NDA Field to Fork mentoring program on MeatEater's donated Back 40.

And So Much More!

Chapters:

0:00 Cold open: fixed blades that don't bleed

1:25 Hutchy's poison ivy turns into cellulitis

9:43 Deer coming back after EHD, and plots after a wet year

13:51 What to plant in a drought, and a plot in the middle of a swamp

16:41 EHD in Jackson County: do survivors build immunity?

20:14 Youth hunt, baiting and fall turkey rules

26:32 Early-season access and Vince's Northern Michigan contest

30:49 Matt's $1,200 DIY hexagon blind

43:17 Cory's 4-year-old and a blood trail that wasn't

44:58 Fixed blades, expandables and 80-pound bows

52:15 Hutchy's crossbow and the Patreon hunt

57:44 Call your shot: Michigan's last two-buck season

63:48 Aging a target buck and "buddy math" field judging

74:50 Field to Fork mentoring and a veteran hunt

82:39 One piece of advice before the season

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Habitat Podcast #402 - In today's episode of The Habitat Podcast, we are back in the studio with Arron Bleise and Kevin Gross!

We discuss:

-Arron explains why planting an inch and a quarter deep in July left his seed sitting 21 days.

-Arron adds pearl millet to his mix for the relationship it builds with mycorrhizal fungi.

-Arron runs a zero-rate fertilizer strip in corn that comes back comparable to his full rate.

-Arron lays out the 220-acre family farm his dad has hunted since 1978 and may one day lose.

-Arron weighs splitting his share of a million-dollar farm against the ground he grew up on.

-Arron wants every tree cut on a stand so mature that nothing grows in the understory.

-Jared gives Arron the October window to spray sunflowers before frost seeding natives.

-Arron builds twelve scrapes in ten days and will only hang a licking branch on oak or beech.

-Kevin runs every camera on video and explains what still pictures miss during the rut.

-Arron kills a corn-bedded buck that walked over his boot track two nights in a row.

And So Much More!

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Deercamp Detour - In today's episode of The Habitat Podcast, we are back in the studio with the Deercamp Detour! Today we talk with Justin Curtis.

And So Much More!

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Habitat Podcast #401 - In today's episode of The Habitat Podcast, we are back in the studio with Janis Putelis!

We discuss:

-Janis cut every white pine off 20 acres and released the oaks hiding underneath them.

-Why 40 acres is barely enough timber for a logger to justify moving his equipment in.

-The US Fish and Wildlife Habitat Partners Program funded his 7-acre oak savanna restoration.

-Doing the slash and burn work himself credited against his share instead of costing $7,000.

-Ground deer used to walk straight through now has a bed every five minutes you walk.

-Sam Tumberg's buckthorn rule: mow it in spring, then spray the regrowth after July 4th.

-Buckthorn cut to the ground on May 15th was four to six feet tall by the third week of July.

-Roughly fifty trees dropped by hand turned a dead ridge saddle into a big buck's route.

-His dad is hunting the September 15th Wisconsin opener from a blind he built by hand.

-Deer refuse to travel his one long straight road but hammer every winding trail he cuts.

And So Much More!

Chapters:

0:00 The Ground Deer Used To Walk Straight Through

1:34 Rain, Seed And Living The Dream

2:42 Janis Just Got Back From Kansas

7:41 Back To The Wisconsin 50

10:24 Did He Cut Enough? The Logger Math On 40 Acres

12:56 Cutting Every White Pine To Release The Oaks

15:23 The Fish And Wildlife Oak Savanna Project

19:25 Regeneration, Bedding And Cutting Trails

25:53 Apple Trees And Bringing Sand To The Beach

27:11 Triclopyr, Glyphosate And Crossbow

30:35 Ten Acres Of Buckthorn And Sam's Mow-Then-Spray Rule

36:53 Fish And Wildlife vs NRCS

41:16 Getting The Next Phase Funded

45:53 Dad, The Neighbors And A Woods Full Of Noise

51:07 The Ridge Saddle He Opened With A Saw

53:16 How Dad Will Hunt The September 15th Opener

58:38 Why Deer Won't Use His One Straight Road

1:02:21 Janis's Plan For This Fall

1:05:37 Mock Scrape Vines Hit The First Night

1:09:17 Nobody Else Around Him Has An Oak Savanna

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