Reality Hunt Club

Last year we planted it, BUT the doves did not come. We had such a severe drought last year, the doves were just nowhere to be found. Well, Chuck and I are at it again this year, planting about 4 acres of brown top millet and sunflowers. Our goal once again, is to have our kids bust some doves.

It is my favorite time of the year when turkey season is over and it is time to get those trail cameras out and start monitoring for antler growth and fawn recruitment. Watch this video to learn about how our strategy is going to change this year and stay tuned for our photos.

In this webisode, we take you around our lease to show you the different food plots we planted this spring and summer. We deviated from our management plan a little and we will discuss these changes. Enjoy this video and pray with us for more rain.

Chuck and I went on a turkey hunt with Mike Wheeler of Wheeler's Whitetails in Kansas. We knew he had a ton of turkeys with a near 100% success rate but I have to admit we went with an ulterior motive. You see, Mike grows and kills some of the biggest bucks in the Midwest.

This year we decided to put a couple of gravity/nudge feeders on the club. We shopped around but could not find one we liked, nor could afford, so we decided to buy all the components and put them together ourselves. After we put them out, the majority of the deer have yet to figure them out.

It has been about a month since we have released a Reality Hunt Club webisode. Some of you might wonder what we have been doing. Well, we have been thumping turkeys on our club. Watch this video for some of our hunts.

This webisode is all about our management plan for the upcoming season. It helps plan out our work and defines our goals. Watch this video as I go over our plan in details.

This webisode discusses 2 ways of how we were lucky enough to get our habitat regenerated through control burning and fertilization. We talk about how it is important to perform this underrated management tool but how sometimes, as hunters who lease land, this is not a viable option.

In this webisode, I am discussing our predator management program. This is year 2 of this program and I discussed how we have been focusing on hunting and trapping raccoons, foxes, bobcats, and coyotes. Watch this video and see our methods and results.

This is the first webisode of season 2 and we start it off by once again running our end of the year trail camera survey to determine which bucks made it through the hunting season. Watch this video to see our survey results and learn which bucks will be on our hit list next year.