Up North Journal Podcast

The guys talk with Dan Jasa Midwest sales manager for PSE Archery about their new 2020 lineup of hunting bows.

The Mach 1 Stealth Carbon riser bow

1. Carbon production is all in house this year
2. All hand built
3. Mach 1 Stealth changes

The Bandit

1. Micro evolve cam
2. 28" axle to axle
3. 20 -26 inches on the draw
4. 40-50 pound draw
5. High end bow for short draw archers
6. Target bow option

The Evo NXT 35, 33, 31

1. Most quiet and dead in the hand bow built
2. New grip that can be used on many of the former PSE lineup bows
3. Color Fusion process
4. Livewire string process
5. Added brace height
6. Speeds
7. Comparing numbers with other bows

Core series bows the Brute and the Stinger

Brute

1. Similar to last year's Ferocity
2. Very adjustable
3. 22 1/2 to 30 draws
4. 50 - 70lb limbs with 50% of adjustability
5. 3.5 lb total weight
6. Field ready to shoot package

Stinger Max

1. Reduced axle to axle by 2"
2. Shorter limbs
3. 80% letoff
4. Field ready to shoot package

Talking a little about Jim Beasley

Kings of Archery

1. Stephan Hanson
2. Dave Cousins

Focus target bow

1. Set the target world on fire
2. The geometry
3. Colors

PSE 50th Anniversary

Mike talks to Danny via phone this week about what the deer report is from Michigan's Upper Peninsula

1. Ice is forming on local U.P. lakes
2. Cold weather and snow in the U.P.
3. Work being done in Dan's camp to get ready for the week of hunting
4. Deer patterns are changing at his camp
5. Getting some bow hunting in before rifle season starts
6. Bucks are doing some sparing and chasing
7. Deer movement patterns for morning vs evening
8. No pattern to the deer Danny is hunting
9. To archery hunt or not on the evening of the 14th

Weather leading into the Michigan Firearm Deer Season

Mike's week long Indiana archery hunt

1. Cold weather set in late in the week
2. Mike's overall game plan going into the hunt
3. Mike misses a doe and a big buck the same morning
4. Miss judging distances
5. Working through shooting problems
6. Talking about making mistakes
7. Mentoring a young hunter who took a nice doe
8. Mike's doe story and the creek that was involved with recovering her
9. Mike went swimming
10. Deer heart snack
11. Butchering our deer
12. Had to debone to bring back into Michigan
13. Used EZ Kut tools to help break down the carcass
14. Vacuum Sealer
15. Used the OZ by Scent-Lok to eliminate the dead deer smell from the garage
16. Indiana sunsets
17. Cuckoburrs and devil seed!
18. Planning already for next year

The guys kick Mike out of the studio tonight to talk fishing with CSF's Chris Horton.

Chris Hortons background in fishing

1. Studied at Arizona State University
2. 2 year fish study in Arizona
3. Working with Arizona DNR
4. Working with B.A.S.S.
5. Working wth Congressional Sportsmen Foundation

Issues in fishing that he is working with

1. The gulf coast salt waters
2. How they estimate fish on the federal side vs. state waters
3. The Red Snapper issues in the gulf
4. Working with how to find fish populations

The political and money side of CSF

1. How funds are raised
2. Working with bigger donors such as Cabelas and Bass Pro
3. The politics of fishing
4. How to educate legislators and anglers
5. Dingell Johnson Act
6. Other acts that help anglers
7. Fish habitat restoration
8. The Sportsmen's Voice
9. Tracking the Capitols

Asian Carp issue

1. Problem is huge in the Tennessee and Ohio River basins
2. Southern states are working to stop the Asian Carp
3. Kentucky Lake
4. Asian Carp talk has died down
5. New projects to stop the carp
6. Is there any good from the Asian Carp?

Vegetation Control by aquatic herbacides on sport lakes

1. Controlled on a local level
2. What the local anglers can do

Personal questions for Chris about his outdoor experiences.

Ken Sciculuna is hunting his new lease

1. Got busted by a doe while hunting on the ground
2. Struggling with land access without kicking deer out
3. Putting time in the saddle
4. Trailcam photos
5. Naming bucks
6. How to choose what Ken is going to shoot
7. Using a ditch line near railroad tracks to access the property
8. Scrapes and rub lines popping up now
9. Using cameras on mock scrapes
10. Deer activity as the season progresses
11. Generational rubs
12. Talking about Rebel Six Rubs!

Mike pulled his cards from the two mock scrapes he put out here in Michigan

1. Camera placement
2. Increased deer activity on scrape cameras
3. Camera settings and why Mike set them up that way
4. Bucks starting to spar and fight
5. How much scrape enhancer used per scrape
6. Increased buck activity in and around scrapes with the use of Buck Baits Scrape Enhancer

Mike had two up close coyote encounters

1. Coyote on Friday night's hunt at the end of the hunt
2. Coyote on Saturday night's hunt that charged right at Mike

Get out and enjoy the fall season!

1. Seeing nature at it's best
2. Dropping a wad of spit on a deer

Danny's story of his dog getting a little too close to a skunk

1. Dog gets sprayed in the mouth by a skunk
2. Dog comes in the house and stinks up the house
3. Dawn dishsoap, baking soda, and peroxide to wash the dog
4. Danny texted Mike to use his OZ ozone generator to get the smell out of the house
5. #OZbyScentLok
6. Mike is going to use it in a stinky freezer
7. Mike wants to make a scent free closet for his hunting clothes to put them in and use the OZ to refresh them
8. Other uses for the OZ

Getting ready for Elk Season

1. Mike takes an elk magazine from the doctors office
2. It's hell getting old
3. Shane Mahoney article
4. Got the rifle sighted in for the elk hunt
5. Back up firearms
6. Talking with the elk guide
7. Too big of a caliber at too close a distance
8. Guide was 2 for 2 in the early elk season
9. Hunting old school

Answering a hunting question for a listener

Morph Pro bow hanger system

1. Saw at ATA last year
2. www.outrighthunt.com
3. Mike used in the stand this season

The Gutcheck system

Danny spent ten days in Michigan's upper peninsula on a archery deer hunt.

1. Made it to the U.P.
2. Truck died on U.S. 2 with a trailer load of wood!
3. Left his truck at the Snowmobile Museum in Naubinway Michigan.
4. https://www.snowmobilemuseum.com/
5. Left the truck and rented a U-Haul to travel the rest of the way to camp. https://www.uhaul.com/
6. Fall colors are popping
7. Food plots are doing their jobs
8. Using Buck Baits Cover Scents www.buckbaits.com
9. Red Fox eating sugar beets
10. The buck encounters they had
11. Wolf or coyote?

Mike took the first weekend of October off to bow hunt in the northern lower peninsula of Michigan

1. Tune up of bow at camp
2. Got into stand and the deer started coming out
3. Watched the does and young deer feed upclose with binoculars to see exactly what they were eating on
4. Big buck came out around 5:30pm
5. The Shot!
6. String jump or arrow whistling?
7. Next morning and evening hunt
8. Using the Rambo Bike and the difference it makes
9. Putting out a few mock scrapes
10. Pop up blind hunt on the last day

Got out with the new camper this weekend

1. Mike and his wife's first camping trip
2. Mears State Park Campground
3. Cold and rain
4. Spent the day Saturday in Pentwater for Octoberfest
5. Used the Scent-Lok OZ ozone generator to kill any new smell from the furnace
6. Took some photos at the pier
7. Trip was a shake down for the camper and us to learn how to set it up and use it.

The guys talk with Andy Treharne the Senior Director of Western States and Federal Policy and Ellary Tucker Williams the Inter-Mountain Western States Coordinator.

1. Ellary's position and what she does for outdoorsmen
2. Andy's position and what he does for outdoorsmen

What is the Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation?

1. The caucus
2. Tell our elected officials why the outdoors is so important to us
3. Non-Profit
4. Teaching conservation to our elected officials
5. Connecting them with the outdoor industry
6. Michigan surcharge of $1 for every license to educate hunters on conservation.
7. www.congressionalsportsmen.org

How are they handling the commercial fur trapping situation in California.

1. Tough place to work
2. Political climate is an uphill challenge
3. Have no fundamental knowledge of why hunting and trapping is a good thing
4. Will increase wildlife and human conflicts
5. Based on emotion
6. Don't want the legislature to decide game laws
7. Battling the anti's
8. Fights on the state level
9. Proposal G
10. House bill 2445 the Cecil Act
11. Educating non hunting members of our elected officials

How is CSF funded?

CSF Clay Competition Shoot to get elected officials out to experience the outdoors

Pittman Robertson Fund

1. What is in it
2. How does it get split up
3. What is the funding used for
4. Ascent language

Dingell and Johnson fund

1. Fishing side
2. Boating side

How habitat groups contribute

The personal side with Ellary

1. Duck camp
2. Go to wildgame meal
3. Deer hunting
4. Trout fishing
5. Favorite music
6. Favorite snack
7. Favorite hunting or fishing story to tell others

The personal side with Andy

1. What is the backpack snack of choice
2. What is the go to music when traveling
3. Favorite wild game meal
4. Favorite conservationist
5. Favorite hunting or fishing story

How YOU can make a difference in the outdoors

The guys memorialize the owner of Spot Shooter Archery, Jim Beasley who passed away suddenly this week. Mike and Danny share stories and memories of Jim.

Interview with outdoor writer/editor/author Jerry Lambert about the upcoming archery season.

1. Catchin' Deers
2. Trail Cameras
3. Deer Disease
4. EEE affecting deer
5. Deer sniffing trail cameras
6. Trophy Buck Corridor
7. Common denominators of big bucks, heavy cover
8. Outside in
9. Cold fronts
10. Changing stands mid hunt due to winds changing
11. Using deer decoys
12. Using mock scrapes
13. Water sources
14. When to take does
15. Late season go to tactic
16. His books
17. Favorite deer hunting song

This week the guys talk with custom call maker Paul Schweitzer of JPO Game calls who has come up with a modular design for the call industry!

1. Started with Duck and Goose Calls about 4 years ago
2. Wanted to make his own call and the engineer in him led him to develop his own call
3. Had a passion for duck hunting so that is what he started with
4. Started with the O ring on the inside of the barrel to start with
5. Custom colors
6. Laminate wood is used
7. Double reed vs single reed
8. How the predator call came about

The Omni Design

1. A modular system that grew out of the predator call
2. One barrel with many different inserts that create several different calls
3. You can use your keg in the Omni design
4. The owl call in Omni
5. Squirrel in Omni
6. Cow elk and calf elk in Omni
7. Duck and Goose in Omni
8. Crow in Omni
9. Omni Design is patent pending
10. He loves the service side of the business
11. Takes time with the customers to make sure they are satisfied

Deer grunt tube in the Utility Line

1. Has a slide tab to change the tone
2. Made to be low movement for bowhunters

Deer grunt in the Omni line

Can do some custom engraving as well

Biggest seller is the hybrid goose flute

1. Tunable keg
2. Very adjustable

www.JPOgamecalls.com

Gittin' The Wild

Custome 2 piece turkey strikers

Building things as a youngster

Paul's favorite hunt

Paul's favorite wild game meal to prepare

Paul's favorite music to listen to on the road

Paul's favorite snack in the blind or on the road

Cool weather is getting the guys pumped for archery season!

Danny got stands set and pulled camera cards at his U.P. camp

1. Taking deer inventory on his cameras
2. Got a bear on camera that didn't like his camera
3. Also got a wolf on camera
4. Put out a few mock scrapes with Buck Baits
5. www.buckbaits.com

Mike went to Indiana and the soy beans have come on strong

1. Mid thigh high
2. Deer still browsing on them pretty good
3. Raccoons are hitting the corn heavy

Mike got some mock scrapes in with Buck Baits Scrape Enhancer

1. Ground is really hard due to no rain
2. Buck Baits Earth Cover Scent and odor breaker
3. New Scent-Lok Early Season Savannah Reign pants worked great
4. Cuddylink cameras still not working properly
5. Used our EZ Kut Pruners and Loppers to clear out shooting lanes and trail camera locations
6. Setting up scrapes
7. Tarsal Gland lure and how to use it.

Ken Scicluna is prepping his new hunting lease

1. Working with the new PSE Decree
2. Got cameras out on the lease
3. Sets cameras high on the tree and angle down
4. Going to try some mock scrapes
5. Difference in deer hunting in U.P. vs southern Michigan

Our take on taking does

Maturing as a hunter

Playing the odds to your favor