Up North Journal Podcast

The boys head to Indiana to spend a day with Tred Barta

1. The boys head to Elkhart Indiana to visit Tred Barta
2. Stop in at HL Interprise to watch them put the finishing touches on Tred Barta's travel trailer
3. The boys take Tred to lucnch
4. They get to watch the trailer get finished
5. The guys help him put a few things away

Mike spends the weekend up north at deer camp and gets to enjoy a little bass fishing

1. Spring has sprung in the north country in Michigan
2. Wildlife is active
3. Sees a couple of red fox
4. Spends an evening on the water doing some bass fishing with a friend
5. Mike looses in the fishing contest but wins the biggest fish contest!

Would you hunt a sandhill crane?

1. Local paper asks if you would hunt sandhill cranes
2. People speak out about the taking of such a great bird
3. Danny want's to rattle the cage!
4. Wanton Waste

Taking down treestands to move them to Indiana

Talking bow strings

Talking treestands

This week the guys talk with the company and guy who is heading up the camper build for Tred Barta's Get Off The Couch Tour!

1. Tred is on sight watching the build
2. Size of the trailer
3. Special design
4. Design of the wheelchair lift
5. Kitchen build
6. How is it different from a normal build
7. www.hlinterpriseinc.com
8. 8 day build
9. How does hitch work with someone who is paraplegic?
10. Giving the outdoor experience opportunity to those who have physical challenges
11. Outside hook ups
12. Biggest change in the camper industry
13. Background in camping
14. Trailer is about 7500lbs
15. Special storage
16. Fishing rod holders
17. Gun rack

The Kamikaze pole saw from EZ Kut

1. Extending pole saw, 20 foot extension
2. Mike cuts Danny's hand
3. Two extendable extensions
4. Lifetime warranty
5. Pruners and Loppers

Talking about the idea of a doe only season in Buffalo County Wisconsin.

1. Danny gives his thoughts
2. Private land owners leasing their land
3. Outfitters that have already booked hunts
4. Local economy
5. Shooting the right doe
6. Michigan Thumb Area APR survey

The guys talk with Tred Barta about his newest adventure.

What have you been up to in the last few years since your health mishap.

1. Going to Alaska when he had the health issue
2. After a week pain got so intense he headed to hospital
3. Common Sense
4. Lost use of his legs in hospital for 5 months
5. Given 3 days to live while in hospital 3 different times
6. Paralyzed now chest down
7. Was going to take his life
8. Stopped by Oncologist
9. Your word is your bond
10. Rare blood cancer caused issues
11. 2 months after new treatment began to shoot bow again
12. His life expectancy he has been given is zero but is living a full life
13. Still does everything he use to do before his illness
14. Asking for forgiveness

Digging yourself out.

1. You can hurry up living or you can hurry up dying
2. Get off the couch and hurry up living
3. Have to learn to ask for help
4. Will to live comes from God and people who love you but you have to take that first step
5. Find the power within to go forward
6. "If I can do it, you can do it!"
7. Helping others
8. Never miss the opportunity to help someone else
9. Grab life and move forward
10. The size of a man's heart is not measured by the size of a deer's antlers

The love of the outdoors and the U.P. Buck!

1. Friends in Clio Michigan
2. Took him on a U.P. deer hunt
3. Hunting lodge
4. Deer Camp Life
5. Woodcock hunting
6. How he archery hunts now
7. The hunt!
8. Hearing the wolves
9. The shot!
10. The recovery of the buck
11. Describing the Upper Peninsula
12. Driving across the Mackinaw Bridge
13. His wheelchair in the field

The Trip!

1. Heading to Alaska by himself
2. The trailer he is taking
3. HL Industries, Harbor View trailer http://www.hlenterpriseinc.com/harbor-view.html
4. Cross country and Canada trip to Alaska for 5 months
5. Looking for a line of people along the way to help him incase he needs help.
6. Following his heart
7. Practicing changing a tire on his truck
8. No schedules
9. Looking for fans to help along the way with a place to park trailer or even turkey hunt
10. His book Driven https://www.bartaway.com/product/driven-by-tred-barta/
11. Weekly updates from Up North Journal!
12. Looking for a lady
13. Sharing with and helping others
14. The prayer....

Dan spent Saturday at the gun range with the turkey gun!

1. Dan and his wife patterned their turkey guns
2. Range was wet
3. Not a lot of people at the range
4. Using his new electronic Peltor ear protection
5. MagnaPorted shotgun barrel
6. Indoor range
7. Picking out a new pistol holster

Using the PackerMaxx Cultipacker and the EZ Kut tools to clear an acre spot in the bottom land to put in a food plot

1. Used the PackerMaxx to transport water for our chemical sprayer in the back field
2. Cleared an area for a food plot
3. Pulled stumps
4. Used the PackerMaxx to smooth out the ground where we pulled the stumps
5. Shaping the food plot
6. Building the plot so deer feel secure
7. Working as a group towards one goal!

Teasing our Easter Episode with Tred Barta!

We talk turkey with the President of the Flint River Chapter of the NWTF.

Turkey workshop

1. DNR officer Dan Prince was guest speaker
2. Turkey nesting habits
3. Boom!
4. Breeding Season
5. Poults

What's new with NWTF?

1. Getting non-hunters and youth involved
2. Looking to do Veteran hunt this fall
3. Land access is huge problem
4. Michigan up to 300,000 turkeys now

Turkey relocation program

1. Our local birds are from the 60 birds released decades ago in the area
2. Jim participated in the relocation program
3. All turkey habitat in Michigan has birds in it
4. Only relocation now is due to nuisance birds
5. How they caught and relocated birds

Two bird limit coming to Michigan?

What calls does Jim use?

Patterning your gun and shot to use

Decoy placement and shooting around decoys

Birds roosting over water

Wild Turkey Recipe

Jakes Event this summer

The guys took their new PSE Evolve 28's over to Spot Shooter Archery to get them set up for season.

1. 28" ATA
2. Good for ground blind hunting
3. Got the D-loop and peeps installed and drawlength set
4. Steeper string angle
5. Talking about our video on the release of the 28" https://vimeo.com/272715065
6. 60 pound draw weight for Mike and 55 for Dan
7. 90% let off

Turkey Hunting

1. Friend hunting in Tennessee
2. Alabama starting up
3. Tim Sias of Limb Walker Game Calls in a calling competition
4. On the Limb live show on Friday at 8pm https://www.facebook.com/tim.sias
5. Nebraska flooding and turkeys
6. Turkey Workshop at Williams Gun Sight Saturday April 6th

New Scent-Lok suit in Bottomland Camo

1. Camo patterns on different materials
2. Go to camo pattern
3. Needed an early bow season suit and something I could use for turkey season
4. Savanna Reign Scent-Lok suit in Bottomland Mossy Oak
5. Coated with Never Wet
6. Integrated hood and gaiter
7. Long boot zippers on legs
8. 6 pockets on pants

PackerMaxx Cultipacker

Gut Check Indicators

Spraying or not to spray weeds in food plots

What we learned from shooting indoor archery league this year

The guys talk with Lincoln Rohn, owner of Packer Maxx cultipackers about food plots and the Packer Maxx!

1. New Mossy Oak Gamekeepers Magazine with an ad for Packer Maxx
2. Partnered with Mossy Oak on the Heavy Duty Packer Maxx becoming the official cultipacker for Gamekeepers
3. How he became owner of Packer Maxx
4. Several models to choose from
5. What material do you fill it with?
6. Why a cultipacker is important to growing a successful food plot
7. How to use it with certain seeds
8. Why food plots are not just for hunting
9. Are more people planting food plots now?
10. Food plots vs bait
11. Rotating crops
12. Mixing plots
13. Lincoln's hunting season

What's going on with Antler Point Restrictions in Michigan?

1. Waiting on results to come back from the Thumb area survey
2. APR's in CWD area?
3. What is going on with APR's in the TB zone?
4. Hunter Participation
5. Realtime Hunter Harvest APP

CWD numbers in Lincoln's area he hunts?

Do you think that Deer Farmers who breed deer, have the genetic answer to CWD?

1. Is the private money going to solve the problem?
2. Why can't they take a CWD resistant deer and put into a CWD area to breed into the herd

Mike runs the Rambo Bike on the ice pulling the ice shanty.

1. How the bike handled on the ice
2. How it pulled the shanty on the ice

Mike recaps his weekend in Indiana on the new deer lease

1. Friday weather was horrible
2. Fields really muddy
3. Woods full of Honey Suckle bushes
4. Cutting trails
5. Bike worked well for moving around the property
6. Carrying extra gear
7. New stand locations
8. Marking stand locations with Scout Look App
9. Timber Stand Improvement
10. Trail Cameras
11. Deer using our new trails
12. New food plot locations
13. Water sources
14. Shed antler
15. Coyotes
16. Found two deer carcasses

Wrapping up our first archery league season

1. Mike is understanding his mistakes now
2. Danny is becoming more consistant
3. Danny switched up some of his gear

This week the guys talk with Jay Gregory of The Wild Outdoors about CWD!

1. Introduction with Jay
2. Minnesota situation with CWD
3. Jay's take on the current view of CWD
4. 1/10th of 1%!!!!
5. Where is the money coming from?
6. The situation in Pennsylvania
7. What is the end game?
8. The Zombie Deer....
9. Private research being done
10. Keith Warren facts on CWD
11. Why is no celebrities or companies in the industry taking a stand and asking the hard questions?
12. Michigan's action plan
13. Indiana to use Michigan's plan
14. Why continue to follow the same unsuccessful plan?
15. Follow the money
16. Funding for the state wildlife agencies
17. Deer genotypes that are resistant to CWD
18. Elk responding well to CWD resistance
19. Found in 1967 in Colorado
20. Is the Cervid Farming Industry the untold answer to genetic testing?
21. Michigan issuing a feeding permit to those in the U.P. going against their own baiting ban in the L.P.
22. The personal side of Jay Gregory
23. How do we hold our game officials accountable?
24. Media plays to the worst case scenarios
25. We need to have more people stand up and use their voice
26. Why does the states out west handle this disease differently than the states here in the Midwest?
27. Eating CWD deer
28. Contact your local state reps and let your voice be heard
29. Why isn't there a national push to work together on CWD?
30. What kind of hunting is on the horizon for Jay Gregory?

The guys talk with PSE Archery's Bobby Vargas about a few bows and a crossbow

Evovle 28

1. Great for turkey hunting
2. 90% let off cam
3. ECS cam system
4. Can Customize to your liking
5. Specific holding weights and let off
6. Color selections

Drive SB

1. SB short binary cam
2. 22 to 25.5 draw length
3. 85% let off non adjustable
4. 29.5 axle to axle
5. String geometry

PSE Questionnaire on website

1. Questions to ask you want to do with the bow
2. Narrows selections of bows down to what you need to try

What is the reason you may want a low or high holding weight or let off

Coalition Crossbow

1. Introduced at ATA show
2. 380 fps
3. Lighted scope
4. Telescoping butt stock
5. $300
6. Great for a family situation
7. Expected in stores this summer
8. How to properly unload a crossbow

The Pete Shepley Archery Center

What is Bobby's favorite snack food on the road?

What is his favorite go to meal of wild game?

What is his favorite thing to listen to in the car while on the road?

Bobby's tip for turkey hunting with a bow

Javelina Hunting