Up North Journal Podcast

The guys are talking about three huge bucks that made the news this week.

26 Point 229 inch Ohio buck poached.

1. Ohio hunter was hunting the buck of a lifetime
2. Nicknamed Hay Rake
3. Poached by Coshocton County man
4. Shot an 8 point buck earlier that morning
5. Hunter who investigated the story had the deer at 40 yards only days earlier

34 inch spread Ohio buck taken by hunter in Belmont County

1. Looks like the Rompola Buck
2. Taken in Belmont County Ohio
3. 182 inch buck
4. Comparing to the Rompola Buck that was shot in 1998

51 Point Illinois buck taken on private land

1. How technology has created antler envy
2. Years ago we had to wait 6 to 8 months for stories of big bucks
3. The Tucker Buck!
4. Quite possibly the most scorable points ever recorded
5. TAG your deer!!!!!

Christmas with the UNJ guys

1. Danny almost sets the snow on fire
2. Mike gets his BB gun taken away

Mike setting up the PSE Phenom for indoor archery leagues

1. Sunny day in December
2. What warm weather can do in December
3. Shot about 7 or 8 rounds of 3
4. Haven't shot since October
5. Haven't shot target bow since July or August
6. Gym workouts helping with shooting the bow
7. Had to deal with shooting with heavier clothes on

Danny was looking for shed antlers

1. Trail cam SD card storage
2. Dan checked his trail cam in his back yard
3. Got a little 7 point coming in one evening
4. Came back
5. in 2.5 hours later and had dropped his antlers
6. Danny went looking for his sheds
7. He has a new bigger buck coming in now
8. He also found a dead doe and pulled the jaw bone

Can you shoot enough coyotes to make an impact on the local deer herd?

1. Article by Patrick Durkin
2. Was the moose kill situations a learned behavior?
3. Does a sustained coyote population give us a green light to shoot if it cannot be thinned?
4. Can we hunt them hard enough to make an impact in increasing our localized deer herd
5. How does time of year play into this
6. Can you target female coyotes vs males?

New cases of CWD

1. Tennessee has found CWD in their deer herd
2. North Dakota has found a case of CWD in a whitetail deer

Taking doe early enough in season to affect the food sources and the stress on breeding bucks

Mike had a group of kids up to his camp for a youth doe reduction hunt. The kids were from Backwater Legacies in Mid-Indiana.

1. First day Mike had camp to himself for the last bow hunt of the season.
2. Temps in the teens, 6 hours in stand with two deer seen.
3. Kids make it to camp
4. Held a doe management class before bedtime
5. Day one of the hunt and setting on go!
6. Holding an in the field deer browse class with the kids
7. Day two of the hunt
8. One kid with an opportunity
9. Another kid drops a doe
10. One of the kids engaged in learning about deer and habitat management
11. Hunting with David Boggs
12. Deer hunt turns into a coyote hunt real quick!
13. The bear den trip
14. Squirrel Stew!
15. The gunless guide
16. All the kids joined in with the field dressing of the deer
17. Passing the torch www.backwaterlegacies.org

Mike and Dan talk with Jake and Nick Miller of OTown Outdoors. They start off with CWD.

1. The guys discuss CWD in Michigan
2. CWD discussion about Ohio
3. One buck talk and doe tags
4. Ohio deer numbers down

Talking hunting with the family.

1. Hunting with all three kids
2. Nick's Ohio buck and how it unfolded
3. Jake's Ohio buck and how it unfolded
4. Passing along the family tradition
5. Holidays means talking hunting with family

Why stick and string vs gun during this gun season

1. Still use firearms but love the close range of bow hunting
2. Hunter's orange while bow hunting during firearm season

Learning from mistakes

1. Pushes to keep going forward
2. Some things you cannot control
3. Uncontrollable situations keeps driving you

Preparing for the hunt throughout the year

1. Shed hunting
2. Scouting for turkeys
3. Some archery shooting
4. Turkey hunting
5. Trail cameras
6. Food plots

Hunting access

1. Have several local spots which means quick access
2. Public lands
3. Summer scouting

Discussion on driving vehicles into your hunting area vs not driving

1. Situational
2. Some spots have regular traffic
3. Low traffic areas deer seem to pattern traffic

Stand placement

1. Time of year
2. When time allows to place a stand
3. Scent control while placing stands
4. Hunting the wind
5. Smoking hunting clothes for cover scent
6. Ozonics
7. How hunting the wind makes you more aware of your surrounding area which makes you a better hunter

Looking at entry into stand sites

1. Built a food plot with entry in mind
2. Access might be dictated by size of property
3. Worried more about being quiet
4. Using headlamps again during access
5. Clearing a path to the stand sites

Firearm straight walled cartridges

1. Ohio just changed rule to allow straight walled cartridges
2. They want to try it for sure

Heart photo!

1. Nick's heart shot
2. From buck he shot this fall

Fawn photo

1. Late season fawn with spots
2. Photo from same day Nick shot his buck
3. Late fawn drop
4. Late fawn survival
5. Predators
6. Coyote breeding due to alpha female dying in the pack.

Dream hunts

1. Nick talks about turkey hunting every state
2. Jake talks about a Yukon Moose hunt

Favorite recipe of wild game meat

Processing your own meat photo

Hunting and Patriotic photo

The guys talk with Tim Sias of Limb Walker Game Calls about deer hunting and his turkey calls

1. How Tim's deer season is in West Virginia
2. Big Bucks in West Virginia
3. Archery only counties
4. Tim's new turkey call
5. The Purr Plate
6. Turkey calls make great Christmas gifts
7. How to get your order in in time for Christmas

Mike and Dan both recap their opening week of Michigan's Firearm Deer season.

1. Check station observations
2. Amount of shots heard
3. Dan's opening day
4. Weather reports
5. Mike's opening day and weather report
6. Mike's coyote
7. Dan's second day of firearm season
8. Dan is seeing travel corridors where the logging cut was
9. Mike's second day of season
10. Busted while checking a camera
11. Seeing a big one
12. Deer camp discussions
13. Fatalities during firearm season
14. CWD discussions
15. Dan's plan of action incase his county becomes a CWD management area
16. Mike's camp lost their septic field

The boys got a new call from Limb Walker Game Calls

1. The Palm Purr Plate
2. Cedar Striker
3. Quiet and upclose calling

Mike and Danny are ready and fired up for Michigan's Deer Firearm opener this week!

1. Expecting and hoping for snow
2. Getting packed and ready to roll
3. Got the opening day plan set according to the weather
4. Forecast is good for hunting this week
5. Deer Cast app
6. Dan is guiding at his camp
7. Playing the wind

Using a bike to hunt

1. Mike got his bike back
2. New heavy duty derailer to replace the broken one
3. New set up to transport the bike safely

The guys new exercise program

1. Three weeks into our workout program
2. Weight training this week
3. Getting healthy for the hunt
4. Heart healthy

Do you take an extra rifle to hunting camp

1. Incase you damage one you've got an extra one to use
2. Gun cleaning kit

Electronic Ears

1. Hearing protection while hunting and shooting
2. Using hearing protection at the gun range
3. Dan bought Peltor electronic ears
4. Tactical 500 model
5. 2 mics in the front only
6. They connect via Bluetooth to devices
7. Slim line cups

Trail Cam Card Reader

1. What Mike uses
2. App is free
3. Mike's is for IPhone but they have Android
4. Used pill bottle for extra cards
5. Labeling cameras

The guys cover the week of bow hunting that Mike did

1. Danny and Dan Jasa join Mike at camp
2. Rain entire first day
3. First day hunting
4. Doe miss
5. Deer movement times
6. Early rut activity
7. Mike's hunting bike broke on Monday
8. Working on a new way to transport the bike
9. Deer reports from listeners
10. Mike doesn't like mornings

Coyote Wednesday

1. Five deer right before dark
2. Mike's set up
3. Man made water holes
4. The coyote encounter
5. Coyote trail cam pics
6. Mike didn't see another deer the last two days after the coyote encounter

Missing Fawns

1. Too many coyotes
2. Killing fawns
3. Not seeing any of this year's fawn crop
4. Very little fawn recruitment for next year

Mike hunts a track and switches stands

1. Heavy deer left a track that headed into Mike's hunting area
2. Switched a stand mid hunt
3. Put a camera out in the ravine

Mike and Dan discuss a few of Mike's trail cam photos

Mike's acorns and tree experiement

1. Mike collected 20 acorns from 10 white oaks and 10 red oaks
2. Wants to try and grow some trees for future generations
3. When sitting in your stand be observant of your habitat around you

Camera left out all winter

1. Found a camera that Mike forgot he had out
2. Got to see the progression of winter and how it impacted the deer
3. How deer deal with winter survival
4. How does our food plots impact deer survival
5. Is what we are doing affecting our deer in a good way or bad way

Mike takes once again into the woods on his way to the stand.

1. Checking trail cams on the way to the stand
2. Bike is broken!
3. Mike misses a doe
4. Mike gets chased out of the woods by a thunderstorm

Mike takes you on his hunt

1. Walking to the stand and catching up for the week
2. Recap of the first day of hunting
3. Recap of the 2nd day of hunting
4. Talking about the App Deer Cast