Up North Journal Podcast

Mike and Dan talk with Outdoor Writer and the Editor of Michigan Bow Hunters News Jerry Lambert.

1. Talk about Michigan Bow Hunters News
2. Jerry's involvement with the organization
3. Jerry's outdoor books that he has written and how you can find them
4. What fall and hunting means to us
5. www.michiganbowhunters.com
6. Trophy White Tales and North of Wrong at www.amazon.com
7. CWD and how Jerry is dealing with it since he hunts in the core and surveillance area
8. Why doesn't the DNR and NRC not discuss the reasons behind their actions
9. How EHD hit his hunting area in 2012
10. What is the end game with shooting so many deer in the CWD zones?
11. How do both sides of the CWD issue come together and work through this issue
12. How do you measure success or failure with the hunting regs?
13. How long did it take for Jerry's area to rebound from EHD?
14. How stress affects deer health
15. Why we hunt
16. Are we going to see hunters leave the state due to CWD
17. How other animals react to CWD
18. Jerry's outlook on this upcoming season
19. Looking forward to this upcoming season despite the new regulations from the DNR and NRC
20. Hunting traditions
21. The Good Stuff!

Mike and Dan talked with Alex Tait, Product Manager of Carbon Express.

1. Maxima Line and explanation of Tri-Spined arrow technology
2. What applications do you use a small diameter and a larger diameter arrow.
3. How to choose an arrow for your bow.
4. Weight forward technology and what it does.
5. Broadheads and weight forward technology working together.
6. Does crossbow bolts have the same technology as arrows?
7. Dual-Spined bolts
8. Weight forward bolts and how they work with heavier broadheads
9. The Tank Series arrows and how they're built
10. How Alex picked up the target archery bug
11. The hunting side of Alex
12. Loves turkey hunting but isn't so keen on freezing in the deer stand
13. The turkey hunt
14. Treestands safety products
15. carbonexpressarrows.com

Dan DeFauw's celebration of his 200th Episode!

2018 Michigan Deer Rendezvous recap

1. Small group discussions and activities.
2. Visited two farms and got to see how they deal with deer and deer crop damage.
3. Toured a 200 acre hunting property to see how he had it set up
4. Growth cages show over browsing
5. Tree planting and system of knowing what was planted and where with planting charts
6. Grafting trees, a hawthorn and an apple stem
7. Property management work shop in small group setting
8. Use a series of maps to make educated decisions on a plan of action
9. Visit the property to actually lay eyes on it to help make solid decisions on how to manage the property
10. This activity was the most eye opening activity for Mike
11. Go to workshops when they are available!

This week we talk with outdoor writer and editor Patrick Durkin about his out west DYI elk hunts and how West Nile and CWD is driving the outdoors.

1. Outdoor Writer and Editor Patrick Durkin
2. 40 years of writing
3. Going to Idaho for another Elk Hunt
4. Took a nice bull in 2014

Camp set up

1. Acura tent about 7 feet tall. Company is from Ireland
2. 2 and half week trip
3. Started taking this trip in 2006
4. Public land hunt
5. Obtaining water for 2 weeks, Katyadyn
6. Camp chairs and game carts
7. Boat in three miles to camp
8. Use 2 boats

Running to get fit for hunting

1. Helps with his asthma
2. Runs Boston Marathon
3. Helps with hiking and hunting out west
4. Keeps him energized and alert

Hunting Idaho

1. Didn't see anyone for the first 6 years
2. Saw only one other campsite in 2013
3. Safety while hunting in far away big places

Talking about writing

1. How long articles should be for writers
2. Writing a hunting book
3. How digital media has changed the writing industry
4. How do you move forward in a digital realm and try to make money
5. Keeping busy working everyday
6. Encouraging others to get into the media business
7. Staying remembered
8. Rehashing the same thing in a different message

Arizona DYI Elk Hunt solo!

1. Had another hunter in the area as his emergency contact
2. Long drive by yourself
3. Set camp by himself and did some scouting
4. Shot elk on first day of season
5. Vortex BDC rifle scope
6. Issues packing out an elk by himself
7. Field dressed in a hole
8. Any trouble transporting elk back across multiple states

West Nile Virus affecting grouse in Mid-West?

1. Pat's article on his take on shortening the grouse season.
2. One season doesn't set a trend for wild animals
3. Follow the science
4. Balance between science and the hunters
5. Nesting season
6. Hunting pressure vs natural population trends

CWD in Wisconsin and public perception

1. More awareness now than past
2. If current trends continue, Wisconsin will see deer herd reduction
3. Spent time with DNR catching deer and doing biopsies
4. Mostly on private lands in SW Wisconsin
5. Hunters reluctant to help in participating with DNR
6. So many unknowns
7. How does CWD affect farmers shipping crops to other places?
8. How does CWD affect bodies of water and other animals using those waters
9. How do we dispose of road kill deer properly
10. Who is accountable for the multiple ways the disease can spread

Patrick Durkin Outdoors

Mike and Dan talk with Mike Swartzentruber of Hunter's Blend Coffee about what they are all about along with some of their hunts!

1. Located in Mid-Ohio
2. How Mike got started in the outdoors
3. How Hunter's Blend got started with Mike, Ken and Paul
4. How the coffee industry works
5. Marketing coffee to hunters
6. How the coffee industry thinks about hunting, 2nd amendment, etc...
7. How Hunter's Blend Coffee makes a difference in the outdoors.
8. How to buy Hunter's Blend Coffee
9. How Hunter's Blend Coffee is changing lives in the farmer's lives that grow coffee.
10. Diego's documentary
11. Paul's "Spider" Buck!
12. Ken's Iowa Buck!
13. Using scrapes and licking branches
14. Ken's New Mexico Elk!
15. How Mike started hunting
16. Mike's first buck!
17. Mike's small hunting spot
18. Mike's licking branches and scrape set up

Mike and Dan talk about the FITA Field shoot at Adams Conservation Club in Toledo, Ohio.

1. Shooting the tournament
2. What we thought about the course
3. Shooting uphill with a steep incline!
4. 1st day was at unknown distances up to 45 meters
5. 2nd day was at known distances up to 60 meters
6. How we dealt with converting meters to yards on the fly
7. Danny's Robinhood shot
8. Pin gaping to hit your shots
9. Scoring
10. Mental fatigue and concentration on day two
11. Great people at Adams Conservation Club
12. Gun ranges were open when we were shooting.
13. We got to try using the Atl Atl from Carbon Express

We chat with Lincoln Rohn of MI Deer Hunters Let 'em Go Let 'em Grow this week about the recent Natural Resource Commission Meeting.

We get his take on what happened at the meeting and how the commissioners took the public response to the new CWD action plan for the upcoming seasons.

We also hear about the 3 amendments to the current DNR proposal and how they might affect the upcoming seasons.

He let's us know how we can get involved in the next meeting or how to contact the commissioners personally.

Mike asks Danny the question: What's the deal with the little bump on one side of the arrow nock? What is it for, is it there for a certain reason?

Danny gives us a report from his trip to Michigan's Upper Peninsula

1. Time at deer camp
2. Talking about the recent flood and the water levels
3. Fishing was slow
4. Fishing almanac

Chatting about trail cams and cellphone styled trail cams

1. Little Bear
2. Bigger Bear
3. Bear survey from the Michigan DNR

Deer management

1. Buck to doe ratios and what the problems become with the rut when they are askew
2. How it affects the bucks
3. How does the age class of does affect the herd
4. Fawns being bred, how big do they have to be to be bred
5. What is the affect of fawns being bred on the deer herd
6. How does the habitat affect the health of the herd and the fawning
7. Does and milk
8. If you can tighten up the rut, how does it affect the fawning season and predation
9. Food plots and predation
10. Discussion as to why states don't take a regional approach to solving CWD instead of each state by itself

Dan is on vacation but we still got him on the show talking about his deer camp visit for the first time this season.

1. Camp conditions after the Upper Peninsula flood
2. His food plots are up and green, better than he expected
3. Logging cut is growing back extremely well
4. Deer are using the food plots and the new growth after logging
5. Deer look healthy
6. Danny has managed to get a little fishing in as well

Mike and Dan talk with Dan Jasa of PSE Archery who just made the United States World Field Archery Team!

1. What should I practice on when dealing with a busy schedule?
2. The process
3. Dan finally miss fired on the new release!
4. Dan talks about making the US World Team!
5. Going to Cortina Italy
6. Talking about the team
7. Practicing in bad conditions
8. Tournament format
9. Challenging Danny and Mike to a shoot in Ohio
10. Terrain of the shoot
11. Where it will be televised

Talking a little fishing with Dan Jasa

Talking about the new PSE Evolve 28

Talking deer hunting in Ohio

The guys talk CWD and how it's dealt with in Ohio

Dan tells Danny how to set up the new Black Mountain Outfitters Carbon DR Driver sight.

Dan getting ready for a week up at camp

1. Getting packed
2. Food plot planting
3. Wondering if the floods hit his place
4. Mike's fall food plot plans

The guys discuss the new case of CWD in Michigan and how it could impact Michigan and possibly Ohio.

1. New case of CWD in Jackson County Michigan
2. What will be the reaction by Michigan's DNR
3. Nice to see three major groups of hunters come together and find common ground to hold the DNR accountable for the horrible action plan
4. How will Ohio react since it's so close to the state line
5. New rules for 2018 deer season come out in August
6. Buck dispersal
7. Shooting more does
8. Be observant and put the puzzle together

Lincoln Rohn of Michigan Deer Hunters Let'em Go Let'em Grow talks about his new company Packer Maxx that sells culitpackers.

1. How he obtained the company
2. Several different types or sizes
3. Can use with ATV or has a unit with a 3 point hitch
4. Purchase points and prices
5. Partnering with Mossy Oak, Biologic and Gamekeepers

Background of what led up to the NRC meeting this week with proposals for the 2018 Michigan Deer Hunting Season in regards to CWD spreading.

1. How APR's played into the mix for the last several years
2. APR group has tried to get APR's passed statewide
3. CWD has now come on the scene
4. Michigan had response plan implemented in 2008 and then went back to status quo
5. New plan for latest CWD issue is the same as what Wisconsin tried several years ago with no impact
6. Michigan Deer Hunters Let'em Go and Let'em Grow group proposed an action plan to combat CWD spreading
7. Michigan DNR won't use their proposal to fight CWD
8. DNR plan is a deer eradication plan, not simply a reduction plan
9. DNR plan will not keep hunters engaged
10. Plan similar to what happened in NE Michgian 15 years ago which was a complete disaster
11. Michigan hunters need to convince the NRC now to listen to them and come up with a sensible plan to drop deer densities and help slow down CWD spread
12. Sportsmen need to back a governor that will appoint new NRC board members that work for hunters not against them
13. Is money involved in the decision making process?

Mike attended a Prescribed fire workshop this weekend with Dr. Craig Harper from the University of Tennesee

1. Took what he learned from Deer Steward 1 in the prescribed fire module and put it with the visual from the workshop
2. It helped to see actually what I learned in the online course
3. Got to see what forbes deer desire which opened my eyes to what a good field looks like

Mike and Dan discuss the weather and how it is affecting the outdoors this year.

A couple of Michigan Archers did well this week!

1. Dan Jasa
2. Jim Beasley

Mike and Dan discuss their plans for the upcoming Fathers' Day weekend

Talking about the upcoming prescribed burn seminar in Michigan

The guys talk about the differences in shooting paper targets vs 3D targets on the range.

The Michigan DNR makes their proposals to the Natural Resource Commission.