Up North Journal Podcast

Using the Kee Kee Run call for spring turkey hunting

1. Scott Ellis of Cabela's Spring Thunder uses the Kee Kee Run for early birds
2. Arron Warbritton and Dan chatted about future interview
3. Deciding what calls to use
4. Montana Decoy 3-D turkey decoys

Throwback Thursday Episode 43

On this weeks show I tell my story of my taking a coyote. We also take Michael on his first coyote hunt, and take Mackenzie on her first ice fishing outing. We discuss the upcoming Turkey season in Michigan as well as a possible case of TB in Lower Michigan. We have our usual outdoor news of the week as well as Mikey's Game Bag. Finally I re-tell an old story of an ice rescue on the big water's of Michigan.

Early Season Turkey Scouting

1. Tags are drawn
2. Daylight Savings Time
3. Spring Thunder and Turkey Classic
4. Cleaning your mouth calls
5. Early season scouting

Sighting in your scope after a house fire.

1. Guns totally disassembled, cleaned and reassembled after house fire
2. Bore sighted
3. Started out on short 35 yard ranged and worked up to 100 yard range
4. Still having trouble with the AR-15
5. Mounting a Vortex Viper HS 4x10 scope to the Browning X-Bolt 7mm Rem Mag
6. Weaver style mounts

We talk with Up North Journal Staffer Cody Dawson about the start of the 2016 Bass Masters Classic in Tulsa Oklahoma.

1. Nascar with fish!
2. Cody explains the world championship
3. Wrapping up the 2015 season
4. Tournament is in Tulsa Oklahoma
5. Explaining tournament rules and set up
6. Boats and Jerseys look like Nascar drivers and cars
7. How one qualifies
8. 3 day competition
9. Has a cut like golf
10. Mike watches the live feed while talking with Cody
11. Penalities
12. Fishing partners for tournaments
13. Cody's first tournament
14. Cody's Florida fishing trip
15. Why Pros tag their fish
16. Tackle for early season

We talk with Up North Journal Staffer Cody Dawson about the start of the 2016 Bass Masters Classic in Tulsa Oklahoma.

1. Nascar with fish!
2. Cody explains the world championship
3. Wrapping up the 2015 season
4. Tournament is in Tulsa Oklahoma
5. Explaining tournament rules and set up
6. Boats and Jerseys look like Nascar drivers and cars
7. How one qualifies
8. 3 day competition
9. Has a cut like golf
10. Mike watches the live feed while talking with Cody
11. Penalities
12. Fishing partners for tournaments
13. Cody's first tournament
14. Cody's Florida fishing trip
15. Why Pros tag their fish
16. Tackle for early season

Sighting in your scope after a house fire.

1. Guns totally disassembled, cleaned and reassembled after house fire
2. Bore sighted
3. Started out on short 35 yard ranged and worked up to 100 yard range
4. Still having trouble with the AR-15
5. Mounting a Vortex Viper HS 4x10 scope to the Browning X-Bolt 7mm Rem Mag
6. Weaver style mounts

Early Season Turkey Scouting

1. Tags are drawn
2. Daylight Savings Time
3. Spring Thunder and Turkey Classic
4. Cleaning your mouth calls
5. Early season scouting

Using the Kee Kee Run call for spring turkey hunting

1. Scott Ellis of Cabela's Spring Thunder uses the Kee Kee Run for early birds
2. Arron Warbritton and Dan chatted about future interview
3. Deciding what calls to use
4. Montana Decoy 3-D turkey decoys

We interviewed Jon Livingston the Co-founder of Deerlab at the 2016 ATA show in Louisville Kentucky. This web based system will glean more information from your trailcam photos than ever before.

1. Trailcam photo management tool
2. Organize your photos
3. Tag your photos
4. Build a hit list
5. Use it to scout weather and locations before your hunt

Part 2 of our interview with Paul Penix of PSE Archery about the Carbon Air bow.

1. What was the longest shot Paul has taken with a bow at an animal and at a target.
2. Talking about Denny Steiner's 103 yard elk bow kill
3. Why should we practice at long distances
4. How to perfect your concentration
5. Archery is 90% Mental and 10% Physical
6. In the Zone

Part 2 of our interview with Nick Percy of Killer Food Plots about managing our deer herds and our land.

1. What is the plan for the food plots
2. Food plot positioning
3. How big do you make your kill plots
4. Spring planting
5. Whole Season plan
6. Products to build your deer's health and well being

Mark Hammer joins us with his new deer call that he invented called Antler Action

1. Mark killed the largest whitetail in the U.S. for 2014, which scored 254 1/8"
2. Started the project 8 years ago due to some problems rattling antlers in the treestand
3. Small and compact and can be run from the ground while in a treestand
4. Draws deer's attention away from the hunter's location

Checking in with Robin Althaver of the Wildcats 4H archery club

1. Getting ready to ramp up for the spring outdoor shoots and have more kids involved this year
2. Dan gives instinctive instruction
3. Looking forward to the hunting season project
4. 4H State Shoot
5. 4H National Shoot

Up North Journal Throwback Thursday Episode 41