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Awesome buck, congrats!!! Love the trail cam picture sequence of the two other bucks sparring and he's just showing up. Next picture is just him standing there looking around like "hey, thought you guys wanted to spar??". Next few pics are of bucks scattering as he stands there. Can almost...

I am by no means an expert but here is how my October strategy has evolved in the last several years. I spend all summer watching trail cam's and do my best to get a feel for what the deer, the bucks mainly, are up to. I try to do a card pull around Sept 15 or 20th ahead of our October 1st...

We put my father inlaws pop-up up on a platform a few years back. It worked just fine and we had no issues with it. I wouldn't leave it up year 'round or anything because a winter full of snow will definitely damage things. After a few years of using the pop-up my father inlaw came across a...

I check and reset all of ours every year and make sure they are good to go prior to the season. I try to replace straps every 2-3 years put am probably behind on a few stands. We've never had any issue with squirrels chewing the straps (they will ruin seats and even chew the rubber coating off...

They just passed a law here in Michigan to make it illegal to use a drone to hunt animals or scout animals. Within that law it as also made illegal to use a drone to harass hunters.

Cool videos, good work. I admit that I laughed at the "We also had to include school work as well as work in the video to show how we managed to still be able to hunt". I remember being in college (playing college sports, going to class and working at an internship all at the same time) and...

My dad and father inlaw both use them and I have shot them both several times. Shooting them is more fun than taking out the garbage but that's about as far as it goes for me. They do nothing for me and I would way, way rather shoot my compound. Again, I'm not really a fan of them in the...

As a hunter here in Michigan I agree with you that Michigan does not compare to Iowa in terms of quality hunting. No arguement there. As a bowhunter I would also agree with the idea that I'm not a huge fan of crossbows for the general public and was not super thrilled when they were opened up...

Our longest lasting cameras are the first ones we ever bought, Moultrie I-40's. I will mention that the LED screens on both of them quit but they still take good pictures and we run them all year. They are the size of a shoe box but the picture quality we get from them is still top shelf and...

^^^ Personally if you are close enough to legitimately see it in your short term future I would just wait and make the move when you are able to do it on your own. In our current situation we have 240ac, it is split between the 40 acres which my inlaws own and the adjoining 200 which we...

Wow, awesome buck!!!

Up here in Michigan the first sign I saw of them hitting the actual turnips/radish in our plot was on 11/22 when I walked the plot. There were several gnawed on turnips and radish's that looked pretty freshly hit and most of the greens were gone from prior browsing. I last hunted the plot the...

Condolences to his family and loved ones. He was an awesome source of knowledge and, unlike many, was more than happy to share that knowledge and wisdom with others openly. While he may be gone his legacy will live on forever in those with whom he shared his knowledge.

Just ordered a new browning to add to our fleet. We are currently running cams from Moultrie (3 M80's and 2 OLD I40's) and Bushnell (2 Trophy Cam's from 2010, both started getting twitchy this year). We've had good success with our M80's so far and in addition to the ones listed above (which our...

Sounds like we hunt the same tree...hahaha I have the same type of set up, I guess mine might be more like 10 steps but principle is the same. Our property use to have large pasture areas that were great in terms of being dead zones. Deer rarely, rarely ever used them but we could use them...

I recently bought a set and they have the Rage logo on the box. So far there hasn't been an issue with them but I just got them prior to this season so I don't really have a whole lot of experience to base my opinion on.

Haha, my thoughts exactly!! We only run 8-10 cams on our place and I could never justify (to the wife or even to myself) replacing them all with 500 dollar cams!!!

We've had 3 of the cheap WGI IR4 cam's (the ones you can get on sale for like 69 bucks) and all three have failed and are no longer used. Each of them lasted two seasons (we run cams from about April through late Jan) of working pretty well and then went south quick. I guess for what they cost...

Looks like a 3.5 to me

Great buck and great story. Way to put the pieces together and figure him out.