Food Plots - Habitat Management Videography & Editing

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Spring is a great time to walk your property to see how deer are using it. Trails are well defined and easy to walk. This is the only time of year that I’ll walk the edges of bedding areas to see what kind of sign the deer are leaving. Its also a great time to make buck beds and make other improvements to bedding areas. Some people say never go into your bedding areas, my thought is if you don’t go in you’ll never know if your hard work is paying off (note: this is the only time of the year I will enter a bedding area).  

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We are happy to announce our new partnership with DipStix seasoning. They have a full line of seasonings for grilling and bbq to dips. 

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Congratulation Tommy Brandenburg on tagging out with 2 mature bucks in two days. This just shows you how persistent and determined Tommy is and therefore he consistently harvest mature deer year after year. Read more about his hunts in the posts below.

Happy New Years! With 2020 behind us we can start thinking about our plans for 2021. One thing I’m doing this year is rotating our corn and soybean plots. We do this every two year, so we don’t deplete the soil of nurturance. Soybeans produce nitrogen and corn needs it to grow so those are easy ones to rotate. Clover and alfalfa produce nitrogen, so both are also great crops to rotate with corn or even turnip. When planning food plots were always think about two or more years down the road. Walking the land you hunt during winter is also great preparation for next season, you can see if your fall and winter food plots are providing food for your deer herd. Winter is also a great time to mark areas you plan on improving over the summer. Over the next couple of months, I’ll share with you what we’ll be planning for this coming spring and summer.       

The week started off with most bucks in lockdown mode. Younger bucks were still running any doe they came across. We are in the last week of the early archery season and gun season opening on the 21st. Team member Greg Syvrud punched his Wisconsin archery tag on Friday the 13thwith an awesome buck. After having an early season encounter and miss with his number one hit list buck Greg put in the hour and it all paid off. 

Both Greg and myself are now gearing up for this weekends gun deer season. Our goal is to harvest a few doe to help out our management plan. This is also a great time to put some venison in the freezer. With the increase in deer processing we made the decision to purchase a grinder and mixer along with some other equipment and go back to processing our on deer. We looking forward to making snack sticks, sausage, jerky, bacon, Italian sausage and ground burger. We'll post some of the processing and making of different products that we do. Its fun to experiment with different spices and mixes. 

I hope everyone is having a great hunting season and remember to be safe. 

Greg and I (Brad) spent the last 5 days in stand hunting Greg's 98 acre property. Greg was the shooter with me behind the camera. Our first few days we had good deer moved. Most of the deer were feeding in food plots early in the afternoons. We saw some younger deer but our number 1 buck never showed up. We didn't see any chasing going on and that surprised me (last weekend I had seen 2 mature buck chasing doe). Saturday and Sunday was windy and deer movement was down to nothing. This  week temperatures are going to be in the high 60's, that's not ideal conditions but with the rut going coming into full swing we will be in the stand. We hope everyone is having a great season and post some picture of your harvest on our Facebook page. 

I punched my Wisconsin Archery tag on October 2 with a 5-year-old buck. It’s bittersweet to fill my tag this early in the season but on the other hand it means all the hard work paid off. I hunted this buck on a food plot that was planted with HB Seed Companies seed blend called Tagged Out and it lived up to its name. October 2nd was our first morning seeing temperatures in the low 30’s. The cooler temps had mature bucks up and moving early in the afternoon. I got in the stand at 3:00pm and around 4:00pm my number 1 buck come in and feed in the plot but was just out of range, so I didn’t get a shot. 30 minutes later my number 2 buck walked into the plot, I ranged him with my Vortex Optics Ranger rangefinder at 20 yards and let the arrow fly. The Crown Broadhead by Thorn Broadheads did its job and the buck piled up 30 yards away. I can’t saw enough about the products we use and the great companies behind every product that make hunting so enjoyable. I’m looking forward to getting back out to do some doe management. I hope everyone is having a fun, safe and successful season.