Up North Journal - Deer Hunting in Michigan's Upper Peninsula and A Week of Bow Hunting In Indiana
Mike talks to Danny via phone this week about what the deer report is from Michigan's Upper Peninsula
- Ice is forming on local U.P. lakes
- Cold weather and snow in the U.P.
- Work being done in Dan's camp to get ready for the week of hunting
- Deer patterns are changing at his camp
- Getting some bow hunting in before rifle season starts
- Bucks are doing some sparing and chasing
- Deer movement patterns for morning vs evening
- No pattern to the deer Danny is hunting
- To archery hunt or not on the evening of the 14th
Weather leading into the Michigan Firearm Deer Season
Mike's week long Indiana archery hunt
- Cold weather set in late in the week
- Mike's overall game plan going into the hunt
- Mike misses a doe and a big buck the same morning
- Miss judging distances
- Working through shooting problems
- Talking about making mistakes
- Mentoring a young hunter who took a nice doe
- Mike's doe story and the creek that was involved with recovering her
- Mike went swimming
- Deer heart snack
- Butchering our deer
- Had to debone to bring back into Michigan
- Used EZ Kut tools to help break down the carcass
- Vacuum Sealer
- Used the OZ by Scent-Lok to eliminate the dead deer smell from the garage
- Indiana sunsets
- Cuckoburrs and devil seed!
- Planning already for next year