By Mark Kenyon Happy Friday! Last weekend at this time I was heading to Iowa for some shed hunting fun, but this Saturday and Sunday I’m back in Michigan and stuck with the foot or two of snow we still have stretched across most the land. None the less, big antlers are still on my […]

By Mark Kenyon Happy Friday! We’re getting close folks. Spring is just on the horizon, and that means we’ve got a lot of work ahead of us. Shed hunting, spring scouting, stand preparation, habitat projects … a lot is going to be happening very soon. I got a head start last weekend, as I was out […]

By Mark Kenyon “A serious issue with significant long-term implications for the future of deer hunting.” So said Brian Murphy, CEO of the Quality Deer Management Association, as he described a reality that many of us are experiencing. That being the fact that “whitetail numbers are down throughout much of their range due to many […]

By Mark Kenyon I feel like every Friday recently, I’ve been saying the same things on the Mashup. Too much snow, too cold, blah, blah blah. It’s getting old. But I think, and I hope, the spring isn’t too far away. This past weekend in fact, I had a brief preview of what’s to come, […]

By Mark Kenyon The doldrums of winter. The teeth chattering cold. The short, dark days. The ice and snow and wind, and oh by the way, the ice and snow and the wind! It seems it never ends. I struggle with winter, and spend most of it longing for the greens and yellows of a […]