We’re back with the second installment of our new series “Shoot or Don’t Shoot” – and I’m expecting a pretty mixed bag of answers again on this one! Our last buck featured was photographed in Northwest Iowa and of the 121 votes cast so far, 53% would have passed him. That being said – that [...]
Today marks the season opener of firearm season for deer hunters in my home state of Michigan. Somewhere around 700,000 hunters will be hitting the woods this morning across the state in pursuit of one of the estimated 1.8 million Whitetails. Last year almost 365,000 deer were taken during the firearm season and similar results are [...]
It’s thick, it’s wet and it’s tough. It is “Stormy Kromer” hats, red flannel and buck poles in the pines. Northern Michigan typically is not what most people imagine when Midwest whitetail hunting comes to mind. But it is the place I think of. Northern Michigan is a place of legend and tradition. It is [...]
Due to the discovery of CWD in a deer in Michigan, all baiting has been banned in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. Unfortunately this is spelling disaster for many farmers across the state who depend on the income from selling bait to support their families. At risk is $500 million of spending that comes with the [...]
Well as of now, all news has been good since the initial finding of a CWD infected deer in Kent County, Michigan. The infected deer was in a captive breeding facility, which was consequently depopulated and had each deer tested. I’m happy to report that there were no more deer in the facility found with CWD! Officials [...]