Take Aim Outdoors EP-193 Kansas Success late season

12/11/18 • 49 min

We are joined today with Mike Stephan from Bear Ridge Media and Mike shares details of learning a new farm for the season and a trail camera tips that lead to the success of a giant December Whitetail in Kansas.

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Previous Episode

Up North Journal - A Special Youth Doe Reduction Hunt

Mike had a group of kids up to his camp for a youth doe reduction hunt. The kids were from Backwater Legacies in Mid-Indiana.

First day Mike had camp to himself for the last bow hunt of the season.
Temps in the teens, 6 hours in stand with two deer seen.
Kids make it to camp
Held a doe management class before bedtime
Day one of the hunt and setting on go!
Holding an in the field deer browse class with the kids
Day two of the hunt
One kid with an opportunity
Another kid drops a doe
One of the kids engaged in learning about deer and habitat management
Hunting with David Boggs
Deer hunt turns into a coyote hunt real quick!
The bear den trip
Squirrel Stew!
The gunless guide
All the kids joined in with the field dressing of the deer
Passing the torch www.backwaterlegacies.org

Next Episode

Up North Journal - Setting Up For Winter League, Shed Antlers, Can You Shoot Enough Coyotes, New CWD Cases

Mike setting up the PSE Phenom for indoor archery leagues

Sunny day in December
What warm weather can do in December
Shot about 7 or 8 rounds of 3
Haven't shot since October
Haven't shot target bow since July or August
Gym workouts helping with shooting the bow
Had to deal with shooting with heavier clothes on

Danny was looking for shed antlers

Trail cam SD card storage
Dan checked his trail cam in his back yard
Got a little 7 point coming in one evening
Came back
in 2.5 hours later and had dropped his antlers
Danny went looking for his sheds
He has a new bigger buck coming in now
He also found a dead doe and pulled the jaw bone

Can you shoot enough coyotes to make an impact on the local deer herd?

Article by Patrick Durkin
Was the moose kill situations a learned behavior?
Does a sustained coyote population give us a green light to shoot if it cannot be thinned?
Can we hunt them hard enough to make an impact in increasing our localized deer herd
How does time of year play into this
Can you target female coyotes vs males?

New cases of CWD