
Take Aim Outdoors - Episode 193 Michigan Public Land success
12/19/18 • 36 min
This week we chat with Blake Ledger and hear how Blake dedicated this season to learning the in's & out's of Public land deer hunting and being a touch aggressive lead to killing his biggest buck ever.
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This week we chat with Blake Ledger and hear how Blake dedicated this season to learning the in's & out's of Public land deer hunting and being a touch aggressive lead to killing his biggest buck ever.
This show is powered by www.Lethalproducts.com
Previous 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
- Tennessee has found CWD in their deer herd
- North Dakota has found a case of CWD in a whitetail deer
Taking doe early enough in season to affect the food sources and the stress on breeding bucks
Next Episode

Up North Journal - 26 Point Ohio Buck Poached, 34 Inch Spread Ohio Buck Taken, 51 Point Illinois Buck Taken
The guys are talking about three huge bucks that made the news this week.
26 Point 229 inch Ohio buck poached.
- Ohio hunter was hunting the buck of a lifetime
- Nicknamed Hay Rake
- Poached by Coshocton County man
- Shot an 8 point buck earlier that morning
- Hunter who investigated the story had the deer at 40 yards only days earlier
34 inch spread Ohio buck taken by hunter in Belmont County
- Looks like the Rompola Buck
- Taken in Belmont County Ohio
- 182 inch buck
- Comparing to the Rompola Buck that was shot in 1998
51 Point Illinois buck taken on private land
- How technology has created antler envy
- Years ago we had to wait 6 to 8 months for stories of big bucks
- The Tucker Buck!
- Quite possibly the most scorable points ever recorded
- TAG your deer!!!!!
Christmas with the UNJ guys
- Danny almost sets the snow on fire
- Mike gets his BB gun taken away
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