Habitat Podcast #403 – In today’s episode of The Habitat Podcast, we are back in the studio with Cory Franceus and Matt Zahl!
We discuss:
-Hutchy gets poison ivy and cellulitis prepping one stand in southern Ohio in 95-degree heat.
-Matt plants a sixteenth-of-an-acre plot in the middle of his swamp after a year of rain.
-The crew picks cereal grains and oats as the late plant if you’re still stuck in a drought.
-Jared asks whether deer that survive EHD in Jackson County come back with any immunity.
-Matt builds an 8×8 hexagon blind with 13 plexiglass windows for about $1,200 on a bad knee.
-Cory won’t shoot his 4-year-old from the same Banks blind because it felt like a video game.
-Cory’s small fixed blade sat in an Iowa buck’s lung for four days before a second arrow.
-Jared shoots a heavy high-FOC arrow but says fixed blades never bleed like expandables.
-Cory estimates a buck’s score from ear length, eye spacing and base size in the field.
-Cory explains the NDA Field to Fork mentoring program on MeatEater’s donated Back 40.
And So Much More!
Chapters:
0:00 Cold open: fixed blades that don’t bleed
1:25 Hutchy’s poison ivy turns into cellulitis
9:43 Deer coming back after EHD, and plots after a wet year
13:51 What to plant in a drought, and a plot in the middle of a swamp
16:41 EHD in Jackson County: do survivors build immunity?
20:14 Youth hunt, baiting and fall turkey rules
26:32 Early-season access and Vince’s Northern Michigan contest
30:49 Matt’s $1,200 DIY hexagon blind
43:17 Cory’s 4-year-old and a blood trail that wasn’t
44:58 Fixed blades, expandables and 80-pound bows
52:15 Hutchy’s crossbow and the Patreon hunt
57:44 Call your shot: Michigan’s last two-buck season
63:48 Aging a target buck and “buddy math” field judging
74:50 Field to Fork mentoring and a veteran hunt
82:39 One piece of advice before the season
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