Habitat Podcast #404 – In today’s episode of The Habitat Podcast, we are back in the studio with Cory Franceus and Chad Fike!
We discuss:
-Chad goes from years of small bucks to big Michigan deer after three trips to Tony LaPratt’s boot camp.
-Cory reads an 80-acre Big Rapids-area rectangle by what surrounds it: ag, cattle and a block of wet cover.
-Chad splits two wide-open fields that blew deer out every hunt into about ten plots across six acres.
-A rifle blind on the hill by the house covers the whole bottom field without anyone walking through it.
-The landowner’s wife hunts a blind 40 yards off a seasonal road where a bear sleeps on the step.
-Chad row-thins two pine stands north to south for sunlight and leaves a 10-12 foot scrape perimeter.
-Cory keeps any autumn olive that holds a bed, rub or scrape and would spray the rest of them.
-Cory’s nightclub analogy explains why one big open field sends a mature buck off your property.
-The Marriott blind has power, two heaters and a Wi-Fi booster, so the owner takes Zoom calls from it.
-The owner dug the farm’s two ponds on an excavator at age 11 and swore he’d buy the place one day.
And So Much More!
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Chapters:
0:00 Cold open: the farm you couldn’t hunt without spooking deer
2:20 From small bucks to Tony LaPratt’s boot camp
5:23 Reading the 80 acres by what surrounds it
8:15 Breaking up two open fields and placing the blinds
11:47 Thinning the pines, a scrape perimeter and autumn olives
17:29 The blind 75 yards behind the house
19:31 The nightclub analogy for food plots
21:52 Ten plots in six acres and still seeing bucks late season
24:01 The Marriott blind: heat, Wi-Fi and Zoom calls
25:49 Escape routes and a hinge-cut buffer on the west line
29:19 He dug these ponds at 11 and bought the farm
30:50 The buildings, the timber and the deer numbers
35:44 The listing, a big 10 and coyote control
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