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Subtle Changes Can Mean a New Perspective

By Glen Wunderlich

Whenever sportscasters spew off statistics about certain team rivalries and how two teams have stacked up over the years, it makes me think they don’t have anything better to talk about. It all means nothing, because the current teams have evolved through coaching and personnel changes – any one of which alters the team’s personality, potential, and character. An impending game, therefore, is sure to become a new adventure. So, too it is with hunting. Read more

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Morning Hunt in First Snow

By Glen Wunderlich

With power off and the generator running at 5:30 am, I marched through the 6-inch deep snow to a hunting blind overlooking some low ground.  After climbing in, I soon discovered that the slide-up windows wouldn’t unlatch.  Frozen shut.

Snow glistens from morning sun

 

Finally, I got one side to cooperate, but not after alerting any game within a half mile of my presence.  The other three windows wouldn’t budge.  It didn’t take me long to realize I had to find another location to hunt the first snow of the season.

At least my early morning arrival has given me an opportunity to get set somewhere – anywhere else.  But, my plan to ambush deer along routes to their bedding area was blown up.  Being afield this day would be good enough.

My alternate blind would overlook a brassica food plot of some two acres.  It’s never been much of a morning spot; rather, it is a prime destination field. 

At first light, two antlerless deer began feeding on turnip greens and rape.

Nothing else materialized and I left the heated blind way too early, but I still have some plowing to attend to.  The afternoon shift should be interesting.

 

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Thanksgiving Hunt

By Glen Wunderlich

Last evening’s hunt was filled with activity.  Deer began moving into the brassica plot in front of me at 150 yards at about 5 pm and the action continued past dark.  I wasn’t able to keep track of how many whitetails were on hand – kind of like counting fish in an aquarium – but they filtered in from all angles.

Near dark, one lone buck – a 7-inch spike buck – entered the area and remained into the darkness.

I am still holding off for a big buck and/or snow, whichever comes first.  With the mild weather coming this weekend, it looks like I’ll have to break out the Knight Revolution muzzleloader at next week’s end for the beginning of muzzleloader season next Friday.

It seems as though the mild weather has the deer in more of a content mood instead of the typical frenzied feeding mode this time of year.  It’s Michigan, however, and by January they’ll get a bit more desperate.

Much of the green foliage is still evident

Brassica Plot in Distance

Tonight and this weekend should be interesting because of all the anticipated fair-weather hunters moving deer.

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