2015 Early Archery Season Highlights

Early archery season results hunting whitetail deer in Michigan.
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I hunted less this year but still had some quality deer hunting experienceS on my properties in southern Michigan. I enhance my small property with lots of deer habitat improvements including hinge cutting bedding areas, small food plots in transition zones where I place my deer stands, and destination food plots. I use extreme scent control to minimize my impact on my small deer hunting property. I us Quality Deer Management practices that optimize for movement of doe families in parallel to multiple small food plots, which causes the doe families to move between deer bedding areas and feeding areas long before dark and log after daylight, which enhances buck movement. Mature buck sightings are rare in Michigan because of the heavy deer hunting pressure, but I still manage to see at least a few bucks every year. My archery season ended, on the last day, with the harvest of a beautiful whitetail buck with 11 points and though he has not been scored yet, is probably pushing 140 inches. Please enjoy my deer hunting highlights on my small properties, which include peeks at two mature bucks harvested by friends in Hillsdale County Michigan.

[@peterbell3199]

Nice Buck!

[@ALwoodsman]

Looks like it was a great season for you and your neighbors. Congratulations on the good buck!

[@rkproductions1061]

Nice video buddy! Nice bycks!!!:)))

[@rkproductions1061]

bucks***

[@brentspooner5289]

The buck you shot was stomping. Was that a low level scent bust? Do you know how it happened? Great Video... it shows how much you study the deer!!

[@ExtremeDeerHabitat]

+Brent Spooner No, he sight busted me cold. I tell the whole story in this video. I had already packed all my gear and had to get the camera out of my backpack when the smaller buck was coming. He sight busted me and ran, then the bigger one sight busted me as well. kzbin.info/www/bejne/b2eoi4aNgNadp9U

[@stevepalmateer]

Were you able to press chargers on the trespassers?

[@ExtremeDeerHabitat]

+Stephen Palmateer I did not. I have been successful doing so in the past, but in this case it was a neighbor who I had not met personally but had talked to several times on the phone in the past. He had a mistaken idea of what the requirements were for contacting me in regards to tracking deer (the same deal as with the other neighbors, call, make contact, find out what the landowner wants to do, and follow his guidance to recover your deer--he called, I did not answer because the deer he had already pushed out of the sanctuary were standing around me, and he entered without my OK). He got a pass and a firm understanding of how important these rules are to me and my neighbors, and how he had ruined a day I had dreamed about for an entire year. We are going to get together with him to show him how he can improve his hunting on his property as he is a novice. In this case we made lemonade out of the lemon as we think he will be on board in the future participating with the cooperative. I told him he was the only guy on the planet who could have gotten a pass and not met up with the Sheriff's Deputy.

[@stevepalmateer]

+Extreme Deer Habitat better to resolve these kinds of disputes with new neighbours in a positive fashion before resorting to harsher alternatives. Well done.

[@ExtremeDeerHabitat]

+Stephen Palmateer Thank you. I was steamed, told the guy he could not drag his deer out but would have to meet me at my house with the police to come and retrieve it. In the meantime I talked to my other neighbor on the phone, and we agreed that it would be a bad idea to do anything except reach out to him and try to get him on board. It worked we think, and we think we have a new friend that understands our passion for deer hunting.

[@izetfazlinovic1371]

+Extreme Deer Habitat good choice man 👍