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  • 407: He Accidentally Shot a Buck in the Head, Then It Tried to Kill Him with Mike Hlavaty

    407: He Accidentally Shot a Buck in the Head, Then It Tried to Kill Him with Mike Hlavaty
    Oct 16 2026
    Habitat Podcast #407 - In today's episode of The Habitat Podcast, we are back in the studio with Mike Hlavaty! We discuss: -Mike hunts a coal strip mine in Muskingum County alone at age 10, long before youth seasons or hunter safety. -He and his brothers build ladder stands out of electrical conduit, hammering the steps flat and painting them. -Mike crossbow-shoots a buck in the head the night before Ohio's gun opener, and it runs him over in the dark. -He escapes by ramming the buck's head into a TV antenna tower, then waits it out from his stand for hours. -An antler opens his neck up behind his ear, he's in the ER until 6 a.m., then goes back out and shoots a doe. -Mike buys land with tillable ground so the farm rent pays 100 percent of his real estate taxes. -A reappraisal tripled some of his property values, and he calls a tax on owning land a sin. -U.S. Fish and Wildlife's partner program designs his wetland units, built on clay-core "mushroom" berms. -His excavator bids nearly 50 percent under the other contractor and saves Mike a bunch on the build. -In the spring his wetlands hold 500 to 1,000 pintails at a time, plus hundreds of swans. And So Much More! Chapters: 0:00 A Buck Attack, a Floodplain and Ducks: Meet Mike Hlavaty 1:26 Mike's Ohio Lodge and His 2021 Land Plan 3:29 Hunting Alone at 10 and Homemade Conduit Tree Stands 8:50 The Buck Attack: An Arrow to the Head and a TV Tower Escape 18:08 Four Parcels in a Floodplain 19:45 Buying Land That Pays Its Own Taxes 24:28 Clay Berms and a Blown-Out Ditch 26:24 Building Wetlands With U.S. Fish and Wildlife 32:03 Tile Drains, the Newest Parcel and the Spring Migration 34:47 What to Plant Before You Flood 38:08 Deer and Ducks on the Same Ground 39:53 Jared's Wrap: The Internet Crash and the Cold Front Shop the New Native Seed Collection from Vitalize Seed here: https://vitalizeseed.com/collections/vitalize-native-product-line Use Code HABITAT26 and Get Your Plot Blaster Here: https://plotblaster.com/ PATREON - Patreon - Habitat Podcast Brand new HP Patreon for those who want to support the Habitat Podcast. Good luck this Fall and if you have a question yourself, just email us @ info@habitatpodcast.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon - Habitat Podcast Latitude Outdoors - Saddle Hunting: https://bit.ly/hplatitude Stealth Strips - Stealth Outdoors: Use code Habitat10 at checkout https://bit.ly/stealthstripsHP Midwest Lifestyle Properties - https://bit.ly/3OeFhrm Vitalize Seed Food Plot Seed - https://bit.ly/vitalizeseed Down Burst Seeders - https://bit.ly/downburstseeders 10% code: HP10 Morse Nursery - http://bit.ly/MorseTrees 10% off w/code: HABITAT10 Packer Maxx - http://bit.ly/PACKERMAXX $25 off with code: HPC25 First Lite - https://bit.ly/3EDbG6P LAND PLAN Property Consultations – HP Land Plans: LAND PLANS Leave us a review for a FREE DECAL - https://apple.co/2uhoqOO Morse Nursery Tree Dealer Pricing – info@habitatpodcast.com Habitat Podcast YOUTUBE - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmAUuvU9t25FOSstoFiaNdg Email us: info@habitatpodcast.com habitat management / deer habitat / food plots / hinge cut / food plot Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • #406 - The Highs and Lows of Our Opening Weekend Public Land Deer Camp

    #406 - The Highs and Lows of Our Opening Weekend Public Land Deer Camp
    Oct 9 2026
    Habitat Podcast #406 - In today's episode of The Habitat Podcast, we are at deer camp with the Habitat Podcast Patreon Hunt crew! We discuss: -Twelve Patreon members hunt Michigan state land from Latitude saddles over the archery opener. -Jared holds at full draw for 55 seconds before heart-shooting a doe while Matt films from 50 yards. -Andy and Matt find a ditch of dropping pin oaks that holds the most sign they saw all weekend. -Matt climbs four sticks above an old ladder stand in a cottonwood to watch most of a thicket. -Drew and Clyde paddle a canoe across unfamiliar water in the dark to reach their opening-morning spot. -Clyde loses his first deer since he started hunting in 2019 after a 500-yard blood trail goes cold. -Corey says the camp hit roughly 50% success on public land in just two days of bow hunting. -Jeff takes his first deer out of a saddle, less than a year after learning at the last Patreon hunt. -Scott, a private-land hunter from West Virginia, is caught off guard by Michigan's public land pressure. -Joel watches a big buck quarter away toward the CRP and passes because the angle is wrong. And So Much More! Chapters: 0:00 Opening Weekend at the Habitat Podcast Patreon Hunt 7:22 Matt Zahl & Andy Hutchens: A 55-Second Draw and a Ditch Full of Sign 13:33 Corey, Drew & Clyde: Canoe Access and a Tough Recovery 20:36 Jeff Piette & Jason "Bones" Rogers: First Saddle Kill and a Broken Bow 24:13 Dan, Scott & Joel: Michigan Public Land Pressure 26:58 Joel's Big Buck That Walked Away 31:21 Scott's 44-Yard Shot and Dan's Camp Antics 34:28 Jared's High, Low and Why You Should Come to Camp Shop the New Native Seed Collection from Vitalize Seed here: https://vitalizeseed.com/collections/vitalize-native-product-line Use Code HABITAT26 and Get Your Plot Blaster Here: https://plotblaster.com/ PATREON - Patreon - Habitat Podcast Brand new HP Patreon for those who want to support the Habitat Podcast. Good luck this Fall and if you have a question yourself, just email us @ info@habitatpodcast.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon - Habitat Podcast Latitude Outdoors - Saddle Hunting: https://bit.ly/hplatitude Stealth Strips - Stealth Outdoors: Use code Habitat10 at checkout https://bit.ly/stealthstripsHP Midwest Lifestyle Properties - https://bit.ly/3OeFhrm Vitalize Seed Food Plot Seed - https://bit.ly/vitalizeseed Down Burst Seeders - https://bit.ly/downburstseeders 10% code: HP10 Morse Nursery - http://bit.ly/MorseTrees 10% off w/code: HABITAT10 Packer Maxx - http://bit.ly/PACKERMAXX $25 off with code: HPC25 First Lite - https://bit.ly/3EDbG6P LAND PLAN Property Consultations – HP Land Plans: LAND PLANS Leave us a review for a FREE DECAL - https://apple.co/2uhoqOO Morse Nursery Tree Dealer Pricing – info@habitatpodcast.com Habitat Podcast YOUTUBE - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmAUuvU9t25FOSstoFiaNdg Email us: info@habitatpodcast.com habitat management / deer habitat / food plots / hinge cut / food plot Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • #405 - He Spent 14 Years Perfecting 26 Acres: Heres What Worked with Gavin Sodders

    #405 - He Spent 14 Years Perfecting 26 Acres: Heres What Worked with Gavin Sodders
    Oct 2 2026
    Habitat Podcast #405 - In today's episode of The Habitat Podcast, we are back in the studio with Gavin Sodders! We discuss: -Gavin transforms his family's roughly 26-acre Indiana hayfields through fourteen years of habitat work. -Gavin watches more than 500 persimmon trees emerge naturally after years of trial-and-error habitat work. -Gavin learns why oversized square food plots and mowing the entire property leave deer without cover. -Gavin uses a central access trail and a button-hook approach to reach stands before deer hit his scent. -Gavin plants six micro plots, favors clover, and keeps most of his roughly 26 acres in thick cover. -Gavin uses five cell cameras for inventory and past movement patterns instead of chasing fresh pictures. -Gavin builds a close-range funnel with old hinge cuts, fence openings, a cedar stand, and mock scrapes. -Gavin adds kiddie-pool water holes even though a spring-fed creek already runs through the property. -Gavin stays off his property ahead of its prime rut window instead of hunting it hard in early October. -Gavin shares why family memories matter more as his parents prepare to sell the property. And So Much More! Chapters: 0:00 14 years of transforming hayfields into habitat 3:16 Gavin Sodders and a lifetime of deer hunting 9:13 The 26-acre Indiana property and natural persimmons 13:25 Food plot mistakes, too much mowing, and overhunting 16:33 Access trails, rut timing, and family hunts 23:42 Six micro plots, native browse, and thick cover 31:21 Neighbors, hunting pressure, and surviving bucks 36:44 Trail camera placement and historical patterns 41:06 Habitat equipment, water holes, and working on a budget 44:26 Ten-yard funnels, mock scrapes, and stand access 50:02 The story behind Whitetail Bloodline 52:46 Rapid fire: venison, gear, cover, and favorite trees Shop the New Native Seed Collection from Vitalize Seed here: https://vitalizeseed.com/collections/vitalize-native-product-line Use Code HABITAT26 and Get Your Plot Blaster Here: https://plotblaster.com/ PATREON - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon - Habitat Podcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Brand new HP Patreon for those who want to support the Habitat Podcast. Good luck this Fall and if you have a question yourself, just email us @ info@habitatpodcast.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon - Habitat Podcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Latitude Outdoors - Saddle Hunting: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/hplatitude⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Stealth Strips - Stealth Outdoors: Use code Habitat10 at checkout ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/stealthstripsHP⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Midwest Lifestyle Properties - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/3OeFhrm⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Vitalize Seed Food Plot Seed - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/vitalizeseed ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Down Burst Seeders - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/downburstseeders ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 10% code: HP10 Morse Nursery - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://bit.ly/MorseTrees...
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  • 404: How He Designed 80 Acres In Michigan So That Bucks Never Leave (Virtual Property Tour) with

    404: How He Designed 80 Acres In Michigan So That Bucks Never Leave (Virtual Property Tour) with
    Sep 25 2026
    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! Tour the property: https://premierfarmrealtygroup.com/listings/land-for-sale/7147-e-6-mile-rd-big-rapids-newaygo-county-mi-80-available/ 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 Shop the New Native Seed Collection from Vitalize Seed here: https://vitalizeseed.com/collections/vitalize-native-product-line Use Code HABITAT26 and Get Your Plot Blaster Here: https://plotblaster.com/ PATREON - Patreon - Habitat Podcast Brand new HP Patreon for those who want to support the Habitat Podcast. Good luck this Fall and if you have a question yourself, just email us @ info@habitatpodcast.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon - Habitat Podcast Latitude Outdoors - Saddle Hunting: https://bit.ly/hplatitude Stealth Strips - Stealth Outdoors: Use code Habitat10 at checkout https://bit.ly/stealthstripsHP Midwest Lifestyle Properties - https://bit.ly/3OeFhrm Vitalize Seed Food Plot Seed - https://bit.ly/vitalizeseed Down Burst Seeders - https://bit.ly/downburstseeders 10% code: HP10 Morse Nursery - http://bit.ly/MorseTrees 10% off w/code: HABITAT10 Packer Maxx - http://bit.ly/PACKERMAXX $25 off with code: HPC25 First Lite - https://bit.ly/3EDbG6P LAND PLAN Property Consultations – HP Land Plans: LAND PLANS Leave us a review for a FREE DECAL - https://apple.co/2uhoqOO Morse Nursery Tree Dealer Pricing – info@habitatpodcast.com Habitat Podcast YOUTUBE - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmAUuvU9t25FOSstoFiaNdg Email us: info@habitatpodcast.com habitat management / deer habitat / food plots / hinge cut / food plot Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    43 min
  • 403: Fixed Blade Or Expandable: Which One Actually Kills Faster? with Matt Zahl and Cory Franceus

    403: Fixed Blade Or Expandable: Which One Actually Kills Faster? with Matt Zahl and Cory Franceus
    Sep 18 2026
    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 8x8 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 Shop the New Native Seed Collection from Vitalize Seed here: https://vitalizeseed.com/collections/vitalize-native-product-line Use Code HABITAT26 and Get Your Plot Blaster Here: https://plotblaster.com/ PATREON - Patreon - Habitat Podcast Brand new HP Patreon for those who want to support the Habitat Podcast. Good luck this Fall and if you have a question yourself, just email us @ info@habitatpodcast.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon - Habitat Podcast Latitude Outdoors - Saddle Hunting: https://bit.ly/hplatitude Stealth Strips - Stealth Outdoors: Use code Habitat10 at checkout https://bit.ly/stealthstripsHP Midwest Lifestyle Properties - https://bit.ly/3OeFhrm Vitalize Seed Food Plot Seed - https://bit.ly/vitalizeseed Down Burst Seeders - https://bit.ly/downburstseeders 10% code: HP10 Morse Nursery - http://bit.ly/MorseTrees 10% off w/code: HABITAT10 Packer Maxx - http://bit.ly/PACKERMAXX $25 off with code: HPC25 First Lite - https://bit.ly/3EDbG6P LAND PLAN Property Consultations – HP Land Plans: LAND PLANS Leave us a review for a FREE DECAL - https://apple.co/2uhoqOO Morse Nursery Tree Dealer Pricing – info@habitatpodcast.com Habitat Podcast YOUTUBE - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmAUuvU9t25FOSstoFiaNdg Email us: info@habitatpodcast.com habitat management / deer habitat / food plots / hinge cut / food plot Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • 402: How He Builds Successful Mock Scrapes On Food Plots with Arron Bleise and Kevin Gross

    402: How He Builds Successful Mock Scrapes On Food Plots with Arron Bleise and Kevin Gross
    Sep 11 2026
    Habitat Podcast #402 - In today's episode of The Habitat Podcast, we are back in the studio with Arron Bleise and Kevin Gross! We discuss: -Arron explains why planting an inch and a quarter deep in July left his seed sitting 21 days. -Arron adds pearl millet to his mix for the relationship it builds with mycorrhizal fungi. -Arron runs a zero-rate fertilizer strip in corn that comes back comparable to his full rate. -Arron lays out the 220-acre family farm his dad has hunted since 1978 and may one day lose. -Arron weighs splitting his share of a million-dollar farm against the ground he grew up on. -Arron wants every tree cut on a stand so mature that nothing grows in the understory. -Jared gives Arron the October window to spray sunflowers before frost seeding natives. -Arron builds twelve scrapes in ten days and will only hang a licking branch on oak or beech. -Kevin runs every camera on video and explains what still pictures miss during the rut. -Arron kills a corn-bedded buck that walked over his boot track two nights in a row. And So Much More! Shop the New Native Seed Collection from Vitalize Seed here: https://vitalizeseed.com/collections/vitalize-native-product-line Use Code HABITAT26 and Get Your Plot Blaster Here: https://plotblaster.com/ PATREON - Patreon - Habitat Podcast Brand new HP Patreon for those who want to support the Habitat Podcast. Good luck this Fall and if you have a question yourself, just email us @ info@habitatpodcast.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon - Habitat Podcast Latitude Outdoors - Saddle Hunting: https://bit.ly/hplatitude Stealth Strips - Stealth Outdoors: Use code Habitat10 at checkout https://bit.ly/stealthstripsHP Midwest Lifestyle Properties - https://bit.ly/3OeFhrm Vitalize Seed Food Plot Seed - https://bit.ly/vitalizeseed Down Burst Seeders - https://bit.ly/downburstseeders 10% code: HP10 Morse Nursery - http://bit.ly/MorseTrees 10% off w/code: HABITAT10 Packer Maxx - http://bit.ly/PACKERMAXX $25 off with code: HPC25 First Lite - https://bit.ly/3EDbG6P LAND PLAN Property Consultations – HP Land Plans: LAND PLANS Leave us a review for a FREE DECAL - https://apple.co/2uhoqOO Morse Nursery Tree Dealer Pricing – info@habitatpodcast.com Habitat Podcast YOUTUBE - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmAUuvU9t25FOSstoFiaNdg Email us: info@habitatpodcast.com habitat management / deer habitat / food plots / hinge cut / food plot Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • Return Of The Deercamp Detour: What It's Actually Like On A 14 Day Fly In Alaska Hunt with Justin Curtis

    Return Of The Deercamp Detour: What It's Actually Like On A 14 Day Fly In Alaska Hunt with Justin Curtis
    Sep 8 2026
    Deercamp Detour - In today's episode of The Habitat Podcast, we are back in the studio with the Deercamp Detour! Today we talk with Justin Curtis. We discuss: Hunting fair-chase red stag and giant Sika deer on a family trip to Ireland. Buying 95 acres in Iowa to build food plots for unpressured late-season bucks. Launching the Chloe Faith Outdoors YouTube channel with his 12-year-old daughter. Surviving 70 mph winds and a collapsed tent on a brutal Alaskan brown bear hunt. Taking down a giant brown bear that required nine rounds to finally stop. The massive 29 1/16 Boone & Crockett skull score of his 11-foot Alaskan bear. Why hunters should focus on camp camaraderie and the experience, not just inches. Tracking an escaped, free-range male lion through thick brush in South Africa. Upcoming hunts for Canadian lynx, Mexican turkeys, and a leopard in Zimbabwe. The struggle of fitting 30 newly harvested global animals into a trophy room. And So Much More! Shop the New Native Seed Collection from Vitalize Seed here: ⁠https://vitalizeseed.com/collections/vitalize-native-product-line⁠ Use Code HABITAT26 and Get Your Plot Blaster Here: ⁠https://plotblaster.com/⁠ PATREON - Patreon - Habitat Podcast Brand new HP Patreon for those who want to support the Habitat Podcast. Good luck this Fall and if you have a question yourself, just email us @ ⁠info@habitatpodcast.com⁠ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon - Habitat Podcast Latitude Outdoors - Saddle Hunting: ⁠https://bit.ly/hplatitude⁠ Stealth Strips - Stealth Outdoors: Use code Habitat10 at checkout ⁠https://bit.ly/stealthstripsHP⁠ Midwest Lifestyle Properties - ⁠https://bit.ly/3OeFhrm⁠ Vitalize Seed Food Plot Seed - ⁠https://bit.ly/vitalizeseed⁠ Down Burst Seeders - ⁠https://bit.ly/downburstseeders⁠ 10% code: HP10 Morse Nursery - ⁠http://bit.ly/MorseTrees⁠ 10% off w/code: HABITAT10 Packer Maxx - ⁠http://bit.ly/PACKERMAXX⁠ $25 off with code: HPC25 First Lite - ⁠https://bit.ly/3EDbG6P⁠ LAND PLAN Property Consultations – HP Land Plans: LAND PLANS Leave us a review for a FREE DECAL - ⁠https://apple.co/2uhoqOO⁠ Morse Nursery Tree Dealer Pricing – ⁠info@habitatpodcast.com⁠ Habitat Podcast YOUTUBE - ⁠https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmAUuvU9t25FOSstoFiaNdg⁠ Email us: ⁠info@habitatpodcast.com⁠ habitat management / deer habitat / food plots / hinge cut / food plot Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h et 10 min
  • 401: How Janis Putelis Turned 50 Acres Of Big Woods Into A Whitetail Paradise

    401: How Janis Putelis Turned 50 Acres Of Big Woods Into A Whitetail Paradise
    Sep 4 2026
    Habitat Podcast #401 - In today's episode of The Habitat Podcast, we are back in the studio with Janis Putelis! We discuss: -Janis cut every white pine off 20 acres and released the oaks hiding underneath them. -Why 40 acres is barely enough timber for a logger to justify moving his equipment in. -The US Fish and Wildlife Habitat Partners Program funded his 7-acre oak savanna restoration. -Doing the slash and burn work himself credited against his share instead of costing $7,000. -Ground deer used to walk straight through now has a bed every five minutes you walk. -Sam Tumberg's buckthorn rule: mow it in spring, then spray the regrowth after July 4th. -Buckthorn cut to the ground on May 15th was four to six feet tall by the third week of July. -Roughly fifty trees dropped by hand turned a dead ridge saddle into a big buck's route. -His dad is hunting the September 15th Wisconsin opener from a blind he built by hand. -Deer refuse to travel his one long straight road but hammer every winding trail he cuts. And So Much More! Chapters: 0:00 The Ground Deer Used To Walk Straight Through 1:34 Rain, Seed And Living The Dream 2:42 Janis Just Got Back From Kansas 7:41 Back To The Wisconsin 50 10:24 Did He Cut Enough? The Logger Math On 40 Acres 12:56 Cutting Every White Pine To Release The Oaks 15:23 The Fish And Wildlife Oak Savanna Project 19:25 Regeneration, Bedding And Cutting Trails 25:53 Apple Trees And Bringing Sand To The Beach 27:11 Triclopyr, Glyphosate And Crossbow 30:35 Ten Acres Of Buckthorn And Sam's Mow-Then-Spray Rule 36:53 Fish And Wildlife vs NRCS 41:16 Getting The Next Phase Funded 45:53 Dad, The Neighbors And A Woods Full Of Noise 51:07 The Ridge Saddle He Opened With A Saw 53:16 How Dad Will Hunt The September 15th Opener 58:38 Why Deer Won't Use His One Straight Road 1:02:21 Janis's Plan For This Fall 1:05:37 Mock Scrape Vines Hit The First Night 1:09:17 Nobody Else Around Him Has An Oak Savanna Shop the New Native Seed Collection from Vitalize Seed here: https://vitalizeseed.com/collections/vitalize-native-product-line Use Code HABITAT26 and Get Your Plot Blaster Here: https://plotblaster.com/ PATREON - Patreon - Habitat Podcast Brand new HP Patreon for those who want to support the Habitat Podcast. Good luck this Fall and if you have a question yourself, just email us @ info@habitatpodcast.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon - Habitat Podcast Latitude Outdoors - Saddle Hunting: https://bit.ly/hplatitude Stealth Strips - Stealth Outdoors: Use code Habitat10 at checkout https://bit.ly/stealthstripsHP Midwest Lifestyle Properties - https://bit.ly/3OeFhrm Vitalize Seed Food Plot Seed - https://bit.ly/vitalizeseed Down Burst Seeders - https://bit.ly/downburstseeders 10% code: HP10 Morse Nursery - http://bit.ly/MorseTrees 10% off w/code: HABITAT10 Packer Maxx - http://bit.ly/PACKERMAXX $25 off with code: HPC25 First Lite - https://bit.ly/3EDbG6P LAND PLAN Property Consultations – HP Land Plans: LAND PLANS Leave us a review for a FREE DECAL - https://apple.co/2uhoqOO Morse Nursery Tree Dealer Pricing – info@habitatpodcast.com Habitat Podcast YOUTUBE - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmAUuvU9t25FOSstoFiaNdg Email us: info@habitatpodcast.com habitat management / deer habitat / food plots / hinge cut / food plot Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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