404: How He Designed 80 Acres In Michigan So That Bucks Never Leave (Virtual Property Tour) with

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.