#406 - The Highs and Lows of Our Opening Weekend Public Land Deer Camp

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.