#247 - How 10 States Could Be Better Than Iowa & Habitat Changes That Can Make a HUGE Difference! - Skip Sligh
The WHTL Podcast - Whitetail Deer Hunting Tactics, Stories & Expert Guests
Jake Hofer
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🗓️ 16 August 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode of The Exodus Podcast, we are back out in Iowa talking with previous Land Podcast guest Skip Sligh. Skip has extensive experience in managing land, hunting across the entire midwest on public/permission ground, and all things whitetails. Skip has improved and transformed many farms over the years and has a lot of knowledge to share, so listen up!
We Discuss:
-How growing up in Michigan self-teaching himself hunting made him into the hunter he is today
-How those humble beginnings hunting in Michigan made moving to Iowa that much easier of a decision
-The state he would move to if he couldn't hunt Iowa anymore
- Do early guns seasons ruin the quality of hunting
- The one regulation he would change for hunting opportunities in the midwest
- 2 buck states vs 1 buck states
- What habitat diversity is the best for producing giant mature deer
- What is the chance that a state would make changes to help with the quality of bucks
- Should you shoot does
- Why big bucks leave your farm
- What habitat you need on your farm to hold mature bucks
-T he first thing you need to do when buying a "project farm" for deer hunting
- Does hinge cutting really work
- Should you timber your hunting property
- The most desirable tree for a hunting property
- What he pairs his food plots with when planting
And so much more!
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| 0:00.0 | What is going on? Welcome to the Exodus podcast. It's Jake Hofer. And this week we have a stellar episode. |
| 0:05.0 | It is with Skip Sly. And if you don't know Skip, he was on the land podcast. I want to say earlier this year. |
| 0:11.1 | I don't remember what month exactly, but it was a really cool conversation. I encourage you to go listen to that one on the land podcast first. |
| 0:17.1 | To hear his story, hear kind of his credentials, if you will, in terms of just experience |
| 0:22.9 | that he has. And I think some of the people who are most, I should say, I'm trying to think of the |
| 0:30.9 | best way to say, but self-educated people that go through from zero base of knowledge to, you know, |
| 0:37.3 | 20, 30 years of experience are people who I think can |
| 0:39.9 | really share some interesting information and Skip is exactly that person he has done it he has |
| 0:44.8 | done a lot of large scale projects small scale projects and surely there is something from this |
| 0:49.9 | conversation that will be proved to be useful to you. Skip is very passionate about the state of Iowa. |
| 0:56.5 | He's from Michigan, and so he basically has hunted the worst and has now hunted some of the best |
| 1:01.8 | ground on earth. But what's the most interesting is how passion he is about the regulations in Iowa |
| 1:06.1 | and what makes it so special and how some of these other states could be even better than Iowa if there were |
| 1:12.2 | some tweaks with regulations. So I think just a fun thought-provoking conversation. I hope you |
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