Ep. 305: The Back 40’s First Pre-Season

Wired To Hunt Podcast

MeatEater

Wilderness, Sports

4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2019

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Today on the show we detail everything you need to know about the work we've done so far on the Back 40 farm, the challenges we've encountered along the way, and the plans to start hunting it in the coming days.

Topics discussed:

My new book, That Wild Country
Dan's last-minute deer prep
The bucks I'm after on my other main Michigan farm
The cliff-notes version of how we found the Back 40
Why we couldn't get much done on the property until August
The experts we've brought it to see the farm so far
The few small projects we've done so far
What we'd like to do
How to balance hunting goals and habitat goals
The food plots we planted
All the folks hunting the farm and the challenge that will pose
My concerns about hunting pressure
The bucks we've see on the farm so farm
Plan for our first hunts on the Back 40

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0:00.0	Folks, I've got some good news.
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0:51.1	Welcome to the Wire to Hunt Podcast.
0:53.9	I'm your host Mark Kenyon and this is episode number 305 and today in the show.
1:11.2	We are detailing everything you need to know about the on the ground work that has happened
1:15.9	at our new back 40 farm so far and the strategy we have to start hunting it in the coming
1:22.0	days.
1:24.0	Alright, welcome to the Wire to Hunt podcast brought to you by OnEx.
1:31.8	It's funny, Dan just as I was reading that.
1:36.4	So I'm here with Dan obviously and as I was reading that introduction in my head I was
1:42.5	thinking about a comment I read recently on a post by Mediter and I was in some video
1:49.2	on the Mediter Instagram post and someone commented and I quote, Mark Kenyon is as dry
1:56.1	as a popcorn fart.
1:58.1	And it knocked my self as I was just opening that line like, am I that dry?
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