Ep. 380: Dad's First Bow Buck and the Back 40 Transformation

Wired To Hunt Podcast

MeatEater

Wilderness, Sports

4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2020

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

Today on the show we've got the roller coaster story of Year 2 on the Back 40 and my father's recent hunt there which ended with his first kill with a bow and his biggest buck to date.

Topics discussed:

What worked and what didn't work for habitat improvements in Year 1 of the Back 40
Why our plots failed
Why we didn't see as much deer activity as expected the first year
How we improved our fields in Year 2
The new food plot plan
The power of bees
The incredible change in trailcam results in Year 2
My father's journey as a bowhunter
Dealing with a vision impairment and hunting
An exciting but disappointing Night #1 on the Back 40
Lessons learned from a missed opportunity
My dad's first bow kill and takeaways from the "best hunting trip of his life"

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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 380.
1:00.9	And to end the show, we're discussing year two of our efforts to transform the meat
1:14.3	eater back 40 into a wildlife paradise.
1:17.9	And the roller coaster first hunt on the property of this year that led to my dad's
1:22.8	very first year with a boat.
1:26.8	Alright welcome to the Wire to Hunt Podcast brought to you by Onyx.
1:31.8	Today is a good day.
1:33.8	We have got a great podcast for you today, a story that I am just really, really excited
1:39.0	to share.
1:40.8	We're coming off of one of the best most memorable hunts of my life and probably at least
1:48.2	to some degree our guests on the podcast here as well.
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