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My son and I are headed to Wisconsin next week to partake in a little bowfishing courtesy of a good friend of ours that blogs on the Skinny Moose network.  Jerry Long of Mostly Archery has graciously invited us over to his great state to visit for a bowfishing adventure on the local waters near his home.  Read More

Tags: Bowfishing Bow Fishing


     After taking a few weeks off from blogging, I’ve got the urge to get writing again and today I have finished the first step in our new food plots.  Read More

Tags: Soil Testing Food Plots


Recently I had the pleasure of interviewing Steve Scott, the Vice President of Whitetail Institute of North America about the basics of food plots.  As you may already know, Whitetail Institute of North America produces seeds for various crops that are designed for wild game food plots.  Below you will find a few of the basic questions I asked and the answers he gave.  Read More

Tags: Food Plots


Last night I had the pleasure of meeting yet another listener of my Up North Journal podcast.  John Fleming is from Minnesota, he and his eleven year old son made the trip to Michigan yesterday to do a hog hunt.  John and I had been emailing back and forth about the hunt and we made plans to meet since the hog ranch was near where I live.  Read More

Tags: 2nd Amendment Hunting


This last weekend I had the opportunity to share a special moment with a new friend while out hunting.  This veteran hunter never had the pleasure of hunting the elusive wild turkey here in Michigan. Read More

Tags: Turkey Hunting First Turkey


The Up North Journal Team has officially kicked off our crossbow review for the 2009 season.  We recieved the new 2009 Excalibur Phoenix crossbow in yesterday’s deliveries.  Read More

Tags: Crossbows


Ok people, there is no longer any excuse for you to not join the NRA.  They are making this as simple as can be!  Read More

Tags: NRA Membership


 I just read about a person having problems with .22 cartridges not firing properly, on a hunting forum I belong to.  Here is what the issue that he was having:  Read More

Tags: 22 Rimfire


It is that time of year again, spring has sprung and the critters are crawling out of their winter dens!  Woodchucks, groundhogs, ground grizzlies or whistle pigs, what ever you want to call them they too are starting to show themselves.  Read More

Tags: Ground Hogs Woodchucks


I spent an afternoon with Paul Penix of PSE archery last week talking about an archery product that I hadn’t heard much about.  It was from a company called Scorpion Venom and they make bowstring cleaner, bowstring fluid, bowstring wax, crossbow rail lube, cam and serving lube, and whisker biscuit spray.  Read More & See Videos

Tags: Archery Maintenance Bowstring


    The first day of the North Carolina turkey season has turned tragic for one family.  Saturday morning 77 year old Clyde Coffey was shot and killed by North Carolina Wild Life Officer Mark Minton according to a report from WXII-TV.  Read More

Tags: Turkey Hunting


This week’s episode #105, Mike and Mikey take to the woods for some preseason scouting of turkeys along with spending some time at the local arcery range. They also start the hobby of reloading ammo this week and cover how to clean the brass and de-prime it. Mikey covers some interesting topics that have to do with trapping this week in the Game Bag. Finally some disappointing outdoor news that involves a couple of wild game ranches that can’t follow the rules and they also cover an upcoming bowfishing trip to Wisconsin this summer.

Tags: Hunting And Fishing Podcast


Once again greed has raised it’s ugly head in the hunting industry.  We just heard about illegal activity with the Game Trails Lodge in Kentucky and now Michigan Trophy Hunts of Bannister Michigan is in trouble with the law.  Read More

Tags: Michigan Trophy Hunts Illegal Elk Game Law Violations


A couple of weeks ago a prominent wild game ranch in Union County Kentucky along with it’s manager were fined in U.S. District Court for violations of the Lacey Act.  Read More

Tags: Game Trails Lodge Game Law Violations


We just posted this week's episode of the Up North Journal and this week is full of information you can use in the field and on the water.  We talk about some new products for your archery equipment from Scorpion Venom and a few new custom turkey calls that we are going to put in the field.  Mikey covers casting practice to get you ready for the upcoming fishing season along with his newest taxidermy adventure.  Finally we cover using the chronograph at the archery range and gun range.  You can download or listen for free at: upnorthjournal.libsyn.com

Tags: Podcast Hunting Fishing




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