Camp 2 Dukes
5 year old buck +
Greetings! Just joined the site. Name is Ben. Born and raised Wisconsinite. Married to a wonderful lady and we have 3 kids 2 boys and a girl. I'm a low voltage systems integrator or voltage deprived if you're a sparky :-). Have been for the past 26 years. I do audio, video, automation, surveillance, video conferencing, networking and data cabling. Fortunate enough to have been self employed for the past 20 years. I work in southern Wisconsin but have worked all over the state and into Minnesota on occasion. One of my latest projects was to automate the National Dairy Shrine. Only in Wisconsin can a guy do that. :-).
A good friend and his family took me deer hunting my 1st time at age 12. Apparently I was hooked. My father was a bird hunter and never really hunted deer. I have learned through trial and error. Mostly error. I am very happy my oldest son who is 12 has taken an interest in deer hunting. He has been hunting with me for 3 yrs now. He has yet to take a deer. He has had numerous opportunities on doe but has his heart set on a buck. He has not had a good opportunity on a buck yet. He has been very happy to be patient and enjoys just being together in the outdoors. He understands it is most important to have a good clean kill opportunity.
I spent most of my life hunting Southern WI until a friend took me to his family farm in Northern WI in 1995 (Rusk County). His family had a large beef operation set on 880 acres. It had been hunted only by a couple people and the deer numbers and quality was unlike any thing I had ever seen. The 1st weekend there I saw 7 mature bucks. Unfortunately his father passed a few years later and now the farm has been split up. He and I and one other friend bought the home farm which is 142 acres. Since the farm has been split up the number of hunters is up and deer numbers are down. A couple recent tough winters and the influx of wolves didn't help either. That is really what has driven my quest for knowledge on how to improve what we have. Sorry if I ask questions about things that may have been covered already. I have read through a number of threads. We have practiced QDM for the past 20 yrs but I am not a QDM member nor was I on the old QDM site. I would like to say thank you in advance for any advice or consideration. I feel I am pretty handy and have some experiences in which I could hopefully provide some input.
Thanks Ben
A good friend and his family took me deer hunting my 1st time at age 12. Apparently I was hooked. My father was a bird hunter and never really hunted deer. I have learned through trial and error. Mostly error. I am very happy my oldest son who is 12 has taken an interest in deer hunting. He has been hunting with me for 3 yrs now. He has yet to take a deer. He has had numerous opportunities on doe but has his heart set on a buck. He has not had a good opportunity on a buck yet. He has been very happy to be patient and enjoys just being together in the outdoors. He understands it is most important to have a good clean kill opportunity.
I spent most of my life hunting Southern WI until a friend took me to his family farm in Northern WI in 1995 (Rusk County). His family had a large beef operation set on 880 acres. It had been hunted only by a couple people and the deer numbers and quality was unlike any thing I had ever seen. The 1st weekend there I saw 7 mature bucks. Unfortunately his father passed a few years later and now the farm has been split up. He and I and one other friend bought the home farm which is 142 acres. Since the farm has been split up the number of hunters is up and deer numbers are down. A couple recent tough winters and the influx of wolves didn't help either. That is really what has driven my quest for knowledge on how to improve what we have. Sorry if I ask questions about things that may have been covered already. I have read through a number of threads. We have practiced QDM for the past 20 yrs but I am not a QDM member nor was I on the old QDM site. I would like to say thank you in advance for any advice or consideration. I feel I am pretty handy and have some experiences in which I could hopefully provide some input.
Thanks Ben
