Brock's story!!! We headed to Huntmasters Lodge with Tim Woods and Joel Snow and their families in DeGraf Ohio on Friday for Brock to start his dream hunt. This morning we startWe headed to Huntmasters Lodge with Tim Woods and Joel Snow and their families in DeGraf Ohio on Friday for Brock to start his dream hunt. This morning we start

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Hey gang, taking a minute to sit down tell everyone what we’ve been up too here at Hunt Masters. If you know Joel and I you know we’ve been sniffing out new properties to add to our arsenal. We are really excited about a few of these new farms and we can’t wait to see what they produce.

With the weather finally starting to feel like spring here, we’ve been going around pulling soil samples from some soon to be killer food plot sites. We are going to be implementing a food plot program on some of our properties not just to harvest our deer on but to make sure they are getting the best nutrition when the weather breaks in the spring, so you can bet we are going be planting a lot of clover plots. Clover is one of my favorite food sources -they green up first and are good all year long. With the help of Invite Food Plot Systems and the green light from the man himself (that would be Joel) I am going to be one busy planter this spring. Jay Lawyer has hooked us up with the fine folks at Brillion with a new drill and Priefert Ranch Equipment for a new Whitetail Freaks disc. So when we are done chasing gobblers in the mornings, my butt will be planted on a tractor the rest of the day fitting ground. To me this is the fun part and the most rewarding to put work into. There’s nothing like seeing the deer eat the groceries we provide for them.

We also have been doing a little shed hunting, I found about 70 sheds and the buck crop looks great for the up coming year. Lots of young deer survived the winter. We are looking forward to seeing how they progress this year. With that said to help the fellows and the ladies out we been pouring the minerals to them. We have at least one mineral site on every farm and on many farms we have multiple. Mineral sites not only help our herd recover faster, but make a great place to put out those trail cameras come July.

I’m going to try and be a little more diligent with the journal this spring and summer so keep stopping in and checking on us. We will be up to no good some where. Until next time, hope everyone has a safe and successful turkey season. Be Safe…

Tim Woods

Have some standing bean plots no-till drilled about a week and a half ago. Of course it has been 90 plus degrees with no rain ever since they were planted!  That does not get us down!!! We improvised and ran a trash pump with 500' of hose to water some very crucial plots!!
Planting soy beans late like this gets double duty for us. We will hunt them early when they are still green then we will hunt  them late once snow is covering the ground.

Started running cameras this week. Racks are starting to get to where we can tell who is who and which ones are possible shooters by this time. Running around 60 cameras on over 13,000 acres is a full time job!!
In March over 65 mineral sites were freshened up with over 3000 lbs. of mineral. These sites, along with Big N J products is our mainstay for camera locations.
After bucks are inventoried at these sites, we are constantly moving them to key locations to find that big one. The older they get, the smaller their area gets. So, a camera can be off by a couple hundred yards of missing a giant.
Note: Keep them on the move but smart about doing it. Always scent-free and low profile. If your property has an apple tree on it, every buck will visit it when apples are dropping!

For the months of May, June and July  it means stands, cameras and food plots by day and girls softball by night. I coach a girls 10 and under team and my wife Lisa coaches a girls 8 and under team. We started the season off by finishing 2nd in the Pre-Season Tournament. I could not be prouder of them!

The end of April through middle of May is our Ohio turkey season. We had a very successful turkey season with reaching our target harvest of 25 birds. Our turkey hunting just keeps getting better and better!

In April I ventured to Clinton, Illinois to do some filming for the new TV show coming out in June, Dominant Bucks. It is a Matthews title sponser show that is hosted by Stan Potts and produced by Tom Miranda Productions. We did 3 days worth of filming in various locations.

End of February and March equals shed hunting time.  I also tore down every stand and blind this season to go over, check straps, paint rusted spots and inventory. Space is also a valued commodity around here so I built a lean-to for storage off the back of my barn.

We got some concert tickets to go enjoy good friend Craig Morgan with Carrie Underwood concert. The girls had a blast!

Between family and business once August/September time hits my time is extremely valuable. I will try to catch up on whats been
going on. Our Ohio deer season rolls through the first week in February. As soon as the snow melts off and it drys up a little, I get
all of my mineral sites reworked up and freshened.

Just received a group of pictures from Tim Oldham with a lot of great updates on the Duck Creek property. Things are chipping away and getting closer to completion every day!

-Finished the shooting range.
-Poured a concrete patio along the front of the lodge. Will enclose this next season.
-Planted and strawed the yard.
-Got the electric terminated into the houses panel.
-Dish Network installed in the guide house and lodge.
-Most importantly, fall food plots are under way!!

Back home in Ohio! Panic and reality is starting to set in. The opener is not far away and there is A LOT to get done!

This spring we worked on my Morton Building adding three new bedrooms. Just needed to put some finishing touches on like staining, trim and doors. Not to mention the finish plumbing and HVAC work! Work on things around the lodge during the evenings and weekends. During the days, I run cameras and work on hanging our new Muddy Treestands!

The pieces of the puzzle are starting to fall in to place for the Sept. 26 opener. I have most sets ready and trimmed with a handful to go. This week I will put up some observatory stands where we can watch some areas safely from a distance! This will help on some fine-tuning.

I will place a couple pictures below of some deer that are targets for the opener. These are deer that are regulars and I have pin pointed fairly well.

From Missouri last week pulled in to Illinois for a long 4 day weekend. There is a lot to do in Illinois but we are chipping away at it. Towards the end of July, we wrapped up a 14x20 scent-free locker room. Looks NICE!! Once again, it was a very productive few days with several items checked off the list.

-Gun range under construction.
-Water and electric ran to the house.
-Clean up of dozer piles and yard preparation.
-Parking area completed with split-rail fence surrounding it.
Tim and Ben have been spending a lot of time on the property bush hogging, preparing exit/entrance routes, fall food plots and wrapping up stand preparations.  In all there spare time(Ha Ha) running 25 scouting cameras and glassing in the evenings. I think all of the hard work is going to pay off big dividends on this property!!