I’m proud to announce that episode 6 of Beyond The Wild is now on the network.  You can view our latest installment at: http://www.upnorthjournal.com/ and simply click on the video player.  This episode we take you to the frozen waters of the Saginaw River in Michigan for a little walleye action.  After spending a day on the ice we then take our catch to the table with a recipe your sure to enjoy!

For Immediate Release

Contact: Jeff Bergmann

763.232.5452

jeff@providencemarketinggroup.net

SANITIZE SCENT FREE

New Scent Free Hand Sanitizer from DDW perfect for use after harvesting game

and during peak rut/Flu Season.

            Pleasant Valley, MO – Dead Down Wind^®, an industry leader in scent prevention, introduces Instant Odorless Hand Sanitizer.  This 4 oz bottle of hand sanitizer kills 99.9% of common germs and is odorless in less than 5 seconds.  It even removes any hand odors in the process like cigarette or gas odors not just bacteria based odors.   

 “Unfortunately, the peak hunting seasons seem to correspond with the peak of the flu season” stated Dead Down Wind GM, Gary Reed.  “Our new Odorless Hand Sanitizer not only eliminates virtually any contact odors, it helps you maintain good hygiene, limits the spread of germ and fits easily into a pocket or fanny pack.”

 The Odorless Hand Sanitizer removes all odors including gas, carbons, hydrocarbons, pungent odors, even knocking out contact odors like gun cleaning chemicals, smoke odors and food odors.  The FDA certified sanitizer cleans, disinfects, and is totally odorless in seconds.  It is ideal for clean up after field dressing animals, and helps limit the exposure to diseases that can be transferred to humans from animals like hogs. 

 The 4oz bottle when used as directed will provide 58-60 applications.  Use the scent free hand sanitizer:

• After field dressing an animal
• After cleaning a firearm or contact with gas
• To remove all contact odors before leaving for the field including cigarette odors
• After using the bathroom
• Before eating or drinking anything
• Before and after handling raw foods, fish, poultry, or eggs
• After using a public phone
• After riding public transportation
• In schools and day care centers
• After changing diapers
• When one is sick
• After shaking hands
• After sneezing or coughing

 It just makes sense to use the new DDW Odorless Sanitizer to knock out odor and 99.9% of the common germs we come in contact with everyday.  The Odorless Hand Sanitizer has an MSRP of $4.99

About Dead Down Wind®:

 Dead Down Wind is a premium supplier of quality scent prevention products designed to help outdoor enthusiasts become more successful in the field.  Dead Down Wind revolutionized the scent elimination industry through the development of a bio-engineered process known as ESP^TM (Enzyme Scent Protection).  Through this process a strand of enzymes is created that targets a broad spectrum range of odors, not just human bacteria based odors.

For Immediate Release

Contact: Jeff Bergmann

763.232.5452

jeff@providencemarketinggroup.net

DON’T LET THEM SMELL OR SEE YOU

New Camo Face Paint is as easy to remove as it is to apply!

            Pleasant Valley, MO – D2W Guide Gear, a division of Dead Down Wind, introduces a new scent free Camo Color Wheel for superior concealment, ease of use and color selection that can also be blended. 

“One of the greatest frustrations with quality face camo is the difficulty in removing it after the hunt” states Monte McDowell, president of Dead Down Wind.  “Our new camo color wheel face paints are the easiest to remove in the industry and both FDA and EU approved colorants that are hypoallergenic.” 

The Camo color wheel provides hunters four earth tone colors including shady brown, forest green, tree bark grey, and pitch black – making it perfect for year round use – spring as well as fall.  The unique and scent free formulation is hypoallergenic, and safe to use even on sensitive skin.  In addition, the camo will not cake or dry out skin and actually helps protect from the sun, while moisturizing the skin.  The D2W Face Camo is the easiest to remove in the industry, using nothing more than a moist towel.  No scrubbing is required, and no remnant color remains in the skin pores.  With its twist lock cap system, the Camo Color Wheel will last up to two years after opening.  Skin safe, easily removed and great colors for perfect concealment and performance.

About D2W Guide Gear®: D2W Guide Gear, a division of Dead Down Wind® produces quality hunting accessories that are all tested and approved by professional outfitters and Guides throughout the world.  These best in class products set a new standard in quality and performance.  For more information visit deaddownwind.com

By: Mike Adams, Up North Journal www.upnorthjournal.com

     OK so it is single digits outside on a weekend when you should be out doing something outdoors, ice fishing, predator hunting, rabbit hunting, etc…. What to do you ask?  Stay inside where it is warm and do a little ammunition reloading I say!  That is exactly what I did this weekend!

     I was going to do a little ice fishing and decided against it since the weather was terrible.  Below zero wind chill isn’t exactly my idea of fun!  I thought to myself I could do something productive to get ready for next deer season, so I broke out my reloading equipment and began to plow through some cartridges that I had started to prepare sometime ago.  I had two boxes of 30-06 cases with new primers already in them along with a box of 30-30 cases in the same condition. 

     I started with my 30-06 rounds first.  I broke out the trusty load charts and dug through my powder selection to see what I had and then made my selection according to what my load charts recommended.  I used a bottle of H4350 powder for my 180 grain bullets that I had purchased.  After looking at the load specs I knew which Lee dipper to choose to make my powder measurements correct. 

     After setting up my dies and doing some measuring with my calipers I began to run round after round into the press.  It didn’t take to terribly long to run 40 rounds through which made two complete boxes of new hand loaded cartridges for my deer rifle!  I can’t wait to get to the shooting range to give them a try and see what they can do.  I will be taking my chronograph to check my speeds to see where they line up to the factory Remington loads of the same grain.

     Next up was the box of 30-30 cases that needed loading.  After looking at my load charts I had to switch to the IMR 4227 powder to produce my rounds.  To me it looked like the amount of powder was a little on the small side.  So I did some checking to see what they would be in the 30-06 load chart.  I found out if I used this same powder in my 30-06 rounds that they would measure almost half of what the H 4350 powder that I used measured to.  This IMR 4227 powder was a much finer grained powder than what the H 4350 was.  I also compared the speeds on the 30-06 load chart between the two powders.  The finer IMR powder speeds were much slower than that of the H 4350 for the same caliber and grain.    This is why you MUST check your load charts when figuring out what powders to use along with how much! 

     After double checking to make sure I had the right measurements, I began to load the 30-30 rounds and within a few minutes I had a box of hand loaded rounds to take to the shooting range to test the next time out.    Hand loading ammunition can be a fun and rewarding way to spend a cold day inside when your not able to get out and play!  Not to mention it can also save you quite a bit of coin along the way!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

New T3^TM expandable 3 blade broadhead

creates massive entrance and exit wounds.

MEMPHIS, Mich., G5^® Outdoors, the leading manufacturer in archery equipment and design, introduces its newest expandable broadhead – the T3^TM.  This new 100% steel broadhead features 3 expandable blades to produce a 1.5″ wound channel. 

“The new design of the T3^TM eliminates the shortfalls and failings that are common with other brands of expandables,” stated G5 Outdoors President and Co-Owner, Matt Grace. “In addition, the T3^TM features a first of its kind blade retention system the Spider Clip^TM.”

The broadhead includes the new Spider Clip^TM blade retention system. This system allows the shooter to tune their blade deployment based on their hunting scenario.  Each package of broadheads comes with 2 different tension clips.  One clip provides easier deployment for use with lower poundage bows.  The second has a stronger tension setting for use with high speed bows, crossbows, and for shooting through blind windows.   In addition, the Spider Clips eliminate the need for rubber bands or O-rings.  The new Spider Clip retention system also eliminates any risk of blade pre-deployment. 

With its Metal Injection Mold Technology, 100% steel construction, field tip accuracy, truly replaceable blades and 1.5″ cutting diameter the big cut expandable T3^TM leaves a blood trail that looks like a red carpet leading to your harvest.

MSRP for the T3^TM is $39.99 Replacement blades are $19.99 and replacement spider clips are $12.99.

About G5^® Outdoors

G5^® Outdoors L.L.C. is a family owned business established in 2000 and backed by more than 40 years of precision manufacturing experience. G5^® strives to provide superior products that are Designed to Hunt^TM through precision manufacturing and innovative design.  To learn more about G5^® Outdoors, visit www.g5outdoors.com or call (866)456-8836.

Contact: Jeff Bergmann

763.232.5452

Jeff@providencemarketinggroup.net

     I finally got around to purchasing a scope and rings for my Ruger M/77 .17 HMR coyote rifle recently.  I finished mounting the scope and rings, then I headed to the range today to tear some paper!  I was pretty anxious to get out and try this rifle since I hadn’t fired a shot through it since I purchased it back in the spring.  Read the rest of this entry »

     I recently ran across an article about a deer hunter threatening other hunters on state land.  As it turned out he eventually threatened the wrong one!  It was an undercover CO that was on the receiving end of the life threatening tirade! Read the rest of this entry »

The Up North Journal crew is pleased to annouce that episode 4 of Beyond the Wild is now available for your viewing enjoyment by going to I-Tunes and searching Beyond the Wild or by viewing directly off of the Up North Journal website.  You may also download it from the Up North Journal website to view at your leisure. 

In this episode we take you through some of the exciting hunts of our early Michigan Goose Season along with a tip on how to permanently mud your field blind.

Nancy Jo Adams

Marti Davis

     Nancy Jo Adams who is one of the newest members of the Up North Journal staff has teamed up with Marti Davis to form Team Artemis for the Whitetail Challenge!  Be sure to follow Nancy Jo’s and Marti’s adventure by checking out the daily blog entries to see if they arrowed the big buck!  You can check it out by going to Nancy Jo’s Up North Journal bio page and clicking on her blog link.  Nancy Jo is the hunter for this team and Marti is the videographer capturing all the exciting footage of the hunt!  Good luck to the first all female team to take on the Campbell’s Outdoor Challenge!

     I spent the opening day of Michigan’s waterfowl season with both of my sons and a few friends out on the water in a local state game area Saturday.  It was my youngest son’s first of what he calls “Big Boy Hunts”.  He finally gets to go out with the entire crew of men to become one of the men and partake in taking game from the field.

     All went extremely well and he even got his first bird of which everyone give him a congratulatory birage of “ataboys”!  We all took a duck or two and made our way back to the launch.  Upon arrival I was greated with a terrible surprise of a shot out window on the back of my pick up! 

     Someone, whom I will not call a hunter, found it necessary to shoot towards the parking area at what I hope was a duck and not just plain malicious destruction!  I say not a hunter because a hunter would know where his or her safe zone of fire is.  A hunter would know where the parking area is.  A hunter would know that it is dangerous to shoot towards any area where people might be congregating.  That is why I will not call this person a hunter.  I know accidents happen, but this is exactly why you don’t shoot towards an area that you don’t know what is in front of your shooting lane!

     Just think what could have happened if this had been a group of hunters standing there instead of my truck?  I might be writing a story of how a group of hunters were shot or worse yet killed because of someone’s stupidity!

     Am I mad?  Hell yes, I’m mad, but I won’t let this ruin what was one of my greatest days in the field watching my youngest boy become a man that day hanging out in the marsh with fellow hunters!  And by the way, he knows his safe zone of fire, we went over it thoroughly that morning!  Have a great hunting season and be safe out there!

To read about our entire hunt and view the photos check out my Up North Journal Hunting Blog.