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!

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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.

Press Release                                                 October 3, 2009

Mike Adams, UNJ Founder

      About four months ago the Up North Journal crew launched a new website to prepare for the new outdoor show Beyond The Wild.   That new web site was the beginning of the transformation that we as the UNJ crew were about to make.  Since that time we have added several new staff members to give you a view of the outdoors from all over this nation.  We didn’t want to just focus on the Michigan area, we wanted this new adventure to encompass what hunting, fishing and the outdoors looked like from several different perspectives as well as from several different states. 

     With that goal in mind we knew it was time for a new look and feel for the UNJ experience, so we came up with a new logo to showcase what we were about.  The logo you’re looking at is fresh as well as bold.  It completes what we are focused on, a broad range of animals as well as a wide range of the outdoors.  The whitetail deer is hunted all across this nation and is well recognized, the Canadian goose has flyways from east to west and the Trout is fished all across this country.  These three species cover the nation and are pursued by many outdoorsmen and women, and that is why we chose them for our new logo.  The circle that surrounds these animals on the logo completes the circle of seasons that gives us the opportunity to pursue them.  The black and white color scheme is simple yet bold, which explains who we are.  We are simple everyday outdoorsmen and women but we are also bold in what we stand for, the right for all to enjoy the outdoors.  Right in the middle of it all is the Up North Journal name which is right where we want to be, in the middle of it all!

     Take a moment to stop by and look at the new layout and if you’ve never been to our website www.upnorthjournal.com, stop by and spend a few moments to see what we have to offer.  We have 13 active blogs from fellow staffers who want share their outdoor experiences with you.  Featured on our front page is our weekly podcast “Up North Journal” which can be played directly from our site along with our new outdoor show “Beyond The Wild” which is a monthly show that can also be played right off of our front page.  The Up North Journal staff is “Changing Lives One Outdoor Adventure At A Time”!

66 year old Tom Healy of Rockford Michigan landed a possible world record Brown Trout this last Wednesday morning on the Manistee River in Manistee County Michigan.  The new state record and possible world record fish weighed in at 41 pounds and 7 ounces measuring 43 and 3/4 inches long!  To read the details of this enormous fish Click Here.

     We are proud to announce that episode 2 of Beyond The Wild is now available for you to view!  You can get it by going to our website and view it on the video player or download a high quality version right off of the site as well at:  www.upnorthjournal.com  You can also subscribe to it by going to I-tunes and searching “Beyond The Wild”.  When you do, make sure and leave a comment to help boost our rankings!  Thanks for your support!

     This episode we take you out on the BIG waters of Lake Huron in Saginaw Bay to chase the tasty walleyes!  Next we get our hands dirty working the soil for the upcoming deer season by getting our food plots ready for planting, plus a few other odds and ends!

     Yes I’m still alive and well!  To those of you who regularly follow this blog I know is has been over a month since my last post, but I have a very good reason as to why this has happened. Read the rest of this entry »

     The Up North Journal Team has launched their new website and they invite you to stop by and check out the new digs! You can find it at the same ‘ol place: www.upnorthjournal.com you will find a new interactive video panel that will play their most current video and will eventually have the most current episode of their upcoming new video show. You will also be able to click the link to take you to the archive page of all their videos. Not only does it have the video player but it also offers an audio panel that has the most current episode of their podcast with a scrolling banner with an outline of the current show. The link below the player also takes you to an archive page of past episodes for download or playing right from the site.     At the bottom of the page you will find all the Up North Journal Pro Staff members. By clicking their photos you will be taken to each members personal bio page which will host a video of each member talking about themselves and the game they like to persue. Included on their personal bio page is all the links to their own blogs, and other internet links they are associated with such as facebook, twitter, and email address’.

     The site is not 100% completed but the important items are there, so keep looking for further updates to the site and bios on the prostaff pages. When your finished taking the tour, be sure to drop them an email and let them know what you think about the new digs!

     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 here 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 the rest of this entry »

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.

     According to the latest press release from the Center for Consumer Freedom, PETA has joined with the forces of hunters.  Crazy you say, but its true!  PETA harvested 2124 pets this year for a grand total of 21339 since 1998!  Those are some incredible numbers!  Their success rate this season was 95%.   I wish I had that kind of success rate when I hunt.

     According to the report the Norfolk, VA headquarters harvested 5.8 pets per day on average!  Big game here in Michigan is one per season for hunters!  Maybe I need to hunt in Virginia where game laws are a little more liberal!  PETA must have also switched their stance on hunting in a high fence operation.  They have been known to snatch pets from unsuspecting homeowners fenced in yards.  Sounds to me like a fence hunt!  Read the rest of this entry »