Land Consulting Service and 2020 Season Results

Jared from Illinois asks,



  Topic: Land Consulting Service and 2020 Season Results: I always watched Midwest whitetail while you were the primary host and I learned a lot, thank you for that. I still check in from time to time and think they are doing a pretty good job, but you left some very large shoes to fill. I read a post that you will not be returning to the show and said you will appear somewhere in the future.... my question I guess is have you made any decisions on what your future will hold? Do you do any land consulting or let people just pick your brain? I am in the process of making my first land purchase and always felt you were prolly the best at giving advise on how to set things up. I will be attending Don Higgins class this spring and I feel he is a pretty smart guy, but maybe not quit as humble as you are. I say this never having met him in person yet, lol, just listened to a lot of his podcast. Did you ever find that piece of whitetail heaven in Northeast Iowa? How did your 2020 season turn out??




Bill responds,


Bill Winke 2020 Buck

This is the buck I shot on October 29, 2020 from the new property.

Jared,

Thanks. I appreciate the note and the support. I am going to offer a hunting/land management consulting service in the near future but it will be primarily digital. I can learn a lot from talking with someone for a while and from studying aerial photos and topo maps. I don’t have to go to their land to be useful in their hunting and/or land management plans.  I will get that launched on the site here in the next few days. Keep watching for that.

I don’t think there is anything wrong with Don Higgins. I think Don knows what he is talking about and does a good job.

Regarding the next dream farm: I have not found it yet. I tried very hard for several months to buy something in that area where I grew up hunting and where my parents still live, but I was not able to find anything. I will keep looking. I did find some places to hunt so I am not without options, but I don’t own anything.

I did shoot a really nice buck up there last fall (photo attached).  Everything fell in place very quickly (for once) and I was done hunting way sooner than I wanted to be.  Thanks for the support. Have a great day. (3/4/21)

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  1. Jared

    About my previous post stating a thought about Don Higgins, you were 100 percent spot on, there is nothing wrong with him and a very humble guy, just wanted to set that straight. Thank you for your reply congrats on a great buck and I look forward to whatever content you will put out in the future. You are one of the good ones yourself. Thanks again

    1. Bill Winke

      Thanks Jared. I appreciate you getting back and clearing that up. I have known Don for a long time and I have not known him to be anything but forthright. Have a great day and I appreciate the comment.

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