Greg Clements and Mike Lutt
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Bill Winke
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8/12/2009 12:00:00 AM
Greg Clements will be hosting and producing the Great Plains series this year, as well as producing the Main Show. So Greg is going to be a busy guy.
Greg was born and raised in eastern Nebraska and currently lives in Albia, IA with his wife Myndi. He recently graduated with a Masters degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where he studied home range, movements, and survival of bucks in the Missouri River Valley. After graduating, he was employed as a Deer Program Coordinator and video producer at UN-L and now works for Midwest Whitetail Productions full-time where he will combine his research and experience with his editing skills to entertain and educate the viewers of Midwest Whitetail.
As far as bucks go, Mike and Greg are putting together a diverse list that will certainly keep things interesting. Some of the bucks will be targeted early in the season before their fall home range shift takes them off the property, while others only show up during the rut or later in the season. Some of the bucks on the list are real dandies and will score 140”-150”, while others are fully mature (5 ½ +) but may not break Pope and Young...either way, there's a lot of bucks on the list this year and it will make for an exciting fall!
Greg and Mike's 2010 Hit List
Greg and Mike are new members to the Main show this year on Midwest Whitetail. They have a lot of bucks that they will be chasing on a fairly large farm. Here is the list that they have put together for us so far this year.
“Tonto”
Mike captured the first image of this buck on trail camera in August 2008. We could tell that he had great genetics and that he was going to be a great deer hunt and even hang on the wall at the end of the year. The 2008 season went by and Greg never saw "Tonto" at all. They didn't know if he made it through the season without getting killed by someone else or not..
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Mike and Greg's answer came on July 5th, 2009 when they crossed paths with “Tonto” as they was sneaking down a corn row to glass deer at a water hole. The excited hunters had a 9 minute stare-down with the buck and shot some great close-up footage.
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Mike also captured remote video footage of “Tonto” on July 26th, 2009 in the same area, and as you can see he's grown considerably.
This is one of the top bucks on Mike and Greg's list, although the window to hunt him may be very short. They'll have to shoot him within the first 2 weeks of the season before the combination of heavy hunting pressure from public land and fall home range shift makes him very difficult to encounter. They plan on hunting hard for this buck during opening week and will concentrate their efforts in and around a small wood lot where they think he's spending a lot of his time...within 200 yards of where the early July encounter took place.
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“Crazy Legs”
This is one of those bucks that is fully mature, but probably won't make Pope and Young. Mike and Greg first encountered “Crazy Legs” in November 2007 when Mike rattled him in to the base of the tree. When “Crazy Legs” spotted another buck that was brought in by the rattling he immediately postured and walked aggressively towards the smaller buck. When the hunters watched the footage on TV they noticed that he flexed his back left leg outward as he walked away...it seemed unique, so that's how the buck got his name.
In 2008, Mike found his sheds, got trail pictures, and passed him on several occasions. Now, at an estimated 5 ½ years of age, it appears that Crazy Legs is never going to be a high-scoring buck so he's officially on the hit list. Mike and Greg have yet to get footage of him this summer, but hopefully that will change. He's a buck that they could encounter at any point throughout the season and based on previous experiences, there's a decent chance they'll catch up to him this fall. Mike has a great stand called the “West Valley Stand” (the same place they encountered “Crazy Legs” in 2007) that is perfect for rattling during the rut . Mike and Greg will be putting some time in at the “West Valley”and will definitely be looking for “Crazy Legs”...he certainly isn't the biggest buck on the list, but he's fully mature and has a lot history, a great deer regardless of score.
