The Country Lodge

04/20/2026

Congrats Paxton on your birthday extended turkey!!

03/28/2026

WAY TO GO JACEY!!!

02/15/2026

Keep those prayers coming for our friend Greg, they are working.

Feeding tube removed. Hoping to bust out of the hospital this week and head to rehab. He’s one of the toughest guys I know.

I have no doubt he’ll be 20’ up a tree in New Haven in a little less than 9 months.

💪🏻 🙏🏻 😊

02/04/2026

Do me a favor please and put our dear friend and client Greg on your prayer list.

Greg has been through a lot, including a heart transplant about 4 months before this photo was taken, and he’s currently in the hospital. Greg contracted a very weird and rare virus and it knocked him on his butt. Praise The Lord the virus is gone but he’s still in the hospital and needs all the prayers he can get.

He’s one of the toughest birds I know and this thing has really kicked his butt. I got to visit him today. I told him his Country Lodge family is praying for him and we are anxious to get him back to Illinois. 🙏🏻

01/25/2026

12/22/2025

When we have new hunters and we are talking about what characteristics to look for when trying to field age a whitetail, I tell them they will just know when it’s a 5+ year old.

They are physically a different animal. They look different, walk different, they are different.

This is a screenshot of a video from this morning. The younger deer, a REAL NICE 4 year old and a literal POS(that’s what we call him) 7-8 year old deer.

I’ll put the video in the comments, but look at the contrast, and the 4-year old is even closer to the camera. Yes it’s grainy, they are 100 yards from the camera and I zoomed way in, but it’s still obvious.

12/07/2025

Congrats Al G!!! Tons of photos of this bully 8 all season long.

He kept giving the slip until this afternoon!!

Nice work, the “Michigan Boys” have flat laid them out this fall.

12/06/2025

The boys flat laid them out yesterday.

Kernen was first with a big old gnarly 7 point, watched him fall.

Then Komisarz was up on this bruiser 11 point that had a broken G2. He wasn’t totally sure about the shot so we brought Boots in but the deer only went ~60 yards.

Finally was Brock. It’s been 20 years since Brock has killed a deer. And he didn’t mess around taking this old drop tine deer! 200 yard shot and a quick 200 yard track!!

Nice work gentlemen!!

12/06/2025

3 BBDs tonight!!!!

Let’s go!!!

11/23/2025

BBD!! Yours truly.