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Thomas Mills

Thomas Mills

Whitetail habitat consultant and founder of The Untamed Ambition, specializing in holistic land management for mature deer hunting.

Jul 14, 2026

8:10
Yeah.
8:10
And then once that dried I, I took that out and I sunk it in the ground back there.
8:15
It is exactly a 100-foot extension cord distance from my back deck, and the very first year I put that in, my son and I put it in, when was it? It was, like, December 23rd or something.
8:26
The ground was frozen.
8:28
I had to use a pick to break through, like, the top couple inches of frost, and then it was soft after that.
8:33
But we got that in and on January 29th or, or 30th, it was, like, three days before the end of the archery season here, we were sitting in the kitchen.
8:44
I'll never forget it 'cause my daughter was r- really little at the time and she, you know, in a cute little girl voice, you know, she's like, "Dad, deer." And I look out the window and I was like, "Oh yeah, there's deer." Like, oh, there's a nice buck, like a 145-inch 10-pointer was bumping does back there two hours before dark 'cause it's kinda tucked up in the woods.

11 MINS LATER

19:58
And in those designs, the shallowness of them would maybe be more conducive to having kind of like that, like you said, kind of water off the landscape kind of seeping into them
6:40
Yeah.
6:40
And then once that dried, I, I took that out and I sunk it in the ground back there.
6:44
It is exactly a 100-foot extension cord distance from my back deck.
6:49
And the very first year I put that in, my son and I put it in, when was it? It was like December 23rd or something.
6:56
The ground was frozen.
6:57
I had to use a pick to break through, like, the top couple inches of frost, and then it was soft after that.
7:02
But we got that in, and on January 29th or, or 30th, it was like three days before the end of the archery season here, we were sitting in the kitchen.

11 MINS LATER

18:28
And in those designs, the shallowness of them would maybe be more conducive to having kind of like that, like you said, kind of water off the landscape kind of seeping into them

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