Tom Mesnard

Hunting ProStaff - Mothwing camouflage
Team member – Plot Spike Seeds

Tom was born and raised in Chelsea, a small farming town in southern Michigan, just west of Ann Arbor. He was a 1990 graduate of Chelsea High school.

Tom has had what he calls a passion, and what most others call an obsession with deer hunting, managing habitat and hunting land for wild life, since he was a small boy. He recalls waking up at 4:00 AM just to sit in a tree just to watch deer at age 10.

Over The past 25 years Tom has spent well over 250 days a year working on land management, hunting and food plot techniques. Some of things he has come up with are incredible to say the least. He has become an expert in plant and tree identification. As well as becoming a master deer hunter and land manager specializing in smaller heavily hunted properties. Tom takes hunting and land management techniques to extremes most so called experts would not dream of. He believes it is the only way to be consistent in a state with 1 million deer hunters.

Tom and his best friend Colt have come up with exclusive food plot planting techniques that have to be seen to be believed. With just some basic hand tools they create some incredible food plots right in the middle of the thick stuff.

Tom Mesnard now passes on the techniques he has developed and is still developing to others trough his boot camps and Land managements. Showing others how to manage and set up their hunting so they can have the same success he has enjoyed for the rest of their lives. When someone tells me they or their child has taken their best buck ever form a stand I helped set up well it just does not get much better for me.

Colt White

Colt is a life long resident of Chelsea Michigan, Where he was a 1993 graduate of Chelsea High school. He attended collage at North Wood University and graduated with degrees in business management and sales.

Colt grew up working on his family’s large dairy farm in Chelsea. He is working there still today. Colton has had a love for Hunting and the outdoors for as long as he can remember. As a young boy he grew up Hunting, camping and fishing in the woods, Rivers and crop lands around his country home. He has honed his hunting skills, becoming a master deer hunter with many trophies to his credit at a young age.

When not farming, Colt is in the woods setting up hunting land and working to develop new land management, food plot and hunting techniques. He loves observing wild life and improving habitat for them. Colt has a knack for looking at the lay of the land and seeing how the deer will try to use it to their advantage. Then he sets hunting stands up accordingly. He is a meticulous hunter that never cuts corners and has no problem working harder than others to pattern and harvest mature Michigan bucks. Colt and friend Tom Mesnard have been trimming food plots in the middle of August with weed whips, dripping sweat and covered with wet grass and mosquitoes flying up there noses, looked at each other laughed and said people would think we where nuts if they could see us now. These guys may just be a little nuts but there is worse things a guy could be addicted to that’s for sure.

Colt White is now a member of team T.L.M. as well as a team member of Plot Spike Seed Company. He has a food plot research center at the farm, with test plots of all of Plot Spikes food plot mixes for folks to look at and lots of exclusive planting tips.

Don Higgins

Freelance outdoor writer Don Higgins has had numerous articles published in a variety of hunting magazines including North American Whitetail, Bowhunter, Outdoor Life, Petersens Bowhunting, Whitetail Journal and others. Now Don has authored his first book detailing the lessons that he has learned from a lifetime of hunting mature whitetail bucks in the “real world”.

What is the “real world”, you ask? Simply put, the real world is where most of us hunt. It is not the staged and phony hunts that we sometimes see on TV or on videos which often take place behind high fences or on guided and outfitted hunts. In the real world, everyday hunters pursue wild and hunter-wise bucks with a lot of competition from others. This is exactly the kind of whitetail hunting that Don has mastered over the past three decades.

While his whitetail hunting success and exposure as an outdoor writer has set him apart from the crowd, Don still considers himself just another deer hunter that reaps rewards reflective of the effort that he puts forth. He much prefers to be known for his strong hunting ethics, respect for the whitetail deer, and for giving back to the sport of bowhunting than for killing monster bucks. Even so, his track record cannot be denied.

In this new book, Don does not seek to make himself out as a hero or expert. Instead he shares the lessons learned from passionately pursuing mature whitetail bucks in places similar to those where other real world deer hunters also hunt. Hunting Trophy Whitetails in the Real World is more than a how-to book however. It also includes stories of successful big buck hunts and the lessons they taught, as well as opinions and advice on various topics related to deer hunting. Don never learned the meaning of “politically correct” and instead simply tells it like it is and lets the chips fall where they may. Without a doubt this book is both unique and long overdue.