Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast, your guide to the White Tail Woods, presented by First Light, creating proven, versatile hunting apparel for the stand, saddle, or blind. First Light, go farther, stay longer. And now, your host, Mark Kenyon.

Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast.

This week on the show, I'm joined by Jim Bouchard,

an outdoor writer and northern Michigan deer hunter

to discuss rut hunting and gun season tactics

for low deer density areas.

All right, welcome back to the Wired to Hunt podcast, brought to you by First Light and their

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And today's episode is just what you need to hear.

If you are hunting right now as this podcast drops, this one's coming out on November 14th,

2024, and that means we are right smack dab in the middle of the rut.

And for many hunters across the country, just about to kick off gun seasons when things do

change so to help with that to help with those challenges on the way with the things that you

might have going on right now i brought on a guest who is brand new to this show but with a lot

of value to add his name is jim bouchard. He is a Northern Michigan deer hunter

who has been getting it done consistently year after year after year in a really tough place to do that.

And I know that because I grew up hunting in Northern Michigan with very limited success.

And Jim somehow is doing it in similar country with very

impressive results, killing mature bucks in places where there just aren't a lot of those kinds

of deer. And so I've been watching Jim from afar trying to figure out how he does it. What's the

secret to his success? And how can you kill deer like that in places where, you know, the cards are

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