Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast, your guide to the White Tail Woods.

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And now, your host, Mark Kenyon.

Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast.

This week on the show, I'm joined by Kip Adams of the National Deer Association to discuss

what very well might be the most important action you can take this hunting season.

Filling a do tag.

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

Camel for Conservation Initiative.

And as we are wrapping up the year, we need to talk about a very important issue, something

that is important for your future deer hunting,

the habitat where you deer hunt, the odds of seeing and killing mature bucks in the future,

the future of deer hunting as a privilege that we can participate in, the future of our ability

to effectively manage deer populations here in America as hunters rather than

having some other group of folks or service manage deer.

That's how important our conversation is today because we are discussing antlerless deer

harvest, why it's becoming something that is increasingly of concern for folks within the deer hunting and conservation world.

Why we are seeing deer harvest and antlerless harvest in particular declining so substantially across many parts of the country.

Why that's a risk, why that's a problem, why that could lead to worst deer hunting opportunities

for you and all those other things I mentioned.

All of this, we discuss with my guest today, Mr. Kip Adams, the top dog when it comes to

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