Conservation and Connection: The Black-Tailed Deer

Steven Rinella talks with Jim Baichtal of The Blacktail Foundation, Janis Putelis, Ryan Callaghan, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider. 

Topics discussed: When you only shoot with a muzzleloader; all the records; the old ass deer bone; the conservation of blacktail deer; the "shirker buck" theory; moon phases; an animal at the edge; timber management and harvest; long days on the hunt for blacktail; how half of the blacktail fawns are eaten by black bears; licking branches; and more. 

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