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The WHTL Podcast - Whitetail Deer Hunting Tactics, Stories & Expert Guests

#330 - PA Public Land Buck - What Went Wrong: Aaron Hepler

The WHTL Podcast - Whitetail Deer Hunting Tactics, Stories & Expert Guests

Jake Hofer

Sports, Wilderness

4.9616 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In this episdoe we sit down with Aaron Hepler at the Great American Outdoor Show. Aaron has been writing for the Exodus site for years now and has a lot of experience with public land big woods. Listen along as he shares some things he would have done different and some things he'd do the same. 


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0:00.0

Good morning.

0:17.1

Here we go.

0:18.4

This is fun.

0:19.4

We don't have to do an intro because we're going to get right into everything.

0:45.0

We're at the Harrisburg Show. It is Monday, right? Monday. Day three, baby. Day three. We have Aaron Hepler here. This is our annual podcast. Really looking forward. Been looking forward to this, honestly, for a while. A couple things, though. If you're listening to this on tomorrow, Tuesday, February 6th, we have the Lyft 4K at the booth.

0:45.8

Come out to the show, check it out.

0:47.7

We are actually opening those up for pre-sale at the show.

0:50.4

We'll have a more formal release here later.

0:52.6

But usually I do that on my own in my own office, but I got to do the pre-record intro live with you guys. So this is fun. Is it fun or is it awkward? It's really awkward. It was kind of an awkward release, right? We're like, oh, maybe. And then, all right. Well, not people ask for it, right?

1:11.4

Yeah, for the 4K, yeah.

1:12.4

Yeah, we want a couple days without it.

1:13.5

And Jake's like, are we selling these? We're not selling them. And I was like, I want to buy it. I want to buy it. Which was my nice way of saying, I'm going to sell this guy. Yeah, basically. But I'm going to ask you. There were plenty of people asked for them Saturday morning on morning.

1:09.6

There was a lot on Saturday.

1:10.5

Yeah, a lot of excitement about that product.

1:12.7

But what I, one of my favorite things, especially about you, Aaron, too, is the love for Pennsylvania. There's a lot of people that really love Pennsylvania. I respect that about you, Aaron, because you really do love. I love Pennsylvania. You're always trying to recruit me to come out. It hasn't worked yet, but I do respect the love you have for the state. One day. One day. What do you love about Pennsylvania? Because there's a lot of things. I mean, I think for a long time, Pennsylvania, Michigan, were kind of those two states that, if someone complained, those are like the two that popped up i don't know i think the one

2:01.7

the biggest thing for me about pennsylvania is it's just home i think it's just cool to to you know my

2:08.1

family loves venison they love deer they love the the the atmosphere around it like not just deer

2:15.1

hunting but like state parks and camping and hiking and all the things

2:19.3

that also go are revolve around the outdoors and hunting too but there's something about killing

2:24.8

something in your home state and putting it in your freezer and then like kind of living off that

2:29.4

for the rest of the year as long as you shoot enough of them they go pretty quick in the hepler house yeah yeah

2:36.0

a lot of mississippi pot roast for her little girl you know yeah and we're gonna you're you're

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