#335 - 40+ Years of Legendary Whitetail History with Gordon Whittington

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

Jake Hofer

Publicland, Nature, Deerhunting, Trailcameras, Sports, Wilderness, Outdoors, Exodustrailcameras, Naturestudies

2.4 • 600 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2024

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

The world of whitetail hunting has undergone a significant transformation over the years, with pioneers in the field contributing to the wealth of knowledge and strategies that hunters utilize today. Among these experts is Gordon Whittington, who has been the voice of North American Whitetail for the past 40+ years.

We discuss:

The Impact of record whitetails on hunting culture
Discussing the bold future of deer hunting
Gordon's favorite stories
Bucks that stand out to gordon
Gordon's journey of 40 years with North American Whitetail
Impacts of changing landscape on deer hunting
The unexpected rise of giant whitetails
Gordon's take on the elusive world record typical
The evolving 'golden age' of deer hunting

And so much more!

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0:00.0	What is going on? Welcome to the Exodus podcast. This is Jake Hofer and this week
0:10.1	we're closing out the White Tail Pioneer series and it's with a great guest. But I have to say,
0:16.5	this series has been so much fun. These guys were at the cusp of the Whitetail Hunting Space
0:22.6	getting started. Things that they observed were new, and now they're common knowledge to the
0:27.8	thanks of them. And so go check out our episodes with Barry Wensel, Roger Raglan, Tony LaPrat.
0:34.7	And I was thinking, how do we want to close the series out? It has to be, has to go out with the bang, right? And so we landed on Gordon Winnington. Gordon was the editor-in-chief of North American White Tail for over 36 years. He's been with the publication almost 40 years now. And he has been along the journey of the White Tail space almost since its inception to the modern era.
0:56.8	And he has covered some of the most iconic white tails and stories.
1:00.7	And this conversation was really fun.
1:02.3	It was really fun.
1:03.1	And what I found very ironic is we recorded this about two weeks ago.
1:07.0	And I asked him if he thought the world record typical white tail was somewhere in a basement
1:12.6	or somewhere in a cabin or just simply unknown. And this past weekend or two weekends ago now,
1:18.5	at the Iowa Deer Classic, the number three all-time typical surfaced from a basement from
1:24.1	1991 and had I think 27 inch browtine link total.
1:29.0	Just an incredible crazy buck and I just thought the timing of the conversation and
1:33.2	that story breaking was was this pretty cool how all that unfolded.
1:38.2	And so I hope you guys enjoyed this episode with Gordon.
1:41.1	It was a lot of fun and I have a lot of respect for him and all the things that he's done in his career and I hope you guys enjoy this episode with Gordon was a lot of fun and I have a lot of respect for him and all the things
1:45.0	that he's done in his career and I hope you guys enjoy this episode. Let's get right into
1:49.0	it. Here we go. Gordon, welcome to the Exodus podcast.
2:01.0	Super excited to have you on here today.
2:03.0	We were just chatting here a little bit.
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