#368 -The Future of Hunting: Hard Truths with Skip Sligh

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

🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the WHTL Podcast, presented by Moultrie. Your source for Whitetail Deer Hunting Tactics, Stories & Expert Guests. In this episode, we’re back on the road in Iowa with Part 2 of our Candid Discussion on the Future of Hunting with Skip Sligh.

. We Discuss:

Healthy debate is essential for addressing issues in hunting and unifying hunters.
Access to hunting is declining, risking the sport for average people.
Poaching is a significant problem, often involving advanced technology.
Younger hunters are more educated but need to focus on the right reasons for hunting.
Social media can both help and hurt hunting by promoting unrealistic expectations.
Hunting celebrities should advocate for better regulations and resources.
Complacency in older generations has negatively impacted hunting's future.
Effective deer management requires understanding local populations and dynamics.
Businesses in the hunting space should be tasteful and support conservation efforts.
The future of hunting depends on engaging the next generation and improving regulations.

And So Much More!

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Transcript

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0:00.0	I don't care if it's a Republican and Democrat political.
0:02.3	I don't care of what group it is.
0:03.7	There's inner debate.
0:04.7	An inner debate is good because in any group you have complacency, you have corruption,
0:08.6	you have issues that are getting better or worse.
0:11.2	Healthy debate is good.
0:12.3	Conversations about the future of hunting are usually not very easy to talk about, but in this
0:17.5	episode, Skip is pulling questions out of the bucket and he does not dance around
0:21.6	anything we have some problems in our own house hunters let's acknowledge them and let's debate them
0:26.6	that's what's going to unify people dude hunting's gotten worse the axis is getting worse all these
0:31.2	places are getting publicized by you guys if we keep this same you know trajectory of only the rich and only if you have a giant parcel, it's just going to push all the average people out of this sport, and it's going to ruin it if we don't correct course. So this is coming from a place of positivity to hopefully address the elephants in the room, and Skip does exactly that. In this episode of the White Tailed podcast, brought to you by Moultrie here we go.
0:55.0	Warning viewer discretion advised this views expressed here are not necessarily that of the
1:00.2	host sponsors and you know all the verbiage I meant this to be 99% positive and by no stretch
1:06.4	to the imagination do I think every person's going to agree with everything I said I know
1:10.3	there'll be things
1:10.9	you disagree with me on it came from a positive point of view so I would just say buckle up on this one
1:16.6	definitely hard hitting stuff off the cuff a lot of passion don't have to agree with it all but I hope
1:21.8	you you do enjoy this whole episode all right we are trying a new format of the podcast. We were talking high tech.
1:28.7	Yeah, this is a magic bucket or basket rather, and we all threw in questions.
1:34.1	Okay. I don't know, does Scott throwing a question? Yeah, I think he did. Okay, so we got four
1:38.0	different people, three different people that wrote questions and it's going to be, we don't know
1:42.7	we're going to get into. All right, we have the very first bucket poll in this new going to be we don't know we're going to get into all right we have the very first bucket poll in this uh this new format and we don't know what's going to come out of it
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