Welcome back to Cutting the Distance.

My newfound obsession may be Whitetail deer.

Please don't tell my wife.

I need another obsession like nothing else, but it was pretty fun.

An animal I've always joked about hunting when I turned seven years old and can no longer

chase meal deer or blacktails or elk around.

So I've started dig up all the information that's out there because that's kind of where

all my hunting starts.

I want to know about the animal before I go out there.

There's one name that always seems to come up as an expert on Whitetail biology.

Does a ton of research on them.

Dr. Bronson Strickland, he's a professor, a wildlife management and Mississippi State University.

He's the co-director of MSU's deer lab and the co-host of deer university podcast.

And I brought him on today to kind of pick his brain a little bit.

See how we can use these bigger bucks.

They're biology.

They're instincts against them in the fall.

So welcome to the show, Dr. Strickland.

Hey, glad to be here.

Thanks so much for having me.

Were you able to get out in the woods this year and hunt at all or just just watch them?

Well, it's really just beginning here.

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