Ep. 309: What Happens When You Kill the World Record Whitetail?
Wired To Hunt Podcast
MeatEater
4.6 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2019
⏱️ 135 minutes
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Summary
Today on the show we chat with a Wired To Hunt listener, Luke Brewster, who killed the largest deer ever killed by a hunter last year. And we find out what happens when an everyday average deer hunter gets struck by whitetail lightning. Is it a positive experience or toxic?
Topics discussed:
- Why we're chatting about the world record whitetail today
- This is NOT a glorification of antler inches
- An extended review of Dan Johnson's 2019 mule deer hunt and lessons learned from this impactful experience
- My final parting words before leaving for my backcountry canoe-in whitetail hunt in the Boundary Waters
- How Luke got into hunting as an adult and how Wired To Hunt helped
- What led Luke to Illinois and his pursuit of mature bucks
- How his hunt for the world record whitetail unfolded
- What happens in the hours after shooting a deer of this caliber
- How the game warden got involved
- The impact of social media after the hunt
- Dealing with media attention
- How do you set hunting goals for the next year after a hunt like this?
- Was killing the world record whitetail a positive experience or negative?
- Lessons learned from this experience about hunting and the culture of hunting
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| 0:51.1 | Welcome to the Wire to Hunt Podcast. |
| 0:53.9 | I'm your host Mark Kenyon and this is episode number 309. |
| 1:12.3 | In today's show, we're chatting with a wire to hunt listener named Luke Brewster, who |
| 1:18.5 | just so happened to kill the largest deer ever killed by a hunter last year. |
| 1:24.9 | And we find out what happens when an everyday average hunter gets struck by white tail |
| 1:31.4 | lightning. |
| 1:32.7 | While I got you here before we start the main show, just want to give you a little heads |
| 1:35.9 | up, we've got a long introduction today. |
| 1:38.8 | It's almost a two part podcast. |
| 1:40.9 | Part two is with Luke Brewster and we're talking about this experience he had. |
| 1:45.6 | Part one is getting a chat with my co-host Dan about his South Dakota meal there, hunt |
| 1:50.6 | and a little bit about an upcoming hunt of mine. |
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