Ep. 43: Mark Kenyon

The Hunting Collective

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness

4.5 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2019

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Mark Kenyon is a whitetail hunter. I'm not breaking any news here of course, but that doesn't mean it's not important to note.

Kenyon lives for hunting deer and his dedication to the pursuit is absolute. That makes him one hell of a resource for the rest of us, and his thoughtful approach to the subject makes him all the more valuable.

Even though I grew up focused primarily on hunting whitetails, it's experts like Kenyon that can help take my skills to the next level. That's why it's great to have him on our team at MeatEater, Inc., and to have the Wired to Hunt media empire he's building as part of our company.

I caught up with Kenyon at our offices in Bozeman, Mont., to recap the MeatEater Christmas party, talk about ethics in whitetail hunting and challenge some of the accepted norms in the community. It was a great conversation and one of many more to come. Enjoy.

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0:00.0	If you got kids like me, you know summer break is coming up. School's almost out.
0:07.0	It's time for that perennial question. How do you keep your kids occupied off the couch
0:12.0	when you're busy on long summer days? You sick of yelling at them, get out of the house and go,
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0:53.0	build a wildlife viewing blind. How to gig a bullfrog. How to navigate through the wilderness using
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1:40.8	know-how. Get the book now. Hey everybody, welcome to another episode of the Hunting Collective. I am
1:52.6	Ben O'Brien. And this week I am in the offices of the meateater here in Bosnian, Montana. And I am
2:00.8	joined by the great and powerful Mark Kenyon of Wired to Hunt. Now you're going to know Mark as a
2:08.9	personality in our little meateater family, which also going to know him from all of his wonderful
2:15.2	Wired Hunt media products. He's a white tail dude, you know, self-described white tail guy. And
2:25.6	I like him for that because I grew up as a white tail guy really on the eastern east coast
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