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Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Podcast.

This week on the show, we are discussing trophy hunting,

our big game record keeping system

and its conservation underpinnings,

and how all of this impacts our hunting culture.

All right, folks, welcome back to another episode of the Wired to Hunt podcast, brought to you by First Life and its Camel for Conservation Initiative. And today today we are wrapping up our series this month on the

culture of our hunting community and we've got a great one we've got a couple guests here today that are going to help us explore one of the

overarching issues that has hovered over much of this month's conversation. And that's trophy hunting and scoring deer and big bucks and all of that and

these are two folks who come to this issue from the perspective of the record keeping

organizations. That being the Boon and Crockett Club and the Popin Young Club.

My guest today are Justin Spring, the executive director at the

Pope and Young Club. He also sits on the Records and Ethics Committee for the

Boone and Cracker Club.

And then I'm also joined by Dr. John McRobberts.

He is a research scientist and wildlife biologists,

professor at the University of Montana and the program administrator

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