Ep. 87 | Learn, gear up, and hunt for free – WDNR Learn to Hunt

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🗓️ 5 August 2019

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

If the idea of stocking your freezer full of free-range wild game and trying hunting for yourself is something you’ve been debating, a Learn to Hunt event is a great place to start! Emily Ihel, R3 Coordinator for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources joins us on episode 87 to explain what a Learn to Hunt event is and why they’re a great resource to try hunting for first time hunters, especially those without prior experience or gear. Since we’re losing hunters faster than we can recruit them, these unconventional educational opportunities are shaping the future of introducing newcomers to the hunting lifestyle. In a matter of weeks, these hybrid courses combine classroom and field work to take newbies throughout the entire process, concluding with a hunt accompanied by a mentor. As always, we want to hear your feedback! Let us know if there are any topics you'd like covered on the Vortex Nation podcast by asking us on any one of our social media platforms and using #VortexNationPodcast. Already listened, but want the show notes for reference afterwards? You can find them here: https://vortexoptics.com/vortex-nation-podcast

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Vortex Nation podcast brought to you by lovers of hunting, shooting, public lands, the Second Amendment and Good Food. All right, what's up everybody?
0:17.0	We are in the midst of an epidemic, or at least from what people say and what we hear an
0:27.3	epidemic and the epidemic that we're talking about is Hunter Decline. So we've got some very special guests here today.
0:35.0	We've got Emily from the Wisconsin DNR.
0:37.0	We've got Micah who works for Vortex but has participated in a lot of DNR programs or classes that are designed to
0:48.4	mitigate this decline and increase recruitment of hunters.
0:53.0	Jimmy to my right, Eric Barber, very frequent guest.
0:57.0	To your right, Kitty Corner, across the table.
1:00.0	Across the way, if you will. And yeah yeah so this is a pretty important topic
1:06.0	Emily you're all pro at this so we're probably going to lean on you quite a bit but
1:10.5	let's get let's get started let's start let's start
1:13.8	Let's start into intro I'm quick. God I just want to fix the problem
1:16.2	I know you're so fast actually I'm really glad you intro this one because I wouldn't have been able to intro as well as you just as well as you just as well as you as well as well as as well as as well as as well as as just as usual as usual
1:22.6	as a medical order Emily you want to kick off on introing yourself
1:25.6	who are you what do you do I'm Emily Eel and my title is R3 coordinator at the
1:31.1	Wisconsin DNR and so it's kind of a it's a very new
1:35.1	position and our whole R3 team is really new too as people you know learn more
1:40.0	about this epidemic which is a great word for it but you know it's a really
1:44.4	important topic and so the DNR has addressed that and our team has come
1:48.9	together just in this last year and so our three stands for recruitment retention and reactivation and I will be
1:55.6	quitting you all on that in separate rooms. But in that's of hunters, anglers, and shooting sports enthusiasts, so pretty all-encompassing,
2:08.0	but those are kind of recreations or activities that have been really popular in the past in the
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