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Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast.

This week on the show, I'm joined by Lake Pickle to discuss southern deer hunting, summer deer prep,

and the fascinating stories of wildlife conservation that inspired his new podcast with Meat Eat Eaters, Backwoods, University.

All right, welcome back to the Wired to Hunt podcast brought to you by First Life.

This week on the show, as I just mentioned, we are joined by my buddy Lake Pickle. He not only has one of the

best names that I've heard, but he is also a tremendous storyteller, podcaster, hunter, representative

of the Southern hunting and fishing community, employee of Anex, and the host of the latest podcast with

the mediator network, Backwoods University. And so today on the show, we do a couple things.

We discuss his new podcast. We discuss how he became fascinated with wildlife, wildlife conservation, and the stories

of the people who are, who are studying animals and studying ways that we can keep them around

and preserving our hunting opportunities and traditions. We discuss that. We talk a little bit

about his background as a southern deer hunter, his experience. I didn't mention this at the top but i should

have he is filmed and worked with the primos hunting crew for many years as well so he has like this

really interesting background and following around diehard deer hunters like will primos or

brad ferris and in this podcast we discuss a little bit of what makes southern deer hunting

culture unique, what makes the way you need to hunt in the South unique, whether that be,

you know, hunting around people that are baiting or hunting in big woods country. So we talk

tactics. We talk about summer deer prep, you know, doing camera work, velvet scouting,

all that kind of stuff, and much, much more. So today, you've got a varied show. We're talking deer.

We're talking wildlife. We're talking conservation. And we're doing it with a very fun, very informative,

great guest, Mr. Pickle. And I just want to say very quickly, before we get to that,

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