Ep. 963: The Legendary Roger Rothhaar’s Big Buck Lessons
Wired To Hunt Podcast
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4.8 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2025
⏱️ 106 minutes
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This week on the show we are diving deep into the big buck lessons taught by the late, great, Roger Rothhaar, the influencer of todays greatest whitetail influencers - with a guest appearance from Don Higgins.
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| 0:51.1 | Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast. This week on the show, we are doing a deep dive into the big buck lessons of one of the white-tailed communities, greatest legends. Roger Rothar. He was the influencer of today's white tail influencers. And today, we're going to learn exactly why. |
| 1:18.6 | All right, welcome back to the Wired Tunt podcast brought to you by First Light and their Camel for |
| 1:24.6 | Conservation Initiative. And today we have got a unique episode, |
| 1:29.2 | an episode that I think and I hope that you are really going to enjoy |
| 1:32.6 | and something that you're not going to find anywhere else. |
| 1:36.3 | Not this fall on another podcast, |
| 1:38.9 | not probably over any podcast created anywhere |
| 1:42.7 | because we are going to be learning today from somebody |
| 1:45.2 | who tragically is no longer with us. We are going to be doing a deep dive into the lessons |
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