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Hey folks, Randy Noberg here. Welcome to Louis Pold's Hunt Talk Radio.

Hey folks, Randy Noberg here with another episode of Louis Pold's Hunt Talk Radio.

Thanks for being here. Hope you're doing great. Today I have a guest, Craig Jordan from Montana,

biologist, scientist, all kinds of things, researcher, a hunter-edin instructor.

You name it. Craig's really put his life effort into things related to hunting and hunters.

And he and I have known each other a long time and now that he's retired from

Fishwall Life in Parks, he does a lot of other work. And one of the things he's been working on is,

I don't know if you'd call it studies, I'm going to say that. Craig might give it another term,

but he's been doing studies, reading, and accumulating information related to a topic

that we always have to have in our mind and be thinking about. We hope it never happens. And that's

the unrecovered animal wounding. And so he and I spent some time talking about how can we have

a discussion about this where we both, right up front, just say, hey, it's happened to us.

You know, it can happen to anybody. But the focus is more about trying to put some context to,

you know, is it really a problem and look at the studies that try to quantify it to some level.

Try to evaluate what the causes are and see if there are suggestions ideas, things we can do

to maybe reduce it. There's never going to get to this 100% perfection. We're humans, we're going to

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