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Premium Habitat = Fat Does = Big Bucks | Episode 278

Hunt Talk Radio

Randy Newberg

Sports, Wilderness, Education, How To

4.92.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2026

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Leupold's Hunt Talk Radio, Randy has returning guest Dr. Kevin Monteith from the University of Wyoming. In this episode, we dig into Kevin's knowledge and research to connect healthy mule deer herds to how fat the mothers are. Fat does have big fawns that grow to be bigger bucks. All of that depends on premium habitat availability, which Kevin explains in great detail. A great explanation of why habitat is the key to herd health, buck numbers, and hunting opportunity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:03.5

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0:07.8

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0:13.9

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0:19.9

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0:26.0

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0:29.5

Hey folks, Randy Newberg here.

0:32.4

Welcome to Leopold's Hunt Talk Radio.

0:35.3

Is I been walking, yes, all the sand bay. Luke Old's Hunt Talk Radio. Didn't say nothing. Well, that's how it was made for you and me.

1:00.2

Hey, folks, Randy Newberg here with another episode of Lupald's Hunt Talk Radio.

1:05.9

Today is, well, my first day of feeling that I can sit upright went to a bunch of trade shows,

1:12.7

and I got sick as a dog, sicker than most dogs.

1:18.7

But thankfully, I've gained enough of my faculties that today is a great day to have a conversation with a guy who's been on our

1:30.8

podcast before, Dr. Kevin Monteth, who runs the Montief lab down in Laramie, Wyoming at the

1:37.7

University of Wyoming. He is so well respected, such a great communicator of the really complicated science that they work on related to

1:47.4

meal deer, pronghorn, elk, sheep, moose, migrations, how landscapes get used, the impacts

1:56.3

of human presence in all of its forms.

2:00.0

Every time I talk to Kevin, I feel so, I feel like I've went through life so ignorant

2:07.4

as it relates to these topics.

2:10.6

And I just enjoy the conversations with him.

2:15.0

He and I got to have a meeting at the Wild Sheep Foundation's

2:19.9

sheep show in Reno last month. And we got to talking about a lot of topics that we know are

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