Petersen’s Bowhunting – Christian Berg

From covering the hunting and fishing scene in the Leigh Valley, to covering the world of archery for bowhunters across the nation, Christian Berg’s outdoors career has really taken flight over the past decade. The outdoors writer for The Morning Call from 2002-2008, Berg is now the editor for Petersen’s Bowhunting magazine, a position that takes him near and far while covering the sport of archery hunting for bow and arrow enthusiasts from coast to coast. Today, Christian shares his story and experience in hunting bucks.

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Petersen’s Bowhunting – Christian Berg

We’re heading to Pennsylvania land, at least the East Coast where they’re buried with snow. Christian Berg, the Editor of Petersen’s Bowhunting magazine is our guest. Welcome, Christian.

Bruce, I’m glad to be with you here at day three of spring here in Pennsylvania. We celebrated day two of spring with a foot of snow. I got my driveway cleaned up. I made it out in the house and it’s a pleasure to be with you.

I live out in Colorado and it’s going to be 70 out here.

I’m going to say backwards about that. It seems like Colorado has lots of snow and we should have spring weather. You can see turkey bend and I keep saying I’m ready for turkey season but Mother Nature doesn’t want to cooperate.

We’re in for a treat because Christian has done a lot in the outdoor industry, in the media industry and also he hunts a little bit here and there. Let’s start right off with your 2017 season. You had some good hunts and they came up pretty good.

As hunters, we all done the run, hot and cold sometimes. Sometimes, you have a year and it feels like nothing goes your way and certainly I’ve had my fair share of those. Then you have some years where you’re like, “I can’t do anything wrong.” Fortunately for me, 2017 was one of those years where I couldn’t do anything wrong. I sort it out down in Kentucky in September. Being a whitetail guy and obviously having a podcast that focuses on whitetails, a lot of your readers probably know but maybe some don’t. Velvet whitetails are a rare trophy in the hunting world because there are not that many places where you can kill whitetail buck. The Western guys know a lot of velvet mule deer. If you want a velvet whitetail particularly here in the Eastern half of the country, Kentucky is about the only game in town. I know Wyoming and maybe Dakotas, Montana, they might open enough in September to get some whitetails and velvet or even in August.

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Here, in the east, you’ve got to go to Kentucky if you want to one. They have an early September opener. You’ve got about a ten-day window before all of those bucks are going to strip out. It’s funny, this hunt actually dated back in 2015. I went down to Kentucky and I hunted down a place called Whitetail Heaven Outfitter. They’re south of Lexington, Kentucky in the bluegrass country, thoroughbred horse country. It’s a beautiful area, rolling hills, big horse barns, a lot of white picket fences, some agriculture and some nice hardwood too. I didn’t kill a buck that month, but while when I was down there, Bruce, I saw about ten or twelve other clients that were there that week who killed some great velvet buck. There were some impressive gears.

As a matter of fact, there was a guy from the Louisiana, while I was there who rolled into camp one night with a 202-inch deer. I saw some nice buck myself that week, but I didn’t get a shot. Needless to say, I was impressed with the operation down there at Whitetail Heaven and I wanted to get back. Because of my schedule, you probably do a bunch of hunts, I usually have a bunch of hunts booked out sometimes a year or two in advance. I wasn’t able to get back in 2016. It took me two years to finally get back down to Whitetail Heaven. On the second day of my hunt, I had an opportunity to kill a giant whitetail of my own. Not quite a 200-incher, but a big non-typical buck head, thirteen points. We ended scoring a 181 in 3/8 rows. He had a unicorn point coming out at the base. He has a split D3 on his right side, a cool-looking buck. That was incredible way to start the year. It was the biggest buck that I had ever killed personally at the time.

To make matters even better, I had a cameraman with me. We recorded that whole hunt for Bowhunter TV, on the Sportsman channel. That show is going to be on the channel, people can check it out there. It’s a huge thrill. I’m thinking too, if you kill a buck like that first week of September, you’re like, “The pressure is off.” It doesn’t matter if I even see a deer the rest of the fall. My season is May, but I ended up having good luck. When I was at the South Dakota, I killed a small eight-pointer out there, nice deer but not a real big buck.

Later in October, I killed another nice buck here at home in Pennsylvania. I have now killed three bucks. Then in early November, I actually head out in Kansas. I had been invited by a buddy of mine who is the co-staff coordinator at Vista Outdoors. That’s Bushnell, Primos, Gold Tip, a bunch of companies that people would be familiar with. John has got a lease out there and he had invited me to come out and hunt with him on his lease. Why get out there in early November? Actually, I don’t remember if it was the 4th or 5th in November, but I flew out to Kansas City, got a rental car. I drove about another four hours out to a little town called Great Bend, Kansas. I sat in the middle of the state. You’re in Colorado, I’m sure you’ve spent some time in Kansas. I don’t get out that far of the country, real off, but difficult for every country. It’s flat out there and not a lot going on there in the middle of Kansas. I get the best western hotel there in Great Bend, Kansas.

I met up with John and we’re talking the night before that we’re going to start hunting. He said, “Usually, out here we don’t hunt in the morning when it’s a full moon because we don’t think they move that well. What we’ll probably do tomorrow is that let’s go ahead and sleep in, maybe get around 9:00, walk across the street, have some breakfast at Denny’s. We’ll get you out in maybe 10:30 or 11:00 in the morning.” Kansas hunt I was excited. This is even better. I don’t even have to get up early. I was like, “If that’s what you do, I’m not going to tell you how to hunt when I’m coming out to hunt, we’ll do whatever you want to do.” That’s what we did. We got up, we went over to breakfast.

You talk about technology, podcasts like this are great. Technology is such a great tool. John picks out his phone out of his pocket while we’re having breakfast. He’s got some of these Bushnell trail cameras with the wireless technology in them. He checked his trail cameras that are over at the farm while we’re having breakfast and here’s this picture of this giant buck that’s working the edge of this shelterbelt at 2:30 in the morning. He’s right in front of this one stand and he shows me this picture. He says, “Christian, look at this at buck.” I was like, “Holy moly.” He says, “I think you ought to get in that stand today.” He is working that straight line. “I’m going to put you in that stand.”

Anyway, we got over, I got in the stand at about 11:00 in the morning. I’m not into stand. Maybe I was in there an hour or so. I heard something over to my right and I turned and here comes this buck right through the trees behind me. I reached over to get my bow off the hanger and I was getting the bow off my hanger, the buck must have seen me move, he left over and he turns around and boom he runs into the alfalfa field and take off. I was like, “My goodness.” I can’t believe I screwed that up. I blew it. I’m standing there and I’m beating myself up and I said, “Calm down because maybe you didn’t spook him as bad as you think you did.”

Being from the east, I’m used to big wood. In front of me was an alfalfa field that was several hundred acres and behind me was a cattle pasture that was several hundred acres. I was sitting in this little shelter belt that’s probably 300 yards long and about 40 yards deep. That was the only cover in the area. When we first got over there, I said, “Where’s the wood?” He said, “There’s no wood.” The other funny thing is he said, “Don’t worry, there’s a lot of deer, they hold in the shelter belt.” The other funny thing was I’m in this ladder stand. He shows me the ladder stand and it’s eight feet tall. I was like, “You can’t kill a deer out of this ladder stand, look at this thing.” He said, “Don’t worry. The deer out here, they don’t look up.” I was like, “Okay.” In Pennsylvania, the deer look up. They used to being hunted hard, but it is a little different.

I did some research for a program that I was doing. You realize that in Pennsylvania, we’ve got about 970,000 deer hunters and we kill about 150,000 bucks every year. You can calculate what that success rate is. A 150,000 bucks per 970,000 hunters. That’s just buck, it doesn’t include antlers with deer and we’ve got about 45,000 square miles, that is a size of our state. In Kansas, they kill a few of them a quarter as many bucks every year and the size of Kansas is almost twice the size of Pennsylvania. Sometimes, when you want to know the hunting is much better in one place than in another, all you have to do is look around. If I could get rid of three out of every four of my fellow hunters who are competing against me and I could spread those fewer number of hunters, I would cross some areas that’s almost twice the size.

Think about the change and the quality. We’re packed on top of each other in Pennsylvania. We’ve got a lot of hunters and we lead the nation in hunter density. It’s just nice to be able to go somewhere there are more deer and fewer hunters, it changes the quality of the experience. To make the long story short, at about 3:00 that afternoon, here comes the spike buck out in the alfalfa field walking along the edge of the tree line. Not 30 or 40 yards behind this spike buck comes this giant buck that we had seen on the camera. I had hung up a scent straight out both directions from my stand. One from my right and one from my left. This buck comes along the edge of the tree line, stops at that straight, right on that straight there and then ends up coming out right in front of my crate about 27 yards and he is eating out in the field in front me. I ended up shooting this buck. He runs about 80 yards and dies. This buck was almost 184. I taped him out of 183 and 6/8. I had to hunt two days in Kentucky to kill 181 and then I had to hunt not even one full day in Kansas to kill 184. Those were the only two 180-inch bucks I had ever killed in my entire life. I’m nervous now as exciting as 2017 was. I feel the deer gods are going to make me pay for that, Bruce. I’m telling my wife that I’m going to go grocery shopping with her this fall. I’m not going to do any hunting.

I don’t think so.

I’m going to go. I’ve got to do it. I’ve got to try. I’m either going to get some big ones or I’m going to have some fun trying.

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Let’s give a shout out to Whitetail Heaven. I think it’s Tevis McCauley out there, isn’t it?

Yeah, you know Tevis?

I talked to him when I first started the show and I haven’t had the opportunity to get out there. Some of my friends guide out there for him. We did an awesome collaboration and he has got the three-state combo, you can do his three-straight gland slam and the combinations are anything.

As a matter of fact, in addition to that TV show, I wrote an article about the hunt that’s going in the June issue of Petersen’s Bowhunting. I tell the whole story of Tevis. He’s an interesting character. He is only 33 years old and he started guiding deer hunts when he was eighteen. He has already been in business for a number of years. He has grown from having that one family farm where he started doing hunts. They’ve got now 50,000 acres in Kentucky, Ohio and in Indiana. It is an impressive operation. He operates three different lodges and the guy is amazing with how far he has come at such a young age.

Tevis McCauley, there are some free shout out for you. It’s well-deserved though.

He owes you a hunt now, Bruce.

Let’s switch it back up. You mentioned two things. In 2017, number one, you were on private land. Number two, you were hunting with people that knew what was going on in their land. Number three, statistically to get 180-plus, even 150-plus, forget that, going all the way to a 120-ish plus deer statistically is out of sight. You talked about Pennsylvania in their hunt and how many hundred per square mile deer versus deer per square mile. In the warm up, we talked about the subject mature deer reality. Let’s dive into that. You get some good data that we talked about earlier. I would like to throw that out to the people to get real with your expectations.

The genesis of this whole conversation about buck size and what we offer realistically expect as hunters goes back to a meeting that I had with my friend, Jason Snavely. Jason is my whitetails’ columnist. He is a fellow Pennsylvania guy, but he owns a company called Drop-Tine Wildlife. He’s got clients all around the country and he helps folks manage their properties to improve the quality of the wildlife habitat and as a result of that, the quality of deer on their property. Jason had gone to Mississippi State University and some interesting research coming out of there. I was talking with Jason, we were having lunch. We were talking about different things we could address through his whitetails column. Jason said to me, “One thing I would like to talk about is managing our expectations as hunters when it comes to buck.” It’s whether you turn the TV or you get on the internet, there’s a 180-inch deer behind every tree. Everybody is killing 180-inch deer, all you’ve got to do is turn on the outdoor key. You and I both know and this is coming from a guy who killed two 180s a year, but as I said those are the only thing I’ve ever killed in my life. I’m 44. I may live another 44 years and never kill another one.

The truth of the matter is most bucks aren’t 180s and there are never going to be 180. Jason wrote this interesting column. In the column, he talked about some research that was put out from his former adviser down at Mississippi State University. What this professor did and some of his students is they monitored the antler size and score as it correlates the age of the buck in the Mississippi Delta region. The area of Mississippi where the most fertile soils where you have the biggest best buck hunting in the state. What they found is that at 3.5 years old, the average buck in Mississippi only had a rack that would score about 121 inches. Even at 5.5, that number only went up to 136 inches. You are looking at 3.5-year-old buck on average barely making pope and young. Even if you let those buck live another 2 years to 5.5, they’re still not quite to 140. That just goes to show you that by and large, your average whitetail buck is never going to be 180, not going to be even at 150. I think he has something in there at 3.5, I forget what it was, but it a was single digit percent like 4% or something like that to get a 150 at 3.5.

At 5.5, it might be a little more, but the point is genetically speaking even at full maturity, the average buck is going to be somewhere between 130 and 140 inches. The other thing is that your reality as a deer hunter is somewhat dictated by your geography. You there in Colorado or me here in Pennsylvania, when I go out to hunt whitetails here at home and I still passionately hunt whitetails here. This is where I started, this is where I’ll always hunt. When I go out here around home, I don’t go out thinking that I’m going to shoot 180 or a 150 or even 140. I’m just looking for a 3.5-year-old buck because I know the pressure is high. If I get a 3.5 buck that scores 120 inches, I’m going to be thrilled. Most hunters are or could be thrilled with that because those truly big bucks unless you’re hunting in places like Kansas or Kentucky that not only have the right genetics and right habitat. On top of that, you’ve got to exercise bigger control whether that’s gun hunting or bow hunting, you’ve got to limit the harvest. You’ve got to have all those things. If you’re not going to have right genetics, the right habitat and the limited harvest, you’re not going to see numbers of deer that size. It’s unrealistic to expect that we can grow enough truly trophy-size deer that is by all the deer hunters of America.

I’m going to throw in from what QDMA had reported in their whitetail report for this year. They’re saying a trend upward from instead run down to 2.5-year-old deer and bucks being killed. It’s starting to grow because of people are saying, “Let them go and let them grow.” Because of people yourself and podcasters and all the TV channels, the YouTube channels, the people are shooting these larger bucks and you’ve got to take that into context. I don’t know how many people are in the outdoor media industry, I’m going to say 100,000. A lot of them hunt five or six different states a year as you do. I came to this hunt three different states. The odds came to my favor that I have hunted in Buffalo County in Wisconsin, which has an extremely high rate of success for Boone and Crockett bucks. I’ve seen two Boone and Crockett bucks. Sixty yards away was the close the mahogany buck. I didn’t get the gorgeous buck. I huddled him hard and maybe that’s why I didn’t get him, but I saw him at 60 yards and had no shot. That’s the closest I ever got him. He was a gorgeous buck.

I’ll give you an example. There’s a place that I hunt in Illinois every year. There’s a wonderful family that owns an outfitter called River Bottom Bucks. I’ve hunted there for years and I’ve killed some bucks but only one of the bucks that I have ever killed out there reached into the 160. I’ve got a bunch of 130-plus bucks out there because the big ones, there are only so many of them even at a great area. On the flip side of the coin as you said, Bruce, the hunting is better now. It’s across the board. Generally speaking, if we said purely in terms of antler size, we’re in a golden eight. I can say certainly here in Pennsylvania if you’d get on to Pennsylvania Game Commission website and look up the trophy records for deer, you’re going to see that an awful lot of the top ten entries for whitetails both typical and non-typical have come in during the 2000. A lot of record book buck that come in because as you said people are starting to let some of these younger deer grow.

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For those deer, even though they’re outliers, every deer isn’t going to be 170 or 180, but some of those good young deer that have great potential they are making it from 3.5 to 4.5, 5.5. Then you’re seeing what’s possible there. As more of that happens, every single one of those deer is a like a brick in the wall. We’re building this and as hunters collectively, we’re realizing what the potential is and what happens when that potential is realized. It feeds on itself. A few people exercise a little further control and then a couple more big bucks gets shot. It keeps climbing that ladder.

In QDMA, they have a lot of research data on that. That’s what we’ll talk about here. The only way you’re going to get bucks in your land, no matter where you are, then you have to make that decision between everybody. If you have a kid, a first-time hunter, it doesn’t matter. Wild hunt and if a deer comes by, shoot them. I’m all for that. If you put a couple of deer in the ground and you want to see big deer, other people don’t. They want to hunt for the freezer, put food on the table, great. It’s your land, enjoy your hunt, it’s your trophy. On the other hand, if you want to get that H-class recruitment to get those 5.5-year-old deer to see what your property can produce, that’s the other thing people get mesmerized with. Maybe your property cannot produce that.

I’m going to give you a little saying that’s very applicable here. My wife is in the sales business. One little mantra that we use all the time with people on her sales team, but it’s perfectly applicable to us as deer hunters is this, “If you want something that you’ve never had, you’ve got to do something that you’ve never done.” As deer hunters, if you want what you already had, then keep doing everything the way that you’ve always done. If people hunt somewhere and they’re shooting smaller deer and that makes them perfectly happy or they want meat for the freezer, then that perfectly fine. I’m not here to judge anybody and I don’t think that you are either.

On the other hand, if you’re shooting relatively modest-sized bucks but your desire is to shoot bigger deer or to be able to maybe have some bigger to hunt, then the only way to that is you’ve got stop shooting the smaller ones and get the bigger one. If you want something you’ve never had, you’ve got to do something you’ve never done before. Maybe that thing that you’ve done is to start to let those younger deer reach the older age. If you hunt somewhere like Pennsylvania, that can be a real challenge because while I might choose to do that, I know that there are a lot of other hunters across the property boundaries that are only a couple of hundred yards away from the treestand who may or may not use to exercise the same restraint, and that can be at times is the source of frustration for people like me.

That is a question that everybody has to wrestle with their own mind, “What’s my relationship with neighbors? Do I understand what they’re hunting goals are?” Once you understand that because George and Mary across the fence own that, they can do whatever they want. No matter how many food pots you put in, how much they manage, it doesn’t matter, George and Mary are going to do what they want and the kids and grandkids or whatever. You have to understand that. That’s a caveat that when you’re doing your land management program, I’ve been told by Land and Legacy with John and Brian, there are a lot of great people out there doing it, you have to understand what their goals are because if you don’t, then you’re going to spend a lot of money and not get the ROI or return of investment.

The thing is as much as we love to see those big bucks on our trail cameras and we get so excited about them. I don’t care if you have 10,000 trail cameras out there, he is not your buck. He doesn’t belong to anybody and he is as liable to walk across the fence and get shot by the neighbor as he is by you. You can eat your heart sometimes when that happens. The other thing that I can encourage by here in Pennsylvania, when I speak to groups of hunters, I’ve got trail camera pictures to show this. There is a particular deer in my area who lived to be 6.5 years old. He was finally killed at 6.5. I bet you he weighed 300-pound of the book. He probably scored in the high 130s but the body size on this buck was unbelievable. It was a big eleven-point and he only added the eleven-point this past year at 6.5. It was ten-corner and we watched him 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014. We had four years of trail camera pictures of this buck. Even with the intense hunting pressure in my area, this buck managed to survive. It was neat how over the years we paste together the pattern of where this buck would spend the summers and where he would go in the fall during hunting season. What I do in sharing this with other people and showing these photos and the harvest photo as well.

He is looking pretty good in 2015 and that was taken in September 2015. We all wanted to kill him that year, but he nobody ever saw this deer in daylight by the way. Nobody ever saw this buck. It was just for the first two. That was 2014 and 2015. Here he is in September 2016, looking pretty good. That’s a great looking buck. We never saw the deer. Nobody ever this deer during hunting season. Here’s a picture from August 27th 2017. Look how big he’s looking now, look at the body size, look at the sway in his back and big bag of belly and those giant front shoulders. What a great buck. Over the course of this whole four years, nobody ever saw this deer. During the second week of rifle season here in Pennsylvania, it was a Thursday afternoon, this buck finally cased the dough out into a food pot. The guy who has a food plot over the hill from where I hunt through the valley and up the base of the next mountain.

Have you ever even one time in your entire hunting life seen a buck coming towards your treestand and the first thing that comes into you mind is, “If I don’t kill this buck, somebody else is going to?” Raise your hand if you ever had that thought. Bruce, are you guilty? I’m guilty. Here is why I go. If the first thought that you have when you see a buck in the field is, “If I don’t kill that deer, somebody else is going to,” them I’m going to guarantee you one thing. That’s not the buck that you were hoping to see when you got up in the morning. A buck that makes you think that is this marginal buck that’s like almost maybe making up for you to shoot but you are not quite sure. You’re worried about what George and Mary are going to do if it walks across the fence line. What I tell everyone is, “If I were to shot that deer in 2014 or 2015 or 2016, he would have been dead. If I don’t shoot that deer and I let him go, George and Mary may or not kill him or he may live.”

What this deer has taught us in our little area of Pennsylvania is that if we let this deer go, they actually are smart enough, they’re savvy enough, they’re wise enough, they’re scared enough, whatever you want to call it. They have the ability, even in an area with a fence hunting pressure, they survive year-after-year. When you see a deer that you’re thinking, “Maybe I ought to shoot this. If I don’t shoot this, George and Mary are going to shoot it.” Don’t give in to the temptation of that way of thinking. Let George and Mary have their tent. Maybe they will, maybe they won’t. If you shoot it, it’s dead. If you don’t shoot it, you may be rewarded with an opportunity to kill a buck like that in a few years and that is right there. I don’t care whether you’re in Pennsylvania or Kansas or anywhere. That is a true trophy and a deer of a lifetime for lots and lots of deer hunters. Certainly, I would have been absolutely thrilled to have killed that.

I think you did well. I think you need to write a blog or get an article on that. I don’t know if you’ve done that from the stage or some of the seminars you do, but that’s a good message. You could put that on YouTube. That’s something that people can think about. As a tradition, Wisconsin has a huge nine-day season gun hunt tradition and we kill hundreds and thousands of deer during those nine days, but it’s a tradition. I know guys that never think they’re gone out their gun case when they go up north. They say, “I’m going to deer hunt,” they never go hunting. Why? Because the tradition to sit around, play or have a beer, have not a beer or whatever, talk to friends and family and take out the new kids. That’s the hunting tradition and that’s what I’d like to share. Take the hunting tradition and take the growing of big bucks and seeing your land develop and the deer develop. That’s why I hunt.

That’s a whole other discussion, but all the stages of the sportsman. When we were younger and we were just getting into it, the most important thing was to get a shot at the deer. It didn’t matter how big the deer was. Then after a while, we’re challenging ourselves. For me, it was getting away from the gun and picking up the bow and of course I’ve spent most of my adult life as a passionate bow hunter. In that time, it becomes a thing and now, as a father, I don’t know if you have kids, Bruce, if you have grandkids. My boys are twelve and fourteen and it’s become all about them. I’m glad I have this job and I get to travel some of these other states because I hardly ever get to go hunting by myself in Pennsylvania anymore. Pretty much every outing is set up with one of my boys. It changes over the years, the experience changes for sure. It’s all good, every stage is good.

Let’s talk about what you do every single day at Petersen’s Bowhunting?

People wonder what does the editor of a magazine do. I find to describe it as being a general contractor. If you imagine you’re doing a big construction job and you’re the general contractor, you’re responsible for everybody else whether they’re doing the plumbing, electrical, the foundation, the landscaping, you name it. You’ve got to make sure that everyone is ready to do their job, when it needs to be done. That’s what the editor of a magazine is like. Every year, we put together a plan for our nine issues and what the theme is going to be, what types of articles that we want to have, what types of products we may want to cover in those issues.

As the editor, I decide whether I’m going to write something myself or whether I’m going to assign that to somebody else here or we’re going to hire a freelancer to do that for us. I work with my associate editor and my art director who gather up all the photos, the illustrations that we need, put up the pages together. Of course, there’s a whole bunch of both within the industry guys who are my field editors, my regular contributors. People like Bill Winke, Randy Ulmer, Bob Humphry, who are working for me on a regular basis who provide various columns. Then there are freelancers, folks who might go out and kill that big 180 or 200-inch deer. I will purchase order for most folks about their hunt or maybe somebody who’s got some particular insight, some deer management or shooting your bow more effective, more accurately.

I guess they pay me to sit here all day and think about the magazine and what we’re going to do to make it as good as we can to serve the bowhunters of America. Hopefully, not only to entertain them, I want people to enjoy themselves reading Petersen’s Bowhunting when it shows up in the mailbox or they pick it up at the Walmart or wherever. As much I want to entertain them, I want to educate folks too. Hopefully, they’re not enjoying themselves, but they’re learning something in the process, becoming better archers, better hunters, more knowledgeable about the gear that’s available to them and some of the issues of the day that are impacting us as bow hunters whether that be the spread of Chronic Wasting Disease amongst our deer herds across the country or some regulatory battles that might take place in various states regarding what kind of equipment we can or cannot use or that worth.

Thanks for that. Give a shout of how people can find you on the web, that’s the easiest place or just go to Walmart to pick up your magazine. Let’s give some URLs and locations because I know you have numerous outlets in the digital world. Let’s share those with the folks.

If you want to connect with Petersen’s Bowhunting, the best way to do that is to visit our website, which is www.BowHuntingMag.com. You can also check out our social media pages on Facebook and Instagram. If you want to connect with me personally, the best way to do that is through social media and you can find me on Facebook and Instagram, @CBergBowHunt. That’s the way that people can connect with as well.

Any final thoughts?

I’m happy to come back on anytime. There are a million other things that we can talk about in bowhunting. I appreciate you having me on. It’s been a pleasure. Hopefully, I’ll make a few more good stories to share and you’ll do the same.

On behalf of everybody of the Whitetail Rendezvous community, thank you so much for sharing. I do look forward to reconnecting every six months or at least once a year to recap what’s going on in the life of the digital distribution of information as we talked about. This show, our foundation is I want to educate people. I want to bring people in here like Josh Honeycutt who’s in his twenties. He’s involved with RealTree but he’s been hunting since twelve years old. He’s a phenomenal deer hunter. There’s also John Smith from Iowa who gets big deer every single year and you’ll never hear about.

Keep doing what you’re doing, Bruce. There’s a lot of good information out here. I’m honored to be one of the people who have made the cut to be a part of what you have going on.

Thank you so much.

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