Kip Adams QDMA

Kip Adams QDMA Bruce: what's happening over at QDMA these days? Kip: Well, we're having a good year. Membership continues to grow which is a great sign, that means that hunters want to continue to learn more about deer and enhancing habitat, how to be a better hunter, so I've got some new educational programs and lots of things for youth hunters and overall life is good.

Bruce: Well that's great and what things are you focused on personally, yourself in the education? Because people email me all the time or text me and say, "Bruce, can I find out about this, can I find out about that?" And I use you guys as a resource because I think, bar none, you probably have the best data, best information in the whitetail world. So just share with me what's going on in education and what type of questions are people asking? Kip Adams QDMA

Annual Whitetail Report

Kip: Well I certainly appreciate that compliment regarding our educational materials, and the newest things that we have, we always put out our Annual Whitetail Report which provides information for hunters and that's a hunter's favorite. But the newest thing, and I'm real excited about this, is a hunter book. Kip Adams QDMA

You can buy a book on to really help you do just about anything in the world. Build computers, I think brain surgery, anything else, but there's not a really good book that really explains hunting and how to get involved, what to do, how to start, and all that. So we partner with Kalkomey, who's the largest provider of online hunter education classes in the U.S. They have 300,000 people that sign up for that every year, but about 100,000 of 'em drop out. So Kalkomey said, "Hey, the biggest thing that the hunters want is a true book on how do do this." And there's not a good one available. Kip Adams QDMA

So we wrote this book for 'em, it's actually an eBook,

So we wrote this book for 'em, it's actually an eBook, and what they're going to use it for is an incentive for people to stay in that class. And if you graduate from their online hunter class you get that for free. In addition to that we'll sell the book, but Primus [SP] worked with us to provide all the video components to it. Kip Adams QDMA

But the topics cover everything that a hunter needs to know, from how to hunt,where to hunt, public land, private land, how to ask permission, gearing up what you need, how to prepare yourself, how to prepare your bow or firearm. Scouting, how to know where to be, tree stands, preparing for the shot, after the shot, processing, mentoring somebody else, there's a whole gamut. Kip Adams QDMA

So that's gonna come out a little bit later this year and I am super excited for it. I got to write a few of the chapters and I got to review all of the book, so it is going to be a tremendous resource for hunters whether you're just starting or you've been hunting for decades. So I'm looking forward to that getting out and being able to share some more information with folks who seek that kind of stuff. Kip Adams QDMA

This is one of the neatest trends that's going on right now and across the whitetail's range

This is one of the neatest trends that's going on right now and across the whitetail's range. It's something that hunters should be super proud of. The data that we presented this year in our 2016 whitetail report, we always look at state by state harvest with regard to numbers of bucks and does, age structure of that. And that harvest actually was from the 2014 season. And the reason for that Bruce is, unfortunately, there's a few states right now that don't have all of the data analyzed from this past deer season. So the most recent season where everything is complete, analyzed and able to look at, showed that in that year for the first time in the history of deer management in the U.S.