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The Rack Junkies Podcast takes a deeper dive into the topics, debates, and stories behind my writing. Where Facebook posts end, the real conversation begins. Expanded context, honest discussion, and occasional interviews.
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What do hunting NGOs do in their own words?
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In this episode, I’m digging into the Wildlife Management Institute using their own words, their own grant reports, and their own documents.
WMI keeps showing up in the middle of R3 hunter-recruitment money, state agency consulting, grant management, reports, ad campaigns, “message testing,” and private consultant pipelines. Hunters are told this money is being spent to save hunting, recruit new hunters, and protect our outdoor heritage — but when you actually read the documents, a lot of it looks like salaries, consultants, Facebook ads, reports, templates, and vague “visibility” instead of real people being put in the woods.
We’ll go through examples like the Michigan R3 campaign, the “new hunter personas,” Rick Recreationalist, “Hunting for Dummies,” 385 ad templates, and the bigger question every hunter should be asking:
Where are our Pittman-Robertson dollars actually going?
This isn’t about attacking local volunteers, sportsmen’s clubs, 4-H leaders, mentors, or the people actually taking kids and new hunters outdoors. Those are the people who deserve the money. This is about the nonprofit-consultant class that keeps getting paid while hunters are told it’s all for “recruitment.”
Follow the money.
— Stephen Ziegler
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