TV Host of DEER & DEER HUNTING - Appearing all 3 days!
Daniel Schmidt is a whitetail fanatic from Wisconsin who has worked for Deer & Deer Hunting for 30 years. He is editor-in-chief of the magazine, host of the TV show on Pursuit Channel and host of the popular Deer Talk Now podcast. The D&DH platform reaches more than 6 million hardcore whitetail hunters. After working carpentry with his father, Daniel earned a journalism degree from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh in 1991 and spent several years in the newspaper business where he wrote an award-winning outdoors column for 11 southeast Wisconsin newspapers. He worked briefly for Blade Magazine in 1994 before joining the D&DH staff full time. Schmidt has hunted deer in 39 states, four Canadian provinces and has bagged more than 400 whitetails in his lifetime. His areas of expertise include deer research, biology, physiology, management, food plots and hunting tactics. He hunts regularly with rifles, shotguns, muzzleloaders, compound bows and crossbows.