There was a time when poison-tipped arrows weren’t some bizarre chapter from hunting history—they were legal hunting equipment. And one of the biggest names ever to pick up a bow, Fred Bear himself, experimented with them.

That got me thinking: hunting has always evolved alongside technology, and some of the things hunters once considered completely acceptable would get you a ticket—or a whole lot worse—today.

So on this episode of Under Pressure Outdoors, we’re digging into some of hunting’s outlawed past. From poison arrows and other forgotten methods to the changing ideas of fair chase and ethics, we’re looking at where we’ve been, why the rules changed, and what ultimately pushed some of these practices out of the hunting world.

But there’s a bigger question behind all of it.

If yesterday’s cutting-edge hunting technology can become tomorrow’s unethical or illegal practice…what are we using today that hunters 50 years from now might look back on the exact same way?

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