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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundations podcast, your guide

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Speaker 1: to the fundamentals of better deer hunting, and now your host,

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Speaker 1: Tony Peterson. Hey everyone, welcome to the wire to Hunt

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Speaker 1: Foundations podcast, which is brought to you by First Light.

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Speaker 1: Today's episode is all about choosing bow accessories, specifically sites

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Speaker 1: and peep sites, so that you'll be a better shot

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Speaker 1: in the field. I know, I know, it just seems boring,

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Speaker 1: but bear with me. While we often focus on bow

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Speaker 1: choice as the most important thing for hitting deer in

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Speaker 1: the ribs, that mentality really glosses over how important some

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Speaker 1: of your accessory choices are. I plan to get into

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Speaker 1: rest and quivers and stabilizers next week, but for now,

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Speaker 1: I want to focus on what we used to aim

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Speaker 1: with our sites and our peep sites, and why you

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Speaker 1: might choose certain styles over others, and what that means

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Speaker 1: to you as an individual and more importantly, as a

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Speaker 1: white tail hunt. In September two thousand and eight, a

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Speaker 1: good buddy and I were sitting on a hillside in

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Speaker 1: western North Dakota as the mid morning sun started to

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Speaker 1: cause heat mirages in the distance. The mule deer we're

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Speaker 1: all likely to be bedded up in the shade, and

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Speaker 1: it just felt like time to head back to the

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Speaker 1: camp for a little bit of lunch. And as we

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Speaker 1: walked single file through the bad lands and towards my truck,

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Speaker 1: I ended up spotting a silhouette of a mule deer

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Speaker 1: where there probably shouldn't have been any deer, and through

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Speaker 1: my binos I could see it was a spike buck,

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Speaker 1: which meant it was a shooter. I hit the dirt,

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Speaker 1: and in response, my buddy, who was behind me, did too.

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Speaker 1: There really wasn't much to work with between the little

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Speaker 1: buck and I, but I started crawling anyway. I used

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Speaker 1: a slight fold in the terrain and some sage brush,

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Speaker 1: and somehow that buck, probably because he was alone and

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Speaker 1: young and dumb and browsing away not paying attention, he

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Speaker 1: just let me get way closer than I expected. And

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Speaker 1: as I was worming my way into that bow range,

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Speaker 1: I realized he wasn't alone. There was a bigger buck,

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Speaker 1: although not like a big big buck, that was feeding

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Speaker 1: behind him on the same ridge, going the same way.

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Speaker 1: Now that four by four actually took a rope a

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Speaker 1: little closer to me, and after I arranged him at

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Speaker 1: thirty five yards, I drew a shot and I watched

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Speaker 1: him drop on my arrow hit. It was a spine shot,

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Speaker 1: so I put another one in him and I sat down.

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Speaker 1: It was my first mule deer, and I couldn't believe it.

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Speaker 1: I also couldn't believe that I had kicked off my

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Speaker 1: season with such a good start. Well, you could definitely

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Speaker 1: say I had peaked early that year, and you wouldn't

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Speaker 1: be lying. After that buck, I went on an embarrassing streak.

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Speaker 1: I missed dear. I shoulder hit a toad of a

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Speaker 1: buck in northern Minnesota that never ended up wearing my tag.

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Speaker 1: It was brutal and an absolute melt down of a season.

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Speaker 1: It got so bad that I was almost scared to

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Speaker 1: see a deer walking down the trail because I didn't

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Speaker 1: want to shoot for fear screwing things up. And as

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Speaker 1: soon as that season wrapped up, I said to myself

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Speaker 1: that I either need to make a real change or

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Speaker 1: consider a career writing about something else, like returning to

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Speaker 1: my fishing roots. I mean, I don't know, you can

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Speaker 1: unless I don't know, you hook yourself or a nearby

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Speaker 1: toddler or something Anyway, the first switch that I decided

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Speaker 1: to make because I didn't want to go back to

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Speaker 1: that I was panicking during my shot sequence, and then

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Speaker 1: as soon as I got enough of the deer in

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Speaker 1: my side aperture, I was going to punch that trigger.

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Speaker 1: That's one of the reasons that I hit that old

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Speaker 1: deer high. It's also one of the reasons that if

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Speaker 1: i'd miss I almost always shot over deer, never under

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Speaker 1: the same thing happens to me if I get a

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Speaker 1: little too geeked up when I'm rifle hunting, well, I

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Speaker 1: don't do it often. I really have to force myself

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Speaker 1: to hold my crossairs where they need to be instead

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Speaker 1: the deer fills up my scope. It took some not

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Speaker 1: so fun reflection on my part to decide how to

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Speaker 1: dozens and dozens of times over the course of my

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Speaker 1: it didn't work out that way, and if I had

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Speaker 1: I was in real trouble. I'd panic and bad stuff

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Speaker 1: which took I don't know, a couple of months, for sure,

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Speaker 1: of how it felt to finally sober up and realize

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Speaker 1: alcohol to function. It was freeing now. That spring and summer,

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Speaker 1: the really long range thing before that year, but I

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Speaker 1: for me on familiar ground in North Dakota on opening

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Speaker 1: trio of young antelope betted near a pond. I took

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Speaker 1: it felt like a good omen. And it only got

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Speaker 1: she only went fifty yards. Later that season, after drawing

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Speaker 1: blank range. Now that buck never made it out of sight,

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Speaker 1: shot single pin movers, but I have gone back to

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Speaker 1: They don't make sense for me personally, So here's my

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Speaker 1: pitch on this. Think about your your mistakes, think about

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Speaker 1: you actually know why you missed? Like did you actually

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Speaker 1: you actually hit an unseen twig? Or did you just

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Speaker 1: But instead of taking that route, ask yourself, I don't

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Speaker 1: know if you usually miss high or low? Why why

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Speaker 1: a speed year, let alone a modern compound outfitted with

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Speaker 1: all the bells and whistles. The thing here is that

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Speaker 1: to work with our buck fever. This was my case

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Speaker 1: and I needed to dumb down my aiming process. I

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Speaker 1: which means that when I am drawn and aiming, all

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Speaker 1: it needs to be better. Yet, I've got a whole

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Speaker 1: that this is right for me, especially if that site

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Speaker 1: and just so happens to be green. Now, that might

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Speaker 1: if your shots don't go the way you expect them to.

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Speaker 1: over it again, because it's real important. Being a good

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Speaker 1: We should obsess about it as much as we obsess

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Speaker 1: It's something we can control, or at least learn to control,

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Speaker 1: and it's often the difference maker between loving deer hunting

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Speaker 1: as much as possible and not. But it's not easy though.

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Speaker 1: Admitting that you just can't keep your ship together on

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Speaker 1: old shoot hunter and seventy deer every day. Now, those

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Speaker 1: other booners coming down the trail now, You though, for

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Speaker 1: seasons are longer, now that's the breeding ground for buck fever.

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Speaker 1: And the more time it takes for those rare encounters

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Speaker 1: finally does start walking down the trail. Now, a change

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Speaker 1: in sights won't fix that meltdown issue, but it can

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Speaker 1: smooth some of the sharp edges. It can give you

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Speaker 1: off season confidence in your abilities, which is more important

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Speaker 1: to carry into the woods than any bottle of dopes

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Speaker 1: ever will be. If you figure out that a three

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Speaker 1: pin site with all green pins and a one in

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Speaker 1: three quarter inch aperture is ideal for you to be

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Speaker 1: able to shoot tight groups at the range all summer long,

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Speaker 1: then some of that will tag along into the woods

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Speaker 1: with you, and that's a good thing. All I'm saying

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Speaker 1: is pay attention to the shots that go right and

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Speaker 1: the ones that go wrong for the latter. If you

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Speaker 1: dig deep into your imagination to conjure up one, it

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Speaker 1: might be time to think through your setup, which should

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Speaker 1: start with how you aim. Now. Of course, your site

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Speaker 1: is part of the deal, but so is a peep site.

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Speaker 1: In fact, I don't know, so is a kisser button,

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Speaker 1: or even a little bit of serving tight on your

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Speaker 1: Anything that you're comfortable with. It also allows you to

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Speaker 1: reinforce consistent anchoring during your draw cycle. That's a good thing. Now,

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Speaker 1: I don't use a kiss or a little bit of serving,

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Speaker 1: with peep sites. This comes mostly from having a few

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