WEBVTT - Ep. 879: Foundations - How to De-Stress Your Deer Game

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundations podcast, your guide

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<v Speaker 1>to the fundamentals of better deer hunting, presented by first Light,

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<v Speaker 1>creating proven versatile hunting apparel for the stand, saddle or blind.

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<v Speaker 1>First Light, Go Farther, Stay Longer, and now your host

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<v Speaker 1>Tony Peterson.

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<v Speaker 2>Hey everyone, welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundation's podcast,

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<v Speaker 2>which is brought to you by first Light. I'm your host,

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<v Speaker 2>Tony Peterson, and today's episode is all about stress and

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<v Speaker 2>how it relates to deer hunting and what we can

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<v Speaker 2>all do to relax a little bit. This morning, I

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<v Speaker 2>went to the gym after dropping the girls off at school.

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<v Speaker 2>Throughout my lifting session, I talked to two of my

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<v Speaker 2>gym buddies. Both of them were stressed out to the max.

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<v Speaker 2>One of them a woman whose son just got his

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<v Speaker 2>license has already racked up a speeding ticket and hit

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<v Speaker 2>a deer in his short time behind the wheel. The

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<v Speaker 2>other buddy, coincidentally, is a canine police officer here in

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<v Speaker 2>the Twin Cities, which, as you can imagine, with a

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<v Speaker 2>lot of stress, and he was running on no sleep

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<v Speaker 2>and started telling me about how his squad car keeps

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<v Speaker 2>breaking down and a couple other things. In his life

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<v Speaker 2>that we're driving him a little nuts. Stresses everywhere, and

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<v Speaker 2>we are all subjecting ourselves to more stressful news by

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<v Speaker 2>the day. This affects our lives, and it affects our

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<v Speaker 2>deer hunting success and enjoyment, which is what this episode

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<v Speaker 2>is all about. People often conflaint stress with anxiety, and

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<v Speaker 2>although they really kind of walk hand in hand, they

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<v Speaker 2>aren't the same things. Stress is a response to something

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<v Speaker 2>that happens externally, say when you pull up to your

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<v Speaker 2>favorite little public land honeyhole and see three trucks park

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<v Speaker 2>there already. Anxiety is all about the internal, say, sitting

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<v Speaker 2>on stand and hearing a stick crack and suddenly losing

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<v Speaker 2>your shit because you're worried about missing the big buck

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<v Speaker 2>that is just about to come down the trail. Neither

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<v Speaker 2>are much fun, and both are pretty much standard issue

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<v Speaker 2>human emotions. Stress often triggers the body's flight or fight response,

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<v Speaker 2>which developed when we all faced real danger throughout our lives.

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<v Speaker 2>A consequence of feeling this way is that the brain

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<v Speaker 2>will say that it's time to dump some serious adrenaline

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<v Speaker 2>into the bloodstream now, cue the speeding heart rate, a

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<v Speaker 2>burst of energy which actually doesn't usually feel that good

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<v Speaker 2>unless you really need it, and then you know a

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<v Speaker 2>whole bunch of other physiological changes. Way back when we

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<v Speaker 2>needed this response to avoid getting eaten by I don't know,

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<v Speaker 2>short face bears and other predators, this system evolved to

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<v Speaker 2>return to normal once the threat was gone. Pretty simple, really,

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<v Speaker 2>not one point. We did need to suddenly be stronger

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<v Speaker 2>and more energetic and more acutely aware of our surroundings

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<v Speaker 2>while toggling between running the hell away from something or

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<v Speaker 2>fighting to the death or a draw. But you can't

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<v Speaker 2>stay in that state forever for obvious reasons. But when

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<v Speaker 2>we need it, it's there for us. The problem is

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<v Speaker 2>that now a lot of us have chronic stress. We

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<v Speaker 2>live in a generally heightened state, and we consume NonStop

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<v Speaker 2>bullshit on our phones designed to anger us. We have

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<v Speaker 2>too much access to other people, too many people trying

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<v Speaker 2>to profit off of our anger and attention, and it's

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<v Speaker 2>really really not good for us. Chronic stress can lead

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<v Speaker 2>to all kinds of bad stuff, like certain cancers, chronic pain, fatigue,

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<v Speaker 2>heart disease, sleep disorders, depression, obesity, and a whole list

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<v Speaker 2>of other stuff that I don't need to tell you

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<v Speaker 2>about because I'm sure you get the idea. The biggest

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<v Speaker 2>stressors in our lives are usually our jobs, our relationships, money, family, health, politics,

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<v Speaker 2>or the general state of the world, as we are

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<v Speaker 2>told by those pesky folks who want to profit off

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<v Speaker 2>of our anger and attention. So what do we do

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<v Speaker 2>to de stress? Tell you what I used to do.

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<v Speaker 2>I used to go sit in a tree stand and

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<v Speaker 2>wait for a deer to walk by. If it wasn't

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<v Speaker 2>deer season, I'd scout. If I didn't scout, I'd fish

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<v Speaker 2>for trout or bass, or do something in nature. I'll

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<v Speaker 2>bet since you're listening to this, you have similar coping mechanisms.

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<v Speaker 2>But here's the problem with deer hunting these days. One

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<v Speaker 2>of the biggest contributors to our stress lives in our pocket,

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<v Speaker 2>and we are all addicted to it. I don't know

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<v Speaker 2>about you, but I'm having a harder and harder time

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<v Speaker 2>enjoying deer hunting the last few seasons because it's so

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<v Speaker 2>hard to unpluck. I'm convinced that's one of the reasons

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<v Speaker 2>I love certain kinds of fishing and upland hunting so much.

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<v Speaker 2>There's no way to do either without giving yourself to

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<v Speaker 2>the pursuit there isn't idle time to go on Instagram

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<v Speaker 2>or Reddit or whatever and consume mental junk food. Deer

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<v Speaker 2>hunting not so much. What's worse is that when you're

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<v Speaker 2>not shooting one hundred and forty inch bucks and are

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<v Speaker 2>instead staring at your phone while squirrels play grab ass

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<v Speaker 2>around your stand and you're not even in the same

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<v Speaker 2>section as a buck that big, you can see NonStop

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<v Speaker 2>pictures and videos of people with deer that side in

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<v Speaker 2>bigger hell. You don't have to try that hard to

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<v Speaker 2>see seven year olds with bigger taxidermy bills than you'll

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<v Speaker 2>ever have. That's kind of a compounding problem, and it sucks. Now.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know how to help you with your phone

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<v Speaker 2>addiction because I don't really know how to help myself

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<v Speaker 2>with that problem. I think in fifty or one hundred

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<v Speaker 2>years we might look back at this like it was

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<v Speaker 2>a species altering mistake that really caused some downstream problems.

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<v Speaker 2>But until then, there are ways to de stress your

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<v Speaker 2>deer hunting and make it so you enjoy things much

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<v Speaker 2>more this season. The easiest way to do this is

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<v Speaker 2>to look at what stresses you out or what is

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<v Speaker 2>giving you anxiety about this year and this season, and

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<v Speaker 2>then think about what you can do about it. I'll

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<v Speaker 2>give you an example from my life that I've been

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<v Speaker 2>thinking about quite a bit. I've had stress in the

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<v Speaker 2>last few years about not hunting enough the way I want.

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<v Speaker 2>That way is going to just some random public somewhere

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<v Speaker 2>and just trying to figure out some deer with some

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<v Speaker 2>low standards in my heart and a full quiver hanging

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<v Speaker 2>from my pack. So this year I'm going someplace new.

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<v Speaker 2>I just applied for a Kansas Turkey tag recently to

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<v Speaker 2>facilitate this. Without that tag, I'm less likely to go

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<v Speaker 2>back down there and scout. The less I scout somewhere,

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<v Speaker 2>the less I'll find that it'll just beg me to

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<v Speaker 2>go hunt someplace. So I just did it, and I'm

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<v Speaker 2>also researching other states as a backup, which I've talked

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<v Speaker 2>about in the last couple episodes. I also have anxiety

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<v Speaker 2>over the spot I found in northern Wisconsin last year

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<v Speaker 2>that was absolutely covered in buck sign. I'm worried I

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<v Speaker 2>won't scout it enough, and when I go to hunt

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<v Speaker 2>there this fall, I'll revert to the spots I know

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<v Speaker 2>I can probably see a deer, but not go to

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<v Speaker 2>where I believe a big one will walk by. That's

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<v Speaker 2>a dumb thing to worry about now, But I know myself.

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<v Speaker 2>There's going to be a million basketball tournaments on the

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<v Speaker 2>weekends for the girls, and they have softball coming up,

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<v Speaker 2>and I'll have work trips and there'll be other distractions,

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<v Speaker 2>and suddenly it'll be September and I'll realize I didn't

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<v Speaker 2>do what I needed to. That's going to stress me out.

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<v Speaker 2>So my plan is figure out how to get over there,

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<v Speaker 2>maybe once every other month until the season starts, and

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<v Speaker 2>just get my bearings, just learn it better so that

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<v Speaker 2>when fall does come and I walk in with a

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<v Speaker 2>Camo diaper on and some stick strapped to my pack,

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<v Speaker 2>I can just saddle up in a tree and feel

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<v Speaker 2>good about it. Another thing that has given me a

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<v Speaker 2>lot of stress the last several seasons is not hunting

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<v Speaker 2>a farm I really love. In southeastern Minnesota, there are

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<v Speaker 2>some properties that just have a special feel, the ones

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<v Speaker 2>you've hunted a long time and have served not only

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<v Speaker 2>as a jumping off point for a good sit some

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<v Speaker 2>random October evening, but absolutely tether your mind to something

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<v Speaker 2>positive throughout the year. I think we forget about this part,

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<v Speaker 2>but the woods. In our time out there where the

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<v Speaker 2>deer live, isn't just a mission to kill something. It's

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<v Speaker 2>about getting away from life's bs. And that's one of

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<v Speaker 2>the reasons I hate the messaging that to be a

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<v Speaker 2>good deer hunter you have to leave everything alone until

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<v Speaker 2>the conditions are right. So you do that and you

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<v Speaker 2>kill a big one, that's awesome, But the opportunity cost

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<v Speaker 2>on that strategy is that you stayed out of the

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<v Speaker 2>woods a whole bunch, which is not nothing. That farm

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<v Speaker 2>in southeastern Minnesota is where I grew up hunting. That's

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<v Speaker 2>where I spent so much time with my dad, just

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<v Speaker 2>learning deer and turkeys and squirrels and bunnies and whatever.

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<v Speaker 2>It's a place that speaks to me and something that,

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<v Speaker 2>as I get older, carries more and more weight. I

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<v Speaker 2>get the same feeling walking into the woods there as

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<v Speaker 2>I do when I step up to a trout stream

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<v Speaker 2>in the bluff somewhere and look at the water and

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<v Speaker 2>try to read just where they'll be laying, and I

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<v Speaker 2>listen to the sound of that water, and I can

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<v Speaker 2>smell the limestone as it hits me and reminds me

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<v Speaker 2>of about a million hours spent on the same kind

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<v Speaker 2>of water. When when I was growing up, my buddies

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<v Speaker 2>and I almost always had something to do because we

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<v Speaker 2>could almost always get to water like that, whether we

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<v Speaker 2>had to walk or ride our bikes or later drive

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<v Speaker 2>a little ways. Those places are a natural remedy to

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<v Speaker 2>stress if we fail facilitate the right kind of visit,

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<v Speaker 2>if we carve out a little time to be there

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<v Speaker 2>when we need to be. I'm reminded now of something

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<v Speaker 2>I'm trying to do, which sounds dumb to a lot

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<v Speaker 2>of people, but I don't care. I'm trying to learn

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<v Speaker 2>how to meditate, and I can tell you that if

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<v Speaker 2>you think you have a relatively calm mind, you should

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<v Speaker 2>give that a shot. It's like a gunfight during a

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<v Speaker 2>coke fueled party at a disco in my brain. When

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<v Speaker 2>I try to push the thoughts out, one tactic people

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<v Speaker 2>try to do is envision a rock periscoping out of

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<v Speaker 2>a river. Your thoughts are the water moving around it,

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<v Speaker 2>and the rock is your focal point. Got to forget

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<v Speaker 2>everything else, But I can, because when I try to

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<v Speaker 2>imagine that rock, my mind immediately goes to the water

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<v Speaker 2>and the eddy behind it, and then I think about fishing,

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<v Speaker 2>and then how I don't get to fish as much

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<v Speaker 2>I want, and the whole spell is broken. Our brains

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<v Speaker 2>are a work in progress, but we should be working

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<v Speaker 2>on them. With deer hunting. This means more than just

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<v Speaker 2>getting to the woods because you like the woods, or

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<v Speaker 2>sitting in a certain stand because you like that certain stand.

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<v Speaker 2>Like think about your setups, for example, is there anything

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<v Speaker 2>that stresses you out about your setups that you could

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<v Speaker 2>remedy well before the season? Maybe your box, blind windows foga,

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<v Speaker 2>what's the remedy or you know, the chair that you

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<v Speaker 2>use in there is just as super squeaky, and you

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<v Speaker 2>know ahead of time that you could fix both, but

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<v Speaker 2>you don't. That's a stressor and it takes away from

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<v Speaker 2>the experience. The same goes for you know, not chriming,

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<v Speaker 2>proper shooting lanes, or entrance or exit routes. Is there

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<v Speaker 2>anything more stressful than saving a stand for the pre

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<v Speaker 2>rut and then taking a day off of work to

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<v Speaker 2>slip in there? Only sound like a herd of elephants

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<v Speaker 2>trumpet through the woods while deer snort their disapproval all

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<v Speaker 2>around you. Maybe you do get to your stand just fine,

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<v Speaker 2>but the sticks you used can't handle the smooth bark

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<v Speaker 2>of a poplar tree, and so they squeak super loudly

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<v Speaker 2>in a cold, calm morning. As you climb your way

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<v Speaker 2>up or when you get into your stand, you look

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<v Speaker 2>around and realize that the most likely approach to you

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<v Speaker 2>that the deer is probably going to take is eye

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<v Speaker 2>level on a hillside, and they are definitely going to

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<v Speaker 2>bust you. Not only do those things give you anxiety

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<v Speaker 2>as you think about them throughout the year, but they

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<v Speaker 2>stress you out when you actually experience them in real life.

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<v Speaker 2>That sucks, and it makes deer hunting less fun. Let's

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<v Speaker 2>look at another example. A lot of us have anxiety

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<v Speaker 2>about hunting simply because we feel we are supposed to

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<v Speaker 2>kill a mature buck. The judgment we expect to receive

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<v Speaker 2>if we don't gives us anxiety. It's palpable. Part of

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<v Speaker 2>this is that there are just a lot of shitheads

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<v Speaker 2>in our ranks who will make you feel bad for

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<v Speaker 2>shooting a deer. They feel you shouldn't shoot, But really

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<v Speaker 2>what they want to do is feel superior to you.

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<v Speaker 2>It's not about the deer, it's about them finding a

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<v Speaker 2>reason to be better than you. That's a real source

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<v Speaker 2>of anxiety for a lot of us. But you know

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<v Speaker 2>how I'm trying to look at it these days. I

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<v Speaker 2>look at it like how my daughters get stressed out

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<v Speaker 2>about basketball. They won't take a shot they should because

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<v Speaker 2>they're worried they'll miss, or if they do airball a shot,

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<v Speaker 2>they'll perseverate on it to the point that it will

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<v Speaker 2>affect their play. But at the end of a day

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<v Speaker 2>of tournaments where they'll have played three games, I always

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<v Speaker 2>ask them if they remember every mistake their teammates made.

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<v Speaker 2>They're going to remember a few because it's fresh, and

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<v Speaker 2>there'll be some big ones, but when the games are over,

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<v Speaker 2>they don't really care. Then I'll ask them if they

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<v Speaker 2>remember any from a weekend before or two weeks before.

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<v Speaker 2>They usually won't because it's not that important to them

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<v Speaker 2>to remember someone else's mistakes. They don't really register with

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<v Speaker 2>other people a whole lot. They stick with us personally,

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<v Speaker 2>and when it comes to shooting a deer, you want

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<v Speaker 2>to shoot. Sure, some people might make a comment on

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<v Speaker 2>your social feed that sucks, but those folks are going

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<v Speaker 2>home to be miserable and stressed out themselves any and

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<v Speaker 2>they probably don't kill a lot of mature bucks. By

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<v Speaker 2>the way, they aren't thinking about you because they don't

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<v Speaker 2>care about you and your buck. That stress is self induced,

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<v Speaker 2>and of course we could all be better about that,

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<v Speaker 2>but a lot of us won't. It also doesn't matter

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<v Speaker 2>if you have anxiety because you really want to shoot

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<v Speaker 2>two year old bucks when it feels like everyone is

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<v Speaker 2>preaching five year old bucks, shoot that freaking two year old.

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<v Speaker 2>I bet your life actually only gets better because of it. Now,

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<v Speaker 2>I know I push that point a lot, but I

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<v Speaker 2>think it's important. I think it's really important for us

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<v Speaker 2>to keep finding reasons to love this stuff and to

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<v Speaker 2>keep coming back to the woods, even when the deer

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<v Speaker 2>kick our asses most of the time. I think one

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<v Speaker 2>of the best ways to do this is by looking

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<v Speaker 2>at what bothers us and figuring out what we can

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<v Speaker 2>do about it. Now, this is where it gets a

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<v Speaker 2>little tricky with deer hunting, or really life in general.

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<v Speaker 2>We want to find the source of our problems and

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<v Speaker 2>have someone to blame. We want to believe the Fish

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<v Speaker 2>and Game Department plant a bunch of wolves in our

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<v Speaker 2>backyard and killed the deer off because they are anti

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<v Speaker 2>hunters at heart. Now, even if that were true, what

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<v Speaker 2>could you do about it? You know, why the deer

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<v Speaker 2>aren't gone, and you certainly can't shoot down those black

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<v Speaker 2>helicopters at night that are dropping off all the wolves.

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<v Speaker 2>We want to blame the person who gives us permission

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<v Speaker 2>to hunt but limits us to certain days or types

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<v Speaker 2>of deer, or something like that. We want to blame

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<v Speaker 2>the non residents for killing all the bucks on public

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<v Speaker 2>land before they have a chance to mature. When if

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<v Speaker 2>we got off of our lazy asses and scouted a

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<v Speaker 2>hunt and we'd see there's plenty of deer out there.

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<v Speaker 2>We want to set fire to the rich guy who

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<v Speaker 2>clearly inherited a fortune from his grandpa and bought the

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<v Speaker 2>farm we used to hunt. But we can't do that,

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<v Speaker 2>and we just need to figure out what's next. There

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<v Speaker 2>are things we can't change, things we don't have control

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<v Speaker 2>over that are just beyond us. I mean, they matter,

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<v Speaker 2>but they kind of don't. Forget about them when it

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<v Speaker 2>comes to deer hunting, What can you do to de stress,

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<v Speaker 2>relax and have a better time in the woods. How

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<v Speaker 2>can you do something about having a better, more enjoyable

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<v Speaker 2>season this year? When it's February, Bet there's something. I

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<v Speaker 2>bet that something will take you into the woods to

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<v Speaker 2>scout or just find some sheds something, and I bet

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<v Speaker 2>not only will that help you out this coming season

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<v Speaker 2>to be a little more zen, but it'll also make

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<v Speaker 2>you feel better. Now. There isn't anything good that's going

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<v Speaker 2>to come out of doing nothing, because that's a breeding

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<v Speaker 2>ground for anxiety and eventually stress, and the downstream effect

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<v Speaker 2>of that is going to be that deer hunting probably

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<v Speaker 2>won't be what you need it to be, and who

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<v Speaker 2>wants that? I don't, But I also know this stuff

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<v Speaker 2>is hard, but it doesn't require a wholesale change in

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<v Speaker 2>your action. In your activity. You don't have to go

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<v Speaker 2>from no winter scouting to putting on dozens of miles

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<v Speaker 2>every day while dropping a billion way points on on

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<v Speaker 2>X just more than you did before. Is usually going

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<v Speaker 2>to suffice. Just try to do enough to make yourself

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<v Speaker 2>feel better about your prospects this season and maybe take

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<v Speaker 2>the edge off of life a little bit. Right now,

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<v Speaker 2>you know that Monday is going to come around and

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<v Speaker 2>your boss is still going to be a huge pain

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<v Speaker 2>in the ass, and the usual stressors are going to

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<v Speaker 2>be there, but they don't have to invade your hunting life,

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<v Speaker 2>and better yet, you can use your wiring as a hunter,

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<v Speaker 2>your call to be outdoors to your advantage to help

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<v Speaker 2>mitigate the rest of life stress. That's what hunting really

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<v Speaker 2>does for us, or at least it certainly can, but

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<v Speaker 2>it will never be that if we don't work on

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<v Speaker 2>it a bit, which is exactly what we can do

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<v Speaker 2>right now as we settle into the off season. So

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<v Speaker 2>think about that, think about coming back next week because

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<v Speaker 2>I'm going to talk about Chad Antlers and what they

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<v Speaker 2>teach us and why you better get out there right

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<v Speaker 2>now and see if you can find a couple. That's

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<v Speaker 2>it for this week. I'm Tony Peterson. This has been

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<v Speaker 2>the Wire to Hunt Foundation's podcast. I know it's the

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<v Speaker 2>off season and it kind of sucks. We really appreciate

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