1 00:00:01,280 --> 00:00:05,040 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundation's podcast, Your guide 2 00:00:05,040 --> 00:00:08,000 Speaker 1: to the fundamentals of better deer hunting. Present it by 3 00:00:08,039 --> 00:00:11,760 Speaker 1: First Light, creating proven, versatile hunting apparel for the stand, 4 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:15,880 Speaker 1: saddle or blind. First Light, Go Farther, Stay Longer, and 5 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:18,239 Speaker 1: now your host Tony Peterson. 6 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:21,000 Speaker 2: Hey everyone, welcome to the Wire to Hunt Foundation's podcast. 7 00:00:21,040 --> 00:00:24,279 Speaker 2: I'm your host, Tony Peterson, and today I'm going to 8 00:00:24,360 --> 00:00:27,960 Speaker 2: talk about the hunting trends that come and go and 9 00:00:28,040 --> 00:00:30,920 Speaker 2: how avoiding now is offered the best strategy. It's a 10 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:44,280 Speaker 2: little more Dear. All those fine folks out there who 11 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:46,680 Speaker 2: hate me for doing a job related to wild game 12 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:50,720 Speaker 2: often argue that myself and others like me, we're the 13 00:00:50,720 --> 00:00:54,240 Speaker 2: worst things to happen to hunting. We commoditize the passion 14 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:58,040 Speaker 2: and a public resource. Fair enough, I get that, but 15 00:00:58,120 --> 00:01:01,200 Speaker 2: I also wonder why those same people folks because solely 16 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:06,240 Speaker 2: on social media influencers. But I don't know outfitters, not 17 00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:10,160 Speaker 2: the state game agencies who view hunters, especially non resident hunters, 18 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:13,440 Speaker 2: as cash cows, not the media and the marketing companies 19 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:16,240 Speaker 2: pulling the strings behind the hunting industry. Or hell, I 20 00:01:16,280 --> 00:01:20,040 Speaker 2: don't know the manufacturers themselves. You know those companies that 21 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:21,920 Speaker 2: make the gear you buy and who want your money, 22 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:23,200 Speaker 2: and they figure out how to make you aware of 23 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:26,400 Speaker 2: their products so you do buy them. It's really an 24 00:01:26,440 --> 00:01:29,440 Speaker 2: old problem viewed in new light. But it also follows 25 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:33,560 Speaker 2: something that this podcast is about trends. There are trends 26 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:35,800 Speaker 2: in hunting that just come and go, and I'm sure 27 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:38,320 Speaker 2: there will be a new enemy at some point. I'm 28 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:40,760 Speaker 2: sure too that what we think is the answer to 29 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:43,640 Speaker 2: our deer hunting problems now will be something different in 30 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:45,800 Speaker 2: the future. And that's what I'm going to talk about, 31 00:01:46,040 --> 00:01:48,880 Speaker 2: because conditioning yourself to be a deer contrary and allows 32 00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:51,680 Speaker 2: you to start making decisions that will differ from your competition, 33 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:54,800 Speaker 2: and in most cases, this is the best way to 34 00:01:54,840 --> 00:02:09,480 Speaker 2: find the success that eludes most whitetail hunters. People are 35 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:13,440 Speaker 2: weird at our most fundamental level. We are just kind 36 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:15,960 Speaker 2: of like hairless monkeys, trying desperately to stay in our 37 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:19,200 Speaker 2: little tribes. You know. That might be a political or 38 00:02:19,320 --> 00:02:22,400 Speaker 2: religious tribe. It might be a click at work or 39 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:25,160 Speaker 2: a friend group. It might be in hunting where you 40 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:27,920 Speaker 2: and your buddies only take self made traditional bows to 41 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:31,720 Speaker 2: the woods, and you look at anyone who uses a compound, or, 42 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:34,720 Speaker 2: worse yet, a crossbow, the way I might look at 43 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:36,720 Speaker 2: the sole of my shoe after stepping in a pile 44 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:40,000 Speaker 2: of dog shit. It's in our nature to group up 45 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:44,400 Speaker 2: with like minded individuals want to fit in. It wasn't 46 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:47,000 Speaker 2: that long ago in our history where being a part 47 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:49,560 Speaker 2: of a group meant you had the best chance of survival, 48 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:52,560 Speaker 2: and if you got booted out for some social faux pa, 49 00:02:52,919 --> 00:02:56,080 Speaker 2: you were on your own and very likely to die. 50 00:02:56,240 --> 00:02:59,119 Speaker 2: We still feel this. It's gene deep, and it's one 51 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:01,000 Speaker 2: of the reasons that the low owners in our society 52 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:05,520 Speaker 2: can be so dangerous. We crave kinship and companionship, and 53 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:10,000 Speaker 2: we despise being ostracized and treating like an other whatever 54 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:14,280 Speaker 2: that means. This need to belong, coupled with the fear 55 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:16,560 Speaker 2: of being booted, it leads us to do kind of 56 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:20,040 Speaker 2: weird stuff. Look at any group you want, really, you'll 57 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:23,360 Speaker 2: see identifiers that people used to signal hey, I'm just 58 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:26,359 Speaker 2: like you, buddy. This might be the cultivated look of 59 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:29,120 Speaker 2: a motorcycle gang. It might be sports fans of a 60 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:32,639 Speaker 2: specific team. Hell, it might be the dumbass boys in 61 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:34,960 Speaker 2: my daughter's grade who all of a sudden decided mullets 62 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:37,840 Speaker 2: were cool again, and that for some reason, wearing tights 63 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:41,640 Speaker 2: undershorts is the hottest fashion trend of the century, and 64 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:43,960 Speaker 2: to be fair, the girls in their grade aren't spared 65 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:47,320 Speaker 2: from that stuff either. I recently noticed that one of 66 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:49,840 Speaker 2: my daughters was adamant about wearing one of those hairclip 67 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:52,440 Speaker 2: things that your mom used to wear that looks kind 68 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:55,200 Speaker 2: of like a spider, some kind of multi legged insect 69 00:03:55,560 --> 00:03:57,360 Speaker 2: if you see it on the floor or the kitchen counter. 70 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:00,320 Speaker 2: I thought, man, she's really kicking at old score with 71 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:02,760 Speaker 2: this look, until I showed up to coach softball and 72 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:04,320 Speaker 2: realized that a lot of the girls her age are 73 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:09,520 Speaker 2: rocking those bad boys. What goes around comes around and 74 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:12,560 Speaker 2: the tool song Enema Maynard sings a little about this, 75 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:14,760 Speaker 2: and while I can't repeat the line, he does mention 76 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:18,520 Speaker 2: that he thinks anything retro is stupid. I agree, probably 77 00:04:18,520 --> 00:04:21,360 Speaker 2: because I'm getting old and krabby, But I also think 78 00:04:21,400 --> 00:04:24,640 Speaker 2: it's mostly harmless. I mean, who cares if an eleven 79 00:04:24,680 --> 00:04:26,480 Speaker 2: year old boy wants a mullet or an eleven year 80 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:28,839 Speaker 2: old girl wants to put a grammar level hair accessory 81 00:04:28,839 --> 00:04:32,200 Speaker 2: in When it comes to hunting, the trends are mostly 82 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:35,200 Speaker 2: harmless too, at least when you view them from thirty 83 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:39,520 Speaker 2: thousand feet, but at an individual level they might actually 84 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:43,560 Speaker 2: not be so harmless. Let's take saddle hunting as an example. 85 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:46,280 Speaker 2: This should work for a couple of reasons. First off, 86 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:49,920 Speaker 2: saddle hunting is actually an old method. Saddles first got 87 00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:53,239 Speaker 2: kind of popular over twenty years ago, but the options 88 00:04:53,279 --> 00:04:56,520 Speaker 2: on the market they weren't that great. Still, there were 89 00:04:56,560 --> 00:04:59,360 Speaker 2: several companies making them, and some guys found a way 90 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:01,960 Speaker 2: to put them to good use. They never really caught 91 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:05,680 Speaker 2: on though in a I don't know a mainstream way, however. 92 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:09,400 Speaker 2: But fast forward to this more recent decade and saddle 93 00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:12,920 Speaker 2: hunting has come on real strong. This isn't a bad 94 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:15,839 Speaker 2: thing in and of itself. Hell, last year I killed 95 00:05:15,839 --> 00:05:18,160 Speaker 2: a bull elk and my biggest buck of the year 96 00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:22,320 Speaker 2: from a saddle. Now I'm far from anti saddle. I 97 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:24,279 Speaker 2: think the options today we have a pretty sweet and 98 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:26,680 Speaker 2: I think that if you're into mobile hunting, it's one 99 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:29,320 Speaker 2: hell of a good way to go about things. But 100 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:33,280 Speaker 2: it's also totally unnecessary for a lot of hunters if 101 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:35,679 Speaker 2: you're dead set on hunting the same private forty acres 102 00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:38,960 Speaker 2: until you qualify for Social Security, you might not need 103 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:42,160 Speaker 2: a saddle. You can set up spots with more comfortable 104 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:45,360 Speaker 2: options well in advance of the season. You don't need 105 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:47,480 Speaker 2: to put on a camo diaper and a hang sticks 106 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:51,400 Speaker 2: for every set. You might also just not like hunting 107 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:53,560 Speaker 2: out of a saddle. For whatever reason, it might not 108 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:56,159 Speaker 2: be for you. Maybe you're more of a ground hunter 109 00:05:56,760 --> 00:05:59,799 Speaker 2: or a ladder stand hunter. Maybe that's something worth figuring 110 00:05:59,839 --> 00:06:04,200 Speaker 2: out before you jump into the saddle bandwagon. The public 111 00:06:04,279 --> 00:06:07,719 Speaker 2: land hunting thing is another example. This trend sort of 112 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:10,200 Speaker 2: feels like it's dying now, probably because it has been 113 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:12,960 Speaker 2: beat to death for a while. You couldn't show your 114 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:15,559 Speaker 2: face at the local pro shop if you hunted private land, 115 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:20,320 Speaker 2: and the shame you felt was palpable. It was also stupid. 116 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:22,560 Speaker 2: And I say this as someone who has a lot 117 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:25,039 Speaker 2: of pride in his public land skills and as someone 118 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:27,360 Speaker 2: who has pushed that narrative for a long time when 119 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:29,040 Speaker 2: I was a younger man trying to make a name 120 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:32,560 Speaker 2: for myself as a writer. This trend, you know, the 121 00:06:32,560 --> 00:06:35,320 Speaker 2: public land one, has been a weird one. You should 122 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:37,200 Speaker 2: hunt where you can and where you want to. If 123 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:39,920 Speaker 2: you have access to private ground haunt that if you 124 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:42,600 Speaker 2: want to explore public go ahead. If you want to 125 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:45,039 Speaker 2: shoot a four hundred grain arrow that will blow through 126 00:06:45,080 --> 00:06:47,560 Speaker 2: the biggest whitetail with ease, provided you can shoot it 127 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:50,960 Speaker 2: where it should go, do that. You don't need a 128 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:53,680 Speaker 2: kate buffalo arrow to kill white tails. If you want 129 00:06:53,720 --> 00:06:55,880 Speaker 2: to beef up your archery amo and quite your bow down, 130 00:06:56,040 --> 00:06:59,040 Speaker 2: go for it. Just understand why you're doing it, what 131 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:02,000 Speaker 2: you're giving up, what you're gaining. Maybe it's the right 132 00:07:02,040 --> 00:07:06,040 Speaker 2: move for you, maybe it isn't. The thing about trends 133 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:10,680 Speaker 2: and hunting is that, well, they are trends and by 134 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:13,560 Speaker 2: the very definition they're going to be popular and at 135 00:07:13,560 --> 00:07:16,600 Speaker 2: the forefront of our minds till they're not. They'll be 136 00:07:16,640 --> 00:07:19,760 Speaker 2: adopted by many people. And that means you have an 137 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:24,760 Speaker 2: opportunity you as an individual. For some things, maybe you 138 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:27,960 Speaker 2: want to catch the same wave as everyone else. For others, 139 00:07:28,520 --> 00:07:32,120 Speaker 2: maybe you want to do something totally different. Let me 140 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:36,360 Speaker 2: give you an example from my recent hunting life. Back 141 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:39,040 Speaker 2: in May, I drove down to the heart of Nebraska 142 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:43,320 Speaker 2: to chase turkeys with Sam Soholt. We hunted sand hill birds. 143 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:46,000 Speaker 2: And what that means is if you don't know. Anyway, 144 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:49,480 Speaker 2: we had a lot of room to roam, and we 145 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:52,600 Speaker 2: were hunting where there was really nothing specific to keep 146 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:56,920 Speaker 2: the birds in one spot. There's no dreamy picked cornfields 147 00:07:56,920 --> 00:07:58,680 Speaker 2: for the birds to end up in on each day 148 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:03,440 Speaker 2: where they would feed, no multi generational roots, because they 149 00:08:03,440 --> 00:08:06,040 Speaker 2: can roost just about anywhere down there, and when the 150 00:08:06,080 --> 00:08:09,000 Speaker 2: weather is nice they do. There's not much of a 151 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:11,640 Speaker 2: pattern to those birds because they live in a mono 152 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:15,480 Speaker 2: habitat where you know, this thousand acres is exactly like 153 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:19,360 Speaker 2: the next thousand acres. It felt like hunting big woods 154 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:22,400 Speaker 2: bucks honestly, or hunting elk in Colorado in an over 155 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:26,320 Speaker 2: the counter unit. They are where you find them today 156 00:08:26,920 --> 00:08:29,520 Speaker 2: and they're probably not going to be there tomorrow. Those 157 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:32,120 Speaker 2: hybrid birds we were hunting down there, they also happen 158 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:35,200 Speaker 2: to live in a place where they are highly stockable. 159 00:08:35,800 --> 00:08:38,560 Speaker 2: The sand hills are this fascinating type of habitat with 160 00:08:38,760 --> 00:08:43,320 Speaker 2: rolling grassy hills. You know, often ridge after ridge after ridge, 161 00:08:43,760 --> 00:08:46,200 Speaker 2: all more or less running in the same direction, and 162 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:50,960 Speaker 2: between those ridges are lush meadows, so it goes meadow ridge, 163 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:54,800 Speaker 2: meadow ridge, meadow ridge, and on, and in between those 164 00:08:54,880 --> 00:08:58,000 Speaker 2: ridges are scattered pine trees, you know, cedars, the kind 165 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:01,520 Speaker 2: that offer you really good cover for stalking. They're all 166 00:09:01,559 --> 00:09:06,040 Speaker 2: over the countryside, and the birds in the meadows pretty visible, 167 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:09,680 Speaker 2: the birds on the ridges somewhat visible, and the birds 168 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:13,120 Speaker 2: that gobble a decent amount are awful easy to pinpoint 169 00:09:13,160 --> 00:09:16,040 Speaker 2: in that country. The season is long down there, and 170 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:18,079 Speaker 2: when there is an option to run down a bird 171 00:09:18,080 --> 00:09:21,040 Speaker 2: and set up close or just bush whack it, that's 172 00:09:21,080 --> 00:09:24,200 Speaker 2: what most folks do. There aren't a lot of pop 173 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:26,360 Speaker 2: up blinds sold in that part of the state, is 174 00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:31,160 Speaker 2: my guess. Decoy sales are probably pretty low too. Locator calls, 175 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:32,920 Speaker 2: on the other hand, probably make up a bulk of 176 00:09:32,920 --> 00:09:36,240 Speaker 2: the turkey sales down there. Now. The problem with this 177 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:39,319 Speaker 2: is the popular way to do it results in a 178 00:09:39,360 --> 00:09:41,800 Speaker 2: lot of dead birds, but also a lot of survivors 179 00:09:42,120 --> 00:09:46,000 Speaker 2: who are real hesitant to announce their presence. They're also 180 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:48,760 Speaker 2: real hesitant to loaf away in the meadows, at least 181 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:52,120 Speaker 2: on the public dirt weaver hunting hunting them like the 182 00:09:52,160 --> 00:09:54,640 Speaker 2: average hunter, where the goal is to cover ground until 183 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:58,240 Speaker 2: you hear see one, is a strategy that really dies 184 00:09:58,280 --> 00:10:01,559 Speaker 2: on the vine as the weeks pass. A better bet. 185 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:04,160 Speaker 2: We found out a little bit too late on our 186 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:07,840 Speaker 2: hunt was to set up in the cover, use good decoys, 187 00:10:08,559 --> 00:10:12,880 Speaker 2: pay attention, and be patient. Those birds would come in, 188 00:10:12,920 --> 00:10:16,280 Speaker 2: and they'd come in fast and usually quietly. It's a 189 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:19,040 Speaker 2: different kind of hunt. Now, if you think deer hunting 190 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:23,640 Speaker 2: doesn't follow the same trajectory, think again. I've hunted places 191 00:10:23,640 --> 00:10:26,800 Speaker 2: where the deer absolutely know that they are most likely 192 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:29,360 Speaker 2: to get shot by some cameo clad dude up in 193 00:10:29,440 --> 00:10:33,880 Speaker 2: a tree. They look up a lot, and they don't 194 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:36,920 Speaker 2: put up with much in the way of poor stand setups. 195 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:41,600 Speaker 2: I've also hunted deer, primarily out west, who simply haven't 196 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:44,840 Speaker 2: caught onto the program yet. I've killed bucks out there 197 00:10:44,880 --> 00:10:47,720 Speaker 2: from six feet up that never once looked at me, 198 00:10:47,840 --> 00:10:49,440 Speaker 2: even when I was in a tree that was barely 199 00:10:49,480 --> 00:10:53,040 Speaker 2: big enough to hold a pine squirrel. It doesn't matter 200 00:10:53,080 --> 00:10:55,920 Speaker 2: what style of stand or saddle you use. If you're 201 00:10:55,960 --> 00:10:58,760 Speaker 2: hunting where the deer look up a lot, you might 202 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:00,920 Speaker 2: be better off bucking the train and figuring out how 203 00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:04,559 Speaker 2: to kill them from the ground. You might also notice 204 00:11:04,559 --> 00:11:06,560 Speaker 2: that every hunting show you watch has a host who 205 00:11:06,600 --> 00:11:09,679 Speaker 2: will happily rattle, grunt, snort, wheeze at the bucks they 206 00:11:09,679 --> 00:11:12,160 Speaker 2: see and often when they don't see a buck, just 207 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:15,200 Speaker 2: to get something to happen. And you might think, well, 208 00:11:15,520 --> 00:11:17,439 Speaker 2: I'm gonna call my butt off when I get into 209 00:11:17,480 --> 00:11:19,920 Speaker 2: the woods because it sure looks like it works. But 210 00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:22,120 Speaker 2: then you hike out to your favorite spot on public 211 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:25,200 Speaker 2: land and you rattle just like everyone else, and guess what, 212 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:29,480 Speaker 2: very few booners come running into pose up at twenty yards. 213 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:34,920 Speaker 2: I know it's shocking. The trends are everywhere, and they 214 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:38,280 Speaker 2: mostly aren't your friend. Now. I know that I've often 215 00:11:38,320 --> 00:11:40,160 Speaker 2: said you need to find your own path out there, 216 00:11:40,320 --> 00:11:42,520 Speaker 2: which is kind of really what this episode is all about, 217 00:11:42,920 --> 00:11:45,600 Speaker 2: and I believe it. But I also think that harboring 218 00:11:45,640 --> 00:11:49,360 Speaker 2: a deep need to be a hunting contrarian is super important, 219 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:53,920 Speaker 2: particularly if you happen to hunt pressure ground. This is 220 00:11:53,960 --> 00:11:58,400 Speaker 2: because what most people do on any given hunt doesn't 221 00:11:58,440 --> 00:12:02,680 Speaker 2: work very well. The styles, the strategies, and tactics that 222 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:07,640 Speaker 2: most hunters attempt just aren't very effective. The big buck 223 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:10,920 Speaker 2: tricks that you can read about or watch tutorials on 224 00:12:10,960 --> 00:12:15,920 Speaker 2: YouTube about mostly don't work. Most of the stuff people 225 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:18,560 Speaker 2: do to try to kill deer and especially big bucks, 226 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:23,360 Speaker 2: almost never ever works. How's that for depressing? You have 227 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:25,520 Speaker 2: to acknowledge this, and then you have to figure out 228 00:12:26,160 --> 00:12:28,960 Speaker 2: what does work for you and how you can lean 229 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:33,160 Speaker 2: into whatever that is to further increase your odds. It 230 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:35,880 Speaker 2: also pays to learn how to hunt other stuff and 231 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:39,360 Speaker 2: broaden your horizons. The way to become a good hunter 232 00:12:39,640 --> 00:12:42,400 Speaker 2: is to learn about what the deer do, and not 233 00:12:42,520 --> 00:12:46,040 Speaker 2: learn what other people think the deer do or what 234 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:49,320 Speaker 2: other people say deer do. The real path is to 235 00:12:49,400 --> 00:12:52,320 Speaker 2: learn that stuff for yourself, to figure out that yes, 236 00:12:52,840 --> 00:12:55,680 Speaker 2: you probably should hunt mornings in the early season, or no, 237 00:12:56,240 --> 00:12:59,040 Speaker 2: you probably shouldn't use a buck decoy on public land 238 00:12:59,080 --> 00:13:02,000 Speaker 2: on November seventh, because the deer have been hunted super 239 00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:03,960 Speaker 2: hard every day and they aren't likely to see your 240 00:13:03,960 --> 00:13:07,240 Speaker 2: fake buckster and walk in sideways with their eyes rolled 241 00:13:07,280 --> 00:13:09,760 Speaker 2: and their fists baled up, all ready to throw down. 242 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:13,600 Speaker 2: This is what I'm going to talk about in the 243 00:13:13,720 --> 00:13:16,280 Speaker 2: entire next year on the podcast. If I'm being honest, 244 00:13:17,400 --> 00:13:19,520 Speaker 2: It's been two full years of white tail hunting, and 245 00:13:19,559 --> 00:13:22,000 Speaker 2: I'm ready to talk about other stuff. I want to 246 00:13:22,040 --> 00:13:25,280 Speaker 2: talk about Western hunting and how it applies to white tails. 247 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:27,240 Speaker 2: I want to talk about spot and stock hunting. I 248 00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:29,559 Speaker 2: want to talk about why pheasant hunting will make you 249 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:32,680 Speaker 2: a better deer hunter, and why it's just worth to 250 00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:35,320 Speaker 2: go do these things. Maybe how learning to call a 251 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:38,080 Speaker 2: turkey will help you call on elk, and how learning 252 00:13:38,120 --> 00:13:40,640 Speaker 2: to be patient for one critter will help you be 253 00:13:40,720 --> 00:13:43,600 Speaker 2: patient for all critters. Now, I'm not going to abandon 254 00:13:43,640 --> 00:13:46,600 Speaker 2: the white tail entirely, trust me, so don't bail yet. 255 00:13:47,160 --> 00:13:49,960 Speaker 2: But instead, the next year of this podcast is going 256 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:53,199 Speaker 2: to be about hunting other stuff in hunting in ways 257 00:13:53,240 --> 00:13:56,400 Speaker 2: that aren't all that common in the deer woods. But 258 00:13:56,559 --> 00:13:59,520 Speaker 2: everything we do with our gear and our hunts is 259 00:13:59,640 --> 00:14:02,679 Speaker 2: tethered to the whitetail in some way. The connections might 260 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:04,719 Speaker 2: not make sense on the surface, but my job is 261 00:14:04,760 --> 00:14:07,800 Speaker 2: to make sure they get there. I think the strategy 262 00:14:07,800 --> 00:14:11,080 Speaker 2: of becoming a hunting jack of all trades is better 263 00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:14,000 Speaker 2: than trying to become a master of one. I know 264 00:14:14,080 --> 00:14:16,960 Speaker 2: that's probably counterintuitive to a lot of folks, but I 265 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:19,600 Speaker 2: believe it's a viable path to success in the outdoors, 266 00:14:20,320 --> 00:14:22,480 Speaker 2: and I believe it's going to become more viable as 267 00:14:22,520 --> 00:14:25,280 Speaker 2: the years pass and it becomes tougher to do just 268 00:14:25,400 --> 00:14:28,120 Speaker 2: any old hunt. We might set our sights on the 269 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:32,480 Speaker 2: availability of tags and hunting opportunities is tightening up. You 270 00:14:32,560 --> 00:14:34,680 Speaker 2: might not get to hunt elk, but you might get 271 00:14:34,680 --> 00:14:37,280 Speaker 2: a chance to hunt antelope. You might lose your favorite 272 00:14:37,280 --> 00:14:39,520 Speaker 2: deer property to some city slicker with more money than 273 00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:42,480 Speaker 2: hunting skill, and you might find yourself tramping around on 274 00:14:42,520 --> 00:14:45,560 Speaker 2: ground that anyone can tromp around on. You might not 275 00:14:45,560 --> 00:14:48,200 Speaker 2: get permission to hunt deer, but maybe you'll get small 276 00:14:48,240 --> 00:14:51,720 Speaker 2: game permission somewhere. Change is inevitable, and I think we 277 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:54,560 Speaker 2: are entering a world of white tails and hunting in general, 278 00:14:55,160 --> 00:14:58,080 Speaker 2: where if you're not trying to get better, you better 279 00:14:58,120 --> 00:15:02,520 Speaker 2: have some real disposable income. I know that might sound depressing, 280 00:15:02,680 --> 00:15:06,200 Speaker 2: and honestly, it kind of is, but it's also sort 281 00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:09,000 Speaker 2: of a cosmic call to action from Mother Nature herself. 282 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:12,000 Speaker 2: Even though we want hunts to happen the way we 283 00:15:12,040 --> 00:15:14,600 Speaker 2: want them to happen, it rarely works that way for 284 00:15:14,680 --> 00:15:17,000 Speaker 2: most of us. And even though we might not be 285 00:15:17,120 --> 00:15:21,400 Speaker 2: interested in grouse hunting or bear hunting or whatever they 286 00:15:21,480 --> 00:15:23,720 Speaker 2: might be, the opportunities we have to spend time in 287 00:15:23,760 --> 00:15:26,320 Speaker 2: the woods when we aren't in a tree stand targeting deer, 288 00:15:27,120 --> 00:15:29,680 Speaker 2: or when for whatever reason we just can't get into 289 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:33,120 Speaker 2: a tree stand to target deer. I also plan on 290 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:35,840 Speaker 2: covering concepts that are not directly tied to white tails, 291 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:38,880 Speaker 2: but do affect our white tail hunts. You know how 292 00:15:38,880 --> 00:15:42,520 Speaker 2: to use your gear to the fullest ability. Why understanding 293 00:15:42,560 --> 00:15:46,200 Speaker 2: your own shortcomings is important. How pressure on public land 294 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:48,720 Speaker 2: roosters or maybe public land meal deer is in a 295 00:15:48,760 --> 00:15:51,040 Speaker 2: hell of a lot different from pressure on public land 296 00:15:51,080 --> 00:15:53,640 Speaker 2: white tails. And if you can figure out one, you 297 00:15:53,680 --> 00:15:56,120 Speaker 2: can figure out all of them. You know, stuff like that, 298 00:15:57,440 --> 00:15:59,840 Speaker 2: So please stick with me as we shift gears in 299 00:15:59,880 --> 00:16:02,320 Speaker 2: the podcast for the next year and dive into a 300 00:16:02,400 --> 00:16:06,320 Speaker 2: deeper pool of general hunting, one that will always revolve 301 00:16:06,320 --> 00:16:09,160 Speaker 2: around the white tails, even if the orbit isn't quite 302 00:16:09,160 --> 00:16:11,560 Speaker 2: as tight as it used to be. I think you'll 303 00:16:11,560 --> 00:16:14,360 Speaker 2: find there's plenty to think about and plenty to consider 304 00:16:14,360 --> 00:16:16,600 Speaker 2: if you want to become a better hunter overall, a 305 00:16:16,640 --> 00:16:20,040 Speaker 2: better woodsman or woodswoman. Is that a thing has to 306 00:16:20,080 --> 00:16:24,400 Speaker 2: be anyway. Next week I plan to start this process 307 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:27,200 Speaker 2: and talk a little bit about spotting and stalking and 308 00:16:27,240 --> 00:16:30,200 Speaker 2: how much fun it is, how it ties to white tails, 309 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:33,720 Speaker 2: and how if you have any inkling at all, you 310 00:16:33,760 --> 00:16:36,800 Speaker 2: should probably try to find a spot in stock hunt 311 00:16:36,800 --> 00:16:40,520 Speaker 2: before it's too late. And lastly, I just want to 312 00:16:40,560 --> 00:16:43,960 Speaker 2: say thanks again for your support. This weird little podcast 313 00:16:44,040 --> 00:16:46,040 Speaker 2: is a lot of fun to produce, and I hope 314 00:16:46,080 --> 00:16:48,560 Speaker 2: you keep getting something from it because that means a 315 00:16:48,560 --> 00:16:51,240 Speaker 2: lot to me, just as much as your overall support 316 00:16:51,320 --> 00:16:57,160 Speaker 2: has over the last few years. That's it. I'm Tony Peterson. 317 00:16:57,200 --> 00:16:59,280 Speaker 2: This has been the Wire to Hunt Foundation's podcast, which 318 00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:01,200 Speaker 2: is brought to you by furs As. I always thank 319 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:03,400 Speaker 2: you so much for your support. And if you want 320 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:06,520 Speaker 2: more white tail content or more hunting content, maybe just 321 00:17:06,560 --> 00:17:09,080 Speaker 2: want to watch a cool series like our new buck 322 00:17:09,119 --> 00:17:11,800 Speaker 2: Truck series out there, head on over to them meeteater 323 00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:16,040 Speaker 2: dot com and you're gonna see all kinds of articles 324 00:17:16,040 --> 00:17:20,359 Speaker 2: and videos and links to podcasts and everything. Basically, if 325 00:17:20,359 --> 00:17:22,879 Speaker 2: you want to get a hunting fix, that's where you 326 00:17:22,920 --> 00:17:23,280 Speaker 2: need to go.