1 00:00:01,240 --> 00:00:05,120 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundations podcast, your guide 2 00:00:05,120 --> 00:00:08,879 Speaker 1: to the fundamentals of better deer hunting, presented by first Light, 3 00:00:09,240 --> 00:00:13,560 Speaker 1: creating proven versatile hunting apparel for the stand, saddle or blind. 4 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:18,600 Speaker 1: First Light, Go Farther, Stay Longer, and now your host 5 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:19,919 Speaker 1: Tony Peterson. 6 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:23,360 Speaker 2: Hey, everyone, welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundation's podcast, 7 00:00:23,360 --> 00:00:25,119 Speaker 2: which is brought to you by first Light. I'm your host, 8 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:28,040 Speaker 2: Tony Peterson, and this episode is all about honesty and 9 00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:30,280 Speaker 2: kind of the dumb lies we tell around deer hunting 10 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:34,440 Speaker 2: and why we should all try to stop. I know 11 00:00:34,479 --> 00:00:36,880 Speaker 2: this is a weird one, folks, but the idea, oh, 12 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:38,440 Speaker 2: I guess it was spawned by like a not too 13 00:00:38,479 --> 00:00:41,080 Speaker 2: revolutionary thought, which is basically the sheer fact that we 14 00:00:41,120 --> 00:00:44,680 Speaker 2: are constantly fed so much bullshit in our daily lives 15 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:48,159 Speaker 2: that lying is just an accepted form of communication. Our 16 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:51,000 Speaker 2: politicians are absolutely full of shit, but so are our bosses, 17 00:00:51,040 --> 00:00:52,800 Speaker 2: our co workers, and so many of the people we 18 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:54,240 Speaker 2: interact with on a daily basis. 19 00:00:54,440 --> 00:00:54,840 Speaker 1: Us too. 20 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:57,680 Speaker 2: Really partially, that's just how kind of like our social 21 00:00:57,680 --> 00:01:00,800 Speaker 2: interactions have involved. It's really kind of bond when you 22 00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:03,400 Speaker 2: think about it, And you know, deer hunting didn't escape 23 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:05,160 Speaker 2: this either, like the deer hunting realm. 24 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:05,560 Speaker 1: Is full of this. 25 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:08,720 Speaker 2: But I think we should acknowledge this, maybe try to 26 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:10,760 Speaker 2: lie a little less, which is what I'm going to 27 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:18,520 Speaker 2: talk about right now. The term Ponzi scheme gets thrown 28 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:21,360 Speaker 2: around a lot, but some people really don't seem to 29 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:24,560 Speaker 2: know what it actually means. We know that Bernie Madeoff 30 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:27,360 Speaker 2: ripped off a bunch of high rollers and celebrities a 31 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:30,120 Speaker 2: while back, and it was big news. We know that 32 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:33,880 Speaker 2: some people claim bitcoin is, but it's really not a 33 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:36,839 Speaker 2: Ponzi scheme. It's more of a greater fools theory type 34 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:40,240 Speaker 2: of thing, at least right now. You know, until you 35 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:43,600 Speaker 2: can broadly buy your groceries or whatever with bitcoins, it's 36 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:45,080 Speaker 2: sort of like you got to sell it to somebody 37 00:01:45,080 --> 00:01:47,520 Speaker 2: who will pay more for it than you will. A 38 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:50,960 Speaker 2: Ponzi scheme is different, and it started with a guy 39 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:55,800 Speaker 2: whose name might not surprise you. Charles Ponzi. Old Chuck 40 00:01:56,160 --> 00:01:59,760 Speaker 2: was an Italian immigrant who back in the nineteen twenties, when, 41 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:03,040 Speaker 2: if you know anything about our financial history, was a 42 00:02:03,080 --> 00:02:06,800 Speaker 2: time when people were doing pretty well. The old Roaring 43 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:09,240 Speaker 2: twenties thing and all, oh the thirties would be a 44 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:11,720 Speaker 2: different story. But in the twenties there was some money 45 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:14,440 Speaker 2: to be thrown around and to be made, and one 46 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:16,520 Speaker 2: guy who figured out how to make a bunch of 47 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:21,160 Speaker 2: it was Charles Ponzie. He was a Grade A world 48 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:24,600 Speaker 2: champion at lying, which is a prerequisite to running a 49 00:02:24,639 --> 00:02:27,960 Speaker 2: Ponzi scheme. Now, he came up with an idea to 50 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:33,320 Speaker 2: get New Englanders interested in investing into get this postage 51 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:37,560 Speaker 2: stamp speculation. Now, before I explain it further, for all 52 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:40,160 Speaker 2: of you young folks out there wondering how to catch 53 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:42,840 Speaker 2: the next big thing that might ten thousand ex your 54 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:45,919 Speaker 2: money in a few years, ask yourself if you understand 55 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:50,320 Speaker 2: what a highly speculative investment is. If you don't learn 56 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:52,440 Speaker 2: about it before you part with any of your money. 57 00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:56,600 Speaker 2: Remember also, if someone comes to you with an amazing 58 00:02:56,639 --> 00:03:00,080 Speaker 2: investment opportunity that they are literally offering to get I 59 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:03,080 Speaker 2: used some money they could take for themselves, And then 60 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:05,920 Speaker 2: ask yourself, why would they do that? If you can't 61 00:03:05,919 --> 00:03:08,720 Speaker 2: come up with a good reason, like they are literally 62 00:03:08,760 --> 00:03:10,840 Speaker 2: my dad and he loves me very much and wouldn't 63 00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:13,639 Speaker 2: do that. Consider that the opportunity might not be as 64 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:16,040 Speaker 2: clear cut or as beneficial to you as you might 65 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:21,560 Speaker 2: think anyway. Ponzi promised investors a fifty percent return on 66 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:24,600 Speaker 2: their capital in ninety days, which I hate to do 67 00:03:24,639 --> 00:03:27,760 Speaker 2: this again, but I feel an obligation to say. There's 68 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:31,440 Speaker 2: no real, big free money out there. If someone tells 69 00:03:31,480 --> 00:03:34,080 Speaker 2: you they are in a dividends stock or ETF that 70 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:37,240 Speaker 2: churns out even eight or ten percent a year, it's 71 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:40,520 Speaker 2: probably not very safe. You can get ten percent a 72 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:42,640 Speaker 2: year in the S and P five hundred, but you 73 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:45,360 Speaker 2: have to give it many years to average the ups 74 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:48,480 Speaker 2: and the downs. It won't be an instant year to 75 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:53,160 Speaker 2: year guaranteed ten percent, let alone fifty percent in three months. 76 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:55,960 Speaker 2: The thing about a Ponzi scheme is that it has 77 00:03:56,040 --> 00:04:00,840 Speaker 2: to grow forever because the money that it needs to 78 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:04,240 Speaker 2: return that fifty percent in three months has to come 79 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:07,000 Speaker 2: from somewhere, and it sure as hell isn't going to 80 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:10,960 Speaker 2: come from flipping stamps for a huge profit. So new 81 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:14,480 Speaker 2: investors have to show up with their money, and that 82 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:17,240 Speaker 2: has to go to the early in our investors. Now, 83 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:20,240 Speaker 2: when Ponsi was really humming along, he was bringing in 84 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:22,760 Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty K a day, which would be 85 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:26,640 Speaker 2: about like three million or so today. Not bad for 86 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:29,760 Speaker 2: a day's work right, Well, it didn't take too long 87 00:04:29,839 --> 00:04:32,720 Speaker 2: before the growth of new investors didn't outpace the needs 88 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:36,680 Speaker 2: of existing investors to get paid out. Predictably, he went 89 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:39,040 Speaker 2: to prison and a whole bunch of folks lost their 90 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:43,840 Speaker 2: life savings. His devious nature and attitude out lying ruined 91 00:04:43,880 --> 00:04:48,240 Speaker 2: a lot of people. We generally despise dishonest people, at 92 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:50,719 Speaker 2: least we present that image, but when it comes to 93 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:54,839 Speaker 2: political tribalism, which just folks we like, we can overlook 94 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:58,080 Speaker 2: a lot of obvious bullshit. In the outdoors, we do 95 00:04:58,200 --> 00:05:01,520 Speaker 2: this as well, with fishing and probably being the activity 96 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:04,880 Speaker 2: that is most tightly linked to outright lying. No one 97 00:05:04,920 --> 00:05:07,760 Speaker 2: catches a big pre spawn smallly and actively tries to 98 00:05:07,960 --> 00:05:11,000 Speaker 2: underestimate the size, just like any of the trout dorks 99 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:13,000 Speaker 2: here at meat Eater when they catch a cutty out 100 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:16,680 Speaker 2: west generally won't round down the length of it when 101 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:19,120 Speaker 2: they type out their Instagram caption to go along with 102 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:22,040 Speaker 2: the photos of themselves with a fly rod in their mouth, 103 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:24,240 Speaker 2: so you know that not only are they better than you, 104 00:05:24,839 --> 00:05:27,800 Speaker 2: but also probably smarter and with just a little bit 105 00:05:27,839 --> 00:05:30,719 Speaker 2: more impressive manhood than the pond scum who would catch 106 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:33,480 Speaker 2: a trout on a spinning rod. Is there harm in 107 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:37,160 Speaker 2: those lies? I don't know, not really. I mean, who 108 00:05:37,279 --> 00:05:40,480 Speaker 2: cares if some Randos trout was closer to eighteen inches 109 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:44,080 Speaker 2: than nineteen it doesn't matter. The same could be said 110 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:47,000 Speaker 2: for rounding up the score of your bucks, antlers. Does 111 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:48,920 Speaker 2: it really matter that your buck is closer to one 112 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:52,320 Speaker 2: twenty than one thirty? Not really? But I will also 113 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:57,000 Speaker 2: say maybe the reason I say that is that, at 114 00:05:57,080 --> 00:05:59,440 Speaker 2: least in my opinion, I hear this a lot, which 115 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:03,400 Speaker 2: is way too frequently. Someone will say something like, oh, 116 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:06,160 Speaker 2: that little one hundred and twenty inch buck or that 117 00:06:06,400 --> 00:06:09,240 Speaker 2: scrubby one hundred and fifteen inch deer. While there are 118 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:11,799 Speaker 2: folks out there who look at deer that size as small, 119 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:16,640 Speaker 2: they are in a tiny, tiny little minority. What's worse 120 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:19,400 Speaker 2: is that most of the folks making hunting content seem 121 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:22,320 Speaker 2: to be in that tiny, tiny little minority, but general 122 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:25,960 Speaker 2: hunters find their way in there as well. To the 123 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:29,599 Speaker 2: rest of the hunters. Maybe that skews the perception a bit. 124 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:33,360 Speaker 2: I know a lot of really really good hunters, and 125 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:35,760 Speaker 2: I know very few people who pass up bucks that 126 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:38,279 Speaker 2: are bumping up on the pope and young minimum. I 127 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:40,720 Speaker 2: also know a hell of a lot of weekend warriors, 128 00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:43,960 Speaker 2: and none of them are passing those bucks up. Those 129 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:46,480 Speaker 2: are big bucks to them, because one hundred and twenty 130 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:50,400 Speaker 2: inch deer generally are not small deer. They just aren't. 131 00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:53,719 Speaker 2: One thing I know is that we are most likely 132 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:56,920 Speaker 2: not going to start getting more honest about the size 133 00:06:56,920 --> 00:06:59,599 Speaker 2: of bucks we want to shoot or the size of 134 00:06:59,640 --> 00:07:02,400 Speaker 2: bucks we actually shoot. But I think that's a shame. 135 00:07:02,839 --> 00:07:04,480 Speaker 2: I shoot a lot of little bucks for a lot 136 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:06,240 Speaker 2: of reasons, and a lot of people tell me that 137 00:07:06,279 --> 00:07:08,520 Speaker 2: they really like that about me. Some tell me they 138 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:11,400 Speaker 2: hate me for that, but that's fodder for another podcast. 139 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:14,840 Speaker 2: I don't think we will collectively change on that front 140 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:16,960 Speaker 2: a whole bunch. But let me give you another example 141 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:20,800 Speaker 2: that I've probably talked about on here before. Several years ago, 142 00:07:20,840 --> 00:07:23,280 Speaker 2: while hunting in western North Dakota with a couple of buddies, 143 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:25,880 Speaker 2: I crested a rise one evening and spotted a mule 144 00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:28,760 Speaker 2: deer dough browsing away below me. I was a mule 145 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:31,520 Speaker 2: deer hunter in those days, which meant any meal deer 146 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:33,280 Speaker 2: was on the menu. Because I was not very good 147 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:35,720 Speaker 2: at getting close to them. Well, I got close enough 148 00:07:35,760 --> 00:07:38,400 Speaker 2: to that one at least to shoot at her, and 149 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:40,680 Speaker 2: like I did a lot then and still do more 150 00:07:40,680 --> 00:07:45,000 Speaker 2: than I'd like, I shot over her back pere buck 151 00:07:45,040 --> 00:07:48,760 Speaker 2: fever or I guess doe fever, whatever, But she let 152 00:07:48,760 --> 00:07:51,680 Speaker 2: me get another arrow knocked, and this time I shot 153 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:54,480 Speaker 2: under her, which doesn't happen to me very often, but 154 00:07:54,560 --> 00:07:58,400 Speaker 2: surprisingly isn't much more fun than air bawling high, which 155 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:00,600 Speaker 2: is what my third arrow did before. So that MULEI, 156 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:03,000 Speaker 2: who must have been drinking a little bit too much 157 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:06,360 Speaker 2: of that polluted fracking wastewater out there, took off. 158 00:08:07,200 --> 00:08:07,400 Speaker 1: Now. 159 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:09,840 Speaker 2: Earlier in that trip, my buddy and I were driving 160 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:11,960 Speaker 2: back from a morning of spotting and stocking when we 161 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:15,280 Speaker 2: saw some antelope in what looked like an approachable spot. 162 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:18,800 Speaker 2: I pulled over, I let him out, and kept driving. 163 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:20,640 Speaker 2: I knew it would take him a while to get 164 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:22,560 Speaker 2: to the goats because they were pretty far off the road, 165 00:08:22,960 --> 00:08:25,440 Speaker 2: so I got quite a ways away and parked so 166 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:27,679 Speaker 2: that I could see them milling around in the distance. 167 00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:29,360 Speaker 2: But I knew I wasn't going to spook them with 168 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:32,880 Speaker 2: my presence. Eventually I saw them all get nervous and 169 00:08:32,960 --> 00:08:36,080 Speaker 2: start to peel away. I did not, I might add 170 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:38,760 Speaker 2: watch any of them tip over after catching an arrow 171 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:41,880 Speaker 2: to the lungs when they bolted, I drove back down 172 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:44,520 Speaker 2: to wait for my buddy, who, when he finally hiked 173 00:08:44,559 --> 00:08:46,400 Speaker 2: all the way out, was sweating and not in a 174 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:50,080 Speaker 2: great mood. He mentioned that he blew the stock. That 175 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:54,000 Speaker 2: was that happens pretty often when you're bow hunting antelope. 176 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:57,240 Speaker 2: It wasn't until I got back from camp after whiffing 177 00:08:57,240 --> 00:09:00,480 Speaker 2: that dough three times and the wild turkey was flowing 178 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:03,240 Speaker 2: that I told my story about how bad I had 179 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:06,720 Speaker 2: flamed out. And after I wrapped up my story, that 180 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:10,080 Speaker 2: buddy admitted that he too had whipped three times on 181 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:12,640 Speaker 2: those antelopes, and that he was too embarrassed to talk 182 00:09:12,679 --> 00:09:25,959 Speaker 2: about it at first. Now you might be thinking a 183 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:28,360 Speaker 2: couple of things. First off, that my buddy and I 184 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:30,440 Speaker 2: need to hit the range more, and you'd be right. 185 00:09:30,920 --> 00:09:32,800 Speaker 2: I can fall apart with the best of them, and 186 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:35,600 Speaker 2: so can my friends. But you might also be thinking, 187 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:39,160 Speaker 2: why lie about that? And you'd be right. But let 188 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:41,720 Speaker 2: me ask each and every one of you something. Have 189 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:43,640 Speaker 2: you ever just flat out missed a deer for no 190 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:47,439 Speaker 2: other reason than you just didn't aim? You just didn't 191 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:49,960 Speaker 2: do a good job of executing your shot, and instead 192 00:09:49,960 --> 00:09:52,520 Speaker 2: of killing a gimme deer at twenty yards, you screwed 193 00:09:52,559 --> 00:09:56,080 Speaker 2: it up. And that is that. If you can honestly 194 00:09:56,120 --> 00:09:58,920 Speaker 2: answer no to that question, my advice to you is 195 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:02,480 Speaker 2: to keep hunting. That's coming for you, buddy. If you 196 00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:05,680 Speaker 2: can answer yes to that question, think about the story 197 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:09,120 Speaker 2: that you tell around it. Does it go something like, man, 198 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:11,160 Speaker 2: I was sitting there as the light started to fade, 199 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:12,960 Speaker 2: and I heard a stick snap, so I stood up 200 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:15,719 Speaker 2: and got ready, and sure enough, here he comes right 201 00:10:15,760 --> 00:10:19,640 Speaker 2: down the trail, right on my good side, totally oblivious 202 00:10:19,679 --> 00:10:22,080 Speaker 2: to me. And when he got to my best opening, 203 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:24,960 Speaker 2: I drew, squeezed my eyes shut tight as can be, 204 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:28,679 Speaker 2: and shot without aiming at all. Then he ran out 205 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:30,360 Speaker 2: of my life, and I realized that not only am 206 00:10:30,400 --> 00:10:32,720 Speaker 2: I not a good hunter, I'm actually pretty bad at 207 00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:35,840 Speaker 2: this stuff. Or did you find a way to make 208 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:40,040 Speaker 2: yourself look better. Maybe he came in super quiet and 209 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:43,080 Speaker 2: didn't give you time to range, so you just guessed 210 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:46,920 Speaker 2: and it wasn't right, guess wrong, or more likely, he 211 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:50,080 Speaker 2: managed to duck the string matrix style, so that while 212 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:53,160 Speaker 2: you actually did do everything right, because you're very good 213 00:10:53,160 --> 00:10:55,520 Speaker 2: at this, you were just dealing with a deer that 214 00:10:55,640 --> 00:11:01,560 Speaker 2: had unparalleled arrow dodging skills. Maybe you hit an unseen twig, 215 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:03,880 Speaker 2: which is such a great excuse that it might be 216 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:07,160 Speaker 2: the most common. And we've all been there. And the 217 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:09,440 Speaker 2: reason we can coct a story like that is because 218 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:13,040 Speaker 2: we are driven at least partially by ego. It's okay, 219 00:11:13,360 --> 00:11:15,520 Speaker 2: it's all of us, and I'm including myself in that 220 00:11:16,120 --> 00:11:21,040 Speaker 2: big time. It's just something worth acknowledging. It's also just 221 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:24,040 Speaker 2: not fun to be a dumbass. Trust me, I've missed 222 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:27,160 Speaker 2: a lot of animals on film. I know all about it. 223 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:31,120 Speaker 2: Some of my biggest mistakes in the woods have literally 224 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:35,680 Speaker 2: been viewed by hundreds of thousands of people. Maybe that's 225 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:40,240 Speaker 2: why I'm tired of the lying involved in hunting. But 226 00:11:40,320 --> 00:11:43,280 Speaker 2: it's also because we all screw up way more than 227 00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:46,120 Speaker 2: we let on. Most of the time, when big bucks 228 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:48,600 Speaker 2: or any dear we want to shoot get close to us, 229 00:11:48,720 --> 00:11:51,760 Speaker 2: we screw it up or at least don't seal the deal. 230 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:54,200 Speaker 2: I think we'd be healthier as a group if we 231 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:57,000 Speaker 2: were all more honest about our mistakes. I think it's 232 00:11:57,080 --> 00:12:00,600 Speaker 2: kind of like this, which is going to be extrain example, 233 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:02,880 Speaker 2: but I'm going to use it anyway. Remember not too 234 00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:06,360 Speaker 2: long ago, like before and around Christmas, when the mystery 235 00:12:06,480 --> 00:12:08,640 Speaker 2: drone thing was blowing up out in New Jersey and 236 00:12:08,960 --> 00:12:11,400 Speaker 2: kind of all along the East Coast and actually kind 237 00:12:11,440 --> 00:12:14,679 Speaker 2: of in the world. Honestly, it was a big topic. 238 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:17,080 Speaker 2: And if you talk to people about UFOs and you're 239 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:19,480 Speaker 2: kind of honest and receptive to it without being judgy, 240 00:12:19,920 --> 00:12:22,480 Speaker 2: you often suddenly hear stories about weird shit that people 241 00:12:22,559 --> 00:12:25,720 Speaker 2: saw in the sky that doesn't quite make sense. A 242 00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:27,800 Speaker 2: lot of people have stories they don't want to tell 243 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:30,800 Speaker 2: for fear of judgment or social stigma. But why does 244 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:33,200 Speaker 2: it matter if you saw something in the sky that 245 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:36,960 Speaker 2: you can't quite explain as conventional aircraft? When you start 246 00:12:37,040 --> 00:12:40,480 Speaker 2: talking about your failings as a hunter, people often relax 247 00:12:40,520 --> 00:12:43,040 Speaker 2: and chime in with their own stories because they know 248 00:12:43,840 --> 00:12:47,200 Speaker 2: most of us fail most of the time. There are 249 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:50,240 Speaker 2: a lot of lies in hunting around not wanting to hunt. Two, 250 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:53,839 Speaker 2: the most influential folks in our space and in our 251 00:12:53,880 --> 00:12:56,440 Speaker 2: lives are the ones who present the image of the 252 00:12:56,559 --> 00:13:01,920 Speaker 2: terminator level determined hunter. Nothing we'll stop them, nothing can 253 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:04,800 Speaker 2: keep them from scouting or hunting, or shooting their bows 254 00:13:04,880 --> 00:13:07,760 Speaker 2: or tinkering with their gear. They are single minded in 255 00:13:07,800 --> 00:13:11,120 Speaker 2: their pursuit and will stop at nothing. But those folks 256 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:13,360 Speaker 2: don't scout or hunt, or shoot their bows or tinkle 257 00:13:13,400 --> 00:13:16,640 Speaker 2: with their gear every chance they can. They want you 258 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:19,040 Speaker 2: to believe that. So when you sleep in because you're 259 00:13:19,040 --> 00:13:21,280 Speaker 2: tired from work or wrangling the kiddos and you just 260 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:24,080 Speaker 2: couldn't muster the motivation to go, sit on stand that. 261 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:27,760 Speaker 2: You know you're different from them, But a lot of 262 00:13:27,760 --> 00:13:31,600 Speaker 2: that is wrapped up in outright lies. And for your part, 263 00:13:31,760 --> 00:13:34,160 Speaker 2: if you do sleep in for some reason, don't you 264 00:13:34,200 --> 00:13:35,760 Speaker 2: want to tell your hunting buddies it was for a 265 00:13:35,880 --> 00:13:38,120 Speaker 2: very very good reason, as opposed to just being worn 266 00:13:38,160 --> 00:13:41,200 Speaker 2: out by life and life's demands. Of course you do. 267 00:13:42,080 --> 00:13:45,200 Speaker 2: It's okay to be realistic. We're not curing cancer here. 268 00:13:45,240 --> 00:13:47,600 Speaker 2: We're hunting rabbits with antlers. And if you don't want 269 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:51,320 Speaker 2: to hunt someday or sometime or whatever, you don't have 270 00:13:51,360 --> 00:13:53,920 Speaker 2: to lie about that. It doesn't matter, because all of 271 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:57,360 Speaker 2: us sometimes just don't want to go, and sometimes we 272 00:13:57,559 --> 00:14:01,480 Speaker 2: just don't go when we could. Also, there's no need 273 00:14:01,520 --> 00:14:03,960 Speaker 2: to lie about the deer we pass up either. I 274 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:05,920 Speaker 2: don't know why this one bothers me so much, But 275 00:14:05,960 --> 00:14:08,440 Speaker 2: I have an inkling, and you know how it goes. 276 00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:11,960 Speaker 2: Someone in your circle will casually mention that they passed 277 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:14,600 Speaker 2: up a young one hundred and thirty incher. This is 278 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:17,600 Speaker 2: often something you hear about after telling someone you shot 279 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:20,400 Speaker 2: a one hundred and ten incher, by the way, But 280 00:14:20,480 --> 00:14:23,760 Speaker 2: when someone volunteers up information on all of the bucks 281 00:14:23,760 --> 00:14:26,760 Speaker 2: they could have killed, I always wonder how much of 282 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:29,960 Speaker 2: it is true. Did that young one hundred and thirty 283 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:33,320 Speaker 2: inch buck walk by at fifteen yards and offer up 284 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:36,840 Speaker 2: multiple good shot opportunities or did he stay in the 285 00:14:36,880 --> 00:14:39,120 Speaker 2: thick stuff at forty five yards and not really offer 286 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:42,360 Speaker 2: up any kind of actual shot. That happens a lot, 287 00:14:42,560 --> 00:14:44,680 Speaker 2: and if the ego has a little too much say 288 00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:47,480 Speaker 2: in how the story gets out, it'll clip out many 289 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:50,760 Speaker 2: of the pertinent details that would change a for sure 290 00:14:50,880 --> 00:14:54,440 Speaker 2: filled tag situation to a cool encounter with almost no 291 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:58,880 Speaker 2: actual shot opportunity. We want people to know how dedicated 292 00:14:58,920 --> 00:15:01,480 Speaker 2: we are to the big deal and how easy it 293 00:15:01,520 --> 00:15:03,480 Speaker 2: would be to kill the kind of deer that almost 294 00:15:03,520 --> 00:15:06,600 Speaker 2: everyone else would shoot and mount. But most of it 295 00:15:06,640 --> 00:15:10,800 Speaker 2: is b s. Kind of like if Mark told you 296 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:13,440 Speaker 2: that he keeps getting hit on by supermodels, but then 297 00:15:13,480 --> 00:15:15,360 Speaker 2: you find out that one time he was in the 298 00:15:15,360 --> 00:15:20,120 Speaker 2: same city as one. Sure, buddy, Sure. I think that 299 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:22,680 Speaker 2: we should try to be more honest about what we 300 00:15:22,760 --> 00:15:25,920 Speaker 2: have happen and how we screw up when we are 301 00:15:25,920 --> 00:15:28,760 Speaker 2: out there hunting deer or hell catching fish, or hunting 302 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:31,680 Speaker 2: turkeys or whatever. I think that the more we are 303 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:34,760 Speaker 2: honest about ourselves in that way, the more we will 304 00:15:34,760 --> 00:15:36,480 Speaker 2: find out that a hell of a lot of our 305 00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:39,520 Speaker 2: hunting brothers and sisters are in the exact same spot. 306 00:15:40,560 --> 00:15:42,800 Speaker 2: I think that might matter more than ever, as we 307 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:46,120 Speaker 2: were exposed to NonStop propaganda in our lives, and we 308 00:15:46,160 --> 00:15:48,920 Speaker 2: are exposed to strangers who all seem to be living 309 00:15:48,920 --> 00:15:51,680 Speaker 2: the dream and have amazing spouses and all make a 310 00:15:51,720 --> 00:15:54,480 Speaker 2: couple million bucks a year while saving orphan penguins and 311 00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:57,360 Speaker 2: Antarctica or whatever bs they want to pedal so they 312 00:15:57,360 --> 00:15:59,760 Speaker 2: can make money off of you while reveling in your 313 00:16:01,640 --> 00:16:03,840 Speaker 2: I think if we talk more about the misses and 314 00:16:03,880 --> 00:16:06,040 Speaker 2: the times we just got caught snoozing when the big 315 00:16:06,080 --> 00:16:08,760 Speaker 2: boys strolled through, or the times when the alarm went 316 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:11,360 Speaker 2: off and we just weren't feeling it and realized that 317 00:16:11,440 --> 00:16:13,760 Speaker 2: another two hours of sleep was more important in the 318 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:16,320 Speaker 2: moment than heading out to the woods to probably not 319 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:19,480 Speaker 2: kill a big buck. Maybe we can't change the hunting 320 00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:22,160 Speaker 2: community as a whole, but we can take that role 321 00:16:22,240 --> 00:16:25,080 Speaker 2: on individually in our friend group or when we find 322 00:16:25,080 --> 00:16:28,400 Speaker 2: ourselves chatting about hunting with whomever in our lives. That 323 00:16:28,440 --> 00:16:30,840 Speaker 2: would be a start and kind of a relief for 324 00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:33,280 Speaker 2: a lot of people to hear that not only are 325 00:16:33,280 --> 00:16:36,120 Speaker 2: they not alone in their screw ups, but there are 326 00:16:36,160 --> 00:16:38,840 Speaker 2: other people who are so comfortable with it they don't 327 00:16:38,880 --> 00:16:40,880 Speaker 2: feel the need to hide it to lie about it. 328 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:43,320 Speaker 2: I don't think that'd be a bad thing, and I 329 00:16:43,320 --> 00:16:45,160 Speaker 2: think a lot of us would really benefit from being 330 00:16:45,240 --> 00:16:47,480 Speaker 2: on both sides of that. So let's all be a 331 00:16:47,520 --> 00:16:49,920 Speaker 2: little more honest, shall we, And let's come back next 332 00:16:49,960 --> 00:16:52,240 Speaker 2: week because I'm going to talk about the spring Woods 333 00:16:52,520 --> 00:16:56,080 Speaker 2: deer trails and why my scouting efforts now often yield 334 00:16:56,160 --> 00:17:00,360 Speaker 2: good stand sites come full That's it for the week. 335 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:02,080 Speaker 2: I'm Tony Peterson. This has been the Wired to Hunt 336 00:17:02,120 --> 00:17:04,920 Speaker 2: Foundation's podcast, which is brought to you by First Light. 337 00:17:05,720 --> 00:17:08,320 Speaker 2: Thank you so much for your support. I cannot tell 338 00:17:08,320 --> 00:17:11,040 Speaker 2: you how much it means to me and to us, 339 00:17:11,119 --> 00:17:13,800 Speaker 2: all of us here at Mediator really, without you, guys, 340 00:17:13,840 --> 00:17:16,119 Speaker 2: we are nothing. 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