1 00:00:01,320 --> 00:00:05,160 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundations podcast, your guide 2 00:00:05,160 --> 00:00:08,959 Speaker 1: to the fundamentals of better deer hunting, presented by first Light, 3 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:13,640 Speaker 1: creating proven versatile hunting apparel for the stand, saddle or blind. 4 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:18,720 Speaker 1: First Light, Go Farther, Stay Longer, and now your host 5 00:00:19,040 --> 00:00:19,960 Speaker 1: Tony Peterson. 6 00:00:20,920 --> 00:00:23,880 Speaker 2: Hey everyone, welcome to the Wire to Hunt Foundation's podcast, 7 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:26,040 Speaker 2: which is brought to you by first Light. I'm your host, 8 00:00:26,079 --> 00:00:29,400 Speaker 2: Tony Peterson, and today's episode is all about our hunting 9 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:41,360 Speaker 2: regrets and how to avoid them in the future. Life 10 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:45,519 Speaker 2: mostly sucks and then you die, hopefully not by a 11 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:48,880 Speaker 2: crocodile attack, which is one of my worst fears after 12 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:52,760 Speaker 2: very recently going down a rabbit hole on saltwater croc information. 13 00:00:53,360 --> 00:00:55,560 Speaker 2: I'm sure there are worse ways to shed your mortal 14 00:00:55,640 --> 00:00:59,720 Speaker 2: coil than getting pulled under by a giant dinosaur lizard 15 00:00:59,720 --> 00:01:02,280 Speaker 2: that we should have gone extinct like fifty million years ago, 16 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:05,200 Speaker 2: but that's way on the top of my list. Anyway, 17 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:08,160 Speaker 2: Life doesn't actually always suck, and that's a good thing. 18 00:01:08,440 --> 00:01:11,000 Speaker 2: The one way that life does suck for all of 19 00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:13,920 Speaker 2: us at different points is that we all have regrets. 20 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:17,559 Speaker 2: We have all experienced things if we wish we would 21 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:20,679 Speaker 2: have done, but we didn't, and those things haunt us. 22 00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:23,960 Speaker 2: That's what this podcast is all about. Although it'll be 23 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:30,240 Speaker 2: more cheerful than I'm leading on, trust me. Is there 24 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:34,160 Speaker 2: a sweeter feeling than making a prediction about something and 25 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:39,840 Speaker 2: then that something actually happens. No, well, unless your prediction 26 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:41,760 Speaker 2: is that I don't know, all of our over the 27 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:44,680 Speaker 2: counter elk hunting opportunities are going to go away, and 28 00:01:44,720 --> 00:01:47,200 Speaker 2: from here on how the chance to chase bugles in 29 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:49,440 Speaker 2: the mountains is going to be greatly diminished for the 30 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:52,360 Speaker 2: average hunter. That's one you actually don't want to be 31 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:56,279 Speaker 2: right about. Or I guess if you follow the stock 32 00:01:56,360 --> 00:01:58,680 Speaker 2: market and there's a company you're interested in that you 33 00:01:58,720 --> 00:02:01,560 Speaker 2: think could go on to make tons of money, and 34 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:04,600 Speaker 2: you think, I need to buy some shares in that company. 35 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:08,440 Speaker 2: I know it's going to explode, but you don't. Then 36 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:12,840 Speaker 2: guess what happens That company invents a new widget, or 37 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:15,760 Speaker 2: they announce a partnership with Apple or something, and then boom, 38 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:18,560 Speaker 2: your little four dollars a share stock suddenly jumps to 39 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:21,160 Speaker 2: forty dollars a share and you realize that you could 40 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:23,560 Speaker 2: have had your dream beach house and maybe put your 41 00:02:23,639 --> 00:02:27,160 Speaker 2: kids through a sweet college, but instead you're just some 42 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:33,080 Speaker 2: poor loser who knew, just absolutely knew that buying into 43 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:38,079 Speaker 2: that company was the right call. This is called hindsight bias, 44 00:02:38,639 --> 00:02:42,240 Speaker 2: and it's ripe in the world of finances. It's mostly 45 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:46,920 Speaker 2: a psychological issue that is also known as creeping determinism 46 00:02:47,320 --> 00:02:51,839 Speaker 2: or knew it all along phenomenon. That's not actually a joke, 47 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:55,800 Speaker 2: my friends. It's called that. It's a weird thing that 48 00:02:55,840 --> 00:02:59,760 Speaker 2: we all do where once an event happens, we think 49 00:02:59,840 --> 00:03:03,000 Speaker 2: we predicted it, and that makes us feel two things, 50 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:08,040 Speaker 2: overconfident in our abilities to see the future, and sad 51 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:11,520 Speaker 2: that we didn't act on those predictions, at least when 52 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:15,200 Speaker 2: those predictions are actionable, like during the dead years of 53 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:18,800 Speaker 2: Microsoft's rain under Steve Balmer, where the stock traded sideways 54 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:21,680 Speaker 2: before finally finding its legs and shooting up to the 55 00:03:21,720 --> 00:03:25,480 Speaker 2: moon while making lots of people who stuck around insanely wealthy. 56 00:03:26,440 --> 00:03:29,120 Speaker 2: This is happening in the stock market right now. Do 57 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:32,799 Speaker 2: at least partially to the artificial intelligence feeding frenzy out there. 58 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:36,760 Speaker 2: Every earnings report where companies can talk about their artificial 59 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:39,960 Speaker 2: intelligence ambitions is an attempt to be a part of 60 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:43,600 Speaker 2: the it crow to attach themselves to this what some 61 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:46,040 Speaker 2: might call a little bit of a bubble. They want 62 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:48,080 Speaker 2: to be a part of this AI movement. They want 63 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:51,360 Speaker 2: to capitalize on it. So do the average people who 64 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:54,960 Speaker 2: want to buy into stocks. The thing is, even if 65 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:58,040 Speaker 2: your gut said you should have bought Pallunteer Technologies or 66 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:03,720 Speaker 2: Google or whatever, if you didn't at whatever time, you 67 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:09,000 Speaker 2: probably weren't that convinced. After the fact, of course, you 68 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:11,760 Speaker 2: know that you were right, but during the moment you 69 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:14,960 Speaker 2: didn't believe it, at least so much that you dumped 70 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:16,760 Speaker 2: a bunch of your money into those tickers and cross 71 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:21,719 Speaker 2: your fingers. This isn't limited to the Wall Street bets 72 00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:25,159 Speaker 2: crowd over there on Reddit either. Hindsight by us is 73 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:29,560 Speaker 2: rampant in our lives, and it mostly sucks. But it's 74 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:32,360 Speaker 2: also a reminder that you don't have to suffer regret 75 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:36,400 Speaker 2: unnecessarily all of the time. You can take control of 76 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:39,520 Speaker 2: your life and you're hunting future at least to some extent. 77 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:43,560 Speaker 2: Look at it this way. You want to own land, right, 78 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:47,600 Speaker 2: of course you do, we all do. But land is expensive, 79 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:51,520 Speaker 2: and it's always expensive, and interest rates suck right now 80 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:53,279 Speaker 2: and there will be a better time for you to 81 00:04:53,279 --> 00:04:58,240 Speaker 2: pull a trigger. Right, No, there probably won't. Land is 82 00:04:58,279 --> 00:05:01,400 Speaker 2: going to stay expensive. It's going to get more expensive, 83 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:04,200 Speaker 2: and interest rates might come down or they might go up. 84 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:07,600 Speaker 2: But the truth is it's not likely to get any 85 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:10,840 Speaker 2: easier for you or I to buy something unless a 86 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:13,159 Speaker 2: rich uncle we have gets eaten by a crocodile and 87 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:16,679 Speaker 2: we suddenly find ourselves the benefactor of this diligent saving 88 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:21,200 Speaker 2: and is untimely chomping to death. I have experienced this 89 00:05:21,320 --> 00:05:25,840 Speaker 2: on the land front recently. A lot back in twenty fifteen, 90 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:28,880 Speaker 2: I bought thirty acres in north central Wisconsin that was 91 00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:31,800 Speaker 2: priced like a couple from Chicago owned it and they 92 00:05:31,880 --> 00:05:33,760 Speaker 2: didn't ever want to use it, and we're sick of 93 00:05:33,760 --> 00:05:36,320 Speaker 2: paying the property taxes on it. So I got it 94 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:39,039 Speaker 2: at a good price, but it didn't seem like crazy 95 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:41,520 Speaker 2: cheap then, and it was still a lot of money 96 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:44,880 Speaker 2: for me at the time. When I paid that property off, 97 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:48,120 Speaker 2: another parcel one hundred yards down the road came up 98 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:51,200 Speaker 2: for sale. It was a little bigger, had some egg 99 00:05:51,279 --> 00:05:53,640 Speaker 2: on it, which is like an animal gold mine in 100 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:57,719 Speaker 2: that region, and was generally priced pretty well for the time. 101 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:01,320 Speaker 2: I looked at it a lot. I thought about it 102 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:04,920 Speaker 2: a lot, but I decided I wasn't interested in immediately 103 00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:07,760 Speaker 2: putting myself into more debt right after cling my way 104 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:10,240 Speaker 2: out of my last land debt. And you know what 105 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:14,680 Speaker 2: happened right That property sold, and since I'm right next 106 00:06:14,720 --> 00:06:16,919 Speaker 2: to it often I get to see the deer that 107 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:20,039 Speaker 2: use it. This year in July, I drove by that 108 00:06:20,080 --> 00:06:22,440 Speaker 2: property on my way to work on my ground and 109 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:26,119 Speaker 2: there was a very nice velvet buck, nice eight pointer 110 00:06:26,279 --> 00:06:30,200 Speaker 2: standing in their field, just taunting me. I should have 111 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:32,239 Speaker 2: figured out a way to buy it, because I regret 112 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:35,719 Speaker 2: it now and I knew, and I mean I just 113 00:06:35,960 --> 00:06:39,760 Speaker 2: knew it was going to be a good deer property. 114 00:06:39,839 --> 00:06:42,840 Speaker 2: It's also probably worth double what it was just seven 115 00:06:42,920 --> 00:06:46,760 Speaker 2: years ago, maybe more. This happens on a smaller scale 116 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:50,480 Speaker 2: with hunting, too. It's not all about real estate. Most years, 117 00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:53,560 Speaker 2: Minnesota and Wisconsin opened their bowseason on the same Saturday 118 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:56,560 Speaker 2: in mid September. This forces me to make a choice 119 00:06:56,560 --> 00:06:59,080 Speaker 2: on which state I'm gonna hunt, But every so often 120 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:02,360 Speaker 2: Wisconsin has an opener that is a week earlier than Minnesota. 121 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:06,680 Speaker 2: The last time this happened, I was stoked. I knew 122 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:08,280 Speaker 2: I was going to hunt both states on back to 123 00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:11,400 Speaker 2: back weekends and not miss out on anything. And since 124 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:14,640 Speaker 2: Wisconsin was up first, I hung some stands, I scouted 125 00:07:14,640 --> 00:07:17,360 Speaker 2: my happy ass off, and I had a pretty solid 126 00:07:17,400 --> 00:07:21,520 Speaker 2: plan for opening weekend. What I wasn't super confident in 127 00:07:21,840 --> 00:07:23,880 Speaker 2: was a morning stand that I had that was in 128 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:27,960 Speaker 2: a staging area off of some destination food. I knew 129 00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:30,880 Speaker 2: I could probably get there undetected, but there was a 130 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:34,560 Speaker 2: chance i'd blow the whole spot up. I also knew 131 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:37,440 Speaker 2: from in person scouting and trail cameras that there were 132 00:07:37,480 --> 00:07:40,320 Speaker 2: some bucks using the trail right by the stand, and 133 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:43,080 Speaker 2: that one of them was still in velvet. I don't 134 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:45,840 Speaker 2: know why this is, but it's just cool arrowing a 135 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:49,040 Speaker 2: velvet buck, and it's really really cool to do it 136 00:07:49,080 --> 00:07:51,560 Speaker 2: in a state where it's very rare to even see 137 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:56,640 Speaker 2: one during bo season. Anyway, that opening morning alarm went off, 138 00:07:56,960 --> 00:07:59,440 Speaker 2: and I sat in bed and I talked myself out 139 00:07:59,440 --> 00:08:02,840 Speaker 2: of going. I had a really good evening planned and 140 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:05,560 Speaker 2: so I skipped the morning, but I didn't feel good 141 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:08,440 Speaker 2: about it, and I really didn't feel good about it. 142 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:10,080 Speaker 2: When I went in there later that day and I 143 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:13,559 Speaker 2: checked my camera by that stand, that velvet eight pointer 144 00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:17,120 Speaker 2: went right on through late in the morning. Now, if 145 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:19,600 Speaker 2: I had been there, you know, he might have winded me, 146 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:21,200 Speaker 2: he might have saw me, he might have heard me going, 147 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:24,360 Speaker 2: and he might not have gone through. I'll never know. 148 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:27,680 Speaker 2: What I do know is that I think about that 149 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:30,800 Speaker 2: decision and that buck a lot more than I should. 150 00:08:31,880 --> 00:08:34,320 Speaker 2: I just knew I should have gone, and I didn't, 151 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:38,000 Speaker 2: or at least that's kind of how I think about 152 00:08:38,040 --> 00:08:41,880 Speaker 2: it now. The truth is, I made a call and 153 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:44,240 Speaker 2: it turned out to be a bad one. But I 154 00:08:44,280 --> 00:08:47,199 Speaker 2: did kill a buck that evening, which is kind of crazy. 155 00:08:47,800 --> 00:08:49,920 Speaker 2: But he wasn't that velvet eight, and I don't know why, 156 00:08:49,960 --> 00:08:54,200 Speaker 2: but it still stings. Hunting is like that. But mostly 157 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:56,640 Speaker 2: we don't know who came through when we weren't there. 158 00:08:56,960 --> 00:09:00,440 Speaker 2: That's probably a good thing, otherwise we'd be all press 159 00:09:00,520 --> 00:09:15,720 Speaker 2: even more than we already are. Hindsight bias happens in 160 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:19,920 Speaker 2: other ways too. I'm experiencing some serious and I do 161 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:24,080 Speaker 2: mean serious fomo right now. I'm not going elk hunting 162 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:26,840 Speaker 2: this fall, and in fact, I'm not going west at 163 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:30,880 Speaker 2: all this whole season, at least unless something changes, which 164 00:09:30,880 --> 00:09:34,079 Speaker 2: I don't think is gonna happen. And I know I 165 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:37,599 Speaker 2: only have so many elk hunting opportunities left, and I 166 00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:40,160 Speaker 2: could probably swing in an early season hunt this year 167 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:43,120 Speaker 2: if I wanted to. But my September is going to 168 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:45,360 Speaker 2: be busy and the girls and I have some bear 169 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:48,360 Speaker 2: tags and some other plans, and I'm trying to ignore 170 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:52,400 Speaker 2: the fact that I know, I just absolutely know that 171 00:09:52,520 --> 00:09:54,160 Speaker 2: my elk hunting partner is going to go have an 172 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:56,280 Speaker 2: amazing time in the mountains and he'll probably kill a 173 00:09:56,280 --> 00:10:00,760 Speaker 2: bull right where I was gonna hunt. That's enough bitching 174 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:03,760 Speaker 2: about that on my part, because you know what, that's life. 175 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:06,720 Speaker 2: Complaining about not going on another l hunt because you 176 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:10,199 Speaker 2: get to bear hunt with your daughters is dumb. Complaining 177 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:12,400 Speaker 2: that you didn't buy Google back when the Internet looked 178 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:16,240 Speaker 2: like it was created by kindergarteners is dumb. Losing sleep 179 00:10:16,280 --> 00:10:18,160 Speaker 2: over one hundred and ten inch buck that walk by 180 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:22,080 Speaker 2: your stand when you were snoozing away, it's dumb. But 181 00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:25,920 Speaker 2: all of those things are lessons. To experience regret now 182 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:29,800 Speaker 2: is to understand how to possibly avoid regret later. How's 183 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:32,480 Speaker 2: that for a philosophical quote You definitely never get from 184 00:10:32,520 --> 00:10:36,400 Speaker 2: that guy, Mark Kenyan. The truth is you're going to 185 00:10:36,480 --> 00:10:39,560 Speaker 2: face many, many choices in your hunting life, and throughout 186 00:10:39,559 --> 00:10:42,560 Speaker 2: this hunting season, as we gear up to get going, 187 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:46,920 Speaker 2: ask yourself what you can do. What situations in your 188 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:49,360 Speaker 2: life are right for regret if you don't take care 189 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:52,480 Speaker 2: of them, if you don't do them, are you talking 190 00:10:52,520 --> 00:10:54,880 Speaker 2: yourself out of an opportunity because it'll be easier to 191 00:10:54,960 --> 00:10:57,880 Speaker 2: just not go. Will it save a fight at home? 192 00:10:58,559 --> 00:11:02,319 Speaker 2: What's the motivation for your decisions? Or let's look at 193 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:05,760 Speaker 2: this another way. What's a hard decision you could make 194 00:11:05,840 --> 00:11:08,600 Speaker 2: this year that will most likely cause you to not 195 00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:13,080 Speaker 2: regret it. I'll start. It's not going out hunting. I 196 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:18,080 Speaker 2: want to selfishly for all the obvious reasons. But I 197 00:11:18,160 --> 00:11:20,640 Speaker 2: know if I stay home and I can bait bears 198 00:11:20,640 --> 00:11:23,040 Speaker 2: more and set up for the early deer season better, 199 00:11:23,280 --> 00:11:25,600 Speaker 2: and I can spend some time fishing with my girls 200 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:27,280 Speaker 2: when the trout will be hungry and this mom mouth 201 00:11:27,320 --> 00:11:30,439 Speaker 2: will be schooling up, I'm not going to regret it now. 202 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:32,440 Speaker 2: Is that stuff as cool as arrowing another bull in 203 00:11:32,440 --> 00:11:35,679 Speaker 2: the high country? I don't know. Maybe maybe not. But 204 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:38,280 Speaker 2: the right decision is sometimes shrouded in mystery when you 205 00:11:38,320 --> 00:11:41,800 Speaker 2: make it. What's going on in your life where you 206 00:11:41,800 --> 00:11:45,040 Speaker 2: could make a better hunting decision now, one that will 207 00:11:45,120 --> 00:11:47,720 Speaker 2: wipe away some potential regret and give you the feeling 208 00:11:47,760 --> 00:11:49,840 Speaker 2: that you'd have now if you looked into your brokerage 209 00:11:49,840 --> 00:11:52,480 Speaker 2: account and saw a cost basis for your apple shares 210 00:11:52,520 --> 00:11:55,600 Speaker 2: that is in the single digits. Let's look at an 211 00:11:55,600 --> 00:11:58,600 Speaker 2: easy one here. How much are you shooting your bow? 212 00:11:59,360 --> 00:12:03,400 Speaker 2: If the answer is not much, okay, But what's something 213 00:12:03,480 --> 00:12:06,480 Speaker 2: you'd likely regret for the rest of your life. How 214 00:12:06,480 --> 00:12:09,760 Speaker 2: about missing a buck that you could easily have hit 215 00:12:09,880 --> 00:12:13,559 Speaker 2: well or worse? How about hitting one poorly when you 216 00:12:13,640 --> 00:12:15,520 Speaker 2: have a perfect shot lined up in front of you. 217 00:12:16,480 --> 00:12:18,840 Speaker 2: Maybe there's nothing you could really do about a whiff 218 00:12:18,920 --> 00:12:22,079 Speaker 2: or a bad hit, but oftentimes there is. Maybe it's 219 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:24,840 Speaker 2: a matter of taking fifteen minutes today and tomorrow and 220 00:12:24,880 --> 00:12:28,120 Speaker 2: the next day to shoot your boat. Because if you 221 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:30,640 Speaker 2: sit in that stand or saddle and that buck of 222 00:12:30,679 --> 00:12:33,000 Speaker 2: your dreams walks into twenty three yards and you shoot 223 00:12:33,040 --> 00:12:35,680 Speaker 2: over his back or under his belly, because you're straight 224 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:38,760 Speaker 2: up shook. As the kids would probably say, you know what, 225 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:42,920 Speaker 2: You'll get to experience hindsight bias in real time, because 226 00:12:42,960 --> 00:12:45,200 Speaker 2: you'll not only think about how you knew you should 227 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:48,160 Speaker 2: have executed better during the shot, But how you could 228 00:12:48,160 --> 00:12:51,560 Speaker 2: have shot more all summer long and you didn't. You 229 00:12:51,640 --> 00:12:54,200 Speaker 2: just knew you should, but you didn't. Let's take that 230 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:58,840 Speaker 2: example and go a step further. This summer has been hot, 231 00:12:59,440 --> 00:13:02,200 Speaker 2: so stupid bit hot in fact, that it's kind of 232 00:13:02,240 --> 00:13:04,920 Speaker 2: crazy in a lot of places, going out to work 233 00:13:04,960 --> 00:13:07,679 Speaker 2: on stands and the scout deer on many of the 234 00:13:07,760 --> 00:13:10,920 Speaker 2: days we've had this summer just straight up nightmare fuel 235 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:13,440 Speaker 2: and mostly a non starter for a lot of folks. 236 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:16,680 Speaker 2: But what if you could have and if you had, 237 00:13:17,040 --> 00:13:20,040 Speaker 2: you would have trimmed your stand sites up nicely so 238 00:13:20,160 --> 00:13:22,280 Speaker 2: you could shoot the most likely spots for a buck 239 00:13:22,360 --> 00:13:25,560 Speaker 2: to be, but you didn't. And now it's mid September. 240 00:13:25,760 --> 00:13:28,400 Speaker 2: There he is mowing away on the beans while you 241 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:30,360 Speaker 2: couldn't get an arrow through there to save your life, 242 00:13:30,760 --> 00:13:35,520 Speaker 2: which ironically saves his life. What will you regret if 243 00:13:35,559 --> 00:13:38,200 Speaker 2: you don't do it? What's something you could do now 244 00:13:38,240 --> 00:13:41,959 Speaker 2: to alleviate that sinking feeling of suddenly knowing you should 245 00:13:41,960 --> 00:13:44,520 Speaker 2: have done something, something that you knew you should do 246 00:13:44,960 --> 00:13:48,719 Speaker 2: and you didn't. Maybe it's as simple as you've been 247 00:13:48,760 --> 00:13:51,120 Speaker 2: seeing some bucks in a certain corner of a field 248 00:13:51,520 --> 00:13:53,360 Speaker 2: and you know you should get a blind in there 249 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:56,439 Speaker 2: or a stand, even though you have a setup already 250 00:13:56,520 --> 00:13:58,800 Speaker 2: in place that's just down the woodline another one hundred 251 00:13:58,840 --> 00:14:01,560 Speaker 2: and fifty yards. Guess what's going to happen on opening 252 00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:03,280 Speaker 2: weekend if you don't set up right where you know 253 00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:07,360 Speaker 2: you should. Or how about this, I recently got permission 254 00:14:07,360 --> 00:14:09,880 Speaker 2: to hunt twenty five acres by my house. Now that 255 00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:12,559 Speaker 2: might not sound like much, but where I live it is. 256 00:14:12,840 --> 00:14:15,320 Speaker 2: It's a huge wind for me and the girls. The 257 00:14:15,440 --> 00:14:18,960 Speaker 2: downside was the guy who gave me a permission has 258 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:21,920 Speaker 2: been kind of flaky, or I thought he was anyway. 259 00:14:22,640 --> 00:14:24,280 Speaker 2: The first few times I tried to get him to 260 00:14:24,280 --> 00:14:26,280 Speaker 2: commit to taking a quick walk back there on his 261 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:28,520 Speaker 2: land to see the property lines and just what his 262 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:32,160 Speaker 2: ground has to offer, he either didn't respond or always 263 00:14:32,240 --> 00:14:36,040 Speaker 2: had some excuse. I could just feel that permission slipping 264 00:14:36,040 --> 00:14:39,160 Speaker 2: away and was hit with the old familiar feeling of 265 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:43,920 Speaker 2: being excited about something only to really be disappointed. Soon after, 266 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:47,240 Speaker 2: I told myself it was a lost cause and I 267 00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:51,240 Speaker 2: almost gave up. But looking at the bulldozers and the 268 00:14:51,320 --> 00:14:54,720 Speaker 2: mc mansions popping up on that only spot within two 269 00:14:54,760 --> 00:14:56,960 Speaker 2: hours of my house that I have permission prompted me 270 00:14:57,040 --> 00:15:00,240 Speaker 2: to give it one more go. I hate bothering people 271 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:03,320 Speaker 2: and have grown to really really hate talking to strangers, 272 00:15:03,760 --> 00:15:05,960 Speaker 2: so it was easy for me to adopt the mindset 273 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:09,080 Speaker 2: of the whole thing being another lesson learned. But I 274 00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:11,880 Speaker 2: texted the guy anyway and just said that my schedule 275 00:15:11,920 --> 00:15:13,920 Speaker 2: was opened for a quick walk if he was available. 276 00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:16,840 Speaker 2: I left it at that, and he responded with a 277 00:15:16,880 --> 00:15:19,640 Speaker 2: time to come over and said get on over here, 278 00:15:20,320 --> 00:15:22,800 Speaker 2: And he couldn't have been nicer. And I couldn't quite 279 00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:25,160 Speaker 2: believe it when I was standing over a secluded pond 280 00:15:25,160 --> 00:15:28,280 Speaker 2: in the middle of his property looking at a stupid 281 00:15:28,320 --> 00:15:30,280 Speaker 2: good spot to set up a blind. And then I 282 00:15:30,320 --> 00:15:32,400 Speaker 2: couldn't quite believe it when I saw some long beards 283 00:15:32,440 --> 00:15:34,840 Speaker 2: feeding away and he told me I could turkey hunt 284 00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:38,040 Speaker 2: anytime I wanted to. There, we jumped a few deer, 285 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:43,840 Speaker 2: found some absolute deer highways. I left the day in 286 00:15:43,880 --> 00:15:46,360 Speaker 2: a way where I would only describe our relationship as 287 00:15:46,400 --> 00:15:49,600 Speaker 2: being super best friends. Now, this guy's a very casual 288 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:52,280 Speaker 2: bowhunter who was about to learn a lot about bow hunting, 289 00:15:52,440 --> 00:15:54,680 Speaker 2: and I'm a very serious bow hunter who is very 290 00:15:54,760 --> 00:15:56,680 Speaker 2: happy to have some ground to hunt where the dough 291 00:15:56,680 --> 00:15:58,800 Speaker 2: tags are unlimited, and the drive to get there is 292 00:15:58,920 --> 00:16:02,960 Speaker 2: like eight minutes. If I hadn't texted him, i'd have 293 00:16:03,040 --> 00:16:07,040 Speaker 2: regretted it forever. But you know what, I figured it 294 00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:09,240 Speaker 2: was going to be a no, and so my hindsight 295 00:16:09,360 --> 00:16:14,880 Speaker 2: bias was actually wrong, dead wrong. The lesson there is this, 296 00:16:15,120 --> 00:16:19,000 Speaker 2: my friends, despite us believing from time to time that 297 00:16:19,040 --> 00:16:23,120 Speaker 2: we can actually predict the future, we can't. The best 298 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:26,120 Speaker 2: minds on Wall Street can't definitively say what company is 299 00:16:26,120 --> 00:16:28,680 Speaker 2: going to have the next trillion dollar market cap any 300 00:16:28,680 --> 00:16:31,200 Speaker 2: more than the average person can accurately predict the share 301 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:34,160 Speaker 2: price of any given publicly traded company at any point. 302 00:16:35,120 --> 00:16:37,840 Speaker 2: The best minds in the hunting space don't know what 303 00:16:37,880 --> 00:16:41,400 Speaker 2: the landscape looks like in ten or fifteen years. That's 304 00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:43,640 Speaker 2: just the truth. Hell, they don't know what it looks 305 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:46,520 Speaker 2: like next year. We have to work with what we 306 00:16:46,680 --> 00:16:48,920 Speaker 2: know and what we believe to be coming down the 307 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:51,960 Speaker 2: old pike which is short for turnpike. And I only 308 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:53,400 Speaker 2: know this because I had to look it up and 309 00:16:53,440 --> 00:16:55,320 Speaker 2: make sure that it wasn't actually supposed to be coming 310 00:16:55,360 --> 00:16:58,560 Speaker 2: down the pipe, which makes more sense for modern humans 311 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:02,880 Speaker 2: and super Mario Brothers enthusiast alike. The future is a mystery, 312 00:17:03,360 --> 00:17:05,640 Speaker 2: but you can take a look at your life thus 313 00:17:05,800 --> 00:17:09,800 Speaker 2: far and tally up some of your bigger regrets. Use 314 00:17:09,880 --> 00:17:12,080 Speaker 2: that list to help you make better decisions from here 315 00:17:12,119 --> 00:17:15,520 Speaker 2: on out. This, at least in the realm of hunting, 316 00:17:16,320 --> 00:17:19,119 Speaker 2: will get you into more beautiful places. It'll help you 317 00:17:19,160 --> 00:17:22,320 Speaker 2: fill more tags, It'll help you fill the freezer. It'll 318 00:17:22,359 --> 00:17:25,399 Speaker 2: help you fill up that intangible part of yourself that 319 00:17:25,520 --> 00:17:27,439 Speaker 2: just needs to spend some time in the woods to 320 00:17:27,520 --> 00:17:29,919 Speaker 2: shake off the ick that comes from work in life 321 00:17:30,320 --> 00:17:32,520 Speaker 2: and then not so fun stuff we fill our days with. 322 00:17:33,600 --> 00:17:36,320 Speaker 2: So think about that and think about coming back next 323 00:17:36,359 --> 00:17:38,679 Speaker 2: week because I'm going to talk about elk hunting, or 324 00:17:38,760 --> 00:17:41,400 Speaker 2: more specifically, how to get out on your first elk 325 00:17:41,480 --> 00:17:46,359 Speaker 2: hunt before it's too late. That's it for this week, 326 00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:48,600 Speaker 2: my friends. I'm Tony Peterson. This has been the Wired 327 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:51,000 Speaker 2: to Hunt Foundations podcast, which is brought to you by 328 00:17:51,040 --> 00:17:54,920 Speaker 2: First Light. If you're out there sweating and you want 329 00:17:54,960 --> 00:17:56,680 Speaker 2: to get some deer work done, you should at least 330 00:17:56,760 --> 00:18:00,679 Speaker 2: check out our trace lineup from first Light. Super cool. 331 00:18:01,119 --> 00:18:05,280 Speaker 2: It's built from fabric that really allows like a ton 332 00:18:05,359 --> 00:18:08,080 Speaker 2: of breatheability and It's kind of become my go to 333 00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:11,240 Speaker 2: for a lot of my early season and my summertime stuff. 334 00:18:11,359 --> 00:18:14,280 Speaker 2: You should also check out the Origin pant, which is 335 00:18:14,359 --> 00:18:18,960 Speaker 2: like this weird pajama type pant but works really well 336 00:18:19,040 --> 00:18:22,560 Speaker 2: for early season hunting. And as always, I want to 337 00:18:22,600 --> 00:18:25,760 Speaker 2: thank you for listening and for your support for myself 338 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:28,840 Speaker 2: and Mark and everybody at Mediator here. We really appreciate 339 00:18:28,880 --> 00:18:32,640 Speaker 2: you guys coming and giving us the support that you have. 340 00:18:33,320 --> 00:18:35,880 Speaker 2: If you want to check out some more hunting content, 341 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:39,000 Speaker 2: head on over to the mediater dot com. You'll see 342 00:18:39,359 --> 00:18:43,320 Speaker 2: tons of articles, video series, how to stuff, you name it, 343 00:18:43,320 --> 00:18:49,680 Speaker 2: it's all there, go check it out.