1 00:00:01,280 --> 00:00:05,120 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundations podcast, your guide 2 00:00:05,120 --> 00:00:08,920 Speaker 1: to the fundamentals of better deer hunting, presented by first Light, 3 00:00:09,240 --> 00:00:13,600 Speaker 1: creating proven versatile hunting apparel for the stand, saddle or blind. 4 00:00:14,120 --> 00:00:18,680 Speaker 1: First Light, Go Farther, Stay Longer, and now your host 5 00:00:19,040 --> 00:00:19,919 Speaker 1: Tony Peterson. 6 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:23,040 Speaker 2: Hey everyone, welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundation's podcast, 7 00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:24,840 Speaker 2: which is brought to you by first Light. I'm your host, 8 00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:27,479 Speaker 2: Tony Peterson, and today's episode is all about all of 9 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:29,560 Speaker 2: the things that can go wrong when we hunt and 10 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:41,680 Speaker 2: how to eliminate as many of them as possible. Before 11 00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:43,520 Speaker 2: I get into this, I want to let you know 12 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:46,960 Speaker 2: that the Meat Eat or Trivia board game it's finally available. 13 00:00:47,479 --> 00:00:51,000 Speaker 2: This is a game where conservation literally wins every time, 14 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:54,280 Speaker 2: and that holds true when you buy it as well, 15 00:00:54,720 --> 00:00:59,200 Speaker 2: since one dollar from each purchase goes directly to conservation. So, 16 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:01,319 Speaker 2: if you've been listenstening and thinking that the crew at 17 00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:03,680 Speaker 2: Meat Eater is comprised of a bunch of dim witted, 18 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:06,840 Speaker 2: slack jawed First Light flunkies who really don't know the 19 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:09,759 Speaker 2: difference between a quail and an ostrich, now is your 20 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:12,360 Speaker 2: chance to show your stuff to your family or your 21 00:01:12,360 --> 00:01:16,000 Speaker 2: deer camp brothers and sisters or your bar buddies, head 22 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:18,800 Speaker 2: over to the medeater dot com check it out. While 23 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:21,560 Speaker 2: you're there, keep a lookout for other deals too. I 24 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:23,679 Speaker 2: know we have a lot of sales here at Mediator, 25 00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:27,080 Speaker 2: but our Black Friday sale is a monster. There's a 26 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:30,360 Speaker 2: ton of different products marked way down. So whether you're 27 00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:32,960 Speaker 2: having a little treat yourself moment or you need to 28 00:01:32,959 --> 00:01:35,600 Speaker 2: get a little Christmas shopping done, you might find something 29 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:38,240 Speaker 2: at the site that is perfect for either, and it 30 00:01:38,319 --> 00:01:43,520 Speaker 2: might just be way way marked down. Okay about this 31 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:47,160 Speaker 2: episode now. While our Southern hunting brothers and sisters might 32 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:51,160 Speaker 2: still be experiencing lots of rut, anticipation, and excitement, many 33 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:53,120 Speaker 2: of us are looking at the reality of the situation 34 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:55,680 Speaker 2: as it is now. The rut, for the most part, 35 00:01:56,120 --> 00:01:59,520 Speaker 2: is functionally over. Sure, you can chase the second run 36 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:01,360 Speaker 2: in a couple of or you could spend your time 37 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:05,040 Speaker 2: setting I don't know, unicorn traps probably have similar results. 38 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:09,120 Speaker 2: This week, it's a time for reflection and a time 39 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:11,280 Speaker 2: to think long and hard about what went wrong on 40 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:15,000 Speaker 2: your hunts. So buckle up, my little ombres, because it's 41 00:02:15,040 --> 00:02:24,080 Speaker 2: time to think about failure. All right, you guys, know 42 00:02:24,160 --> 00:02:26,880 Speaker 2: that I'm a space nerd. I fly that flag loud 43 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:29,320 Speaker 2: and prout, and even though Mark tries to make fun 44 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:31,360 Speaker 2: of me for it, we all know that space is 45 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:35,079 Speaker 2: ten billion times more interesting than pollinators or whatever weird 46 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:39,720 Speaker 2: shrub fetish the old mustachioed madman has. I don't remember 47 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:42,280 Speaker 2: when it was, and I'm too lazy to dig through 48 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:45,040 Speaker 2: my archives, but at one point I released a Foundations 49 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:47,800 Speaker 2: episode that was based around the building of the James 50 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:52,240 Speaker 2: Web Space Telescope and how they got into space, which 51 00:02:52,280 --> 00:02:54,840 Speaker 2: was no small feet. It took a huge team of 52 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:58,400 Speaker 2: people way too smart to spend their free time sitting 53 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:00,919 Speaker 2: in a Camo diper seventeen f feed up in a tree, 54 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:04,560 Speaker 2: trying and mostly failing to kill a deer. One of 55 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:07,760 Speaker 2: the interesting things about the process for building that telescope, 56 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:10,680 Speaker 2: which has allowed us to image galaxies that are as 57 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:13,919 Speaker 2: far away as about thirteen point four billion light years, 58 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:17,800 Speaker 2: or to frame that up, take thirteen point four billion 59 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:19,880 Speaker 2: times six trillion if you want to know how many 60 00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:24,519 Speaker 2: miles away that is. This telescope, which is a one 61 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:28,880 Speaker 2: of a kind. And I mean, after all, you couldn't 62 00:03:28,919 --> 00:03:31,520 Speaker 2: just send the blueprints to China or some other manufacturing 63 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:33,720 Speaker 2: nation and expect them to turn these suckers out. It 64 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:37,040 Speaker 2: literally is a one of a kind thing. This thing 65 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:40,080 Speaker 2: was decades in the making, and it's a piece of 66 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:45,280 Speaker 2: finely tooed scientific instruments that could fail in so many 67 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:49,240 Speaker 2: different ways. That's not even addressing the big one, which 68 00:03:49,280 --> 00:03:53,480 Speaker 2: is just getting it into space. Rockets and their highly 69 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:58,120 Speaker 2: flammable rocket fuel occasionally explode long before delivering their payloads 70 00:03:58,120 --> 00:04:01,240 Speaker 2: into space. Now, when something like the James Web Space 71 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:05,160 Speaker 2: Telescope gets into space, it's not a time to cheer 72 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:08,240 Speaker 2: too loudly just yet. Due to the size of it 73 00:04:08,320 --> 00:04:11,240 Speaker 2: and the design, this thing had to be folded up 74 00:04:11,480 --> 00:04:14,800 Speaker 2: and built to unfold and unfurl while it took a 75 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:18,520 Speaker 2: million mile journey to its final destination in space. There, 76 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:21,960 Speaker 2: it had to finish unfolding and unfurling, and then calibrate 77 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:25,360 Speaker 2: several mirror panels while also cooling off to a temperature 78 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:28,000 Speaker 2: that will allow it to image infra red light without 79 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:32,560 Speaker 2: any interference. I can't imagine the anxiety of being involved 80 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:35,800 Speaker 2: with that, mostly because the entire thing was built with 81 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:40,280 Speaker 2: three hundred and forty four single point failures. If any 82 00:04:40,320 --> 00:04:43,680 Speaker 2: of those three hundred and forty four failures happened, the 83 00:04:43,839 --> 00:04:48,360 Speaker 2: results were pretty severe and would disrupt the mission. In 84 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:52,279 Speaker 2: this case, from the super thin sunshield spreading out like 85 00:04:52,360 --> 00:04:56,040 Speaker 2: wings to the honeycomb shape primary mirror that is coated 86 00:04:56,080 --> 00:04:58,800 Speaker 2: with gold and looks pretty bad ass. Things had to 87 00:04:58,839 --> 00:05:02,080 Speaker 2: go perfectly right. If one of those three hundred and 88 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:05,200 Speaker 2: forty four had gone wrong, it's very likely that we 89 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:08,520 Speaker 2: would have launched a ten billion dollar paper weight into space. 90 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:13,279 Speaker 2: This is the nature of single point failures, but doesn't 91 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:16,880 Speaker 2: address them completely. A failure at one point might not 92 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:20,039 Speaker 2: necessarily mean a direct end to the functionality, but it 93 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:23,000 Speaker 2: would mean that other single point failures were about to happen. 94 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:27,080 Speaker 2: That's the old casgating failures concept. I know this sounds 95 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:28,760 Speaker 2: like a giant roll of the dice with a lot 96 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:31,760 Speaker 2: of taxpayer money involved, but the truth is the team 97 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:35,520 Speaker 2: that designed this deep space observer left as little two 98 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:39,279 Speaker 2: chance as possible. They weren't just crossing their fingers that 99 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:42,719 Speaker 2: it would work. They built in redundancies when they could, 100 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:46,040 Speaker 2: and were very diligent about testing and retesting the whole 101 00:05:46,040 --> 00:05:48,080 Speaker 2: thing in a lab before shooting it off into space. 102 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:51,680 Speaker 2: It worked even when the odds seemed like they were 103 00:05:51,760 --> 00:05:56,479 Speaker 2: way way stacked against the whole project. This, my friends, 104 00:05:57,160 --> 00:05:59,200 Speaker 2: is kind of like the odds of going out on 105 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:01,960 Speaker 2: any given city and killing a big buck or a 106 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:04,960 Speaker 2: medium sized buck, or if it's anything like my season, 107 00:06:05,160 --> 00:06:09,800 Speaker 2: a dough. There are single point failures in deer hunting, 108 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:12,440 Speaker 2: and they all have an opportunity to take us from 109 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:16,960 Speaker 2: deer hunting heroes to zero's real fast. Let me tell 110 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:19,400 Speaker 2: you about two that recently happened to me to frame 111 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:22,280 Speaker 2: this whole thing up. A couple of weeks ago, I 112 00:06:22,360 --> 00:06:24,320 Speaker 2: drove to the great state of North Dakota to try 113 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:26,919 Speaker 2: to arrow a public land buck. The spot I walked 114 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:29,040 Speaker 2: into is one that I hunted for a few days 115 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:32,520 Speaker 2: in twenty nineteen. Now I sat there for those days 116 00:06:32,839 --> 00:06:34,960 Speaker 2: and I killed a great buck. You know, it's a 117 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:38,359 Speaker 2: pinch point along a river, and it's prime spot for 118 00:06:38,440 --> 00:06:41,880 Speaker 2: bucks traveling during the rut. I figured, with the massive 119 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:44,239 Speaker 2: cold front we had and the general lay of the land, 120 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:46,760 Speaker 2: it would sort of be a done deal before too long. 121 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:50,520 Speaker 2: And honestly, the first year I saw after a few 122 00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:54,080 Speaker 2: hours of sitting was a very solid eleven pointer he 123 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:56,920 Speaker 2: walked into twenty six yards, and when my cameraman finally 124 00:06:56,920 --> 00:06:59,280 Speaker 2: had a clear view, I realized I was about to 125 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:01,480 Speaker 2: kill a big, big public land buck on my very 126 00:07:01,520 --> 00:07:04,440 Speaker 2: first sit. It was one of those shots where the 127 00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:08,320 Speaker 2: buck was totally relaxed. He was just munching on acorns, 128 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:10,640 Speaker 2: and I had all the time in the world. Now, 129 00:07:10,640 --> 00:07:12,880 Speaker 2: I remember my pin being right on his vitals, and 130 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:15,560 Speaker 2: when I hit the release, it should have been all over, 131 00:07:16,280 --> 00:07:18,640 Speaker 2: but what it sounded like was a very loud twang, 132 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:22,720 Speaker 2: and I watched a very healthy deer run away. I 133 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:25,360 Speaker 2: still don't know for sure what went wrong, but upon 134 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:28,760 Speaker 2: many many replays of the whole thing, it's clear that 135 00:07:28,840 --> 00:07:32,280 Speaker 2: my string caught on something. And listen, I was all 136 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:36,080 Speaker 2: bulked up because it was really cold and super windy, 137 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:38,880 Speaker 2: and I just didn't have the clearance I needed for 138 00:07:38,960 --> 00:07:43,760 Speaker 2: that shot angle. That's a single point failure. It was sad, 139 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:46,400 Speaker 2: but it got a lot sadder as I was recapping 140 00:07:46,440 --> 00:07:50,320 Speaker 2: the miss with the camera, and halfway through the cameraman's 141 00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:53,200 Speaker 2: eyes bugged out and he said, big buck right there. 142 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:55,520 Speaker 2: I turned around and found out that he was not 143 00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:59,680 Speaker 2: lying ten yards away looking at me was a really 144 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:02,680 Speaker 2: good buck. He wanted to get past us, but he 145 00:08:02,760 --> 00:08:04,960 Speaker 2: wasn't sure since he knew there were two dudes in 146 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:07,239 Speaker 2: the tree right next to him. When he looked away, 147 00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:09,840 Speaker 2: I drew, and when he started to move, I did 148 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:16,560 Speaker 2: something really, really dumb. I quietly murped him in my head. 149 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:18,840 Speaker 2: I thought he was leaving, so I tried to buy 150 00:08:18,880 --> 00:08:21,760 Speaker 2: myself an extra two seconds to aim and shoot. But 151 00:08:21,840 --> 00:08:24,720 Speaker 2: he was super close, and he was on edge, and 152 00:08:24,760 --> 00:08:28,080 Speaker 2: he wasn't having none of that shit. Single point failure 153 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:33,480 Speaker 2: number two, dumb, dumb, dumb. The ones that come directly 154 00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:36,760 Speaker 2: from our brain and influence our actions through an encounter 155 00:08:36,840 --> 00:08:38,760 Speaker 2: are the hardest to address, So I'm going to get 156 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:41,800 Speaker 2: to them later. Right now, I want to address some 157 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:44,320 Speaker 2: of the single point failures that just don't need to happen. 158 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:48,120 Speaker 2: I've been hunting cold weather white tails since I could hunt, 159 00:08:48,360 --> 00:08:51,160 Speaker 2: and when that big eleven point came in, I just 160 00:08:51,280 --> 00:08:53,880 Speaker 2: bulked up and closed. I had never worn before. I 161 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:56,720 Speaker 2: drew on stand, but I didn't really check my string clearance. 162 00:08:56,880 --> 00:08:59,040 Speaker 2: I didn't think I needed to do. You know how 163 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:02,559 Speaker 2: dumb that was, Because I do. That's a single point 164 00:09:02,559 --> 00:09:06,520 Speaker 2: failure you can address so easily. Another one might be 165 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:09,320 Speaker 2: just how loud your stand and stick set up is, 166 00:09:10,240 --> 00:09:12,800 Speaker 2: or if you aren't going mobile, how loud your setups 167 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:15,520 Speaker 2: are in general. Do you have a ladder stand that 168 00:09:15,559 --> 00:09:18,600 Speaker 2: always pops super loudly when you climb in. Does it 169 00:09:18,679 --> 00:09:21,400 Speaker 2: have those loose d clip things holding a ladder together 170 00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:25,120 Speaker 2: that are always making noise? Have you climbed in there 171 00:09:25,160 --> 00:09:28,280 Speaker 2: when it's sixty degrees and when it's ten degrees because 172 00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:31,200 Speaker 2: there might be a difference. One of the things I 173 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:33,120 Speaker 2: did this year when I had to hunt with Steve 174 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:35,920 Speaker 2: Ranella down in Oklahoma was it I bought a bunch 175 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:39,439 Speaker 2: of extra random stuff like toe ropes. I didn't know 176 00:09:39,480 --> 00:09:41,120 Speaker 2: if he or the camera guys would have the right 177 00:09:41,160 --> 00:09:43,120 Speaker 2: stuff for tree stand hunting, so I picked up some 178 00:09:43,280 --> 00:09:46,120 Speaker 2: extra stuff just in case that you always need on 179 00:09:46,160 --> 00:09:49,200 Speaker 2: every hunt. And the toe ropes I bought, they all 180 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:52,080 Speaker 2: have little metal carabiners on them. And you know what 181 00:09:52,160 --> 00:09:54,800 Speaker 2: happens when you're swinging ropes with little metal carabiners on 182 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:58,040 Speaker 2: them around, They ping off other metal pieces of gear. 183 00:09:59,040 --> 00:10:01,840 Speaker 2: Why we think we need constantly improve on good old 184 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:06,679 Speaker 2: no metal rope is beyond me. Why I use that 185 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:10,880 Speaker 2: stuff when I know better is also beyond me. Now 186 00:10:11,040 --> 00:10:13,120 Speaker 2: that might not be a single point failure in the 187 00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:16,760 Speaker 2: realm of a ruining a hunt type of thing, But 188 00:10:16,800 --> 00:10:20,400 Speaker 2: why risk it sitting a spot with the wrong wind. 189 00:10:20,880 --> 00:10:23,440 Speaker 2: Now that's a single point failure, that's a big one. 190 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:26,000 Speaker 2: But it isn't as simple as the wind blowing right 191 00:10:26,040 --> 00:10:28,600 Speaker 2: to where you think the deer will be. Of course, 192 00:10:28,960 --> 00:10:32,360 Speaker 2: that will derail your plans most likely, but too perfect 193 00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:35,160 Speaker 2: of a wind probably will too, at least in certain 194 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:39,120 Speaker 2: setups that aren't on movement funneling locations. If the deer 195 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:41,120 Speaker 2: have the option to get the wind in their favor 196 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:45,760 Speaker 2: when they travel, they almost always will. Now, if that's 197 00:10:45,800 --> 00:10:48,559 Speaker 2: the case on your perfect wind setup, your wind actually 198 00:10:48,640 --> 00:10:51,280 Speaker 2: might not be as good as it seems. You probably 199 00:10:51,320 --> 00:10:55,040 Speaker 2: know plenty of issues we often have with gear and 200 00:10:55,120 --> 00:10:58,000 Speaker 2: with where we choose to hunt based on conditions. But 201 00:10:58,080 --> 00:10:59,880 Speaker 2: do you know what the source of most of our 202 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:05,080 Speaker 2: hunting single point failures is our brains, which have a 203 00:11:05,120 --> 00:11:08,160 Speaker 2: tendency to function it less than optimal when a deer 204 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:11,680 Speaker 2: we want to shoot makes its presence known. The problem 205 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:13,840 Speaker 2: with this is that we feel like we need to 206 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:17,640 Speaker 2: make something happen. That little mirp that I gave that 207 00:11:17,720 --> 00:11:21,319 Speaker 2: second North Dakota buck, it was a huge single point failure. 208 00:11:21,559 --> 00:11:24,160 Speaker 2: It literally cost me that deer, and I have no 209 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:27,320 Speaker 2: one to blame but my own dumb ass. I'll never 210 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:29,600 Speaker 2: forget my good buddy telling me a story about hunting 211 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:32,920 Speaker 2: with a cousin of his, Like fifteen years ago. My 212 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:35,360 Speaker 2: buddy was running a camera and his cousin was running 213 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:37,440 Speaker 2: a bow. So as soon as they saw a good 214 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:41,000 Speaker 2: buck walking their way in the woods, my buddy started filming. 215 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:45,200 Speaker 2: What surprised him was hearing his cousin shuffle around and 216 00:11:45,240 --> 00:11:48,839 Speaker 2: then suddenly bang his rattling antlers together. That buck looked up, 217 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:52,760 Speaker 2: said ah, hell no, and turned around. Now let me 218 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:57,319 Speaker 2: explain this. That buck was walking in naturally, he probably 219 00:11:57,400 --> 00:12:00,000 Speaker 2: knew there weren't two big bucks about to square eye 220 00:12:00,160 --> 00:12:02,440 Speaker 2: sixty yards in front of him. You got the hunter 221 00:12:02,520 --> 00:12:06,400 Speaker 2: panicked and try to make something happen. Single point failure, 222 00:12:06,559 --> 00:12:11,240 Speaker 2: and man, that's a doozy closing time. Not when the 223 00:12:11,240 --> 00:12:13,480 Speaker 2: bars are shutting down, but when it's time for you 224 00:12:13,559 --> 00:12:16,200 Speaker 2: to seal the deal on a deer or where a 225 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:19,560 Speaker 2: hell of a lot of single point failures come into play. 226 00:12:19,679 --> 00:12:21,720 Speaker 2: This is one of the reasons I'm pretty sick of 227 00:12:21,760 --> 00:12:24,960 Speaker 2: trophy hunting. Honestly, I know we all want to kill 228 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:27,600 Speaker 2: big bucks, but you'll never be good at that unless 229 00:12:27,640 --> 00:12:29,960 Speaker 2: you get good at killing does and little bucks. There's 230 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:31,839 Speaker 2: no jump in the line on this one. And I'm 231 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:34,520 Speaker 2: sorry to tell you that the process of ranging a 232 00:12:34,559 --> 00:12:37,200 Speaker 2: deer and finding the exact moment to draw, using the 233 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:39,720 Speaker 2: right pin or dialing in correctly, and then if you 234 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:43,440 Speaker 2: have to stopping the deer to execute the shot man, 235 00:12:43,559 --> 00:12:46,480 Speaker 2: any of those things can go wrong, and when they do, 236 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:50,240 Speaker 2: most of the time, the whole thing's over. What compounds 237 00:12:50,280 --> 00:12:52,400 Speaker 2: that issue is that if you take some time to 238 00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:54,840 Speaker 2: figure out how to shoot four ky's and two year olds, 239 00:12:55,400 --> 00:12:57,640 Speaker 2: they may let you know some of those single point 240 00:12:57,640 --> 00:13:01,920 Speaker 2: failures slide that a mature deer just wouldn't. And on 241 00:13:01,960 --> 00:13:04,439 Speaker 2: that note, let me tell you something else. It's often 242 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:06,800 Speaker 2: harder to earn a really good shot opportunity and see 243 00:13:06,840 --> 00:13:09,280 Speaker 2: it through on a mature dough than a mature buck 244 00:13:09,880 --> 00:13:13,480 Speaker 2: in high pressure areas. A mature dough will just not 245 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:17,199 Speaker 2: tolerate your failures, and she's never going to be out 246 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:20,000 Speaker 2: of her mind crazy with lust like her boyfriend might be. 247 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:25,200 Speaker 2: Remember that in your process to become a better deer hunter. Now, 248 00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:28,560 Speaker 2: the more you work through a complex ripe for disaster 249 00:13:28,640 --> 00:13:31,120 Speaker 2: situation like trying to shoot a deer with a pointy stick. 250 00:13:31,960 --> 00:13:34,760 Speaker 2: The easier it becomes for you to engineer a scenario 251 00:13:34,920 --> 00:13:40,040 Speaker 2: where all of those single point failures remain unfailed. That's 252 00:13:40,080 --> 00:13:42,720 Speaker 2: not a word. I'm a writer, I swear, although I 253 00:13:42,720 --> 00:13:45,040 Speaker 2: am an outdoor writer. So the story kind of tracks. 254 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:48,600 Speaker 2: Of course, long before you get a shot. You might 255 00:13:48,640 --> 00:13:50,800 Speaker 2: have set yourself up for a single point failure that 256 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:54,280 Speaker 2: you don't even understand. I've talked about this a few times, 257 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:57,280 Speaker 2: but recently witnessed it in the northern Wisconsin. And I'll 258 00:13:57,320 --> 00:14:01,040 Speaker 2: tell you what laziness in general is your enemy. It's 259 00:14:01,040 --> 00:14:04,360 Speaker 2: a breeding ground for single point failures. You know, from 260 00:14:04,440 --> 00:14:06,960 Speaker 2: hunting easy stands to just not really scouting to you 261 00:14:07,040 --> 00:14:09,920 Speaker 2: name it. But one area where it's obvious to me 262 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:13,520 Speaker 2: is in where you park your vehicle. I have a 263 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:17,880 Speaker 2: neighbor to one of my Wisconsin properties who has forty acres. 264 00:14:18,360 --> 00:14:20,840 Speaker 2: The front half is a hayfield and the back half 265 00:14:21,160 --> 00:14:24,520 Speaker 2: is part high woods and part swamp. I'm just making 266 00:14:24,560 --> 00:14:27,600 Speaker 2: an educated guess here, but he's probably hunting the high 267 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:31,000 Speaker 2: woods which borders the Field's a strip of cover that's 268 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:32,760 Speaker 2: maybe one hundred yards wide from the look of it. 269 00:14:32,760 --> 00:14:35,600 Speaker 2: On on x now when I was there, hunting my 270 00:14:35,720 --> 00:14:39,160 Speaker 2: property next to his. Couple weeks ago. I saw his 271 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:42,040 Speaker 2: truck part right on the edge of that high woods, 272 00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:45,560 Speaker 2: right on the edge of the open hayfield during the rut. 273 00:14:46,640 --> 00:14:49,200 Speaker 2: Here's the thing about that, Any deer that comes into 274 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:51,200 Speaker 2: that field is going to spook because that truck is 275 00:14:51,240 --> 00:14:54,000 Speaker 2: only there when he hunts. Any deer that sees that 276 00:14:54,040 --> 00:14:57,240 Speaker 2: truck through the woods, he's probably gonna spook or get edgy. 277 00:14:57,920 --> 00:15:00,960 Speaker 2: And sure that might just be alone dough that's coming 278 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:02,800 Speaker 2: through that freaks out a bit or a little spike, 279 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:05,840 Speaker 2: but those negative reactions tend to change the vibe of 280 00:15:05,880 --> 00:15:09,800 Speaker 2: the woods. What's worse is that forty acres is roughly 281 00:15:09,880 --> 00:15:13,640 Speaker 2: four hundred yards by four hundred yards. If he parked 282 00:15:13,680 --> 00:15:16,160 Speaker 2: down the road and walked in, it would maybe tack 283 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:19,960 Speaker 2: on an extra ten minutes, but would almost guarantee a 284 00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:24,680 Speaker 2: different better hunt. To me, that's a single point failure. 285 00:15:24,720 --> 00:15:28,240 Speaker 2: That's just kind of unacceptable. And yes, he can walk 286 00:15:28,320 --> 00:15:30,680 Speaker 2: just fine. He's younger than I am and not suffering 287 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:35,800 Speaker 2: from some degenerative disease or recovering from a nasty skydiving accident. Now, 288 00:15:35,800 --> 00:15:39,160 Speaker 2: I recently did a podcast with Mark where we talked 289 00:15:39,160 --> 00:15:42,360 Speaker 2: about this quite a bit. And the truth is, while 290 00:15:42,360 --> 00:15:44,480 Speaker 2: I disagree with Kenyan on a lot of things, like 291 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:47,720 Speaker 2: the proper facial hair for a man, he's right about 292 00:15:47,720 --> 00:15:50,280 Speaker 2: how he thinks through hunting scenarios before he sets up. 293 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:53,400 Speaker 2: He's kind of a what can go wrong, probably will 294 00:15:53,440 --> 00:15:56,440 Speaker 2: go wrong kind of hunter, and I am too. This 295 00:15:56,480 --> 00:15:59,160 Speaker 2: is because there are hundreds of variables during every one 296 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:02,960 Speaker 2: of your hunts that is way beyond your control. What 297 00:16:03,240 --> 00:16:06,560 Speaker 2: is in your control are hundreds of other variables that 298 00:16:06,640 --> 00:16:09,560 Speaker 2: you should consider with most of your setups. I think 299 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:12,240 Speaker 2: this might be the biggest white tail single point failure 300 00:16:12,280 --> 00:16:15,160 Speaker 2: out there, which is not really considering how many things 301 00:16:15,280 --> 00:16:18,400 Speaker 2: can go wrong and not making a valiant effort to 302 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:21,440 Speaker 2: at least curb the most obvious ones, you know, the 303 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:25,320 Speaker 2: easiest ones to address, so to speak, because really, becoming 304 00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:28,840 Speaker 2: a consistently successful white tail hunter is just kind of 305 00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:32,160 Speaker 2: a war of attrition against your own ignorance and bad habits. 306 00:16:32,720 --> 00:16:34,520 Speaker 2: If that sounds too harsh, let me put it in 307 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:39,400 Speaker 2: a different way. Personally, I'm always fighting my own laziness 308 00:16:39,440 --> 00:16:42,920 Speaker 2: and my own second guessing. I'm constantly pulled toward easy 309 00:16:42,920 --> 00:16:45,680 Speaker 2: setups when I know that a little extra work is 310 00:16:45,760 --> 00:16:49,920 Speaker 2: almost always a better strategy. Experience teaches you the best 311 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:52,720 Speaker 2: way to do this stuff, but it doesn't totally erase 312 00:16:52,760 --> 00:16:55,320 Speaker 2: our desires to shortcut the whole process and just kind 313 00:16:55,320 --> 00:16:58,760 Speaker 2: of phone it in. But when we do that, that's 314 00:16:58,760 --> 00:17:01,000 Speaker 2: not where the rewards come from, and it's mostly a 315 00:17:01,040 --> 00:17:04,920 Speaker 2: recipe for frustration. A better bet that seems, you know, 316 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:07,320 Speaker 2: like less fun because it's more work, is to just 317 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:10,959 Speaker 2: put in the effort, think through what you're doing and 318 00:17:11,040 --> 00:17:14,000 Speaker 2: why you're doing it and what can go wrong if X, 319 00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:17,080 Speaker 2: Y or Z happens. You don't have to overthink it 320 00:17:17,080 --> 00:17:19,600 Speaker 2: to the point of vapor locking your brain, but you 321 00:17:19,640 --> 00:17:22,320 Speaker 2: should consider, you know, what are some of the biggest 322 00:17:22,359 --> 00:17:24,920 Speaker 2: single point failures you've dealt with, and try to figure 323 00:17:24,960 --> 00:17:28,480 Speaker 2: out how to mitigate them. Now, eventually some of the 324 00:17:28,520 --> 00:17:32,240 Speaker 2: issues that constantly plag other hunters will be nothing more 325 00:17:32,280 --> 00:17:34,840 Speaker 2: than a distant memory for you, and you can work 326 00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:38,160 Speaker 2: on more problems. This is a good strategy for life. Honestly, 327 00:17:38,560 --> 00:17:41,040 Speaker 2: take care of something little and let that good habit 328 00:17:41,119 --> 00:17:44,280 Speaker 2: snowball into something else, because if we go the other way, 329 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:47,000 Speaker 2: the single point failures might stack up into those cast 330 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:49,439 Speaker 2: gating failures, and that is not a fun place to be. 331 00:17:50,880 --> 00:17:53,480 Speaker 2: Think about this and think about coming back next week, 332 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:55,720 Speaker 2: because I'm going to talk about muzzle or hunting and 333 00:17:55,800 --> 00:17:58,240 Speaker 2: why I think it's the best opportunity for bow hunters 334 00:17:58,280 --> 00:18:01,160 Speaker 2: who want a little extra firepower on their side while 335 00:18:01,200 --> 00:18:03,440 Speaker 2: they hunt a season that most other hunters just don't 336 00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:06,920 Speaker 2: care a whole lot about. That's it for this week. 337 00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:08,720 Speaker 2: I'm Tony Peterson. This has been the Wire to Hunt 338 00:18:08,760 --> 00:18:11,280 Speaker 2: Foundations podcast, which is brought to you by First Light. 339 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:13,879 Speaker 2: As always, thank you so much for listening and so 340 00:18:14,040 --> 00:18:16,640 Speaker 2: much for your support. As I mentioned in the beginning, 341 00:18:17,080 --> 00:18:19,720 Speaker 2: Mediator has a monster sale going on right now. Head 342 00:18:19,720 --> 00:18:21,639 Speaker 2: on over to the site. 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