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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundations podcast, your guide

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Speaker 1: to the fundamentals of better deer hunting, and now your host,

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Speaker 1: Tony Peterson. Hey, everyone, welcome to the Wire to Hunt

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Speaker 1: Foundations podcast, which is brought to you by First Light.

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Speaker 1: Today's episode is all about those pesky little words always

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Speaker 1: and never and how they are, or at least can

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Speaker 1: be a deer hunter's biggest enemy. I'm a firm believer that,

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Speaker 1: you know, one of the things that holds us back

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Speaker 1: as a species and as individuals is that we cling

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Speaker 1: too tightly to what we believe. It's easier than being wrong,

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Speaker 1: of course, but it's also easier than having to think

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Speaker 1: through issues and explore ideas. We love shortcuts, and our

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Speaker 1: history is one that is tightly interwoven with intellectual ordcasts

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Speaker 1: that promised to do the thinking for us. That might

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Speaker 1: seem crazy, but it wasn't all that long ago that

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Speaker 1: we thought stupid stuff like piles of straw produced baby mice,

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Speaker 1: and then if we sailed far enough into the ocean,

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Speaker 1: we just fall right off the edge of the earth.

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Speaker 1: Deer hunters have many many outdated We're just not I

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Speaker 1: guess black and white ideas that hurt us too, and

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Speaker 1: in this episode, I'm gonna talk about a lot of them.

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Speaker 1: If you listen to this podcast enough, you know that

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Speaker 1: I love space. I just think it's pretty amazing what

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Speaker 1: we're learning, and really amazing what we could learn humans.

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Speaker 1: As long as we have been humans have been star gazers.

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Speaker 1: It really wasn't until probably about the nineteen fifties, when

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Speaker 1: there was a TV in every living room that this

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Speaker 1: really started to die, at least in develop nation anyway.

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Speaker 1: Plenty of people still like to go to places with

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Speaker 1: little light pollution and look up at the sky, which

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Speaker 1: is one of the most underrated benefits of a remote

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Speaker 1: hunt in my opinion. You know, I'm sure it's great

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Speaker 1: to bavy out for Elk at nine thousand feet on

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Speaker 1: the side of a mountain somewhere for obvious reasons, But

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Speaker 1: sitting there in the darkness, looking up at the sky

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Speaker 1: while listening for a bugle, it's pretty damn special because

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Speaker 1: of our fascination wonder with a night sky. Well, probably

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Speaker 1: the day skuy too, but mostly the night sky. We've

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Speaker 1: gone through some wild beliefs as humans. Take Mars, for example,

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Speaker 1: that red planet out there that Elon might get us too,

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Speaker 1: if he'd ever stopped messing around with Twitter and focus

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Speaker 1: on one thing. Anyway, Go back, I don't know, say

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Speaker 1: about five thousand years, and people thought that Mars was

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Speaker 1: a god. They saw a reddish light in the sky

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Speaker 1: that didn't quite look like normal stars, and that was

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Speaker 1: pretty special to them. They also noticed that every couple

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Speaker 1: of years it would be really visible and observation. They

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Speaker 1: added all kinds of un do significance too. Of course,

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Speaker 1: sometime a few centuries ago people started figuring out the

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Speaker 1: whole telescope thing, and Mars was a natural target for

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Speaker 1: some of those close up observations that early work. And

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Speaker 1: while people started getting a better look at the red planet,

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Speaker 1: the idea that since it was a planet and Earth

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Speaker 1: was a planet that happened to be teeming with life,

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Speaker 1: people assumed Mars too must have been full of life.

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Speaker 1: That's where Martians come from. Now. In the nineteenth century,

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Speaker 1: an Italian astronomer spent some time looking at Mars from

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Speaker 1: a telescope in Milan, and he decided to drop a

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Speaker 1: map of the planet. He names some motions and some continents,

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Speaker 1: and also thought he saw some intelligently constructed canals. Now

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Speaker 1: that was good enough for the masses, and it was

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Speaker 1: generally believed that Mars had not only a life, but

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Speaker 1: intelligent life, and not only that, but a lot of it.

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Speaker 1: Now about thirty five years later that Tesla Fella, the

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Speaker 1: original guy I even said that he had communicated with

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Speaker 1: Martians on his radio, and Tesla was well known for

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Speaker 1: his scientific discoveries and contributions. It's also, at least on

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Speaker 1: this one thing, totally full of shit. Now fast forward

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Speaker 1: and you get the NASA image of the face on Mars,

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Speaker 1: which is a rock with some shadows that kind of

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Speaker 1: look like a face. You probably remember it. You get

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Speaker 1: a meteorite discovered in Antarctica that had some markings on

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Speaker 1: it that kind of looked like bacteria. The rock, which

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Speaker 1: scientists trace back to Mars. Somehow lead some to believe

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Speaker 1: that there must have been bacteria on Mars, which later

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Speaker 1: investigation proof totally inconclusive. These days, we have probes flying

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Speaker 1: leaving samples on Mars and can tainers examples of dirts

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Speaker 1: Martian dust and rock. We now know that Mars was

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Speaker 1: with an atmosphere and plenty of liquid water. And there's

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Speaker 1: still so much we don't know because we've obviously never

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Speaker 1: been there. The things we believe today will inevitably be

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Speaker 1: hell does that have to do with the deer Well,

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Speaker 1: I'll bet you if you could go back in time

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Speaker 1: people would have told you flat out, of course, there's

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Speaker 1: life on Mars. Hell, there's intelligent life on Mars, lifelike humans,

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Speaker 1: in fact, humanoid things. Now those people were wrong, of course,

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Speaker 1: And in deer hunting, we do this all the time,

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Speaker 1: and we are wrong all the time, and the worst

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Speaker 1: part is we often don't know it because it's stuff

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Speaker 1: that's just generally believed, and that's I don't know. That's

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Speaker 1: where the real danger and our deer hunting beliefs come from,

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Speaker 1: and it starts with us filling into blanks. Those folks

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Speaker 1: back there living on the cusp of the Second Grade

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Speaker 1: War had very very little evidence of anything on ours,

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Speaker 1: let alone civilizations, but they had been told, you know,

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Speaker 1: for centuries that it was a certainty. Pop culture came in,

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Speaker 1: even if it was the old school radio pop culture,

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Speaker 1: and made them believe it even more. In the deer hunting,

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Speaker 1: you know, we've had a lot of ideas for a

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Speaker 1: long long time. We've had a massive influence from deer

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Speaker 1: hunting pop culture at least, you know, which is kind

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Speaker 1: of like our redneck version of pop culture that directly

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Speaker 1: relates to hunting rabbits with antlers, And we have taken

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Speaker 1: much of that as gospel, so much so that many

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Speaker 1: of the things that we believe can't be attributed to

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Speaker 1: any one person. So many of these things that are

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Speaker 1: dangerous because they've been here so long and they've sunk

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Speaker 1: pretty deep in. And here's why, what you don't see

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Speaker 1: through your own observations and don't learn through your own

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Speaker 1: stuff we do see for ourselves and experience for ourselves

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Speaker 1: is subject to our own fill in the blank biases. Now,

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Speaker 1: this is natural. I'm not trying to shoot on anyone here.

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Speaker 1: If you only have encounters with little Bucks and does,

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Speaker 1: you're going to have to live vicariously through somebody else

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Speaker 1: who encounters Big Bucks. Everybody does this with all kinds

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Speaker 1: just part of the human experience. What is dangerous about that, however,

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Speaker 1: is when it leads to always and never. Any time

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Speaker 1: ate a big wallefe filet and I'm now about to

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Speaker 1: die or come close to it. If you're confused by that,

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Speaker 1: it's okay, I'm allergic to fish, which is the kind

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Speaker 1: of information I should have told you before making that statement.

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Speaker 1: Always and never are your enemies. They're almost as bad

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Speaker 1: and damaging. The hunting success is sharing a property with

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Speaker 1: a bunch of hunters who don't know how to hunt.

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Speaker 1: I honestly believe that. So let's go through some of

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Speaker 1: these statements, because I want to drive this home, and

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Speaker 1: I'll start with an easy one. The Bucks never moved

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Speaker 1: when it's this hot, this or some version of it

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Speaker 1: is uttered probably hundreds of thousands of times throughout any

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Speaker 1: it drives me crazy because how hot is too hot?

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Speaker 1: How About I don't know what's hot in September versus November.

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Speaker 1: How About in the upper peninsula of Michigan versus the

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Speaker 1: swamps Louisiana. What's hot up there? What's hot down there?

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Speaker 1: Are there temperatures so hot that a buck won't go

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Speaker 1: November ten, maybe, but I'll bet those temperatures almost never

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Speaker 1: ever actually happen. What about wounded deer always going to

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Speaker 1: how often wounded deer break those two rules. How About,

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Speaker 1: on a more individual level, how often have you heard

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Speaker 1: someone say I never rattled to these bucks because they

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Speaker 1: after that, or whatever. They're always turns on this piece

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Speaker 1: lock ourselves into statements like those which are tied to beliefs,

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Speaker 1: we lose. It's plain and simple. This happens with outdoor

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Speaker 1: pursuits all of the time. I saw this so much

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Speaker 1: top waters. I never throw white or sharp true lures

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Speaker 1: on and on. Listen. Part of that's tied to confidence

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Speaker 1: and experience with whatever. But I can't universally be true

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Speaker 1: one else is gonna mess with your deer, never hunting

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Speaker 1: hunting situation. Many of our truths are just personal, and

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Speaker 1: beginning about your own observations. In this way, you're kind

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Speaker 1: of like a little white tail scientists. You're out there

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Speaker 1: trying to prove something wrong, not prove something right. So

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Speaker 1: only mature bucks respond positively to a snort wease, you

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Speaker 1: might never ever snort wease at a two year old

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Speaker 1: because you damn well know it's not gonna work. But

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Speaker 1: do you know that if you never try it, you're

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Speaker 1: proving them right. If you try it and that two

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Speaker 1: Something like it. If you believe that the October low

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Speaker 1: and you don't spend any time in a tree during

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Speaker 1: that part of October, guess what you're saying That never

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Speaker 1: statement is true. But what if you go out and

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Speaker 1: What if you find a banging river crossing that is

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Speaker 1: deer think they are safe to use it, even when

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Speaker 1: a lot of hunters would tell you that the bucks

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Speaker 1: will always be bettered all day long during that time

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Speaker 1: of the season. And maybe they're right about their dear,

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Speaker 1: but are they right about yours? How would you find

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Speaker 1: this out? Tearing these always and never statements to shreds

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Speaker 1: is one of the biggest benefits of traveling to hunt.

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Speaker 1: If you go elk hunting in Colorado, in and over

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Speaker 1: the counter unit, and you consumed any kind of content

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