1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:05,720 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundations podcast, your guide 2 00:00:05,760 --> 00:00:10,360 Speaker 1: to the fundamentals of better deer hunting, and now your 3 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:15,680 Speaker 1: host Tony Peterson. Hey everyone, welcome to the wire to 4 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:18,000 Speaker 1: Hunt Foundations podcast, which has brought to you by First Light. 5 00:00:18,440 --> 00:00:20,799 Speaker 1: I'm your host, Tony Peterson, and today's episode is all 6 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:24,320 Speaker 1: about taking advantage of your best hunting situations and apologizing 7 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:40,440 Speaker 1: to no one. Okay, this is this is a weird episode, 8 00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:44,000 Speaker 1: so bear with me. The idea for it actually came 9 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:48,080 Speaker 1: from listening to the Exodus podcast a couple of weeks ago. No, 10 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:50,919 Speaker 1: those fellows over there at that company not only makes 11 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:53,279 Speaker 1: some pretty sweet trail cameras and some other outdoor gear, 12 00:00:53,720 --> 00:00:56,080 Speaker 1: but they also have a great podcast as well. And 13 00:00:56,080 --> 00:00:58,840 Speaker 1: in the episode I listened to, they actually talked about me, 14 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:02,240 Speaker 1: which was flatter ring and pretty sweet. But they also 15 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:05,080 Speaker 1: got onto the topic of where they hunt and the 16 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:07,920 Speaker 1: bucks they target, and it got me thinking. So now 17 00:01:08,319 --> 00:01:11,279 Speaker 1: you get to hear I guess what I was thinking. 18 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:28,280 Speaker 1: Perspective is important. You younger listeners might not quite grasp 19 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:31,679 Speaker 1: that yet, but but listen, trust me. As you get 20 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:33,720 Speaker 1: older and you get a little better at spotting the 21 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:36,480 Speaker 1: bs and a lot less tolerant of it, you start 22 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:39,360 Speaker 1: to realize a few things. One of those is that 23 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:44,880 Speaker 1: perspective is so important. Nuances to my old boss, Ben O'Brien, 24 00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:48,160 Speaker 1: who has moved on to things beyond the mediator world, 25 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:51,240 Speaker 1: often used to talk about how he was pro nuance. 26 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:54,040 Speaker 1: Ben's a smart guy, and he has dug into enough 27 00:01:54,080 --> 00:01:57,880 Speaker 1: issues to know and probably believe the old saying about 28 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:00,400 Speaker 1: their being three sides to every story. You his mind 29 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:03,400 Speaker 1: and the truth if you will. And why do I 30 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:08,160 Speaker 1: say this, Well, there's many reasons. Life has an annoying 31 00:02:08,240 --> 00:02:11,280 Speaker 1: habit of showing you how good life really is, or 32 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:14,800 Speaker 1: sometimes how bad it can be. I've mentioned this briefly 33 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:17,040 Speaker 1: on a few different episodes. But the people who I 34 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:20,320 Speaker 1: look up to more than most in this world, they're 35 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:22,240 Speaker 1: not the ones that are known for their hunting skills. 36 00:02:22,919 --> 00:02:25,200 Speaker 1: They happened to be a couple of my wife's relatives 37 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:29,359 Speaker 1: who lost the genetic lottery. When they conceived their second child. 38 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:35,040 Speaker 1: Their son, Jake, was born with mitochondrial disease. This isn't 39 00:02:35,040 --> 00:02:39,760 Speaker 1: a terribly common disease, but it is terrible. Period. Within 40 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:41,640 Speaker 1: the first two years of his life, it was evident 41 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:45,040 Speaker 1: he wasn't advancing on a normal toddler type schedule, and 42 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:47,200 Speaker 1: by the time he should have been in kindergarten playing 43 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:50,000 Speaker 1: with his peers, he was using a walker to barely 44 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:52,880 Speaker 1: get around. By the time he should have been in 45 00:02:52,919 --> 00:02:56,160 Speaker 1: second grade, he was on a feeding tube and then 46 00:02:56,160 --> 00:03:01,040 Speaker 1: a breathing tube full time in a wheelchair. Basically, he 47 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:05,440 Speaker 1: needed twenty four hour care and often, well pretty often 48 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:07,800 Speaker 1: an ambulance to take him in to the hospital for 49 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:12,679 Speaker 1: respiratory issues or worse. Jake's life and subsequently the life 50 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:16,040 Speaker 1: of his loved ones, was dominated by the effects of 51 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:20,160 Speaker 1: that mitochondrial disease. How a few days before Christmas last year, 52 00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:24,760 Speaker 1: his heart stopped. While medics eventually got it going, the 53 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:27,959 Speaker 1: brain damage had been done. The outlook was not good, 54 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:31,120 Speaker 1: and it got worse as the scans and the tests 55 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:34,440 Speaker 1: rolled in. When they took Jake off a life support, 56 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 1: he passed away a few minutes later at the age 57 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:42,000 Speaker 1: of fourteen. The weight of his death on his family's 58 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:45,760 Speaker 1: pretty heavy, real heavy stuff, my friends. It's hard to 59 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:49,520 Speaker 1: imagine a much worse hand to be dealt, although such 60 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:52,560 Speaker 1: hands are dealt every day in this world, and no 61 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:55,800 Speaker 1: one can say why. But it doesn't matter. If it 62 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:58,560 Speaker 1: could be explained to be honest. When you see the 63 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:00,640 Speaker 1: dice roll a certain way for full and there's no 64 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:03,800 Speaker 1: escaping the gravity of those situations. It makes me feel 65 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:06,440 Speaker 1: an inch tall when I bitch about missing a deer 66 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:08,680 Speaker 1: or not having a very good hunter or a very 67 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:11,800 Speaker 1: good season. It makes me feel like a great a 68 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:14,200 Speaker 1: piece of ship for all the complaints to be honest, 69 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:17,880 Speaker 1: and that's what this episode is about. When those fellows 70 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:21,560 Speaker 1: over at Exodus, Jake and Chad broke down this year 71 00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:24,359 Speaker 1: on their podcast the way I mentioned at the beginning, 72 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:27,080 Speaker 1: they got into the topic of how it almost seemed 73 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:30,760 Speaker 1: shameful to shoot a buck anywhere but on public land 74 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:34,679 Speaker 1: these days, and they both agreed that was pretty stupid. 75 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:39,440 Speaker 1: You know what I do too, even though I'm as 76 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:43,440 Speaker 1: guilty of pushing the public land message, I don't know 77 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:46,359 Speaker 1: more than just about anyone short of the hunting Public 78 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:50,039 Speaker 1: crew out there. But those guys, they're smart dudes that 79 00:04:50,080 --> 00:04:53,919 Speaker 1: they are. They were right. It doesn't matter where you 80 00:04:53,960 --> 00:04:56,200 Speaker 1: shoot your dear, you should be just happy to have 81 00:04:56,279 --> 00:05:00,040 Speaker 1: places to hunt. Now. I know that's an easy a 82 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:03,160 Speaker 1: thing to say, but it's harder to live that life 83 00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:06,760 Speaker 1: in practice. This is because the jealousy thing is so real, 84 00:05:07,240 --> 00:05:09,919 Speaker 1: and so is the reality that all of our egos 85 00:05:09,960 --> 00:05:12,080 Speaker 1: are just a little more fragile than we'd like to 86 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:15,320 Speaker 1: admit to our friends, let alone thousands of strangers who 87 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:17,760 Speaker 1: listened to you ramble on for seventeen or eighteen minutes 88 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:23,240 Speaker 1: a week. It's also easy to be judging. Well, maybe 89 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:25,800 Speaker 1: not for you, but for me. It's a freaking breeze. 90 00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:29,440 Speaker 1: I recently saw a thread on both site about an 91 00:05:29,480 --> 00:05:32,680 Speaker 1: industry fellow who claimed to have killed his six white till. 92 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:36,279 Speaker 1: I don't know the guy, but I do know his reputation, 93 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:38,480 Speaker 1: and I personally feel like he hasn't done US Hunters 94 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:40,840 Speaker 1: any favors, and I don't want to say his name. 95 00:05:41,839 --> 00:05:43,880 Speaker 1: So that was an easy one for me, though I 96 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:46,719 Speaker 1: could think without training the old gray matter too hard 97 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:49,160 Speaker 1: that I don't know, maybe he shot it illegally or 98 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:52,960 Speaker 1: with a ton of advantages. I mean, he does, after all, 99 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:56,560 Speaker 1: have a track record of some citations. But here's the thing, 100 00:05:56,600 --> 00:05:58,840 Speaker 1: I don't know anything about him. I don't know anything 101 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:02,240 Speaker 1: about his dear I know I don't like what he 102 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:05,799 Speaker 1: stands for kinda although in the eyes of plenty of people, 103 00:06:05,880 --> 00:06:08,520 Speaker 1: he and I have similar jobs. And probably look similarly 104 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:12,320 Speaker 1: do she. That's a bummer for me, But what am 105 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:15,120 Speaker 1: I gonna do about it? I don't know if the 106 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:18,000 Speaker 1: guy has any real hunting skill or not. It's easy 107 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:20,840 Speaker 1: again for me to think, well, I know he asked 108 00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:22,200 Speaker 1: quite a bit of land, and I would have worked 109 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:23,960 Speaker 1: with and I held a lot of money to work with. 110 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:27,320 Speaker 1: Those two things. Well, actually, just the money thing, they 111 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:30,800 Speaker 1: can get you to buck, maybe not six of them. 112 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:32,840 Speaker 1: It'll get you a hell of a lot faster than 113 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:37,200 Speaker 1: I don't scouting and whatever else will. But the real 114 00:06:37,279 --> 00:06:43,080 Speaker 1: question is why should I care? Shouldn't I be happy 115 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:46,480 Speaker 1: for him? Or at least I don't know, agnostic about it. 116 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:50,120 Speaker 1: It's harder than it looks, and honestly is fairly muddied 117 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:52,719 Speaker 1: up when you consider the representation of our industry and 118 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:56,200 Speaker 1: his legal issues. Fine, maybe that guy sucks and he 119 00:06:56,279 --> 00:06:59,560 Speaker 1: deserves to be judged, But what about some other random 120 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:03,760 Speaker 1: hunter who happens to arrow a giant? What's the first reaction? 121 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:09,160 Speaker 1: Mine is often to assume, which is a bad idea, 122 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:12,960 Speaker 1: that they must have a great place to hunt. Many do, 123 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:16,960 Speaker 1: But does that really take away anything from their kill? 124 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:20,200 Speaker 1: And why does it make me feel better to find 125 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:22,800 Speaker 1: out it's some blue collar man or woman who happened 126 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:25,080 Speaker 1: to knock on the right farmer's door, or better yet, 127 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:28,400 Speaker 1: get a little lucky on some state land. Why does 128 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:33,440 Speaker 1: that matter? It shouldn't, but I forget that all the time. 129 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:36,840 Speaker 1: It's hard not to get jealous. I had a conversation 130 00:07:36,880 --> 00:07:39,320 Speaker 1: with a buddy of mine recently where he mentioned that 131 00:07:39,320 --> 00:07:43,040 Speaker 1: it seems like everyone has more money than him, even 132 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:46,400 Speaker 1: though he knows that's not true. He's just perceiving the 133 00:07:46,440 --> 00:07:48,800 Speaker 1: world that way. And I think a lot of us 134 00:07:48,800 --> 00:07:51,880 Speaker 1: do this in so many different ways. When I go 135 00:07:51,960 --> 00:07:54,600 Speaker 1: up to the lake where we have our travel trailer, 136 00:07:55,440 --> 00:07:59,400 Speaker 1: I see bass boats that would cost sure grand new. 137 00:07:59,480 --> 00:08:03,760 Speaker 1: Now I see wake boats that cost double that, and 138 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:06,280 Speaker 1: I always think, where the hell do these people get 139 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:09,160 Speaker 1: their money, and why can't I have some of it? 140 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:13,160 Speaker 1: And then I realized, well, I have a bass boat. 141 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:18,200 Speaker 1: It's certainly not new, but a hell of a lot 142 00:08:18,240 --> 00:08:21,960 Speaker 1: of people in a little aluminum deep v boats have 143 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:24,800 Speaker 1: commented on how much they liked the look of that boat. 144 00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:28,200 Speaker 1: I'm sure the folks I see paddling around in canoes 145 00:08:28,480 --> 00:08:30,520 Speaker 1: kayaks might trade me for a day or maybe a 146 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:34,880 Speaker 1: summer too. When I was younger, and I couldn't kill 147 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:37,720 Speaker 1: a deer despite hours and hours and hours of effort. 148 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:41,040 Speaker 1: I always sort of hated the guys who wrote for magazines. 149 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:45,480 Speaker 1: I softly despised. I don't like the Real Tree crew, 150 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:47,720 Speaker 1: or the Monster Bucks crew, or the premost guys, or 151 00:08:47,840 --> 00:08:50,880 Speaker 1: whoever was making the videos. I saw where they were 152 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:56,280 Speaker 1: routinely killing bucks way bigger than I ever saw, literally 153 00:08:56,320 --> 00:08:59,520 Speaker 1: ever saw in my life hunting or not hunting. But 154 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:04,920 Speaker 1: why because I was jealous. I wanted what they had. 155 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:09,199 Speaker 1: I don't actually want to wake boat, for example. In fact, 156 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:12,160 Speaker 1: I hate them, but I wish I got a forward one. 157 00:09:13,160 --> 00:09:14,920 Speaker 1: I don't want to shoot a high fence deer without 158 00:09:14,920 --> 00:09:18,200 Speaker 1: defences on a primo managed piece of ground either. I 159 00:09:18,280 --> 00:09:21,680 Speaker 1: just want the offer, maybe the invite. I want to 160 00:09:21,679 --> 00:09:23,200 Speaker 1: be able to look people in the eye and tell 161 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:26,439 Speaker 1: them I could have hunted someplace really sweet, but I'm 162 00:09:26,440 --> 00:09:29,920 Speaker 1: gonna go grind it out on public. Why does that matter? 163 00:09:31,040 --> 00:09:34,520 Speaker 1: It doesn't. But it's a way of thinking. It's a 164 00:09:34,640 --> 00:09:37,640 Speaker 1: stuck in the Rutt mindset, which is kind of damaging. 165 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:41,160 Speaker 1: It's like, right now, if you take five seconds to 166 00:09:41,160 --> 00:09:45,800 Speaker 1: read about the economy, you'll be bombarded with negativity. Inflation 167 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:47,840 Speaker 1: has the cost of all the essentials in our life 168 00:09:47,840 --> 00:09:50,800 Speaker 1: away way higher than a couple of years ago. The 169 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:53,360 Speaker 1: stock market isn't trending in a direction that produces tons 170 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:57,000 Speaker 1: of millionaires unless you're really good at shorting stocks. Demand 171 00:09:57,040 --> 00:09:59,400 Speaker 1: for housing is abating, people are putting more money on 172 00:09:59,440 --> 00:10:04,240 Speaker 1: credit cards. On the surface, not so great. Underneath the surface, 173 00:10:04,840 --> 00:10:09,719 Speaker 1: also not so great. Many people, especially young people, will 174 00:10:09,760 --> 00:10:11,679 Speaker 1: look at this as another grand kick to the old 175 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:14,000 Speaker 1: nut sack from the boomers who control the whole machine, 176 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:16,760 Speaker 1: or some other such excuse which doesn't hold a whole 177 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:21,600 Speaker 1: lot of water. It's a prime breeding ground for negativity 178 00:10:21,679 --> 00:10:25,200 Speaker 1: and the mindset that once broke, always broke, or that 179 00:10:25,640 --> 00:10:28,760 Speaker 1: you never get ahead in this world. But the folks 180 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:30,880 Speaker 1: who have weathered through a few bare markets are actually 181 00:10:30,920 --> 00:10:32,920 Speaker 1: looking at it like it's an opportunity to follow the 182 00:10:32,960 --> 00:10:36,520 Speaker 1: old oracle of Omaha into some discounted shares of solid companies. 183 00:10:37,520 --> 00:10:39,880 Speaker 1: Maybe they're buying into the whole market, maybe some I 184 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:44,400 Speaker 1: bonds or some other inflation protected asset. The mindset is, 185 00:10:45,280 --> 00:10:47,839 Speaker 1: it's probably not as bad as it seems, if I 186 00:10:47,880 --> 00:10:50,560 Speaker 1: can make a few good decisions from here until this 187 00:10:50,640 --> 00:10:54,080 Speaker 1: thing starts to turn around, and these folks who own 188 00:10:54,160 --> 00:10:57,880 Speaker 1: their mindset and can make a few disciplined decisions will 189 00:10:57,920 --> 00:11:00,199 Speaker 1: probably end up pretty happy with themselves when the whole 190 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:03,640 Speaker 1: thing balances out and starts turning black again. In more 191 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:07,120 Speaker 1: often than it turns red, because the way we think 192 00:11:07,160 --> 00:11:10,120 Speaker 1: about this stuff matters so much. If you have a 193 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:14,080 Speaker 1: bad attitude, you're stuck on public land while so many 194 00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:16,360 Speaker 1: people are growing and naming deer on sweet little pieces 195 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:18,920 Speaker 1: of paradise where the bucks never look up in trees 196 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:21,160 Speaker 1: and the genetics are hands selected by the big man 197 00:11:21,160 --> 00:11:23,560 Speaker 1: in the sky himself to produce I don't know, top 198 00:11:23,640 --> 00:11:29,000 Speaker 1: end typicals and gnarly points everywhere non typicals. I'll bet 199 00:11:29,040 --> 00:11:31,600 Speaker 1: someone would still change places with you. Even if you're 200 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:33,280 Speaker 1: just pounding out on public land and you don't have 201 00:11:33,280 --> 00:11:38,160 Speaker 1: that dream scenario. Think about that. You might not get 202 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:41,360 Speaker 1: to hunt that. I don't know, easy babysat deer. That 203 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:45,679 Speaker 1: would make a great TV show, kind of buck. That's okay. 204 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:49,080 Speaker 1: Some people look into spots like that. Some people work 205 00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:52,720 Speaker 1: their asses off somewhere else to buy into that world. 206 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:58,080 Speaker 1: If you won't or can't, that's okay. Ask yourself, what 207 00:11:58,160 --> 00:12:01,679 Speaker 1: do you have that's still pretty sweet. Do you have 208 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:05,240 Speaker 1: land that you can hunt any time? That's pretty good, 209 00:12:05,880 --> 00:12:08,320 Speaker 1: It really is. And even if we often bitch about 210 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:10,920 Speaker 1: public land and look down on it at least until 211 00:12:10,920 --> 00:12:13,480 Speaker 1: we kill something on it and can brag away, the 212 00:12:13,559 --> 00:12:16,120 Speaker 1: truth is it's better than living where you have no 213 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:20,280 Speaker 1: public land hunt. That's pretty simple, right. It's kind of 214 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:22,720 Speaker 1: like having a I don't know, a cheap fourteen ft 215 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:26,000 Speaker 1: aluminum boat with a twenty horsepower tiller steered motor on 216 00:12:26,040 --> 00:12:30,120 Speaker 1: It is better than fishing from shore. Having a spot 217 00:12:30,160 --> 00:12:33,240 Speaker 1: to go to where you can at least theoretically kill 218 00:12:33,280 --> 00:12:36,679 Speaker 1: a deer or two is a lot better than not 219 00:12:36,760 --> 00:12:40,800 Speaker 1: having any place to go hunt better. Yet, with that land, 220 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:43,360 Speaker 1: you have the option of putting in some sweat equity 221 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:46,480 Speaker 1: to influence your results in a positive way. That's kind 222 00:12:46,520 --> 00:12:49,600 Speaker 1: of a bonus, isn't it. So What if your wife's 223 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:52,599 Speaker 1: cousin works in finance and has money to buy I 224 00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:55,160 Speaker 1: don't know, fifteen thousand dollar landowner tag out west to 225 00:12:55,240 --> 00:12:58,360 Speaker 1: hunt elk that bugles so much they sometimes pass out 226 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:01,040 Speaker 1: from the effort. What if you can't afford and over 227 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:03,400 Speaker 1: the counter elk hunt in a trampled unit, even if 228 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:06,040 Speaker 1: you lived on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for ten days, 229 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:08,600 Speaker 1: and someone spotted you the gas money to get there. 230 00:13:09,760 --> 00:13:12,880 Speaker 1: Find something else. Maybe the mountains are out of reach, 231 00:13:13,520 --> 00:13:15,600 Speaker 1: but a couple of days across the state line with 232 00:13:15,600 --> 00:13:17,600 Speaker 1: your buddies for some turkeys or small game or white 233 00:13:17,600 --> 00:13:21,640 Speaker 1: tails or whatever that could be in the cards. Maybe 234 00:13:21,640 --> 00:13:24,599 Speaker 1: you'll never get to fish the ocean, but maybe you 235 00:13:24,679 --> 00:13:27,000 Speaker 1: have some pretty sweet little trout streams near your house 236 00:13:27,320 --> 00:13:30,520 Speaker 1: that you can fish any damn time you please. That's 237 00:13:30,559 --> 00:13:34,040 Speaker 1: not nothing, and it doesn't do us any good to 238 00:13:34,040 --> 00:13:36,120 Speaker 1: focus on the asshole who can afford to fish in 239 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:38,880 Speaker 1: the ocean. It doesn't do us any good to keep 240 00:13:38,920 --> 00:13:41,400 Speaker 1: up with the hunting jones is because they probably aren't 241 00:13:41,400 --> 00:13:44,760 Speaker 1: any happier than you are, or maybe they are, and 242 00:13:44,760 --> 00:13:46,800 Speaker 1: it's on you to be a little bit happier about 243 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:50,280 Speaker 1: what you do have. That's what I'm trying to do. 244 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:53,320 Speaker 1: If you have a bad ass spot to hunt deer 245 00:13:53,559 --> 00:13:55,280 Speaker 1: and never really see a reason to pick up your 246 00:13:55,280 --> 00:13:58,280 Speaker 1: bow unless he's a one eighty year better good for you. 247 00:13:59,200 --> 00:14:01,280 Speaker 1: Help every once in a while you take somebody out 248 00:14:01,280 --> 00:14:03,319 Speaker 1: to hunt dos or shed hunt or something, because that's 249 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:06,679 Speaker 1: a gift worth sharing. But The same goes for the 250 00:14:06,720 --> 00:14:09,160 Speaker 1: public land hunter scraping by in an attempt to shoot 251 00:14:09,160 --> 00:14:11,840 Speaker 1: a dough or a forky. It could always be worse. 252 00:14:12,520 --> 00:14:15,679 Speaker 1: You could not hunt or not have a place to hunt, 253 00:14:16,080 --> 00:14:18,080 Speaker 1: or have an accident at work that breaks both of 254 00:14:18,080 --> 00:14:20,160 Speaker 1: your arms the day before the bow season opens up, 255 00:14:21,160 --> 00:14:23,720 Speaker 1: or worse, an accident at home that breaks both of 256 00:14:23,760 --> 00:14:26,440 Speaker 1: your arms because you're doing something stupid like spraying hornets 257 00:14:26,440 --> 00:14:28,320 Speaker 1: on the eaves of your house and the ladder falls 258 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:31,840 Speaker 1: over when you get stung right between the eyes. Or hell, 259 00:14:32,680 --> 00:14:34,320 Speaker 1: you find out that you and your wife happen to 260 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:37,680 Speaker 1: carry a rare, recessive gene and occasionally, in that situation, 261 00:14:37,720 --> 00:14:40,160 Speaker 1: when you make a child together, that child will live 262 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:43,760 Speaker 1: a short life with a horrible disease. Perspective, my friends, 263 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:47,240 Speaker 1: things could always be worse. So maybe we shouldn't be 264 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:51,040 Speaker 1: trying to make things worse for ourselves or others. Maybe 265 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:53,240 Speaker 1: we should just be happy for the fortunate souls who 266 00:14:53,280 --> 00:14:55,640 Speaker 1: happened to be born into a family that just happen 267 00:14:55,680 --> 00:14:58,280 Speaker 1: to start buying southern Iowa ground in the nineteen fifties 268 00:14:58,480 --> 00:15:00,560 Speaker 1: and now sits on a couple of sections of the 269 00:15:00,560 --> 00:15:04,600 Speaker 1: best deer dirt out there. We should be happy for 270 00:15:04,640 --> 00:15:06,400 Speaker 1: the hard worker who saves up for the trip to 271 00:15:06,440 --> 00:15:09,320 Speaker 1: the mountains to hear a real bugle at least once, 272 00:15:10,520 --> 00:15:12,600 Speaker 1: or the person who talks his buddies into paying for 273 00:15:12,600 --> 00:15:14,520 Speaker 1: at least to experience the deer hunting the way he 274 00:15:14,560 --> 00:15:19,320 Speaker 1: and his buddies want to experience it. Life isn't fair, 275 00:15:19,760 --> 00:15:23,760 Speaker 1: It isn't equitable in its distributional wealth and of opportunity. 276 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:27,480 Speaker 1: But if you're up walking and talking and capable of 277 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:29,600 Speaker 1: climbing into a tree stand and holding a bow up 278 00:15:29,640 --> 00:15:33,440 Speaker 1: to shoot it, you're probably doing all right. If you 279 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:35,520 Speaker 1: have a little cabin to go to for the firearms 280 00:15:35,560 --> 00:15:37,880 Speaker 1: season where some good friends and a few year relatives 281 00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:40,040 Speaker 1: will be and you get to play some cards and 282 00:15:40,040 --> 00:15:42,480 Speaker 1: eat some chili and drag out a few deer, I'd 283 00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:45,120 Speaker 1: say you're pretty damn lucky, and I'm happy for you. 284 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:49,680 Speaker 1: I'm happy for all of us. Honestly, those of us 285 00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:53,360 Speaker 1: who love to deer hunt, we already have a leg 286 00:15:53,440 --> 00:15:56,040 Speaker 1: up on the rest of the population. I truly believe that. 287 00:15:56,800 --> 00:15:58,440 Speaker 1: Do you know how exciting it is to see a 288 00:15:58,440 --> 00:16:00,720 Speaker 1: good buck walking down the trail when you know he's 289 00:16:00,760 --> 00:16:03,120 Speaker 1: going to eventually be in range and you're eventually going 290 00:16:03,160 --> 00:16:06,720 Speaker 1: to shoot at him. That's what Daddy likes. And the 291 00:16:06,760 --> 00:16:10,440 Speaker 1: folks who don't know that feeling, they're everywhere and they 292 00:16:10,560 --> 00:16:15,000 Speaker 1: don't even know what they're missing. We do, you and 293 00:16:15,040 --> 00:16:19,240 Speaker 1: I the hunters, So really, no matter where you hunt, 294 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:23,920 Speaker 1: why you hunt, or whatever, I'm actually happy for you 295 00:16:24,920 --> 00:16:27,360 Speaker 1: white tail hunting successfully. And by that I mean in 296 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:30,640 Speaker 1: a way that is rewarding. Whether you slay booners every 297 00:16:30,760 --> 00:16:32,560 Speaker 1: year or couldn't kill a button buck on a high 298 00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:35,840 Speaker 1: fence corn pile with a week's worth of effort, it's 299 00:16:35,840 --> 00:16:38,360 Speaker 1: the goal, and it doesn't matter where we do it 300 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:42,240 Speaker 1: or what the final score is. Whether we notched a 301 00:16:42,280 --> 00:16:44,640 Speaker 1: deer tag on private land or the most heavily hunted 302 00:16:44,640 --> 00:16:48,360 Speaker 1: piece of public land out east somewhere, doesn't matter. It's 303 00:16:48,400 --> 00:16:51,080 Speaker 1: all good and we should all be happy we still 304 00:16:51,160 --> 00:16:54,240 Speaker 1: have some fellow hunters out there fighting the good fight 305 00:16:54,520 --> 00:16:59,080 Speaker 1: and living for the same reasons we live for. That's 306 00:16:59,080 --> 00:17:00,840 Speaker 1: all I have for this up episode. This has been 307 00:17:00,840 --> 00:17:03,240 Speaker 1: the Wire to Hunt Foundations podcast, brought you by First Light. 308 00:17:03,440 --> 00:17:05,960 Speaker 1: I'm Tony Peterson, and I sincerely want to thank you 309 00:17:06,080 --> 00:17:09,440 Speaker 1: for the support and if you need more white tail wisdom, 310 00:17:09,640 --> 00:17:11,840 Speaker 1: head on over to the mediator dot com slash wired 311 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:14,600 Speaker 1: and check out my latest articles, along with articles from 312 00:17:14,640 --> 00:17:17,520 Speaker 1: Mark and Beau Martinic and Alex Gilstrom in a whole 313 00:17:17,520 --> 00:17:20,040 Speaker 1: bunch of white Tail Killers. And you can also view 314 00:17:20,080 --> 00:17:22,159 Speaker 1: a ton of how to videos on our wire to 315 00:17:22,240 --> 00:17:25,760 Speaker 1: Hunt YouTube channel, where Mr Kenyon and myself break down 316 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:27,400 Speaker 1: all kinds of deer hunting strategies.