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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, presented by first Light,

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Speaker 1: creating proven versatile hunting apparel for the stand, saddle or blind.

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Speaker 1: First Light Go Farther, Stay Longer, and now your host

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Speaker 1: Tony Peterson.

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Speaker 2: Hey everyone, welcome to the Wire to Hunt Foundation's podcast,

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Speaker 2: which is brought to you by First Light. I'm your host,

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Speaker 2: Tony Peterson, and today's episode is all about taking your

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Speaker 2: dear future seriously right now. Look, I know this is

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Speaker 2: a weird time to be thinking about white tails, you know,

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Speaker 2: but is there really a bad time of the year

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Speaker 2: to be thinking about white tails? I'd say no, and

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Speaker 2: I would guess even Mark would agree with that, although

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Speaker 2: he's probably mostly thinking about fly fishing for tiny trout

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Speaker 2: and busting out his custom made, handcrafted butterfly nuts. There's

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Speaker 2: always something to do with white tails, and that might be,

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Speaker 2: you know, as simple as shooting a little more, getting

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Speaker 2: your gear in order, putting some of that gear to

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Speaker 2: good use before August, when the reality of a rapidly

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Speaker 2: approaching season smacks you like a dead fish on the

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Speaker 2: side of your skull. This is what I'm going to

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Speaker 2: talk about right now. One thing that struck me last season,

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Speaker 2: as I was standing in the rain on a highway

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Speaker 2: in northern Wisconsin with a bloody felet knife in my hands,

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Speaker 2: was that the work that I do for white tails

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Speaker 2: often doesn't really pay off with dead bucks. As I

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Speaker 2: looked at the various pieces of my truck scattered across

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Speaker 2: the road and the dead dough in the ditch, I

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Speaker 2: realized that the hunt that I was really really looking

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Speaker 2: forward to was already over on the same day that

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Speaker 2: it had started. It was a hunt I had talked

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Speaker 2: about on this show A Whole Bunch and on our

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Speaker 2: main Wired Hunt show several times. I was so confident

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Speaker 2: i'd kill a buck that week out of a stand

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Speaker 2: I hung in April that it never occurred to me

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Speaker 2: that I wouldn't. I mean, I literally never even considered

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Speaker 2: And it stung knowing that I had gotten way ahead

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Speaker 2: of the work and I had laid what I thought

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Speaker 2: was a perfect trap, and then in an instant, it

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Speaker 2: all changed. Now, I'm naturally a pretty negative person, which

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Speaker 2: is you can imagine, doesn't do me too many favors

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Speaker 2: when I talk to somebody like Yannis, I'm instantly jealous.

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Speaker 2: He sees the good side of nearly everything, and if

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Speaker 2: I could figure out a way to steal that from him,

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Speaker 2: well I probably wouldn't, but I definitely consider it. That

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Speaker 2: natural inclination makes me think about hitting that dough and

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Speaker 2: missing out on a hunt without a cameraman over my shoulder,

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Speaker 2: And you know, it's easy for me to think that

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Speaker 2: that's what mostly happens, That something just goes to shit,

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Speaker 2: and whatever good thing I expected was never going to happen,

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Speaker 2: because after all, why would it. But the thing is,

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Speaker 2: most of what I do for dear season doesn't work

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Speaker 2: very well. Most of what you do doesn't either, because

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Speaker 2: you know, if it did, you'd be hosting this podcast

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Speaker 2: and I'd be laying sod and drinking long next on

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Speaker 2: the weekend somewhere or something. I don't know, but it's

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Speaker 2: decide the extra work, especially the stuff you can do now,

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Speaker 2: doesn't have the kind of ROI necessary to make it

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Speaker 2: with the actual hunting season and all of the excuses

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Speaker 2: that we use to not hunt, but we can also

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Speaker 2: the off season either, or at least this part of

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Speaker 2: But there's always something worth doing, and for me, the

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Speaker 2: easiest way to figure out what that is is to

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Speaker 2: spent quite a bit of time trying to figure out

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Speaker 2: over the last decade and a half, and it has

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Speaker 2: bad as I will for a long time when buck

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Speaker 2: Fever just about pushed me into being a golfer. But

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Speaker 2: And last year I made three bad shots in a row.

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Speaker 2: Now that really bothers me, especially since they were all

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Speaker 2: the stage of my life I'm sure a lot of

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Speaker 2: and about a billion non work and non family things

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Speaker 2: I'm not going to give myself that excuse this year,

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Speaker 2: and at the very least, it makes me feel better

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Speaker 2: about my prospects this fall for putting together a string

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Speaker 2: of many shots, all of which I can be proud of,

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Speaker 2: and shooting is important. In case you didn't think I

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Speaker 2: could say the most obvious shit possible, But think about this,

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Speaker 2: how many of the stone cold killers out there, you know,

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Speaker 2: pressure deer, no matter where they are how many of

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Speaker 2: militant someone is with their scouting or you know, some

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Speaker 2: all that jazz. That's the stuff that sells. Because most

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Speaker 2: That doesn't mean they couldn't, though, and that's the appeal.

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Speaker 2: is that Andy May does to be so successful. Is

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Speaker 2: emulate it, bam, kill a few more deer, and you

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Speaker 2: know what, It's probably true to some extent, but it's

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Speaker 2: also true that a hell of a lot of what

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Speaker 2: we do hinges on our ability to settle the right

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Speaker 2: me feel better about my season planning. Now I have

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Speaker 2: I'm far more likely to check all of those boxes.

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Speaker 2: When I have somewhat clean inventory of gear at home,

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Speaker 2: deer hunter. This is something I feel kind of separates

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Speaker 2: like this versus the kind of folks who won't. Maybe

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Speaker 2: that's the wrong way to look at it, but the

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Speaker 2: deer hunting world is full of people looking for four

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Speaker 2: leaf clovers to bestow upon themselves the kind of luck

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Speaker 2: it takes to kill a big one. Yet most of

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Speaker 2: those folks will mostly for most of their deer hunting lives, uh,

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Speaker 2: mostly fail at killing big bucks. And that's just fine

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Speaker 2: for them if that's what they want. Or to put

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Speaker 2: it in another way, they don't want to get ahead

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Speaker 2: of the work to level up, that's great. A lot

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Speaker 2: I'm Tony Peterson and this has been the Wire to

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Speaker 2: As always, thank you so much for all your support.

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