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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

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Speaker 1: host Tony Peterson. Hey, everybody, welcome to the wire to

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

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Tony Peterson, and today's episode is all

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Speaker 1: about hunting with kids and newbies, really how to set

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Speaker 1: them up for good shots and a great experience. Last

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Speaker 1: week I talked about taking kids and beginners hunting and

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Speaker 1: how there is this internal battle for us to figure

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Speaker 1: out how to make it easy. This week, I want

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Speaker 1: to take it a step further and talk about the

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Speaker 1: things I've learned after taking my twin daughters deer hunting

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Speaker 1: for two years, or I guess more specifically, what I've

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Speaker 1: learned about the setups and the things I have to

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Speaker 1: do right so they love their time out there in

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Speaker 1: the woods and they get hooked on hunting, which is

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Speaker 1: my secret goal. Yeah. Here's the thing, my young listeners,

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Speaker 1: who may not have a minivan full of kids yet.

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Speaker 1: You may not think this topic is relevant to you,

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Speaker 1: but it probably is. Taking kids out isn't a whole

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Speaker 1: lot different from taking newbie hunters out. You learn that

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Speaker 1: your game has to be damn near perfect because there's

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Speaker 1: won't be, and we should be taking people out. If

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Speaker 1: you remember a couple of weeks ago when I talked

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Speaker 1: about where hunting goes to die, and that the hedge

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Speaker 1: against that that I think is at least possible is participation,

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Speaker 1: more participation by us. So I say, let's not let

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Speaker 1: it die on our watch. Let's keep it alive because

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Speaker 1: hunting is a gift, and one way to do that

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Speaker 1: is to introduce people to hunt it, like I did

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Speaker 1: with my daughters. But just like when I had my

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Speaker 1: punks out there with me, you've got us think through

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Speaker 1: your setups when you've got newbies. You really do. But

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Speaker 1: this is a good thing on two fronts. The main

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Speaker 1: one i'll get too later in this episode, but the

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Speaker 1: first one is that you kind of just default right

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Speaker 1: back to just hunting deer. And I've talked about this

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Speaker 1: a lot, but I think there's a huge benefit to

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Speaker 1: just hunting deer. I think when we laser focus in

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Speaker 1: on big box, which is totally okay in so many situations,

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Speaker 1: we tend to miss a lot of important aspects of

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Speaker 1: being a good hunter and about enjoying the whole process. Now,

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Speaker 1: when you take two fourth grade girls, you learn all

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Speaker 1: about this. The girls had one rule for me, well

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Speaker 1: too technically, but the first was they were not shooting fawns.

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Speaker 1: I figured that was pretty much a given anyway, so

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Speaker 1: early wasn't on the table. The second was that they

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Speaker 1: wouldn't orphan fawns. If a doe had fawns, it was

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Speaker 1: a no go. They were not cleared hot. The good

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Speaker 1: news on that front is that we were hunting a

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Speaker 1: predator rich environment where a lot of does lose or

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Speaker 1: fawns to bears and coyotes and bobcats and wolves. I

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Speaker 1: knew it would be just as likely we'd have a

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Speaker 1: and it it turns out it's actually way more likely because

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Speaker 1: there's really high fond mortality over there. If you take

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Speaker 1: a new bee out, it's important to listen to them

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Speaker 1: about stuff like that. Everyone has their own hangups and expectations.

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Speaker 1: And while you might be some weirdo who loves nothing

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Speaker 1: spotted triplets, the person you're taking out might be devastated

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Speaker 1: by that. In that way, you kind of have to

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Speaker 1: play by their rules. If that seems dumb, think about

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Speaker 1: the lines you draw in the sand around your own hunting.

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Speaker 1: We all have things we like and things we don't,

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Speaker 1: like I just wrote a pop song that Mark would

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Speaker 1: play on his way to some dumb convention somewhere. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: They'll tell you what they're looking for out of the experience.

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Speaker 1: There's a caveat to this. It involves the size of

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Speaker 1: I probably wouldn't be dealing with an unearned sense of

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Speaker 1: a hell of a lot of dudes who have started

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Speaker 1: In this realm, I'm like that Green Day song because

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Speaker 1: I'm a walking contradiction. I want people to shoot whatever

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Speaker 1: just like you wouldn't take a brand new hunter on

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Speaker 1: a spotting stock antelope hunt where the diaper butts are

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Speaker 1: Setting up for good box often means setting up for

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Speaker 1: something I've talked about a ton. It seems like there

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Speaker 1: paper weight. I don't know. Maybe you deal with bears,

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Speaker 1: and if you follow my strategy of setting up fifteen

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Speaker 1: right on top of you. That's the downside. Now. That

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Speaker 1: absolutely made me a better hunter. I really mean that,

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Speaker 1: it really did. I didn't think it would either. It's

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Speaker 1: easier to get delusional about yourself as a hunter, and

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Speaker 1: hunting white tails for thirty years. I should know how

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Speaker 1: a deer is different, and it forces you to really

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Speaker 1: It makes you consider whether you have enough setups to

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