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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 dear hunting, and now your host,

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Speaker 1: Tony Peterson. Welcome to the Wire to Hunt Foundations podcast,

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Speaker 1: which was brought to you by First Light. I'm your host,

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Speaker 1: Tony Peterson, and today we're going to talk about the

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Speaker 1: first year of this podcast, the next year this podcast,

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Speaker 1: and what it means to you as a deer hunt.

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Speaker 1: I know it's hard to believe the full year has

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Speaker 1: passed since it dropped the first episode of this Foundation's podcast.

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Speaker 1: That's fifty two weeks of white tail talk, roughly a

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Speaker 1: hundred and sixty thousand written word to go. The whole

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Speaker 1: thing started with a bunch of shows about scouting, and

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Speaker 1: then we moved on to hunting Technics, The Winner, scouting,

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Speaker 1: and some random offseason stuff and now here we are

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Speaker 1: full freaking circle. And I'm happy you're here with me

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Speaker 1: today because I want to talk about you and our

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Speaker 1: future together and how we are going to tackle this

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Speaker 1: dear problem as a team. The next year is going

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Speaker 1: to be different, my friends. While the last year was

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Speaker 1: loosely a chronological week by week breakdown of different deer activities,

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Speaker 1: you should be considering. This year won't be quite like that.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be all about the stuff we never really

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Speaker 1: got into last year, and I'm going to cover a

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Speaker 1: wide range of topics in the next fifty two episodes,

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Speaker 1: from I don't know blood trailing to the ethics of

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Speaker 1: certain kind of hunting to really understanding Dear sign hunting

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Speaker 1: in the rain and so on. This year is going

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Speaker 1: to be fun. But before that, I really want to

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Speaker 1: talk about you. This last year has kind of been

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Speaker 1: all about me, talking strategies and styles and aspects of

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Speaker 1: hunting that should have helped you kill some more, Dear,

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Speaker 1: should help you kill some more, Dear, I guess I

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Speaker 1: should say. But the dirty little secret in all of

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Speaker 1: this is that it's really on you. It really is.

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Speaker 1: I've got a role in this, maybe, I guess, just

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Speaker 1: like other people in the hunting industry that you listen

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Speaker 1: to or read or watch or whatever do as well.

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Speaker 1: But we don't really need to get into that yet.

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Speaker 1: We need to get into your relationship with hunting and

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Speaker 1: how it affects your success. Because no matter what I say,

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Speaker 1: or what the Jury Brothers do on their show, or

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Speaker 1: what you read about white tails and white tail hunting,

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Speaker 1: the decisions you make are yours and years alone. You

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Speaker 1: can't become a significantly better hunter through osmosis, unfortunately. I mean,

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Speaker 1: if you could, Mark would have bucks on his walls

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Speaker 1: and you'd have to hunt with a rock just to

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Speaker 1: challenge himself. But he doesn't need to do that because

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Speaker 1: hunting is still pretty challenging for him, despite the fact

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Speaker 1: that he has access to the most successful white tail

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Speaker 1: hunters in the world and has racked up more hours

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Speaker 1: of conversation on the topic than just about anyone out there,

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Speaker 1: and he hunts a lot. What really kills big Bucks

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Speaker 1: is experience and confidence, at least if you don't have

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Speaker 1: a ton of money or a really good spot. In fact,

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Speaker 1: not only does experience and confidence kill big Bucks, it

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Speaker 1: also helps you enjoy hunting more. It's more fun to

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Speaker 1: not be paralyzed by the second guessing, or to scroll

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Speaker 1: person in your feed post in grip and griend photos

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Speaker 1: with Bucks, you couldn't even dream of shooting. And I've

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Speaker 1: said it's many times before, but enjoyment of hunting will

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Speaker 1: lead you to hunt better. So you're probably thinking, all right, well,

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Speaker 1: where the hell, are you going with this, dude? A

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Speaker 1: settle down. You're starting to sound like my bride. Just

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Speaker 1: let me get there. That's where I'm going with this

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Speaker 1: is that I actually have faith in you. I truly do.

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Speaker 1: I believe that people are capable of great things, just

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Speaker 1: I think that you've got this, and I want to

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Speaker 1: tell you why. It's because this is not as hard

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Speaker 1: if you think I'm being falsely humble, here, let me

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Speaker 1: give you a few examples. One time I rear ended

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Speaker 1: a valuable lesson um. Another time, I stepped on a

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Speaker 1: And I mean I think about that moment at least

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Speaker 1: In fact, I still have a mullet spine stuck in

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Speaker 1: my pants in situations where you definitely don't want to

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Speaker 1: But you've got to remember that it takes time. It

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Speaker 1: takes time to be consistently successful, and there really aren't

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Speaker 1: any shortcuts. You can't send me a d M or

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Speaker 1: visit a forum or read an article and uddently clear

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Speaker 1: throughout the fall. Now, listen, I know this sounds like

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Speaker 1: certainly future generations probably won't. So you know what I

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Speaker 1: Well I guess you can, but don't solely focus on

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Speaker 1: a goal like that and saying something, well, I've I've

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Speaker 1: different way. I set goals based around a few different

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Speaker 1: things I want to tell you about, just to kind

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Speaker 1: of give you some ideas. The first goal for me now,

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Speaker 1: which is more important than trophies when I wasn't always

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Speaker 1: that way, believe me, but it's it's where I'm at now,

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Speaker 1: my fellow dear addicts. I'm Tony Peterson, and this has

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