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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. Welcome to the Wire to Hunt Foundations podcast,

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Speaker 1: brought to you by First Light. On this show, it's

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Speaker 1: time to take a thirty thousand foot view of your

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Speaker 1: deer ground. Literally. This is all about big picture east

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Speaker 1: hunting success. I've noticed in my personal deer hunting life

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Speaker 1: that I get excited about all kinds of scouting, but

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Speaker 1: the most consistent is EA scouting. And that's because it's

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Speaker 1: just easy, of course, but it's also so dang effective.

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Speaker 1: The ability to learn ground fairly well that you've never

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Speaker 1: seen is like the biggest leveling agent out there for

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Speaker 1: all deer hunters. But it takes a little bit of

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Speaker 1: time to understand how to east together a plan when

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Speaker 1: you're looking at satellite imagery. That's really the gist of

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Speaker 1: this show, and I think it's something that every white

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Speaker 1: just like try to get better at Hey, everybody, welcome

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Speaker 1: to the Wire to Hunt Foundations podcast. I'm your host,

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Speaker 1: Tony Peterson. Today's episode is called Big Picture Eat Scouting

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Speaker 1: to Kill More Bucks, plain and simple. Right On this episode,

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Speaker 1: it's all about that big picture digital scouting that we

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Speaker 1: all start our started scouting efforts with. On later episodes,

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Speaker 1: I'll center on the nitty gritty details of your digital

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Speaker 1: scouting and how you can master them. But this show

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Speaker 1: is really all about the macro and how this type

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Speaker 1: of e scouting is really the foundation upon which an

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Speaker 1: awful lot of deer huntings excess is actually built. When

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Speaker 1: I started bow hunting white tails in way way back

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Speaker 1: when I was in sixth grade, my dad would buy

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Speaker 1: find landowner names and locate chunks of public land. Those

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Speaker 1: They were the best we had, and we were happy

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Speaker 1: to have them. Later in high school, when I went

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Speaker 1: on my first out of state trip to hunt Missouri

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Speaker 1: At that point, we would actually write the addresses of

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Speaker 1: in some ways it's kind of easy to look back

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Speaker 1: recognize how much of a pain in the acid actually was.

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Speaker 1: If you spilled a cup of coffee on a paper map,

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Speaker 1: It was absolutely archaic and worse yet, the best maps

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Speaker 1: you might have actually seen way up there in the cosmos,

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Speaker 1: even then and especially now, our satellites that are traveling

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Speaker 1: Those images and others captured from aerial survey planes are

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Speaker 1: then stitched together through a process called photogrammytry. This creates

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Speaker 1: Satellite imagery has been around for decades, and it's now

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Speaker 1: And of course there is always the question of experience

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Speaker 1: someone who has watched a one secret public land hotspot

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Speaker 1: course you can use on extra Google or is to

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Speaker 1: also see how your ground connects to other properties, or

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Speaker 1: But what's better is that a bird's eye view shows

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Speaker 1: Finding those potential spots is what big picture east scouting

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Speaker 1: one good trick for accelerating this process is to disable

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Speaker 1: the landowner layers and the property lanes in your east

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Speaker 1: Better yet, this type of east scouting is something that

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Speaker 1: white tail wise, Just like with target shooting, EA scouting

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Speaker 1: to zone in a little hider on things you know,

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Speaker 1: give you an idea of this spot looks really interesting

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Speaker 1: all about digging into individual spots through your East scouting

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Speaker 1: and really taking advantage of your mapping apps and your

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Speaker 1: digital scouting apps, and this this high tech stuff that

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Speaker 1: allows you to really really see what's going on out there.

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Speaker 1: This is not something you're gonna want to miss. That's it,

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Speaker 1: my white tail loving friends. Be sure to tune in

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Speaker 1: next week when I break down East scouting to a

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Speaker 1: granular level. I'm Tony Peterson and this has been the

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Speaker 1: Wired Hunt Foundations podcast. As always, I cannot thank you

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Speaker 1: enough for your support and we will see you right

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Speaker 1: here next week