WEBVTT - Ep. 1044: Foundations - Why You Should Plan for Good Enough in the Deer Woods

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundations podcast, your guide

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<v Speaker 1>to the fundamentals of better deer hunting, presented by first Light,

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<v Speaker 1>creating proven versatile hunting apparel for the stand, saddle or blind.

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<v Speaker 1>First Light Go Farther, Stay Longer, and now your host

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<v Speaker 1>Tony Peterson.

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<v Speaker 2>Hey, everyone, welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundation's podcast,

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<v Speaker 2>which is brought to you by first Light. I'm your host,

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<v Speaker 2>Tony Peterson, and today's episode is all about how a

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<v Speaker 2>lot of hunters seem to think they can get things

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<v Speaker 2>perfect or almost perfect during their deer hunts, and how

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<v Speaker 2>that just never really happens and it's actually not necessary.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm becoming more and more convinced that the reason hunting

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<v Speaker 2>is so hard for most of us is because the

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<v Speaker 2>delta between what we expect on our hunts and what

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<v Speaker 2>we actually get is too huge to overcome. It breaks

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<v Speaker 2>in our little hairless monkey brains, and we don't know

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<v Speaker 2>how to react. We keep chasing the idea of the

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<v Speaker 2>perfect hunt or the perfect setup and it just doesn't

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<v Speaker 2>really exist. Well, actually it does exist, it just doesn't

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<v Speaker 2>come around that often. Learning to live with that is

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<v Speaker 2>honestly the key to figuring this thing out enough to

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<v Speaker 2>have consistency and success, which is what I'm going to

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<v Speaker 2>talk about right now. Have you ever heard the phrase

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<v Speaker 2>don't let perfect be the enemy of good? That phrase

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<v Speaker 2>is often attributed to Voltaire, a French philosopher who I

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<v Speaker 2>don't remember anything about other than having to read some

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<v Speaker 2>of his stuff in a seventeenth century literature course I

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<v Speaker 2>had in college, which was a long time ago. That statement,

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<v Speaker 2>which actually started out as the best is the enemy

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<v Speaker 2>of the good, but in French, which I don't speak,

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<v Speaker 2>it's somehow morphed into what we commonly say today. Now,

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<v Speaker 2>the saying might not come up a lot in your

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<v Speaker 2>daily life, but the sentiment probably does. We are force

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<v Speaker 2>fed the look of perfection all the time, so much

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<v Speaker 2>so that we revel in seeing people make mistakes. And

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<v Speaker 2>in a lot of industries, if you really want to

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<v Speaker 2>stand out, you should actually not shy away from all

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<v Speaker 2>of your mistakes. That has been a pretty good thing

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<v Speaker 2>for my career, to be honest, because I make a

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<v Speaker 2>lot of mistakes and it never felt right to hide

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<v Speaker 2>them all, to project an image of a hunter and

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<v Speaker 2>a person that just isn't real. It's easy to think

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<v Speaker 2>perfection is or near perfection is Anyway, I recently saw

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<v Speaker 2>a podcast interview with a fellow who is well known

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<v Speaker 2>in the white tail space who said something to the

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<v Speaker 2>effect of three and a half year old bucks or

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<v Speaker 2>the dumbest deer in the woods. If you give me

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<v Speaker 2>an hour, I'll kill a deer of that age. Now,

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<v Speaker 2>to the poorly informed, that might hint at perfection on

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<v Speaker 2>that dude's part, but I'd say it's more of being

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<v Speaker 2>totally delusional due to hunting candyland for thirty years. No

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<v Speaker 2>one who hunts public land in Pennsylvania would make that

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<v Speaker 2>statement with a straight face, unless they are the kind

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<v Speaker 2>of person who eats crans for the nutritional value and

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<v Speaker 2>who boofs monster energy drinks because it takes too long

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<v Speaker 2>for them to hit by ingesting them how they are

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<v Speaker 2>intended to be consumed.

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<v Speaker 3>Perfection doesn't exist in people.

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<v Speaker 2>I was reminded of this recently well watching videos of

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<v Speaker 2>past bass Master tournaments like a totally cool and normal

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<v Speaker 2>guy does, and I saw a recap of Attorney that

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<v Speaker 2>I think was on Santi Cooper down in South Carolina

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<v Speaker 2>from about ten years ago. One of the anglers who

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<v Speaker 2>got a lot of screen time in that tournament is

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<v Speaker 2>a fellow named Kevin Van Dam. To anyone with even

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<v Speaker 2>a passing interest in bass fishing, that name is probably

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<v Speaker 2>familiar to the walleye fisherman and worse, the non fisherman

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<v Speaker 2>in the audience. I'll give you a quick rundown a KVD.

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<v Speaker 2>He's a Michigan born fella who had a thirty plus

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<v Speaker 2>year career in tournament fishing, which if you look at

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<v Speaker 2>his bass Master stats alone, tell a story of someone

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<v Speaker 2>who is without question, one of the best, and if

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<v Speaker 2>not the best. He fished three hundred and fourteen tournaments

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<v Speaker 2>and made the Classic twenty eight times. He won that

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<v Speaker 2>four times, which has him breathing some rarefied air. He

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<v Speaker 2>also racked up twenty five first place finishes in tournaments

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<v Speaker 2>against the best of the best. He had sixteen seconds

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<v Speaker 2>and eighteen thirds. Out of those three hundred and fourteen tournaments.

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<v Speaker 2>He finished in the top ten one hundred and twelve times.

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<v Speaker 2>Over the course of those tournaments, he brought almost twelve

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<v Speaker 2>thousand pounds of bass to the scales, and he won

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<v Speaker 2>almost six and a half million bucks. I have a

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<v Speaker 2>good buddy who followed KVD for a day on a

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<v Speaker 2>tournament down in Oklahoma just to watch him, which is

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<v Speaker 2>a thing in those tournaments, and he said that he's

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<v Speaker 2>never seen anyone who could cast farther or more accurately.

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<v Speaker 2>And this is coming from a guy who won over

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<v Speaker 2>one hundred grand last summer fishing alone, so he knows

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<v Speaker 2>his stuff. In the tournament that I watched, KVD caught

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<v Speaker 2>a giant on a crank bait. I don't remember if

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<v Speaker 2>it was eight or ten pounds, but even for down South,

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<v Speaker 2>it was just a huge, large mouth. What blew my

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<v Speaker 2>mind was that when he went to remove both sets

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<v Speaker 2>of treble hooks, he absent mindedly pulled way harder on

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<v Speaker 2>the crank bait than he probably should have, and he

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<v Speaker 2>buried one of the hooks into the palm of his hand.

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<v Speaker 2>It was such a dumb moved witness I couldn't belie

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<v Speaker 2>leave it. But it was also understandable because we all

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<v Speaker 2>do dumb stuff.

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<v Speaker 3>Even the guys.

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<v Speaker 2>Who are the best of the best at whatever they

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<v Speaker 2>do still make mistakes like that. He had to have

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<v Speaker 2>an observer come over to his boat and do that

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<v Speaker 2>method of hook removal, which involves looping some heavy braid

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<v Speaker 2>around the hook and doing a very quick yank to

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<v Speaker 2>free it. That's a move I've done a few times

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<v Speaker 2>on myself, most memorably with a dry fly stuck into

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<v Speaker 2>my hand one day on a little stream in southern Minnesota,

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<v Speaker 2>and I can say that it is both effective and

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<v Speaker 2>generally not that much fun. It's better than cutting them

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<v Speaker 2>out with a utility knife for pushing them all the

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<v Speaker 2>way through to pinch the barb, though, both of which

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<v Speaker 2>I've done, and I don't recommend seeing KVD do that

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<v Speaker 2>move with that crankbait and then move on to go

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<v Speaker 2>catch a whole bunch of fish and collect a giant

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<v Speaker 2>paycheck for fishing that would equal the entire yearly salary

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<v Speaker 2>of someone considered lower middle class here in the Midwest.

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<v Speaker 2>Reminded me of what makes people good at fishing, and

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<v Speaker 2>then of course hunting. They just move on from their

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<v Speaker 2>mistakes and they keep trying. They don't stress too hard

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<v Speaker 2>when they make mistakes because they accept them as a

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<v Speaker 2>part of the whole deal. Now, what does this have

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<v Speaker 2>to do with you and I and deer hunting. Well,

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<v Speaker 2>a lot, and some of it is obvious and some

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<v Speaker 2>of it probably is not. The obvious lesson is the

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<v Speaker 2>one I just stated, which is that you're gonna screw

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<v Speaker 2>up a lot, but how you move on from those

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<v Speaker 2>mistakes is really what matters. The less obvious reality here

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<v Speaker 2>is that a lot of us become so scared of

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<v Speaker 2>making a mistake that we don't even try until every

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<v Speaker 2>possible advantage that we can get is fully realized, and

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<v Speaker 2>even then it mostly doesn't work. Let me give you

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<v Speaker 2>an example here that I think sort of highlights this.

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<v Speaker 2>When I hunted Nebraska last year with Steve and his

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<v Speaker 2>buddy on that big old ranch down there. I had

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<v Speaker 2>to find the spots that cruising bucks would travel through,

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<v Speaker 2>pretty simple rut stuff, but the trouble was that the

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<v Speaker 2>amount of available stand trees wasn't great. I see this

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<v Speaker 2>a lot in my life. If I hunt someplace where

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<v Speaker 2>the stand trees are plentiful, like northern Wisconsin, the deer

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<v Speaker 2>usually aren't play and they are usually very wary of

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<v Speaker 2>a two hundred pound camel blob in a tree. In

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<v Speaker 2>areas with few trees, the deer don't get hunted out

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<v Speaker 2>of them as often, and they often don't look up

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<v Speaker 2>as much. But you have to settle for the trees

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<v Speaker 2>you can make work and sit on the ground If

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<v Speaker 2>there are no workable trees where you want to hunt. Steve,

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<v Speaker 2>coming from Michigan and who has mostly taken a break

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<v Speaker 2>from bow hunting white tails for a couple decades now,

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<v Speaker 2>has the mindset of a lot of hunters that you

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<v Speaker 2>have to get pretty high up in a tree to

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<v Speaker 2>kill them.

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<v Speaker 3>I feel that.

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<v Speaker 2>Way in some places, like over in Wisconsin, unless I'm

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<v Speaker 2>in a really good multi trunk tree or a pine

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<v Speaker 2>tree that offers real cover. But in Nebraska, those ranch

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<v Speaker 2>deer weren't the smartest deer in the herd, and they

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<v Speaker 2>don't get hunted out of trees a whole lot. We

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<v Speaker 2>didn't need to be twenty two feet up. We just

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<v Speaker 2>needed to be up as far as we could get,

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<v Speaker 2>which in most of the cases I found was probably

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<v Speaker 2>in like the twelve to sixteen foot range. I just

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<v Speaker 2>wasn't going to find the perfect pinch point that also

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<v Speaker 2>had the perfect tree and perfect access, But that didn't

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<v Speaker 2>matter because we didn't need it. We needed the spot first,

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<v Speaker 2>which is the most important thing. Access that's always important too,

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<v Speaker 2>but not crazy important since you know that specifically was

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<v Speaker 2>a rout hunt where the bucks could show up at

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<v Speaker 2>any time and they were covering a lot of ground.

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<v Speaker 3>Now I wanted perfect trees. I just didn't get them.

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<v Speaker 2>I got trees I could work with, and in some

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<v Speaker 2>spots no trees I could work with, which led me

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<v Speaker 2>to using blinds. I knew we would make some concessions

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<v Speaker 2>on our setups, but that is how it goes almost

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<v Speaker 2>everywhere I hunt. Very rarely do I find a spot

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<v Speaker 2>that I fully believe in that also has unbelievable access

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<v Speaker 2>and the kind of trees that allow you to set

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<v Speaker 2>up twenty yards down wind with a low likelihood of

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<v Speaker 2>getting picked off. I spent a lot of time this

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<v Speaker 2>past spring hunting turkeys on public land, and I can

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<v Speaker 2>tell you something. The minute you walk into an unfamiliar

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<v Speaker 2>piece of ground and try to kill something that you

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<v Speaker 2>know has been hunted hard for a month, you realize

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<v Speaker 2>that you're not even going to get in.

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<v Speaker 3>The ballpark up perfect.

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<v Speaker 2>You'd kill for a good enough spot, and even then

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<v Speaker 2>you'll have something that works against you. Four days I

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<v Speaker 2>walked into random chunks of public land in central Wisconsin

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<v Speaker 2>to try to call in a gobbler, and for days

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<v Speaker 2>I didn't do that. I did find one spot that

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<v Speaker 2>had a lot of sign and some hens that were vocal,

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<v Speaker 2>but I had to cross two rivers to get there,

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<v Speaker 2>and it was in a floodplain with stagnant water everywhere,

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<v Speaker 2>so the mosquitoes were damn near biblical and they drove

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<v Speaker 2>me out after seven hours, honestly, just couldn't take it anymore,

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<v Speaker 2>and having left my thermosil at home, I felt like

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<v Speaker 2>it was my first day on the job. Those birds

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<v Speaker 2>were there because they felt no one with an ounce

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<v Speaker 2>of brains would sit in there and try to kill them.

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<v Speaker 2>White Tail hunting goes like that a lot too, But

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<v Speaker 2>even when you do things right and really make good decisions,

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<v Speaker 2>you'll mostly get your knackers kicked in. That's how it goes,

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<v Speaker 2>and I think we mostly know that. So I see

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<v Speaker 2>a lot of hunters sort of fall into a few

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<v Speaker 2>different camps. Some folks will claim, you know, they don't

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<v Speaker 2>care what they shoot, or if they do shoot one,

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<v Speaker 2>they'll say they're not into it for the antlers or whatever.

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<v Speaker 2>But I think most of that is a coping mechanism

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<v Speaker 2>to soften the blow of the almost inevitable failure that

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<v Speaker 2>we all run into out there. I don't know too

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<v Speaker 2>many hunters who actually don't want to shoot some deer,

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<v Speaker 2>let alone big bucks. We have other hunters who strive

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<v Speaker 2>to be tacticians but kind of get locked into the

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<v Speaker 2>paralysis by analysis mentality, which if you know anything about

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<v Speaker 2>any of the other whitetail hunters here at Meat Eater

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<v Speaker 2>can clue hint who might just fall into that category.

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<v Speaker 2>To them, it's a thinking man's game, which white tail

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<v Speaker 2>hunting is, but it also just is partly instinct. Look,

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<v Speaker 2>this isn't physics, where eventually the right math will explain

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<v Speaker 2>the forces of nature. A lot of this can be

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<v Speaker 2>reasoned out to some extent, but there are far too

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<v Speaker 2>many variables to factor in to ever make it truly predictable,

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<v Speaker 2>at least if you don't hunt a place where the

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<v Speaker 2>deer are essentially being grown to be killed. This type

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<v Speaker 2>of is low key obsessed with perfection and keeps them

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<v Speaker 2>from taking risks and trying things that have higher failure

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<v Speaker 2>rate than they find acceptable. This is the reason why

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<v Speaker 2>so many people who figured out how to grow big

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<v Speaker 2>dear also happen to have backgrounds in engineering. That mind

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<v Speaker 2>is built to solve problems and find easy solutions to

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<v Speaker 2>the big questions. And if the big question is how

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<v Speaker 2>do I kill one hundred and eighty inch deer every year.

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<v Speaker 2>One solution is to figure out how to get enough

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<v Speaker 2>money to buy enough land that can be turned into

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<v Speaker 2>a deer paradise with tightly controlled pressure. That doesn't necessarily

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<v Speaker 2>make them better hunters, but it does make them wildly successful,

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<v Speaker 2>and it certainly removes a lot of the variables that

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<v Speaker 2>conspire against most hunters to take a perfect plan and

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<v Speaker 2>turn it into grade A dog shit. I think acknowledging

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<v Speaker 2>that you'll mostly get things somewhat wrong, and that you'll miss,

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<v Speaker 2>and you'll get winded, and you'll bump your target buck

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<v Speaker 2>on the way in, and whatever else that can go wrong,

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<v Speaker 2>just eventually will I think that's the best setup we

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<v Speaker 2>can take to moving ourselves into a spot where we

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<v Speaker 2>become better hunters. If you know you'll get winded sometimes,

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<v Speaker 2>but you hunt anyway, you're going to level up somehow.

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<v Speaker 2>Not only will you figure out how to not get

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<v Speaker 2>winded as often, you'll find out that some of your

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<v Speaker 2>fears were overblown, and that making a mistake, even when

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<v Speaker 2>you know you'll probably make it's not the end of

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<v Speaker 2>the world. This is also a good way to condition

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<v Speaker 2>ourselves to try things that have a higher risk, higher

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<v Speaker 2>reward ratio, which I think is super important now. You

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<v Speaker 2>don't want to be overly cavalier and your hunting strategies,

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<v Speaker 2>but trying things you don't think will work, or putting

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<v Speaker 2>yourself in a position where you're more likely to get

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<v Speaker 2>busted or less likely to see a mature buck will

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<v Speaker 2>change you, probably for the better. You don't learn a

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<v Speaker 2>whole lot about yourself or the deer if you only

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<v Speaker 2>hunt the first week of November when the weather is perfect.

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<v Speaker 2>You'll certainly kill some deer, or at least you'll get

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<v Speaker 2>your shot, but you won't learn much. We all know

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<v Speaker 2>that's a good strategy, but it leaves out a whole

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<v Speaker 2>lot of weeks you could be hunting. It's also true

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<v Speaker 2>that even if you did only hunt the first week

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<v Speaker 2>of November, you'd likely have years where you didn't shoot one.

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<v Speaker 2>Sometimes you go out and everything seems perfect and you

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<v Speaker 2>get your ass handed to you. Anyway, that's the kind

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<v Speaker 2>of thing that keeps a lot of people from trying,

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<v Speaker 2>because it shatters the illusion of what are solved for

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<v Speaker 2>this problem really is. This is the danger in striving

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<v Speaker 2>for or expecting a near perfect hunt. When you don't

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<v Speaker 2>get it, which you mostly won't, Then how you react

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<v Speaker 2>and keep moving forward matters a whole lot, and that's

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<v Speaker 2>a problem a lot of hunters have because they don't

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<v Speaker 2>handle that well. I know that because I'm one of

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<v Speaker 2>those hunters. But I've also learned that it's also an

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<v Speaker 2>absolute truth in my outdoor life that that's the outcome

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<v Speaker 2>more often than not. The only way to deal with

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<v Speaker 2>it for me personally is just keep going out. The

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<v Speaker 2>more I do that, the more those mistakes become less

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<v Speaker 2>meaningful as I stack up the hours and the eventual

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<v Speaker 2>encounters with deer that happen because of me. Just keep

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<v Speaker 2>it on, and even then, when I do get things

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<v Speaker 2>right and earn the perfect shot opportunity, I often don't

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<v Speaker 2>deliver a perfect shot. The reason bow hunting white tailed

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<v Speaker 2>deer is so damn rewarding is that if we are

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<v Speaker 2>all being really honest about it, it's really freaking hard.

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<v Speaker 2>It only gets harder the more we expect it to

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<v Speaker 2>go a certain way, because it rarely does. Now I

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<v Speaker 2>guess I should wrap this up by saying you can

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<v Speaker 2>also go too far in the wrong direction. Here with

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<v Speaker 2>accepting mistakes and trying risky hunting strategies, the game has

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<v Speaker 2>to be played a certain way, and if you try

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<v Speaker 2>to color outside the lines too much, you're gonna fail.

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<v Speaker 2>This is why when someone comes out and they have

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<v Speaker 2>the method for killing deer that is new and novel,

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<v Speaker 2>I generally feel a giant amount of skepticism. The deer

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<v Speaker 2>are beatable. But in the parameters of our game laws,

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<v Speaker 2>in our reality of the hunting situations we find ourselves in,

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<v Speaker 2>there are just ways to go about it that will

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<v Speaker 2>work over a long enough timeline. It's generally is not

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<v Speaker 2>going to be some kind of new bed hunting strategy

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<v Speaker 2>or stocking them with gilli suits or whatever. It'll usually

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<v Speaker 2>just be planting your butt into a stand over and over,

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<v Speaker 2>or maybe in a ground line you know, when the

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<v Speaker 2>wind is blowing just good enough and the odds aren't

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<v Speaker 2>zero that he'll move, which is almost any time you're

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<v Speaker 2>out there if you.

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<v Speaker 3>Don't leave that.

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<v Speaker 2>Consider that Kevin van dam hook to the hand moment

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<v Speaker 2>during that tournament, almost no one and maybe honestly no one,

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<v Speaker 2>is better at fishing fast than him get He made

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<v Speaker 2>a dumb in the moment decision that cost him time

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<v Speaker 2>and could have cost him a better finish. Given that truth,

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<v Speaker 2>what are the odds that some random accountant or plumber

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<v Speaker 2>or car salesman or whatever is going into the woods

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<v Speaker 2>with a plan so good that it's going to work

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<v Speaker 2>out easily, just like it's supposed to. That's not how

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<v Speaker 2>it works, but it's also worth the effort. And if

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<v Speaker 2>you accept your mistakes and your inability to reach perfection,

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<v Speaker 2>you'll end up in a place where you give yourself

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<v Speaker 2>a little more grace, You move on from the mess

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<v Speaker 2>ups a little quicker, and you realize that what it

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<v Speaker 2>takes to kill Big.

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<v Speaker 3>Bucks is not a perfect plan.

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<v Speaker 2>It's a plan with some flaws in it, executed by

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<v Speaker 2>a flawed human over enough attempts to eventually have the

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<v Speaker 2>whole thing coal less into the moment when you shine

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<v Speaker 2>your light down the blood trail and catch sight of

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<v Speaker 2>a white belly. That's it for this week. I'm Tony Peterson.

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