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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 this episode is all about running cameras,

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Speaker 2: but not running them like other folks. Probably one of

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Speaker 2: the biggest reasons that I love hunting is because there's

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Speaker 2: just sick. There's never a good excuse to stop learning,

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Speaker 2: and there isn't anything you can do where you'll just

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Speaker 2: know it all. Sure, if you're into a small town

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Speaker 2: bar and say southwest Wisconsin about I don't know, mid October,

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Speaker 2: you'll inevitably meet someone who is fourteen beers deep, you know,

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Speaker 2: wearing a faded real Tree shirt from nineteen ninety seven,

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Speaker 2: who will let you know that. But he has the

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Speaker 2: whole thing totally dialed. But the truth is he doesn't,

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Speaker 2: and neither do you. I was reminded of this recently

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Speaker 2: when I drove over to northern Wisconsin to cut down

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Speaker 2: some trees, scout some deer, and pull a few cameras

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Speaker 2: I had left up from November. The images that I

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Speaker 2: found when I checked those cameras, they have literally changed

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Speaker 2: the course of my hunting plans for this year. They

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Speaker 2: taught me a few things that you might be able

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Speaker 2: to learn from as well. As I get older, I

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Speaker 2: realized there's just like a lot of things that I

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Speaker 2: actively dislike. A forced small talk that's way up there

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Speaker 2: on the list. Social media, I was maybe right there

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Speaker 2: at the top of the list. Standing in line for

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Speaker 2: any reason tends to get under my skin. Mark Kenyon, Well,

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Speaker 2: you know, kind of just in general, it's pretty tough

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Speaker 2: to deal with. But there is one thing about modern

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Speaker 2: society that I absolutely love music, or more specifically, you

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Speaker 2: can listen to any damn song you want at any

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Speaker 2: time and can be exposed to new music all day long.

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Speaker 2: You can search it out, you know, you could watch

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Speaker 2: some new TV series that is chock full of interesting music.

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Speaker 2: It's all over. It has also led to an interesting

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Speaker 2: conundrum for musicians in that anyone who has ever written

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Speaker 2: a song might find music that is similar to theirs

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Speaker 2: out there somewhere. Every once in a while you see

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Speaker 2: a news story on this situation, where some popular artists

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Speaker 2: will have to go to court to defend a chord

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Speaker 2: progression or a specific melody after a different artist, usually

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Speaker 2: a pretty much unknown artist, says that they wrote it

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Speaker 2: first and that they got ripped off and are definitely

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Speaker 2: entitled to some enormous royalties. This is interesting because some

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Speaker 2: musicians openly talk about how they lift certain riffs from

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Speaker 2: their favorite guitarists or heavily lean on some type of

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Speaker 2: music for inspiration. If there is a spirit of admiration

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Speaker 2: in this and a tip of the hat to the inspiration,

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Speaker 2: it's often an issue of respect and doesn't go to court.

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Speaker 2: This tends to happen when two successful artists or bands collide,

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Speaker 2: but isn't the case when a successful artist creates something

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Speaker 2: similar to a no namer. Now, there are legitimate cases

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Speaker 2: of this, I'm sure, but these no namers also give

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Speaker 2: off strong ambulance chaser vibes and it feels like they're

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Speaker 2: looking for a payday and not much else. You know,

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Speaker 2: then you have the classic plagiarizer accusations. I didn't know

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Speaker 2: this until Larry recently, but apparently a lot of people

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Speaker 2: thought Nirvana's anthem for disenfranchised teenagers in the early nineties

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Speaker 2: smells like teen Spirit apparently sounds a hell of a

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Speaker 2: then you have the big one, led Zeppelin's monster, huge,

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Speaker 2: mega hit, Stairway to Heaven, which, for all you young fellows

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Speaker 2: a few decades since led Zeppelin topped the charts. Look

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Speaker 2: at it this way. They were like a group of

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Speaker 2: quite a few years, and Stairway to Heaven was their

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Speaker 2: In twenty sixteen, after Stairway to Heaven had been out

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Speaker 2: can't escape inspiration if you're creating things. It's impossible to

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Speaker 2: from others' work. That's actually what's pretty cool about music

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Speaker 2: feel really bad. I can't help myself. It's hunting, and

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Speaker 2: more specifically hunting strategies and styles. We see what others

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Speaker 2: personal twist. It's no different from hearing a song that

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Speaker 2: worms its way into your brain and then finding yourself

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Speaker 2: playing some chord progression that sounds an awful lot like

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Speaker 2: that song, because, for whatever reasons, those sounds in that

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Speaker 2: order make you happy. With hunting, you might see someone

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Speaker 2: who puts a series of food plots on a small

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Speaker 2: a buddy who is a certified public land whitetail nutcase

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Speaker 2: who runs cameras in a way that is just better

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Speaker 2: and different from your personal strategy. This is what happened

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Speaker 2: to me with my buddy Clint Campbell, who coincidentally or

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Speaker 2: maybe not, is also one hell of a guitar player,

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Speaker 2: but you probably know him as the host of the

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Speaker 2: Truth from the Stand podcast. But he's also a hunter

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Speaker 2: who plays the long game with trail cameras. He's always

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Speaker 2: with texts that explain how he's piecing together a large

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Speaker 2: of his competition isn't hunting the way he is, and

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Speaker 2: certainly isn't scouting the way he is now. Clint's scouting style,

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Speaker 2: you know, it's just vastly different from a lot of

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Speaker 2: which is similar, you know, especially in the winter in

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Speaker 2: the early spring months, he obsesses over access, deer sign,

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Speaker 2: you know, all the usual suspects. But he also puts

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Speaker 2: of people or almost know people. This is not something

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Speaker 2: I've done a whole lot in my life, but I've

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Speaker 2: started to lift a few riffs from Clint, if you will.

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Speaker 2: in the spring, I got to see all kinds of

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Speaker 2: the winter. I got to see how a huge blizzard

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Speaker 2: to their travels and habits. It was interesting, but mostly

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Speaker 2: showed me that there were a couple of spots I

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Speaker 2: probably should have had stands to sit during the rut.

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Speaker 2: Since then, I've conducted a more deliberate trail camera strategy

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Speaker 2: season was coming up quick. Now, when I went back

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Speaker 2: is the deer hunting equivalent of filling a knee high

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Speaker 2: did much better for starters. I wanted to see what

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Speaker 2: the buck movement looked like during the Wisconsin gun season,

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Speaker 2: since it's the time when about six hundred thousand people

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Speaker 2: It showed that a lot of time and stand on

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Speaker 2: either property would have probably led to an encounter with

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Speaker 2: a few different bucks. Listen. Not great, but not terrible.

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Speaker 2: It also showed a group of dozes on one of

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Speaker 2: my properties walking down a trail half an hour into

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Speaker 2: He saw six dos, which is a lot for that area,

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Speaker 2: He had no idea. He booted all of those doughs

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Speaker 2: there long enough to witness any of the midday movement

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Speaker 2: him and his dad several times, and it's always a

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Speaker 2: lesson in time on stand. They have very little faith

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Speaker 2: Another interesting finding from just running multiple cameras during a

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Speaker 2: the overall movement was really rough, the best buck movement

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Speaker 2: That midday thing is real. It's just hard to believe

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Speaker 2: for a lot of folks, especially in a high hunting

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Speaker 2: pressure situation. But if you think about it, if your

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Speaker 2: state's gun season happens during the rut, which is real common,

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Speaker 2: those bucks aren't going to stop chasing and cruising. You know,

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Speaker 2: they might do a lot of their looking when there

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Speaker 2: is a lull in the hunter activity, which happens in

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Speaker 2: heard dipshits like me say it? Because there's a big

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Speaker 2: difference there. I was also really curious to see who

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Speaker 2: it was left after the gun season. I don't mean

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Speaker 2: this just in terms of bucks either. The county we

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Speaker 2: which makes zero sense to me, considering it took me

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Speaker 2: twenty one days of hunting to see a single dough

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Speaker 2: last fall. Maybe the deer managers over there know something

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Speaker 2: I don't, or maybe I know something they don't anyway,

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Speaker 2: I just wanted to see how many deer made it through.

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Speaker 2: I'd have guessed I might have had a couple of

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Speaker 2: bucks on each property and a couple of dos but

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Speaker 2: it was clear that at least six bucks made it

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Speaker 2: number of bucks. What was cool was that there was

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Speaker 2: a mix of bucks at each place, ranging from barely

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Speaker 2: spikes to one deer that is probably pushing one hundred

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Speaker 2: like trail cameras one bit. There's a lesson in there too.

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Speaker 2: My guess is that you'd learn that they are good

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Speaker 2: it's a lesson that is worth learning for everyone. It

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Speaker 2: might not matter if you have a banging spot to

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Speaker 2: deep dive into the topic of game management. That's it

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