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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundation's podcast, Your guide

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Speaker 1: to the fundamentals of better dear hunting. Present it by

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Speaker 1: now your host, Tony Peterson.

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Speaker 2: Hey everyone, welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundation's podcast,

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Speaker 2: which has brought to you by First Light. Today, I'm

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Speaker 2: going to talk about a topic that doesn't get much love,

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Speaker 2: but I think should basically figuring out how you like

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Speaker 2: to hunt and then really leaning into that style. I'll

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Speaker 2: never forget listening to two older dudes in one of

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Speaker 2: my high school classes talking about their love lives. I

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Speaker 2: guess one of them casually mentioned that he was more

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Speaker 2: of a pioneer than a settler. You can infer from

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Speaker 2: that what you wish. Anyway, Ever since I heard him

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Speaker 2: say that, I've used that statement a lot. It applies

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Speaker 2: to many things in life, even to whitetail hunting. That's

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Speaker 2: what I'm gonna talk about today. It's mostly about finding

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Speaker 2: your chosen lane through new experiences till you can honestly

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Speaker 2: declare yourself a certain kind of hunter. And maybe that

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Speaker 2: doesn't make sense, but I think it will. But before

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Speaker 2: the things that drives me nuts about hunting advice and

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Speaker 2: hell advice in general is that it's easiest to declare

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Speaker 2: a right way to do things instead of explaining how

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Speaker 2: nuanced stuff is. It's far less difficult to just say

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Speaker 2: there's just one way, the right way, and that's it.

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Speaker 2: But life doesn't really work like that, however. Take music,

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Speaker 2: you guys know, I love music, and I've played guitar

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Speaker 2: for a long long time. I'm not very good at it,

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Speaker 2: but I love it, and teaching myself how to play

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Speaker 2: has come with plenty of revelations that have helped me

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Speaker 2: understand life better. Take chord progressions in a song. For example,

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Speaker 2: if you don't play music, you probably don't realize this,

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Speaker 2: but you can look at just about any song out

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Speaker 2: a simple chord progression. Or I guess an easier way

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Speaker 2: to explain this would be imagine a heavy ish type

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Speaker 2: Then you add in some different effects through pedals and

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Speaker 2: whispers to screams. That's a far cry from like an

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Speaker 2: of not. There will be a basic chord progression in there, somewhere,

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Speaker 2: old William Merle Haggard saying poncho and left here or

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Speaker 2: chord progressions aren't totally set in stone. You could take

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Speaker 2: something that calls for a C chord, which is made

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Speaker 2: A minor or an E minor. Now they aren't the

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Speaker 2: Their strategy is probably one of survival, because it's easier

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Speaker 2: feeding strategy. You know, running into a school of shad

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Speaker 2: whole food source. And when that happens, the likelihood of

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Speaker 2: a minno breaking out and offering up a chance for

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Speaker 2: you burn fewer calories with this strategy. It's efficient. Now again,

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Speaker 2: they're vastly different strategies to achieve similar results, which is

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Speaker 2: to fill their bellies while not filling something else's bigger bellies.

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Speaker 2: When it comes to deer hunting, there are many ways

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Speaker 2: to achieve the same result. You might use a high

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Speaker 2: the work for you, But a dead buck is a

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Speaker 2: dead buck, right. Or you might also make your own

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Speaker 2: then still hunt for a full season on public land

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Speaker 2: with yourself bo somewhere in the big woods, and still

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Speaker 2: manage to kill a big buck. Again, the results are

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Speaker 2: anyone hearing those two examples knows that it's not actually

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Speaker 2: And I think you can largely break down white tail

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Speaker 2: hunters into two categories, the pioneers and the settlers. Now

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Speaker 2: change and often don't fit rigidly into a two part system.

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Speaker 2: Take me, for example, I'm primarily a pioneer when it

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Speaker 2: comes to deer hunting. I enjoy hunting new spots more

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Speaker 2: But if we're going to talk about what I really

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Speaker 2: enjoy out of hunting, that's not it. That's why I

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Speaker 2: I need to really enjoy the whole thing as much

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Speaker 2: tail hunting is scouting up something new and then settling

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Speaker 2: the mystery. A lot of hunters, they're almost exactly the

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Speaker 2: opposite of me, And you know what, that's great. I've

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Speaker 2: who is obsessed with creating perfect deer spots. He can't

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Speaker 2: get enough of food plots and planting apple trees and

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Speaker 2: of his little deer meccas. He'll do this every year

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Speaker 2: because that's what he likes and it works for him.

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Speaker 2: He knows this because he's done a lot of different hunting.

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Speaker 2: He used to go out west every year, sometimes multiple

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Speaker 2: times a year. He used to go turkey hunting all

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Speaker 2: over and hunt deer in several states. Now he basically

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Speaker 2: can't get him to even consider not sitting certain rifle

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Speaker 2: for ninety five percent of his bow hunting in Minnesota.

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Speaker 2: I think this is important stuff to know about yourself.

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Speaker 2: You don't know how many deer seasons you have left,

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Speaker 2: any more than any of us do, and so making

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Speaker 2: making the most of them in a way that means

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Speaker 2: you'll have the best chance of killing big bucks. That's

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Speaker 2: a part of it, for sure, but that's not really

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Speaker 2: knowns or unknowns, whether you need to set out across

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Speaker 2: think it's because deer hunting demands our time and our resources.

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Speaker 2: It soaks up some of our mental bandwidth. It's a

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Speaker 2: let's say you're not sure what camp you belong to.

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Speaker 2: Have you ever traveled to hunt? If you did, how

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Speaker 2: was it? Be honest? Did you love seeing new ground

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Speaker 2: and wishing you were back home. Have you ever taken

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Speaker 2: Did you like it? Now? Keep in mind here, I'm

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Speaker 2: you enjoyed the process. Now, I'm asking if you loved

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Speaker 2: every second of it, because you probably didn't. But how

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Speaker 2: is just like that. How about if you have always

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Speaker 2: hunted your grandma's farm or you've been on the same

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Speaker 2: So are you having fun when you go? Do you

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Speaker 2: find yourself super excited to get out there, or are

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Speaker 2: get your shot. Is that what you want out of hunting?

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Speaker 2: Or do you wish you could go more but that

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Speaker 2: you just don't have to ask yourself? Are you bored?

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Speaker 2: Do you feel a sense of accomplishment when you hunt

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Speaker 2: this way? Or maybe do you just feel that it's

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Speaker 2: exactly what you need to refill your cup a little

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Speaker 2: after a week of working and taking care of the kids.

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Speaker 2: I think we often aspire to do what others do

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Speaker 2: without considering if that's really what we want out of life.

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Speaker 2: Take the white tail settler or someone who might be

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Speaker 2: leaning into that type of hunting. That person can watch

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Speaker 2: unlimited hours of people hunting for TV shows and YouTube

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Speaker 2: episodes through that very style of hunting. It looks pretty

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Speaker 2: for this week. I'm Tony Peterson. This has been the

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