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Ep. 894: Foundations - What You Can Do Now, to Gain an Edge on Bucks This Fall · Wired To Hunt Podcast

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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 today's episode is all about taking your
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  Speaker 2: dear future seriously right now. Look, I know this is
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  Speaker 2: a weird time to be thinking about white tails, you know,
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  Speaker 2: but is there really a bad time of the year
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  Speaker 2: to be thinking about white tails? I'd say no, and
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  Speaker 2: I would guess even Mark would agree with that, although
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  Speaker 2: he's probably mostly thinking about fly fishing for tiny trout
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  Speaker 2: and busting out his custom made, handcrafted butterfly nuts. There's
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  Speaker 2: always something to do with white tails, and that might be,
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  Speaker 2: you know, as simple as shooting a little more, getting
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  Speaker 2: your gear in order, putting some of that gear to
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  Speaker 2: good use before August, when the reality of a rapidly
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  Speaker 2: approaching season smacks you like a dead fish on the
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  Speaker 2: side of your skull. This is what I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: talk about right now. One thing that struck me last season,
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  Speaker 2: as I was standing in the rain on a highway
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  Speaker 2: in northern Wisconsin with a bloody felet knife in my hands,
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  Speaker 2: was that the work that I do for white tails
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  Speaker 2: often doesn't really pay off with dead bucks. As I
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  Speaker 2: looked at the various pieces of my truck scattered across
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  Speaker 2: the road and the dead dough in the ditch, I
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  Speaker 2: realized that the hunt that I was really really looking
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  Speaker 2: forward to was already over on the same day that
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  Speaker 2: it had started. It was a hunt I had talked
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  Speaker 2: about on this show A Whole Bunch and on our
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  Speaker 2: main Wired Hunt show several times. I was so confident
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  Speaker 2: i'd kill a buck that week out of a stand
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  Speaker 2: I hung in April that it never occurred to me
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  Speaker 2: that I wouldn't. I mean, I literally never even considered
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  Speaker 2: that I might not shoot a buck there in mid November.
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  Speaker 2: And it stung knowing that I had gotten way ahead
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  Speaker 2: of the work and I had laid what I thought
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  Speaker 2: was a perfect trap, and then in an instant, it
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  Speaker 2: all changed. Now, I'm naturally a pretty negative person, which
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  Speaker 2: is you can imagine, doesn't do me too many favors
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  Speaker 2: when I talk to somebody like Yannis, I'm instantly jealous.
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  Speaker 2: He sees the good side of nearly everything, and if
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  Speaker 2: I could figure out a way to steal that from him,
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  Speaker 2: well I probably wouldn't, but I definitely consider it. That
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  Speaker 2: natural inclination makes me think about hitting that dough and
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  Speaker 2: missing out on a hunt without a cameraman over my shoulder,
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  Speaker 2: And you know, it's easy for me to think that
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  Speaker 2: that's what mostly happens, That something just goes to shit,
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  Speaker 2: and whatever good thing I expected was never going to happen,
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  Speaker 2: because after all, why would it. But the thing is,
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  Speaker 2: most of what I do for dear season doesn't work
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  Speaker 2: very well. Most of what you do doesn't either, because
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  Speaker 2: you know, if it did, you'd be hosting this podcast
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  Speaker 2: and I'd be laying sod and drinking long next on
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  Speaker 2: the weekend somewhere or something. I don't know, but it's
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  Speaker 2: a bad idea to look at what we do and
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  Speaker 2: decide the extra work, especially the stuff you can do now,
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  Speaker 2: doesn't have the kind of ROI necessary to make it
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  Speaker 2: worth it. I talk a lot about giving ourselves out
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  Speaker 2: with the actual hunting season and all of the excuses
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  Speaker 2: that we use to not hunt, but we can also
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  Speaker 2: find a pile of excuses to not do anything in
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  Speaker 2: the off season either, or at least this part of
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  Speaker 2: the off season that's generally geared toward gobblers and crappie fishing.
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  Speaker 2: But there's always something worth doing, and for me, the
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  Speaker 2: easiest way to figure out what that is is to
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  Speaker 2: think back on my last season and try to be
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  Speaker 2: real honest about the holes in my game. This isn't
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  Speaker 2: too hard of a task for me this year. I've
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  Speaker 2: spent quite a bit of time trying to figure out
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  Speaker 2: how to be a super lethal shot in the field
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  Speaker 2: over the last decade and a half, and it has
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  Speaker 2: worked out mostly sort of. Now. I'm nowhere near as
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  Speaker 2: bad as I will for a long time when buck
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  Speaker 2: Fever just about pushed me into being a golfer. But
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  Speaker 2: I still have up and down seasons that bothers me.
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  Speaker 2: And last year I made three bad shots in a row.
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  Speaker 2: Now that really bothers me, especially since they were all
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  Speaker 2: on film. The record still stands. And while I made
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  Speaker 2: a couple of satisfying short blood trail shots off camera,
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  Speaker 2: three in a row stings. So I'm shooting now, not
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  Speaker 2: a ton, but I'm shooting more now than I did
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  Speaker 2: last year at this time, and that matters. I'm at
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  Speaker 2: the stage of my life I'm sure a lot of
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  Speaker 2: you listeners are at where it feels like work and
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  Speaker 2: family obligations are this monster that just devours so much
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  Speaker 2: of my time that when I do have some time
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  Speaker 2: to relax, I actually kind of just want to relax,
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  Speaker 2: but I usually don't because there are a small mouth
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  Speaker 2: to be caught and bird ducks to be messed with,
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  Speaker 2: and about a billion non work and non family things
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  Speaker 2: that still need to get checked off the list. But
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  Speaker 2: that's also an excuse I like to tell myself so
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  Speaker 2: I feel less bad about the fact that I I
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  Speaker 2: know I didn't shoot as much as I should have.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to give myself that excuse this year,
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  Speaker 2: and at the very least, it makes me feel better
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  Speaker 2: about my prospects this fall for putting together a string
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  Speaker 2: of many shots, all of which I can be proud of,
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  Speaker 2: and shooting is important. In case you didn't think I
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  Speaker 2: could say the most obvious shit possible, But think about this,
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  Speaker 2: how many of the stone cold killers out there, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the guys who just seem to get it done on
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  Speaker 2: pressure deer, no matter where they are how many of
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  Speaker 2: those do you consider to be really good bow shots?
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  Speaker 2: A lot? I bet our focus is often on how
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  Speaker 2: militant someone is with their scouting or you know, some
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  Speaker 2: method of scouting or hunting that they have just given
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  Speaker 2: themselves fully to that sets them apart from everyone else
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  Speaker 2: in their region or maybe in the whole country and
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  Speaker 2: all that jazz. That's the stuff that sells. Because most
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  Speaker 2: people aren't as militant with their scouting or don't know
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  Speaker 2: how to give themselves fully to some type of hunting.
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  Speaker 2: That doesn't mean they couldn't, though, and that's the appeal.
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  Speaker 2: I think a lot of folks think that maybe they
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  Speaker 2: could borrow ten percent of how the hunting public goes
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  Speaker 2: about it, or ten percent of whatever the hell it
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  Speaker 2: is that Andy May does to be so successful. Is
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  Speaker 2: emulate it, bam, kill a few more deer, and you
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  Speaker 2: know what, It's probably true to some extent, but it's
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  Speaker 2: also true that a hell of a lot of what
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  Speaker 2: we do hinges on our ability to settle the right
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  Speaker 2: pin in the right spot and go through the right
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  Speaker 2: motions to send an arrow where it needs to go,
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  Speaker 2: and doing that on a live deer that we really
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  Speaker 2: want is often not that easy. The best we can
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  Speaker 2: do most of the year is grab our bow, set
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  Speaker 2: up a target, and work on the fundamentals of the
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  Speaker 2: whole thing while developing some confidence. My wife is convinced
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  Speaker 2: that our daughters will be the next Caitlin Clerks, and
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  Speaker 2: I just let her go because, in all honesty, she
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  Speaker 2: has never been a reasonable person, at least not one
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  Speaker 2: that would listen to a whole lot this fella has
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  Speaker 2: to say, which is ironic considering how many people listen
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  Speaker 2: to what I have to say. Any huski. She has
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  Speaker 2: the girls doing shooting drills and dribbling drills and earning
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  Speaker 2: some kind of reward if they meet some basketball goals
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  Speaker 2: throughout the week. One of them is to take a
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  Speaker 2: thousand shots in a week. Now, when you're in seventh grade,
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  Speaker 2: that's the kind of thing that could set you apart
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  Speaker 2: from the pack, and it certainly paid off for them
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  Speaker 2: last season. It didn't keep them from making any stupid mistakes,
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  Speaker 2: you know, or losing it a bit when the games
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  Speaker 2: got going and the pressure became real, but you could
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  Speaker 2: see them shooting when the time was right and not
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  Speaker 2: hiding or trying to pass the ball away on the
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  Speaker 2: fear that they'll air ball won. That might seem like
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  Speaker 2: a weird, small thing to us, but to them it's
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  Speaker 2: not getting in. The reps matters a lot. This is
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  Speaker 2: something that is a constant drum beat in the dog
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  Speaker 2: training circles because you don't develop an amazing dog by
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  Speaker 2: training for one hour every Saturday. You work with them
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  Speaker 2: from the moment you bring them home, and your goal
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  Speaker 2: is to establish the basics and then over a time,
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  Speaker 2: expand on those basics. The reps happen multiple times a day,
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  Speaker 2: no matter what. Now, when it comes to shooting a
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  Speaker 2: deer with a sharp stick, those reps matter. They really
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  Speaker 2: matter when that deer is a big one and it
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  Speaker 2: comes in with four minutes of shooting light left and
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  Speaker 2: poses up at the far end of your effective range,
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  Speaker 2: and your heart is about to beat right out of
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  Speaker 2: your chest and splat down on the leaves below your stand.
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  Speaker 2: There are other ways procrastination can cost you. This past weekend,
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  Speaker 2: I went to a small property here in the Cities
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  Speaker 2: that I hunted last fall and pulled all of my
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  Speaker 2: stands again. I wanted to do this earlier, but that
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  Speaker 2: basketball season ate up a lot of time, the weather sucked,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and other excuses, which shouldn't really matter. Getting
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  Speaker 2: those stands down let me touch base with a landowner
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  Speaker 2: who I hunt with out there, but also just made
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  Speaker 2: me feel better about my season planning. Now I have
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  Speaker 2: that inventory in my garage, sorted out, looked over, and
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  Speaker 2: ready to go. When I decided to start hanging stands
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  Speaker 2: for this season, some of them might go right back
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  Speaker 2: to that property in the same trees they were in,
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  Speaker 2: since I definitely figured a few things out this year,
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  Speaker 2: but for now they'll stay in my garage. Now. I
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  Speaker 2: doubt me sitting down on a Saturday to listen to
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  Speaker 2: German death metal while sorting out that gear is going
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  Speaker 2: to give me even a two percent advantage this fall.
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  Speaker 2: But I know it won't hurt because I know that
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  Speaker 2: during multiple times this summer, I'm going to have to
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  Speaker 2: plan trips to my Minnesota properties and the stuff I
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  Speaker 2: hunt in Wisconsin and this year a place in Nebraska.
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  Speaker 2: I know the more that my gear is organized, the
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  Speaker 2: better albeit planning out each property and what stands will
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  Speaker 2: need to go where. But it's more than that, because
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  Speaker 2: I'll actually hang stands in those spots, or at least
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  Speaker 2: I'm far more likely to check all of those boxes.
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  Speaker 2: When I have somewhat clean inventory of gear at home,
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  Speaker 2: I won't get myself into the second guessing or the
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  Speaker 2: easy way out mindset where I'm sweating my nuts off
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  Speaker 2: somewhere in the woods and decide that I don't we
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  Speaker 2: really need to stand here or there, because I might
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  Speaker 2: need it somewhere else. I guess in a way, a
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  Speaker 2: lot of this stuff is just about holding ourselves a
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  Speaker 2: little more accountable to the entire process of being a
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  Speaker 2: deer hunter. This is something I feel kind of separates
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  Speaker 2: the kind of folks who will listen to a podcast
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  Speaker 2: like this versus the kind of folks who won't. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: that's the wrong way to look at it, but the
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  Speaker 2: deer hunting world is full of people looking for four
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  Speaker 2: leaf clovers to bestow upon themselves the kind of luck
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  Speaker 2: it takes to kill a big one. Yet most of
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  Speaker 2: those folks will mostly for most of their deer hunting lives, uh,
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  Speaker 2: mostly fail at killing big bucks. And that's just fine
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  Speaker 2: for them if that's what they want. Or to put
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  Speaker 2: it in another way, they don't want to get ahead
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  Speaker 2: of the work to level up, that's great. A lot
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  Speaker 2: of people don't really care about this stuff beyond a
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  Speaker 2: couple of weekends each year, and they're just fine, resigning
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  Speaker 2: themselves to the hands of fate, which rarely deliver easy,
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  Speaker 2: mature bucks right into their laps. We kind of default
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  Speaker 2: to hoping the future will just work itself out for us.
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  Speaker 2: It's human nature, but it also often doesn't. This leads
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  Speaker 2: to some rough stuff in hunting and in life when
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  Speaker 2: the moment hits you that you realize you're just not prepared,
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  Speaker 2: or at least as prepared as you should be. This
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  Speaker 2: can cause despair, or it can cause us to default
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  Speaker 2: to oh well mode, or just decide to do twenty
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  Speaker 2: percent of what you really want to do. That oh
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  Speaker 2: well mode is so damaging, and it's really prevalent when
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  Speaker 2: it comes to things like retirement planning. I run into
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  Speaker 2: people often who just say they'll work until they die,
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  Speaker 2: that there is no real reason to put money away
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  Speaker 2: since they are already behind and what they could spare
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  Speaker 2: will just never be enough. It's easy to go that
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  Speaker 2: route because the periods in our lives that are a
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  Speaker 2: few decades away are impossible for us to imagine now.
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  Speaker 2: Just like when you're a ten year old, you can't
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  Speaker 2: imagine what it's going to be like to be forty
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  Speaker 2: and have a couple of kids and a wife, and
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  Speaker 2: a yard that needs to be mode and a boss
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  Speaker 2: who you really despise, but you have to pretend to
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  Speaker 2: like that's an alien world. It's so far in the
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  Speaker 2: future that it's not worth a mental horse power to
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  Speaker 2: even consider. But the same goes for that forty year
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  Speaker 2: old who for whatever reason hasn't put any money away
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  Speaker 2: and they try to think about life as a seventy
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  Speaker 2: year old and just can't do it. There's too much
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  Speaker 2: daylight between those ages. But you can bet your ass
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  Speaker 2: that there are a very few seventy year olds who
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  Speaker 2: would go back in time and save less money for retirement.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't work that way. Preparing for the future is
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  Speaker 2: important on many levels, but in regard to hunting, it's
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  Speaker 2: not just about being in a better spot to kill
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  Speaker 2: a big buck. Sure, if that's your goal and you
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  Speaker 2: procrastinate with all the work, you're almost guaranteed to fail.
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  Speaker 2: And one of the worst feelings you can have as
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  Speaker 2: a deer hunter, aside from missing like one hundred and
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  Speaker 2: fifty inch buck on public land, is to suddenly realize
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  Speaker 2: you only have three weeks left before the season kicks
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  Speaker 2: off and you haven't set any stands, or put out
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  Speaker 2: any cameras, or dust it off your boat to take
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  Speaker 2: a few shots, or hell, organized your gear done, whatever
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  Speaker 2: level of work is necessary to make you not freak out.
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  Speaker 2: I think we kind of look at this stuff wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: Mark likes to tell about something. It's kind of like this.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he sprays down his trail cameras after checking
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  Speaker 2: them and touching them so the deer won't smell them.
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  Speaker 2: His rationale is little stuff like that might give him
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  Speaker 2: a one or two percent edge, and if he does
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  Speaker 2: enough of that stuff, eventually it'll tip the odds in
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  Speaker 2: his favor. Now, it's impossible to figure out if it
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  Speaker 2: actually does, but it seems to stand a reason anyway.
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  Speaker 2: That's also sort of an easy one to quantify for
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  Speaker 2: most of us, because actions like that, you know, they're
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  Speaker 2: directly connected to how the deer are going to react
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  Speaker 2: to us, if that makes any sense at all. But
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  Speaker 2: what about something more abstract, like just organizing your stuff
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  Speaker 2: and taking care of it, or taking some more shots,
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  Speaker 2: or figuring out a good camera strategy for your deer.
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  Speaker 2: Least that will actually teach you something. You're just kind
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  Speaker 2: of looking for a little edge somewhere somehow, because hunting
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  Speaker 2: white tails is mostly really difficult. At least it is
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  Speaker 2: if your goals are you know, represent some kind of
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  Speaker 2: real challenge. There are no shortcuts to this stuff, and
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  Speaker 2: it's the little things in the off seas that can
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  Speaker 2: matter to your success, but only if you take them
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  Speaker 2: seriously and understand that why you're doing what you're doing
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  Speaker 2: is going to pay off, or I guess why you
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  Speaker 2: should be doing what you should be doing. I don't
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  Speaker 2: want to say that you have to go nuts and
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  Speaker 2: give up everything else in your life to think about
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  Speaker 2: Dear twenty four to seven, because that's kind of dumb,
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  Speaker 2: and it probably wouldn't work. At least, it wouldn't work
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  Speaker 2: to make hunting any more fun. I know that it's
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  Speaker 2: instead just a slight shift in your mindset, one that
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  Speaker 2: acknowledges the difficulty the whole thing, and how if we
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  Speaker 2: long gain it the right way, we can make it
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  Speaker 2: a little less difficult, or make ourselves two percent better,
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: which I guess is saying the same thing in a
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  Speaker 2: different way. Remember, it's not the fun stuff that matters,
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  Speaker 2: because that shit's easy to do. It's the work, Even
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  Speaker 2: the little reps that only take an hour in the
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  Speaker 2: garage here or twenty minutes more on the range there,
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  Speaker 2: that stack up over time to give us an actual advantage. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I know this isn't revolutionary stuff, but it's also something
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  Speaker 2: that I think is really easy to agree with but
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  Speaker 2: also really difficult to put into practice. We all know
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  Speaker 2: we probably could do more, but we also almost always
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  Speaker 2: don't do more. It's human nature. I guess. We assume
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  Speaker 2: the rut will save us later, or maybe that we
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  Speaker 2: can buy a certain bottle of dope and salvage a
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  Speaker 2: disappointing season. But you can hunt the rut and spend
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  Speaker 2: your paycheck on all the deer bodily fluids you really
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  Speaker 2: can afford, and also still put in that off season work.
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  Speaker 2: And if you do, it's very likely that your season
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  Speaker 2: will break your way, and you can credit it to
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  Speaker 2: the rut or the scentwick hanging twenty yards away from
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  Speaker 2: your stand. But the likely reason for your success can
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: often be attributed to some habit that you've established, or
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: just some singular deer chore you did months earlier. Don't
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  Speaker 2: forget about that. As the birds really start to gobble in,
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: the shallows warm up and the fish start to move in,
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  Speaker 2: and don't forget to come back next week because I'm
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: going to talk about a topic almost no one wants
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  Speaker 2: to hear about, but it's very important. I'm not even
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  Speaker 2: going to say what it is because i want everyone
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  Speaker 2: to listen, even if they don't really want to hear
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  Speaker 2: about it. So there's a little miss for you, but
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  Speaker 2: do come back next week. That's it for this week.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Tony Peterson and this has been the Wire to
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  Speaker 2: Hunt Foundations podcast, which is brought to you by First Light.
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  Speaker 2: As always, thank you so much for all your support.
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  Speaker 2: We just wrapped up Turkey Week here and you guys
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  Speaker 2: showed up in full force. I hope you bought some
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  Speaker 2: a good turkey season. And I also know that if
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