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Ep. 994: Foundations - The Dangers of Filling in the Whitetail Blanks · 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 Foundation's podcast, which is brought
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  Speaker 2: to you by first Light. I'm your host, Tony Peterson,
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  Speaker 2: and today's episode is all about why we feel the
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  Speaker 2: need to fill in the blanks with whitetail hunting and
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  Speaker 2: how that might not be the best strategy. As I
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  Speaker 2: get older, I kind of feel like I know less
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  Speaker 2: about life in some ways. Maybe that seems weird, but
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  Speaker 2: I think this is just because I've grown a little
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  Speaker 2: more comfortable with not knowing an awful.
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  Speaker 3: Lot of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Some of it I probably should know, and some of
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  Speaker 2: it is about as unknowable as stuff gets. What does
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  Speaker 2: this have to do with whitetails Actually quite a bit
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  Speaker 2: more than you might think, And whether you believe that
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  Speaker 2: or not, we should just keep listening, because I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to break down right now how we often fill in
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  Speaker 2: the blank for whitetail behavior and strategies and all this
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  Speaker 2: stuff and how that actually hurts us a lot of times.
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  Speaker 2: Us humans are a funny lot. We don't like not
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  Speaker 2: knowing stuff, and we are very very good at making
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  Speaker 2: up stories to explain away the stuff we don't understand.
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  Speaker 2: Religions are often founded on this principle. And before you
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  Speaker 2: get your undies in a bunch over me saying that,
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  Speaker 2: give me a second delay something out, think about the
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  Speaker 2: explanations that come from religion, not just yours, because that's
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  Speaker 2: probably the one you believe, but from some other religion
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  Speaker 2: that you don't practice. You probably think their origination stories
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  Speaker 2: are pure silliness because they don't make any sense to you.
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  Speaker 2: Throughout history, we've concocted stories to explain where we came from,
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  Speaker 2: who's in charge, what it all means to us. There
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  Speaker 2: aren't a lot of Pagans or druids or whatever today, though,
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  Speaker 2: but we have plenty of folks who know in their
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  Speaker 2: heart of hearts what happened and what will happen. And
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  Speaker 2: I promise you that those Pagans and Drews and whatever
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  Speaker 2: else thought they knew too. We can look at them
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  Speaker 2: now and say that they didn't, but that didn't matter
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  Speaker 2: to them. A whole lot I bet we just need
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  Speaker 2: explanations to calm our minds, to keep us going, to
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  Speaker 2: make the whole freaking struggle seem worth it. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: there's this kind of thing when it comes to the
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  Speaker 2: big questions about life and death and the existence of
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  Speaker 2: a purpose or lack thereof, And well, you can just
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  Speaker 2: see why we want to be able to go. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, this is why, and that's all there is
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  Speaker 2: to it now, as much comfort as we might draw
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  Speaker 2: from that, you know, when facing our own mortality or
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  Speaker 2: that of our loved ones. It's also true that we
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  Speaker 2: do this with all kinds of things in life. We
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  Speaker 2: are quick to write people off as something they may
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  Speaker 2: or may not be, simply because it's easier than considering
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  Speaker 2: a world of circumstances that conspire to create a person
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  Speaker 2: and drive their motivations. Take the corporate world here. You
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  Speaker 2: probably think your boss is unqualified for the job, and
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  Speaker 2: the reason he doesn't give you a giant raise or
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  Speaker 2: a promotion every year because he's dumber than a bag
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  Speaker 2: of hammers and just doesn't recognize your talents. But maybe
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  Speaker 2: he has a boss who has put really tight constraints
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  Speaker 2: on his payroll and is holding him to such stringent
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  Speaker 2: standards that only the top of the top performers are
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  Speaker 2: gonna get anything extra, and those people have to beg
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  Speaker 2: and plead for it. Everyone involved will justify their actions
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  Speaker 2: and their beliefs, but not one of them will be
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  Speaker 2: able to contain the full scope of their interactions and
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  Speaker 2: their duties and their lives with all these other people.
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  Speaker 2: There's just unknowable. So it's just easier to think your
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  Speaker 2: superiors have the intellect of algae. Sometimes our desire to
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  Speaker 2: just fill in the blanks is a self preservation method
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  Speaker 2: to not go nuts by over analyzing something. And I
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  Speaker 2: think somewhere in the deep recesses of our brains there's
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  Speaker 2: just a recognition that a lot of stuff is unknowable
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  Speaker 2: and there isn't a damn thing we can do about it.
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  Speaker 2: I believe that in no small part to the fact
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  Speaker 2: that there are a hell of a lot of times
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  Speaker 2: when I can't outsmart any deer, let alone some stupid
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  Speaker 2: smallmouse somewhere or I don't know, or rooster pheasant and
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  Speaker 2: the cattails whatever. We labor under the delusion that we
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  Speaker 2: have the answers to the questions when it comes to
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  Speaker 2: the outdoors, But how often are we really just filling
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  Speaker 2: in the blanks. Let me give you an example that
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  Speaker 2: fell into my lap recently. One of the writers for
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  Speaker 2: our site here at Meat Eater hit me up with
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  Speaker 2: a question about how to find an antler list deer
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  Speaker 2: on public land in Kansas, or I guess I should say,
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  Speaker 2: kind of just wanted to lament that for some reason,
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  Speaker 2: finding bucks was pretty easy, but finding a doe wasn't. Now,
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  Speaker 2: that would be a great problem to have for any
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  Speaker 2: one of us if we were looking to fill a
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  Speaker 2: buck tag. But in a lot of states, when you
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  Speaker 2: fill one of your buck tags, you filled all of
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  Speaker 2: your buck tags. Minnesota is like that in most areas
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  Speaker 2: of the state, and it sucks, but it is what
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  Speaker 2: it is, So you got to choose wisely. Now, when
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  Speaker 2: I try to talk through the Kansas antlerless situation, the
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  Speaker 2: first thing I heard was that the does just must
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  Speaker 2: not be moving in daylight. The rationale was this, The
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  Speaker 2: sign was everywhere, and by that I'm talking tracks and droppings.
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  Speaker 3: The bucks are there, so why not the does?
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  Speaker 2: And you know they're all kind of keying on that
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  Speaker 2: cut cornfield off the river bottom.
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  Speaker 3: Great.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of that adds up to an area that
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  Speaker 2: should hold some does, but the confounding variables take this
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  Speaker 2: from something knowable to something that is truly a mystery.
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  Speaker 2: Let's start with the public land aspect. There is no
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  Speaker 2: way to know who is hunting a spot when you're
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  Speaker 2: not there, and often when you are there, maybe the
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  Speaker 2: does aren't moving, or maybe they got pushed out by
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  Speaker 2: a quail hunter three hours before you showed up. Public
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  Speaker 2: Land is a wild card that way, but there's a
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  Speaker 2: lot more. This hunter had also actually successfully arrowed a
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  Speaker 2: dough in that spot not too long ago. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know about you, but when I kill a deer in
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  Speaker 2: an area, I just generally feel like I have less
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  Speaker 2: of a chance to kill another one in the near term.
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  Speaker 2: Even when it feels like that shouldn't be true, it
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  Speaker 2: just often seems to kind of be so so far.
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  Speaker 2: That's a couple of things that could be true but
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  Speaker 2: are largely unknowable. There's another factor here where the general
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  Speaker 2: firearm season was open, so you have more folks in
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  Speaker 2: the woods hunting at the time than any other time
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  Speaker 2: in the season. So just going out trying to arrow
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  Speaker 2: a deer is a big challenge. You know, an old
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  Speaker 2: dough hearing a pile of rifle shots or listening to
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  Speaker 2: hunter's ride four wheelers through the pasture an hour before
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  Speaker 2: first light is an old dough that isn't above heading
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  Speaker 2: into the thick stuff to lay around for the daylight hours.
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  Speaker 2: It gets worse, though, because in a state like Kansas,
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  Speaker 2: those same rifle hunters that are out on private land
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  Speaker 2: close to that public are statistically very very likely to
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  Speaker 2: be hunting over a big old pile of corn. If
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  Speaker 2: you want to influence the travel of deer in December,
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  Speaker 2: a great way to do it is to dump a
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  Speaker 2: pile of corn out and then wait. There's also the
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  Speaker 2: reality of bucks being in a spot and the does
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  Speaker 2: who have been chased by them for a month or
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  Speaker 2: so not really being keen on being chased any longer. Now,
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  Speaker 2: while the bucks and does eventually will all kind of
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  Speaker 2: settle into similar bed to food patterns, there is a
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  Speaker 2: time when the doughs have had just about enough of
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  Speaker 2: the bucks. And now here's where things get really squarely.
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  Speaker 2: In this particular situation, there are a pile of very
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  Speaker 2: that could be standing between this hunter and a dead dough,
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  Speaker 2: and most of them are kind of impossible to know,
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  Speaker 2: So this leaves that hunter with just a few options.
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  Speaker 2: The first is to decide that the circumstances are too
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  Speaker 2: great to overcome and it's time to go do something else.
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  Speaker 2: That's an option, even if it kind of sucks. The
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  Speaker 2: second is to fill in the blanks and keep riding
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  Speaker 2: a dead program, hoping that it comes back to life.
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  Speaker 2: If there is anything we are really good at as hunters,
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  Speaker 2: it's talking ourselves into hunting the way we want to,
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  Speaker 2: even if it isn't all that productive. Or you can
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  Speaker 2: accept what you don't know and try to learn about
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  Speaker 2: what you can by doing something different, even if it's
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  Speaker 2: only slightly different. One of the things that I've learned
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  Speaker 2: in a lot of unsuccessful late season hunts, in fact,
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  Speaker 2: just a lot of unsuccessful hunting in general, is that
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  Speaker 2: I'm often off by just a little bit, but it
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  Speaker 2: makes it feel like a lot. The deer are very
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  Speaker 2: good at working around me and you, And if I
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  Speaker 2: make that job easy and I offer and do, the
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  Speaker 2: whole thing gets a lot harder. So the things that
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  Speaker 2: we decide are unknowable, you know, we just decide they
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  Speaker 2: must all be nocturnal due to the moon phase or
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  Speaker 2: something else. Actually is just our way of wrapping our
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  Speaker 2: egos in a warm blanket and not letting ourselves consider
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  Speaker 2: that we just don't have a clue right now, or
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  Speaker 2: that some style or way we've been hunting is hurting us.
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  Speaker 2: So to get that clue on what to do, you
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  Speaker 2: usually have to decide that, instead of declaring the deer
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  Speaker 2: unkillable for some reason, that they are indeed actually killable,
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  Speaker 2: just not on your current program. This is a hard
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  Speaker 2: pill for a lot of us to swallow for a
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  Speaker 2: lot of reasons. But if you want to become a
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  Speaker 2: better deer hunter, you have to figure out how to
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  Speaker 2: solve the problem that the woods and the critters present
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  Speaker 2: to you. You won't be inclined to do that if
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  Speaker 2: you just fill in the blanks with a perfectly logical
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  Speaker 2: to you excuse for why you can't get it done.
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  Speaker 3: And this happens a lot. I think that it.
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  Speaker 2: Happens because we hear a lot of people talk like
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  Speaker 2: they know everything about deer, and since there's no way
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  Speaker 2: to check their work, the statements just stand.
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  Speaker 3: Let me give you a couple examples.
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  Speaker 2: You know how I feel about the deer aging thing,
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  Speaker 2: where everyone just confidently declares deer a certain age by
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  Speaker 2: body characteristics or rack size or both. But they don't
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  Speaker 2: have to check their work, so it just stands. I
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  Speaker 2: think that's bananas. But there are a lot of ways
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  Speaker 2: we do this. Think about how often you or someone
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  Speaker 2: you know has said that, you know, you just have
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  Speaker 2: to hunt dough betting areas during the run, done and done,
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  Speaker 2: just get down, win and the bucks will come. But
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  Speaker 2: what dough betting areas? I've hunted so many places? Where
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  Speaker 2: does bed in? A lot of areas throughout the season,
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  Speaker 2: and they change depending on whether hunting pressure, the wind,
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  Speaker 2: and probably about a thousand factors I don't know about.
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  Speaker 2: We like to say definitive stuff like this. Hell, a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people talk about bucks they are hunting as
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  Speaker 2: if they know their day to day routines and that
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  Speaker 2: never changes. But if that were true, so the success
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  Speaker 2: rate would be a hell of a lot higher than
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  Speaker 2: it is because those bucks that always do this or
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  Speaker 2: never do that don't actually operate like that. Our dear
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  Speaker 2: beliefs can be dangerous this way. Think about the folks
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  Speaker 2: who are die hard moon phase believers, even if you
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  Speaker 2: present them with studies that show collor deer seem to
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  Speaker 2: be totally unaffected by the moon phase. Those folks won't
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  Speaker 2: believe it, and they'll cater their hunting strategy around the
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  Speaker 2: moon phase. And what does that do for them, Well,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to lead them to believe they are right
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  Speaker 2: because it's the only way they hunt. But if they
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  Speaker 2: ignored the moon phase and started hunting, they'd realize, you know,
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  Speaker 2: that what they know about deer actually isn't something gained
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  Speaker 2: from broad experience, but something else that was influenced heavily
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  Speaker 2: by an explanation for deer behavior that they just adopted
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  Speaker 2: and held tight.
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  Speaker 3: We can wait broader with this stuff too.
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  Speaker 2: We might believe that the only thing you have to
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  Speaker 2: do to kill a buck is to rattle on late
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  Speaker 2: October mornings, right after sunrise. For some folks this is
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  Speaker 2: probably very true. But for a lot of folks, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like some person hunting public land in Georgia or something,
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  Speaker 2: it would be a great one to not shoot any bucks,
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  Speaker 2: you know, to muddy the waters further. You might think
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  Speaker 2: that rattling will never work because you were only a
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  Speaker 2: public land hunter in Georgia. But is that belief rooted
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  Speaker 2: in reality. It's hard to say. When we use our
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  Speaker 2: beliefs to keep us from trying new things, we get
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  Speaker 2: into trouble. That's really where I wanted to go with
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  Speaker 2: the show. I can think back to so many things
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  Speaker 2: that I just knew to be true in hunting and
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  Speaker 2: that guided me along certain parts of my journey in
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  Speaker 2: a way that for one reason or a nothing, were
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  Speaker 2: eventually exposed.
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  Speaker 3: To be total bullshit.
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  Speaker 2: While those revelations are super important to growth as a hunter,
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  Speaker 2: we have to hunt in a way that allows them
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  Speaker 2: to happen, because they mostly just won't happen by accident. Now, sure,
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  Speaker 2: you might just go out to sit in the woods
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  Speaker 2: to shoot a dough on October eighth, and I have
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  Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty inch or walk in where you
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  Speaker 2: don't expect him, and if you do pay attention, that
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  Speaker 2: buck could alter the course of your deer hunting life
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  Speaker 2: in a big way if you don't write off the
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  Speaker 2: encounter as a total fluke. But in other ways, we
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  Speaker 2: have to make something happen to see if something will happen,
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  Speaker 2: if that makes any sense. If you don't believe that
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  Speaker 2: you can kill big bucks in the early season in
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  Speaker 2: the morning, you won't hunt mornings and guess what you're
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  Speaker 2: gonna be right, or at least you'll never learn how
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  Speaker 2: wrong you really are. This is where it gets tricky, though, because,
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  Speaker 2: like I said way back in the beginning of the show,
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  Speaker 2: there are just unknowable things, a whole shitload of them,
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  Speaker 2: and because they exist and always will, we will always
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  Speaker 2: be faced with the impulse to explain them away as
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  Speaker 2: best we can. But what your brain comes up with
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  Speaker 2: while sitting on the couch and just pondering your deerless
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  Speaker 2: life is a different thing than what your brain can
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  Speaker 2: do when it's tasked with going and doing the thing. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: it's hard to get comfortable with not knowing the important.
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  Speaker 3: Stuff, but it's also a part of this deer game.
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  Speaker 2: Instead of saying that the bucks are all nocturnal because
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  Speaker 2: of the moon phase or seasonal timing, it's okay to
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  Speaker 2: be like, I have no idea why I can't find
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  Speaker 2: a buck right now, but I'm gonna keep looking. This
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  Speaker 2: is so important I can barely figure out a way
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  Speaker 2: to emphasize it enough. It's okay to hunt a new spot,
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  Speaker 2: and hell, seven new spots in a week and blank
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  Speaker 2: every time. You'll never truly know why you didn't see
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  Speaker 2: any deer on most of the CITs, but you can know,
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  Speaker 2: you know that you didn't do this or you did
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  Speaker 2: do that. You know you can say, well, with this
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  Speaker 2: access and this wind and the seasonal timing, I didn't
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  Speaker 2: see a deer in that spot. You might not know
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  Speaker 2: why the deer didn't show up, but you have enough
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  Speaker 2: to try it again, or tweak the plan, to move
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  Speaker 2: down the ridge and give it another shot. I think
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  Speaker 2: one of the best things that ever happened to me
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  Speaker 2: as a hunter was deciding that when it was possible,
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  Speaker 2: I'd hunt new spots for an evening and then a morning,
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  Speaker 2: as long as it made just enough sense. Now, of
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  Speaker 2: course you wouldn't sit I don't know, like a beanfield
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  Speaker 2: edge in the morning most likely, But for a lot
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  Speaker 2: of travel route setups, there's a chance morning and evening.
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  Speaker 2: And while you might have to access the same spot
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  Speaker 2: from different ways, it's worth it because sometimes I believe
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  Speaker 2: a spot will be an amazing morning spot and it's
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  Speaker 2: a dud, but the deer go through there like crazy
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  Speaker 2: in the afternoon. I might be able to figure out why,
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  Speaker 2: or I might have just an unknowable thing on my hands,
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  Speaker 2: But that's okay. I don't need an explanation for everything.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes I just like finding a spot where, for whatever reasons,
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  Speaker 2: it's known to them, they use it at a certain
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  Speaker 2: time in a certain way. We are caught in this world,
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  Speaker 2: this weird world of white tails right now, where it
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  Speaker 2: feels like you can know so much about them, and
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  Speaker 2: if you have enough cameras and enough time and enough land,
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  Speaker 2: you can know a lot about them. They can be
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  Speaker 2: pretty predictable, but they mostly aren't that predictable because we
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  Speaker 2: mostly can't know most of what they have going on
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  Speaker 2: during any given day. If you can find a way
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  Speaker 2: to take comfort in that and accept it, you can
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  Speaker 2: find a way to just tease out enough knowledge on
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  Speaker 2: their lives to maybe not always kill them at will,
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  Speaker 2: but to always be in the game and always on
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  Speaker 2: a path toward the next encounter. So, if this was
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  Speaker 2: super muddy and incoherent, let me break it down before
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  Speaker 2: we all move on with our lives. There's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of the deer's world that we just aren't privy to,
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  Speaker 2: but that's totally okay. We can try to explain away
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  Speaker 2: certain behaviors or certain results from our sits, and we
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  Speaker 2: might get some of them right or not. That doesn't
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  Speaker 2: really matter. What does matter is that it's okay. To
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  Speaker 2: admit that we don't know, and to try to learn
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  Speaker 2: as much as we can about them. This only happens
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  Speaker 2: one way, and it'll never happen if we decide that
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  Speaker 2: we know about them something that we actually don't or
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  Speaker 2: can't and then use that to try something that just
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  Speaker 2: won't work or to keep us out of the woods.
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  Speaker 3: You know what, Scratch that.
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  Speaker 2: Trying something that might work is everything to solve the equation,
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  Speaker 2: even when we don't believe that we can solve it.
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  Speaker 2: This is a good time of year to just fold
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  Speaker 2: our brains into a mental pretzel over this stuff, because
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  Speaker 2: we can look back on the bulk of our season
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  Speaker 2: and see what we did and didn't do, what worked,
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  Speaker 2: and what didn't. In fact, that's what I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: talk about next week, and we should use all of
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  Speaker 2: that stuff and just feed the machine for the offseason
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  Speaker 2: and at least help us try to think through new
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  Speaker 2: plans and strategies and hopefully just kind of alter our
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: dear mindset so it helps us more than it hurts us,
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  Speaker 2: which is always a good thing when it comes to
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  Speaker 2: not only a life in general, but deer hunting. I'm
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  Speaker 2: a big fan of just trying to reflect on what
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  Speaker 2: I got wrong, what I got right, and how I
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  Speaker 2: can do things differently. I think that's so important, and
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  Speaker 2: I think it helps us to just not fill in
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  Speaker 2: the blanks all the time, which is super dangerous to
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  Speaker 2: our deer hunting success. So think about that. I think
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  Speaker 2: about coming back next week because I'm going to just
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  Speaker 2: talk about sort of my fall and review and some
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: of the bigger lessons that I took away from the
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: deer hunts that I had this year, because I think
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: that'll help you to do the same thing, which is
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: just going to set you and I up for this
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  Speaker 2: long off season we're going to be facing before we
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: can start really shed hunting and scouting, getting into a
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: whole bunch of stuff. That's it for this week. I'm
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  Speaker 2: Tony Peterson. This has been the Wired to Hunt Foundations podcast,
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