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Ep. 934: Foundations - Pre-Season Practice That Will Pay Off This Fall No Matter Your Weapon Choice · 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 Wired to Hunt Foundation's podcast,
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  Speaker 2: which is brought to you by first Light.
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  Speaker 3: I'm your host, Tony Peterson, and this episode.
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  Speaker 2: Is all about what you should do right now with
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  Speaker 2: your bow or your crossbow, your gun to get ready
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  Speaker 2: to be a stone cold killer this fall.
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  Speaker 3: A look.
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  Speaker 2: I know we all know what we should do throughout
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  Speaker 2: the summer practice wise, but I also know what a
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  Speaker 2: lot of us just don't do. Part of this is
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  Speaker 2: a function of having really accurate weaponry these days. We
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  Speaker 2: just don't need to practice as much as we used
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  Speaker 2: to in order to be pretty good. But pretty good
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  Speaker 2: on the range and pretty good in the woods are
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  Speaker 2: different things. That's something a lot of us don't realize
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  Speaker 2: until we watch a buck run out of our lives
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  Speaker 2: without an arrow through his lungs, and it's something we
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  Speaker 2: can work on in the next several weeks. It's also
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  Speaker 2: what I'm going to talk about right now. One of
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  Speaker 2: our editors and writers here at Meat Eater is a
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  Speaker 2: fellow named Adam Moore. He lives and hunts down south
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  Speaker 2: in the part of the country Mark and I rarely
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  Speaker 2: talk about for deer hunting because it's a world we
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  Speaker 2: don't play in very much. Now, Adam recently called me
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  Speaker 2: up for some quotes for an article he was working
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  Speaker 2: on about the things that the hunting industry won't tell you,
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  Speaker 2: things that will help you be successful but aren't necessarily
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  Speaker 2: going to sell a bunch of deer calls or sense
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  Speaker 2: or whatever you get to drift. Now, while I talked
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  Speaker 2: about woodsmanship and figuring out natural movement and a couple
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  Speaker 2: things I really believe help all deer hunters level up,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't mention practice or preseason practice specifically. I know
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  Speaker 2: this is a boring topic, but it's important and it
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  Speaker 2: is one of the things that we can control in
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  Speaker 2: a very real way, which are not always that easy
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  Speaker 2: to find in the deer woods. So to frame this up,
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  Speaker 2: let me give you a little recap my last season
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  Speaker 2: in the shots that I took. The first was in
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  Speaker 2: Minnesota on a mature dough that walked into a pond
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  Speaker 2: I was sitting over in September. Everything looked like it
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  Speaker 2: was lining up really nicely, until she just turned and
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  Speaker 2: walked straight at me, then went under my stand and
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  Speaker 2: walked straight away before stopping. I started to draw on
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  Speaker 2: her twice while anticipating her next move, and I got
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  Speaker 2: it wrong both times. But she finally did turn hard
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  Speaker 2: enough to give me a quartering shot at maybe ten yards,
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  Speaker 2: and when I took it, she did not go very far.
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  Speaker 2: It was a good start to the season. Then I
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  Speaker 2: went to North Dakota and snort weezed in a really
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  Speaker 2: big buck and I didn't range him. I thought he
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  Speaker 2: was walking in at thirty five yards, and just for
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  Speaker 2: a few seconds, I checked my sight. I checked to
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  Speaker 2: see if my cameraman was on him. Then I went
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  Speaker 2: to shoot him. I didn't realize he had walked into
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  Speaker 2: twenty six and other than a few hairs, I shot
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  Speaker 2: off his back as a consolation prize. I watched that
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  Speaker 2: deer run out of my life, and I was very sad.
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  Speaker 2: Later on in that trip, I shot a dough on
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  Speaker 2: a water hole at thirty yards while sitting on my
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  Speaker 2: butt on a rocky hillside that was angled in such
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  Speaker 2: a way that not only was it uncomfortable as hell,
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  Speaker 2: but it was also just a very unnatural way to shoot.
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  Speaker 2: I killed her, it wasn't my best shot. After that,
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  Speaker 2: headed down to Iowa and I decoyed in a buck
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  Speaker 2: that did everything you want a buck to do, and
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  Speaker 2: I still managed to put my decoy off just a
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  Speaker 2: few yards from my small shooting lane, and that caused
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  Speaker 2: me to lean out a little farther than I thought
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  Speaker 2: I was going to have to, and I just clipped
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  Speaker 2: a willow stem with my broad head on the shot.
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  Speaker 2: I got him again, but it was not my finest shot.
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  Speaker 2: So after that stretch of disasters on film, I went
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  Speaker 2: back to Minnesota to try to redeem myself, and I
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  Speaker 2: finally had a decent eight pointer flirting with death for
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  Speaker 2: like fifteen minutes. Drew on him at least twice that
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  Speaker 2: I can remember, before he kind of worked his way
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  Speaker 2: around and posed up at maybe twenty yards and I
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  Speaker 2: shot him right through the heart watched him tip over.
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  Speaker 2: Some years, I shoot like I was born with a
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  Speaker 2: bow in my hand. Some years, I shoot like I
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  Speaker 2: was born with a handful of delicious lead paint chips
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  Speaker 2: in my hand. I used to only shoot like I
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  Speaker 2: had tried to lobotomize myself with a screwdriver for fun,
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  Speaker 2: but after a lot of painful seasons, I got that
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  Speaker 2: kind of taken care of. Filming is a different story
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  Speaker 2: for me. If there is a moment when I'll go
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  Speaker 2: back to my old ways, it's when there's a camera
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  Speaker 2: over my shoulder and the reality that a whole hell
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  Speaker 2: of a lot of people are about to watch me
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  Speaker 2: shit my camel undies metaphorically, speaking of course, now my
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  Speaker 2: flaws aside. You know what all of those real world
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  Speaker 2: shots at white Tails I took last year have in common.
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  Speaker 2: Not a single one involved me standing flat footed in
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  Speaker 2: a mode yard while having all the time in the
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  Speaker 2: world to make a perfectly known, distant shot. So let's
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  Speaker 2: break that down for a second. When we shoot in
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  Speaker 2: our yards, is there any pressure to make a great shot?
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  Speaker 3: Not?
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  Speaker 2: Usually not really. If we shank one, we just shoot
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  Speaker 2: another one. You can add some pressure to your sessions,
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  Speaker 2: have you know, maybe the chance to go to a
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  Speaker 2: three D shoot, or you invite a couple of buddies
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  Speaker 2: over for a session that doesn't hurt And I think
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  Speaker 2: any way that you can vary up your preseason practice
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  Speaker 2: to challenge. What you have going on between the ears
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  Speaker 2: is a good thing. I guess I'll put a finer
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  Speaker 2: point on this by saying that I've shot at a
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  Speaker 2: lot of whitetails in my life, like a lot, and
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  Speaker 2: I don't recall too many where I was relaxed and
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  Speaker 2: feeling no pressure.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't really work that way.
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  Speaker 2: Now, look at the mechanical side of the The reason
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  Speaker 2: that we shoot the way we do in ninety nine
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  Speaker 2: percent of our practice sessions is because it's the easiest
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  Speaker 2: way to send some arrows downrange while being as accurate
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  Speaker 2: as we can. This type of practice has its place,
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  Speaker 2: but it would kind of be like doing a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of cardio before your big MMA debut and the octagon,
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  Speaker 2: but never sparring or grappling. When I think about the
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  Speaker 2: shots I took last season, they all had some type
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  Speaker 2: of mechanical or maybe technical type of variable that made
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  Speaker 2: them more challenging than any shot taking while standing flat
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  Speaker 2: footed on the same level as my target. A ten
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  Speaker 2: yard shot on a d j oh that's eighteen feet
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  Speaker 2: below you and quartered away and in about three steps
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  Speaker 2: from being totally safe. It's just not something we usually
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  Speaker 2: practice for that kind of situation might put your ideal
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  Speaker 2: point of impact five inches higher than you'd aim at
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  Speaker 2: a foam target and back maybe another four or five inches.
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  Speaker 2: Do you ever set a stand to practice from or
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  Speaker 2: shoot from your deck to condition yourself for a shot
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  Speaker 2: like that, because at some point a wild live year
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  Speaker 2: is going to offer himself up that way, and then
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  Speaker 2: it's on you to envision that wound channel and where
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  Speaker 2: you have to put the right pin.
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  Speaker 3: If you have.
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  Speaker 2: Gallons of adrenaline flooding your veins in that moment, the
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  Speaker 2: odds of getting it right drop like a rock. Do
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  Speaker 2: we need to practice for every scenario out there? Well, no,
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  Speaker 2: we couldn't even if we wanted to. But it's usually
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  Speaker 2: a pretty good idea to practice more than we think
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  Speaker 2: we need to, and to try to shake up our
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  Speaker 2: practice sessions with new wrinkles whenever we can.
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  Speaker 3: It's also a good.
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  Speaker 2: Idea to remember that your ability to shoot well on
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  Speaker 2: the range and out there in the forest is a
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  Speaker 2: personal journey. There are a lot of folks out there
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  Speaker 2: who talk a big game about how they personally shoot
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  Speaker 2: or how other people shoot. That sucks, But those people
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  Speaker 2: are usually one of two things so new that they
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  Speaker 2: don't have the experience, you know, to understand what mistakes
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  Speaker 2: everyone inevitably will make, or the other thing, which is
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  Speaker 2: they are likely just totally full of shit. Hunting deer
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  Speaker 2: and shooting at them is a game of infinite variables,
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  Speaker 2: and getting it right once can be easy. How about
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  Speaker 2: getting it right five shots in a row, though, that's
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  Speaker 2: a different story, or ten shots in a row. Send
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  Speaker 2: enough arrows or bullets at animals and you're going to
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  Speaker 2: screw up, and when you do, it might be a
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  Speaker 2: little more likely that you'll screw up again. Because bow
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  Speaker 2: hunting is a sport that produces good and bad streaks.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know why.
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  Speaker 2: I just know that it does, and I know the
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  Speaker 2: best way to smooth out the ebbs and flows of
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  Speaker 2: the whole thing is to practice more in as many
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  Speaker 2: ways as you can. And I also know that those
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  Speaker 2: gun hunters out there aren't immune to this issue either.
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  Speaker 2: One of the problems with most modern firearms, and honestly,
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  Speaker 2: I'll throw crossbows in here as well, is that they
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  Speaker 2: are stupid accurate. If you site in either with a
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  Speaker 2: good bench or a good rest, and you take your
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  Speaker 2: time to really dial them in, well, then you're really
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  Speaker 2: dialed in. But are you well your gun is or
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  Speaker 2: your crossbow is, but are you dialed in as the shooter?
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  Speaker 2: Probably not. This is a concept that's easy to understand
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  Speaker 2: with vertical bows because we, as the shooters, have a
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  Speaker 2: lot of influence on how the shot goes. If we
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  Speaker 2: do everything right, the arrow will go exactly where we
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  Speaker 2: point it. If we don't, it won't. And that's about it.
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  Speaker 2: Since we all inherently know that, we also understand why
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  Speaker 2: that type of weapon requires a healthy amount of practice.
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  Speaker 2: You have to get good with shot execution, and that
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  Speaker 2: comes from reps with a rifle or a crossbow or
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  Speaker 2: a hell a muzzloader. We can sit at the range
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  Speaker 2: and shoot tight groups and call it good enough. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: my daughters can shoot their crossbows in such a way
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  Speaker 2: that they'll ruin bolts if they don't intentionally try to
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  Speaker 2: shoot around the ones that are already in the target.
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  Speaker 2: But that doesn't make them super good shots in the field.
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  Speaker 2: Just because your rifle can put five rounds in the
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  Speaker 2: same hole at three hundred yards off the bench on
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  Speaker 2: a column day doesn't mean you can put one round
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  Speaker 2: right where it needs to be at two hundred and
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  Speaker 2: fifty seven yards during a blizzard at the end of
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  Speaker 2: a four hour sit where the wind is just hucking
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  Speaker 2: out of the north at twenty miles per hour. Sure
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  Speaker 2: your rifle can make that shot, but can you. We
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  Speaker 2: tend to think of target practice as a means for
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  Speaker 2: us to become more accurate, which is a component. For sure,
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  Speaker 2: you wouldn't punch paper or foam if it asn't a
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  Speaker 2: direct route to being a better shot, because that would
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  Speaker 2: be bonkers. But it's more than that. It's also about
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  Speaker 2: becoming extremely comfortable with your weapon. I've talked about this
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  Speaker 2: a lot, but if you put a rifle or a
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  Speaker 2: crossbow in my hands, it's just awkward to me.
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  Speaker 3: I don't have the.
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  Speaker 2: Reps necessary with either to pick one up and just
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  Speaker 2: be super comfortable with it. A vertical bowl or a
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  Speaker 2: shotgun is a different story, because those are weapons I've
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  Speaker 2: handled my entire life, very natural to me, and the
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  Speaker 2: muscle memory is real, the comfort level is very real.
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  Speaker 2: But not so with a rifle or a crossbow. And
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  Speaker 2: here's the thing about that stuff. Let's say you are
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  Speaker 2: new to crossbow hunting, or this is your first year
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  Speaker 2: rifle hunting, since your brand new in laws invited you
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  Speaker 2: up to deer camp. You have a weapon that is
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  Speaker 2: accurate as hell, which you've proven at the range, But
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  Speaker 2: then you get into a double ladder stand and watch
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  Speaker 2: the sunrise. Your setup is designed around an old logging
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  Speaker 2: road that passes by at forty yards a chip shot
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  Speaker 2: with a rifle and what should be a chip shot
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  Speaker 2: with a cross hospo. But then a good buck bigger
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  Speaker 2: than you expected to see, snaps a stick behind your tree.
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  Speaker 3: You turn around.
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  Speaker 2: There he is at forty six yards, and he's pointed
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  Speaker 2: in a direction that means you have to spin the
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  Speaker 2: opposite way and get ready to shoot before he takes
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  Speaker 2: more than about ten or twelve steps. You get turned
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  Speaker 2: around and pick him up as he clears your tree,
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  Speaker 2: but he's taken a few steps farther away and turned
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  Speaker 2: harder than you expected. You have to factor all of
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  Speaker 2: that in, and while the range might not matter with
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  Speaker 2: either weapon, the shot angle does. Then you go to
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  Speaker 2: take the safety off, and you can't quite remember where
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  Speaker 2: it is because your brain is slowly melting like a
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  Speaker 2: grape slushie in the sun. Now you've taken your mind
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  Speaker 2: off of the task to do something for a split
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  Speaker 2: second that would be totally natural to someone who has
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  Speaker 2: practiced more, and now you get that safety off, and
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  Speaker 2: you have to reel your mind back into the moment
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  Speaker 2: and stop him and execute the shot while a shot
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  Speaker 2: clock goes off in your head. It should be easy
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  Speaker 2: because with a target at that you'd make a good
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  Speaker 2: enough shot with either weapon ten out of ten times.
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  Speaker 2: But we all know that your odds, Sorry, it should torry.
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  Speaker 2: It should be easy because with a target like that
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  Speaker 2: at the range the shooting range I mean, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: you'd make a good enough shot with either weapon ten
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  Speaker 2: out of ten times. But we also know that your
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  Speaker 2: odds of killing that book cleanly are not one hundred percent,
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  Speaker 2: and they never will be. But they can be better
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  Speaker 2: this year than last, and they can be better in
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  Speaker 2: six weeks than they would be if you didn't practice
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  Speaker 2: a whole lot. I also have come to believe something
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  Speaker 2: else about preseason practice that sort of flies in the
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  Speaker 2: face of a lot of modern advice. There is a
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  Speaker 2: lot of emphasis on long range shooting these days. It's
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  Speaker 2: not all that uncommon to see a video of some
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  Speaker 2: dude shooting an arrow at a mule deer a football
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  Speaker 2: field away, or some other dude shooting an elk in
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  Speaker 2: the mountains that's half a mile away. I'll leave the
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  Speaker 2: ethics of that up to the individual, but will say
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  Speaker 2: that I do love long distance practice. It feels really
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  Speaker 2: good to be able to string together a group of
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  Speaker 2: arrows at eighty yards. That wouldn't be too shabby at thirty.
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  Speaker 2: You know, to dial in your form and your execution.
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  Speaker 2: Long range practice is a great strategy. But I've found
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  Speaker 2: in the last several years that I really want to
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  Speaker 2: kill deer at about twenty yards. And while I do
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  Speaker 2: still shoot some longer stuff, I'm more interested in trying
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  Speaker 2: to be the best I can be at sub forty
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  Speaker 2: yard shots. I just want to know that, no matter what,
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  Speaker 2: if a deer poses up at thirty like they often do,
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  Speaker 2: that I couldn't be more confident at that range if
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  Speaker 2: I tried. The same goes for my rifle hunts, and
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  Speaker 2: the rifle hunting i'm preparing my daughters for. I want
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  Speaker 2: them to shoot at two hundred just to see what
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  Speaker 2: they can do about it. But I want them really
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  Speaker 2: comfortable at like fifty to one hundred yards, because that's
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  Speaker 2: the distance range they'll actually shoot when we're in the woods.
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  Speaker 2: I know that seems pretty simple because it is, but
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  Speaker 2: we get caught up, you know, in trends and a
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  Speaker 2: lot of other stuff. There's something to be said about
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  Speaker 2: trying to get really good with your weapon at the
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  Speaker 2: distances you're most likely to actually shoot at. This is
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  Speaker 2: also a great way to enforce a little more patience
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  Speaker 2: on ourselves. Effective range, whatever that is for you can
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  Speaker 2: be variable depending on situations. But we can also talk
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  Speaker 2: ourselves into shooting at a deer because we know our
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  Speaker 2: weapon can do it, but can we That's the rub,
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  Speaker 2: and I know that personally. I've really started to try
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  Speaker 2: to set up for easy close shots because of it.
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  Speaker 2: I know what can go wrong, and I know what
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  Speaker 2: can happen between my ears. So I want a twenty
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  Speaker 2: yard shot way more than I want a forty yard shot,
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  Speaker 2: even though when I'm on a range, forty isn't all
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  Speaker 2: that much different from twenty. By the time the season
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  Speaker 2: is about to open up in the woods, it is, though,
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  Speaker 2: and that's something we all learn the heart way over time.
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  Speaker 2: So ask yourself what your plan is for the next
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  Speaker 2: few weeks. If you haven't started shooting your bow, you
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  Speaker 2: better get out there. If you're a crossbow hunter and
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  Speaker 2: think you don't really need to practice, I'd say you
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  Speaker 2: probably should, even if that is just to work on
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  Speaker 2: some elevated practice off the deck or maybe some low
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  Speaker 2: light stuff when the sun starts to dip below the trees.
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  Speaker 2: And the same goes for rifle hunters. Although most folks
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  Speaker 2: aren't going to spend too much time prepping for the
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  Speaker 2: rifle season now, we are though in my family because
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  Speaker 2: I want my daughters to have really good first hunts,
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  Speaker 2: and one of the variables I can control to some
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  Speaker 2: extent here is how comfortable they are with their weapon.
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  Speaker 2: It's also a great excuse for me to facilitate more
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  Speaker 2: practice shooting, too, because the Peterson girls aren't the only
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  Speaker 2: ones who need to get more comfortable with the rifles.
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  Speaker 2: I guess all that is to say that it is
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  Speaker 2: time to shoot for all of us, trad bow hunters,
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  Speaker 2: compound hunters, crossbow hunters, gun hunters, whatever you hunt with.
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  Speaker 2: There really isn't a downside to this aspect of the preseason,
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  Speaker 2: and while it might not make you go ten out
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  Speaker 2: of ten in the next three seasons, it's going to
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  Speaker 2: help you shoot better than you would if you didn't practice,
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  Speaker 2: which is where I'll leave this one for now. So
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  Speaker 2: hit the range, shake up your sessions, get comfortable with
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  Speaker 2: your weaponry, and come back next week because I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to talk about how the social aspect of deer hunting
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  Speaker 2: affects all of us and how some of us would
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  Speaker 2: be better off planning a little more solo time in
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