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Ep. 1038: Foundations - Proximity, Procedure, and the Secret Power of Getting Close to Mature Bucks · 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: 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 the role proximity plays
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  Speaker 2: in pretty much all of hunting and fishing and why
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  Speaker 2: so many people kind of misunderstand this concept.
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  Speaker 3: How do you get close to a big buck.
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  Speaker 2: It's scouting, it's prep work, it's planning, and it's mostly
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  Speaker 2: done wrong. For most of us, proximity to our quary
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  Speaker 2: matters a lot, but we often hunt like it doesn't,
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  Speaker 2: and that leads to a hell of a lot of
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  Speaker 2: unfilled tags and uncaught fish. We want the deer, turkeys,
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  Speaker 2: are largemouth or whatever to be where we want them
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  Speaker 2: to be, but they mostly aren't or won't be.
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  Speaker 3: That's okay, there's a solve for this, but it kind.
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  Speaker 2: Of takes a new way of thinking, which is what
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to talk about right now. This might come
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  Speaker 2: as a huge surprise to you. But sometimes I do
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  Speaker 2: really dumb shit. I know, outwardly, it's all big public
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  Speaker 2: land bucks and dead turkeys and giants' mollies and well
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  Speaker 2: a whole bunch of success stories carefully curated to ensure
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  Speaker 2: that the real me shows himself as rarely as possible.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm dumb, and I do dumb shit, like agreeing
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  Speaker 2: to do a new project based around fishing and then
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  Speaker 2: deciding it wasn't enough to just challenge myself, but to
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  Speaker 2: really go outside of my element. I thought about this
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  Speaker 2: a lot as I was making a twenty two mile
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  Speaker 2: run down a lake in South Dakota while it was
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  Speaker 2: thirty one degrees outside and I had to catch a
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  Speaker 2: big walleye in a very short amount of time, a
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  Speaker 2: task I am really not qualified for. When you do
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  Speaker 2: what I do, you can get away with not killing
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  Speaker 2: on a deer hunting show, even a turkey hunting show,
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  Speaker 2: because most to the folks in the audience, at least
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  Speaker 2: the folks that I want watching my stuff, they understand
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  Speaker 2: the inherent challenge of what we're doing in the woods.
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  Speaker 2: They know that dead deer and turkeys don't come easy
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  Speaker 2: in most places. And that's just reality. But blanking on
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  Speaker 2: a fishing show is a different thing. I mean, who
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  Speaker 2: can't catch a freaking fish?
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  Speaker 3: Well?
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  Speaker 2: For a lot of a whole week in the beginning
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  Speaker 2: of May, I was a guy who could barely catch
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  Speaker 2: a fish, and it was not much fun. I had
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  Speaker 2: a lot of time to think while making cast after
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  Speaker 2: cast after cast, from sunrise to sunset to cold water
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  Speaker 2: that just didn't want to give up a whole lot.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to spoil it too much, but while
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  Speaker 2: I first fished for big walleyes and then I fished
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  Speaker 2: for large mouth on lakes that I had never been on,
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  Speaker 2: just enough fish showed up to make me feel like
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  Speaker 2: I'm not a total loser. But I'm telling you, my friends,
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  Speaker 2: there were a lot of hours packed into that week
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  Speaker 2: where it felt like it was a foregone conclusion. It
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  Speaker 2: was mostly cold and mostly really windy, and far more
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  Speaker 2: challenging than what I thought I was getting myself into,
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  Speaker 2: and I knew it would be pretty challenging. But those
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  Speaker 2: fish that did save my ass, they showed up, and
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  Speaker 2: they gave me a good reminder of just how right
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  Speaker 2: you have to get things when the conditions are a
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  Speaker 2: total pain and mother nature is just not pleased with
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  Speaker 2: your presence. Proximity matters, and I know that might seem
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  Speaker 2: like the most obvious thing in the world. I think
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  Speaker 2: there is a difference between grasping a concept and actually
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  Speaker 2: putting yourself into the motion to fully realize that concept.
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  Speaker 2: Though anyone who has been married a long time probably
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  Speaker 2: understands this. You know you should treat your spouse really well,
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  Speaker 2: like you did in those early days, the dating days.
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  Speaker 3: But it's not that easy after a while.
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  Speaker 2: It's an easy thing to understand, but a hard thing
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  Speaker 2: to put into practice. Those walleyes and those bass and
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  Speaker 2: damn near all the turkeys I've had a conversation with
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  Speaker 2: this spring all reminded me that our job as hunters
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  Speaker 2: and fishermen is to understand how to get close to
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  Speaker 2: fish and game first, and then the other tricks kind
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  Speaker 2: of come into play. I talk about this a lot
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  Speaker 2: with calling, where I think, you know, it's one of
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  Speaker 2: the easiest ways to understand this concept. If you want
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  Speaker 2: a grun in a deer, being eighty yards away from
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  Speaker 2: him is way way better than being three hundred yards away.
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  Speaker 2: You want more turkeys to come to you learn how
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  Speaker 2: to get as close to them as you can then
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  Speaker 2: call them in.
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  Speaker 3: You don't always have to do this, but if you hunt.
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  Speaker 2: Pressured birds or pressure deer or whatever and just struggle
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  Speaker 2: to get them to you, there's a strong case to
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  Speaker 2: be made for understanding proximity.
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  Speaker 3: Or maybe elk is a better example here.
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  Speaker 2: You think you could just go to Colorado or Idaho
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  Speaker 2: or wherever on September fifteenth and just bugle from the
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  Speaker 2: ridges as you walk along and get an answer on
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  Speaker 2: a ranch where the elk costs twenty grand apiece. Sure,
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  Speaker 2: on public land, it's not gonna happen, My friends. You're
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  Speaker 2: gonna have to sneak into some of that dark timber,
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  Speaker 2: you know, where you finally find some fresh sign after
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  Speaker 2: five days, and then throw out a challenge bugle and.
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  Speaker 3: Then you might get a response.
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  Speaker 2: Now, those bass that I chased down in Iowa when
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  Speaker 2: it was forty degrees out and the wind was blowing
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  Speaker 2: thirty five miles an hour, they did not want to
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  Speaker 2: eat at all. I know it because I saw them,
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  Speaker 2: and they saw my senkos and my dice baits and
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  Speaker 2: my dropshots and my jigs and my flukes and my
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  Speaker 2: net rigs, and they didn't eat any of them. Only
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  Speaker 2: after three days did the condition stabilize enough for them
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  Speaker 2: to remotely start eating, and even then I had to
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  Speaker 2: thread the needle and land every cast on their nose
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  Speaker 2: in the most subtle way possible. It was the kind
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  Speaker 2: of fishing where you use eight pound tests to senko
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  Speaker 2: and then you target a very very specific spot while
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  Speaker 2: feathering your line on your cast, so it just barely
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  Speaker 2: breaks the surface when it lands that proximity to them.
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  Speaker 2: If you make the cast count along with a very
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  Speaker 2: subtle presentation, that was mostly the ticket I found. I
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  Speaker 2: think you could have thrown a thousand swim baits and
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  Speaker 2: spinner baits and crank baits and you take your chunk
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  Speaker 2: and wine pick and not caught any one of those fish.
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  Speaker 2: So you have proximity, but then you have procedure once
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  Speaker 2: you're close. Then what Well, when it comes to this
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  Speaker 2: seems so obvious, I mean, who is it looking for
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  Speaker 2: the exact spot that most of the bucks will walk
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  Speaker 2: through and then just planning on going in there to
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  Speaker 2: shoot them. Except most hunters aren't doing that, and the
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  Speaker 2: ones who are are really really successful. Compared to the
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  Speaker 2: general population. We've pretty much passed the winter scouting mission window.
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  Speaker 2: And the fawns are already dropping in some place, and
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  Speaker 2: the bucks are already growing new sets of antlers.
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  Speaker 3: So where does this leave most of us?
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  Speaker 2: Now, how do you work right now to put yourself
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  Speaker 2: into closer proximity to bucks's fall, you know, aside from
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  Speaker 2: the most common direction for most folks, which would be
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  Speaker 2: just to do some food plot work or something, you know,
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  Speaker 2: which is really kind of the opposite of what I'm
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  Speaker 2: talking about, even though it's not bad. You have some
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  Speaker 2: options right now that don't involve manipulating the land. You
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  Speaker 2: can find plenty of interesting in deer hunting spots right
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  Speaker 2: now in the woods if you want to, but it's
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  Speaker 2: mostly a matter of fighting bugs and heat and you know,
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  Speaker 2: looking for tracks on trails right now out there. But
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  Speaker 2: that's okay if you want to do it. It's also
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  Speaker 2: not what most hunters are going to do during this
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  Speaker 2: part of the summer. And I get it. This is
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  Speaker 2: the one stretch of the year where I don't care
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  Speaker 2: about whitetails a whole lot, and the woods are about
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  Speaker 2: as uninviting as they are going to get the entire year.
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  Speaker 2: But the question of proximity remains unanswered, and an easy
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  Speaker 2: way to address it is to think about where you
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  Speaker 2: usually hunt. If you're on private ground, think about your
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  Speaker 2: go to setups, why do they work, and how often
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  Speaker 2: do you see deer not doing what you expect them
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  Speaker 2: to do on those spots. I'm not sure how relevant
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  Speaker 2: of an example this is, but I'm bound and determined
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  Speaker 2: to get some south wind setups going on a property
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  Speaker 2: I own in Wisconsin. The layout of that property makes
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  Speaker 2: it ideal for north winds because of how I have
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  Speaker 2: to access it. But we don't always get a lot
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  Speaker 2: of north winds, especially when I'm hunting with the girls
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  Speaker 2: in the early season. And when we do get north winds,
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  Speaker 2: the deer have to give up their number one defense
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  Speaker 2: to get to us, or at least sacrifice a good
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  Speaker 2: percentage of it, so it's not ideal. A south wind
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  Speaker 2: setup is going to be a game changer if I
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  Speaker 2: can figure it out, But the problem with that is
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  Speaker 2: they will have a much higher chance of smell telling
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  Speaker 2: me or the girls, So the approach has to be
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  Speaker 2: money and the setup has to play off of where
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  Speaker 2: they are most likely to travel to get to me.
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  Speaker 2: I'll probably get it wrong, but I'm going to try
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  Speaker 2: because it's an issue that has plagued me on that
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  Speaker 2: place for eleven years, and it just generally pisses me off.
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  Speaker 2: I think maybe this lesson is one most hunters aren't
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  Speaker 2: comfortable with, but I think it's crazy important. You have
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  Speaker 2: to try stuff that probably won't work to get close
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  Speaker 2: to deer. I mean, the reason it's hard to get
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  Speaker 2: close to deer is because they are very good at
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  Speaker 2: keeping us from getting close to them. We look at
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  Speaker 2: a risky ish setup as if it'll ruin our season,
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  Speaker 2: you know, spook our target bucks and all that jazz.
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  Speaker 2: But we don't look at how risky it is to
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  Speaker 2: keep hunting the way we've always hunted. Volume hunting a
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  Speaker 2: kill plot because that's where your camera is, and it's
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  Speaker 2: easier than trying to figure out where the deer like
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  Speaker 2: to travel on their own volition, is risky in its
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  Speaker 2: own way. A different way to approach the proximity problem
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  Speaker 2: is to not mostly give up the wind and cross
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  Speaker 2: your fingers, but to understand what time grants you during
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  Speaker 2: the deer season when it comes to fishing, or turkey hunting,
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  Speaker 2: or pheasants and of course deer. The more time I
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  Speaker 2: have personally to figure things out, the more likely I
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  Speaker 2: am to do just that, and well, duh, but we
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  Speaker 2: are all busy and we don't have tons of time
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  Speaker 2: to go out there for days and days on end
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  Speaker 2: until the secret patterns of the deer reveal themselves to us.
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  Speaker 2: But we also, at least most folks can string together something,
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  Speaker 2: and you should plan for that. Two days in a
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  Speaker 2: row is exponentially better than going out for one day.
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  Speaker 2: Two evening sits in a row is exponentially better than
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  Speaker 2: one evening sit. A morning sit followed by an evening sit,
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  Speaker 2: or my favorite, an evening sit followed by a morning
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  Speaker 2: sit is better than a one off sit. The problem
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  Speaker 2: most hunters have with this is that they look at
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  Speaker 2: the rut or they look at cold front sometime in
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  Speaker 2: the back half October, and they think about the conditions
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  Speaker 2: as warranting a whole lot of effort. That's what's a
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  Speaker 2: decider for you. That's just insane to me and might
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  Speaker 2: be the biggest reason most weekend warriors rarely ever kill
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  Speaker 2: big bucks. The deer are out there just waiting to
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  Speaker 2: be hunted every day of the season, and you have
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  Speaker 2: the opportunity to hunt them, or if you do have
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  Speaker 2: the opportunity to hunt them, you should, but if you
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  Speaker 2: have the opportunity to hunt them for two days in
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  Speaker 2: a row, you really should, or three or whatever. This
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  Speaker 2: allows you to do a couple of things. First off,
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  Speaker 2: it allows you to take some risks, As I've mentioned,
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  Speaker 2: that's important. It also allows you to form a plan
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  Speaker 2: in real time according to what the deer are showing
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  Speaker 2: you right now. This can't be replaced by trail cameras,
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  Speaker 2: but they certainly can help you through this process, and
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  Speaker 2: they can help you make decisions. Seeing deer and not
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  Speaker 2: seeing deer both tell you a lot. When you hunt
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  Speaker 2: a couple of days in stable conditions, you're getting a
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  Speaker 2: crash course on what your deer do during those conditions.
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  Speaker 2: If they aren't on the oak tree you've found that's
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  Speaker 2: covered in siine, where are they? If they don't seem
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  Speaker 2: to visit the pond you want to sit over until
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  Speaker 2: super late in the evening. Can you get in there
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  Speaker 2: in the morning, Can you back off and set up
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  Speaker 2: for them as they make their way to the water,
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  Speaker 2: or can you sit that pond for three days in
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  Speaker 2: a row off the wind's right to eventually catch a buck,
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  Speaker 2: you know, coming in at daylight to the drinking fountain
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  Speaker 2: on a lot of the public land trips I take,
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  Speaker 2: I either kill almost always on the first day or
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  Speaker 2: somewhere like four to six days into the hunt. If
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't work out quickly, which is pretty common, it
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  Speaker 2: takes me time to work the deer enough to get
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  Speaker 2: clued into something that will pay off. When you travel
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  Speaker 2: out of state on a hunt like that, the motivation
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  Speaker 2: is high to stick with it and keep scouting and
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  Speaker 2: keep hunting.
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  Speaker 3: What other choice do you have.
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  Speaker 2: But when you're home and you don't expect any big
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  Speaker 2: deer to be moving on the lease, you won't put
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  Speaker 2: in the effort to figure out where they are moving.
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  Speaker 2: And yes, they are always moving, and they're always offering
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  Speaker 2: up a chance for someone. A lot of hunters get
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  Speaker 2: into the season and they say to themselves they're going
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  Speaker 2: to wait for the weather to get right and then
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  Speaker 2: they'll go to their favorite setup, you know, the one
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  Speaker 2: they believe in, and they'll think the conditions will solve
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  Speaker 2: the problem for them. It works enough to talk us
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  Speaker 2: into it. But there is a better way, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: a really simple way to understand this is to hunt
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  Speaker 2: field edges in the early season and to try to
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  Speaker 2: start out where you have a lot of visibility. If
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  Speaker 2: the bucks come out on the other end of the field,
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  Speaker 2: get just move, you know, move there. The next night,
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  Speaker 2: if you can find a good tree or tuck yourself
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  Speaker 2: into the ground somewhere, try to kill them right where
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  Speaker 2: they showed you they like to walk. We believe this
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  Speaker 2: will work, and it does work, largely because we believe
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  Speaker 2: that early season bucks are patternable and that we can
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  Speaker 2: capitalize on their habits, which is somewhat true. But most
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  Speaker 2: bucks are patternable to an extent all season long, even
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  Speaker 2: deer on public land, and I'd say sometimes especially deer
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  Speaker 2: on public land, because if they find a survival strategy there,
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  Speaker 2: it works. It usually works really well. But that doesn't
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  Speaker 2: mean you can't figure them out. You probably won't if
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  Speaker 2: you only dip into their world sporadically when the weather
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  Speaker 2: is just right, you know, just right enough to get
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  Speaker 2: all your competition out there as well.
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  Speaker 3: You need a little bit of time.
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  Speaker 2: Now. If you want to get close to deer, and
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  Speaker 2: I know you do, you have to understand that there
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  Speaker 2: is no way to truly get good at that which
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  Speaker 2: doesn't involve getting out there with them to let them
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  Speaker 2: show you what they do. You have to understand that
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  Speaker 2: to get close to deer and especially big old bucks.
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  Speaker 2: Means you have to carefully follow through on a plan
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  Speaker 2: for every sit, which gets a lot easier if you
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  Speaker 2: know that that very sit can be followed up by
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  Speaker 2: another and another. So if you blank, it's no big deal.
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  Speaker 2: You tried something and it didn't work. But now that
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  Speaker 2: you know that didn't work, you could follow it up
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  Speaker 2: with a sit somewhere else that allows you to address
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  Speaker 2: some of the things you might think conspired to keep
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  Speaker 2: you know, your deer liss on the first sit. It's
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  Speaker 2: sort of a process of elimination thing that resets itself
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  Speaker 2: every time you have a few days away from the woods,
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  Speaker 2: because things change out there. Instead of just going where
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  Speaker 2: you want to hunt, you go where you think the
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  Speaker 2: deer are going to be, and you figure out if
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  Speaker 2: you're right. You'll mostly not be right, but that's okay.
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  Speaker 2: That's how it goes, and you'll really mostly not be
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  Speaker 2: right if you want to shoot a mature buck, but
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  Speaker 2: again that's okay. It's more of an exercise in keeping
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  Speaker 2: with it and trying to figure something out that matters.
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  Speaker 2: This is kind of a strategy to kill what we
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  Speaker 2: think we know about deer and show ourselves what is
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  Speaker 2: actually true about them.
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  Speaker 3: It's also about a.
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  Speaker 2: Better way to approach things, because I promise you that
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  Speaker 2: if you can string together, you know, however many sits
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  Speaker 2: all season long, you'll realize that you're actually working the deer,
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  Speaker 2: not just crossing your fingers and hoping they'll come by.
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  Speaker 2: This is how you get in close proximity to them,
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  Speaker 2: and how you figure out how to just often enough
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  Speaker 2: get in close proximity to mature. I'm not saying this
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  Speaker 2: is the only answer, because you should be scouting a lot,
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  Speaker 2: and if you do that and you run cameras while
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  Speaker 2: staying truly curious, you're gonna have real data points to
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  Speaker 2: plug into your hunting plans. You'll make better use of
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  Speaker 2: your time when you do have an evening and then
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  Speaker 2: a morning to sit, and then on the weekend when
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  Speaker 2: you can do four sits in a row, if you
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  Speaker 2: can sneak away from the house just enough. I also
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  Speaker 2: feel like this strategy has worked so well for me,
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  Speaker 2: in large part because it allows me to just kind
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  Speaker 2: of get in the zone. If I have a random
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  Speaker 2: sit and nothing for a while, I feel like an
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  Speaker 2: uninvited guest in the woods. But the more time I
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  Speaker 2: get to be there. You know, the more days in
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  Speaker 2: a row, the more I feel like I be along there.
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  Speaker 2: And when that happens, I'm always better at getting into
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  Speaker 2: my stands, you know, a little quieter, getting them set
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  Speaker 2: up a little quieter, or just sneaking in and just
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  Speaker 2: being more comfortable with the process. And when any of
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  Speaker 2: that happens, or all of it happens, well, I usually
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  Speaker 2: have good encounters if I have a reasonable enough timeline
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  Speaker 2: to work the deer. I know this is sort of
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  Speaker 2: an abstract and hard thing to put into practice now,
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  Speaker 2: but it's something to think about because it'll help you
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  Speaker 2: trying to shoot or catch. It's not a get rich
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  Speaker 2: quick thing, but a sneaky way to develop some woodsmanship
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  Speaker 2: and to just plug into their world while watching, learning
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  Speaker 2: and priming yourself to make the next move, and then
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  Speaker 2: the next move, until one of them proves to be
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  Speaker 2: proximity to the kind of buck you really want to shoot.
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  Speaker 2: Do that, think about it, and then come back next week,
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  Speaker 2: because I'm going to talk about more deer hunting concepts, strategies,
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  Speaker 2: philosophies and failures. That's it for this week. I'm Tony Peterson.
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