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Ep. 955: Foundations - How to Build Your Big Buck Confidence This Season · 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 Wire to Hunt Foundation's podcast,
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  Speaker 2: which is brought to you by First Light. I'm your host,
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  Speaker 2: Tony Peterson, and today's episode is all about sneaky ways
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  Speaker 2: you can use to build more confidence in the woods
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  Speaker 2: and why that matters so much.
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  Speaker 3: To big buck success. Okay, okokok.
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  Speaker 2: a lot of uncertainty when it comes to money, but
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  Speaker 2: you also need some decent gear to get you through
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  Speaker 2: the deer season or the next ten deer seasons.
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  Speaker 3: And that's where we come in.
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  Speaker 2: deer hunting. Actually really love them. Go check them out
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  Speaker 2: at the mediater dot com. Now, enough of that, this
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  Speaker 2: episode is all about confidence, but might not go the
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  Speaker 2: way you expect it to. I've had a few experiences
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  Speaker 2: this season already that really drove this home for me,
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  Speaker 2: and what I want to talk about is how you
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  Speaker 2: can develop confidence in your deer game in a variety
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  Speaker 2: of ways, all of which should help you kill bigger
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  Speaker 2: deer more consistently. Who doesn't want that? I know you do,
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  Speaker 2: so buckle up because I'm about to get into it.
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  Speaker 2: Picture this if you will. It's pouring rain. I've just
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  Speaker 2: come off a couple of weeks on the road filming
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  Speaker 2: like a good little employee, and now I need to
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  Speaker 2: pack up for the first hunt of the year. As
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  Speaker 2: has been the tradition since my daughter started deer hunting,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't need to worry about a weapon for myself
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  Speaker 2: because I was just going to be a guide for
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  Speaker 2: one of my girls. And before we made the two
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  Speaker 2: hour drive to my buddy's house on the eve of
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  Speaker 2: the Minnesota opener, I checked off my list.
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  Speaker 3: One by one.
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  Speaker 2: Camo check, licenses, check, butcher kit, check, food, buy nos
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  Speaker 2: boots right on down the line, check check, check check.
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  Speaker 2: We hit the road in the evening and ended up
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  Speaker 2: at my buddy's house at around I don't know, pretty
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  Speaker 2: close to ten o'clock at night, and when I unpacked
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  Speaker 2: my truck to stage up for the morning hunt, I
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  Speaker 2: realized something.
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  Speaker 3: My hunting pack wasn't in my truck.
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  Speaker 2: It was laying in my garage where instead of packing
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  Speaker 2: it in my truck, I had left it. In it
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  Speaker 2: where my bios I saw pruner, headlamps, range finder, and
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  Speaker 2: the biggest kicker of all our hunting licenses.
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  Speaker 3: Driving back home.
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  Speaker 2: Wasn't an option, so the best I could figure was
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  Speaker 2: that we'd go in and get her a license reprint
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  Speaker 2: at a shop, because in Minnesota you can't just print
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  Speaker 2: deer tags at home. I felt really really stupid because
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  Speaker 2: what I had done was really really stupid. We went
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  Speaker 2: into the weekend with four sits at most to work with,
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  Speaker 2: and I'd cost us one right off the bat. Now
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  Speaker 2: when I told my daughter, she wasn't too upset, because
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  Speaker 2: getting up at four point thirty isn't super appealing to
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  Speaker 2: thirteen year old girls anyway. I eventually took my idiot
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  Speaker 2: self to bed, where I spent some time lying there
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  Speaker 2: thinking about how I'm never on my a game at
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  Speaker 2: the beginning of the season. When I woke up in
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  Speaker 2: the morning, I tiptoed passed the pullout couch where my
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  Speaker 2: daughter was sleeping, and I had a couple of cups
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  Speaker 2: of coffee. When it was time to wake her up,
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  Speaker 2: I walked downstairs and realized that my hunting pack was
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  Speaker 2: leaned up against the couch. I immediately said, are you
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  Speaker 2: effing kidding me? My daughter had unpacked my pack thinking
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  Speaker 2: it was hers, and the entire night while I was
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  Speaker 2: bemoaning my seriously defunct mental skills, she didn't think once
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  Speaker 2: to check the pack she had carried downstairs, a pack
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  Speaker 2: that was twice the size of the day pack she
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  Speaker 2: brings along and about thirty pounds heavier. Now we had
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  Speaker 2: a lively conversation, ended up hunting that evening and almost
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  Speaker 2: killed a great buck, and managed to salvage the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: The whole ordeal was a good reminder of why I
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  Speaker 2: make lists, try to get my gear game as solid
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  Speaker 2: as possible, and generally try to be somewhat ordered in
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  Speaker 2: disciplined when it comes to hunting. Why you might ask, well,
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  Speaker 2: dear listener, it's because nailing down some of the little
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  Speaker 2: details always gives me more confidence. And Plus, it really
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  Speaker 2: sucks settling into a ground blind in northern Wisconsin, for example,
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  Speaker 2: and reaching for your range finder to pre arrange some landmarks,
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  Speaker 2: only to realize that your bino harness is in the
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  Speaker 2: passenger seat of your truck right next to your thermocel.
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  Speaker 2: Now I didn't think I needed a paternity test with
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  Speaker 2: either of my daughters before that, but I was pretty
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  Speaker 2: sure they were mine after. Anyway, I believe confidence is
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  Speaker 2: maybe your number one acid in the deer woods.
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  Speaker 3: I actually really do.
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  Speaker 2: It flavors everything about our hunts, and that flavor might
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  Speaker 2: be like chocolate moose Tracks ice cream, or it might
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  Speaker 2: be like a stale clump of kale. You know that dusty, gross,
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  Speaker 2: leafy abomination that Steve Varnella told me recently he likes
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  Speaker 2: and intentionally grows in his garden.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, confidence is.
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  Speaker 2: Best gained from killing big Bucks, but that's really a
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  Speaker 2: chicken or the egg thing, or I don't know, maybe
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  Speaker 2: a cart before the old hay burner thing, as many
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  Speaker 2: people have pointed out to me over the years in
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  Speaker 2: mostly unfriendly and hurtful ways. I don't lack confidence with deer,
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  Speaker 2: but I did for a long time, and the second
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  Speaker 2: guessing that I could get into was almost enough to
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  Speaker 2: burn my smooth brain right out. But you kill enough
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  Speaker 2: of them in enough places and in enough different conditions,
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  Speaker 2: and you start to understand when you're on them and
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  Speaker 2: how it will all go down, or it's likely to
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  Speaker 2: go down anyway. Now, if you're not there, then you
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  Speaker 2: have to back up. A couple of steps, though. The
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  Speaker 2: most logical one is scouting. I had a hunter I
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  Speaker 2: know who is on a quest to kill a public
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  Speaker 2: land Bobuck messaged me about a loaded oak tree.
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  Speaker 3: It was just dropping bomber acorns.
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  Speaker 2: And the picture that came along with it was of
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  Speaker 2: the ground that was absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: Littered with tracks and deer poop.
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  Speaker 2: Now, if you scout and find something like that during
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  Speaker 2: the open season, then your confidence is bound to be
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  Speaker 2: sky high. That in the moment, scouting is almost a
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  Speaker 2: necessity if you haunt public land, especially outside of the rut.
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  Speaker 2: If the deer aren't showing you where they are right now,
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  Speaker 2: you're not going to be where they are right now.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how to put that any other way.
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  Speaker 2: You can step back from that in season scouting thing, though,
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  Speaker 2: and get into the off season scouting thing now. While
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  Speaker 2: you can't really do much about that right now for
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  Speaker 2: obvious reasons, the truth is that the more scouting most
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  Speaker 2: of us do, the more confidence we will have learning
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  Speaker 2: the ground, like really learning the ground.
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  Speaker 3: That's a huge deal. This isn't because you solve the.
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  Speaker 2: Problem of where the deer are now and how you'll
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  Speaker 2: kill them, Even though that is definitely you know a
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  Speaker 2: potential result of off season scouting too, But it's more
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  Speaker 2: than that, because learning the ground as well as you
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  Speaker 2: can helps you make educated guesses on where the deer
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  Speaker 2: should be throughout all kinds of different conditions and changing variables.
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  Speaker 2: I think about this a lot, and it is something
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  Speaker 2: that just comes into almost every hunt I have, regardless
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  Speaker 2: of where I'm at. Rarely do I go out and
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  Speaker 2: have a mirror image haunt of as sit I had
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  Speaker 2: the year before. Now, that happens in some spots, almost
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  Speaker 2: always private and at least somewhat controlled spots, And it
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  Speaker 2: happens on small spots sometimes because the deer are often
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  Speaker 2: only going to use a small property in a few
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  Speaker 2: different ways.
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  Speaker 3: But even that is in the guarantee.
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  Speaker 2: What in season and especially out of season scouting does
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  Speaker 2: show you the landscape as it is and should be
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  Speaker 2: for a few years. It shows you oak trees and
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  Speaker 2: deer trails and old sign and fence crossing, and the
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  Speaker 2: factors you might have to plug into the algorithm to
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  Speaker 2: make a good haunt happen Right now when it's fifteen
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  Speaker 2: degrees warmer than this time last year, and the field
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  Speaker 2: is corn and not soybeans, and you know right on
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  Speaker 2: down the line. Confidence in knowing the land helps tamp
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  Speaker 2: down the panic when the land or what's on the
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  Speaker 2: land isn't what you expected from last year or the
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  Speaker 2: last five years. It's also a huge benefit when you
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  Speaker 2: hunt new ground for so many reasons. But you can
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  Speaker 2: go further back than that, even you see there are
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  Speaker 2: a lot of different ways to build confidence in yourself
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  Speaker 2: as a deer hunter that go beyond killing big bucks
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  Speaker 2: and scouting like a fiend. That story I told at
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  Speaker 2: the beginning of the show about my daughter in the pack,
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  Speaker 2: the reason that sucked for me is that I was
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  Speaker 2: so confident I had done what I needed to facilitate
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  Speaker 2: her first hunt of the season. Suddenly realizing that I
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  Speaker 2: hadn't really sucked quite a few years ago. Now, one
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  Speaker 2: of the editors of Field and Stream magazine reached out
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  Speaker 2: to say they wanted to do a story on my
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  Speaker 2: public land process, and he wanted to come out and
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  Speaker 2: hunt with me somewhere. It was a really cool opportunity,
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  Speaker 2: but also one of the strangest assignments I've ever gotten,
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  Speaker 2: simply because I was already a writer for them, so
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  Speaker 2: we'd be doing a story on me as a personality,
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  Speaker 2: while also having me write parts of it. Anyway, one
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  Speaker 2: of the things I realized during the build up of
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  Speaker 2: that article and then through the eventual hunt was that
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  Speaker 2: I have a process for a lot of parts of
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  Speaker 2: deer hunting that I often don't really think about. For example,
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  Speaker 2: I try to never ever go out in the feel
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  Speaker 2: without having several pieces of gear in my truck or
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  Speaker 2: in my pack, flagging tape, a good cushion, saw pruner,
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  Speaker 2: just the stuff that I may or may not need
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  Speaker 2: at any given moment in the field, but especially for
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  Speaker 2: the times when my plan a becomes a dumpster fire
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  Speaker 2: and I need to figure something out fast. Having that
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  Speaker 2: stuff always with me gives me confidence when things just
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  Speaker 2: don't go my way from the jump, and they often don't,
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  Speaker 2: but to take it a step further. The second hunt
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  Speaker 2: I had for myself this year involved me taking a slow,
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  Speaker 2: slippery walk through a beautiful brook trout stream that winds
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  Speaker 2: its way through thousands and thousands of acres.
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  Speaker 3: Of big woods.
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  Speaker 2: I had sticks, a saddle, and a low but you know,
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  Speaker 2: growing expectations as I got deeper into the north Woods.
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  Speaker 2: When I picked out my tree, I had one set
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  Speaker 2: of sticks secured to it when two fawns walked into
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  Speaker 2: monch acorns, which on a blind hang and bang sid
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  Speaker 2: is always a confidence booster. I eventually got my platform
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  Speaker 2: up and settled into that tree, but not without going
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  Speaker 2: through a familiar process. I knew where my toe rope
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  Speaker 2: was because I always have it in the same pocket.
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  Speaker 2: I knew where my release was, where my strap on
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  Speaker 2: bowhanger was, and right on down the line to my glove.
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  Speaker 2: The week before, I hadn't put my gloves in the
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  Speaker 2: pants pocket I usually do, and I went to pull
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  Speaker 2: them out of my pack.
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  Speaker 3: My left glove fell like a wet maple leaf to
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  Speaker 3: the ground.
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  Speaker 2: I did go on to kill a buck that night,
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  Speaker 2: which is always pretty rad on your first sitt of
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  Speaker 2: the season. But the whole thing was a reminder of
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  Speaker 2: why I try to stay organized.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 2: A drop glove isn't likely to cost you a deer,
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  Speaker 2: but I don't know why risk it. I guess, so
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  Speaker 2: let's follow this path for a second. When I got
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  Speaker 2: saddled up in that tree on public dirt and Wisconsin,
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  Speaker 2: I arranged the two trails I could clearly see.
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  Speaker 3: Then you know what I did.
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  Speaker 2: I drew my bow and I aimed at them, and
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  Speaker 2: then I aimed behind me, and then I drew my
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  Speaker 2: bow and I aimed off to my off side.
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  Speaker 3: This is a good habit to get into.
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  Speaker 2: Generally, but in this case was important because the tree
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  Speaker 2: I had chosen was crooked as hell, so I had
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  Speaker 2: to sort of tiptoe my way onto the corner of
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  Speaker 2: my saddle platform. Just a little, I don't know, eight
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  Speaker 2: or ten degree difference in the slope of your platform
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  Speaker 2: can change everything, just as hanging a new stand will
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  Speaker 2: off and put you in a position where you thought
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  Speaker 2: you'd be shooting a certain way, but you realize you can't,
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  Speaker 2: or we'll need to shoot in sort of uncomfortable situations.
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  Speaker 2: The easiest way to quiet the fear around this is
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  Speaker 2: to pretend the deer is coming down the trail, draw slowly,
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  Speaker 2: and then aim at a leaf or something else along
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  Speaker 2: the trail. Just run through the scenario as best you can.
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  Speaker 2: I do this almost always when I get into a stand,
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  Speaker 2: at least in the evening, since I usually don't want
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  Speaker 2: to move like that at first light in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: So it's just a good way to make sure you
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  Speaker 2: have limb clearance and should be able to quietly get
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  Speaker 2: drawn if a deer comes in where you expect them
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  Speaker 2: to and definitely where you don't expect them to, which
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  Speaker 2: is just what happened to me. With about fifteen minutes
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  Speaker 2: of shooting light left there, I heard a lot of
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  Speaker 2: not squirrel noises coming off the ridge behind me, and
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  Speaker 2: eventually saw an old horse of a doe headed straight
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  Speaker 2: at me. The wind had died almost nothing, so I
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  Speaker 2: wasn't sure if she would get me then or when
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  Speaker 2: she walked up and smelled my sticks and where I
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  Speaker 2: touched all kinds of vegetation at the base of my tree. Well,
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  Speaker 2: she gave everything a real good sniff, gave me the
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  Speaker 2: side eye a few times, and then walked out on
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  Speaker 2: my off side and posed up, quartering away at maybe
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  Speaker 2: ten yards. I wanted to shoot her bad. Killing an
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  Speaker 2: old dough on public land in a place with not
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  Speaker 2: very many deer in a spot I'd never seen before
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  Speaker 2: in my life is a real trophy in my book. Plus,
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  Speaker 2: the freezers are pretty light this time of year, but
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  Speaker 2: I could hear almost non stop thunder rolling in the
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  Speaker 2: distance and knew that if I didn't make a perfect shot,
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  Speaker 2: i'd be blood trailing in the pouring rain, and even
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  Speaker 2: if I did make a perfect shot, I'd be in
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  Speaker 2: for one hell of a drag in the pouring rain.
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  Speaker 2: I had decided before that hunt that it was good
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  Speaker 2: bucks or nothing, and I stuck to it. But I'm
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  Speaker 2: not going to lie and say I wasn't real tempted
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  Speaker 2: to ignore myself imposed rules when that dough posed up.
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  Speaker 2: Little habits like ranging landmarks and going through the process
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  Speaker 2: of drawing and aiming when you get set up, aren't
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  Speaker 2: going to help you kill a buck. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: ninety nine point seven percent of the time you hunt,
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  Speaker 2: but they will give you a little bit of extra
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  Speaker 2: confidence if he does come in and the adrenaline starts
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  Speaker 2: to course through your veins and the whole thing is
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  Speaker 2: about to go down, And this is what you're after.
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  Speaker 2: The thing about confidence is that it isn't black and white.
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  Speaker 2: It's not a binary thing. It's not either or. It's
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  Speaker 2: a slow progression that seems to move kind of like
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  Speaker 2: the stock market. The more you do to foster your
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  Speaker 2: confidence in yourself, the more it'll slowly ratchet up over time.
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  Speaker 2: But just like the stock market, there will be moments
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  Speaker 2: where it'll go the other way.
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  Speaker 3: You know, in the hunting.
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  Speaker 2: It's when you make a big mistake or you find
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  Speaker 2: yourself in just like a six sit slump where you
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  Speaker 2: haven't seen so much as a squirrel in almost a week,
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  Speaker 2: and your confidence will take.
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  Speaker 3: A real hit.
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  Speaker 2: Done and when it does, it's easy to make more
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  Speaker 2: decisions that will help the whole thing keep retracing, and
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  Speaker 2: that means the climb back up is going to take
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  Speaker 2: more time. But that's hunting, especially bow hunting for white tails.
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  Speaker 2: Losing confidence as a pheasant hunter is one thing, and
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  Speaker 2: it can be not a whole lot of fun, but
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  Speaker 2: it's nothing like believing that you either will never have
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  Speaker 2: a good buck within bow range or you might and
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  Speaker 2: if you do, you are bound to screw it up
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  Speaker 2: in a major way. I guess the last thing I
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  Speaker 2: want to say on this is this developing confidence in
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  Speaker 2: yourself shifts the accountability from the deer to us. Instead
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  Speaker 2: of sitting the same stand we always do in blanking
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  Speaker 2: and then deciding it must be because the moon phase
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  Speaker 2: or something else, we can go figure it out every
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  Speaker 2: time we want to hunt if we have the confidence
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  Speaker 2: to do so, and when they do show up, if
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  Speaker 2: you have squared away some of the little details sit
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  Speaker 2: after sit, and you know exactly where everything is and
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  Speaker 2: what you need to do to make a shot happen.
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  Speaker 2: The whole thing changes. It just moves in your direction
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  Speaker 2: better and doesn't always go right, never will, but believing
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  Speaker 2: it will definitely bends the odds a little more in
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  Speaker 2: out to follow the spot to our bucks or maybe
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