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Ep. 1066: Foundations - Broadheads, Bow Prep, and Effective Range · Wired To Hunt Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired2Hunt Foundations Podcast, your guide to the
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  Speaker 1: fundamentals of better deer hunting. Presented by First Light, creating proven,
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  Speaker 1: versatile hunting apparel for the stand, saddle, or blind. First Light,
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  Speaker 1: go farther, stay longer. And now, your host, Tony Peterson.
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  Speaker 2: Hey everyone, welcome to the Wired2Hunt Foundations Podcast, which is
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  Speaker 2: brought to you by First Light. I'm your host, Tony Peterson,
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  Speaker 2: and today's episode is all about that last-minute bow prep
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  Speaker 2: we should all have buttoned up before the season starts.
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  Speaker 2: I truly envy people who, you know, just kind of
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  Speaker 2: geek out on deer hunting equipment because I actually don't.
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  Speaker 2: There was a time where I might have, but I
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  Speaker 2: didn't have any money then. By the time I got
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  Speaker 2: into the hunting industry, a huge part of my job
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  Speaker 2: became setting up bows and shooting different arrows and broadheads
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  Speaker 2: and testing out a lot of gear. I am far
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  Speaker 2: more of a hunter than I am a gear junkie.
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  Speaker 2: But that time of my life taught me a lot.
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  Speaker 2: And there are some things I learned then about bow
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  Speaker 2: setup and, you know, kind of preseason prep that I'm
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  Speaker 2: still very diligent about, which is what I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: talk about right now. Back on June 12th of this year,
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  Speaker 2: the big brains at NASA tested out an experimental aircraft
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  Speaker 2: called the X-59 Quest. Now maybe this is because I'm
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  Speaker 2: emotionally stuck as an eight-year-old boy, but I still really
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  Speaker 2: like fighter jets. And this one is one of the
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  Speaker 2: wildest ones to hit the sky so far. But this
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  Speaker 2: jet isn't necessarily designed for military purposes, but instead for
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  Speaker 2: potentially bringing supersonic flights to your nearest airport. Now you
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  Speaker 2: might think, We already have plenty of supersonic aircraft. Why
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  Speaker 2: don't they fly those over the mainland more frequently? Well,
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  Speaker 2: the answer is that when an object travels slower than
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  Speaker 2: Mach 1, the pressure builds up in front of it.
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  Speaker 2: And when that same object goes faster than Mach 1,
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  Speaker 2: it is then going faster than the sound waves and
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  Speaker 2: the pressure ahead of it. That's when a sonic boom happens.
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  Speaker 2: Here's a way to think about it that will be
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  Speaker 2: relatable to a lot of you fine listeners. Imagine frog
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  Speaker 2: fishing for largemouth, and you huck that kermit into a
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  Speaker 2: patch of duckweed. Now, a well-designed frog will allow you
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  Speaker 2: to hop it on top of the slop, where hopefully
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  Speaker 2: a giant largemouth will see it and bust through to
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  Speaker 2: gobble it up in a way that makes walleye fishing
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  Speaker 2: seem like child's play. But if your frog is a
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  Speaker 2: little beat up, you know, maybe it fills up with
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  Speaker 2: water because a couple northerns bit it and, you know,
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  Speaker 2: bit through it a little bit. Or maybe the nose
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  Speaker 2: of your frog is sort of smashed in like a
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  Speaker 2: prizefighter's schnoz. It might not bounce lightly on top. It's
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  Speaker 2: going to dig in. The more you reel in, the
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  Speaker 2: more that duckweed will build up ahead of it until
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  Speaker 2: you've got to give it a real good yank, and
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  Speaker 2: that kermit will pop through, often at very high speeds
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  Speaker 2: and often at your fishing partner. Now imagine that moment,
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  Speaker 2: but with a plane in the sky, and that's when
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  Speaker 2: a sonic boom occurs. NASA's latest plane is designed to
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  Speaker 2: turn that boom into a whimper, and it does that
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  Speaker 2: through a nose that is 38 feet long, which accounts
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  Speaker 2: for a huge part of the total length of the aircraft.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of like having fabric stretched taut and trying
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  Speaker 2: to poke a one-inch thick wooden dowel through it versus
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  Speaker 2: a sewing needle. They flew that X-59 Quest at an
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  Speaker 2: altitude of 55,000 feet and at a speed of 924
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  Speaker 2: miles per hour, which put it well past Mach 1.
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  Speaker 2: It's not just the anteater nose alone that does the trick, though,
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  Speaker 2: for keeping that plane quiet. It's also built to control
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  Speaker 2: aerodynamic shock and shockwave structure to control airflow. And the
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  Speaker 2: wings are also built to just reduce drag. They also
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  Speaker 2: mounted the engine on top of the fuselage to point
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  Speaker 2: more of the aircraft's noise away from Earth. And another
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  Speaker 2: crazy design feature is the fact that they got rid
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  Speaker 2: of the windshield entirely. And instead, the pilot views a
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  Speaker 2: 4K screen that displays what's going on outside the plane.
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  Speaker 2: It's like video gaming meets experimental aircraft, which is kind
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  Speaker 2: of awesome. Especially when you consider how far planes have
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  Speaker 2: come in really not that long of a time. The
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  Speaker 2: first propeller-driven planes had blunt noses, as did a lot
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  Speaker 2: of the planes that helped shape the Second Great War.
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  Speaker 2: But as planes gave way to jets, and jets got
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  Speaker 2: faster and faster, the designs had to change. Even a
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  Speaker 2: little tweak to the nose of a plane could alter
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  Speaker 2: its performance in a negative way. It's really just physics
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  Speaker 2: in a badass form, I guess. Kind of like our arrows. Now,
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  Speaker 2: our arrows might not be the equivalent of a multi-billion
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  Speaker 2: dollar multi-year project that NASA and Lockheed Martin collaborated on,
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  Speaker 2: But there is one principle I want to drive home.
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  Speaker 2: If you change the shape of the front of your arrow,
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  Speaker 2: you might very well change the way that arrow flies.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of hunters look at this as an all
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  Speaker 2: or nothing thing when it comes to every arrow they
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  Speaker 2: plan to hunt with and the broadheads they choose to
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  Speaker 2: tip them with. That's a bad approach. Even for arrows
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  Speaker 2: that are advertised as being spine matched or weight matched
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  Speaker 2: or laser cut or whatever, there is always a degree
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  Speaker 2: of variation in their tolerances, just like there is with broadheads. Now,
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  Speaker 2: if you don't believe that, Go get yourself a cheap
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  Speaker 2: grain scale and put your arrows and your broadheads on
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  Speaker 2: there individually. You'll see differences that might not matter at
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  Speaker 2: all in the real world, or they might. For the
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  Speaker 2: purpose of this show, let's just all agree that I'm
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  Speaker 2: right about that, because I am. So not only are
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  Speaker 2: you going from arrows with field points to arrows with broadheads,
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  Speaker 2: you're going with individual arrows with field points to individual
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  Speaker 2: arrows with broadheads, probably right now. And they're not going
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  Speaker 2: to all fly the same, generally. I've covered this before,
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  Speaker 2: so I'm just gonna give a refresher on my strategy.
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  Speaker 2: But whether I'm shooting mechanicals or fixed blade heads, I
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  Speaker 2: shoot them, you know, the actual arrows I plan to
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  Speaker 2: hunt with, and I match them to specific broadheads, so
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  Speaker 2: I know that every combo is gonna fly perfectly. This
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  Speaker 2: is more expensive than not doing this, but it's also
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  Speaker 2: really cheap insurance when a big buck walks in at
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  Speaker 2: 33 yards in low light. Some broadheads come with practice head,
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  Speaker 2: others don't. The ones that do make this process easier
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  Speaker 2: And although I know that a practice head is often
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  Speaker 2: not exactly the same thing as a real broadhead, on
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  Speaker 2: whitetail distances, it has always proven to be a reliable
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  Speaker 2: proxy that will show me proper arrow flight. Some heads
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  Speaker 2: don't offer that though, but do allow you to lock
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  Speaker 2: the blades in place for this process. That's a huge benefit.
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  Speaker 2: And one that shows me that these companies understand what
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  Speaker 2: bow hunters should do to ensure their products are put
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  Speaker 2: to use the best way possible. Fixed blade heads, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they're often much easier to match. If you can resharpen them,
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  Speaker 2: you can do this really pretty easily. Just make sure
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  Speaker 2: you know how to put a good edge on them
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  Speaker 2: before you put them back in your quiver. Now, if
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  Speaker 2: you shoot heads that offer replaceable blades, then the job's
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  Speaker 2: kind of easier too. When I go about this process,
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  Speaker 2: I shoot a warm-up round, maybe two, and then I'll
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  Speaker 2: match up an arrow with a broadhead and usually shoot
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  Speaker 2: it at like 30 or 35 yards. I want to
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  Speaker 2: stretch out the distance a bit Just to make sure,
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  Speaker 2: and then I want to be able to not only
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  Speaker 2: watch my arrow flight, but make sure that combo will
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  Speaker 2: go where I point it every time. I want a
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  Speaker 2: perfect shot. If a shot doesn't go well, I'll take
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  Speaker 2: it again with the same combo in case it was
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  Speaker 2: just operator error, which happens quite a bit. But if
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't, that arrow will get a different broadhead and
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  Speaker 2: a different chance. If that doesn't work, it's out. I
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  Speaker 2: know that sucks, but it's reality, and I can tell
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  Speaker 2: you that I used to get dozens and dozens of
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  Speaker 2: free arrows when I worked at Bowhunter Magazine, and I
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  Speaker 2: almost always had to call out a couple arrows in
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  Speaker 2: each batch. I honestly believe that a fair amount of
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  Speaker 2: the shots that don't go well on deer throughout the
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  Speaker 2: year happen because someone thought they had a good broadhead
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  Speaker 2: arrow combination, and they just didn't. That can throw off
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  Speaker 2: your point of impact by a lot depending on shot distance,
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  Speaker 2: and if you think you held dead on and did...
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't necessarily mean that your arrow is going to
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  Speaker 2: go there if your broadhead and your arrow aren't matched
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  Speaker 2: up correctly. There are a lot of ways to waste
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  Speaker 2: money on hunting gear, but this is one of those
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  Speaker 2: categories where I feel like money is just well spent.
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  Speaker 2: I'd rather not buy extra bottles of dopey or whatever
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  Speaker 2: than have my arrows be a question mark when the
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  Speaker 2: moment of truth hits. Now, I have to say this
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  Speaker 2: because it's true. This isn't just a compound bowhunter's deal either.
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  Speaker 2: If you shoot a crossbow or you have your kids
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  Speaker 2: shooting a crossbow, the same rules generally apply. I will
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  Speaker 2: say that crossbows seem to throw about any broadhead you
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  Speaker 2: want to shoot with pretty crazy accuracy, but I've had
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  Speaker 2: a few times with the girls where I was matching
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  Speaker 2: heads to bolts where one just wouldn't fly like the rest.
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  Speaker 2: Not 20 yards, that might not even matter, but at
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  Speaker 2: 40 it's going to. There are other preseason things that
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  Speaker 2: you should probably consider as well. One of the things
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  Speaker 2: that can happen with bows, especially bows that sat idle
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  Speaker 2: for nine months and then suddenly got put into action
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  Speaker 2: for a few weeks before the season, is that things
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  Speaker 2: can move just a little bit. Peep sights can move.
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  Speaker 2: And that might be from just a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: string stretch or just because they weren't tied in properly.
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  Speaker 2: If your peep sight moves, your point of impact is
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  Speaker 2: going up or down, usually up. You might not notice
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  Speaker 2: it because we tend to draw and adjust our anchor
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  Speaker 2: point so that the peep sight lines up with our
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  Speaker 2: sight aperture. But if you draw your bow with your
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  Speaker 2: eyes closed and then settle in before you open them,
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  Speaker 2: you can check this. Look, I glue my peep sights
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  Speaker 2: in for this reason. Because even though it's not likely,
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  Speaker 2: I also know that my bows spend a lot of
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  Speaker 2: time in the heat and in the cold and the
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  Speaker 2: rain and the snow and whatever else. And the opportunity
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  Speaker 2: for something to move is real. And the opportunity for
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  Speaker 2: strings to stretch a little bit is real. I also
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  Speaker 2: like to make sure everything is nice and locked down,
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  Speaker 2: both on my bows and on the girls' crossbows. Shot noise...
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  Speaker 2: which puts a buck in motion before the arrow or
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  Speaker 2: bolt gets there nearly 100% of the time, can be
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  Speaker 2: made worse by not having everything buttoned up. Noise is
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  Speaker 2: just vibration, and anything that isn't tight on your bow
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  Speaker 2: has the chance to produce some extra noise at the shot.
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  Speaker 2: These are little things, but are so easy to address
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  Speaker 2: before the season that it only makes sense to just
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  Speaker 2: do it. Check every bolt and everything that is meant
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  Speaker 2: to move on your sights, rests, whatever. A common source
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  Speaker 2: of extra shot noise comes from the small Allen bolts
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  Speaker 2: on the cams, which also experience a heck of a
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  Speaker 2: lot of jolting movement with each shot. So it kind
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  Speaker 2: of makes sense. You can hold your bow in one
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  Speaker 2: hand by the grip and use a closed fist to
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  Speaker 2: bump the top and bottom of the riser to listen
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  Speaker 2: for extra noise. You'll hear that vibration. I check over
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  Speaker 2: the girls' crossbows too, even though those things are crazy
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  Speaker 2: loud to begin with. It's more of a safety thing
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  Speaker 2: for me on that front because I don't want it
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  Speaker 2: to blow up on them when a big wood spike
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  Speaker 2: walks in and looks like we're about to have some
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  Speaker 2: fresh backstraps. Check over all your accessories too. One of
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  Speaker 2: the products in this category where we've seen a lot
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  Speaker 2: of designs over the years, which means there were some
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  Speaker 2: great ones and some duds, is quivers. Most bow hunters
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  Speaker 2: I know don't shoot with their quivers on, or at
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  Speaker 2: least a full quiver on. Yet we hunt with them on.
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  Speaker 2: And while I always take mine off and stand, there
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  Speaker 2: are times when that's not an option. Sometimes when you're
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  Speaker 2: spotting and stalking out west, or sometimes for some reason
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  Speaker 2: you get a shot at a white till you didn't
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  Speaker 2: expect it, and that quiver stays on. Quivers are a
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  Speaker 2: two-part source of frustration, or they can be. The first
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  Speaker 2: is that they will generally only increase the amount of
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  Speaker 2: noise your bow makes when you shoot with them on,
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  Speaker 2: especially if they're fully loaded, and especially if you prefer
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  Speaker 2: mechanical heads. You get a little rattle in there. But
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  Speaker 2: they also often don't have the greatest design for attaching
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  Speaker 2: and detaching them. These are small things, but you can
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  Speaker 2: button up any issues before the season by shooting with
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  Speaker 2: them on and paying attention to whether you have to
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  Speaker 2: wrestle with them at all to take them off, or hell,
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  Speaker 2: make big movements with them. I know most people don't
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  Speaker 2: think of this because it might not come up in
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  Speaker 2: a thousand lifetimes of bow hunting, but when it does,
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  Speaker 2: it matters. I have some quivers that allow me to
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  Speaker 2: adjust how tight they are when they're mounted, which means
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  Speaker 2: how tight they are to get on and off my bow, essentially.
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  Speaker 2: It's like a weird dance I play every season to
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  Speaker 2: get them to the point where the quiver is on solidly,
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  Speaker 2: but also comes off with minimal effort. Okay, so enough
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  Speaker 2: of that boring, tedious stuff that most people won't do.
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  Speaker 2: There's also the reality of understanding your actual effective range
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  Speaker 2: right now. If you listen to Mark talk about this,
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  Speaker 2: or me, you'll hear two guys who have reined in
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  Speaker 2: their effective range over the years. I like shooting my
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  Speaker 2: deer at 20 yards now, and I really no longer
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  Speaker 2: want to even shoot past 30. This is because whitetails
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  Speaker 2: are just tough, and they shake off arrow hits better
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  Speaker 2: than they should be able to. If you go on
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  Speaker 2: enough late-night blood trails, you'll think about this differently, I promise.
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  Speaker 2: You don't want to know how far you can shoot,
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  Speaker 2: but how far you should shoot. This is a big
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  Speaker 2: difference and we conflate the two often. This also goes
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  Speaker 2: for crossbow hunters and, well, I don't know, rifle hunters too. Personally,
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  Speaker 2: I start to lose my willingness to want to shoot
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  Speaker 2: a deer when it gets around 40 yards or farther.
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  Speaker 2: I want them closer, even though I want to know
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  Speaker 2: that my arrows and broadheads will shoot just fine at
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  Speaker 2: distances that are farther than that. I generally end up
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  Speaker 2: practicing out to 50 or 60 yards these days, but
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  Speaker 2: that's entirely to make sure that my 20-yard shots seem
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  Speaker 2: super doable. If I shoot it at a deer out
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  Speaker 2: to 40, it's got to be a real good scenario
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  Speaker 2: where I'm positive I can hit it in both lungs.
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  Speaker 2: Most of the time, though, I'm going to pass on
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  Speaker 2: that shot and try to get it either close or
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  Speaker 2: just wait for another opportunity. So my effective range is 40.
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  Speaker 2: My preferred range is definitely 30 and under. But what
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  Speaker 2: is yours? Not how far can you put a decent
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  Speaker 2: group together, but how far can you shoot and still
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  Speaker 2: believe fully, 100%, that you will hit a buck right
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  Speaker 2: where you need to. To me, this becomes clear on
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  Speaker 2: the range. What distance can you confidently shoot round after
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  Speaker 2: round after round without having a single flyer? What distance
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  Speaker 2: could you walk out to cold and shoot a perfect
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  Speaker 2: arrow at any time of the day? And what distance
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  Speaker 2: does that stop being a sure thing? It's a good
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  Speaker 2: place to start there. The thing about being a successful
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  Speaker 2: deer hunter that we often don't talk about is that
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  Speaker 2: confidence is such a huge factor in everything we do.
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  Speaker 2: Every part, from scouting to shooting to blood trailing, is
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  Speaker 2: aided by learned and earned self-confidence. If you can stand
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  Speaker 2: at 50 yards and consistently shoot 5 out of 6
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  Speaker 2: arrows in the bullseye, you might very easily think that
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  Speaker 2: you can shoot a big buck out in the beans
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  Speaker 2: standing away at 50 yards. But what about that one
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  Speaker 2: arrow in every group that just isn't quite as locked in?
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  Speaker 2: Guess how that's going to go on a real deer
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  Speaker 2: that has a heartbeat. Maybe that means 40 is the
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  Speaker 2: back end of your effective range. And the same goes
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  Speaker 2: for crossbows, too. But you also have the added reality
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  Speaker 2: that deer hear crossbows going off and duck pretty much
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  Speaker 2: every time. Where that buck will be in the moment
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  Speaker 2: when your bull gets there, that's a real concern. Again,
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  Speaker 2: you might be able to sit on a bench and
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  Speaker 2: lob bolts 80 yards away into tiny bullseyes, but foam
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  Speaker 2: targets don't move and we don't always hunt them in
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  Speaker 2: low light when the wind is blowing and the prospect
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  Speaker 2: of killing a mature buck is just standing there looking
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  Speaker 2: at us getting ready to run away. You've got to
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  Speaker 2: factor in your own human nature. Factor in a margin
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  Speaker 2: for error. and try to really figure out the guardrails
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  Speaker 2: you should build into your actual shots on actual deer.
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  Speaker 2: This is really hard to do, because greed can kick
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  Speaker 2: in pretty much any time a buck gets within range
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  Speaker 2: of what we can shoot. We've all been there, and
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  Speaker 2: if you haven't, you either will or you're lying about it.
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  Speaker 2: But the truth is that shots on actual deer, let
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  Speaker 2: alone big bucks, are harder to make than shots on
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  Speaker 2: the backyard range. They just are, for obvious reasons. But
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  Speaker 2: if you spend some time making sure your gear is dialed,
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  Speaker 2: and you know exactly what distance you can shoot and
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  Speaker 2: expect a very positive outcome, you'll not only film more tags,
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  Speaker 2: but you'll hunt better because of it. You'll set up
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  Speaker 2: to get those shots. And when you do get those shots,
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  Speaker 2: you're so much more likely to make good on them.
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  Speaker 2: That's a huge win for any deer hunter, and it's
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  Speaker 2: totally doable for every deer hunter. So think about that
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  Speaker 2: as we get into this most wonderful month of the year.
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  Speaker 2: Come back next week because I'm going to talk about
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  Speaker 2: early season buck sign and how to play the game
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  Speaker 2: around what you can find in the form of scrapes, rubs,
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  Speaker 2: and tracks this time of year. that's it for this week.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Tony Peterson. This has been the Wired to Hunt
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  Speaker 2: Foundations podcast. Thank you so much for all your support.
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  Speaker 2: I got to tell you, you know, a couple of
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  Speaker 2: weeks ago, last month, whatever, I worked the new store
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  Speaker 2: opening in Minnesota here where the meat eater opened a
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  Speaker 2: new store in Edina. And I was blown away by
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  Speaker 2: how many people showed up, how many people told me
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  Speaker 2: their stories, how many people I met who hunt just
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  Speaker 2: like me and feel the same way about it. It
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  Speaker 2: was amazing. It made me kind of see hunting in
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  Speaker 2: a new light or kind of just refilled my cup
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  Speaker 2: a little bit. It was great. I want to thank
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  Speaker 2: everyone who came up for that. Everyone who listens to
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  Speaker 2: this podcast, truly appreciate it. So thank you so much
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  Speaker 2: for that. If you need more hunting content, because I
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  Speaker 2: know this time of year you do, TheMeatEater.com has you covered.
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  Speaker 2: New films, if you haven't watched Brent's moose film, go
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  Speaker 2: watch it. crazy. That guy can tell a story. Such
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  Speaker 2: a good dude. Go check it out. New podcasts all
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  Speaker 2: the time, new articles, news on conservation. It's all there
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  Speaker 2: at themeateater.com. Go check it out. And thank you once
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  Speaker 2: again for everything.