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Hey, everyone, welcome to the Wire to Hunt Foundation's podcast, which is brought to you by First Light.

I'm your host, Tony Peterson, and today's episode is all about dealing with the cold when you're after late season deer.

If I am being honest, and I am, this is my least favorite time of year to be a deer hunter.

Look, I do love getting out into the woods and hunting.

But there are all of those roosters out there that I want to chase, and there's just the reality that hunting in the cold often really, really sucks.

But that doesn't mean it's time to dust the cobwebs off of the dog and just forget about deer hunting completely.

It just means that you have to learn to live with the cold, which is what I'm going to talk about right now.

I've noticed something about most of the people who claim to love winter and snow and cold and all the dumb things that happen this time of year.

Most of them don't ever have to spend much time outside.

My mother-in-law is one of those people, and she will often talk about how wonderful it is to get

snow and how pretty the world looks to her in the winter. But she can also pretty much spend all

winter laying on the couch watching Netflix, too. Talk to, well, I don't know, like a dairy farmer,

or maybe someone who works in construction, and you might get a different reaction

out of them since they have to go out and work in this shit no matter what.

There's a parallel to this in the deer hunting space, if you can believe that.

The folks I know who profess an undying love for the late season are also the people who have

a very specific kind of hunting situation. I'll give you a hint here.

Almost none of them own a saddle,

and they'd look like a monkey trying to learn quantum physics

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