Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundation's podcast, your guide to the fundamentals of better deer hunting.

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And now, your host, Tony Peterson.

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

I'm your host Tony Peterson, and this episode is all about going where you really don't care about deer

so that you can learn all about deer.

This is a weird one, and you might think it's i don't know maybe not the best advice for how to learn deer but i think it's pretty good so what am i going to talk about well going into the woods

and not looking for deer specifically the more i go look for other things and other critters and find other reasons to be out there,

the more I pick up on deer hunting movements and how they use the landscape.

That's the basis for this whole show, so buckle up.

There are a lot of sayings about being book smart versus being street smart, and I love all of them.

Mostly, and I'm not proud of this, but I'm going to say it anyway, because my wife is very book smart.

I, on the other hand, am not.

I doubt you'd say I'm very street smart either, but that's beside the point.

The truth is, there is a lot you can learn from books and from consuming content.

I hope that's true anyway, because otherwise my professional career has mostly been a sham,

which come to think of it might be true.

The reality, though, is that there are academic purs pursuits and then there's experience academics are

great for giving you facts and the processes upon which you might learn some facts it teaches

your mind to work out problems or at least parts of problems and that's important college used to

largely be about this maybe Maybe it still is,

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