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

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First Light. Go farther, stay longer. 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 today's episode is all about how you can find yourself a new chunk of ground to hunt

and why that should always be a focus.

It really wasn't, I don't know, too long ago when the topic of finding a new spot to hunt was prevalent in outdoor media.

You know, those were the cold call knock on doors days, which a lot of people think are totally dead.

Now it's, you know, generally about rounding up enough scratch to buy your way into a spot, which is just how things go.

But there are ways to go about this that can yield you a new white-tail spot that you

might not have to pay for. You just need to get a little creative, and that's what this episode is all

about. A couple of weeks ago, I made my yearly call to a landowner in southeastern Minnesota.

He sounded rough, and considering he was no spring chicken quite a few years ago,

I shouldn't have been surprised. He's an old dairy farmer. He was always tough as nails, as a lot of

dairy farmers are, or at least were when I was growing up, but he informed me that he was on the

tail end of a round of chemotherapy, which wasn't his first go with cancer or the treatment that

brings people to their knees. It was a sobering reminder that age waits for no one, and the only

constant in the universe that we can really suss out is that there is creation and decay, and as the old

Tracy Lawrence song goes, time marches on. That farm will go to his son who has been positioned to take over the whole business

since I was in grade school with him and who not, coincidentally, changed the arc of my entire

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