I went into this with really high hopes almost to the point of being cocky about it.

That was mistake number one.

There's a perception that the more work you do, the higher odds you may have.

But what happens if you don't make the adjustments based off of your improvements?

I had a great setup to hunt that deer, but I missed a couple key things in there.

Number one, I was using prior history and prior information to hunt that deer.

I did not factor in that we had done all that work.

When hunting a mature specific buck, the margin of air is razor thin.

In this episode of the White Tail podcast presented by Maltre, we unpacked a season that challenged

Steve Hansen, who's tagged many big bucks over the years,

how this year exposed some blind spots that may resonate with you.

Once I got past that first week of November, I was like, okay, because now the amount of pressure

that I put here was adding up to big numbers, and it was pretty obvious. My encounter occurred

when I first hunted it. So now part of

this equation is me. Steve, welcome back to the White Tail podcast. How you doing? Doing great, man. Good to be

back. Yeah, yeah. We're in February now and shed season's starting to get here. And like it's,

I don't know about you, but I feel like I've been cooped up here with the nasty weather to some degree and ready to get out there and walk and find some antlers. What have you been up to recently? You know, this was, the walnut market's been good again. And I've literally been cutting at least the last 10 days, seven days a week, you know, weekends,

everything.

So it's been tough because it's been cold because it's a fight to get our machine started

and stuff.

But once we get things started, it's awesome working weather.

There's no snow, hard frozen ground.

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