Ep. 1003: Foundations - Why Good Snacks are the True Heroes of Whitetail Hunting
Wired To Hunt Podcast
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4.8 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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This week, Tony explores the topic of tree stand snacks, and explains why the right treat might just help you kill a buck outside of the rut.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.0 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundation's podcast, your guide to the fundamentals of better deer hunting. |
| 0:12.0 | Presented by First Light, creating proven, versatile, hunting apparel for the stand, saddle, or blind. |
| 0:18.0 | First Light, go farther, stay longer. And now, your host, Tony Peterson. |
| 0:24.6 | Hey, everyone, welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundation's podcast, which is brought to you by First Light. |
| 0:29.8 | I'm your host, Tony Peterson, and today's episode, you know, it's just kind of a fun one about the foods that |
| 0:34.2 | carry us through the long days on stand and in blinds all season long. |
| 0:45.4 | Last week I talked about my love of venison and how it's a nutrient-dense superfood that can't |
| 0:50.8 | really be compared to anything else meat-wise, at least anything else that doesn't |
| 0:54.5 | live inside of a fence anyway. I love Venice because it's healthy, but I also love things that |
| 1:00.2 | aren't healthy, like candy and snacks. And a hell of a lot of stuff that's just, you know, the total |
| 1:05.2 | opposite of a superfood. I especially love this stuff during the fall when I'm hunting like crazy. |
| 1:11.1 | This might seem dumb, but I actually believe that once in a while, when I bring the right snacks into the woods with me, I kill a deer because of them. |
| 1:18.0 | Allow me to explain that right now. |
| 1:27.0 | Since the deer season for me is truly over in every way, I've been messing with my gear to try to sort it out and find some semblance of order. |
| 1:35.7 | This is a task I do every year with hunting and fishing gear. I don't like it, but I do like the end result if I get to someplace that looks less like a disaster zone and more like |
| 1:44.7 | Mark Kenyon's carefully curated butterfly collection. This year, almost as soon as I started, I pulled |
| 1:50.7 | two different one gallon Ziploc bags out of a couple of my go-to hunting packs. The contents of |
| 1:55.9 | each bag look like if you handed a 10-year-old a credit card and cut them loose in a giant candy store. |
| 2:00.7 | Now, in the interest of how we are all victims these days and how I don't want to take |
| 2:04.2 | personal responsibility for anything, let me say this. I am a candy monster, but it's not my fault. |
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