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

I'm your host, Tony Peterson, and today's episode is all about winter scouting and what it really teaches us about buck travel.

Okay. really teaches us about luck travel. A lot of these shows come to be because I talk to a lot of hunters.

And of the hunters I talk to, there's a lot of variability and experience and drive and

an interest and just general knowledge.

Sometimes it reminds me of what people generally don't know

or reminds me that some things could use better explanations.

One of the things that seems simple to me is winter scouting,

but when I talk to most people about it,

the truth is they don't even consider it

or understand the benefits of going out now to figure out buck travel in the fall.

That's a huge mistake.

And it's something I'm going to talk about right now.

There's a fella at the gym I go to who did his time in the Navy.

And now, even though he's retired from that gig,

still works the early shift at the pool as a lifeguard.

Since I see him quite a bit, we always have a little chat if he's on duty, and I'm headed into the steam room after a workout.

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