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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 Wire 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 e-scouting and how you should approach

it during the off season to have your best chance of killing a big deer this fall.

I kind of believe that there are like two tactics in the whitetail hunting space that sort of exist in a weird vacuum, where they're pretty well known and talked about quite a bit, and then sort of not put into practice in the real world by very many people.

The first is dark to dark sits, which everyone knows is a great rut strategy,

but most folks just can't seem to quite pull them off. And the other is e-scouting. Now, I'm not talking about just like pulling up on X to look at it every once in a while, but intentionally e-scouting, and then putting that work to use in the field in order to actually make the most of it. Now, that might be the most overlooked and underappreciated big buck strategy out there.

And it's something I'm going to break down. in the field in order to actually make the most of it. Now, that might be the most overlooked and

underappreciated Big Buck strategy out there, and it's something I'm going to break down right now.

Here at Meat Eater, we have a lot of folks who couldn't make a piece of compelling and interesting

content at gunpoint, but who also happened to be in charge of decisions around content.

I've encountered this my whole career in the outdoors, and it's one of the more frustrating aspects of doing what folks like me do.

But it's also true that the people who make interesting and compelling content that the audience wants to consume

are also the kind of people who generally don't

understand how businesses work and what it takes to keep the lights on or in many cases

usher forth that unrelenting growth that's now the standard of success in so many different

companies as much as it pains my creative heart to say this without those folks i'd be under a bridge

giving whitel seminars to stray cats.

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