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

Presented by First Light, creating proven, versatile hunting apparel for the stand, saddle, or blind. 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 the two dominant types of hunting strategies and how we often get

both wrong and how we often get both wrong

and how we can actually use both of them in almost all of our different situation.

In the last 20 years or so, we've really watched whitetail hunting split into two factions.

On one side, you have folks working the land to the best of their abilities to create places that bucks really like. And on the other side, you have people who say they're going to meet the deer wherever they are and get the best of them pretty much on their own terms. But most of the hunters I talk to kind of land right in the middle of these two ideologies, but don't often seem to understand what that really means.

Well, it kind of means everything to success, which is what I'm going to talk about right now.

I know a lot of you find folks know that I am a pretty big fan of bird dogs.

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