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Wired To Hunt Podcast

Ep. 1015: Foundations - The Deer Don't Beat Us as Often as Our Brains Do

Wired To Hunt Podcast

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness

4.84.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

This week, Tony explains how struggle and discomfort mold us into better deer hunters, but only if we embrace then when we don't want to.

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:02.5

Guaranteed Human.

0:04.4

Welcome to Meat Eaters 12 and 26 presented by Moultry Mobile and OnX Maps.

0:10.3

12 of Meat Eaters' biggest and baddest hunts from the last year released throughout

0:15.0

2026. These are long-form episodes so you get more of what you love.

0:20.1

The first one up is my baited bear hunt in Manitoba.

0:23.4

If you've ever wondered what a baited bear hunt is like, you'll love this episode.

0:28.2

My favorite part was watching a younger bear spend an hour trying to figure out how to get a creatively hung beaver carcass down from a tree.

0:36.5

Check it out now on Meat Eaters YouTube channel and be on the lookout for more 12 and 26 in the coming months.

0:44.3

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

0:50.1

hunting.

0:51.0

Presented by First Light, creating proven, versatile hunting apparel for the

0:55.3

stand, saddle, or blind. First Light, go farther, stay longer. And now, your host, Tony Peterson.

1:03.6

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

1:07.6

I'm your host, Tony Peterson, and today's episode is all about how difficult

1:11.2

deer hunting often is, and what we can do to make it a little bit easier in a way that you

1:16.8

probably don't expect.

1:24.4

The impetus for this podcast came from explaining shed hunting to my daughters. If you can believe that,

1:30.1

well, you should because it's true. When it comes to white tail hunting, I find myself constantly stuck

1:34.2

between explaining what are simple concepts, but that don't play out in the real world very easily or simply most of the time.

1:41.4

There's a hard truth about white tail hunting that a lot of us don't really

1:44.2

want to acknowledge, but it's tied to a greater aspect of light. Now, if you go back a couple

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