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Wired To Hunt Podcast

Ep. 1028: Foundations - All Deer Trails Lead to Somewhere

Wired To Hunt Podcast

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness

4.84.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Tony explains how a recent turkey bow hunt in Nebraska reminded him of how we as hunters should always be thinking about scouting when we are in the woods, regardless of whether we have deer on our minds or not.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed Human.

0:04.3

Listen up, Mother Scratchers.

0:05.6

If you listen to this show, you know how I feel about public land.

0:08.9

Well, right now, there are 4,000 acres along the Tucker Town Reservoir in North Carolina.

0:15.7

That could either go to developers or they could become public game lands forever.

0:22.1

We've teamed up with our friends at OnX to make sure it's the latter.

0:26.5

We want them going public.

0:27.6

Here's the deal.

0:28.7

Meat Eater and OnX have each put up $100,000 to match your donations.

0:34.1

That's $200,000 in matching funds on the table. but this only runs from April 14th to May 14th.

0:40.9

When the money's gone, it's gone. Go to savetuckertown.org. We're raising money to help keep it

0:49.3

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

0:57.7

Presented by First Light, creating proven, versatile hunting apparel for the stand, saddle, or blind.

1:04.2

First Light. Go farther, stay longer. And now, your host, Tony Peterson.

1:10.4

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

1:13.5

First Light. Today's episode is all about spring scouting and what you should be doing

1:17.5

while you're turkey hunting and the truth about what you can learn about deer right now.

1:24.6

I know this is a hard time to think about deer, but even if you're in full-blown turkey mode,

1:29.0

you can learn her thing to about fall bucks.

1:31.3

I got a reminder of this last week while I was roaming around Nebraska with all the makings of a turkey bow hunt.

1:36.5

I got ever so close to arrowing several public land birds, but I just couldn't make it happen.

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