Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundations Podcast.

Your guide to the fundamentals of better deer hunting.

And now your host, Tony Peterson.

Hey everyone, welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundations Podcast.

Brought to you by First Light.

Today's episode is all about the best week of the season

and how you can tag out when the rut is blowing up.

Any vacation time you can take where you're in a stand

this first week of November is time that you should take.

It's also one of the most challenging weeks of the season

because expectations always run really high

and sometimes mother nature just doesn't deliver.

Or sometimes we just flake out and give it half effort.

These reasons and others that leave you with an unfilled tag

are what this episode is all about.

Growing up in Minnesota as a bow hunter who sucked at bow hunting

I actually hated the rut.

I knew the early firearm season would come in

just when the hunting would get good

and after the first week of November I'd have to relinquish the woods

to the orange army.

I also knew after the season I'd walk the woods,

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