Ep. 532: Foundations - Build a Better Bow, Part 1
Wired To Hunt Podcast
MeatEater
4.8 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2022
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s show, Tony discusses bow sight and peep sight choice and how each can affect a hunter’s ability to shoot well during hunting season.
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| 0:00.0 | The NFL is headed back to Las Vegas for the reimagined Pro Bowl games presented by Verizon. |
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| 0:11.8 | New skills challenges on and off the field and even a special live concert performance. |
| 0:17.2 | The 2023 Pro Bowl games presented by Verizon Sunday, February 5th, 12pm Pacific at a |
| 0:23.5 | Legion Stadium, Las Vegas. Visit Pro Bowl dot com slash tickets to buy your tickets today. |
| 0:53.6 | Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundations podcast. Your guide to the fundamentals of |
| 1:07.8 | better deer hunting and now your host Tony Peterson. |
| 1:13.0 | Hey everyone, welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundations podcast which is brought to you by first light. |
| 1:17.6 | Today's episode is all about choosing bow accessories, specifically sights and peep sights, |
| 1:24.5 | so that you'll be a better shot in the field. |
| 1:38.7 | I know, I know, this seems boring, but bear with me. While we often focus on bow choice as the most |
| 1:46.7 | important thing for hitting deer in the ribs, that mentality really glosses over how important |
| 1:52.2 | some of your accessory choices are. I plan to get into rest and quivers and stabilizers next week, |
| 1:58.1 | but for now I want to focus on what we use to aim with, our sights and our peep sights, |
| 2:04.0 | and why you might choose certain styles over others, and what that means to you as an individual |
| 2:10.0 | and more importantly as a whitetail hunt. |
| 2:24.9 | In September of 2008, a good buddy and I were sitting on a hillside in Western North Dakota |
| 2:30.4 | as the mid-morning sun started to cause heat mirages in the distance. |
| 2:34.6 | The meal deer were all likely to be bedded up in the shade, |
| 2:37.8 | and it just felt like time to head back to the camp for a little bit of lunch. |
| 2:42.4 | And as we walked single file through the badlands and toward my truck, |
| 2:46.0 | I ended up spotting a silhouette of a meal deer where they probably shouldn't have been any deer. |
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