Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundations 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 Foundations Podcast, which is brought to you by First Light.

I'm your host, Tony Peterson and today's episode is all about why learning what

doves do helps you kill bucks.

They get no love and it drives me nuts. I honestly think that if doves were as rare as mature bucks,

they'd be harder to kill them mature bucks. I know people will laugh at that because it's situational,

like all of hunting. In some places, killing doves is as easy as picking an evening to go sit

on the food and then shooting one. But in some places, killing a good buck is like that too.

In others, lots of others, killing a doe is as tough as any deer hunting challenge out there,

or pretty damn close. But it's more than that. The ladies of the deer herd can teach us a lot

if we are willing to pay attention to them. And that's what I'm really going to dive into this week.

I know you guys and gals think I'm super clever at coming up with all this stuff on my own,

but sometimes someone around me will say something and that's all I need to come up with an article

or a podcast. My kids do this to me fairly often. I'll give you a couple examples. When my

girls were maybe six, I was cleaning out a wood duck house in our backyard that hangs over our

little pond. This task involves getting up on a ladder, sweeping out the old wood shavings,

and refilling the box sometime in the early spring. Often, there's evidence of other critters

using the nesting box. At some point, a pair of gray squirrels had had some babies in the duck

apartment, but it was clear that they had moved out. They had also abandoned one of their youngsters

who was really dead and really fascinating to my daughter. So we talked about squirrels,

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