Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundations Podcast, your guide to the fundamentals of better deer hunting.

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longer. And now, your host, Tony Peterson.

Hey everyone, welcome to the Wire to Hunt Foundation's podcast podcast which is brought to you by First Light. I'm your host Tony Peterson and today's episode is all about patterning deer and how we often get this task so very wrong.

When I was in high school I got permission to hunt this dairy farm

where quite a few people had permission to hunt.

One of the other hunters was maybe, I don't know, like 10 years older than me and he had a

reputation for being a big buck killer. I randomly bumped into him walking out one morning and he showed me some pictures.

Actual printed photographs, not Selkam picks since it was like 1996.

There were just several big bucks that he had

killed. He then pointed to a valley on the farm and said they usually bet in there

and drop down on the hillside to go feed in the evening. I remember thinking, I don't know, I've hunted that hillside a lot, and that's just not been the case. But it turns out that he was right, so was I. And now I'm going to tell you how that can be true.

Do you know why we love music so much?

Part of the reason is that we have a long history, like 2 million years of

history where recognizing patterns helped us either fill our bellies or keep us from filling something else's belly.

In fact, our creation of music and our hunting abilities are intertwined,

even if that's hard to believe, because you're as tone deaf as a fence post but you love to hunt.

Now whether you're talking melody in the form of a catchy chorus or rhythm in the form of a guitar

riff that just makes you feel all warm and fuzzy,

music is built on a foundation of repetition.

In that latter case, the key to a good riff is that it involves playing notes or chords but also utilizes the silence in between.

This gives you, the listener, a chance to anticipate the next notes and gives the song kind of this feeling that it's progressing.

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