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.

Everyone, welcome to the Wire to Hunt Foundation's podcast,

which is brought to you by First Light.

I'm your host Tony Peterson.

And today's episode is all about how to not regret your hunting decisions. The old window is closing for non-resident hunting opportunities, which is no surprise to anyone who's been paying attention.

There's a lot of reasons for this that I don't really need to get into.

But what I do want to talk about is how this is affecting my decision-making process around

hiding opportunities and how regret in general can taint our experiences.

I know that's pretty vague.

So you just have to bear with me and hear the rest of this talk just to kind of get it.

And hopefully I can put it in a way that will help you make some better decisions that will leave

a positive mark on your psyche instead of a bunch of remorse at a missed opportunity. The quality of the entire human experience for us as individuals hinges on so many things beyond our

control and so many things that are totally in our control and of, the decisions we make that we think are in our best interest.

And the decisions we make that we know aren't in our best interest, but we want to do them anyway.

Knowing full well, we'll probably regret them later.

Life is muddy and it's hard.

I don't know if it's any harder today generally than it was 10 years ago or it'll be 10 years from now.

My suspicion is that it's going to keep getting worse until we all collectively toss our

smartphones into a bonfire and to touch a little grass, which I'm going to talk about in a few episodes.

But since that's not likely to happen, our course almost feels set.

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