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Wired To Hunt Podcast

Ep. 804: Foundations - Why Every Hunter Should Try to Understand Deer Dominance

Wired To Hunt Podcast

MeatEater

Wilderness, Sports

4.64.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

On this week's show, Tony explains how the hierarchy in all deer herds influences whitetail behavior in ways that can help hunters better predict future deer movement.

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0:00.0

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

0:07.0

Presented by First Light, creating proven versatile hunting apparel for the stand, saddle, or blind. First Light, go farther, stay

0:16.3

longer. And now, your host, Tony Peterson.

0:19.8

Hey 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 this episode is all about the dominance hierarchy that exists in all white-tail herds and how understanding it can help you kill more deer.

0:35.7

Okay, before I get into this I have to throw a little plug toward our new first light

0:40.7

whitetail systems. If you haven't heard we dropped the early season

0:44.0

phase the mid season core and the late season thermic last week and they're all pretty

0:48.9

badass. No you can mix and match pieces, do as you please.

0:53.0

But this is, in my opinion, the best white tail gear

0:55.8

we've ever put out.

0:57.0

And I don't say that lightly.

0:58.1

I say it because I hunted in all of this stuff last season

1:01.8

from early September to January through multiple states on a lot of

1:05.8

nasty public land islands.

1:07.9

That really really worked well for me.

1:10.2

If you want to check it out, go on over to first light.com.

1:13.4

All right. As it so often happens with this podcast, it was a, you know, kind of like a not so random encounter

1:20.0

with some deer that spawned an idea. I'd taken a little scouting trip recently,

1:25.0

a couple weeks back,

1:26.0

and I took some photography when I was out there,

1:29.0

and I ended up editing those photos and looking at it

1:31.0

and I noticed something in one of the photos. It was that there was a

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