Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundation's podcast, your guide to the fundamentals of better deer hunting.

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First Light. Go farther, stay longer. And now, your host, Tony Peterson.

Hey, everyone, welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundation's podcast, which is brought to you by First Light. I'm your host, Tony Peterson. Hey everyone, welcome to the Wired 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 kill deer in areas

with high hunting pressure.

Now, this might seem kind of like an odd time of year for a podcast about hunting around

lots of other hunters, but honestly, this might be the most important thing to learn for an odd time of year for a podcast about hunting around lots of other hunters,

but honestly, this might be the most important thing to learn for an awful lot of us.

And it starts with our mindsets and how we view our hunting situation.

And, you know, there is no bad time of year to address that kind of thing,

but that's not all I'm going to talk about here.

I'm going to explain how I approach my hunts on public land and just generally pressured spots and go pretty deep on why I think

this is sort of the easiest and the hardest thing to do in the whitetail space.

My paid writing career started in 2003 with a trout fishing article. And let me tell you something.

When I saw my byline and an actual outdoor publication,

I about lost my mind. I thought, wrongly, I might add, that my place in the outdoor industry

was solidified at that point. After all, they don't just let any rando write a trout fishing article

for a newspaper and then pay him a whole 35 bucks for it. I knew I was

breathing some rarefied air there, but man, was I super wrong? It took me years of begging for work

to get anywhere at all, and those few years that I really had to go hard, they were awful lean.

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