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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 the rules we think exist for

White Tails and why we should be careful about sticking too tightly to them.

This one's kind of a fun one for me because I'm, you know, largely a contrarian at heart.

I also have a deer hunting background that started with a question everything type of attitude.

You know what? Actually, that's not entirely true. It was just that my dad and I weren't very good at it,

so we kind of just did things the way we wanted.

And he's the kind of guy who would just try something crazy hunting-wise just to see.

And while it really worked out, sometimes it did.

And I'm the same way.

And this has shaped almost everything I've thought about when it comes to deer hunting. So buckle up because it's time to break some of the hard and fast deer behavior

and hunting strategy rules and kill some bucks anyway.

As I said, this is a fun one for me, but let me make this clear right from the start.

What I mean by wh Till rules throughout this podcast

are not the laws and regulations. You should obey those. I'm not giving you the green light to go

shoot a bunch of velvet bucks over a bait pile in August well before the actual season opens up.

But instead, I just want to talk about how we make up our minds that things are a certain way when they often aren't.

Let's start with a non-deer hunting situation here that I've talked about a few times, but I think really encapsulates this whole idea.

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