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🗓️ 29 July 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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This week, Tony explains why learning to read trees and keeping an open mind on how to set up in them, is often the key to killing more big bucks by not just defaulting to our go-to stands.
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1:14.4 | 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 this episode is all about trees, you know, learning how to read them and how that can help you become a better deer hunter because you have better setups. This one is one of those topics that sounds boring as hell, but I'll tell you something, it's important. |
1:23.4 | I spend a stupid amount of time looking up at trees, eyeballing them, thinking about if I could get a stand in them, and if I do, where and how I'll set up. |
1:28.7 | This is relevant to summer stand hanging missions, of course, but also throughout the rest of the season. |
1:32.5 | And it's absolutely necessary if you want to be a mobile hunter at all. |
1:36.0 | Now, I promise to try to make this less boring than it sounds. |
1:38.9 | And I promise you that if you give it a listen and you start to take it seriously, |
1:40.8 | you will become a better whitetail hunter. |
1:50.5 | So buckle up because it's time to talk about trees. There are roughly about 70,000 different species of trees on our planet. |
1:56.0 | At least those are the ones that have been identified and catalogued anyway. |
2:00.4 | They obviously vary by size and shape and a whole lot of other features by species |
2:05.1 | and can be small little tiny guys like the bonsai tree or giants like those redwoods out on the |
2:10.3 | west coast. Throughout our history, trees have played a significant role in our cultures |
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