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🗓️ 12 August 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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This week, Tony talks about the ways in which bowhunters, crossbow hunters, and rifle hunters should think about pre-season practice so they can be more lethal in the field.
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| 1:09.3 | i'm your host tony peterson and this episode is all about what you should do right now with your bow or your crossbow |
| 1:14.7 | or your gun to get ready to be a stone cold killer this fall. Look, I know we all know what we should |
| 1:22.5 | do throughout the summer practice-wise, but I also know what a lot of us just don't do. Part of this is a function of having really accurate weaponry these days. We just don't need to practice as much as we used to in order to be pretty good. But pretty good on the range and pretty good in the woods are different things. That's something a lot of us don't realize until we watch a buck run out of our lives without an arrow through his lungs. And it's something we can work on in the next several weeks. It's also what I'm |
| 1:28.0 | going to talk about. don't realize until we watch a buck run out of our lives without an arrow through his lungs. |
| 1:48.5 | And it's something we can work on in the next several weeks. It's also what I'm going to talk about right now. |
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