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Wired To Hunt Podcast

Ep. 935: Back 40 - From Good to Great: The Critical Mistake Most Hunters Still Make

Wired To Hunt Podcast

MeatEater

Wilderness, Sports

4.64.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

What separates a good deer hunter from a great one? In this episode, Jake Hofer asks Steve Hanson, Don Higgins, Skip Sligh, Mark Kenyon, Jeff Sturgis, Bobby Kendall, and Bill Winke to weigh in on the one mistake they see holding most hunters back. Is it luck, having better land to hunt or something unrelated? Is it luck, having better land to hunt or something unrelated?

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0:40.7

People are their own worst enemy in that they're harvesting that deer that they want just a year or two to early.

0:48.1

So I would say the biggest thing you could do to go from that good to great category is be much more selective on what you're harvesting.

0:55.1

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1:00.3

The leading online real estate marketplace do find your perfect rural, recreational, agricultural,

1:05.5

or hunting properties here in the U.S.

1:07.7

And this week we're diving into another topic. We all want to get better every season.

1:12.9

We want to just incrementally get a little better. And this is rooted to get the expert panels to

1:18.7

share something that maybe you're going to overlook this season, unless you listen to this episode.

1:24.0

And it's the biggest mistake hunters make from being good to great and each guest has a

1:28.7

different little take a different perspective on this and I think that by the time you listen to this

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