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🗓️ 7 October 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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This week, Tony shares his thoughts on the things a lot of hunters get wrong about blood trailing deer, and what they can teach us about ourselves and the deer in general.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | When the temps drop and the rut heats up, your system needs to hold up. |
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| 0:52.3 | Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundation's podcast, your guide to the fundamentals of better deer |
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| 1:03.6 | saddle, or blind. First Light, go farther, stay longer. And now, your host, Tony Peterson. |
| 1:11.5 | Hey, everyone, welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundation's podcast, which is brought |
| 1:14.8 | to by First Light. I'm your host, Tony Peterson, and today's episode is all about |
| 1:18.3 | blood trailing deer and what it can teach us not only about how to find, you know, |
| 1:22.9 | mortally hit, wounded deer, but just deer behavior in general. |
| 1:32.6 | Yeah. hit wounded deer, but just deer behavior in general. When it comes down to it, there's so much about deer that we just don't understand. |
| 1:37.3 | We fill in the blanks a lot to compensate for this, but it's just simply true that for the most part, |
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