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Wired To Hunt Podcast

Ep. 979: Foundations - How to Overcome the Gun Hunter's Dilemma

Wired To Hunt Podcast

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness

4.84.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

This week, Tony explains what most gun hunters do wrong on their quest for a whitetail buck, and how you can go a different route to fill your tag when others won't.

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:02.5

Guaranteed Human.

0:04.3

Mark Kenyon here.

0:05.4

And if White Tails are your obsession, listen up.

0:08.8

The Meat Eater Black Friday Sale runs November 20th through December 1st, with up to 50% off

0:15.2

gear from first light, FHF gear, Dave Smith decoys, Phelps, and the Meat Eaters store.

0:20.9

That means proven patterns, quiet fabrics, reliable layers, and the calls that bring bucks into range, all at a rare discount.

0:29.0

Visit your favorite brand site to find your deal and make the most of your season.

0:33.6

The Meat Eater Black Friday Sale. Don't miss it.

0:40.7

Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundation's podcast, your guide to the fundamentals of better deer hunting, presented by First Light,

0:46.5

creating proven, versatile hunting apparel for the stand, saddle, or blind. First Light,

0:52.4

go farther, stay longer. And now, your host, Tony Peterson.

0:57.0

Hey, everyone, welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundation's podcast, which is brought to you by First Light.

1:01.2

I'm your host, Tony Peterson. And this week, I'm giving you your yearly reminder that gun hunting,

1:05.7

like gun hunters, usually ends in unfilled tags, and what you should do to not suffer the same fate as your orange-clad brethren.

1:18.4

All right. Before I jump into this one, I have to let you know that Meat Eater is running a mega super huge Black Friday sale right now.

1:25.3

And I know. I know you're sick of hearing about sales, but

1:27.8

trust me, that's not going to stop us. So you might as well go buy some deeply discounted

1:32.7

stuff, stuff like the origin hoodie and pants, which you can get at 50% off. Or the furnace hoodie,

1:39.1

which I wear a lot because it's one of my favorite pieces at 20% off. Our white tail kits are up to 40% off, meat eater apparel up to 50% off, and a hell of a lot more good stuff, like multery cameras up to 45% off, crispy boots at 20% off, much, much more. Head to the meat eater.com and check it out. Now, if you don't, then Mark won't have the budget to go count butterflies for his latest 26-part series on pollinators, and I won't have the budget to go hunt public land white tails like a real man. All right, enough of that. It's gun season throughout much of the country, and that means that most hunters of any time, any given point of the year, are going to be in the woods right now.

2:18.7

The deer are going to be scared shitless,

2:20.1

and on average, about 20 to 30% of hunters

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