Ep. 994: Foundations - The Dangers of Filling in the Whitetail Blanks
Wired To Hunt Podcast
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4.8 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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This week, Tony explains how all of us try to fill in the blanks when it comes to deer behavior and our hunting successes, but sometimes it's best to just accept what we can't know and keep trying.
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| 1:36.9 | white tail hunting and how that might not be the best strategy. As I get older, I kind of feel like I know less about life in some ways. |
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