Welcome to the Hunt Backcountry podcast in the second installment in our series, The Backcountry

Blueprint. If you didn't catch the first episode in this series, I would definitely recommend

that you go check it out and part to learn what this series is, why we're doing it, and this

hunter data that we reference in our discussion. In today's

podcast, we're looking at that hunter data from 1,500 hunters and discussing the reasons that

they were not successful. So if your hunt fails, if it goes wrong, if you don't fill a tag,

if it doesn't end the way you hoped,

what are the reasons why? And specifically the reasons in your control. That's what we

discussed today. I hope you guys enjoy it. As you'll hear us mention, you can find all episodes

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All right, Steve, so no surprise that if we look at success, which we did in the last

Blueprint episode, and today look at failure, that they're going to, in many ways, be the

inverse of each other. So there's probably no surprises in here that some of the points that

made successful, the opposite of that is why guys

fail on their hunts. But I do think it's helpful to look at both sides of an issue. And then also

another thing that kind of stood out as I looked at the data that came through on why these hunters

weren't successful or why they failed is the order also

kind of did shift a little bit.

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