EP. 504: The Ego Problem That's Killing Your Deer Hunts | Jake Bush
About this episode
Clint Campbell and Jake Bush discuss the mindset shifts in deer hunting, focusing on the balance between the hunt and personal life, and the importance of learning from failures.
Jake Bush and I sat down for one of those conversations that started in one place and ended up somewhere I didn't expect. We caught up on life first, the season, family, trying to find some balance between chasing deer and not losing your mind or your marriage in the process. If you've hunted hard for more than a decade, you know that tension. It's real, and it's worth talking about honestly instead of pretending it doesn't exist. But the meat of this one is mindset, and how much of what happens in the stand actually gets decided before you ever climb up into it. Jake and I got into a shift a lot of us go through eventually, moving away from chasing inches and toward chasing the story. That doesn't mean you stop wanting a good buck. It means you start valuing the process that got you there as much as the animal itself. We talked about what changes when you make that shift, and honestly, hunting gets a lot better. We spent a good chunk of time on failure, because that's where the real lessons live. Not every failure is the same. Some come from bad information, some come from ego, some come from just not being honest with yourself about what the sign is telling you. We broke down…
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