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Short-Stopping Ducks: Myth or Reality? · Last Stop Waterfowl Outdoors Podcast

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the Marshes weekend Slow got that brackish water glue
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Speaker 1: on the Southern Flyway run chasing that Louisiana's Sun. Last
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Speaker 1: Stop water Foul Outdoors, Last Stop Water Foul Outdoors.
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Speaker 2: All right, everybody, what is going on?
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Speaker 3: Welcome back to another episode of Last Stop Waterfowl Outdoors.
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Speaker 3: I'm your host, Jacob Robery, and guys, it's good to
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Speaker 3: be back with y'all this weekend. How y'all like that
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Speaker 3: new little jingle we got for our intro? Well, that's
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Speaker 3: a new intro that we had put together for us
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Speaker 3: for the for the podcast. So I hope you guys
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Speaker 3: enjoyed that got a little Louisiana twist to it. But uh,
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Speaker 3: but in today's episode, guys, I wanted to talk about
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Speaker 3: the Great Debate.
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Speaker 2: How that the Great Debate. It's off season right now.
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Speaker 3: A lot of us aren't necessarily thinking about Waterfoul season,
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Speaker 3: except for us die Horse. A lot of us that
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Speaker 3: are Die Horse. We never really quit thinking about ducks.
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Speaker 3: If you guys are like me, I know, I'm like
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Speaker 3: that Ducks is kind of always on my mind, which
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Speaker 3: obviously you guys could tell, you know, from the content
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Speaker 3: we put out in the off season. This year, we
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Speaker 3: really put out a lot more off season content than
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Speaker 3: we normally do. You know, a lot of times in
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Speaker 3: the summertime we'll do some other stuff like fishing and
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Speaker 3: stuff like that. And really my schedule has been so
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Speaker 3: crazy this year. I also coach baseball. Had two baseball
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Speaker 3: teams that I coach use baseball, and that's really taking
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Speaker 3: up a lot of my time. So when I am off,
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Speaker 3: and you know, after I'm done spending time in the family,
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Speaker 3: I have some more time to do a lot more
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Speaker 3: educational content here on our platform, which we've been trying
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Speaker 3: to pump out this year, you know, so really been
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Speaker 3: working hard at getting that out there and trying to
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Speaker 3: educate people that are you know, seeing waterfoul hunting and
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Speaker 3: it's something that may intrigue them and they say, hey,
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Speaker 3: I'm very interested in possibly doing that. I know someboddies
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Speaker 3: of mine that my duck hunt, I know some family
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Speaker 3: members of mine that used to hunt, and I want
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Speaker 3: to get into it.
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Speaker 2: And really we want to have a place of education
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Speaker 2: where they could come.
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Speaker 3: And kind of you know, learn a lot of it's
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Speaker 3: opinionated and not saying it's one hundred percent right, as
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Speaker 3: you guys know, whether you love us or hate us
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Speaker 3: on our opinion sometimes, but we try to keep it
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Speaker 3: as realistic as possible, have a lot of years of
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Speaker 3: experience out there doing it and just try to share
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Speaker 3: some of that knowledge with our audience.
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Speaker 2: So but no glad to have y'all in with us.
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Speaker 3: And in this episode, I figured, Hey, I want to
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Speaker 3: give y'all my opinion.
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Speaker 2: Because a lot of people ask my opinion.
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Speaker 3: The big topic in waterfoul hunting, as we all know nowadays,
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Speaker 3: is the whole migration, alteration of the migration and or
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Speaker 3: not that is.
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Speaker 2: True, you know, and you know I look at it.
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Speaker 3: I try to look at things from a I guess
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Speaker 3: a simple minded point of view when we talk about migration,
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Speaker 3: waterfoul hunting, the state of waterfowl hunting, what it is
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Speaker 3: today as compared to what it used to be. And
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Speaker 3: what really gets me, to be honest with y'all, is
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Speaker 3: a lot of people who are so opinionated on the migration,
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Speaker 3: the shortstopping, you know, the whole flooded corn, the whole
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Speaker 3: weather debate, all that stuff. But mainly what we're gonna
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Speaker 3: kind of talk about, and I'm gonna give you my
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Speaker 3: opinion on is what I've seen since they started, you know,
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Speaker 3: shortstopping quote unquote with you know, flooding crops, flooding corn,
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Speaker 3: that type of stuff. And I've talked about this a
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Speaker 3: couple of times before, and I've to be completely honest
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Speaker 3: with y'all. I have gone back and forth on a
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Speaker 3: couple of point of view us on it. But when
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Speaker 3: I sit back and I kind of just listen to
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Speaker 3: what people are saying, a lot of people that are
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Speaker 3: talking and given opinions really weren't out there whenever it
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Speaker 3: kind of was the heyday of waterfowl hunting. It wasn't
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Speaker 3: those years where waterfowl were plentiful, where you know, you
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Speaker 3: could go out there and shoot a limited ducks and
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Speaker 3: it wasn't an issue whether it was what your folks,
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Speaker 3: you know, your dad, your grandfather, your uncles, whoever it was,
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Speaker 3: it didn't matter. There was a time. And I'm old enough.
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna admit that I'm old enough. I'm now I
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Speaker 3: just turned forty seven years old, and I have been
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Speaker 3: doing it a long time here in Louisiana. And there
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Speaker 3: was a time, guys, believe it or not, I know
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Speaker 3: you hear about this that the skies were loaded with ducks.
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Speaker 2: They were.
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Speaker 3: They were especially here in Louisiana and I know other
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Speaker 3: states across the flyways, they were loaded with ducks. And
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Speaker 3: now people say, well, it's not like that. It's not
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Speaker 3: that case anymore. And everybody's gonna point the finger. They're
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Speaker 3: gonna point the finger at whose fault it is. But
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Speaker 3: the point that I want to get back to real
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Speaker 3: quick on something is that how ironic it is for
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Speaker 3: some of the loudest voices out there to be saying, Oh,
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Speaker 3: it's this person's fault or it's this organization's fault, when
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Speaker 3: in reality, they weren't around during those days. So how
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Speaker 3: do they really or how can they really give you
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Speaker 3: an honest opinion on what it was and how great
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Speaker 3: it was according to them as compared to what it
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Speaker 3: is nowadays. Well, I can tell you that, like I
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Speaker 3: mentioned a second ago, guys, I've been doing this a
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Speaker 3: very long time. I've seen a lot of stuff as
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Speaker 3: a child when it was really good, and I've seen
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Speaker 3: it through the years as it's tapered off, you know.
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Speaker 3: And now I'm a grown man. I have kids in
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Speaker 3: my own I have a kid who's about to be
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Speaker 3: out of the house. He's even grown up and seen
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Speaker 3: it when it was really, you know, a little bit
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Speaker 3: better than maybe what it is now, or maybe it's
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Speaker 3: stayed kind of consistent. Well, you know, we were talking
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Speaker 3: about that the other day, me and him, and he said, really,
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Speaker 3: Daddy said, you know, me coming up hunting with you
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Speaker 3: on public land in Louisiana. He said, it's really stayed
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Speaker 3: kind of consistent. I don't find where it's gotten real
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Speaker 3: worse since I was a little boy, and now he's
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Speaker 3: almost a grown man, you know, So I guess that's
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Speaker 3: a good thing. And his opinion, and based off of
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Speaker 3: his opinion, you know, it's a it's a good thing
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Speaker 3: that he's seeing it as it stayed, you know, somewhat consistent.
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Speaker 2: So that's probably a good thing, I guess, you know,
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Speaker 2: when I look at that.
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Speaker 3: But the answer that everybody wants, or opinions that everybody wants, is,
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Speaker 3: as you guys can see right here in the ticker,
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Speaker 3: is short stopping ducks real? And is there is it
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Speaker 3: altering waterfowl migrations? So I'm going to give you my
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Speaker 3: take on it what I have seen and through the
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Speaker 3: years and kind of what I've seen now, So and
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Speaker 3: just so I'm going to ask you guys as an audience,
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Speaker 3: just a couple of simple questions, is what I'm going
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Speaker 3: to ask. So I'm not saying my point of view
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Speaker 3: is right. I want to say this first off is
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Speaker 3: I think that that question cannot be honestly answered right
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Speaker 3: now as we sit in twenty twenty six as a
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Speaker 3: waterfowl hunting community, as government agencies that are now trying
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Speaker 3: to get involved in whether or not this is altering migration.
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Speaker 3: So I don't think that anybody has one hundred percent
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Speaker 3: accurate answer on that. A lot of people have opinions,
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Speaker 3: now that's going to be different. Opinions are different than facts.
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Speaker 3: How do we get the facts? That's the question we
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Speaker 3: really all need to be asking ourselves is how do
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Speaker 3: we get the actual facts and data on this? Well,
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Speaker 3: the way we do it, as I see fit, is
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Speaker 3: from studies.
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Speaker 2: There needs to be studies.
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Speaker 3: Just like we're talking about some of the government agencies
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Speaker 3: right now, they are looking at getting involved and starting
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Speaker 3: to look at this a little bit closer. We all
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Speaker 3: know that last season, one of our senators here in Louisiana,
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Speaker 3: Senator John Kennedy, he called for an investigation or should
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Speaker 3: I say not an investigation or study on waterfowl migration
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Speaker 3: and his flooded corn or shortstopping as a lot of
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Speaker 3: us call it, altering waterfowl migration.
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Speaker 2: South headed to the southern regions.
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Speaker 3: Now, that is something that needs to be done in
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Speaker 3: my opinion, and not only that study, but I think
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Speaker 3: this needs to be done across the flyways, just to
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Speaker 3: see what data comes out of it and what.
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Speaker 2: The actual facts are.
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Speaker 3: First of all, that's the only way that as a
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Speaker 3: waterfowl hunting community we're gonna know if it is affecting
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Speaker 3: us or it's not affecting us as much as we
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Speaker 3: think is it affecting us or not affecting us? So
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Speaker 3: the only way we could come to that realization, in
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Speaker 3: my opinion, is through studies, through data, actual data, the
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Speaker 3: science of it.
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Speaker 2: Let the science do its job.
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Speaker 3: And then at that point we will have an a
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Speaker 3: conclusion on whether or not it is affecting waterfowl migration
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Speaker 3: and affecting us as hunters as much as we may
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Speaker 3: think it is. So with that being said, we need
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Speaker 3: the data, we need the studies that needs to be done,
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Speaker 3: and I think that's a great thing. Now, the other
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Speaker 3: side of that is when you have that happen, a
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Speaker 3: lot of times government's involved in that. And you guys
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Speaker 3: have heard me talk about that for many years from
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Speaker 3: day one. Basically is I'm never a fan of having
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Speaker 3: more government necessarily involved in these type of things. So
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Speaker 3: we all know that we're under the scope microscope when
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Speaker 3: it comes to outdoors and you know, rights with firearms
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Speaker 3: and all that stuff that we hear about where people
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Speaker 3: are government's.
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Speaker 2: Trying to get involved.
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Speaker 3: So there's a fine line there, you know, how much
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Speaker 3: do we want the government involved, Because if that's going
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Speaker 3: to be the case to get these answers that we
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Speaker 3: ultimately need, these facts that we need the science to
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Speaker 3: be done, government will be involved. But I think there's
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Speaker 3: a fine line there where we don't want to have
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Speaker 3: too much government involved, if that makes sense at all.
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Speaker 3: So we got to be very careful what we ask
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Speaker 3: for when it comes to that. But we all know,
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Speaker 3: I think that the only way we come to that
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Speaker 3: realization of whether or not waterfowl migration is being affected
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Speaker 3: by short stopping by flooded corn, flooded agriculture, that type
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Speaker 3: of stuff that ducks kind of key in on. That's
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Speaker 3: the science that we're going to have to obtain and
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Speaker 3: the studies that are going to have to be done
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Speaker 3: to get that answer.
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Speaker 2: Now, the other side of it is opinions.
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Speaker 3: Everybody has opinions on this, and I told you kind
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Speaker 3: of my opinion on how ironic I think it is
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Speaker 3: that a lot of people that are really loud about
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Speaker 3: their opinions and are talking and trying to persuade people
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Speaker 3: into one way or another, they really haven't been around
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Speaker 3: through the heyday years, through some of those years. And
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Speaker 3: I even me at forty seven years old, I never
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Speaker 3: experienced some of the really really good years we're talking
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Speaker 3: about during the sixties, the seventies, you know, some of
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Speaker 3: those times. And everybody I sayd the good years, it
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Speaker 3: wasn't always good years because there was regulations that had
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Speaker 3: to be put in.
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Speaker 2: Place that altered our bag limits.
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Speaker 3: You know that that changed things up from what it
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Speaker 3: is today where we have a six duck limit. A
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Speaker 3: lot of you guys that have been around a long time,
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Speaker 3: you're gonna remember the point system, or guys that waterfowl hunt,
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Speaker 3: you have heard of the point system.
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Speaker 2: You know, when you know you.
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Speaker 3: Couldn't go out there and shoot six ducks, you had
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Speaker 3: an x amount of points that you could you know,
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Speaker 3: harvest each day, and each ducks stood for a certain
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Speaker 3: point you know point system or fell into a certain
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Speaker 3: point system.
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Speaker 2: So it wasn't.
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Speaker 3: Always the heyday, even though though we're talking about certain decades.
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Speaker 2: Understand it has changed year to year.
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Speaker 3: But for the most part, what has changed with the
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Speaker 3: migration in my opinion, so I'm speaking for Louisiana because
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Speaker 3: that's where I've been born, that's where I've been raised,
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Speaker 3: That's where i grew up water fol hunting with family
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Speaker 3: and learning to water fowl hunt. Now I'm gonna give
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Speaker 3: you my perspective in Louisiana. When people typically say, and
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Speaker 3: this is my opinion, when people typically say the ducks
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Speaker 3: don't come to Louisiana like we used to have, what
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Speaker 3: they mean in a lot of cases, and I'm not
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Speaker 3: saying it's all cases, but what they mean a lot
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Speaker 3: of times is mallard migration. Because mallards used to frequent
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Speaker 3: Louisiana very, very heavily in the off season. Louisiana was
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Speaker 3: definitely a destination place for migrating waterfowl when it came
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Speaker 3: to mallard species, and you used to be able to
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Speaker 3: hunt the timber here in Louisiana as a kid, and
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Speaker 3: it was loaded with mallards.
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Speaker 2: It was loaded with gadwall, you know, and then you
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Speaker 2: could go to the marshes. You could even shoot mallards
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Speaker 2: back in the day. Not it wasn't like timber.
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Speaker 3: Wasn't like ricefield hunting where you had mallards, you know,
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Speaker 3: that were plentiful, but you had them. Louisiana had mallards.
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Speaker 3: It's just that's call it what it is. You know
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Speaker 3: a lot of mallards back in the day. And when
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Speaker 3: they refer to the ducks not coming here, a lot
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Speaker 3: of people are referring to mallards, is what they're talking about.
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Speaker 2: But it's not only mountains, you know.
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Speaker 3: So what I've seen, and this is just in the
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Speaker 3: last decade to maybe you know, fifteen years somewhere in
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Speaker 3: that range, is also I mentioned gadwall.
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Speaker 2: Gadwall were very plentiful here in Louisiana.
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Speaker 3: It was almost like mallards were at one time, you know,
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Speaker 3: maybe even more. And what I'm seeing is now the
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Speaker 3: gadwall aren't coming like they were at one time.
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Speaker 2: So at that point when you start seeing.
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Speaker 3: Some of these major species, these puddle duck species that
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Speaker 3: a lot of people want to pursue. And when you
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Speaker 3: think of duck hunting and you think of the realm
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Speaker 3: of duck hunting, the first duck that comes to mind
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Speaker 3: for most people when you say I'm a duck hunter
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Speaker 3: is a mallard duck, you know, or some sort of
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Speaker 3: a puddle duck something like that. That tends to be
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Speaker 3: the case that a lot of people kind of, you know,
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Speaker 3: the species that they think of. So when you start
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Speaker 3: seeing those species less and less and less each season,
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Speaker 3: where does that leave you or where does it have
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Speaker 3: you questioning on why what's going on? So, in my opinion,
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Speaker 3: it's a bunch of factors that play into it. We
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Speaker 3: thinks have just changed as a whole on the whole landscape.
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Speaker 3: So it starts in the breeding grounds, and we all
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Speaker 3: know that weather is affecting the breeding grounds greatly, you know.
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Speaker 3: But for this video purpose, shortstopping is kind of a
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Speaker 3: question and the topic that everybody wants to know is
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Speaker 3: that altering it. It is shortstopping working. And I'm just
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Speaker 3: gonna give you guys my honest opinion on it. It
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Speaker 3: is shortstopping working other than the factors of weather, other
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Speaker 3: than the factors of you know, breeding.
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Speaker 2: Grounds, habitat that type of stuff.
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Speaker 3: Well, this falls into habitat, so it kind of goes
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Speaker 3: hand in hand habitat altering you know, agriculture, flooding corn,
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Speaker 3: that type of stuff to be able to hold ducks.
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Speaker 2: So my simple question.
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Speaker 3: Is if people out there are saying, hey, flood corn
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Speaker 3: is not what's causing ducks to not migrate. So my
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Speaker 3: answer and my rebuttal to that question would be, then
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Speaker 3: why are so many people doing it in that situation?
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Speaker 2: Why are you seeing more and more of it?
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Speaker 3: And they're gonna say, well, Jacob, well, how do you
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Speaker 3: know how much corns out there? Well, there's really no
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Speaker 3: answer to that because they don't actually have to report.
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Speaker 2: You know, these duck forms, these formers.
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Speaker 3: They don't actually have a hard number of how many
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Speaker 3: acres of corn are being planted and then flooded. That's
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Speaker 3: not realistic data as far as I'm aware, at least
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Speaker 3: right now, that's being reported to any organization or government agency.
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Speaker 3: As far as I know, I could be wrong on that,
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Speaker 3: but as far as I know from what I've seen read,
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Speaker 3: that's not the situation.
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Speaker 2: So it's hard to really say, but we know who the.
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Speaker 3: Big player in the waterfoul world are the big money players,
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Speaker 3: whether it's a duck you know, guide service that has land,
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Speaker 3: or whoever it may be, whatever entity. We know, if
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Speaker 3: you watch social media, you watch YouTube, you watch all
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Speaker 3: these channels out there, we know who these big players
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Speaker 3: are in the waterfowl hunting community. They're the ones that
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Speaker 3: have thousands of viewers, millions of viewers, whatever it may be.
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Speaker 2: They're constantly putting out content and it's a business. It's money.
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Speaker 3: It's a business, and that's where it's a slippery slope
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Speaker 3: and it changes. But my question on the footing of
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Speaker 3: agriculture corn is that if it doesn't work, why are
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Speaker 3: so many people doing it? Because you're seeing more and
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Speaker 3: more of it on videos on social media. When you
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Speaker 3: see these videos and these these these people are killing
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Speaker 3: tons of ducks, and they're killing mallains, and they're killing
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Speaker 3: whatever species it is, gatwall whatever it is. You're seeing
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Speaker 3: more and more of flooded corn nowadays, you know. And
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Speaker 3: that just leads me to believe and once again, this
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Speaker 3: is opinionated, I could be completely wrong. That just leads
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Speaker 3: me to believe that it's a growing phenomenon because it
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Speaker 3: works the way me and my father, my dad had
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Speaker 3: that conversation. And my dad used to be a huge
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Speaker 3: he used to be a big water five hunters. He
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Speaker 3: doesn't even hunt nowadays. But we started talking about this
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Speaker 3: and I asked him his opinion on it, and he said,
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Speaker 3: he said, let me ask you this jam, he said.
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Speaker 2: He said, I'll put it to you simple. He says.
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Speaker 3: If you have a stray dog that comes to the house,
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Speaker 3: he said, and you feed him, he said, what you're
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Speaker 3: gonna notice is that he's gonna slowly start coming back,
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Speaker 3: and if you continue to feed him, he's going to
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Speaker 3: keep coming back. And then eventually, if you keep feeding him,
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Speaker 3: he's going to return and he might even call it
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Speaker 3: home now for a while. And he said, that's just
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Speaker 3: the way the animal species is. If you continue to feed,
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Speaker 3: he said, and provide that that comfort and that feed form,
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Speaker 3: he said, they're going to continue to stay and come back,
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Speaker 3: you know, and they're going to hang around more and
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Speaker 3: more and more. He said, why would a duck be
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Speaker 3: any different, you know. And that's a really good point,
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Speaker 3: you know, and it makes a lot of sense, and
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Speaker 3: it's such a simple response, and it's an opinion, of course,
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Speaker 3: but it's such a simple answer, and there's a lot
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Speaker 3: of truth that holds to that. We all know that
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Speaker 3: situation that he referenced there, And if you continue to
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Speaker 3: be repetitive and you feed a straight cat dog whatever
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Speaker 3: it is, they're going to continue to come back, and
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Speaker 3: they're going to return, and it's going to hold them there.
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Speaker 2: They're not going to leave because they have a food source.
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Speaker 2: And if you're.
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Speaker 3: Seeing more and more of these big duck organizations, I'll
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Speaker 3: just call it organizations, because a lot of them are business,
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Speaker 3: some of them are private. But let's just say a
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Speaker 3: lot of these these ducks, all these you guys know
20:10
Speaker 3: what I'm saying. There, a lot of these organizations or
20:13
Speaker 3: these businesses, whatever you want to call them, are adding
20:17
Speaker 3: more and more property with more and more flooded corn.
20:20
Speaker 3: Then common sense just tells you that it's working. They're
20:25
Speaker 3: holding ducks there, they're holding them longer, and they're having
20:31
Speaker 3: better success, they're generating more money if it's a business,
20:35
Speaker 3: because they are having more success. And at that point,
20:39
Speaker 3: those ducks do not have to leave those areas. So therefore,
20:44
Speaker 3: if you look at that from that perspective, then we
20:50
Speaker 3: could say that yes, the answer to whether or not
20:53
Speaker 3: shortstopping is actually working. The answer would be yes in
20:57
Speaker 3: that situation, right, that would make sense, correct, I think
21:02
Speaker 3: it would, you know. So my take on it is
21:10
Speaker 3: and once again I'll ask that question. If it doesn't work,
21:15
Speaker 3: then why is more and more of it showing up
21:18
Speaker 3: on the landscape.
21:21
Speaker 2: Why would these.
21:23
Speaker 3: Places, these organizations, these businesses, whatever you want to call them,
21:26
Speaker 3: why would they invest the money to plant We're talking machinery,
21:32
Speaker 3: we're talking fertilizer, we're talking the crops themselves.
21:38
Speaker 2: Why would they get.
21:39
Speaker 3: Into forming practices that cost tons and tons of money
21:45
Speaker 3: to be able to plant a product that's then altered
21:50
Speaker 3: and flooded, to be able to hold waterfowl year round
21:54
Speaker 3: or at least longer than what they normally are. What
21:57
Speaker 3: time has shown us they would stay in those airs
22:00
Speaker 3: there is if.
22:01
Speaker 2: It didn't work and it didn't benefit them.
22:05
Speaker 3: It's a pretty honest question, right, pretty simple question, and
22:08
Speaker 3: you're gonna get a lot of answers to that. And
22:10
Speaker 3: once again, this is just a question I ask when
22:13
Speaker 3: I look at it from a realistic common man standpoint.
22:17
Speaker 3: So that's that's the ultimate question I have, is if
22:23
Speaker 3: it's not holding ducks longer. If it's not attracting more
22:28
Speaker 3: ducks year after year, to.
22:29
Speaker 2: You, then why are you putting all that.
22:32
Speaker 3: Effort, that time, that sweat, that money, everything that goes
22:37
Speaker 3: into it, into that product if it doesn't work and
22:41
Speaker 3: it's not making a difference. Pretty pretty simple question. And
22:49
Speaker 3: my opinion on that is because I think you guys
22:53
Speaker 3: already know it works. It's working, it's producing, it's holding
22:58
Speaker 3: them there. Therefore a lot of those birds are not
23:03
Speaker 3: moving out now. People are gonna say, well, Jacob Weather,
23:06
Speaker 3: we're not getting the weather that we used to get.
23:08
Speaker 2: And that's very true, that is a true statement.
23:10
Speaker 3: I don't believe we're getting the weather that we used
23:12
Speaker 3: to get. I don't believe that we are getting our
23:19
Speaker 3: winters are milder. It seems like I remember I talked
23:22
Speaker 3: about that. I remember when I was a kid, seemed
23:23
Speaker 3: like it was a lot colder than what we get nowadays.
23:27
Speaker 3: We're getting a lot of wet h I know down
23:29
Speaker 3: south here we're getting a lot of what they call
23:31
Speaker 3: El Nino winters. It seems like you hear that quite
23:34
Speaker 3: often if you're a Southern hunter, which means wet, humid, dryer.
23:38
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm sorry, wet, humid, warmer winters, and that
23:44
Speaker 3: is definitely something that I'm seeing out there. It's definitely
23:47
Speaker 3: going on. You're definitely seeing that more and more.
23:51
Speaker 2: I do agree.
23:51
Speaker 3: Weather definitely has a major factor in driving waterfowl south, and.
23:58
Speaker 2: We're not getting the winter that we used to.
24:00
Speaker 3: But another thing is is even in these areas where
24:04
Speaker 3: we're seeing all this flooded agriculture, even these areas are
24:10
Speaker 3: not experiencing the freezing and the frozen precipitation that they
24:15
Speaker 3: used to see.
24:16
Speaker 2: Okay, so.
24:19
Speaker 3: When they do get them, The question is at that point,
24:22
Speaker 3: when they do get those freeze overs at that point,
24:25
Speaker 3: or those waterfowl being pushed out of there. And from
24:29
Speaker 3: what I've seen is that, no, that's not necessarily the case,
24:33
Speaker 3: because these ducks have such a great food source with
24:37
Speaker 3: this flooded agriculture that they're staying even though things are
24:41
Speaker 3: getting cold. They're staying because it's only a short temporary
24:46
Speaker 3: thing with these weather patterns that may freeze these areas
24:49
Speaker 3: over and within a couple of days you're seeing a
24:54
Speaker 3: thaw out and they're right there back in the food
24:56
Speaker 3: factory again as a buffetlon and they just continue to
25:00
Speaker 3: stay in those areas, or they may move a little
25:02
Speaker 3: distance off and then they come right back to them.
25:05
Speaker 3: So you know, back in the old days, if you
25:08
Speaker 3: go by what people told us, the migration, the weather
25:11
Speaker 3: line would push that migration further down south.
25:14
Speaker 2: I think that's definitely the case still is.
25:16
Speaker 3: Weather definitely pushes these birds down south down the flyways.
25:21
Speaker 3: But as they hit this flooded agriculture, in my opinion,
25:27
Speaker 3: they know these key locations where all this stuff is
25:30
Speaker 3: holding food source for them.
25:32
Speaker 2: It's a quick food source, it's a quick energy source.
25:35
Speaker 3: They know where these hotspots are and they'll stay there
25:40
Speaker 3: until they may be pushed out a little bit. But
25:43
Speaker 3: they're not just continuing down south of that point where
25:46
Speaker 3: that weather line necessarily they're waiting until it's manageable and
25:49
Speaker 3: then they're moving back to these areas. That's my opinion, guys,
25:53
Speaker 3: That's what I think is happening. Or there may be
25:56
Speaker 3: other areas a little bit further down the flyway. They
25:59
Speaker 3: know they're hot pockets of food source flooded agriculture there,
26:03
Speaker 3: and they these birds that have made these journeys are
26:06
Speaker 3: imprinting these areas and they know where these these food
26:09
Speaker 3: sources are and they could get to from bounce from
26:12
Speaker 3: spot to spot. That's my opinion on it. Once again,
26:17
Speaker 3: I could be completely wrong on this. That's where the
26:20
Speaker 3: data comes into place. That's where the data is gonna
26:22
Speaker 3: tell us the truth, guys, and that and at that point,
26:26
Speaker 3: if the data says, well, that's not the case, and
26:29
Speaker 3: the science says that's not the case, then I'm wrong
26:34
Speaker 3: at that point, And if you agree with me, your
26:37
Speaker 3: opinion would be wrong, and then we have to just
26:39
Speaker 3: admit that we're wrong in that situation. And really, for
26:43
Speaker 3: me personally, guys, I hope I am wrong, to be
26:48
Speaker 3: honest with you on this on this topic, I hope
26:51
Speaker 3: I am wrong. Because if it's just whether are just
26:57
Speaker 3: the breeding grounds and duct production numbers are down, then
27:03
Speaker 3: that's other subjects to talk about and other talking points
27:07
Speaker 3: and other areas for us to focus our attention on,
27:11
Speaker 3: you know, and see what needs to be done to
27:13
Speaker 3: try to correct that and bring that back. But in
27:18
Speaker 3: this situation, as we sit in twenty twenty six, I
27:22
Speaker 3: do believe that short stopping is definitely altering waterfowl migration.
27:29
Speaker 2: And once again, I'm gonna say it.
27:31
Speaker 3: You guys heard me say that thousand times that's my opinion,
27:34
Speaker 3: and take on that don't mean I'm right, that doesn't
27:37
Speaker 3: mean I'm wrong. And the thing about it is is
27:42
Speaker 3: we as a community should all be able to have
27:45
Speaker 3: our opinion.
27:46
Speaker 2: Whether you agree.
27:47
Speaker 3: With somebody's opinion or you disagree with somebody's opinion, it
27:51
Speaker 3: doesn't really matter. We should all be able to express
27:55
Speaker 3: our opinion. Gos on that it's becomes such assessed pool
28:01
Speaker 3: of either on one side of the fence or the
28:04
Speaker 3: other side of the fence. And if you don't agree
28:08
Speaker 3: with me, then you're the enemy. And if I don't
28:11
Speaker 3: agree with you, you're the enemy. And really we got
28:15
Speaker 3: to move away from that, you know, we really have
28:18
Speaker 3: to get away from that, because all it's doing is
28:20
Speaker 3: dividing us as a community. And as close as I
28:25
Speaker 3: think we are as a community of waterfowl hunting, you know, community,
28:32
Speaker 3: I think that that is definitely a bad look for us,
28:36
Speaker 3: you know, and I think we can all agree on that.
28:38
Speaker 3: I think we can all agree that that's a bad
28:40
Speaker 3: look for us. But people are so embedded in their
28:45
Speaker 3: opinions on it that they're not okay with being wrong.
28:48
Speaker 3: They've made that decision, they've determined that whatever is the
28:54
Speaker 3: core problem of why the ducks aren't coming anymore, why
28:57
Speaker 3: they aren't showing up like they used to, that they're
29:02
Speaker 3: so sett in their ways on their opinion that there
29:06
Speaker 3: is no other way to look.
29:07
Speaker 2: At it for them.
29:08
Speaker 3: And that's really sad, you know, it's really sad because
29:12
Speaker 3: we'll never really get down to the core of fixing
29:15
Speaker 3: the issues if we can't come together as a community.
29:18
Speaker 2: You know.
29:19
Speaker 3: So I really hope that if you're listening to this,
29:23
Speaker 3: then that kind of hits home with you if you're
29:25
Speaker 3: one of those people. And look, I'm not saying I've
29:29
Speaker 3: never been opinionated on something so much to the point
29:32
Speaker 3: where there's no wrong. You know, there's no right that
29:35
Speaker 3: somebody could tell me anything different, because my wife will
29:39
Speaker 3: tell you, I'm one of the most hard headed people
29:40
Speaker 3: when it comes to me setting my mind on something,
29:43
Speaker 3: you know. But as I'm getting a little older, I
29:48
Speaker 3: look at it and I say, Okay, well, I gotta
29:50
Speaker 3: I gotta be open to opinions. You know, we will
29:53
Speaker 3: as a human fuss to evolve as a not only
29:57
Speaker 3: a human, but as a outdoorsman. Fuss they evo you know,
30:00
Speaker 3: we gotta you know, we gotta mature a little bit,
30:03
Speaker 3: I guess you could say, and uh, and I think
30:05
Speaker 3: that that comes with time. I think that comes with
30:07
Speaker 3: time for a lot of people.
30:10
Speaker 2: So I don't know.
30:12
Speaker 3: I just my point there is I think we need
30:15
Speaker 3: to get away from okay, it's only my way or
30:17
Speaker 3: the highway. I think we need to get away from
30:19
Speaker 3: that on this subject, you know, because to be honest
30:22
Speaker 3: with you, a lot of people are probably sick and tired.
30:25
Speaker 3: A lot of people that love this, you know, waterfowl hunting.
30:28
Speaker 3: They love the community, they love the duck hunt. They
30:31
Speaker 3: love to be outdoors pursuing the waterfowl, a lot of them. Nowadays,
30:34
Speaker 3: you know, social media is TV. Now, that's where people go.
30:37
Speaker 3: It's YouTube, it's Facebook, it's Instagram, it's TikTok, and that's
30:41
Speaker 3: where people consume all their TV. Now you know what
30:44
Speaker 3: I call TV. I'm old school, you know, but that's
30:47
Speaker 3: where they consume their information at And a lot of
30:49
Speaker 3: people probably are tired of opening up social media or
30:53
Speaker 3: opening up watching YouTube and all people are talking about
30:57
Speaker 3: is flooded corn and I hate this person and it's
31:01
Speaker 3: this person's fault and all that stuff. You know, a
31:04
Speaker 3: lot of people are probably there's there's a large group
31:07
Speaker 3: of audience that I would probably say it's just sick
31:09
Speaker 3: and tired of hearing. They want to see more hunts,
31:13
Speaker 3: they want to see more educational stuff, talking about stuff
31:17
Speaker 3: that actually pertains to the hunt itself. And that's why
31:20
Speaker 3: I haven't really talked a lot about this subject or
31:26
Speaker 3: put a lot of opinions out about this is because
31:29
Speaker 3: I don't want to be just about that. Yes, that's
31:32
Speaker 3: what gets views, that's what gets people engaged in conversation
31:36
Speaker 3: on social media platforms and this and that, But if
31:39
Speaker 3: that's all we're doing it for, then that's not me.
31:42
Speaker 2: I don't want to be a part of that. From
31:44
Speaker 2: my platform to always every time you pull.
31:47
Speaker 3: Up last stop water fowls, you know, outdoors, to see
31:51
Speaker 3: nothing but talking about shortstopping you know, ducks, and it's
31:55
Speaker 3: this person's fault or this organization's fault and this and that,
31:58
Speaker 3: and look, if that's what you've built your platform or
32:01
Speaker 3: I'm not knocking you, that's your persona, that's that's your prerogative.
32:05
Speaker 3: Whatever you want to do, Hey, do your thing. Do
32:07
Speaker 3: your thing, because you know that's your thing, that's what
32:10
Speaker 3: you have dedicated your time and effort and energy as
32:14
Speaker 3: a social media creator. Uh, you know, a digital content creator.
32:19
Speaker 2: Go do it? Go do it? Do you? That's the
32:21
Speaker 2: way I look at that, you know. But that's not
32:24
Speaker 2: what I want to do with my platform.
32:26
Speaker 3: And that's not what hopefully you guys have seen from
32:29
Speaker 3: us and think when you think of our brand. That's
32:32
Speaker 3: not necessarily what you think of, you know. But I think,
32:36
Speaker 3: you know, those guys do provide content. And I'm not
32:41
Speaker 3: going to sit there and say that if that's what
32:44
Speaker 3: somebody dedicates all their time to as a digital creator,
32:47
Speaker 3: that they're wrong one hundred percent at a time, because
32:49
Speaker 3: I guarantee you they're probably not.
32:51
Speaker 2: You know.
32:52
Speaker 3: So it's it's a place to go. It's a place
32:56
Speaker 3: to hear opinions. It's a place to get information and
33:00
Speaker 3: make judgment calls for yourself as a waterfowler and outdoorsman,
33:08
Speaker 3: a hunter. But and someplace sometimes it's just entertainment. It's
33:12
Speaker 3: just entertainment sometimes, you know, some people go there just
33:15
Speaker 3: for an entertainment aspect of it, and it's a place
33:17
Speaker 3: for them to get away and see a little bit
33:19
Speaker 3: of information on duck.
33:21
Speaker 2: Hunting and and and be entertained. You know. It's as
33:23
Speaker 2: simple as that.
33:27
Speaker 3: Drinking that good community coffee this morning right here, guys,
33:30
Speaker 3: if y'all watching me on video, so you know, but
33:35
Speaker 3: I think we need to come together as a community.
33:37
Speaker 2: That's that's the whole point of it.
33:39
Speaker 3: But you know, a lot of people the reason I
33:41
Speaker 3: wanted to do this episode is because a lot of people,
33:44
Speaker 3: a lot of people DM me and now a lot
33:46
Speaker 3: of people. I've had multiple people DM me that want
33:49
Speaker 3: me to come on podcast to talk specifically about this,
33:53
Speaker 3: and they want my take because they want to get
33:56
Speaker 3: other creators on board with what they believe, and to
34:00
Speaker 3: be honest with y'all, I have straight away from it,
34:03
Speaker 3: I have turned down offers to do certain podcasts because
34:08
Speaker 3: I knew it was going to be a baiting type
34:10
Speaker 3: deal where they wanted to bait, you know, bait me
34:13
Speaker 3: into giving an opinion on something that was going to
34:15
Speaker 3: influence a certain group of people or maybe agree with
34:19
Speaker 3: a certain group of people or disagree with a certain
34:22
Speaker 3: group of people.
34:22
Speaker 2: And I don't want to get into that. I don't
34:25
Speaker 2: want to get into that.
34:26
Speaker 3: I'm pretty open if anybody asked me a question on
34:29
Speaker 3: my opinion on something when it pertains to you know,
34:33
Speaker 3: the waterfove hunting community, duck hunting. I'm an open book.
34:37
Speaker 3: When it comes to that, I'll give you my honest
34:39
Speaker 3: opinion on it. That don't mean I'm right. I don't
34:42
Speaker 3: mean I'm right. It don't mean I'm wrong. It's just
34:44
Speaker 3: an opinion, you know. But I don't want to get
34:47
Speaker 3: into that. I don't want it to make it all
34:49
Speaker 3: about that. I want people to make their own judgment
34:52
Speaker 3: calls and their own decisions and their own opinions, form
34:55
Speaker 3: their own opinions on this subject. But I kind of
34:58
Speaker 3: shared what y'all would My opinion is. I think I
35:00
Speaker 3: think definitely, you know, shark stopping is occurring with waterfowl.
35:06
Speaker 3: I do think that is the case. It isn't a
35:09
Speaker 3: huge problem.
35:11
Speaker 2: I don't know.
35:12
Speaker 3: I have no clue, I have no data to back
35:14
Speaker 3: it up, to be honest with you, to say, yes,
35:16
Speaker 3: it's a huge problem for us. It has something changed
35:20
Speaker 3: here in Louisiana, where I'm at and where I grew
35:22
Speaker 3: up at. Absolutely it has. Weather's you know, played a
35:26
Speaker 3: big part. I already talked about that, but it's more
35:29
Speaker 3: than just weather. It's not just weather. I think definitely
35:34
Speaker 3: short stopping has played some effect to it, and I
35:38
Speaker 3: think that if it didn't work, and that's not the case,
35:41
Speaker 3: then why once again, would people be spending that time,
35:44
Speaker 3: that effort, and the you know, the money to reinvest
35:49
Speaker 3: into adding more property, adding more agriculture, flooding it and
35:55
Speaker 3: keeping those birds there if it didn't have some sort
35:59
Speaker 3: of positive result. And that's my take on it. That's
36:02
Speaker 3: the way I look at it. It's definitely has to
36:05
Speaker 3: be working or otherwise they wouldn't be doing it.
36:09
Speaker 2: Now. To what extent it is, we don't know. You know,
36:12
Speaker 2: we don't know, or.
36:13
Speaker 3: Duck's not coming to Louisiana because people in Missouri. And
36:18
Speaker 3: I'm just Missouri. I'm not picking on you on this.
36:20
Speaker 3: I'm just saying Missouri in this situation. I know people
36:23
Speaker 3: say Missouri has a lot of flooded corn. I don't
36:26
Speaker 3: know how people know that necessarily. I think it's just
36:28
Speaker 3: from what they see. But our Duck's not coming to
36:33
Speaker 3: Louisiana nowadays because Missouri is flooding corn, probably to some extent.
36:41
Speaker 2: But how much of an impact is it making, We
36:44
Speaker 2: don't know. We don't have the science the numbers on that.
36:49
Speaker 3: You know, I could tell you, Like I said, weather
36:52
Speaker 3: has played a part for us here in Louisiana. That's
36:54
Speaker 3: definitely something I think that's altered in habitat Here in Louisiana.
36:58
Speaker 2: We've lost a lot of habitat.
37:01
Speaker 3: I think that's also made a huge difference for us
37:04
Speaker 3: here in Louisiana. But it's not just Louisiana. I want
37:07
Speaker 3: to say that, you know, it's not just Louisiana. You
37:10
Speaker 3: guys up in Arkansas, you're not seeing birds like you
37:13
Speaker 3: used to see. And what's kind of ironic, is you
37:16
Speaker 3: kind of seeing it pushed that line of people complaining
37:21
Speaker 3: about not having birds like they used to. It's kind
37:23
Speaker 3: of just slowly pushing up the flyways. Did you guys
37:27
Speaker 3: notice that over the last couple of years, You know,
37:31
Speaker 3: Arkansas used to be, you guys, used to be the
37:33
Speaker 3: mecca for US Southern hunters. You had so many people
37:37
Speaker 3: from out of state wanted to pour into Arkansas to
37:39
Speaker 3: go on Arkansas. And look, it's still very good, right
37:42
Speaker 3: Arkansas duck hunting is still very.
37:44
Speaker 2: Very good, don't get me wrong.
37:46
Speaker 3: But you started to hear guys a few years ago saying, man,
37:49
Speaker 3: it's not what it was, you know, And then they
37:52
Speaker 3: were kind of going up the flyway a lot of
37:54
Speaker 3: guys were starting to move they were going to Missouri, Oklahoma,
37:58
Speaker 3: Kansas and that line, and those chatters of people saying,
38:02
Speaker 3: we're not seeing what we used to see. It's just
38:04
Speaker 3: kind of slowly making its way up the flyway lines.
38:09
Speaker 3: It's kind of interesting, you know, it's very very interesting
38:12
Speaker 3: because it's kind of saying, well, what's the future gonna
38:15
Speaker 3: hold force? You know, are guys gonna continue moving up
38:20
Speaker 3: the flyway? Are you gonna start to hear that chatter
38:23
Speaker 3: more and more even higher the upper portions of the flyways?
38:28
Speaker 3: You know, are some of the guys in the other
38:30
Speaker 3: flyways outside of the Mississippi flyways that happening to you?
38:33
Speaker 2: Are you seeing that?
38:35
Speaker 3: I'd be interested to know, because I'm not in touch
38:38
Speaker 3: with a lot of you know, hunters and other portions
38:41
Speaker 3: of the other flyways. So if you are somebody who's
38:45
Speaker 3: listening to this and you have some insight, where is
38:50
Speaker 3: the whole flooded corn? Is that an issue in your
38:54
Speaker 3: portions of the flyways? Where you are? Are you seeing it?
38:59
Speaker 3: And do you think it's affecting where you hunt? I'd
39:02
Speaker 3: like to know, you know, because a lot of people
39:04
Speaker 3: have opinions on it, But I'm really not in touch
39:07
Speaker 3: with certain portions of the other flyways if it's affecting
39:12
Speaker 3: or having as much of an opinion on affecting waterfowl migration.
39:17
Speaker 2: As it is in the Mississippi Flyway. So I'd like
39:24
Speaker 2: to know.
39:24
Speaker 3: I like, I'd like for you guys to comment if
39:27
Speaker 3: you are in some of the other flyways and you're
39:28
Speaker 3: listening to us. But I don't know, guys. It's a
39:33
Speaker 3: slippery slope. It's a slippery slope. It's a hot topic conversation.
39:39
Speaker 3: It's definitely something that's not going to go away, unfortunately,
39:43
Speaker 3: anytime soon. But I think that we need to have
39:47
Speaker 3: the science. That's that's at the end of the day.
39:50
Speaker 3: We need to have the statistics, we need to have
39:54
Speaker 3: the studies done, and we need the science.
39:56
Speaker 2: We need the actual data, the.
39:59
Speaker 3: Raw data of how much of an impact is flooding
40:05
Speaker 3: corn affecting our waterfoul populations and migration.
40:10
Speaker 2: Is it good for the ducks?
40:13
Speaker 3: Is it a crop that is benefiting waterfoul whenever they're
40:17
Speaker 3: sitting there foraging on flooded core. Is it something that's
40:21
Speaker 3: a whole other topic of discussion. A lot of people
40:24
Speaker 3: are asking that as well. How much of a positive
40:28
Speaker 3: resource is it for waterfowl that are sitting there gorging.
40:32
Speaker 2: On flooded core don't know.
40:36
Speaker 3: I don't think any of us know. Once again, the
40:39
Speaker 3: science got to come in on that. We got to
40:41
Speaker 3: have date on that. Is it hurting? There's also another tip.
40:45
Speaker 3: I'm gonna throw this one at y'all. There's another topic
40:48
Speaker 3: that's gaining popularity right now, and people, you know it
40:52
Speaker 3: is nowadays we go down the wormhole and everything just
40:55
Speaker 3: branches out. But I don't know if you've heard this
40:58
Speaker 3: or not, but there's more and more chatter going on
41:00
Speaker 3: about this. So there actually is some data out there
41:05
Speaker 3: showing that a lot of the migration that makes its
41:11
Speaker 3: way down the flyways is becoming more domesticated. So a
41:15
Speaker 3: lot of people look at that and they say, what
41:17
Speaker 3: you mean by that, Well, black belly whistling ducks. That's
41:20
Speaker 3: a great that's a great, you know example of it
41:23
Speaker 3: right now? Look at how much black belly whistling ducks
41:27
Speaker 3: has exploded in your local areas where a lot of
41:30
Speaker 3: us live. I actually did a couple of videos on
41:33
Speaker 3: that and put out a question out there or you
41:36
Speaker 3: guys seeing them where you are, and I had people
41:38
Speaker 3: from all across the country that was messaging me and
41:42
Speaker 3: answering back responding to that video or a couple of
41:45
Speaker 3: those videos I did, and they're talking about, Man, I'm
41:48
Speaker 3: seeing them here, I'm seeing them sitting on churches in
41:51
Speaker 3: my town. I had a lady telling them that she's
41:53
Speaker 3: seen them in Houston that's sitting on power lines every
41:57
Speaker 3: day where she goes to work at and I was
41:59
Speaker 3: I was just I was like, yeah, I mean, it's
42:01
Speaker 3: happening because these birds have become so domesticated now, which
42:06
Speaker 3: is it's a migratory bird, by the way, just like
42:09
Speaker 3: any other duck that migrates, you know, it's a migratory
42:12
Speaker 3: duck waterfowl. And it's become more of a local pond neighborhood.
42:21
Speaker 3: They're sitting on the roofs in my neighborhood. I live
42:24
Speaker 3: in a neighborhood with two hundred homes in it, and
42:26
Speaker 3: they are literally roosting over the roofs of our homes.
42:30
Speaker 3: There's so many of them. We have two ponds in
42:33
Speaker 3: our neighborhood and these things. You can't even fit a
42:35
Speaker 3: whistling duck around the pond anymore. And we're getting more mallards. Now,
42:40
Speaker 3: I have wood ducks that are showing up in my
42:42
Speaker 3: neighborhood that because people are feeding them. They're throwing feed
42:46
Speaker 3: out to them, they're throwing bread out to them, whatever
42:48
Speaker 3: it is. You know, they're feeding these birds. And guess what,
42:52
Speaker 3: these birds are staying. They're starting to show up more
42:54
Speaker 3: and more. And when they're showing up, they're staying now,
42:56
Speaker 3: they don't even leave no more. So there's actually studies
43:01
Speaker 3: out there that I've seen that are going on right
43:03
Speaker 3: now where they're questioning whether or not these waterfowl when
43:08
Speaker 3: they migrate and then they find these local ponds, these
43:11
Speaker 3: local neighborhoods where they have food sources and they're getting fed,
43:15
Speaker 3: they are starting to stay in these areas, and therefore
43:20
Speaker 3: they start to pair up. They start to mate with
43:23
Speaker 3: some of these domestic ducks that are there year round,
43:27
Speaker 3: and they're not even migrating now because they're staying down
43:30
Speaker 3: here and repopulate. Who knows, maybe that is true. I
43:36
Speaker 3: know I'm seeing more and more ducks in our areas
43:38
Speaker 3: at local ponds and parks and stuff like that, more
43:42
Speaker 3: than I used to ever see.
43:43
Speaker 2: So who knows.
43:46
Speaker 3: I mean, is that something that we're gonna have to
43:48
Speaker 3: look at in the future, you know, And how do
43:50
Speaker 3: you stop something like that from happening? You know, you
43:53
Speaker 3: make an outlaw to go to the park and feed
43:55
Speaker 3: the ducks. Now, you know, maybe some parks are doing that.
43:58
Speaker 3: I don't know, So I don't know. I maan waterfowl migration.
44:04
Speaker 3: It's become an interesting topic to say the less, you know,
44:10
Speaker 3: to say the least, I should say.
44:11
Speaker 2: It, But I don't know. I don't know, guys. But
44:16
Speaker 2: that's my take.
44:18
Speaker 3: On the waterfoul shortstopping thing. I told you guys, I
44:23
Speaker 3: repeated myself in this episode on it. I think you
44:26
Speaker 3: guys know where I stand that on it, you know,
44:30
Speaker 3: And that's it. That's what that's my opinion as of
44:32
Speaker 3: right now. I think it definitely makes a difference. I
44:35
Speaker 3: think it's definitely altering the migration in some sort. I
44:39
Speaker 3: think if it didn't, why would they be doing it?
44:42
Speaker 3: Why would you see more and more of it on
44:43
Speaker 3: the landscape. Why would they put the money, the time,
44:46
Speaker 3: the effort. And another point I'll say is why are
44:51
Speaker 3: they trying.
44:52
Speaker 2: To fight it so hard?
44:54
Speaker 3: I guess you could say those who are guilty of
44:56
Speaker 3: it and they're looking to profit off of it. Why
44:59
Speaker 3: would they be fighting it so much if it wasn't
45:02
Speaker 3: valuable to them?
45:04
Speaker 2: I guess that's a fair question, right, So I don't know.
45:09
Speaker 2: I don't know, guys.
45:10
Speaker 3: I like to know you'all opinion on it, because if
45:13
Speaker 3: we're gonna put out an episode, we're gonna talk about it.
45:16
Speaker 2: Leave your comments down below.
45:18
Speaker 3: Drop an opinion on it, leave us a comment, and uh,
45:22
Speaker 3: and I'd like to see I read the comments. I'd
45:24
Speaker 3: like to see what you guys. But keep it ey,
45:26
Speaker 3: like I mentioned, keep it clean, keep it civil. I
45:31
Speaker 3: don't want to start an argument in the comments. It's
45:33
Speaker 3: not for that purpose that I want to do it.
45:37
Speaker 3: Let's keep it fun, Let's keep it civil. Drop an opinion,
45:40
Speaker 3: and let's not attack everybody else for whatever opinion.
45:44
Speaker 2: They have on it, you know.
45:45
Speaker 3: Uh, And let's let's just see kind of read and
45:48
Speaker 3: see what everybody has to say on the topic. You know,
45:51
Speaker 3: if you think I'm wrong on my opinion on it,
45:53
Speaker 3: you can leave me an opinion saying I'm wrong, leave
45:56
Speaker 3: me a comment. I don't mean you have to call
45:58
Speaker 3: me an asshole or call me said I know what
46:00
Speaker 3: the fuck I'm talking about, or you know that type
46:02
Speaker 3: of stuff. If I had tons of people tell me
46:04
Speaker 3: that through the years, and that's fine. You don't think
46:07
Speaker 3: I know what I'm talking about, That's perfectly fine.
46:10
Speaker 2: I'm cool with it. I'll sleep tonight, I promise you.
46:13
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna not sleep because somebody calls me an
46:15
Speaker 3: asshole or tells me I don't know what I'm talking about.
46:18
Speaker 2: That's cool.
46:19
Speaker 3: Whatever it is, what it is, but drop a comment,
46:22
Speaker 3: let's talk about it and uh and go from there, guys,
46:26
Speaker 3: and see, uh, you know what everybody has to say
46:29
Speaker 3: on the fact. So all right, Well, I've rambled enough
46:32
Speaker 3: on this episode.
46:33
Speaker 2: Guys.
46:33
Speaker 3: I appreciate y'all tuning in as always if if you
46:38
Speaker 3: have any thoughts or anything that I may have, you know,
46:41
Speaker 3: missed that on this particular topic. I'm sure there's tons
46:44
Speaker 3: of stuff. It wasn't really to go off and give
46:46
Speaker 3: you an educational lesson on it. It was more of
46:49
Speaker 3: an opinion based on a simple question. It's shortstopping ducks
46:52
Speaker 3: real and is it altering the migration?
46:55
Speaker 2: And my opinion on it, but let me know, let
46:58
Speaker 2: me know.
46:59
Speaker 3: But I appreciate, I appreciate each and every one of
47:01
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47:05
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47:12
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47:15
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47:20
Speaker 3: We're gonna address comments I should say, and you make,
47:23
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47:26
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