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Goose Wars Recap: 30 Honkers and Second-Place Agony · DuckFellas Podcast

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Welcome to the Duckfellas Podcast, your weekly dose of waterfowl wisdom,
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Hi hola mi amigo we're back back again well that was a fun weekend,
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Yeah, for once. For once, we finally beat the damn geese.
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Yeah, victory is ours this week. Yep, and that's going to be the note I ended on. Done deal.
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Yeah, whenever you guys are talking about going today, I'm like,
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I'm glad I'm going back to work so I don't got to go aggravate myself and ruin my last good day.
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It would have been all right. I don't know, though. Sunshine, 35 degrees.
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Was it warm there? 35, was I? That's not terrible. No.
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Warm enough to not want to be driving shit through the field,
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though. Yeah, that would have sucked.
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After an inch of rain this week. What a perfect time to get an inch of rain,
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right before Goose Wars. Oh, dude. Love it.
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Well, where's the trophy? It's on the duck. Oh, I didn't even see it there. Yeah.
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Oh, shoot. It's a Will guy. Well, we'll let one of you guys tell everybody how
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it was and how we did and kind of what happened during Goose Wars.
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The wind did not do what it was supposed to.
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It snowed, which saved our ass, because then it got sunny after that and we would have been cooked.
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It would have been terrible. But we shot our 10-man 30 geese with one band and
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still didn't win Goose Wars.
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That cut deep that did cut deep that's
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tough pill to swallow when you make a
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pile of 30 honkers and you still get second yeah i i mean i said it the whole
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time though we were just trying to figure out if we wanted to kill our last
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few geese we needed for our sixth man or not but i had that feeling that we
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were going to need more than what we had to win it yeah which i mean we didn't
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shoot any more bans after that anyway,
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so it wouldn't have really changed anything.
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We would have just lost our three points that we did get for that. Yeah.
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Maybe, I mean, we still killed our 30 geese before they ever killed their whatever,
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was it eight men they killed or whatever?
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I think they shot 19, I believe, total.
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Was that it? Yeah. Uh-huh.
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Amateur numbers.
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Gotta say it. Gotta say it. We've had a terrible goose season.
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Yeah, that felt good, though. It did. It did.
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Yeah, Zach, he does look a lot more lively today compared to yesterday.
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I do. I feel a lot better.
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But he was not doing good yesterday morning. We're rocking and rolling.
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Got a lot of stuff checked off the list. that needed to get done today.
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So pumped about that. And here we are.
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Did you, did you have a productive day today? Oh yeah.
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Yeah. Yeah. I got some stuff done for work. Since we're pretty much done hunting
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for the year, I took the old lady to a late lunch.
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She deserves it. She's been a trooper for me all year. So obviously let me hang
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out with you guys every single day.
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So I figured I'd take her out, get her something that she wanted. who hot it was.
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Ooh, I haven't had that in a while. I haven't either.
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That actually sounds pretty good. I'm not a huge fan of too hot,
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but I could totally fuck it up right now.
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I probably could. I mean, I ate it way too much years ago, and I really still
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haven't eaten it much since then. Spent myself out on it.
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But I mean, all in all, Goose Wars was a good time. I think it was probably
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one of our best goose hunts or better goose hunts we've had.
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This year in general, I mean, we had, me and Austin had a good one in North
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Dakota, and I know you've had a couple good ones outside of that too, Cade. Yeah.
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Anytime you can get together with a group of 10 guys, hide yourselves pretty
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well in a bean field and mop a 10-man limit.
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Like, it's really hard to find something to complain about that.
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Fair enough. Yeah. That was a shit pile of honkers, my lord.
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Especially at the end of the day when we posted that picture,
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where we took that group photo of everybody.
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I mean, we brought over a third of the geese to the party, but...
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Well, how was... So leading up to Goose Wars, did you guys get to do much scouting?
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And did that rain change the way you guys were looking around?
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Because I know I couldn't look around at all. I was out of town working.
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Yeah, when I wasn't working, I was scouting what I could.
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Scouted Friday, found a lot of birds that we didn't end up hunting,
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which, I mean, it ended up playing out that we hunted the field.
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I didn't think that was going to happen. I didn't think so either.
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As soon as it started snowing, I was like, yep, here we go.
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Not good. We no shit could have stacked up. Over 100 birds. Easy. Yeah.
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Pookie didn't do any scouting because he just had to work or something every day.
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Working the whole time. I really thought I was going to get off work well early
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enough to every day to at least do some scouting and then walking out at 5 o'clock every night.
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I'm like, well, not really used to this.
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Yeah, dude. That was trash. Yeah, it was.
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It was. I mean, I still, uh, I still told you,
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told you guys like what time I was seeing birds in the air,
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like when I could and whatnot to just to, I mean, try to at least keep some
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sort of pattern, but I was really, really nervous that day when it started raining
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and then it just kept raining and kept raining like well into the evening.
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And I'm like, it's just not going to get cold enough for what we want to do
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tonight. Like this could be a real problem.
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I really thought we were going to be walking all of our shit in that field yesterday.
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Yeah, I was really happy when we were able to get that side-by-side in there.
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And we didn't really leave any kind of marks in the morning,
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but the afternoon we definitely left a little, like, not ruts,
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but you could tell we drove in there.
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Yeah, I think most of that was just that snow melting off already. Yeah, yeah.
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But I seen Joey made the donation to the DNR from the 50%.
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I think he donated $260 back to Iowa DNR from the Goose Wars.
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So that's cool yeah absolutely the winners went home with what I think I've
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seen 240 sounds right I think so yeah hats off to those guys I mean they had
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a great hunt seven bands that's not something you can do very often especially late season yeah,
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I mean early season you see guys rain out ten out of a flock and they're all
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banded but when you start talking July that's impressive to get seven bands and one hunt July,
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What about July? What about July? I don't know.
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I'm tired. I have only slept two hours.
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Yeah, that was impressive, especially, like you said, late season.
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You don't really have those hunts anymore.
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No. Really thought we could get more than one, though, where we were at. Same.
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So close, but yet so far away. But back-to-back second-place finishers.
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Can't complain Kobe we could have got eighth no I could still complain about second that stung.
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Never, ever was it on my bingo card that I thought we'd shoot 30 geese and lose. Right.
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Yeah. Yeah. How's it going, Ryan?
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How's everyone feeling in the evening? Everybody feels good.
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We were all hungover yesterday.
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I feel terrible. Speak for yourselves. I'm tired as shit.
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Okay, everybody but Tyler feels good. Yes, I was sitting in that crane today,
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and I was about to fall asleep a few times just waiting for him to do stuff.
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I'm sitting like, oh, hurry up.
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I want to go home. That's got to be your age catching up to you.
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I mean, we can just bounce back so much faster, honestly.
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Coming from the guy that slept the whole way to the field the other day and was late.
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No, I was late. That was my counterpart. I was ready on time.
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No, no. Rachel got you ready on time. You still weren't there.
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You have not entered the chat at that point in time yet.
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No, I helped set up. Everything was fine. That was at like 8.30 you entered the chat.
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Yeah. Yeah, no, and that was after he slept the entire hour and a half that
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we drove up there. Yeah, yeah, no kidding.
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What a terrible time for you and Zach. Yeah.
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I'm telling you right now, dude, I damn near forgot to go pick that trailer up.
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I got like halfway there, and I'm like, oh, shit, I got to go pick that trailer up.
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Oh, Saturday morning? Yeah, I about drove straight to the field.
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Yeah, not good. That would have been terrible. Yeah.
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We'd have made it happen, but it would have taken a lot longer. Yeah.
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We'd have been filled a jet sled up with decoys, and that would have sucked. Yeah.
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Well, you guys got anything you want to add on the weekend? Not really.
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Glad we actually got to win one on the geese. That was cool.
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That was for sure cool. They've been being some real assholes, dude. Bad, big time.
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It's been so bad that, like, leading up to Goose Wars, I was like,
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well, you know, if I want to do it. Like, I'm just so burnt out on goose hunting.
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Same. Obviously, I was still going to do it no matter what, but I just didn't
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know. I was not as pumped for it as I was a month ago.
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The vibes were definitely not there even in the morning, like,
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while we were setting up.
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And then we rained out like that. Group of seven that just slid in real nice,
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and it was like, all right, we're back.
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Well, I guess we can move into this week's topics.
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Pookie's always good at kicking us off on that. He is. All right.
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This week, we have preferred types of guns, semi-auto versus pump,
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and then ammunition brand and shot size.
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See we got we got to we got to work with ryan on this for next year dude i've
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already started a gofundme just to get funds so we can recruit him for next year,
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well you stick with us ryan don't take any offers yet we're we'll get back to
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you soon yeah we'll have our people reach out to your people yeah as in our
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people's pookie will reach out to you he'll probably arrest you and then figure
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you guys can figure it out,
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we'll be the third team that he enters on this year.
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Well, we'll start with shotguns, I guess. Right. Yeah. Might as well kick that off. What, uh,
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So you bought a new gun this year, Austin.
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What brands did you all look at, and what were you looking for when you were looking at guns to buy?
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So specifically I was looking for a semi-auto because that's really all I've
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ever used growing up, whether I was deer hunting, pheasant hunting,
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and then obviously since I've gotten into duck and goose,
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I was pretty set on getting a semi-auto.
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I looked at a couple different brands, winchester browning i looked at a stoger
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and there was one other one i can't remember,
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but i ultimately decided on the winchester very happy i did shortly after i
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bought it is when we went up to south dakota for opening pheasant weekend so
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i got to break it in right away and just love the way that it felt my hands
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and and how it shot so i'm really happy with it,
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obviously you guys helped me get that safety switch
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flipped over for me being left-handed so
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it's running well it's super easy to take apart
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super reliable so it's crazy how you didn't have problems with that until you
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hung out of a layout blind and then you i know it out that was so weird and
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then it like it carried itself back over back into iowa and i was doing it out
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of the boat again So I don't know what the deal was with it,
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but actually, while you're talking, Chris just brought up a good one.
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Sub gauges. He says he needs a 16 gauge. We have a guy in the group that has a 16 gauge.
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I've done it. I've done it all out of the boat. And with these guys,
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I didn't break the 16 out once this year. You didn't?
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I had the 20 a couple different days.
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And then I got that Winchester and a 12.
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But yeah, no, I do love that 16 gauge. I feel like it just brings a little life to the boat.
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I mean, I got to add some different color shells to the outside of the party barge.
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I'm still finding purple shells. That's good. That's good. It's good for you.
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You find them everywhere.
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Yeah. I mean, I don't get how they just keep appearing, but they just come out of the woodworks.
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I only bring it so you guys remember me because I know every time you guys find
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one, there's going to be no question on who shot it. It's me.
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You guys can never forget me.
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So we heard, what brand is your 16 gauge?
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It is a sears and
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roebuck ted williams damn yeah
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that go that gun is older than at least
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two of us that's talking right now i'm not
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sure about tyler but now that that
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thing is eli it's got a fixed i don't
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know what what was that fixed choke and
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i don't remember i can't maybe improve i
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think so maybe sounds right but that thing
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is for as old as it is like it's
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been taken care of really really well so it's in really good condition and it's
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a smooth shooting gun it's a lot of fun and then he takes it and beats the shit
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out of it in the boat yeah thing was getting destroyed there for a bit yeah
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you would think with how nice that boat is he'd like put something up there
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for like us to lean our guns against.
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You know, I have figured one thing out. You'll never be happy,
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and it's probably just because you're a bitch. At least you know.
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At least you know. Oh, boy. And the rust has started. Yeah, no,
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it never ended. It's got to end to start.
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But what's your, what kind of gun do you use, Cade? I got the old Remington 1187.
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Old literally rusty that thing's getting the shit beat out of it wood stock
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and all yep choke stuck in it yep yep no it's not it's not stuck it's welded
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in it i think it is welded at this point it's it's permanent,
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but that thing is dead nuts. Yeah, from 80 to 100 yards.
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Yeah, no kidding. Can't hit nothing up close.
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No, no. And I can't even blame that on the choke. I've always been like that.
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I'd still blame it on the choke. No, it's definitely me. I can't blame it on
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the choke, no matter what gun I shoot.
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Are you looking at getting another gun here soon?
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Yeah, I haven't decided what I want to get yet, obviously. I mean I'd love to
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get a Maxis but I don't know how much money I want to spend on that,
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they ain't cheap no but in the same respect you get what you pay for if your
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wife's watching this they're really not that bad like 250 bucks or so that's
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it she already knows what it costs she asked me I was looking at guns one day
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and she's like why don't you just get the shotgun you want and I showed her
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the price tag and she's like okay maybe not yet,
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hold up wait a minute what do you shoot dad what you got Winchester X2,
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X3, X4 depends on what I grab that day,
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mainly I shoot my X3 I still like that X3 over my X4 just because I've had it
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for so long and shot it for so long I think the X4 is a lighter I think it cycles maybe a tish faster,
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but I just like that I like that X3 it's still trusty it's never really let me down,
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Good stuff.
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What are the different brands of guns that you've seen or heard of people using?
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A lot of people like the Franke's because they're a cheaper I guess,
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I don't even know how you would say it.
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A cheaper high-end gun, I guess. I don't know.
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They're like a knock-off Browning, really.
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Is that what the Franke's a knock-off of? Or not knock-off, but whatever? I think.
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I'm not 110% sure on it. I'm sure somebody will comment and tell me I'm stupid.
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Well, just in our group this weekend, didn't we have a G-Force,
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Beretta, Remington, Winchester.
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There was a Franke. A Franke. A Franke that froze. Yep.
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It's all right. It froze because he never cleans his gun, not because it's not reliable.
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It has a lot to do with it but those inertia guns don't cycle well when it gets
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cold but it wasn't cold enough for that either we hit up and did we did you
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say benelli i think we had a benelli out there too didn't we i think we did
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yeah yeah dan shoots a benelli yep yeah for sure i know for him i i can't remember what zb shoots,
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even though he was sitting right beside me. I'm pretty sure he shoots up an
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alley too. I think so, if I'm not mistaken, yeah.
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Depends on which gun he grabbed, though, unless he grabbed his 20-gauge X4,
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which you never know with him. He does off-the-wall stuff once in a while. Yeah.
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I know the big thing, or at least a lot of what I've heard this season,
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is a lot of people are going back to 20s from 12-gages. They are.
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Did we say Stoger?
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What's ryan cams mentioned the stoger in 3500 was
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what he likes yeah i'm shot for years i'm pretty
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sure that's what i look like or that's what i looked at i
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think so before i got my winchester actually they're pretty
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decent gun for price like i had like i was
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gonna talk about price points and i don't i don't know the price of
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many of the guns i know the vanilla like the higher end
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benelli's are very like them and the maxis are
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about the same price like two to 2500 hundred yep but
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then you got like the winchester's we can get for you can
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get for less than a grand if you shop around you can get a x4 for eight
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nine hundred bucks if you shop around yeah yeah yeah mine was just over 800
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actually brand new too so yeah with all the videos and everything i watched
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and obviously talking to you because you've had them for so long and obviously
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use it on a daily basis like how reliable it was like a gun for under a thousand bucks that,
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every time you pull the trigger it goes bang it's hard to beat it.
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Well, see, Ryan here says he's been shooting a 20 for three years.
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Now it won't switch back. And I don't blame him because they shot one goose the other day.
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So you don't got to spend a lot of money on shells. You don't really have to
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need a 12-gauge if you're just shooting one goose every few hunts.
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Damn, dude. It'd be like that.
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Had to. I've seen the moment. The roast is going outside of the group now. My Lord.
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He was coming at me the other night, too. So I don't want to hear it.
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Oh there goes our nil deal yeah no
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it it could very well be gone but i had
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to sorry we got zb kitchens yeah zb's saying his sp3 all the way until it gets
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cold and all that thing does is click that will happen poor ryan getting bullied yeah yeah so you,
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all shoot semi-automatics. I don't know.
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I have a one pump. I just have the Super X pump, which I don't think I've ever
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even shot it, so I don't know if it's worth a damn or not. Do you guys have any pumps that you use?
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I have 870 I used to hunt with before I got the 1187.
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That thing, you want to talk about a hard gun to shoot, it's got a special forces
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gun, so it's got a scope rail on it, and there was no bead on the end of the
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barrel. So you were just shooting that thing blind.
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Right? Honestly, honestly though, I think it was good.
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Like when I started waterfowl hunting, it taught me not to aim like you would
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like shooting a rifle or something.
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Like I said, helping out. Yeah. But that thing froze on me one day in the snow
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and ice and it pissed me off bad.
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This comment right here is complete lies. Complete and utter lies.
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It's one of the, like the most false thing I've seen in the past 24 hours other than one thing.
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Oh, boy.
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Can't say that one thing. Simmer down. Simmer down. That's for another day.
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Honestly, I don't even know none of the guys that we hunt with. Hunt with pumps.
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No. At all. Like, of all the people that we've hunted with and all the various
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groups this year, I don't recall.
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Martinez has a pump. Oh, does he? I think he's got an 870.
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You want to talk about a gun that never gets cleaned oh boy that Mexican OT,
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Martinez is a good dude yeah he's good shit I need to clean my guns when I come
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home next in three years yeah I was going to say so October,
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probably the next day off I get so I can get my microphone that would help yeah
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that would help it kind of sucks
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not having it leave your trailer keys too would you we have stuff to do,
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you don't ever do anything when I leave the trailer keys,
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Oof-da. Oof-da. You caught us on your camera getting into it just the other night.
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Man, you still didn't do anything. All right. I'll remember that.
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You went and got the hedge trimmer. That never got returned.
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Just went into your stockpile of Tyler's stuff at your house. Yeah.
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I have a bunch of it. Honestly, I didn't even keep bringing it up.
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No, I'm not going to forget about it. Don't worry. Is that thing still in my backseat?
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No, I think it's in my backseat. No. Well, you brought it. It's in my truck. Yeah.
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That's all right. We'll return it. We're just safekeeping for the limbo in between when you're homeless.
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That's going to be happening soon. Yeah, it is. I need to get on my email and
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sign the documents. She sent me like three emails a day to sign.
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So, man, this is an interesting one. Like modern guns versus guns,
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you know, say, or like our parents used to shoot or 20, 30 years ago for waterfowl hunting.
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Like the gun that I have. Yeah.
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It's, it's crazy. The differences and that they came out with,
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I mean, granted, they're still very similar, but they've lost like all the new
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guns don't weigh anything.
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Yep. They're so light. It's insane.
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That is the only bitch I have about my gun is it is a fricking tank.
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Yeah. you're carrying a 4x4 yep,
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I don't think they've lost any reliability either since you know just the changes
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they've made and improvements through the years not that I've noticed at least
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like from my X2 to my X4 that the reliability is still the same as it was when
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they came out with the X2 I feel like,
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five years ago.
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No, the X2 didn't come out 35 years ago. Oh. Close enough. Dang.
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No. Not even close. Dang. Roast denied.
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Yeah. He tried, but he failed. Yeah, that's all right. I'll get better.
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I'll come back. At least he tried.
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He's been saying he's going to get better for a long time, but I'm really losing hope.
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See I think we need to tell Joey next year Instead of putting so close On the
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second place trophy it needs to say at least you tried That'd be a good one.
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That'd be a good one Did you Fix your mic stand today Oh yeah yeah we got to
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rip it now JB welded it out No we had to cut the bolt out Because,
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The wing nut was stripped So it wouldn't even back out anymore I took a hacksaw
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and cut the cut the bolt off and then we drilled it out and put an actual bolt and nut on it.
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Did you didn't let Austin use the power tools did you?
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I actually did. Yeah. I was scared for my life. Dude I actually did pretty well
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too. I'm not gonna lie. He did. That's impressive.
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I can't wait to go home and tell my wife about it.
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She gonna give you a cookie? Good boy. I hope so.
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That would be awfully nice. Cookie. See I agree with Ryan's comment.
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Like I love the first loser.
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Yeah. Saying like, yeah,
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I mean, yeah, we did get second out of eight teams, but at the end of the day,
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it doesn't matter if you got second or eighth. You're still a loser. Yep.
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The story of Austin's life. Yep. Damn, dude. Yeah, it'd be like that.
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I really thought that roast was going to be coming for me.
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I haven't thought of one for you yet, a good one. Just keep pushing them that way.
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Well, let's move into ammunition. ammunition what's uh what's your guys's go-to
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ammunition that you like to use go ahead pookie we shoot the same yeah we both
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shoot can't i mean i have shot a lot of federal to fiochi,
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and some apex one day when i forgot my shells and had to borrow something from dad,
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that that's really about it i mean pretty much that we see on a day-to-day basis for us yeah,
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what was your go-to Tyler before you went to Apex Fiocci,
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Don't ever shoot another Fiocci ever again. Although I did hear they just get...
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I'm pretty sure I heard they got bought out by Remington recently. I think I heard that too.
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So that'll be interesting. Not that I really care.
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So salty today. My...
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The reason I quit using Fiocci was I bought a case of it and literally every
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fifth shell in a box would misfire.
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Damn. and they were three inch twos and then
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i called them about it because i you know had
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a shit i'd over a box of shells
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that were worthless in a
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case and they didn't want to help me
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out with anything they just said send us send us the shells back and we'll review
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them all the duds they want me to send those back individually so they could
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review them and i what they weren't going to send me anything else in return
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a coupon even damn and then i had a case of i bought a case of three and a half
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inch of the golden goose shells that year.
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And those are the ones that I was cussing that we've talked about before on the podcast.
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Oh, that was living legends podcast. We discussed that. Yeah.
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Yep. We've talked about it here.
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Those ones were really a killer. That was the dagger that I won't ever buy a Fiocchi again.
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Have you ever shot the, the Browning shells, the wicked wings?
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I think it is. No, I have not.
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Dude, those things are... When they first came out, they were bad ass.
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I haven't shot them in a long time.
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How much are those? Are they more expensive? I think they're expensive now.
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When they first came out, they were really cheap, and they hit like a freaking dump truck.
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But then they got to the same price as a Kent, and I'm like,
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yeah, I'll just buy a Kent.
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I'd have to agree with Ryan on this one that the two inch or the twos tend to pattern the best,
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the Kent 3-inch threes, but I just stick with twos for everything, personally.
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Seems to be pretty well-rounded for geese and everything.
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Whatever the combo is with my choke tube and the 2-4 Kent, those,
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I save those for some good days.
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They shoot well through my gun, but they're freaking expensive. My God.
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You're rich. Both of you guys are. Bullshit. Yeah, you're crazy.
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You guys just try them all out for me. Tell me what's the best,
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and then I'll go buy them for myself. Jeez.
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I know those two stacks have been getting very, very popular,
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though. I hear a lot of people that are running those.
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I've never been a big fan of them, personally, but I haven't shot them a lot
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either, so I've shot less than a box of those. Yeah, I love them.
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Like I said, I made that switch to Apex. I can't get off them. Yeah.
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Oh, yeah. Migros big, too. Oh, yeah. A lot of people shoot Migros.
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4-6 stack out of a 20. I bet that is a hammer.
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Those are expensive, though, aren't they? Those are wicked expensive.
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Dude, all the stack loads are expensive. Yeah.
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Coming from the dude that has all the nice stuff, like, those are expensive.
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Those are expensive. Yeah, well, if you want them that bad, you'll go out and do it.
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You know what's crazy? is I have this thing called a job yeah and I make money
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and I buy the things that I want to do but I don't spend money on anything else
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other than waterfowl hunting so there's that this is true very true yeah we do know this about you,
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that's all about to change yeah,
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no no I'm still gonna have just a mortgage just gonna be a different amount
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than it's gonna be yeah that's fair,
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changing, other than I'm just going to have less money to spend on duck hunting.
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Ooh, Ryan just said the Migra stacks are the same price as a regular load.
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The more you know. What is a case of Migra?
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I've looked at it at Rogers before when I was down there, and I always thought it was expensive.
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Oh god, we got the acorn cow cowboy in here. The old high fence farmers.
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So close to 200 so close,
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at 289 a case and 275 a case for 20 inch oh thank you wolf wolf big wolf ryan's
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got ryan's got that big money can't hide that kind of money yeah it's that dog trainer type no dude,
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no he pushes dirt scoop the dirt push the dirt it's scoop the dirt throw the
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dirt come on on honestly with my 20 gauge no that's all right go ahead i wasn't even talking.
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All right i'm back with my 20
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gauge if it would have been chambered in three I probably never would have bought
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another gun but the fact that it was only chambered in two and three quarters
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like it was so much harder to find them and just so much less convenient than
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being able to just pick up a box of three inch and roll with it yeah,
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what's he doing? I don't know he's muted yeah,
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He muted himself. Yeah, he did. I see it now. I wonder if he's looking something up.
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Probably. Or texting us.
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Yeah, right. He doesn't like us that much. That's true. Ryan exposed how he's
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getting his money now. His OnlyFans finally took off.
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You'll have that sometimes. He just got three new subscribers.
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That's a no for me, dog. Yeah, I'm good. but it doesn't surprise me on your
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part. Yeah, it'd be like that.
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Damn. What about steel compared to bismuth and tungsten?
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I can't really speak on it. I've only really shot steel. I've never really shot
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the bismuth or the tungsten, honestly.
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I haven't either. I'm sure Rich Boy has with his peasants.
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Whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. No, I never have, But for how expensive they are, I'm super intrigued.
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Like, how much better are they? Like, for that much money, how much better are
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they? I would like to sometime.
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Like, at least try it out. But I don't know.
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Like, when you shoot them, when they do it right and you shoot them at 10,
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15 yards, like, it doesn't matter what you shoot. Like, they should just die anyways.
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I would have to agree. I don't think bismuth or tungsten is really necessary.
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I think it's some bougie some bougie boy. Too high priced. Yeah.
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I mean you know like unless they want to sponsor us or something I'll try anything. Right. Right.
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Yeah you do seem like the type that could be bought.
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Talks, shit walks. That is fair. No, shit doesn't walk. It goes in the toilet
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and gets flushed down the toilet. Maybe.
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I'm not going to go back to Austin's house because he might be walking around
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the corner and just find a pile of shit in the corners.
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Seems slightly aggressive. It does. I'm glad this is going to be a shorter episode tonight.
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Dad needs to get some sleep. Yeah. Yeah. Dad's tired.
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Are you guys gonna say anything are you guys just gonna talk about nothing we've
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been doing the talking today,
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yeah cause I've had to ask all the questions that's fine we know your brain
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power isn't fully functional today the questions are the easy part,
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well I don't know I don't got anything
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else we'll see if anybody else got anything in the comments to add.
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If not, we'll end this fucking thing.
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Ryan did say that the bismuth pattern's a little bit better.
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But he also agreed that if they're in the decoys, they're dead.
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That'd be interesting to see. I've never patterned any shell in my life anyways.
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Same. I was going to ask you that. If you've ever patterned them.
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No. I don't got time for that. Throw it in the gun, shoot it at the duck.
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Get mad when I don't hit it. Throw the shell in the water.
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Yeah try a different brand throw a gun in the water rinse and repeat,
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it's like dunking the gun in holy water yeah our holy water isn't very sanitary no,
36:41
Tyler, have you ever done any hunting with non-12 gauge?
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Yeah, I used to use a 20 gauge all the time. I started out on 410. Ooh.
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Killed quite a few ducks with a single shot 410.
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This is a good one. Which chokes do we like? I have a Kix High Flyer full that
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is, like we said, welded in my gun.
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It doesn't leave. Yeah, even if he didn't like it, he couldn't take it out and change it.
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Yeah. I could, I'd just need a torch. Yeah.
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You just shorten your barrel, cut it off, and then re-thread it. No, no.
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I run a Cremator. Mine, yeah. Just got it actually up in North Dakota.
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I ran one on my 20 and then didn't really think about it until we were in North Dakota.
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But luckily, I was able to track one down at Shields there. So I run them on both of mine.
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Did you even use your 20 this year? Yeah, twice. I brought it out twice. Yeah.
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It's more of a change of pace. You know, I mean, I do like it,
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like how light that 20 gauge is and how easy it is to maneuver is,
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is really nice. And I still have like two full cases of 20.
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So I'm like, at some point, these have got to go. Yeah.
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For chokes dad Pattern Master Code Black Duck,
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seems to be the most reliable one I've had I've tried a couple different ones
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but I honestly I like the improved cylinder modified Invector Plus chokes come
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with the guns I think those are honestly the most reliable,
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most consistent patterning jokes I've ever shot but for Geese I like to have
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that Code Black Duck and I just use it year round now so I bought it for Geese
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and then I just left it in the gun one year and it stayed in there.
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Hopefully it's not welded like mine is. No, no. Both of my chokes can't be removed.
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Well, they're for a while until you just recently got another one of them.
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You were just switching it back and forth from your X3 and X4, weren't you?
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Yeah, sometimes. Sometimes I just leave the X4 with modified in there. Yeah.
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But yeah, if I wanted to, I'd switch it back and forth. I'd like to go back
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to just running the improved cylinder on the non-windy days and the modified
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on the rest of the days. Right.
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Improved cylinder's fun to shoot whenever it's not windy, but anything over
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10 mile an hour, you probably should put a modified in. Yeah.
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Because you ain't going to have no luck. Yeah, I shot quite a few ducks with
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that improved in that Winchester before I even got that cremator early this year.
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Did just fine for me, but yeah, with how windy it was, like every day out in
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North Dakota, I'm like nah we gotta change this,
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we had quite a bit of wind up there that is for sure that last day was really windy oh yeah yeah.
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That's pretty much going to wrap it up for this week unless you guys got anything
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to add I don't think so I don't think so either perfect.
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geese the rest of the year have a good night.