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Ice, Willows, and Missing Batteries: A Goose Hunt Gone Wrong · DuckFellas Podcast

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Welcome to the Duckfellas Podcast, your weekly dose of waterfowl wisdom,
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blind banter, and hunting stories that might just be mostly true.
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Hosted by Tyler, Cade, and fucking Austin.
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Three fellas chasing feathers and good times.
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Say something. I was waiting on you They want to hear something They want to
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hear you talk That's a lie,
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Well, we're back. Episode 8.
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Weekend? How was y'all's weekend? Even though I think I hung out with you guys
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all weekend, which was terrible.
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Yeah, I spent way too much time together. You were with us all weekend. I don't know why.
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Yeah. Well, hunting this weekend was adventurous, to say the least.
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Not good. Not good. No. I mean, we killed one bird and acquired two bands.
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We killed one with a gun. I killed one with my hands.
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Yeah. That one doesn't really count, though. It had the bird flu. Yeah, allegedly.
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I don't know. He looked pretty lively whenever you went to kill him.
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Oh, yeah. Yeah, that thing beat the living shit out of me.
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The three decoys that he bounced off of floating down, though.
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Poor guy. He was going through it. It's, you know, it really sucks to see,
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but we're, looks like we're starting to have a bad case of the bird flu hit
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us for in the honkers at least.
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Yeah, it's a lot different. You see that shit on Facebook and it's just kind
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of like, yeah, it happens.
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And then when one of your riverbank spots are just fucking stacked up with dead
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geese, it's like, oh shit.
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Yeah. I mean, I've seen it, I've seen it up north on snow geese a lot,
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but this is the first year I've really seen it hit the honkers hard personally.
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And it don't look good. No, there was about eight or ten laying just on the
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sandbar. And then we watched another four or five float down the river.
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Easy. And then, like today, I was driving around the lake. And I seen a good
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handful of birds dead or just bobbing their head. You know, they could tell they had that bird flu.
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That shit's hard on them. It's no good. Hopefully that gets figured out.
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I mean, nature's going to run its course on that.
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Nothing we can do about it, really, that I can know of.
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So this week, we're going to talk about whatever pops up. We don't have any
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topics. We got one, I guess. Pookie picked one.
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We're going to talk a little bit of stories and then just kind of bullshit.
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I mean, we're kind of saving some good topics here as we come along.
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We got some pretty juicy ones coming up, but this week's going to be kind of
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laid back as we come into the holidays here and really get our goose season going again.
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We kind of, nobody hunted last week. It was nothing was really open.
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So we'll just kind of run through some stories here and Pookie can lead story time.
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Why does it always got to be me that leads story time? One time you have to lead something.
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Because that's the only time you talk is story time. Yeah, no, you're right.
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I wish we were live streaming this or video recording it because Pookie shows
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stories with his coloring book and it's pretty fun.
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We should do one. I mean, it'd have to be like a two-hour thing because obviously
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not everybody gets on the internet at the same time.
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But it'd be cool to do like a Q&A live. That would be fun.
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It would be a good topic to do a Q&A to as well with the permission stories and whatnot too.
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I'm sure we would hear some pretty funny ones.
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Robots. Robots are taking over Pokey's house. Oh, no, not the internet.
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No, you're good now. You just had a robotic moment. You're back.
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No, I think we're getting close to maybe doing some live streaming ones or at
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least posting videos of the podcast.
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We're lacking one camera here to get the quality up a little bit on one person's camera.
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I mean, I'm not going to point fingers or anything, but I do believe it's one of us.
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Yeah, why would you do that? Everybody that knows me knows that I have a camera. Right.
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And I think, didn't you just buy one, Tyler? I'm pretty sure you just got one.
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You know, I do believe I acquired one recently.
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I'll confirm. Yeah, no, I'll go ahead and confirm that. Yeah, acquired one.
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That leaves one motherfucker. He's kind of a weird individual, though.
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Oh, he's being a robot again. Yeah, no, he's glitching all over the place here. Oh, boy.
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I think he's got the bird flu.
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If you see my head start bobbing and i'm doing circles over here send help we'll
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send kate over to wring your neck no he's not banded yeah i'm not banded so
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kate wants nothing to do with me,
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nobody is branded that is fair
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so you're gonna lead story time or what honestly
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though before you get started what are the odds of that that the one goose that
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floats down our side of the bank floats right the
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decoys and i'm like i can't not check it pick it
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up sure shit banded sure shit waxed
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me 15 times right in the forehead with its wings yeah no
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that was i didn't really believe you but the excitement you had right away i
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was like it's definitely banded and then just to find another one walking up
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yeah where was that one from by the way canada.
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The last one we checked on the way back to the truck was freaking stainless
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band from canada can't make that up you really can't i really want to know how
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many more down there are banded that have floated down since then,
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I would bet there's definitely a handful on that river dead right now that are banded. Yeah.
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I might run down there tomorrow after work and check it out. See if there's any ones.
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Anybody listening? He said might. That definitely means he won't. Oh, bullshit.
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Oh, I love that it's just a nonstop roast session in our group.
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It's my favorite. Really? It really has to be. Nobody's ever safe.
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I think that's what keeps it interesting. Well, yeah.
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All right, Pookie. Story time. Let's go. All right. Let's roll into it.
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Permission stories and strategies are a lone topic for the week.
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I'm actually not mad about leading this one because I get to ask you guys the questions.
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You guys have been doing this a lot longer than I have, Tyler especially.
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I thought we were telling stories, not asking questions. No.
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Yeah, no. There should be no questions asked here. You're not allowed to ask
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a question. It's all statements, bud.
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This is my topic. I decide how it goes.
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Wow. No, especially with Tyler, has hunted many different states like we've
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alluded to over the last couple episodes and whatnot.
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I would love to hear what is the hardest state that you've hunted in to acquire
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permission on private fields.
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The hardest? I mean, nowadays, I would say North Dakota.
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But you go back pre-COVID, I would say North Dakota was one of the easiest to
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get access and permission.
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Before COVID, I would say probably Kansas was probably the hardest one to get
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permission for private ground.
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There's just a lot of guides, outfitters down there.
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But there's a lot of bigger farmers. Down there, it's a lot of cattle farmers,
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so they own a shitload of ground for pasture. And it's really hard to find the
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owner itself and get permission from them.
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The weird thing about North Dakota, too, is like, I've talked to,
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I think, five or six different people now, and they're like,
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oh, well, when we went, it wasn't that hard to get it. It's like, when did you go?
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Oh, beginning of October. I'm like, well...
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That explains it. There ain't nobody up there yet. I mean, for the guides-wise,
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there's just not the outfitters there. Right.
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Well, it really differed from one side of the state to the other.
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When we were out there, it was incredibly hard.
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And then as we moved, I would say probably further away from the guides and
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whatnot, we were able to get back on birds and acquire at least a handful of permission.
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Yeah I would agree with that for sure I mean it still wasn't easy but I mean
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the success rate went up by a substantial amount compared to the other part of the state.
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Absolutely and what about any funny encounters with farmers or landowners you
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guys have had spit it out kid I haven't really had any funny ones I mean I've had some,
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very stern notes very stern nose I've had some very stern get the fuck off my
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doorsteps nothing nothing too crazy though i never had a gun pointed at me or
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anything anything crazy like that some of the shit that you hear but yeah i've
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had my fair share of hell knows and get the fuck out of here's,
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yeah the hell knows make it interesting but honestly the the ones that are just
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jacked that you ask them and excited about it really make up for the the nose
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that you get told or told to get off their property.
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They don't let anybody hunt no more because Joe Blow rutted up his field 20
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years ago and destroyed it.
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The one that sticks out to me was in
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North Dakota when we had flagged down a farmer because we were trying to locate
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contact information for a different farmer and it was almost like he got offended
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that we didn't want to hunt his fields and we're asking him for contact information for another guy.
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We're like no like we would love to hunt your field as well too and.
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Rockmire and Tyler got roped into this two, two and a half hour long tour guide of this guy's property.
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Like, yeah, this is where people have hunted in the past. This is where they've
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had success. Like do whatever you want. Kill them all.
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Yeah. He was definitely one of the nicest landowners I've ever came across for
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just, I mean, literally telling us everything about everybody's hunt they've ever had there.
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And also told us his entire life story that afternoon while we were sitting
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there talking to him about where we were going to hunt,
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and he was showing us how to access the field the easiest and it was easily
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a two-hour event just sitting there and listening to that old boy tell his stories.
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I mean, he had lots of stories.
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Should have got his number and brought him on the pod, bud.
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We do have his number. Call him up. Get him on.
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Yeah, yeah. Yeah, this would be probably a three to six hour episode if we got him on here.
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That was awesome, but I don't know if we could contain him for that short of an episode.
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Yeah. And kind of the same thing, like you were saying, Austin,
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some of our, which we have never hunted it.
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I have before, but we as a group haven't hunted it. But a guy with a shitload
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of land around here and some good access to the river.
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One of the farmers that I talked to a couple of years ago, they were neighbors
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and he's like, Hey, tell him to go hunt my shit. He can hunt whatever he wants.
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And it's like just that kind of cool word of mouth is, is hard to find. And it's really cool.
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Yeah and i mean we've talked about it in the past too
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about when like on the strategy side of it be willing
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to like like i've gone out and like helped
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farmers and it like even if they say no but
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then they still want to chat with you that generally leaves the option open
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that hey you might be able to hunt this if you stop by throughout the year and
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offer up your helping hand with whatever around the farm right you might be
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able to get permission then yeah for For sure. That goes a long ways.
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Like persistence is huge when you're trying to secure a no answer,
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especially like you said, if they sit there and talk to you for another half
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hour, you can get it at some point.
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Yeah. Might not be right away, but within a couple of years, you can probably get it.
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And I've been told on land before and then, you know, every year going by and
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asking or talking to them. And then a couple of years later,
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you get permission for it.
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Yeah. And they give you sole permission. Like you're the only guy that has it.
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That's the best they're loyal
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i love it we do have a lot
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of old boys out here that are running like solo single single man operations
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with their farm too so like you sit there and chat with them help them out do
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whatever like they remember that stuff and they're used like in my experience
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they've been really good about giving permission after that.
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For sure. As far as strategies, like you were mentioning, Tyler,
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you were talking about like standing there and talking to people.
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Do you, I guess, have you ever even thought about what works out better talking
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to people in person, talking to people over the phone?
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Have you ever like really realized or even thought about your rate of getting
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permission in either of those two categories?
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Honestly, I've always been an in-person type person to go talk to them.
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But anymore, I've had almost as much success just calling them.
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If I have their number or if I acquire their number off of Google,
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it's really 50-50 nowadays because people don't, not as many people nowadays
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care about the personal experience of meeting someone face-to-face to give them permission.
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I mean, if they're going to let people hunt it, they're going to let anybody
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hunt it half the time nowadays.
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I'd say it does go a longer ways in the long run, meeting them in person and talking to them, but,
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it's really, I think it's really even nowadays for getting permission,
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whether you're in person or not.
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I think you have a better chance at long-term, like keeping the permission or being told no.
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And then maybe getting it later down the road, if you go and talk to him in person.
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Oddly enough, dude, like if you can't find a phone number or,
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I mean, it's hard with Onyx not to find an address, but sometimes you knock
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on the door, people don't answer, they're not home or whatever.
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Dude, if you can find someone that's a relative on Facebook,
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you just shoot them a message, nine times out of ten, they're going to send
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you the phone number that you need.
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It's freaking crazy. Like, it's really not that hard to get in contact with people.
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No, that, I've done that route before, too, and gotten access or gotten told no. Yeah, same.
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You get excited because I message you back and give you the contact you need,
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and then they're like, no, you're not hunting my ground. Oh,
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okay. My bad. So I won't call again.
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Yeah, that happened to me last year on that On behind Austin's house.
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Got all excited, called the guy. He's like, no, I like watching them.
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I'm like, all right, well, can I at least come down and take some pictures?
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And he's like, oh, hell yeah.
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Perfect. I just want to take some pictures.
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That's the worst thing. No decoys, no nothing, just laying on the bank of the
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pond, and these geese are just like 10 feet in front of you. It's like, oh.
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At 10 feet, we all know that I'd miss, but. Yeah, you don't stand a chance.
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I'd just stand up and boogoo, boogoo, boogoo, shoot him on the way out.
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I have uh definitely called a couple farmers and like
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you could tell that they're they were busy while i was on
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the phone with them they're like well why why
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don't you just stop out here and talk to me real quick and
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it's like yeah gladly i would so much rather me
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personally i would so much rather talk to somebody in person anyways
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but then you end up following them around their
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farm doing whatever for the next half hour
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to an hour whatever but i don't i don't
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mind it it's i mean it's kind of fascinating to me kind of
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cool to see all their setups and then you end up hearing stories from them about
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how their farm came to whether it was been generational farm so on and so forth
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and like you never know i mean just like you guys were saying like you get information
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about neighbors that could possibly let you hunt and then,
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Just continued success with clinician, I feel like, when you end up talking to people on the phone.
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Yeah, and I try to make a point to make sure I have plenty of time to where
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I don't have to hurry up and try and rush out of there.
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If I'm going to talk to a landowner about hunting his ground,
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because you just, you never know how long you're going to be stuck there talking to that guy.
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Which, sometimes it's the most enjoyable thing you've done all day,
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sitting there talking to him and hearing their life stories and all about their
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farm history and everything else.
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Yeah it's it's always cool shit but like you said you gotta you gotta
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plan that out right and not get stuck out there till
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freaking seven o'clock at night sometimes every time i've tried to like go there
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quick and i got i need to go scout somewhere else i'm going to talk to this
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landowner it's always somebody that wants to sit there and talk for 30 40 minutes
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at least on the short side and then it's dark and you're like well shit but at least we got the field,
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yeah on me personally on days that I'm trying to acquire permission I just don't
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even plan on scouting that days I solely plan on going and talking to landowners
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and and what not too because,
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along with the farmers I'm a talker so like it's nothing for me to continue
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a conversation like well past they're probably like alright dude like I already
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gave you permission like you can leave I'm just interested,
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always doing that Yeah, but even when you plan on scouting, you don't go scouting.
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So what does that matter?
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That's true. I try not to. I try to do the best I can at getting out of all
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work that involves helping you.
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Andy says that he's a talker, but this is the most talkative episode he's had on our podcast.
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Yeah, I think he's beating his words count by a lot right now.
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It's hard to get words in with you guys.
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Oh, bullshit. Get out of here with that guy. You guys talk a lot. It is what it is.
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Don't be mad about it. Just because I called you out doesn't make it any less true.
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Wow. Pookie's choosing the wireless sign. Yeah, no, he's attacking.
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He's no longer on the defense. He's on the attack side. Oh, my gosh.
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Relax. Now you guys are being dramatic.
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He must have listened to the Acorn Cow podcast for like two days straight.
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He did. Got my courage really built up.
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Speaking of that, we'll touch on that real quick.
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We did do a podcast. We recorded it a few weeks ago, and it just got released,
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what was it, this past week?
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We did a podcast with Living Legends Outdoors. Kuki can tell everybody a little
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bit about that since he kind of lined up the whole gig.
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Yeah, so the guys that are involved with Living Legends Outdoors,
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I've known all of them personally, grew up with
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almost all of them all the way
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through grade school and such really good group of guys uh that
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they primarily only do deer and turkey
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hunting but they wanted to do a collaboration with this one night uh just so
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happened that tyler had to go back to work so he was the only one there not
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in person we were still able to get him on the podcast uh just back from michigan
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but Cade and I went over there, had a couple beers with those guys.
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If I'm not mistaking, I believe that the podcast went just over two hours long.
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Yeah, it was two hours and three minutes,
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I think. It took a while to get through it. But it was a good one.
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It was a lot of fun, and there is no shortage of shit talking in that podcast.
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It is constant for those two hours. It's just, I mean, what you would imagine
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a group of waterfowl hunters going back and forth with a group of guys that
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have never done any of it before.
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So I thought that they had a lot of really good questions for us.
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I was really informative to their community that might not necessarily do a
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whole bunch of what we talk about a week in and week out.
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Yeah, for sure. We definitely need to do another one that Tyler is in person.
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You could tell that Tyler wanted to talk shit, but he couldn't read the room
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because he wasn't there.
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Yeah, it really sucked on that part. And I feel like there's a lot more that
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we can touch on between the two groups too.
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I mean, we touched on quite a bit, but there's a lot that, like after listening
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to it again, there's a lot of questions that I have that didn't dawn on me at that point in time.
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You know I thought about that and I kind of wish we would have reached out to
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him a little sooner but I was like man you know being this week we didn't have
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a whole lot to talk about on the agenda we should have reached out and seen what they were doing,
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Sunday night or Monday night which we're recording this on a Monday night unlike
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normal I guess normally lately we're just all over the place,
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we don't have a normal day anymore no that's out the window I think we were
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all a little too tired last night to attempt it I know I was.
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But I was asleep and a shortage of shooting birds this week and I think took
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it out of us that was terrible let's quit talking about that,
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But no, I was, I wish we would have got out with them and seen if they wanted to record.
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We could have went to them and just brought our stuff and used,
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hooked their mixer into the computer and record it all.
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But it would be fun while I'm home, at least. I'd like to go over there and
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meet them in person and bullshit one night.
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Oh, I'd imagine we'd have to get a DD to come home.
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But if we drank some beers with those boys, the amount of shit that would get talked would be insane.
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I'm down Ellie can go and she can be the DD,
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We had alluded to,
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hopefully getting those guys out on a goose hunt with us still this winter too
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so if we're able to get that opportunity I think that would be a good thing
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to do and then a good thing to continue our collaboration with those guys and
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get them on you know that we'd have to do a gentleman's hunt with those guys and,
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if they miss a shot they're going to hear it.
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Oh, as much shit as they were talking absolutely they would never hear the end of that.
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Yeah, if they actually do decide to come, which they said they would after January
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10th when deer season's done, if they actually do, I'll dedicate my time to
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be the video guy and then there's no, oh I didn't miss that shot. Yeah.
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We need to find a, we need to keep a juicy field lined up for when they want
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to go, just so we can know we can land geese and just watch them miss.
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I'd miss them, too, if they were landed, just to be fair. Unless they land at
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60, you should be good then. Yeah, then I'm money. Yeah.
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Bold and birds. In my defense, I did shoot one at, like, 10 feet off my gun
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barrel this weekend. I was proud of myself.
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Yeah, no, poor Daniel. You're pleasantly surprised. Yeah, poor Daniel.
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The guy just wanted to kill his first confirmed goose kill, and he whiffed on
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his first. Did he shoot twice?
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He shot twice, and then I was like, all right, this thing is not leaving.
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Yeah. I can't believe, I still can't believe he missed that.
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I mean, it was, it was literally 10 yards on the water. Yeah.
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In his defense, he said he was tucked down, like had his head tucked.
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He didn't even see it laying. He didn't, he's straight up said,
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he's like, when you said shoot him, I was just like looking in the decoys and
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I couldn't pick out where he was.
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And I'm like, dude, he was right in front of you.
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It happens. We'll get him one.
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That one floating away looked really good, too.
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I cut deep. Yeah. $50 just floating down the river. It had the bird flu. It's fine.
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What? It had the bird flu. It's fine. No, we needed that one because it matches
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half the other geese out there.
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That is true. I mean, back to this weekend hunting.
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Sunday was that was a lot of ice we broke Sunday was an absolute shit show,
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speaking of that I need to go get that Milwaukee battery out of the boat or
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out of my truck and charge that for tomorrow,
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yeah yeah you do once we're done here try to remind me before we get off of
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here but I'll make sure I get that done so we can cut some willows hey don't
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forget to go get your Milwaukee battery and charge it,
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oh god put your coloring pencils down and listen to what I'm saying here.
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But I finally learned how to cut her inside the lines. I'm calling bullshit
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on that one. Yeah, prove it.
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I do have an extra Milwaukee charger I can give you if you want one for the
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boat. I've got like seven of them.
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I do need to fill up the generator tomorrow too. And you still can't charge
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the battery. What the hell? No, I know.
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I got some charge. They're just in my truck.
26:01
It's a good spot. In my personal truck that's at the Chevy dealership right now.
26:06
That's tough. I have like three of them in here if you need. a couple for the week.
26:10
I've got a couple. I think I took batteries out of it too. I think I got one
26:14
on my half inch impact that's in the shop and I've got a couple other ones.
26:18
I don't have any excuses for why we didn't have a charged battery.
26:21
I'm just saying I didn't have a charged battery on Sunday.
26:24
I'm glad you said that because I was about to say it for you.
26:27
Yeah, no, I seen the look in your eyes and I'm like, I'm getting ready to get fucked here.
26:31
Plenty of mistakes were made on Sunday. Yeah, I definitely thought we were going
26:36
to be stranded for a little bit.
26:38
That was, whenever that ice broke, or it didn't even break, it just settled
26:43
on the sandbar, and we were on top of it, and we could not move.
26:48
I was like, are we going to walk back to the boat ramp, or what are we going to do now?
26:53
Yeah, because there was no shot there's anybody that, for one,
26:57
would have the time on a Sunday, or for two, had a boat that would make it to us.
27:02
That was the first thing that went through my mind, was like,
27:04
who has a boat that can get here? Like, I don't even want my little boat coming out here in this.
27:08
And that's pretty much about the biggest boat that anybody that we know has.
27:13
Yeah. Yeah, no, and we were the only ones dumb enough to try it.
27:18
Yeah, I mean, we made it to a spot. We did not make it to the final destination that we had chosen.
27:26
No, neither one of them. We picked two holes and we didn't make it to either of them.
27:30
We made it halfway to the second one. We did. We made it halfway to the first one, too.
27:35
Yeah. I think we maybe could have made it there if I knew for sure where that channel was.
27:42
But, I mean, the ice was breaking. It just, it didn't, it couldn't,
27:45
it couldn't go down far enough to break it. I mean, it was only like,
27:48
what, eight inches deep right there? Yeah.
27:51
Yeah, the rest of this week will really change stuff up with these abnormally
27:55
warm temperatures that we're getting for Christmas time.
27:59
So it'll be interesting to see what the birds do and how much they spread out
28:03
with more open water coming to us.
28:07
I'm really excited for tomorrow because, I mean, the ice stalled a lot today.
28:13
You could see all the skim water on top of the ice today, and then you could
28:16
just see it was like looking rotten.
28:19
So with it being, I think, 50-something tomorrow again, I can't remember,
28:23
it's 45 or 50. Yeah, I think so, somewhere around there.
28:27
But when temperatures are that high and you have sunshine, which we didn't have
28:31
sunshine today, and we still got quite a bit of ice melting,
28:34
I believe, today, it's going to go fast.
28:37
I wish we had more wind all week to really rip it open, but we'll just take what we get.
28:43
Hopefully that sun shines. Hmm Shine bright like a diamond.
28:50
Yeah we'll see I'm not ready for the work that We're gonna have to put in to
28:54
break More ice tomorrow with just Two guys,
28:59
Yeah no I never heard back From the other guy invited so I'm pretty sure it's
29:03
gonna be just me and you Since Cade thinks he has to go to work Or something,
29:08
Somebody's gotta do it We know you're not going to.
29:12
Absolutely not. To be honest, though, I mean, we haven't had a lot of hunts
29:18
this year that were just me and you.
29:20
I mean, we usually picked up a third guy, like comparing it to the year before
29:25
where we did like, what, like 19 or 17 hunts.
29:29
Just me and you, like we were nowhere close to that this year.
29:33
Do we even have a hunt just me and you this year yet? Yeah, I'm trying to think.
29:37
I don't know, between a couple hunts that we brought my cousin on and then Newendorp
29:43
here and there on random days, I really don't think that it was just me and
29:48
you. Yeah, I think we hunted.
29:51
One or maybe two. I know there was for sure one day. I can't put a finger on
29:55
exactly what date it was and what time.
29:57
Well, you should be able to if you're going to spit that out.
30:00
I know for sure there was one day that you guys went out by yourself.
30:03
Maybe. I can't remember it, but I'm not saying it's not true.
30:08
Just saying I don't believe you. If I remember right, it was exactly like every
30:13
other time that you and Austin go out and you shot like shit.
30:15
Because I remember calling you and giving you a hard time about it and you were still pissed. Whoa.
30:21
Where did that come from? Yeah, who is this guy?
30:26
No, because I I'm pretty sure we had Zach with us that day that you're even
30:31
talking about. Oh, there was more than one day you shot like shit. Come on.
30:36
There was like three or four days like a stretch in a row that I shot like trash,
30:41
you did have like just one really bad week it was awful we all have it, it happens,
30:50
not Austin, he's perfect no, I wish I wish he just sucks all the time damn straight,
31:01
Oh, don't you guys worry. I'll be there.
31:06
Nobody's worried about you being at the sucking party. Don't worry.
31:10
Sick. All right. I didn't even say anything mean to you.
31:15
I mean, talked about you getting the boat stuck.
31:20
You being super old. Like, I haven't even, I haven't brought anything out. And then here you are.
31:26
Somebody's got to start it. I thought this week was going to be different.
31:30
You guys were kind of laying off me there for a while.
31:33
No, it's not going to be different. I can promise you. It's the same every week.
31:39
Got to give the people what they want. I'm just counting how many weeks that
31:45
you say my name and a different variation for the start of the podcast.
31:50
It's all the time, bud.
31:54
What did I even say today? I don't even know how I started it today with what I said to your name.
31:59
You added the f-word in front of it on this list what if I told you that my
32:06
grandma listens to this how would that make you feel she'd probably be jacked
32:10
about that she's heard your mouth whoa,
32:15
she'd probably think that you're a badass because I've got fucking Austin here,
32:21
I can assure you guys that if Linda listened to this she would not be impressed with us.
32:30
Block it from her yeah yeah i don't even i i mean i didn't mess up i wore our
32:37
sweatshirt to my family christmas this weekend got a ton of questions about it but i'm like,
32:43
i you know i don't know if you guys are gonna like what we have to say on here it's fine it'll puff,
32:53
So we never did make our plans for tomorrow yet, Austin. What time do you want
32:57
me to pick you up for our date?
33:00
I'd say at the latest 2 o'clock.
33:03
PM? Yeah, no, that makes sense. Yeah. No, AM for sure. No. Negative.
33:08
Yeah, if you think that I'm getting up that early to do this,
33:12
you're wrong. You just hop by yourself.
33:17
Cade can hum by himself, because I'm not going out in two in the morning either.
33:21
I'm not either tomorrow. No. No, I think if you pick me up at five,
33:26
that'll give us plenty of time to make our way to at least a couple of the spots
33:32
that we talked about earlier today, get a whole pro coat and get set brushed in and go from there.
33:39
Yeah, because, I mean, what time did the geese really start flying somewhat decent yesterday?
33:45
About eight o'clock. Was it 8? Yeah. It was like 8 or 8.30. Yeah. Dang.
33:53
It was, I mean, it was, they were flying before we got stuck on that piece of
33:58
ice. Mm-hmm. The first one.
34:01
I think we left the ramp at 6.30, and it took us, I bet you,
34:05
every bit of 45 minutes to get down to where we got stuck at.
34:08
Oh, yeah. Yeah, so.
34:11
It shouldn't take us long to get to where we got to.
34:16
I mean, that should be mostly open or pretty thin ice.
34:21
No, I'm thinking probably 10-15 minutes to get to where we had to turn around
34:26
yesterday, but then we'd probably have another half hour, 40 minutes to get
34:32
to where we were talking about today.
34:34
And then, I mean, at least we'll be in wadeable water, so clearing the hole
34:40
might be a little easier, hopefully.
34:42
It'd be a lot easier if we can get out of the boat and walk once I go around
34:47
a couple times in the boat and break the edge,
34:49
we're golden yeah I was gonna say there's no hopefully to it it's gonna be a
34:54
lot easier yeah well don't forget we have to sit or him getting stuck in the ice again,
35:01
happens one time at band camp. I don't know what that was, but that was not a mic drop. Oh, yeah.
35:08
Yeah, I'm done with your shit tonight. No, you're not.
35:13
But I think as long as we are set up at least somewhere around 8 o'clock ready
35:18
to go, I mean, shoot our six, don't burn it down quite yet, get the heck out of there.
35:25
Dude, we could never burn it down, just two of us. Unless we're shooting into groups like 50.
35:29
I mean, we'd have to kill one, out of every group of 50 to burn it down.
35:34
It's been done before. I mean, we have definitely shot into big groups and done stuff like that.
35:42
Usually the only time we shoot in big groups of geese though is when we have
35:45
a big group of guys. Like four, five plus.
35:48
No, I'm hoping... We can actually rain like eight or ten of them out.
35:51
Yeah, that's really cool. I like doing that.
35:55
I would say hopefully a group of six comes in in the morning and we kill all
35:58
six, but I think Pokey would probably kill maybe one and, That'd be about all he got.
36:03
Yeah, you're probably right. But if that did happen, that would be super sweet.
36:08
I hope we kill like three out of the six we kill tomorrow. I hope our band didn't.
36:14
We just send all the pictures to Cade while he's push the dirt, scoop the dirt.
36:21
I'm not going. You guys are not going to shoot a band. Just get that out of
36:24
your head. That's fair. Yeah, he's probably right. You're not even going to
36:27
see a band unless I'm there.
36:29
Yeah, but, you know, if we do kill him tomorrow and we do send pictures to Cade,
36:35
you know, who's not going Wednesday, and also who will be probably going Wednesday...
36:42
Austin's not going to go Wednesday. Why? I get off at 5 o'clock in the morning
36:47
and have to be back at 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
36:49
Like, that's not happening. There's no way. What's the problem? Yeah, sleep.
36:56
Who the fuck needs sleep? Me. I need sleep.
37:01
You did a plenty fine job yesterday. I did, yeah.
37:06
Yeah, you were sawing some serious logs in that boat. Yeah, absolutely.
37:10
My favorite thing to do in there when we're not shooting stuff.
37:13
I don't even know why we brought a chainsaw. This guy could have cut all the
37:16
willows down himself. I should have.
37:19
I mean, we really didn't bring the chainsaw. We got to use it for 10 minutes.
37:26
It wasn't as tenuous 10 minutes was the problem. It was ripping for 10 minutes.
37:32
But you know what? We got out. I don't know if we had got out if we didn't cut
37:36
that hole in front of the boat and along the side of it.
37:39
The side was the biggest one, I think. If we wouldn't have cut that,
37:41
we'd have been, that boat would still be sitting there.
37:44
Yeah. We'll pick you up in the spring. Yeah.
37:49
Stick the spud poles in and we'll come back later.
37:52
Call the Corps. Hey, can you guys drop the lake real quick?
37:57
Well, no kidding. Don't worry. They'll do that on their own.
38:01
That is true. You'd have to call them and tell them that you want it raised.
38:04
Yeah, I don't really know what dropping the lake would have done for us.
38:06
I think that would have made it worse.
38:09
Well, at least your boat would have been there. Yeah, it wouldn't leave the trap.
38:13
I don't like that. Or, you know, in March when everything's above the willows.
38:19
I hope that doesn't happen this year.
38:23
So did you agree to pick me up at five or? Hmm. We can do five. I mean, that'll work.
38:31
It's either five or 4.30. 4.30 or five, one of the two that I pick you up.
38:36
I mean, it's going to take us 20 minutes to get to the boat ramp.
38:39
All right, 4.30 it is. I just said either one. I don't care which one don't
38:44
act all butthurt and upset right now yeah now 4th time is still 5 o'clock anyway so,
38:50
Didn't I beat you to the boat ramp by like an hour on Sunday?
38:55
Yeah, but I was on my freaking deathbed. Oh. Doesn't count.
38:59
There's no excuses allowed in this. Yeah.
39:02
Yeah, I was late. My bad. Talk about it, be about it.
39:07
I'm pretty sure that was the first day that I've been, I mean,
39:09
I've been like five or ten minutes late, but that was the first day that I was an hour late.
39:14
You've been married to a leavet for too long. You run on their time now. Shit.
39:20
I am cooked. Speaking of 11, we do have some new hoodies coming here soon.
39:25
Hopefully, he did respond to my email today and said, oh, so does that design work?
39:29
I'm like, yeah, that's what that meant when I said, let's order this X amount of hoodies.
39:36
Yes, please. Hopefully, they'll be done probably not until after New Year's
39:41
now because it means Christmas, and I'm sure he's not working Thursday or Friday, and then New Year's.
39:45
He ain't working New Year's. Ain't no way.
39:49
No we will all be in rough shape yeah that's gonna be tough not i i gotta work
39:56
at five o'clock in the morning yeah be on my best behavior oh so we got a dd
40:04
yep i'll be here take you guys home,
40:08
do whatever imagine how pissed he'd be if we called him at 2 30
40:11
in the morning hey we need a ride i just
40:14
i just stay up like drop you
40:17
guys off come back drink my morning coffee get
40:20
ready for work at that point yeah but
40:24
i'll say i think i think he'd be down to do it if he knew we were not capable
40:28
of driving uh yeah oh yeah absolutely i would much rather you guys call me than
40:34
try to do some hero shit getting yourself home and something happened well you
40:40
don't gotta worry about kade Driving home, he just walks home in the middle of winter anyways.
40:47
I am known for that. Yeah, but I don't think it's going to be cold enough on
40:50
New Year's for him to like really attempt that.
40:52
I think he needs it to be negative 15 or whatever it was.
40:55
Yeah, I think the wind chill that night was like 30 some below zero. Yeah.
41:00
It was way too cold to be walking home.
41:03
I think that was like the coldest day of the year last year when you did that.
41:08
Yeah. Because it was below zero wind chills when the sunshine was out. Mm-hmm.
41:14
You know, it was pretty cold goose hunting that day. That was a rough one.
41:18
You know it's bad when we're like taking shifts with our 10-man group for Goose
41:22
Wars, taking shifts back and forth to the truck because it's so fucking cold out.
41:27
Not even that. We were taking shifts on who was going to call because everybody was too cold to call.
41:32
It was fun, but it would have been a lot more fun if it wasn't below zero.
41:38
If it would have even been zero, it's a different game. But that was brutal.
41:43
Mm-hmm. Yeah, because, I mean, the geese didn't fly until, what, the last hour of the day?
41:47
Like, we didn't see anything in the morning, afternoon, until,
41:51
I think, 3 o'clock at the earliest.
41:54
Yep, 3 o'clock. And the 3 o'clock groups were more friendly than the half hour
41:59
before shooting time groups.
42:02
Those groups were assholes. I hate late season geese. Izzy gets like that so much.
42:07
When you start to mess with them city birds, especially on the last weekend
42:10
of the season, they've been called at so much.
42:13
Unless they truly want to be in that field, it's hard. Yeah,
42:18
especially when you've got the guys chasing them all year that have bands on them.
42:22
Trying to kill all them local city bands.
42:26
Well, what are we coming up this week? I guess Christmas, huh?
42:30
You guys got all your Christmas stuff to do? Yeah.
42:34
I always forget that Christmas is coming up.
42:38
I don't know. Hey, do you have to do any traveling for Christmas?
42:42
We're going the weekend of, I guess it's the weekend after New Year's.
42:46
We're going to go out to Lincoln and see my sister.
42:50
Nice, nice, nice, nice. No traveling for us this year. I got to work the whole time.
42:56
So we're staying in Iowa and we did Thanksgiving and everything with her family.
43:01
So we try to usually trade off.
43:03
So that's what we got going in the little household this year.
43:08
You got, Tyler. Me and Ellie are going to go goose hunting.
43:13
We're taking the boat. Yeah. Nah, I mean, I'm not going to go back home this year.
43:20
I'm just going to stay home, and I got a bunch of stuff going on at home here.
43:24
We're trying to sell this place.
43:26
We definitely had to sign a bunch of documents today, get that ball rolling.
43:30
Hopefully, get this house sold this next couple months.
43:35
That would be nice. yeah what's coming after that
43:38
what's coming after you sell it where
43:41
are you going i'm staying local hopefully seeing a
43:45
couple pieces of property today i liked a couple of them one
43:48
is probably going to be well out of the price range but it was pretty badass
43:53
found another one that is i think in the price range i'll know more once i kind
44:00
of get pricing together here this week on and what size building I want to put
44:04
up, and what I'm going to put into that.
44:06
But we'll know more soon on that. I mean, it's not a bad location,
44:09
not too far from where I'm at now.
44:12
I definitely look forward to hopefully this summer getting the building put
44:16
up and having a heated shop to thaw the boat out in instead of relying on Mother
44:21
Nature to thaw the boat, which takes sometimes all winter.
44:27
But no, a lot of big things coming, hopefully. Hopefully things work out.
44:32
It just means more work for you.
44:35
No, I mean, nothing I ever do makes life easier for myself. It always makes my life harder.
44:41
But it makes money. Yeah.
44:46
It makes memories. I have short-term memories, so I forget all of them anyways.
44:51
It doesn't matter about that.
44:51
I forgot you're a goldfish. All right.
44:56
All right. Hmm.
45:00
That was a good one. There it is.
45:03
I'm not that much older than you guys. Come on. I don't know.
45:07
I don't receive any AARP stuff in the mail yet. So.
45:12
I don't either. I just get, I get phone calls about it.
45:18
I'm getting a lot of spam calls lately about insurance and stuff like that.
45:22
I'm like, whoa, not that old yet. Let's back it off a little bit.
45:27
Just whenever it gets that time, you can make one of us your medical power of
45:32
attorney. and we'll make sure that you go to a good home.
45:36
Absolutely not. I will go find a homeless person on the side of the road and
45:39
choose him before I choose either one of you two.
45:42
Good call, good call. Absolutely. I mean, absolutely not.
45:49
Well, do either one of you got anything else to add to this wonderful podcast
45:53
we've had this week of just bullshitting our way through it?
45:57
Not really, no. I think really the only thing that I wanted to say was just
46:02
to everybody that listens to us that's traveling for the holidays, safe travels.
46:07
Hope you guys get to spend that time with your family and have a Merry Christmas.
46:12
Yeah, that's really nice of you. What he said.
46:15
That's one of the nicest things I've ever heard you say. Like,
46:18
and you said it to a bunch of random-ass people that you don't even know.
46:22
Coincidentally, I like all of them better than I like you. No,
46:25
that makes sense. No, checks out.
46:29
This guy's bringing his guns out tonight. Yeah, yeah.
46:34
Close us down. You know what? No, we're going to carry this on for another fucking hour.
46:41
I'm just sitting here staring at each other. I'm going to go eat dinner.
46:44
So you guys have fun. Wait, what's for dinner?
46:48
Don't worry about it. Okay. I was just fucking asking.
46:54
Nobody, nobody asked for your opinion here. Austin, I don't know why you're yelling at us.
47:00
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