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Weather Whiplash, Coot Wars & Betting on Zach — Episode 39 · DuckFellas Podcast

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Welcome back to the Duckfellas podcast, episode 39, and it's officially time to get jacked.
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We're back. We're so back. Well, we got three more days without going duck hunting for us.
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Yep. Saturday morning, big day.
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Yeah. I can't believe it. It feels like it's been forever, but then again,
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it feels like time has flown to this point.
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I mean, I know we've all got to go out hunting now, whether it was this past
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week in goose hunting, or I went to North Dakota or dove hunting,
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that stuff. But, man, it kind of feels like it flew by the summer.
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Well, it's not saying the days go slow and the years go fast,
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right? So, it seems like days and weeks are kind of slowed down,
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and the next thing you know, you're blanking hunting season's here again,
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and we're scrambling to get stuff ready.
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Oh, shit on that. Yeah. Some stuff never changes. No, I don't think it ever
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will. Probably never will. Mm-mm. Oh, no.
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So, anything new with you guys? I know I've pretty much seen Austin all weekend.
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Zach made a guest appearance, like, what, twice? And had to get out of there
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really quick because he was shy?
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Yeah, I get nervous in big crowds. Yeah, he peed himself on Sunday so he had
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to leave immediately. Twice.
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So, wow. Yeah. Yeah. Nothing new.
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Nothing new on my end. I mean, getting a few things done around the house and,
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still just burping babies and changing diapers. Feel that.
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What is that? Kissing hands and shaking babies. Mm-hmm. Yeah.
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Well, I can't relate. I don't have that.
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Well. None that you take care of, I guess, but. Whoa. Whoa. If I knew about
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him, I'd take care of him. Or claim, at least.
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Tax reasons only. There's that.
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Well, let's talk a little bit of kind of our prep and everything that goes into,
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leading up to this opening day a little bit.
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Like the week leading up to it here for scouting-wise. I mean,
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I know I'm out of town a lot.
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I can't really scout this week, which generally we don't have to do a lot of
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scouting for ducks. It's normally we kind of know where the ducks are going
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to be this time of year and throughout the season.
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But we have, what are we going to have, like 10 more feet of water than normal?
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10 or 11, yeah. It's wildly high.
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I think it is closer to 11, especially like opening weekend water levels.
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Usually, I think we'll be closer to 11. So that might spread them out a little
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bit, make it a little more difficult. I know Zach and I will still be around.
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I'm pretty fortunate with my job that I just, I'm in a car for nine hours a
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day, like just driving around. So, I mean, probably not going to see a ton of
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birds in the air, like in full swing, but.
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Yeah, I mean, I'm going to try to, I figured me and Austin might get the little
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boat out, I don't know, Thursday or Friday, try to catch some stuff.
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I wouldn't mind going to check a couple spots Friday morning or maybe Thursday
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morning, see what's flying around in the area. I mean, I think I've got a pretty
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good idea based on what we saw scouting for early deuce.
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On where some are at, right? But go check it out. You know, one thing I'll say
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is like, it's exciting and all. Like, it's opening day.
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It's always fun to go opening day. I don't get a lot of them normally because
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I take off in November when it kind of gets, the weather gets better.
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And that's one thing I'm not excited about this weekend is it being 80 degrees.
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So hopefully we're killed out pretty quick or we'll be done before it gets too
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hot. Because I'm not there in the heat. Oh my God.
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It's actually funny that you say that as well, too, because this is my first
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opening day, because usually opening weekend here is opening non-resident for
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pheasant hunting up in South Dakota.
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So the wife and I are usually up there for the whole weekend,
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and I usually miss opening weekend here and then just come back and hunt after
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the break. So I don't know, maybe I'm a.
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Everything too you just feel like you don't get out near as much i mean very
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thankful for my wife and i spent far too much time with tyler this weekend getting
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a bunch of shit done but whoa,
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it was good to get out of the house it was good for i'm glad that she was able
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to bring weston over and hang out tyler got to meet weston too so that was cool
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he got to watch the football game too bad the,
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chiefs uh pulled that one out watch the football game like i think i watched
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a total of 20 minutes of football all day until I went inside the house.
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Yeah, no, I'm saying that Weston got to watch more football than we did,
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for sure. Weston was big vibing over there.
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Absolutely. Great chillin'.
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Yeah, speaking of weather, though, I mean, I know obviously for opening weekend
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it's going to be hot, but have you guys seen the 10-day? Yep.
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So what's your guys' 10-day saying? Because my 10-day for home doesn't show
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a cold front yet, but I've been seeing the cold front now in Canada and North Dakota.
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That's going to hit like Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and it's a pretty impressive cold front.
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Yeah, I'm saying, I was seeing today our cold front's going to be Monday night,
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pressure drops, temp drops.
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So we're going from a high of like 80 or 81 Monday down to 60 on Tuesday with
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lows in the 40s, like low 40s, you know.
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But with that front, I was checking out the Dakotas and Minnesota and Canada
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and looks like Monday, Tuesday Dakotas are supposed to be highs of low 30s.
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Yeah, so I have a couple places in Canada on my weather bug,
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and one of them is Saskatoon that I've been watching.
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And, like, Saturday their high is 37, and that's the warmest they get until Tuesday.
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And they get to freezing or below freezing for the next, like,
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starting Saturday night for, like, six days straight. So it's not going to push
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a bunch of ducks. It's not going to make a massive push.
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There's no snow that I can see in the forecast, like, accumulating.
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But it's going to push some gray ducks and a fair amount of birds down to get
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the migration really going, which, you know, will be nice to just miss it by
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a day probably because they'll probably show up Monday or Tuesday for us.
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And then I won't see them.
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Sounds about right. No, just looking at the weather, Saturday,
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Sunday, Monday in the 80s, and then come Wednesday or Tuesday,
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Wednesday, it's in the mid-low 60s as well with highs in the 40s overnight.
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So it is here at home and it's not it's not the perfect weather for hunting
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still here but it's it's better than being 81 82 like we're forecasted to be
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Saturday and both our weekend off our weekend off,
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is in the 50s here so of course naturally that's how it goes we're just,
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just one week in ahead but well at least it gives us go ahead Saturday I'll
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be in in my waders I will be wearing boxers, no socks, and a wife beater.
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Absolutely. We will have pictures for our viewers of that, just in case you were wondering.
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I ain't be out there sweating like a fat kid at church camp.
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Here we go. But no, it should be interesting. And I'll be really curious as
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to what kind of ducks are seeing this week or next week as the first week carries on.
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Because obviously it's only open for seven days. It closes back out Friday.
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At sunset there for just a week, right? Seven days?
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Yeah, I believe so. Friday to the next Saturday. Yep.
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But yeah, so I can't believe that we get to go hunting this weekend and actually
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shoot ducks, unlike watching kids shoot ducks this past weekend. Yeah.
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Trenton brings up a good point. He was texting me the other day.
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Because you know how we do goose wars? Well, we don't put it on.
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Oh my God. Talking about goose wars.
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So he wants to start something called Coot Wars and I was supposed to bring
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it up to you guys I never did,
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okay what's I mean same same principles I would assume so all season long or
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are we putting a time restraint,
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I think we should oh that's a good one we could do like a competition on whoever
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kills the most coots throughout the season I would only shoot a coot legally,
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legally yes everything's above board here Yeah.
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I mean, I don't hate it because it's kind of fun and it's.
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Well, coots are invasive, like
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to nesting habitat and bird, like mallard nests and they eat their eggs.
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I was going to say, they're egg breakers.
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Hats off to everybody that does go out and shoot a limited coots every now and
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again. Like, appreciate your hard work.
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And I mean, them boys down, I mean, I read a couple articles of them boys down south love coots.
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I'm not saying I will eat one, but I wouldn't be opposed to trying it the way they say to cook them.
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No. Tried coot once and I will never try it again. Yeah. I don't know if I could get behind that.
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I don't even want to talk about it. I don't remember. I don't care.
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I erased it from my memory other than the fact that I know to never eat a coot again.
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I would try it once. If this is the way though that we get to shoot coots without
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dad yelling at us like no you can't do it sign me up. I'm all in.
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And that would you know Todd's comment that banned coots I do want to point
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out that we did say we were going to put a banded duck in the boat and that
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will be just our luck that it'll be a banded coot instead of that would be hilarious,
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i would love that so that'd be like a major point like i guess i could just
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be like the goose wars was that three points for a band,
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yep yeah you can keep the point system the same i think or like similar to it
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yeah similar because we do a season long do a point of bird three for a band
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because we're not doing first to a limit or anything like that.
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First to 50 coots, first to 150.
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Coots. Yeah. Oh, my God. All right, Trenton. Let's see. They're a little skin
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in the game here. What do we want to do? Yeah. Yeah, you're here,
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Trenton. Tell us what we're up to here.
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I'm sure Todd Copley, he's in the chat. He'll join the competition. Todd loves coots.
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Brett, he ate one last year. Tasted like a duck. Tried enough. I'm about to throw up.
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Sounds like a terrible start to a child bug I mean that's risk and reward you
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don't know what you're going to get true.
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But first you got the reward and then it was all risk after that you know what,
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I like this thought let's side table this and come back because I want to see
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where Trenton's head is with this point system and season long or what,
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this would have to be in my opinion this would have to be like a season long
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thing We could make a board and just go do all in on it.
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Todd's in. We already got multiple teams.
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Start a Facebook group. We'll talk with Leavitt Graphics about t-shirts. I'll order a trophy.
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I will say, speaking of Leavitt Graphics and t-shirts, we do need to,
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anybody listening here, see if you are interested in getting a hoodie this year.
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I'm sure we will be doing another run because we only did the dfp logo in white,
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so if i do that logo with something on the back maybe it's just our like our
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og design or something but if you're interested in getting a hoodie reach out
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shoot us a message on instagram or facebook and or any of us directly,
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So we can kind of see what the interest is there and get those going because,
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we probably should get that done pretty quick if there's interest there.
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So what Brett just said, how much to do a coot limit dead mount in the new shop?
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I will not be doing one, but if Brett and Woody Creek Taxidermy would like to
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donate a coot limit dead mount to the winner, we could do something like that.
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Honestly, if he would even do like a So the winner gets like a 50% off a cute
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mouth, but he gets to pick the pose.
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So it'd be like Captain Morgan on a bush light can or smoking a pack of Marlboros
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or something like that. I think that would be...
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We're going to have to get this ball rolling like this week on this.
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So, Brett, you need to think about it. If you're interested in teaming up and
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joining this movement, let us know.
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Loser, loser, since he's going to do something cool with Woody Creek,
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the loser has to pay full price to his girlfriend, fiance, wife for a cute tattoo. Hmm.
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Interesting. Wouldn't that be something? Getting a coot tattooed on you.
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I could see Zach doing it, honestly. I wouldn't be scared. I'd probably put
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it right here, like a little coot.
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I was thinking right here on your neck, but yeah, that's the same.
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I think I'd get him, I'd probably get him like full spread eagle just right across the chest.
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And just get him like coot tattooed along the water. just running across her chest.
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You know, Trenton got us going down this road, and now he's all silent in the
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chat. I know. He just ghosted us.
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It's criminal. It's like it was a Tinder date.
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Just ghosted all of Tyler's. He just got ghosted after the third message.
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I don't ever make it to the third one. It's like the second one at most.
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Well, let's talk about, like you said earlier, let's side table that for a minute
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here, and let's move into this Comerant deal that you were talking about.
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Yeah. old senator ted cruz i was reading i know bill smith shared the post by
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rack junkies as well so i read that so i did a little research on it,
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ted cruz and another senator out of texas katie brit introduced the responsible
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cormorant cormorant cormorant cormorant management act,
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so they want to and there's no specifics on limits or or how many or anything like that but,
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and they want to open up some cormorant hunting in texas,
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due to the stats i was reading was cormorants eat a pound of fish a day and
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i estimate there's a hundred million,
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coot or god got my mind on coots cormorants in the united states so quick math
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right 100 million pounds of fish and apparently it's affecting the fish farms
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or the fisheries down south,
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So, I mean, if it starts in Texas, works its way north, I'd be down shooting a limit of cormorants.
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You know, I could probably dabble as well. I mean, I don't know what sound they
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make. Honestly, I've never paid attention.
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But...
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He don't so Zach doesn't even practice duck calling but I could see if they
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open up a comarant season Zach will be practicing comarant calling every single day yeah,
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I mean we're in a field and I'm practicing my greater northern snow goose calls
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out of my goose calls so you think I wouldn't wouldn't try for some comarants,
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so like 42 pack to commit to the goose spread and just mollywop them,
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oh my god was that was that just in Texas they're trying to get that going for now yeah Yeah,
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I mean, I would assume it would kind of spread because one of their main points
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was some fisheries in Alabama.
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So I think he's the one that's just, I mean, Ted Cruz is an outdoorsman,
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right? He goes and hunts.
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I would assume his hope is that he introduces this in Texas and then other states kind of follow.
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Right. It'd be interesting to see. I mean, I know they did it somewhere before.
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I want to say Wisconsin or like Michigan. They had a season that they opened
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up temporarily or like to kill off X amount of them because they were getting
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the same deal overran with them Because they're federally protected, so you have to get...
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It's like it takes an act of Congress to be able to kill a comrade.
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Literally. I would like to know the benefit. Like, obviously,
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I'm not saying they need to be extinct, but I would like to know the benefit
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of having comrade in the ecosystem.
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Don't know. That's a good question, honestly. I mean, we literally almost hit two this weekend.
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Whoa. What are you talking about? Not hit, but they were floating on the log,
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and they would not fly. We came six foot away from the log.
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It's like the dodo bird. They went extinct for a reason because they're dying.
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Yeah, there's that.
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To answer a question real quick in the chat to writer, I don't know how to say his last name, Petri?
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Petri Petri? Asking if we were going out this weekend. Yeah,
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we will definitely be going out this weekend.
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Not very common for me, but we'll be out there probably both days.
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You know what they say about common people.
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Not this again. Yeah, I already burned you so bad earlier with that.
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We're not doing it. Cross-eyed reading that text message.
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That's not good. You were driving. No. Don't. No, I was not driving and texting.
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Really? Huh. Damn it. Crazy. Your ticket will be in the mail.
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Look at that. He's already writing it right now, too. He's getting his ticket book out. Yep.
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But no, there have been a lot of people bitching about Comerants.
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It's been coming more and more of a thing. So I like to see them. It happened.
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I don't know about you boys, but it seems like the past two years I've seen way more than ever.
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They're getting more common, for sure. I mean, yeah, you'd see a couple groups
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here and there, but we were scouting last week, and we seemed to have had to
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be 300 of them, at least, up high.
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Just lines and lines of them.
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I mean, the past couple years, it's all season now. It seemed like it used to
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only be early in the year when it was still really warm.
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But now we see lines of them, even in the goose season, where obviously up close,
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You can tell a comarant from a goose, but when they're pretty far away,
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sometimes it's like, are those comarants or those geese?
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And then you squint your eyes a little bit and you're like, yeah,
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those are not, those are not honkers. Those things have a tail on them. Yeah. Yeah.
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Yeah, I don't know. I'm overseeing them, but it's interesting to see if it makes
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anywhere, if they do get it done, if other southern states follow and it kind
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of works its way north or what.
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This really depends. I mean, like, for what they're trying to do,
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you got to really prove that they're a major problem for it to happen because
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it's federally protected birds. So, like, you have to come with all the facts. Right.
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Yeah. I mean, open up, then it's going to open up the conversation for other,
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federally protected animals as well.
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If they can get something like that past, it'll open that door.
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Could you imagine, though? That'd be so much fun. Maybe we just go to Texas
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and shoot some comarants before they get it going.
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Dude, comarants and sandhill cranes?
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Yes. Why not? The rib eye of the sky. Commies and cranes, 27.
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And the trash can of the sky.
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Yeah, the rib eye of the sky and the chakras of the sky.
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Oh, Rick. Do you want to let the listeners know that everybody made it to the
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hunt this past weekend and everyone was on time? So, that's still looking good.
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Numbers are great right now. Yep. So, we do. We are going to get a board set up.
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We have a whiteboard and a trailer now. I don't know if we'll use that.
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But we got to get something set up to where we can keep better track of this
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and keep everybody posted on it.
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But we only hunted one day. So, nobody was late. Everybody was on time.
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Things went as planned Saturday. Other than the fact that we didn't kill a lot of geese.
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Yeah, right. Yeah, that was a drag.
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Annoying. But no, so, Zach, you got a wedding Saturday night,
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right? Or something like that?
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Sure do. Not mine, but I do have a wedding. Would you, so let me ask you this.
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Would you like to commit to hunting Sunday now, live on the stream,
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so that way everybody knows you committed to going, and when you don't show
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up, that's a mark on your score.
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And if you don't commit right here, I was going to call you a bitch in the chat.
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So I would. Yeah, absolutely. Yes, they should.
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Like, I want to commit, right? You have to. If you don't commit, you are.
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Okay. All right. All right. All right. You're hearing it. You're hearing it
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here. I'll commit and I won't be late. Hear, hear.
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Hear ye, hear ye. Hear the LaVilla post.
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Zach Neuendorf says you will not be late for Sunday mornings.
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The LaVilla courier. do you guys do you guys by chance have a bible in your
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eyes house so we can swear on a firm yep can't say that I do oh okay well anyways,
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everybody heard it heard it here so I've got a copy of the red fur and grows if that counts,
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Austin do you have our notes from last one that you wrote down for or who wrote
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it down Zach I do Zach put it down so,
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what is our over unders and our guesses here on how many times you're gonna
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be late or don't show up yeah yeah so.
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So, Austin said I'd commit to 22,
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and I wouldn't be late for 15.
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Tyler, oh my God, my kid just exploded, sorry.
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Tyler said 19 and 13. Dang, I was hard on you. Jared King even got in on there, said 11. Yeah.
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What do you mean? What's 11? Like, you're going to miss 11, Hunt?
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I think so. I think he's, I think he, I was saying he said I'd only show up for 11.
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Well, he would like to place a bet. Yeah, he'd like to place a bet. Oh, well, let's hear it.
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Gambling is legal in Iowa, so let's go ahead and get this underway.
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Yeah, I mean, you're the one placing the bet. I can't sell it and buy it at the same time, so.
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What are we putting the line at this weekend? Yeah, he's not going Sunday.
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Carton of Virginia Slims.
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Just to confirm that Another person that's close with Zach Colton Bradley also Agrees that,
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Zach will not be there on Sunday Alright well When I am we'll do a Facebook
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live From the boat To let everybody know if I made it or not I swear if I wake
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up Sunday morning To go hunting and Zach's sleeping in my driveway,
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He's crashed into the dumpster just passed out.
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You never know. You never know. I've done some I've done some wild shit.
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So yes, I'll commit now. I'll do it. I'll be there. 9 a.m. Apology test.
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So it's Mr. Chase Sanders here. He commented something that I'm trying to read,
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but it's so small, so I'll pull it up.
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He said he loves the idea of being able to shoot camarants, but I bet the wanton
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waste would be incredibly high. I definitely agree with that because I wouldn't eat a camarant.
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Yep. He says he would eat 100% of them, and he imagines they taste similar to
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a common merg, which is possible.
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I've never ate a common merg, honestly. I've never killed one.
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Yeah, I've never eaten one.
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And then he feels most other folks would not share the same feelings on eating
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them and most would be disgusted without being clean.
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Disgarded. Whatever. Jesus Christ. Read it.
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Some of us worked way more than,
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two hours a day like Mr. Zach did today in his boxers and his tank top.
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Don't hate the player, baby. Hate the game. Right? Don't hate us because you ain't us.
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I would agree with Chase completely on that. Absolutely. But I would think if
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it's like a if it's a put on season to like kill some just to get rid of them because they're,
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killing the fish population or affecting the population of fish that there would
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be places for the DNR you could drop them off and basically donate them,
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for needy families or hungry or whatever there's certain places you can do that
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with I don't know I feel like if we did actually like are you okay?
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The thought of Tyler being like, I'm not going to share my notes,
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but if you want some of these camarades, you can eat those.
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I mean, that kind of brings up the point that I was going to say.
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I think that if we were actually going to, I wouldn't necessarily even say hunt
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them, but shoot them if we had the opportunity.
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I feel like our group especially is like, whatever we kill, we eat.
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So, I don't know if I am, like, willing to say that, like, no,
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we're not going to eat them, or we would never eat them, because we just,
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we don't throw away birds either, so...
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I personally would not eat them, but somebody would. I would give them to somebody
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that would eat them if I was not going to eat them, if I shot it.
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But, I mean, I would try it in the name of science. Yeah.
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I got to try the Brett Henderson experience.
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Maybe good, maybe really bad. We don't know. Sometimes maybe good, sometimes maybe shit.
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Ooh. Jared said a 9 a.m. apology text incoming from Zach. I feel like 9 is even generous.
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Where have you been? Where have you been? Oh, did you guys already say that?
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Yeah. Before we talked about Chase's comment. Oh, my bad.
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But I will say, kind of touching back on Chase's comment, I agree,
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and I try to eat or use everything I kill, right?
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But part of that kind of makes me wonder with, like, trapping. You know, the kayaks.
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Like, yeah, I would say, you know, a lot of guys are skinning them out and getting
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the fur off them, so you're not, like, wasting everything, but you're not eating them.
25:54
Right. You know, how many guys trap coons and actually skin them out or definitely don't eat them.
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I'm going to have to try it. You know, so like, it just kind of like Tyler said,
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if there's a need to less of them, I don't know if I would feel as bad about,
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if they were saying, hey, this is a damaging thing to the population or,
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or to other species of wildlife, we need to get rid of some.
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I get it but I'm not sure if I'd feel super terrible about dropping off at a
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DNR station and saying give this to the needy or whatever Tyler said.
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Here's all my comarants I killed. Yeah. Do I get a sticker for each one or every dozen?
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Uh...
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Brett is, that's racist. Yeah.
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But no, I mean, like, there's, and if you do, I don't know, like,
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we generally, we process all ours for the most part and turn into hot sticks,
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brats, whatever, and we are slacking on the hot sticks and stuff this year.
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Kate has still got a freezer load. But, yeah.
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God damn it.
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You guys need to lock it in. have you read the comment.
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I know Oh man With shit like that I'm gonna cross my screen,
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oh my god let's get it together here boys I don't even,
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know where I was going with that anymore yeah I don't we're giving the comments
27:30
to the orphans eating the ducks ourselves,
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to anybody listening to this podcast if you would like to understand why we
27:41
are laughing so hard right now you need to be on the live stream and watching
27:44
the live stream checking out the comments,
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because we can't say all the comments on the podcast but,
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if you like some good humor there's plenty of it here all the time no we were
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talking about hot things and processing our ducks Oh, that's it.
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Yeah, with, obviously, you and I both, I mean, you do the hot six,
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right? But I was more than willing to help, but we were both moving kind of at the wrong time.
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So, yeah, we do the problem. We ended up taking it in our time.
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Alright. Enough.
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That'll be enough of that.
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My room's getting blurry from all the gayness.
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All right. We did end up taking all of our tucks to the meat locker this year. So we did get six made.
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Colton's got a great point here. We're going to have a commercial break.
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We'll be back soon. Let's hear a word from our sponsors.
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And we're back. And that's the word. All right. Wow.
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That was. I'm just going to go full screen so I can't even see any more of the
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comets. Yeah. Oh, shit. I'm sweating.
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That was some good stuff there. But since you're back, Trenton,
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and hopefully you're not getting distracted again, we did talk about Coot Wars.
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We need to have your input on it.
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Should it be a season-long thing with point system and you get points for killing
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50, 100, 150, whatever, or banned.
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But we got people interested in this. We need your input.
29:42
The meat locker was not talking about Trenton's wife. I was talking about the place in Milo.
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It just processes meat, not holds it.
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But yes, we do need to discuss more details on food wars. As far as meat processing,
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I'm trying to get us back on track, and this is so hard.
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Okay, so meat processing, we normally get hot sticks, brats, hot stuff.
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Usually we eat all of them. We're pretty good at it. Or if we get to where we,
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have a bunch, that breakfast sausage is killer.
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Yeah, it's the best, in my opinion.
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But if we get to a point where we're getting close to season and we usually
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have a bunch, usually we'll find people that need it or like we'll give it to
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a family in need that could use the food stuff like that like it doesn't go
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to waste doesn't just go in the dumpster,
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that's just the right thing to do,
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Well, I think we all feel the same way and pretty strongly about that.
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Don't kill it if you're not going to use it.
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Just stop leaving them. I am. I'm going to quit. Little Smokies made out of
30:45
ducks, though? That might not be that bad.
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That actually would probably be pretty good. Like in a crock pot.
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Yeah. I don't think that's some barbecue sauce, a little sweet heat, baby rays.
30:58
Yeah. I'll tell you what. But circling back to like our goose hunt Saturday,
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that was a pretty good time and pretty funny. I wish you guys were out of the
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boat like Cade and I were to watch that goose try and escape from Ellie that was crippled.
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And like I thought I had it dead and she went out after it and then all of a
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sudden just took off swimming.
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And it disappears in the willows and then Ellie gets in the willows,
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disappears, and all you hear is a goose honking.
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And then I hear it getting closer again And then the goose pops out of the willows,
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and here comes that black dog right on its tail.
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And then when she brought it to me, Ellie had a hold of the goose by its chest,
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and the goose had a hold of Ellie by the back of her head.
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So I don't know who retrieved who, but I got the goose.
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I'll say the goose ended up in the boat, which, by the way, a hell of a catch by Pookie.
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First team, all hands. You were no hands. That was straight. Bricks.
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You would have thought homie was allergic to geese the way he slapped that goose away from him.
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No thanks. Don't want it. Ellie got a whole workout. Got the goose. Yep.
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She had a great time. She was wound up. So I'm looking forward to this weekend.
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Hopefully she gets a good workout in and chills the fuck out.
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Yeah. I mean, after that, we had a four pack.
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Think about it and I was like oh this might get dirty and then it was all teal,
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and wood ducks and a couple pennies,
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We didn't see many mallards, and I did see some youth had some luck killing mallards, so...
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That kind of surprised me seeing a decent amount of mallards being shot for
32:46
this time of year, I will say. I've seen more mallards being killed than I feel like normal.
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Yeah, I think, and I've seen a couple pictures I don't know if you guys follow,
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it's more for me being nosy, right?
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But the photographs or whatever, the wildlife images of Iowa or whatever,
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there's guys that take pictures with their phone and post them and just seen
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one yesterday that was posted of a obviously a flooded cornfield, which is weird, right?
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But full of geese and greenheads. I was like, oh, why can't that be here?
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Get some of these greenheads down here. Yeah, it's coming. It's coming.
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I'll be really curious to see how this season looks with another decline in numbers.
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So, like, we didn't see a major decline from last year, so I expect it to be,
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pretty similar looking if the weather's the same. You know what I mean? Or close.
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But I'd be curious to what everybody else sees as we have another down year in numbers.
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We originally thought there for a bit that we were going to have a good year.
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Didn't get so lucky. Not exactly a terrible year for numbers because it didn't get much worse.
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But it really can't get a lot worse because then we just won't have a season
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if it gets too much worse.
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Yeah. Yeah, I mean, numbers could have been better, but I expected better, honestly. I didn't too.
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The birds we kind of saw and I thought they were going to be higher numbers, but they weren't.
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Well, and just with like the amount of moisture we had this spring in the Dakotas,
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I feel like in Canada, like I feel like they had a wet enough year.
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But then when I went up there and worked, what was that? First week of September or so.
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And it was way drier than I thought.
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So I guess I just maybe didn't pay attention to the weather close enough,
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but I thought it was a lot more wet up there than what it looked like.
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I don't know I mean I am curious I'm really curious to see,
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with the forecast extended forecast just kind of trickling in hopefully it stays
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that way and we just kind of trickle some birds but I'm curious to see if we
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we see more birds this year than we did last year or similar or not,
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right I'm really hoping really hoping we get a big snowstorm like we did I don't know,
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seven years ago now probably six or seven years ago right at the end of October
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and we just get a bunch of ducks and we hold them for like a month because the
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weather doesn't it just stays stagnant then for a bit,
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that would be nice that would be sick but we're supposed to get a lot of snow
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this year supposed to yep yep supposed to be a hard winter,
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i remember last year we went on a hunt that started snowing on us and the whole
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i mean the truck ride the night before the truck ride the boat ride the setting up decoys,
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the bullshitting before light all i heard was how great today's gonna be because
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it's just start snowing on us and we shot two birds all day.
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Like, are you FF rough or like just rough?
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In this text, probably just rough. Okay. Yeah. No, that makes sense. Yeah.
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Hmm. At least we run out of propane that day. Yeah, we don't have propane still.
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We do. We are still out of propane in the boat from last time we went hunting last year.
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That rain day was a cold day. That was miserable. Yeah. Okay.
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Okay, so speaking of that, our last time hunting in the boat last year, it rained.
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Nobody had any rain gear except for Fuki and I.
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Did Zachary buy a raincoat for hunting between now and then?
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There's a certain person in this chat that I'm going to look at in the camera
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and go, because he was supposed to get some for me, but it should be ordered.
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Okay, so no, did not get it yet.
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I haven't received it, but I'm hoping I receive it within the next week.
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Are you planning on hunting on the ride? Some point this year.
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I mean, if we have to. I just would rather not wait until it is raining to be
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like, hmm, I really wish that would have came in.
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Did Cade get one? I know he bought a raincoat for work, but did he buy a hunting
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coat that is waterproof?
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It? It's ordered. Yeah, I see it. It's ordered. That means Zach might be dry this year.
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He rips it on day one. Why not? Be guaranteed that'd be my luck.
37:23
I'll push it up against the heater.
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Oh, man. Dude, the amount of people I've seen burn their bibs or waders on a heater is insane.
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I'm pretty sure, back to date, I'm pretty sure he ordered a new jacket because
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he had to get one for work. Yeah, but that was a...
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I could have sworn he just bought a black Carhartt raincoat.
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Maybe he did. Maybe he'll wear that. Who knows? Maybe. I don't know.
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I mean, I don't know if he gets any, like, work. Like, you know.
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Won't rip. We'll forget. Probably. Good chance. Fair chance.
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I'm going to be like, I'm going to sit up and be like, my app said it wasn't
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supposed to rain. Damn it.
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He's got to show up first to forget it.
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Here we go. So, get the, I'm going to have the counter ready.
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For Sunday. Can't wait to check it off the list.
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It's unfortunate, because if I check it off this early, then I'm immediately lost.
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I do want to bring up one thing. I just got a text from Trenton reminding me,
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because I had it wrote down to bring this up.
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Do any of you know CNS calls or heard of CNS calls?
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Fun fact, the call I got you for Christmas is a CNS call.
38:35
Yeah, so the main guy for that, Matt Rustad, was in a bad side-by-side accident,
38:42
UTV accident, and he is in bad shape in the hospital. Really? Damn.
38:49
So he's needs all the help he can get,
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and it's a lot of the waterfowl communities you know doing what they can for
38:56
him and reaching out but definitely keep him in your thoughts as he's trying
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to recover trying to get through it i don't i think i don't know if,
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well i haven't seen an update lately to see what the newest is on a status,
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but it's not good this weekend.
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Uh it was this past weekend i'm trying to think i think it was this past weekend,
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was he i mean not that it necessarily matters but was he out riding around like
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riding side by sides or was he hunting and had a had an accident i don't know,
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do not know any of the answers for that i'm just kind of looking on his facebook
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page right now yeah trenton said
39:35
saturday night yeah there's There's not a lot of info on it, but yeah.
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That's unfortunate. Give me your thoughts. He's one of us, avid waterfowl hunter.
39:46
Got the call company and everything like that.
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But it can happen to anybody. I'll be thinking of him, yeah.
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There's definitely times that I should have been, so.
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Catches up with everybody at some point. For sure.
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Yeah, it looks like I've seen a picture from his mom, I believe.
40:05
Looks like he's on a ventilator and all kinds of stuff so man fam.
40:13
Just one thing to keep in mind. Not even just side-by-side accidents,
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but to everybody going out to Central Zone Duck opener here,
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just be mindful of your equipment and be mindful of the people around you when
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it comes to safeties on the guns.
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For me, a big one is not taking a safety off as you're...
40:30
When you're working birds and you think they're going to come in,
40:34
people will pop them off and that kind of drives me nuts at times because if
40:36
your gun falls over or you lose grip on it, you never know what could happen.
40:41
Yep. Oh, there you go.
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I'll put that across oh yeah CNS is doing a raffle Trenton says for $20 an entry
40:51
it's for a Tim Grounds call all info is on their page,
40:55
and someone someone won 10k someone won what,
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10k donated to donated the winner won and ran it back oh okay so someone won
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10k donated the winner won and ran it back so it's still going on yep,
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yeah there you go cns calls page love it.
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Go give it a check out. If it's still going, get your $20 entered for a chance to win a call.
41:25
It's obviously going to a good cause. Help him with medical bills and the family and everything.
41:30
Because that shit adds up. But yeah.
41:36
I guess the enclosed trailer this weekend, we got all wired up.
41:41
To kind of move us into our closing talking points here or closing this up.
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But we posted a reel right before we went live here about six o'clock go give
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that a like and go check it out and we appreciate you guys sharing and liking
41:58
that stuff it goes a long ways to getting it out there,
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but go check it out like we we've done some major changes to the trailer this
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year stuff we've been wanting to do we have a lot more to go,
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it's just time is never on our side just like anybody,
42:13
it takes a long time what we we were out there pretty much well i was up there
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all day sunday but you were out there pretty much all day sunday too i don't
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think i left until like after seven o'clock or pretty close to around seven o'clock,
42:27
i was did the game get over yeah did the rams eagles finish when you left or
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was it raiders and chiefs raiders and chief yeah yeah that game was over after yeah,
42:37
it had to be pretty close to seven then like 6 45 maybe at the earliest.
42:42
But that was a lot of work, a lot of wiring. I don't care to do any more wiring
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for a minute. Yeah, no kidding.
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So many zip ties pulling so much wire through.
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And I do want to say we appreciate Zach for his help yet Sunday.
42:57
He rattle canned like one locker, I think, and then he had beat himself and had to leave. Oh, two.
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Two. One and a half. Remember, I didn't do that one side.
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It ain't much, but it's honest work. The lockers are, I mean,
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short of touching up the inside of them, really.
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If we decide that we're going to do that, get a top plate made for them,
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bolt them together, and throw them in the trailer, they're ready to go.
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Oh, they're in the trailer.
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Yeah, just not bolted together with no top plate or anything on them.
43:30
I figured if I had to move them, because after you left, I'm like,
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shit, I should have got his help moving these back in the shop. Yeah.
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But I went ahead and threw them in the trailer just to put them away and not
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to where they're going to get knocked all around and beat up or whatever. Right.
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Yeah, we just got to build. I got to build a little top ceiling for the lockers
43:50
because they didn't have any top on them and then put a piece of angle around
43:53
the whole top to have more storage above the lockers.
43:56
Those things are ready to rip. Yeah. I think we should paint the inside pink.
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Black outside, pink inside.
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Make it brighter in there when you turn the light on. I'm going to paint the
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inside of mine pink. Number 69.
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You don't get one. You took the sticker. You took the 69 off.
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It's in the back of the side by side. I threw it away. No, you didn't.
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You even know it was there.
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I did, actually. I seen it when I was cleaning tools up.
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You better not throw my plaque away, damn it. What? My little number plaque.
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Oh, it's gone. Oh, well. That let it graphics come in a clutch with the new 69 vinyl kit.
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I'm kidding. It's still in there. Jeez. They really did turn out really well, though.
44:39
I was genuinely surprised, like, just what a little sweat equity did to them.
44:45
I mean, Zach and I put quite a few rivets in, sanded a bunch,
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cleaned them up. Cut legs off.
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Yeah. We both got soaked power washing lockers.
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Yeah, because that's been your guys' project on this, like, just solely you
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guys. I'll help finish the top on them and get them bolted in the trailer,
45:07
but you guys have done all the legwork of going and getting lockers and painting
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them and restoring them.
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Yeah, from what they started at, and we do have some pictures of that process,
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so maybe we'll add that to the page at some point.
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Once we actually get them all finished up and bolted in and everything,
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we'll put a whole montage of how the trailer was before. We actually did a pretty
45:30
good job this time of taking pictures before, during, and after too so that
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everybody could kind of follow along with it.
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Way better than I thought at taking some pictures. I got pictures of the trailer
45:44
where we polished and you were wiping on it and then not polished panels in
45:47
it where it shows a difference and,
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it'll be kind of cool to share all those out, maybe in a two or three or four
45:53
part series of posting three or four photos at a time.
45:59
Very rewarding to even be at this point. I know we still obviously have,
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I mean, not a ton of work, but a decent amount of work that we still would like
46:08
to do with the trailer but we're in a much better spot with the trailer and
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i think it'll be much more,
46:15
effective and efficient to hunt out of this year so pretty rewarding very glad
46:21
that we were able to grind out a lot of that work,
46:24
i would definitely agree with you on that like i mean we do still have a lot of work but like,
46:29
the bulk majority of like the tedious hard work is over like the rest of it
46:35
like when we get the solar panel kit and the inverter and stuff like that's
46:38
going to be a little bit but i don't think it's gonna be near as much as like
46:41
wiring all them interior lights and,
46:44
light bars and switch panel and trying to make it look good and building shelves like,
46:48
that was a task yeah no it was,
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yeah a lot a lot of very tedious work and yeah running wire and playing electrician
46:57
for the weekend none none of us do so So hopefully the trailer doesn't burn
47:02
itself down in the middle of a field the first time.
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Well, we're going to be a bitch.
47:07
We'll be all right. It's...
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We could have wired it way faster and you can do that stuff a lot quicker,
47:13
but the quality is not going to be there. Then you're going to have problems,
47:16
you know, two, maybe three hunts in, or even on your first.
47:21
And I'd rather take a little extra time and get it done right the first time,
47:25
hopefully, and not have as many problems down the road. Like you're going to
47:29
have stuff go wrong and problems eventually, but yeah, no, for sure.
47:34
I would definitely say the way that we wired it is like, was very well thought through that
47:41
if we do end up having some issue with some of the wire like we did make it
47:46
available enough that like we're not gonna have to completely tear shit apart to fix it,
47:51
but like everything's hit enough that like you don't just go walk through and
47:55
like hit wires or really even see them unless you're paying attention to it right yeah.
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So, that's exciting stuff. I think that, I mean, I got a little bit to add after
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somebody does our closing statement here, our walkout for getting on this podcast.
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Do you guys have anything you want to say before we start the music and start
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ending the podcast here?
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I think I'm good. I'm good. Get a hold of us. Which one of you is going to do the exit?
48:26
Yeah, Coot Wars, let us know. We need some feedback on that.
48:28
We will make a post on Facebook about a potential Coot Wars. Yes.
48:34
Cookie you want to run us out i got it all right,
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now i just want to thank everybody that uh jumped on everybody that commented
48:41
tonight we do appreciate you guys thank you guys for following along the last
48:44
couple weeks especially as we've been getting boats ready for the season
48:48
been doing all the updates on the trailers it's been fun uh we have had a couple
48:52
people come out uh so again it's always fun interacting,
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with everyone and we do appreciate all the help that we've gotten along the way too so,
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central zone is open this weekend if you can get out do get out be safe water's
49:08
high take precautions obviously but go kill some ducks man it's the best time of the year,
49:16
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