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Episode 15: Holiday Hunting Stories · Outside TG

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Hi. Welcome to the TG Buck pool
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podcast. My name is Charlie Bronner and
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I'm Jeff the Hawkeye happy. Ah, merry Christmas everybody
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early. Couple days early here?
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Yeah. It's it's an exciting time of
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the year. If not real exciting time in the
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book pool, anything going on you've been hunting at all past
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couple weeks? No, I haven't been hunting just
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because of the weather. It's been pretty cold hard to
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get out. When the time change, you know,
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there's not much time after work on the weekends just doing
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Christmas stuff. Shopping whatnot, basketball
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tournaments for the kids. So I haven't been out much but I
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have been putting dear cameras out and trying to see if the big
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ones are still kind of hanging around.
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And unfortunately I have nothing, it's just all doze.
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And some coyotes and a really, really big bobcat that came in
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and I just found out that it takes like six to eight years to
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get a tag. So I guess I'm not going to go
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Bobcat hunting. Yeah, it's pretty pretty
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uneventful. It's weird how the animals
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They're definitely in, like, in hibernation mode, kind of sort
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of thing, you know, dear kind of like zombies right now this time
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you're just kind of walk around. I don't know why they didn't get
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out much, it's weird. Like I said last week, my
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uncle's are still sending sending pictures of bucks on the
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trail. Cams, haven't gotten as many of
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this week, but still getting some and the Mystery of my
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backpack. Is it continues?
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And since I'm off next week, I'm tempted to take a day and just
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just go out, not red. It's a long drive obviously, but
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go to the woods and just retrace my steps.
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Did I leave my bag somewhere out there, like bring my dogs with
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maybe but my other thought was out, bring the crossbow along
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and maybe I'll stumble across a deer while I'm out there.
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He definitely could should do that because right, I mean you
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can walk up on them in the snow. They don't really take off right
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now because The, you know, their their program right now to
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conserve energy and stuff. So you could walk up on a deer
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kind of, of course it. But if I got the deer, my my
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knife and my license and everything is of, I could
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reprint my license obviously and I have more than one knife.
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But yeah. All my shit that I use for a
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deer is, is in the backpack. That's missing.
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Yeah, that's all. That's what I do.
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I mean it even if you just take her Bowl, worry about that
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stuff. After the fact, you know, that
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way, I mean, you might get a big one sometimes sometimes that's
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all guys, get them when they're little.
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These prepared. It would it would be a lot of
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fun to go out there. To try to find my backpack and
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come home with a deer and preferably the backpack also.
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Mmm. Yeah, that would be cool.
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That'd be like the, what do you want?
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You want to call it the, As the World Turns type thingy.
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Whatever what, you know what I'm thinking about?
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Not accept that something good will happen.
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Karma kind of thing Karma. Yeah that couldn't think of the
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word. I feel like it today.
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I'm hoping that doesn't mean I have bad karma right now because
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yeah I didn't get a deer and I don't have my bag.
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I feel like I did something bad to deserve it then.
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Yeah. Well you know what?
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Though I was just talking to my buddies.
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Think Peters, he's working on the western part of the state
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and he was plowing actually couldn't get out of his
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driveway. They have their just buried in
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snow right now. So I'm assuming, if it is out
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there, you're not going to Find it.
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It's buried. Well, thanks a lot like, the
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thanks for the vote of confidence.
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I feel great now, and like a foot and a half of snow right
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now and it's coming our way right now.
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So yeah. Anyways this yeah so yeah with
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the with the buck pool kind of there's really I mean typically
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at this point in the podcast we would go into the standings and
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everything like that but nothing's changed.
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Josh's Josh Andrews. Mark is still number one.
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Justin still? In second Mike, wine further
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still in third? No no.
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Where's Miss in second foul? My oh my God see this is what
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happens when we don't prepare and I don't have notes.
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That's right. Thank you.
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Where's Buzz in second? Justin's in third, my bad word,
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sorry. So all nothing's changed since
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last week, let's put it that way.
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What else is going on this time of year?
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What kind of hunting activities you?
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And I talked earlier about some of the stuff that guys have
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going here at TG. Well, I know that a lot of the
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guys are doing coyote stuff like a rabbit.
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I'm going on right now with this fresh snow out.
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It's a lot easier. Hunt night way.
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It's a lot more fun. Better for the dogs.
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If it's Jason, all the animals. They can see them with the snow.
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I know like you know guys like Zeke Peters, Travis claw hatch
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Mitch take a the gene Court family.
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They're all big in the dogs right now.
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I'm sure there's a lot of guys in the western part of the state
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that are into it to from Rapids and Tomahawk.
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So actually my take my brother up there, he's a big rabbit
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Hunter and try to get some snow shoes up in the tomahawk area.
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That'd be kind of fun. But yeah, other than that, deer.
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Hunting wise. I know guys are sending me
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pictures. What some decent box?
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Yes. All that mean, there's I don't
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see any potential. Guys are gonna beat Josh didn't
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like that but you never know. So a lot of the guys are doing
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the fair bearing hunting right now, so well, that brings up
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another topic actually. And that is a lot of guys.
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We've her up maybe not a lot, but at least a few, we've heard
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have have shot bucks this year and not sent pictures in.
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I know you and I have talked about this on the podcast before
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but not sent pictures in because they know they're not going to
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win. And I've gotten a lot of ideas.
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I know you have to from people about next year, maybe we should
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set aside some prizes. For anybody that shoots a buck
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but doesn't finish in the money, they would go into a special
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drawing for a special drawing for some extra prizes.
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Meaning that, you know, just trying to encourage people to
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send their pictures in. I also had a good idea from
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somebody this week, how about have a, have a prize or two for
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people who shoot doze. So, they sent those pictures in
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and, you know, we have more content.
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Basically, I'm wondering what your thoughts are on that.
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Yeah, I definitely got to do something different, something,
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different next year with the with that money and all that
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stuff, I know. It's hard to keep everybody
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happy. We get guys complaining.
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You don't like, you know, there's a lot of there's some
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drama and there, no money. Get into it.
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I don't believe you imagine that.
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So yeah, we're going to do something different with the,
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how we're going to disperse money.
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Give everybody a chance better a better chance to win stuff,
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especially if you harvest. An animal, right?
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Well, we'll come up with something guys are giving me
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ideas and whatnot. So, we're trying to make it
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bigger and better every year. That's all.
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We're trying to. This thing's things up exploded.
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In growth the last 23 years. So, yeah, the, the the structure
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of the prizes in the payout hasn't changed much.
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But yeah, a lot of a lot of good ideas coming from people for
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next year, I guess, is my point. Yeah.
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Yeah, believe it or not, guys, are you complaining that?
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There's not enough prizes. Can you imagine that?
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Like we have over 50 prizes from vendors and stuff and guys are
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still complaining but that's just a handful of guys.
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Yeah, exactly. We don't want to harp on the,
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I've heard way more positive than negative.
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I'm sure. Yeah.
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Yep. No vendors.
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It, awesome. I can't believe that some of the
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stuff we got this year. Yeah, speaking of that, lets go
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into we this week. If you've been following,
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auntie-ji Buck pool.com, we've had so many donations from
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vendors that we were able to for the second time this season.
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Do a prize every day we decided for the holidays this week for,
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with Christmas coming up, a prize every day.
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I'm just going to run down the list in case people haven't seen
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it on the website. So Monday, actually, maybe you
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can give a little more detail. Detail on this because I know
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you talked to Eric Herber at Victaulic donated, a Carhartt
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jacket and it wasn't just, he didn't just hand you a jacket.
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What he said was put the winner in contact with me and and I
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will get a jacket for him, his size.
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Like, do you want to go into that?
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I know, there's more to it than that.
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Yeah, let me pull this up here. What day was that on?
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That was on day the 19th. Yeah.
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She'd I'm kinda on the website right now.
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Yeah, Eric her, but he did the same last year where he, he has
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a real nice Carhartt, jacket, black, heavy-duty jacket.
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I mean, it's a really nice price and then there was, I think
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there was like a Bluetooth like pill speaker thing.
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I mean, there's all sorts of shit in there that he put in
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there. I'm not even sure what's in
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there this year, but I got into it with, I sent him an email
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with Jacob, Jacob forgan the lucky guy was, he's the winner
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this year. And I got in contact with Eric
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and Eric was going to get them all that stuff with the right
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size jacket. So Jacob was pretty floored
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about that. Would see portable battery
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charger. It's just says, Victaulic swag,
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Bluetooth speaker and a car her jackets, whatever he's going to
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give it's always kind of a surprise every year so that's
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actually pretty good prize at Victaulic and are Kerber donated
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this year. So congrats Jacob forgan uh, you
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lucky SOB. So he was so excited.
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Yeah, that's it. A great prize, definitely
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congratulations to Jacob and thanks a lot to Eric Tuesday,
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December 20th. Another really cool prize
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courtesy of Tyler, Redwing. At HSA a wild game zero Trace
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sent elimination duffel bag. What do you know about those?
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I got one that's very similar to that.
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It's a scent lock where it has like the O's Onyx inside of it.
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And a lot of times, you know, you get sick of washing your
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clothes all the time. So, when you're done hunting,
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like, when I go out hunting, I'll get dressed like, outside
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of my car and all that stuff. It's kind of funny, but a lot of
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guys do it and they have all their stuff in a bag.
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Well, we put your clothes in a bag and you turn on this zero
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Trace essentially illumination. And it sends all like ozone and
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it's all your bacteria and it eliminates the order from your
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clothes. So it's kind of a cool thing.
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The technology that's out there this nowadays, it's pretty neat.
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Could I just live inside? That bag would be the quest but
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what's that? Could I just live inside that
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bag? No.
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I think Charles you probably still should shower, you know.
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No, you couldn't fit inside there, you're right.
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Well, if I mean, if I had one large enough like could I sleep
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in it or you probably can sleep in and just turn it on, he went
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after shower. Could I turn my turn that into
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my deer stand? Well, you know, they do have
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stuff like that that you know, zonix they guys will hang them
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up in their trees. I know I just thought I'd like
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the idea of being encased in it. Yeah, I don't know.
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Yeah I know that it's um it's harmful I guess if you read that
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in. So I would highly got it by so
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good. Probably I shouldn't.
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No thank you though. Somebody finds me passed out in
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a wild game. Zero Trace bag like the idiot?
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Yeah, yeah, that's funny. Anyway.
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So Dylan Golic winner of the winner of that amazing bag.
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That's a really cool prize and Dylan is a local 18.
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Fox Valley Sheet Metal pre-apprentice.
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He's currently working at Clintonville schools I believe.
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Yeah, I think so, right? I think so congratulations.
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Dilek or dilek while? Sorry Dylan I'm really on my
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game today. Next day, December 21st.
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Wednesday, a really nice gun case, courtesy of Jody.
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Crispin at United Rentals went to Brian Barth.
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I know Brian was really excited about that when I saw him
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yesterday looks like a pretty nice gun case.
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It's a case that looks like you can have one with a scope and
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all that stuff. That's got all the like
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compartments like little pouches on it and stuff to put all your
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shells and it's a nice case. Really nice case.
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And like I said, kind of a pleasant surprise when Brian got
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in yesterday. Yesterday and saw that sitting
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on his desk, nothing wrong with that.
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Show up at work and there's a gun case sitting on your, on
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your desk. Today's prize was for Blaze
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video trail cams, courtesy of, Doug ham.
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At wind Supply, Justin brought these to us when we were in
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Wisconsin, Rapids, a couple weeks ago.
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And those and and I was reading up on line.
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By the way it sounds like really nice trail cams.
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I mean, not not that they are necessarily bad ones.
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I wouldn't know but like reviews and stuff I read it that like
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these are quality. Really nice trail cams.
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Yeah. I never heard of them before
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they called Blaze video. Trail cams, I never heard of it
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before, but yeah, I gave us four of them from when Supply I was
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awesome. Did not expect that.
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And those went to Andy gets Tyler Linsley, Craig, Kennard
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and Josh. Lemire who Josh is a big hunter
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at least so. So he said to me this morning.
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So hip. I hope you find some kind of use
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for it, but I know the other guys actually are big Hunters.
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So we talked to Andy, when we were out in Rapids, a couple
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weeks ago, also, and he shot a couple bucks this year Farm.
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Yeah, mmm. And Tyler.
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Tyler Linsley is our piping format over at mulva right now.
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Craig Canard got a buck this year.
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He's a local 18, sheet, metal journeyman, he's at GP.
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And yeah, Josh is our jack-of-all-trades guy but not
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not a big hunter but wanted to participate in the pool
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nonetheless and got himself a trail Camp.
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Yeah that's pretty cool. And then we're breaking news
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here for anybody that's listening to the podcast early
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but our December 23rd Prime. Rise is a fifty dollar Fleet
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Farm gift card. Courtesy of Marianne Christensen
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at Kohler. And let me pull this up because
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we actually already, we already Drew for it.
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It's not going up on the website till tomorrow that's going to
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John Deering. Congratulations John.
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He's our Tomahawk. Yeah.
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Service manager and Tomahawk. Yeah.
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Mary Ann thanks Marianne for that.
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She always donates to this every year.
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So, she's very trusted vendor through tweak are so cool
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person. Yeah.
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And personally, a big fan of the Fleet Farm gift card.
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Yep. I have.
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Yeah, who wouldn't be honestly. So that, that gets us caught up
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on our on our prizes for the past week and are we We are
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still doing one next week. Correct.
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Yeah we're going back to one next week.
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It's not a whole week. Yeah we got two weeks left it
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was the January 8th. I think the Arbuckle season
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closes. So yeah, two more weeks, two
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more weeks. I believe one of the prizes is a
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Visa gift card and one is a nice trail cam.
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The first-ever what's remaining? I think was a tactic and I think
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yes correct. Very popular trail camera.
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So the other I had a story I wanted to share when we were
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talking about. What are we going to talk about
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today? There's not much going on in the
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pool and I started thinking of like with the holidays here.
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Have I ever had any memorable Christmas like Hans at Christmas
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time or at the end of the year? And I wanted to share this story
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even though it's not deer hunting.
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I know you've heard this but you did warn me that this might be
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might be inappropriate. So I'm going to warn people.
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Now that if you're sensitive to some some somewhat salty
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language, the language is sort of the most important part of
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the story. I can't tell it without it, so
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if you're going to be offended by that, please stop listening.
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Now that's my warranty. Been weren't ya.
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So, I'm a pheasant Hunter. I used to be a lot more than I
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am now for a lot of reasons. But The Pheasant Hunters would
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know that the season ends last day of the year or at least the
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dive and hunt in a couple of years.
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So maybe it doesn't anymore but January 30, December 31st.
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Wow. Last day of the year is when
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pheasant season ends and have a friend of my dads who used to
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hunt with a lot, I don't want to name names because I don't want
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to like embarrass somebody in the story but he owned a lot of
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land up. North of Pulaski Wisconsin near
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Krakow actually. Are we used to hunt quite a bit?
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He my dad was a teacher if you've driven North on Highway
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32 North of Alaska, you have probably seen Fairview
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Elementary School which is where he was a principal for a while
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and being a principal. He met a lot of families who
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found, you know, through conversation found out.
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He was a hunter, hey you can come hunt on our property and
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pretty soon, my dad, I swear we could drive down those roads and
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he knew who lived at every single property and so we would
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go pheasant hunting up there a lot.
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And the, but this one guy, particularly who we went hunting
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with constantly back then, I'm talking 20 years ago, called us
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up, called me up. One, New Year's Eve morning, and
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I was referring to this, all black rooster pheasant that was
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that he had seen on his property many times, but the thing that
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he did that made the story special was he always referred
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to roosters as cocks but completely Leon ironically,
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like, never once said it to try to be funny.
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I don't know that it ever occurred to him that cock had
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another meeting that is not pg-rated, but he loved talking
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about Cox constantly and he called me up on New Year's Eve
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morning. And said, I got this black cock
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out here. You gotta come and get it.
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And and so I I grabbed my dog who was pretty inexperienced at
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the time. So that's why I'm thinking this
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was probably like 2001. To because my I had a springer
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at the time Sam and Sam was a, she was a great hunter at the
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time, but not the best at retrieving yet so I thought.
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Yeah, let's get out there. Let's do it.
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It just snowed a lot. So there was some pretty deep
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snow, and I swear to God, we chased this black, pheasant all
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over all over Northeast Wisconsin.
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It felt like it kept, like, she kept jumping it too far ahead
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and I couldn't get shots and we'd see where it landed.
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We kept following it and this guy knew Ooh, everybody, he
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said, yeah, we can hunt that we can hunt that.
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So we're walking all over all these people's properties and
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just chase this thing for hours and finally got to a position
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where I could get somewhat of a decent shot and I winged it.
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And Hmm this thing landed like went straight into a snowbank
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and burrowed its way in. And my dad's friend kept talking
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about how we injured the black cock and so I'm like trying to
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hunt this cool bird. It also laughing the entire time
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as he's not even cracking. A smile saying, black cock,
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every 10 seconds, hurry up and get the black hunting for gets
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away and yes you can imagine. So my my dog overeager leaps
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into this snow bank and just starts ripping at this bird.
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As it's fighting back at her and these two are in like a in some
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kind of battle in the middle of the snow bank.
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And when she finally pulls this, I doubt she had ripped all the
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feathers out of one side of it. So at this point, the, you know,
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sort of the unique thing about getting that all, black rooster,
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it's ruined, she's ripped it to shreds.
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There's no way. This thing is like getting
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mounted or anything. She brings it back to me and
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he's just talking about how she tore that black cock to shreds
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and and and I can't do it justice.
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It's one of those. You had to be there things, but
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when I think of Hunting over the holidays.
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I the first thing that comes to mind is my New Year's Eve, like
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Chase for the black cock. That was it was an amazing day.
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I'll never forget it. And that would've been amazing.
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If you could have mounted that black cock could have that black
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cock on the wall right now. Mounted.
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Well actually I've never seen one of those before.
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It's what's really cool if you've seen any pheasants up
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close as they have these iridescent feathers you know
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that if they hit the sun just right.
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It's like a rainbow on him basically.
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So with the all black one, when the sun hit it just right?
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It's really cool. But again, she toured the entire
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left side of it to shreds, there is have any color, when the sun
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hit it, you know what I mean? Like or was it just simply
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black, it was, it was All black until like, yeah, the sun would
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hit it, just right. I mean you did and it's not like
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when you saw it from 20 yards away, it looked like a rainbow
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or anything, but if you were holding it up, you could.
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Yeah. See the, you could kind of see a
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rainbow in it. Yeah, that's cool.
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So that's my that's my hunting story for the holidays, the the
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legendary story chase after the black cock, there's a lot of
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Old-Timers that talk like that. I remember, you know, just the
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way that the language changed changes throughout the years,
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you know, like old plumber's and shit that we just were like
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Eddie delcor and all those guys were you know working with these
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guys. Well so this guy is definitely
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one of those. He's an old-school.
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Northern Wisconsin Farmer and just one of the nicest guys I've
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ever met and Is always super generous about lighted, he still
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has offered my dad passed away almost four years ago.
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And he still offers for me to go hunting on his property.
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That's awesome. But yeah, the, the lasting
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memory is the chase for the black cock.
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Cool. They're on story.
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Really glad I shared that for the holidays.
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Yeah I hope that's some good entertainment for everybody.
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So yeah. Think of that.
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The next time you're out pheasant hunting.
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Next time you're out. Cock hunting.
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Yeah. All right.
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Yeah, well, that's all I got today.
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Jeff. That's all I really have to.
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I mean it for a for everybody that I know I don't think
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anybody's really hunting that hard especially over the
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holidays. But I think there is, I think
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there's a holiday haunting. It's like a quite a lengthy
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season. I think we can only shoot those.
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I think, I think, I think it's like a week.
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Come it doesn't it? Start on Christmas Eve.
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I think it does. I think so.
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Yeah. And I actually might take take
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that up answering. Go up with a gun and shoot one.
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I need some meat. Well, make sure you look at the
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regulations before you do. Can clearly, we have no idea
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when it is. I have no idea.
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I got to check it out. So but yeah, I'm quite sure
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there's a holiday hunts. I don't know if it's Statewide
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but I think it is. I want to say it's Statewide
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from like Christmas Eve. To New Year's Eve or something.
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Hmm. I'll check it out.
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Let's go with that. We're confident.
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Christmas Eve. Go.
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Go deer hunting. Yep.
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All right, well, that's all for me, man.
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I got Nothing else either. So, have a merry Christmas
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everybody. Yeah.
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Thanks a lot for listening. And Merry Christmas and happy
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New Year. If we I think we're having a
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podcast next week but I'll say happy New Year anyway.
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It doesn't happen. All right.
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Jeff. Thanks a lot.
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See everybody. Nothing else either.
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So, have a merry Christmas everybody.
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Yeah. Thanks a lot for listening.
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And Merry Christmas and happy New Year.
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If we I think we're having a podcast next week but I'll say
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happy New Year anyway. It doesn't happen.
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All right. Jeff.
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Thanks a lot. See everybody.