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DuckFellas Unleashed: A‑Frame Misadventures, Guides vs. DIY, and Goose Season Hype · DuckFellas Podcast

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Welcome to the Duckfellas Podcast, your weekly dose of waterfall wisdom,
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blind banter, and hunting stories that might just be mostly true.
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Hosted by Tyler, Cade, and I guess Pookie's here this week.
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Three fellas chasing feathers again, and maybe a good time or two.
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Welcome back, Pookie. We're all back. Long time no see. Gang's back together.
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Pumped. We're just glad you could make it on time this week. Likewise. Me too.
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I know you got a lot of better things to do nowadays, but...
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Nothing more important than you two. I promise.
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Okay. Let's not get carried away yet.
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Well, I didn't get to go hunting this weekend. or this past week.
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I don't believe Cade got to go hunting this either this past week. Nope.
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But Pookie went. Pookie, why don't you tell us a little bit about your hunting
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experiences this past weekend?
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Yeah, so the weather people were right.
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It was freezing the entire time. I hate the cold. I get cold very easily. Did not have a good time.
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Saw a lot of birds, but a little bit of,
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inexperience and lack of hunting out of an A-frame before kind of got the best,
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of us, but a learning experience nonetheless and still got to see a lot of birds.
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That's the only way you learn, right? It's going out and trying it? Oh, absolutely, yeah.
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And you guys didn't get skunked? No, we didn't get skunked. And so the streak
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still continues for the year. I'll take it.
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But no, it was good. It was nice to honestly not have either of you two there.
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Just to not completely rely on you guys for a lot of the things that I would say I normally do.
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So just to see like how
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well I could call at geese
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and and how they responded and kind of
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what they were like and I know that changes obviously from time to time
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depending on how call responsive geese are in general too but just to be able
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to call at a goose yourself and watch it turn right towards you was kind of
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cool all I got out of that was that he does not need to hunt or want to hunt
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with me or you anymore, kid. Perfect. False.
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Don't leave me. Did you learn the most important lesson of an A-frame?
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Don't use an A-frame ever? No, dude. The whole point of using an A-frame when
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it's cold out is so you can run a heater.
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Oh, yeah, no. We definitely did run a heater, but when it's like negative 12 outside...
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Doesn't really help y'all that much. That is fair.
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More heaters. I would, I'd argue that though. I bet you it did help.
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Just didn't feel like it did. I challenge you to go out and redo that same hunt in a layout blind.
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Yeah, no. Without your heater bodysuit. There it is. That's exactly why we didn't use layouts actually.
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It's just due to how cold it was and the ability to use heaters and layouts or in a frame. Sorry.
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I'm glad it wasn't that cold here. mm-hmm it was yeah i mean it was cold cold
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the snow and the wind i mean we had about the perfect,
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amount of wind for goose hunting really just a perfect setup other than the
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the it being so cold like snow's coming down we have enough wind that they can't or they shouldn't,
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really try to fly around you.
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I don't know. We learned a lot. It was still fun. I was in a lot better spirits
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after I got warmed back up.
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You seemed kind of crabby when I was asking you how your hunt went.
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Whatever, though. That will happen. It happens. It does. I get it. I get it.
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I mean, not with you. I feel like this is a perfect time to roll us right into
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what we're talking about today. We talk about...
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Well, hold up. Oh boy. We're not there yet. Oh.
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I don't know. Kate didn't get to tell us about his extravagant weekend just partying all weekend.
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We didn't do all that much partying. We ate some damn good food.
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We went out to Indianapolis for the PRI show.
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It's a big race, like vendor show. Go buy a bunch of shit. Got a new seat.
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Yeah. Finally got to eat at St. Elmo, like the top rated steakhouse in the state.
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I think I'm still recovering from that coma I was in.
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But yeah, it was a fun weekend. Didn't have to deal with either of you two dipshits. It was kind of nice.
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Oh, oh, you know what? I could say the same. It's been freaking nice at work.
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Just think, you cut me off just to hear all that.
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Yeah, but somebody's got to do it. Might as well be me.
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Go ahead, Austin. Since you were in such a big hurry here, let's just go ahead.
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No, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. We didn't get to hear what Tyler did on his
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extravagant weekend. I worked.
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I got double time and I got time and a half and I worked.
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That works. It was fun. It was warm in the crane, though. Are you two done now?
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I think so, yeah. I think you can go ahead and carry us into the topic here if you want.
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All right, perfect. So before I got rudely interrupted twice,
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I was just going to... Wait, wait. No, that's enough.
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You're about to get muted. You're done. You're done.
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Before I got interrupted twice, I was about to roll us right into this week's episode.
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Guides and freelance hunting, and what better to describe that than our own
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local guide, Papa Deitch.
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First off, don't be saying that out loud. I'm not a guide. To the state of Iowa, I am not a guide.
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I do not take people hunting for money. I just take them on make-a-wish hunts.
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Nah, more sexual favors.
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That is also prostitution. I do not do that either.
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This is going sideways right away yeah no definitely
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not good here so am i i mean
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i've been doing this for a long time i have
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never used a guide to go hunting so
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and i don't believe any of us have ever used a
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guide no so negative our experience
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and i don't know the things we
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say about guides are with little to no experience using a guide or going on
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a guided hunt we'll just take that with a grain of salt but we've all i mean
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i know people personally that have gone on guided hunts that i know a lot of
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people that have had good experiences and also had,
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horrendous experiences going with guides but i mean that's really just business
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in general i mean it's what it is.
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So I know we haven't used guides ever, but to your guys' knowledge, what are the,
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reputable guides that you guys have heard of, or if you can think of any that
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you would go on a hunt with, who would be some that you guys would go with on a hunt?
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I'll take the low hanging fruit. You obviously got to take habitat flats.
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I mean, that Tony does a great job with what he does there.
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And he does a great job with their social media too, getting his,
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his name out there and kind of showing some of the behind-the-scenes shit that they do.
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So, yeah, that's a pretty easy one for me to go with anyway.
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We now know who has the money in the group.
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I'm not saying that I would ever even go with a guide, but I feel like if you're
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going to do it, you might as well do it right. The hard crack.
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Austin, have you ever heard of any guides? I mean, I know you don't have as
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much experience in it, but have you heard of any that you would go on a hunt with?
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Have you had a dream hunt, like a make-a-wish hunt like I do every week with you?
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But you had to pay for it yeah i mean yeah
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that's that's my life in
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general is guided hunts every week with you too so it's
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it's beautiful i mean yeah we have good weeks and we have bad weeks just uh
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like you said a lot of bad weeks not so many bad weeks with kate actually though
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it's kind of weird how that works out i don't know so anyways we'll just carry
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on this podcast the First time without Austin.
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He's booted from the room. That's crazy.
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You guys don't even, you don't get me, but for 20 minutes last week,
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and you're already just being mean to me again. No, for sure.
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But for myself, for myself, I would choose Cadillac Creek.
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Why? Because I honestly think they are the best.
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And you're not huddled. You're not relying on a crop season for.
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Habitat Flats, the Grand, I believe the, not the Grand. There's another big one in Kansas.
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The Grand is one of Tony's, but I can't remember the name of it.
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But, I mean, they're flooded crops. So you're relying on solely Mother Nature
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and how the crop comes up.
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Cadillac Creek hunts ponds and fields in, I believe it's Oklahoma.
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And they have some epic lesser hunts and ducks and cranes and snows.
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I mean, you name it, they kill them.
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Fair enough reason were you trying to say something Austin nope never not me I just sit here and smile,
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I actually didn't mean to interrupt you but once it got going I was like fuck
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it full send I get it we already told you that you were doing most of the talking
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for this anyways so no I'm not please carry on,
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okay I'm gonna carry on with asking you guys a question so why do you guys think
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so many people use guides rather than just do it themselves.
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Go ahead, Pookie. What you got? Convenience. Like sheer convenience.
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The guides will put you on the birds so you don't have to scout.
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Really, the only downfall that I personally see from guides right now,
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I mean, I would say at this point in my hunting career, is strictly the cost.
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Like other than that, the guides do the majority of the legwork for you,
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but you still get that satisfaction of killing birds.
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But I think and if to offset the cost
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of the guide though I mean it's probably way more expensive just to
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buy your own shit and do it isn't it that was exactly what I was
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gonna say like it the cost of going on
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one guided hunt per year that's like
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your one duck hunt you do if you bought all that shit
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and had to maintain it every year you'd spend way more
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money right yeah no I don't
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disagree with that the I guess
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something to argue back at that with
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is that like your example with habitat
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flats if you're spending that kind of money to go down there for
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three days and we all hunt a lot more than three days too so I mean the costs
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I would actually like to do the math at some point too with the average amount
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of days that we end up hunting in a hunting season and and kind of do that math
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out and see where it would line up really.
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I've done my own and I know I hunt
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usually around 50 total days between duck
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and goose for like regular duck and regular goose season I hunt around 50 days
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and to add to your guys thing I also know how much a 3 day hunt for habitat
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flats cost and that's $62.50 for meals and lodging for just 3 days to kill 18 ducks.
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So, I mean, that's expensive.
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I mean, granted, you guys are, or not you guys, but anybody that goes there
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is more or less guaranteed to kill 18 ducks, whether it's mallards or teal or
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whatever the hell they have around.
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So that's still a lot of money to spend to go down there for three days and
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hear your gun go bang a few times.
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That is true. But most of the people that go down there are not starving for money.
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That's what I was going to say. That's why they blow it like it's nothing. I mean,
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for, I'd say, probably 75, if not nine, like between 75 to 90% of his people,
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his clients that go there, they're just going to get out and do it anyways like that. Yeah.
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That money they spend on those three days doesn't affect them at all compared to the general public.
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Yeah, and I feel like that's why he can charge so much because he knows that.
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And like he's built the name for himself that he can charge that much money
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and no people are going to pay it.
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I wish I knew how much Cadillac Creek charged. I don't know off the top of my
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head. I'll have to look that up here.
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But we'll keep carrying on here. Do what any of Cade.
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So would you ever consider becoming a guide? Personally, no.
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Why not? Main reason being, obviously it always sounds good.
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Like, yeah, we get to work on duck hunting shit year-round.
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But the fucking grind of that, in the season
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would be brutal like it's
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bad enough when we go somewhere and hunt for four or
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five days you're wiped out by the time you get home but then when you're doing
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it for a living you gotta do that every single day yeah it's definitely all
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in type thing i'm sure you get used to it like anything but that first like
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that first two years would be absolute hell.
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It's, it can't be much different than the, what we do now.
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I mean, to a point, granted, you didn't get to go with us this year on a hunting
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trip because you skanked out on us at the last minute, but me and Austin went
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on a trip and we were there.
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How long were we going, Austin? Eight days? Eight days. Yeah.
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And that's a grind. I mean, it's, you don't, for us, we were in the truck more
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than we were hunting. Yeah.
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Yeah, that is a cool thing. Like if you get in with like say a habitat flats
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that has all the ground, you're basically just doing the maintenance on it and then you flood it.
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And then you like, there's not a whole lot of scout work that goes into that.
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Not like doing it freelance wise.
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Right. So I did just see, I just looked up Cadillac Creek's cost.
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So for like a three day hunt, basically the same thing Tony offers.
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It comes with lodging, bar included, all the goodies.
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It's $37.50 for three days for that.
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So damn near half the price. Yeah, but like I said, they don't flood crops.
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They're actually out of Amarillo, Texas.
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So they're just hunting fields and ponds. There ain't much water down there to speak of. Yeah.
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Pookie if you ever If you ever got your calling Situation improved on Which
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you're getting better at Would you ever become a guide Or want to become a guide,
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No I don't think so either I,
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Just these past couple seasons Like I enjoy the grind That the season and the
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prep Work like before the season take But then we get that off time Like right
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after the season and where which you might not get that if you're a guide or not.
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After season's done, I'm like, oh, I definitely need to take a couple weeks and not do anything.
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Yeah, I definitely look forward to that last goose hunt of the year when I can
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put everything in the trailer and I can forget about it for usually two to three
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months and then open the trailer back up around April and say,
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oh, we got a fucking mess here.
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Yeah, you do that on normal weekends, not just the last one.
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False. Damn. False. He's got a bunch of lazy people that hunt with me. That would be me.
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Oh, so I mean, this is going to be a tough question for any of us to ask,
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but what factors go into choosing a guide?
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I mean, if you were to, if you were to sit here and say, I want to go on a guided
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hunt next year, what would you be looking at before you book that hunt?
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I feel like the first thing anybody's going to look at is your chance to shoot your limit.
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I mean, that's kind of what you're going there for. Exactly.
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So that's like, uh, I actually was just looking it up before we hopped on here,
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but that's like an actual number, like so many birds per person throughout the season.
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They, they, I think like they're supposed to keep track of that. So.
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I think they report that to the state that they're licensed in. Yep.
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So yeah, that's definitely like the first thing you asked. And then after that,
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I feel like you could ask for some references or some like shortly previous clients.
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Cost. Cost. Yeah, I guess not all of us have Cade's money, so cost would be
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a big part for me or you. Max.
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The thing is, like I said, if you're going to do a guided hunt,
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you're going to pay whatever it costs. You don't really give a shit.
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Well, no. I mean, that's the thing. Like, if it just costs that much money, I just won't do it.
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It's not that I wouldn't do it, actually. It's just, like, the backlash I would get.
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So you're saying Mama might get mad? Yeah, she probably would.
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I mean, love her to death. Like she lets us do whatever we want around here and go. She does.
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She does give you pretty free reign. Yeah. Yeah.
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No, she, I mean, she's great with that, but I talk about throwing over six grand at a three day hunt.
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Yeah. She might draw the line there. And he just knows that he would get absolutely
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fucking roasted by the rest of his podcast.
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So for me if i was to go on
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a guided hunt i don't know like obviously i
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would want to kill my birds but i paid x amount of
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dollars to go on a guided hunt but i think it'd
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be more of like the personality of the guy that i talked to because i i wouldn't
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something like that i would want to talk to someone in person on the phone or
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whether it be in person if they're close enough but i'd rather talk to them
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and kind of get their personality and kind of the persona they give off.
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Cause that's the biggest thing out hunting.
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Like if, if somebody is just being like, just comes off as a douchebag,
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the hunt's not going to be fun. Even if you kill your birds.
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Been on hunts that i don't know smoke some people
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just weren't getting along or the vibe just wasn't it that day
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and we mashed them but it really wasn't that
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memorable of a hunt my most memorable hunts are the ones
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where we had a good time through the day rather than didn't
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matter what we killed the jokes and the commodity was
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what's what was it for me i feel
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like that goes into the grind of it too like obviously that's gonna wear on
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the guide i mean not every day they're gonna
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to be chipper just fuck yeah let's go
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duck hunt that shit's
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got to get old at some point yeah i would i
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would say probably that plays a big part of it later in the season the guide's
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probably gonna be like yeah just kill your fucking birds get the fuck out of
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here yeah compared to the beginning of the season he don't give a shit he's
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just happy to be there happy to be doing it again let's go mop some teal hell
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yeah blue wings for life laughs.
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Like another big thing like I know you and I can definitely relate to this
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and Austin would be the same way like on a pheasant hunt
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if you went on a guided one which he's spoiled he doesn't have
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to do that but bringing your own dog I
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feel like that's something you should probably ask about when you're thinking
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about it yeah that's a huge one because I
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mean nowadays honestly everybody that waterfowl
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hunts has a dog which is a pain in
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the ass whether it's guided hunter your five
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buddies that are going hunting with that day because everybody wants to bring their dog and
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if you tell one person if it's say it's
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joe's hunt and fred wants to bring his dog but frank's
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fred's best friend and they already got their dogs going then
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everybody just starts arguing and bickering over that that can be really annoying
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that's why i'm always very good about like i'm super lenient if there's people
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that want to bring their dogs i'm like i'll leave mine at home dude he hunts
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plenty and i've gotten the same way too.
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I mean, Ellie hunts plenty regardless through the year.
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So, honestly, she probably appreciates the day to hang out in the house and
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sleep all day and just get into whatever she gets into during the day.
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I do know here in the next couple years that's going to be getting tough for
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you and I knowing that it's kind of winding down for them.
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I feel like we're going to want to take them every single chance we can.
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I was curious how Ellie was going to do this year because, I don't know, just...
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I've growing up all my labs have never made up much past like 10 years old so,
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once you get over that like six seven year mark they really either hit a brick
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wall or they go all the way till the end yep so luckily Ellie did great this
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year again so we'll see how next year goes if she hits that wall then or if
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we're just gonna coast into retirement.
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Mike did good, though, too. Like, he had a great year this year,
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especially for the, being like the first year we've really taken him with us in the boat.
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Yeah. Granted, he didn't really get in the boat much other than when it was
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really cold and he smelled breakfast.
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A dog knows what's up. He does not miss a meal.
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He definitely showed up in the back boat like, hey, got any extra breakfast for a guy like me?
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I don't know what it is about that dog but since he's
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been a year old dude he's he goes
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out fast to get the duck soon as he gets it in his mouth he's like
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i'm taking my time dude there are
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so many dogs like that though i i've hunted over a lot of dogs and ellie will
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do that from time to time but leo my buddy sean's dog he would just tear ass
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out there at after the duck or the goose and then on the way back he's like
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oh i'm kind of tired now i'll get there when i get there.
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Dude it used to piss me off so bad and then i finally i was like i'm not gonna
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get him over it but that's just how he is yeah so like another big one to look
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for i think i forgot like like For an outfitter,
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it would be a DIY outfitter.
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There's a lot of those out there now that they just go out and they lease the
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land, and they have one guy that goes out and scouts.
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And if you call them and you book a hunt, they'll tell you, hey,
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the birds have been here.
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And some of them will provide decoys and gear, or decoys like lucky ducks,
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spinners, you know, that kind of stuff, for an extra charge.
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Or you can just bring all your own stuff. They just supply the ground you can
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hunt and tell you where the birds have been using and you go out and do it yourself.
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Yeah. I think that would be, that would be, I don't know how Canada is because
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I haven't been there ever, really. It's been so long.
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If I was to go to Canada, that would be something I would highly consider doing
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just to get, make sure that we were able to hunt some land.
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Cause I don't, I mean, I don't even know how hard it is to get permission in Canada.
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I'm sure it's about like anywhere. Like you guys kind of fought it in North Dakota.
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It's gotta be about the same. I've heard mixed reviews on it.
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I've heard it can be pretty easy, but I've heard some people say it's a pain
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in the butt, but maybe it's a personality thing. I don't know.
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Yeah, it could be. I mean, that's like we, last week we talked about landowners and permissions.
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And I think the first vibe that you give off to somebody is the biggest thing ever.
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For sure. When you get permission.
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I don't know. Either way, none of us have ever used a guide or an outfitter,
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but obviously off of firsthand, I mean, you got Habitat Flats,
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Cadillac Creek, that are two of the biggest ones in the waterfowl industry nowadays.
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Days, I think, to the ones I notice.
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Then I think you got Dirty Bird Outfitters, Maxed Out Guide Service.
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Did you ever figure out the name of the other one you were talking about earlier?
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Nope, I couldn't find it. Okay.
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There's plenty of good ones out there, but obviously, definitely,
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you want to do your homework before you get one, because if you're spending
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that kind of money on it, you're going to be really pissed off if you get there
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and the guy's a douchebag, or it's not what you're expecting at all.
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Kate's deep in research. Yeah, I'm trying to find it.
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I know you guys have heard of him. Rick Hamm, show me your snows outdoors.
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He's kind of fell off lately.
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Dude used to have the biggest snow goose spreads out there that
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is something that i just can't ever see myself
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getting super deep into like i'd like to go out one
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day a year but shooting snow geese dude i there's so
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many fucking decoys it's insane it's
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a lot of fun though when you get on them if you're hunting a field or a big
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feed and you just start burning them down and you're killing 150 200 birds that's
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a lot of fun yeah the worst thing for me is just time like springtime super
26:05
busy for us getting ready for race season and usually starting race season around
26:08
that time so beer money I don't usually have a lot of time for the actual fun shit,
26:15
Austin why do you look so miserable just sitting here no I'm not I'm just listening
26:19
taking all this in laughing,
26:24
So those all the, did you ever respond to what you would look for looking if
26:29
you were to book a guided hunt?
26:32
Yeah. I mean, I talked about the cost, but to be honest with you,
26:35
like I've never even thought about doing a guided hunt at this point.
26:42
Like Tyler also never answered if he would be a guide or not.
26:50
I feel like this would get juicy. i
26:53
wanted to do it when i was younger like i
26:56
really i really thought i would enjoy it and i still
26:59
think i still think i would enjoy it because honestly throughout
27:02
the season i don't get as wore down of hunting as a lot of people do obviously
27:08
i get tired of it at times but i feel like i do better holding up to it to a
27:14
point than a lot of people do it's just i don't want it to be a job right Cause that,
27:22
I feel like once it becomes a job, it kind of takes the, not all of it.
27:26
Obviously it's always fun shooting
27:27
shit, but I feel like that takes a lot of the fun aspect out of it.
27:32
Well, especially if you get them bad clients, you know, you get,
27:35
you get a group of guys that just say you have a slower day.
27:39
Like you're, you're killing ducks, but you're not murdering ducks and they're just crabby,
27:45
which I understand cause they just spent all this money to come
27:48
hunt with you and they expected you to put them on birds and
27:51
it's the bird just don't cooperate that day that would
27:54
be what killed it for me yeah just because you're you're trying to satisfy these
28:00
people that paid this x amount of money and that are also you're relying on
28:04
them to tip you to make your living because i mean i i don't think guides make
28:09
much money per hour or per hunt i think it's more unless you own the outfitter and you're small.
28:16
It's more or less tips that you're living off of. Yeah. So I don't think I would
28:22
ever do it. I used to always want to do it, but.
28:25
Maybe 20 years ago when you were in your 20s? Oh. All right.
28:32
Damn. That wasn't 20 years ago.
28:36
Damn near. 30. That wasn't 30. 15.
28:41
Bullshit. Literally 15 years ago is when I would have been willing to do something like that.
28:47
It's a younger man's game. Although I do have one good buddy that still does it.
28:53
And they're actually a pretty upper guy in service. Final Descent.
28:56
They're out of Lubbock, Texas.
28:59
Puts you on the little geese and cranes. They smack the shit out of them every year.
29:04
They used to go to Canada, but I don't know if he's gone back since COVID.
29:10
COVID really changed that stuff. COVID fucked up a lot of stuff.
29:15
COVID fucked damn near everything up. Yeah. Yeah, like Walmart not being open 24-7 anymore?
29:21
That's some bullshit. Yeah, trash.
29:24
McDonald's doesn't have breakfast all day anymore? Trash.
29:28
Fair. That's the only thing I liked from McDonald's was their breakfast.
29:32
We lost everything good. I hate it here.
29:38
But I think we can probably move on to our next topic. One that dad knows all about.
29:44
If Austin will talk, he can go ahead and introduce the next topic.
29:47
I feel like it's Pookie's turn to talk here. Yeah, now he's busy clickbaiting
29:51
something on TikTok probably.
29:52
No, I'm just going back and forth from the stream to the dock. Relax.
29:57
So we'll kind of transition now and from the guides and outfitters into freelance
30:02
hunting, something that Tyler definitely has a bunch of experience in.
30:07
Kate has quite a bit experience into it as well, and I'm just kind of along
30:12
for the ride. Getting your feet wet.
30:15
Splashing in the water.
30:21
He's listening to the song. He's got his toes in the sand all the time. Mm-hmm. No.
30:28
So, side note, we didn't kill our birds this weekend because I didn't listen to Pink Pony Club.
30:34
You didn't listen to Pink Pony Club on your way out hunting?
30:37
No. You're fired. Fired. I know.
30:39
You're the one that yells at us for not listening to it. I know.
30:43
Mistakes were made. Mistakes were made. You guys were fucked from the get-go.
30:48
Was that before or after you lost your keys? No.
30:52
Yeah dude i i can't wait about that i can't
30:55
wait to post the clip of that with the audio because
30:58
obviously if he didn't if he would have parked 10 more
31:01
feet farther forward we'd had it all on video but the
31:05
sound of him hitting the ground and go oh fuck that hurt i feel like this episode
31:13
for me is just a constant shout out to my wife and how awesome she is because
31:17
i just so happened to turned my truck off and got the whole key not detected
31:21
i'm like hmm that's really weird,
31:25
had to call call her get her out of the house in a snowstorm and bless her heart she's,
31:35
messing around in the snow looking for just a key fob i mean that's that's all
31:40
i have i'm not one of those guys that carries around a whole bunch of keys with
31:43
them so she's looking for a key fob and four fresh inches of snow at Tyler's house.
31:51
Yeah, I've seen it on camera. Her all bundled up trying to dig in the snow.
31:55
I'm like, that poor girl.
31:57
Yeah, no, she's a stud. Yeah, for anyone that doesn't know, go listen to our
32:01
first podcast episode and listen to how much shit he was talking about her that day.
32:08
Don't. I had to hear about that. I still hear about that.
32:12
I was wondering about that. We never did talk about how much shit we got over.
32:16
Oh, yeah. Talking a little trash. Yeah.
32:18
But I heard it was equal on both parties talking shit.
32:21
Oh, yeah. No, it was. If you go and listen to their podcast, it's not just us.
32:26
Like, it's I mean, it's or it's not just me. Like, it's all of us.
32:31
Like, she talks about how much you guys steal me away from her and how much
32:36
she actually hates you guys secretly.
32:40
Ask if here hopefully in the next couple
32:44
weeks within the next two three four weeks we're gonna
32:47
be doing video podcast on youtube are you
32:50
gonna cover up the cornfield confidential in the back and put your own little
32:53
thing back there for just our episode or what you're gonna do i don't know i'm
32:56
gonna have to take it up with the boss that is all that is all hand-drawn back
33:02
there no i mean it looks good too yeah no she did a she did a stand-up job on
33:07
that thing she's even got the lights coming down from it,
33:10
their podcast is much more aesthetically pleasing than ours.
33:15
Definitely not as good, but they'll get there, maybe.
33:18
There it is. There it is. You're welcome.
33:22
Yep. It was nice. Definitely not cooking us breakfast in a few weeks.
33:26
Yeah, it was nice knowing you guys never see you again. Rip.
33:31
That's all right. They got to make it to this point of the podcast to hear that.
33:34
You should be safe. We're halfway through.
33:38
Anyways let's get back to a
33:42
topic of some sort here yeah back in
33:45
freelance hunting oh was that what it was yeah how damn expensive it expensive
33:52
it is nowadays words words are tough words are tough i it's late it's getting
33:58
late it's past my bedtime it's not even nine o'clock to DIY.
34:02
It's almost 10 o'clock here. All right, lock it in. I'm tired of both of you.
34:09
I mean, the cost of doing it yourself nowadays, depending on how you want to do it, is astronomical.
34:16
There are cheap ways to do it. You don't have to go all out. I mean...
34:23
Does it help having a crazy amount of
34:26
decoys I would say probably three fourths of
34:28
the time yeah but there's times where we go
34:31
out and throw two dozen so at that cost that's nothing two dozen decoys I mean
34:38
decoys are still expensive but two dozen is more realistic for everybody very
34:43
manageable in that aspect of it yeah I mean you can honestly haul all of your
34:49
shit in two trucks if you did it that way
34:51
No trailer, no nothing. Just throw all your shit in the truck.
34:54
Well, I mean, even if you're hunting on water, you don't got to have a giant
34:59
boat to go out there and kill ducks on the water.
35:01
You could go out there with a 14, 15, 16-foot boat and stand in the willows and kill them.
35:08
Funny hearing that come from you.
35:12
It's a lot nicer doing it in a boat. Yeah, it is. I will agree.
35:16
He overcompensates for something with a big truck and a big boat.
35:20
Yeah, it's called retards that I hunt with.
35:24
Well, why do you invite so many of them? Yeah. I don't invite them.
35:28
They just keep showing up. Yeah.
35:31
Oh, shit.
35:35
Dang it, I hate you guys. No, I mean, it's definitely wildly expensive.
35:41
When you start getting the motion decoys or just all the knick-knack stuff you
35:47
can get nowadays and then the cost of fuel to get there.
35:53
I don't know what gas is, but diesel's always over $3 a gallon now. Words. Tough.
36:02
And then generally it can be up to over 400 or 400 i words are really tough tonight on lock it in,
36:10
diesel can be over four dollars a gallon sometimes too and it's i mean that
36:13
ain't cheap no matter which way you look at it yeah especially like our north
36:17
dakota trip when we just kind of rolled right into scouting so then we're scouting
36:22
while pulling the trailer which,
36:24
makes not only does it make scouting harder when you're pulling a 24 foot long
36:29
trailer but But I mean, it's just that extra weight that you got to pull around
36:33
and eat more fuel and fuel bill just continues to go up.
36:37
10 out of 10, don't recommend dragging the trailer around everywhere scouting. No, that sucked.
36:43
Did you get any pickles where you had to do like a 75 point turn to get turned
36:47
around or? No, we just backed all the way out of this one road.
36:51
We were like a solid mile down this dirt road.
36:56
It wasn't even a dirt road. It was a freaking wagon trail.
37:00
Like that field we hunted last year where we had to carry all of our shit in.
37:06
Yeah, that sucked too. Yeah. That was the same thing. Pull down, back out.
37:12
Yeah. I mean, with freelance hunting too, you got the challenge of getting on private land.
37:18
Out of state, in state, you know, or, and also around outfitters.
37:25
There's so many outfitters nowadays that it can make it extremely challenging especially,
37:32
in the dakotas or you start
37:35
getting south like here in iowa we don't really have
37:38
any guides and outfitters i mean there's a few but nothing major where we hunt
37:43
but you go down to kansas missouri oklahoma texas arkansas it gets extreme again
37:51
but like we're kind of like lucky being here where we are we're right in the
37:55
middle because we don't we just don't have that problem,
37:58
and so we're just battling,
38:00
other groups of hunters that generally we know.
38:04
Was definitely a challenge for me in North Dakota. Like, I mean,
38:08
you just don't know anyone up there.
38:10
So you're trying to get permission for this piece of private land and you're
38:13
meeting somebody completely new,
38:15
just trying to convince them to let you and your buddies like hunt their land
38:21
where around here, I mean, I've the town that I live in, I've grown up here my entire life.
38:26
The majority of my family is either around here or very close to here too.
38:32
So when I go and talk to these farmers from around here, even if they don't
38:35
know me, they're like, oh, well, your last name sounds familiar.
38:39
And then you just kind of continue to talk to them. And they're like,
38:42
oh, well, yeah, I knew your parents or I knew your grandparents.
38:47
And then it's just kind of a little bit easier to work your way into when you
38:51
have that avenue of knowing people, especially when you've been around the area
38:57
and your family's been around the area for so long.
39:00
Yeah, for sure. I I kind of struggled with that when I moved to where you're
39:04
talking, like back where I lived, everybody kind of knew who I was.
39:09
Like it wasn't out of the ordinary to go try to get permission.
39:12
And people are like, oh yeah, I know who you are.
39:14
First like year I came down here, I could not get a single field to hunt.
39:18
I'm like, what in the hell?
39:21
Then I found out kind of who was in the in crowd and who was,
39:24
who was getting all the permission. And I'm like, all right,
39:26
I know who I, I got to go somewhere else a little bit further away. Yeah.
39:31
No, I feel like at least farmers around here too are like, they really care about two things.
39:40
Like don't tear up their field and don't leave your trash out in the field.
39:45
Like other than that, I mean, at least the majority of the farmers that I've talked to, like.
39:52
Like the geese anyways so they're like shoot every single one of them i don't care gladly,
39:59
that's i mean not not really gladly because you guys
40:02
killed one this weekend oh damn there it is still one more than you you don't
40:10
know that for sure nope nope i do could have ran one over my pickup truck but
40:16
you didn't smack it with rain no the only thing that That'd be wild.
40:20
The only thing that pickup truck is good for is getting rear-ended on Cade's Road.
40:26
Yeah, no, it does that. It does do that.
40:29
That's like the third thing that I've had get hit in the road. Yeah.
40:34
That thing's bad luck. I'm never parking in front of your house again.
40:37
Dude, same. I'm parking right in your yard if I ever come over again. Yeah.
40:43
If you ever come over again. It might not. Might park at Casey's and just walk over there. Yeah.
40:50
Hey, can you guys come pick me up? I'm not parking there. Well,
40:54
I know you can survive walking home in the cold because, or I can survive walking
40:57
over there since you walked home in the cold that day when it was like negative 15.
41:03
No big deal, bud. Nah, it wasn't. Good thing you were dressed before.
41:09
Worst thing was, all I had was my base layer and a freaking sweatshirt on. Yeah.
41:16
When did you move to Knoxville, kid? I moved here in 2020 in July.
41:23
So I lived there before you did. Yeah.
41:28
Yeah. I mean, it is, you do, once you kind of figure out what landowners are
41:33
not tied up with a certain group, it's pretty, it's, it's really not that hard
41:39
to get permission for land where we are.
41:41
It just, you got to know what property is not even to go with and look at.
41:46
Because there are definitely a handful, but there's also, I mean,
41:50
I'd say there's more than not that will let you honk. Yeah, for sure. Oh, for sure.
41:56
That first year, it was just every single door I knocked on was the wrong one.
42:00
That can be demoralizing as shit, too. And now I know that.
42:06
Been back since nope so i
42:10
know you got your first taste of this this year in waterfowl hunting
42:13
but what what's the feeling of going out of
42:16
state or country and having you know
42:19
it wasn't i wouldn't call this trip a necessarily super
42:22
successful trip but you know we had some successful
42:25
hunts we had a good time a few days so what what is that
42:28
feeling of for self-satisfaction when you can go out
42:31
without a guide and do that it was
42:34
just cool to be able to like just to even
42:37
have that opportunity with a good group of guys to
42:40
go to a completely different state that i
42:42
personally had never hunted before and honestly
42:47
the the day that we got into all those snows and then the very last day of the
42:52
trip made it for me like would i have liked to shoot more ducks on that trip
42:57
yeah absolutely but beggars can be choosers and the shit that we do is not easy to do I mean everybody,
43:06
you you both know that everybody that listens to our podcast knows that like
43:10
sometimes you get the better of the birds and sometimes they get the better
43:14
of you so at least to go out there and like really get on them a couple days
43:19
like that was just a lot of fun.
43:23
Yeah for sure kate you've been out of state i know for sure at least once,
43:29
how was your how was your experience of the the one time you've didn't bail
43:34
on somebody on a hunt and drip oh facts now it's my turn i don't like you're
43:39
not gonna live that down until you go on a hunt and drip well i'm saving a week of a.k.
43:44
For next year so you guys can lick my nuts we'll leave it when we see it yeah
43:49
no shit we kind of had the same struggles you guys did like
43:54
i would have never in a million years guessed that you guys didn't time that
43:58
perfectly but i mean when it's 65 degrees in canada why the hell would a duck move.
44:05
But yeah kind of the same thing like we had our successful days and i mean those
44:10
days felt pretty damn cool especially because i had never been there ever the
44:16
guy i went with hadn't been there a ton so it was still like pretty new stuff
44:19
to both of us and yeah i got to experience some,
44:24
new area and there was a couple days we shot the shit out of them shot the shit
44:28
out of geese up there kind of like you're talking it's where you guys went it's
44:32
an absolute blast i mean it yes,
44:34
you are totally relying on the migration there it's not like some places you
44:39
go where they just have a natural good local population of birds that you can
44:44
you can go find some and shoot some regardless definitely very much relying on weather to.
44:50
There. It kind of, it kind of leads me straight into my next question though,
44:54
for navigating river channels or lakes out of state.
44:59
So how was that, you know, being, you had no idea where you were,
45:03
never been there before in your life.
45:05
And you guys are running a river all of a sudden, middle of nowhere.
45:10
It was interesting, especially cause when we went, we slept in the boat ramp the first night.
45:16
Cause we got there at like, I think two o'clock in the morning or some shit.
45:19
So we just slept at the boat ramp for a couple hours and about 4
45:23
30 we took off and i'm looking around
45:25
and i'm like how in the fuck does he even know
45:28
where he's going and then like even leaving that day
45:31
going back to the boat ramp in the daylight still like it all looks the same
45:35
dude like what the hell i get a lot of that yeah it was interesting though like
45:41
it was fun to kind of watch him run through the channels like that and honestly
45:46
like a lot of river running i learned from from August,
45:50
that guy runs rivers more than anybody I know.
45:54
He's nonstop fishing or duck hunting or whatever, but yeah, it's fun to watch that.
46:00
And, and honestly, now that I've been running your little boat is nice to not
46:05
have the stress of when am I going to beach this fucking thing?
46:09
So the river there where you guys were at, it can be very deceiving because
46:15
the, The ripples in the water that would generally show a sign of it being shallow
46:20
water are not a lot of times.
46:23
The river will run backwards there in random spots too. Yep.
46:27
Because it'll hit a sand bank in front of you and turn around and come back,
46:31
and it'll throw a ripple 50, 60, 70 yards in front of where that sandbar is.
46:37
So you might avoid that part, and then you come back into the sand whenever
46:43
you go around it and come back into where you thought the channel would be.
46:46
You completely missed it and you're in three inches of water at best.
46:54
Lot of fun though running new water for me i i usually just go yep and hope for the best we know,
47:02
it can be fun but it's it's crazy to me too how you can go somewhere like i
47:08
can go somewhere and i can see the water you know 100 yards in front of me and
47:12
i can know what's the channel what's not,
47:14
most of the time i have made mistakes a few times and had to push the boat out of areas,
47:22
but generally you know once you get that experience in a behind behind the wheel
47:26
of a boat you can kind of see that stuff coming at you and if you can't you
47:30
should probably definitely go slow yeah for sure you're gonna have a long morning yep,
47:36
Pookie don't run boats enough to even talk about that because he's a loser,
47:41
hey come on now I've been getting into it a little bit this year a little bit
47:46
a little bit you're getting better at it last year was your first time ever
47:49
running a boat with a tiller handle wasn't it That was my first time ever running a boat, period.
47:54
Ever. You know what would be a lot easier to help somebody learn where to go and how to run a boat?
48:02
If you weren't running 65 fucking miles an hour in front of me.
48:07
He was only doing like 54 last year, come on.
48:10
Yeah. You know what's crazy?
48:14
Somebody could have went and got that boat and ran into practice to get time in it, but...
48:20
Once. And I don't even know if he ran it much that one time that it went out. Yeah, no, I did.
48:26
I ran it quite a bit, but there's a difference in running a boat and getting
48:31
comfortable and open big water.
48:33
And then when you're zooming by willows going 40 miles an hour,
48:38
like that's a little different when you're in a foot of water.
48:41
So your judgment right now, I don't want to hear it. Same, same.
48:47
It's even more fun when it's like 3.30 in the morning and you catch the wake
48:52
off the willow bank from his big boat.
48:56
You just gotta pin the throttle, close your eyes, and hope for the best.
49:02
That was exactly what I did.
49:06
Or when you guess a turn wrong and you jump his wake.
49:09
Yes. That's really, really fun. Yep. That was honestly hysterical that day.
49:15
Oh, I bet. That boat slapped the water. I'm like, he fucked up.
49:19
I did, but I stayed in it, stayed right behind you. I was like,
49:23
if I don't, this is going to be so much worse. Yep.
49:27
I slowed down. I was damn near doing, like, I was almost off plane completely
49:31
to make sure that you didn't wreck it into the bank on the other side.
49:37
Not a chance. I looked up, and he was already at the far marker. I'm like, oh.
49:41
We weren't even at the markers yet, bud. We were in the river channel still.
49:45
We just came out of one of the corners.
49:47
No, yeah. Like you were at the top marker to go around. Yes,
49:52
you were. No, dude, you need to lay off the drugs.
49:55
Lay off the drugs. I will die on this hill. Stay out of the evidence room. Come on. Prepare to die.
50:03
Anyways. So, I mean, a lot that goes into freelance hunting is just be prepared
50:08
as much as you can for any kind of hunting circumstance.
50:12
There's so many different situations that come into it, whether it's hunting a field. of water, but,
50:21
then weather dictates where you're going to hunt so much, whether sometimes
50:25
it gets too cold and freezes water, then you can go hunt a field or you're going to go hunt a river.
50:30
And there's still a lot different that can go into hunting a river compared
50:34
to a lake because you can't navigate the river possibly.
50:37
That are like we've talked about with your decoys. You run the big weights on
50:40
them just in case you do have to hunt a river that's fucking ripping current.
50:46
Or go hunt the main part of the lake where it's 20 feet deep. And it's not frozen yet.
50:53
Right. I mean, most people, they take the Texas rig route because it's easy
50:56
and you can tie them up. You don't really have to worry about them getting tangled up.
51:01
They are nice. But the way you do it is the best way to do it.
51:07
Yes and no. I mean, if you know you're not going to hunt anything over your
51:12
waders deep and you don't care if you never hunt anything over your waders deep
51:17
and you just don't worry about it,
51:19
then obviously a Texas rig is the best thing for you but if you want to be able to do,
51:24
and hunt wherever you want wherever you can then the way that you know using
51:29
a bigger weight with longer string or just a string in general that you have
51:33
to wrap up is the better option.
51:37
If I could count on both of my hands how many fucking decoys I've lost because
51:41
I threw them out too deep, I'd be really happy. But I can't count it on two hands.
51:45
I can't even count it on my two hands and my two feet.
51:49
Between that and current is major. Or waves. Waves even move my decoys.
51:58
When it gets real windy, just drag them right away. Bye. Then you have the whole
52:02
other aspect of ice jams blowing down on the river.
52:06
Ain't nothing gonna hold them from that no unless you got a one ton pickup truck
52:12
underwater holding them down they ain't staying they're leaving the chat driving
52:16
t-posts in the sand and shit that'd be awesome,
52:20
so much work so I mean maybe Austin can touch on this one a little bit the difference
52:27
in so like if you're gonna go if you're gonna go with a guide obviously all you're gonna need is,
52:33
just your general public license but if you got a boat and all that stuff there's
52:36
a lot more that goes into it enclosed you gotta what do y'all gotta do there Austin well,
52:43
I mean you have to just obviously keep your registration up at all times that
52:48
way you don't have to see me on a non-friendly level cause nobody likes that
52:53
but do you have a friendly level I do yeah,
52:57
actually unless you have window tint then you're just going straight to San Quentin,
53:02
only you only you But no, yeah, I mean,
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when you start to factor in all that stuff and like.
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Registration boat registration so on and so forth to like not only does it get
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expensive but it keeps like it's a lot of stuff to keep track of especially
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like you were saying earlier when,
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you close the doors to that trailer and then don't look at it again for a couple
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months like i mean i hate to admit this but you're smart enough to make your
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registration due at least while you're using it on a somewhat consistent basis.
53:40
I got to renew that still. I keep forgetting to do that.
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It expires in like two weeks. Yeah, you're done for.
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And then you will see me or one of my buddies, and that's never fun for anyone.
53:55
So yeah, I mean, as far as that, it is a lot to keep track of on top of everything else.
54:01
It's just another thing that you constantly have to keep track of.
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But I would recommend you do like Tyler does and make it while you're at least
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somewhat consistently using it.
54:12
So you have to look at that license plate all the time.
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Yeah, I mean, obviously you can't. The boat registration, I know in Iowa,
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is just the same time for every boat.
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It's good for three years. I think it expires in April or something like that.
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April, May. I think it's right around there.
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Yeah, April. but I think that's the
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easiest way for me to keep track of stuff is I just make my enclosed my boat
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trailers renew right there during hunting season basically so I don't forget
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it because that'll really ruin your hunt if you're going out hunting and you
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get pulled over by some douchebag and they want to harass you about your registration being expired.
54:52
Of that. Tyler, how many places have you hunted that you had to have like a
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state-specific, even like a three-day license for your boat?
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A lot of states require you to get an invasive species, aquatic invasive species
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registration, which is, it's normally not much.
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It's like $10, $15, maybe $20 on the high end.
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I know Nebraska, for sure, you have to buy that.
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And I think, I'm pretty sure North Dakota, you have to buy that too.
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And it's a lot of states, you got to at least pay that 10, 15,
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20, whatever it is, fee to bring your boat there.
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I don't ever put the sticker on my boat. You're definitely supposed to.
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But if you, you generally, every time I've been stopped about it or questioned
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about it, as long as I have that registration with me and that sticker with me, they don't care.
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But if you don't have it on you, then they're probably going to write you a
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ticket for it if it's not on the boat.
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I feel like half the time in Iowa, if you don't have the sticker on your boat,
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you're going straight to fucking prison.
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That's crazy, because I've never been... Well, once this year.
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Once. I was going to say, hold on. Wait a minute.
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And it was on me. It was definitely on me. Should have been on your boat.
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Well, you know what? It takes two to three business days to cure to my boat with extra glue.
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Prison. Yeah. No, definitely. He wanted to take me to prison.
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It was phenomenal. He should have, honestly. Yeah, no, he definitely should have.
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So, I mean, that pretty much wraps up those topics we got for this week.
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I mean, you guys got anything else to add?
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I don't really think so, not for the topics this week. I think we can just roll
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right into closing thoughts. Nope.
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All right, goodbye.
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Exits the chat. I mean, well, pretty much we're getting ready.
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We're ramping up goose season here. Pretty much duck season's totally over now as of Tuesday in Iowa.
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So can you get your phone to check and see if it's actually over?
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No, that thing just will not shut the hell up. Oh.
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So, Southern Zone ends Tuesday, and then there ain't nothing open in Iowa other than the North Zone.
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You can go goose hunting, but goose season opens back up on Saturday for Central
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Zone, and I'm really looking forward to hopefully, which I'm pretty sure I'll be home for that,
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getting out there and doing that, even though Pookie's not going to join us
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Saturday morning. No, I'll be there.
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I'll just get there. I'll get there after you guys set up and put all the decoys
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out and start breakfast are you gonna just swim out there or what do you think
57:46
of there no I'll figure it out,
57:51
it'll be warm enough maybe he'll just come out there in a speedo doing the backstroke
57:54
on his way out on river thought about it twice could very well be I hope he's
57:59
not don't need to see that.
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Something out. I'll make one of you guys feel bad enough to come pick me up.
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Probably not. Yeah, it's going to take a lot of work, dog.
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I'm very convincing.
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I mean, it's either that or your truck's on block on blocks at the boat ramp. So, take your pick.
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Damn. I think I might try my luck. Do it. I dare you. Going to leave the work
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truck on blocks or what? might as well,
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damn he got me there anyways,
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you guys got anything you want to say to the people what you got pookie I know
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you got something brewed up,
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no it's just this is dude he's just angry at the world today I don't really
58:53
understand why no stop he's getting that look on his face it must just be the
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monkeys banging cymbals banging cymbals.
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This is like the reset the last reset that we get for the year right here and
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it goes into the final stretch of goose season and I hope we bang them up I
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hope everybody that listens to us gets the opportunity to go out and hunt and
59:21
bang them up themselves and hopefully the weather,
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cooperates along with the geese,
59:28
I mean it's shaping up to be a better goose season than normal We got the geese
59:32
already, and we're getting an abnormally late warm-up, I would say.
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I mean, we always get a warm-up in December, but it's later than normal.
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So we're going to have open water, and we're going to have water to hunt in general.
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The lake level is higher than it has been in recent years.
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So I'm pretty pumped for that. I think it could be one of our better goose years to date this year.
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RIP to the geese. Hmm.
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I mean Ellie's already resting up for it She's been sleeping since like I don't
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know 12 o'clock today getting ready for goose season I feel like she's just
1:00:10
being lazy Probably We're gonna go with she's getting ready for goose season though Sounds better.
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