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Duckfellas Ep. 38 — Trailer Upgrades, Clay Shoot Chaos & Youth Opener Worries · DuckFellas Podcast

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This is the Duckfellas Podcast, episode 38. Welcome back, everybody.
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Feels like it's been a lifetime since we've done one, even though it's only
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been, what, seven days? Six days? Six.
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We did Tuesday last week.
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We did. Oh, we did do Tuesday last week. Hell yeah.
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And it's been a long week. Oh, man. Yes.
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Kind of glad that we got the bulk majority of everything done that we wanted to get done.
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Now we're on the trailer. Mm-hmm. Yeah, we're ready to go hunting now.
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Like, whenever I get here, we can rip out.
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I do want to say real quick, we appreciate everybody that stopped out this weekend.
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A few of us, a few people stopped by, helped out.
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It was kind of a wet, soggy weekend, just like it's been the whole month of September.
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But we were able to still get some stuff done and had a lot of fun Sunday.
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Sunday was an absolute blast. Mm-hmm.
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Yeah, we got to shoot a few clays, hang out a little bit, try to knock some
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dust off, which clearly I needed.
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What do you mean? That was bad. You know what's funny?
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Austin, today, Zach came by to get his computer bag that he left.
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No, dude, it's not even funny.
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And as soon as he comes walking out, here comes Ellie carrying an unbroke clay
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pigeon that Zach probably missed.
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I kid you not. I was like, oh, hey, Ellie. And I'm like, nice.
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Nice. She like brought it over and just waved it in front of me. I'm like, turn around.
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Leave me alone. You're a real prick. She didn't even touch him all day long.
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We were sitting out there in the shop. And then as soon as Zach gets there,
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boom, she's got one in tow.
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Love it. Love it. It's good times. Good times.
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That was a lot of fun playing Annie Oakley. And definitely we did.
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We shoot opposite handed for everybody.
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That was a good little mix-up. Made it interesting. Definitely entertaining
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to see Zach's stance to shoot left-handed.
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I want to see everybody else's stance left-handed. I can guarantee that mine
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was not pretty either. It's not comfortable.
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It's not that bad. Come on now. I mean, at least I was just using the little
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410s, so I didn't really have much going on with that big of a gun or anything.
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Aw, Trenton.
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You hit You did pretty well with that 4-10 for distance-wise even.
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There were some times that they got pretty far out there and you were still able to dust them.
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Not bad. I have my moments.
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That'll happen. Happens to the best of us. Freaking Trevor kept beating everybody.
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Yeah, no kidding. Yeah, honestly, that one's ridiculous.
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Who won the other round? Because we did three rounds. Was it Griffin? Or was it...
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I can't remember. I feel like somebody won a different round.
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No, I thought Trevor won two, and then you won one. And I don't know what you guys did after I dip.
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Oh, maybe I do. I don't remember.
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Yeah, I think you won one. Trevor won the important one, the one where he had
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money on the line. Yeah, what a cheater.
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I want that guy tested. This was the first year that you were involved in brushing
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the boat, wasn't it, Zach? Mm-hmm.
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About cut a little bit last year. Not much. more like not like the the initial
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brush in but like the the touch-up of brushing,
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it's quite the process it is but you gotta look good to hunt good,
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something like that i mean i would i would say yeah i guess but it,
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takes a lot of work i mean the more time you take too to make sure you're concealed
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the better off you're gonna be come hunting season and you're sitting there
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wondering why all the birds are flaring i mean covers the biggest key to be able to kill birds yep.
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Yeah we're working around the rain to uh get brush cut this weekend and want
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to put it on the boat but not want to stand there in the rain and get soaked uh presented uh,
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different challenges that i hadn't been a part of the last couple years helping
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it as well too so just kind of felt like we got slow rolled by weather all week and like hurry up
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to get shit done for 15 minutes while it's not raining than to turn around and
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try to do more stuff inside the shed when it when it was raining.
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Yeah, I mean, it's like, it was every morning, Saturday morning,
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we were out there, and luckily we had stuff to do in the shop.
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Like, I know we put new vinyl on the trailer, which we'll have some clips and reels come up here soon.
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A little sneak peek was on the post today, but those turned out awesome.
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And we polished the whole trailer, which I don't really ever want to do again,
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but I'm sure we will, because that took forever.
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Yeah, but it looked good. And for sure, shout out to Levitt Graphics.
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That dude, kind of a goofball, but he knows what's going on.
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He has really good vinyl. And anytime that's not during race season,
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he'll hook you up quick and he'll get you right.
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And that's exactly what he did for us this weekend. So he even came out and
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him and I installed the one on the back door of the trailer too.
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So that was a cool process.
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Yeah, absolutely. I was going to shout him out here. I'm glad you did.
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I mean, Ryan's a good buddy of all of ours here.
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And when it comes to race season, that's obviously his number one priority.
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But when you get past that, you know, he's got a lot more free time and he does
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some awesome work on his great vinyl.
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And he's willing to work with you on it, whatever you want to do.
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Yeah, those decals look killer. Yeah.
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Oh, and they're good quality vinyl too. It's not something cheap like being
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experienced taking the two stickers that I had on there off.
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Right. And that was a joke.
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Yeah, it's just nice to know that if we ever get in a situation where,
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like, we would dang up one of the new vinyl stickers that we got,
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like, I mean, we're not going to be sitting there.
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The first person that drops that damn back gate on cornsocks and just jumps
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on it to crush them, getting teabagged. Yeah.
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I hope it's you. If it doesn't. It probably will be. I'll forget about it.
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That would be a turn of events. You'll have to lay down and take it.
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You'll get in a rush and you'll throw it down quick and then next thing you
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know you're waking up getting teabagged.
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Problem is though, doing that
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to you is I fear that you're going to like it, so it's not quite as fun.
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Hang on. I'll be right back. Oh, goodness. Yeah.
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I'm curious to know if we have anybody in here that was able to get out for
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Youth Opener up there in Northstone, Iowa us or anybody hunting in Canada or,
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wherever, let us know how your season's going, kind of how opening weekends
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have been going and what knocks on out,
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duck season's open in Minnesota and we're fixing to open up here in the north
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zone and we'll have our central zone youth hunt this weekend. Yep. Saturday morning.
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Yep. And we got goose opener. So that'll be, we'll see if we go goose hunting.
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Sounds like I might be around and get to go hunting. So. Yeah. We better then.
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My wife already gave me the green light with a seven-week hold.
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Like, we have got to fucking hunt this weekend.
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Yeah, I mean, I'd like to get the youth out, but we have a field right now that's got geese in it.
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So, kind of, I'm going to circle Trenton's comment into here.
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If we scouted it last week, me and Tyler got the little boat out,
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went and checked out what water was like, and saw a total of five ducks.
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Yeah, there's, it's not looking, I mean, there is a cold front coming like this
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weekend or maybe like Friday where it's a little bitty or a little cold snap
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gets pretty, pretty cold up in North Dakota.
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I think like 36 at the end of the 10 day for the low at 35.
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So I look to see, yeah, I look to see some, some birds start to move in.
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I mean, but we don't, from everything I've heard too, we just don't have anything
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around for ducks wise, which sucks.
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Does suck because we had where the water when where we were at the water I think looked killer.
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Yeah this is this is like it goes back towards our like my gripes towards having
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our season open kind of early around here,
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it really hurts for the youth you know because the youth is to try and get kids
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into the sport and take them out before anybody else gets to shoot at these
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ducks so they're uneducated not call shy not anything like they're They're just dumb.
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And when you don't have ducks around, it's, how do you think,
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going to have fun out there? Like, they might have fun doing it,
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but they're like, well, that sucked. We didn't kill anything or we only killed one. Right.
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Yeah. It's tough to take them out on a hunt that you're not,
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that you yourself aren't excited for because you want them to get hooked on it.
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And that's the whole point in doing a youth season is to get the kids hooked
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into the sport. Because without them, the sport dies.
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And at some point, if numbers keep dying, we're going to die anyway. So, whatever.
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We'll do it till we can't no more. No kidding.
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Yeah. Trenton, at least he's seen some teal out there where he's at.
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That's good. Some new geese, new honkers pushing in.
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That's about that time of year for some honkers to push down. Small little push.
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I think we did get a push of honkers. I mean, I was talking to you a little
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bit this morning, Tyler, and like,
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yeah, last night, I mean, it got just dark enough to where you couldn't see
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fly, and then naturally, like, all I hear is just honks from all around me,
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so I'm kind of like, well,
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that had not been like that around here, at least, since, so. Right.
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I will say the one good thing about this youth season is we're going to have
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plenty of water. So like the hunting opportunities are going to be there to
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take kids out and go to places you haven't got to hunt in years.
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But it just sucks because we're not going to have a lot of birds around, I don't think.
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And we're going to have too much water that spreads the birds out.
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So that's going to make it tougher.
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Hopefully they get out and still have a good time. I know I always enjoyed going
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no matter what when I was a kid, but for some reason I just can't get off it.
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Always been hooked on this dumb stuff. What was the hunting like back in the 40s?
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It was a lot better than now. I didn't have to listen to idiots like you.
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Damn. It'd be like that. Tough. Tough crowd. Tough crowd.
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But going back to kind of like this weekend and the get-together,
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One thing I would like to do, and we've talked about it a little bit between
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the three of us, I think next year we're going to kind of do,
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like I've kind of always done a little get-together to brush blinds and get
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the trailer ready, that kind of stuff.
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I think next year we're going to plan it farther ahead and make it an event,
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do like a tournament for clay shooting, stuff like to cook food,
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you know, get together, hang out, all that stuff.
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I think we all had a good time that showed up and we're out here.
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And I think it could be I think it could be a blast to get everybody together
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one more time before hunting season starts and we hate each other.
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Yes. Absolutely. Before we're throwing hands at the boat ramp parking lot. Well,
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might as well. Maybe by the end of the night we'd be throwing hands anyway so
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we could just get that going. Maybe. Maybe. Jared.
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I love that idea. That is a good idea, Jared. Kind of like a keg party but like
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if you want a plate of food you got to bring a bundle of brush.
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B-Y-O-B, bring your own brush. Please.
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That would be good. I mean, all about that. Let me put that in there in the event details. Yeah.
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A trailer load is preferred. Mm-hmm.
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Yeah, that'll get you a case of beers as well. Absolutely.
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But no, that's coming, hopefully. I think it'll be fun.
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If we get enough guys, do a loser bracket, and we'll do a last place award so
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everybody can make fun of them. I'll fill my shop with loser awards probably,
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but make a reoccurring thing every year.
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You might want to go brush up on your target shooting before you show up next
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year. I'll put a different choke in. That's what I'm blaming it on.
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It was 1,000% me, but I'm just blaming the equipment because that's usually what people do.
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I have the Code Black goose choke. That's pretty tight. Yeah.
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I have the Code Black ducking, which is close, not quite as tight, though.
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Yep. Trenton just needs to bring his boat down here, and then we can just brush
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them together at the same time. I mean, that seems like the most logical reason.
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His boat full of brush and brings it down and we'll use that brush on our boat
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or on Tyler's boat first and then we'll just fill in what we got left. Yeah.
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Yeah. That should be like one or two tumbleweeds left for him. Yeah.
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And Boyd's gonna bring all his graph
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clipping so that's knowing Boyd it's probably like a hayfield anyway.
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So if he just goes and cuts it and rakes it and brings it in and bails it'd
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be alright. Perfect for bundles.
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We could do the layout blinds.
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Oh yeah. God, we gotta do this yet.
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We don't even got to do those yet. They're all still brushed from last year. We're ready to rip.
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They're still going to need some touch-up. I mean, how many times have things
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got thrown and dragged and stepped on?
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I used the flashlight to look at mine, like, kind of when we were just fucking around.
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And I did not realize, like, how muddy I left mine from Goose Wars last year.
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Like, that thing definitely should have been stripped and power washed. But here we are.
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You know, we talked about that. We did. And it just never happened.
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I forgot about Goose Wars. We each had 10 pounds of mud in our boot and we're
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stepping on the seat and sliding our feet in there. I bet them things weigh
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an extra 15 pounds. Yeah, no wonder you forgot about it. You slept the first three quarters of it.
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It was the day after my 30th. I was hungover.
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Didn't you sleep half the time too, Austin? No.
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I slept none in the blind. I might have fallen asleep on the couch,
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fully clothed ready to go hunting and then slept all the way up to where we
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hunted as well but i was on crack on the way up to the hunt this is when we
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sat down that i fell apart,
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man thank god for your wife austin because otherwise you would not have been
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there nope not a shot without without her,
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you wouldn't have been there like no i i set my alarm but she got me up she's
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like i'll give a shout out to deech too because he called me said he was coming
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to town? I said, yeah, I'll be ready.
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I'll get up in a minute. He goes, no. Get up now.
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And they called me five minutes later and said, are you up? And I'm like,
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damn it. I'm doing it now.
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It's like corralling cats all the time, having to get everybody up and moving.
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Ooh, Rogers has Goosebuster XLs on sale right now?
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Yeah, I haven't been on there much. I haven't checked out any of the early Goose
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ads that are probably running right now.
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Ian says, you need to adjust your ceiling fan to go faster so it matches mine.
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So I can't, I'm not slowing mine down.
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Ian needs to worry about getting his lawnmower run stuck.
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Oh, talk about that, being stuck in a lawnmower, man. We got other,
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what, three days of rain this week again? Yeah, like three days and three plus
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inches is what it looks like right now.
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I think Trenton said they were slotted for like four. I think we're a little under that.
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Yeah. Oh, man. Luckily for us, the Mississippi isn't flooding.
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So we're able to dump water pretty quick. But the Mississippi's catching up. It's getting up there.
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If the Mississippi gets high and we can't dump this water like we have been,
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it's going to get out of hand quick.
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Because the ground is fully saturated when you walk around the yard and you hear squish.
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Yeah. I don't know how many houses I've been hearing about being flooded this week.
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Thank God mine wasn't one of them. But Jesus, my yard's got little puddles in it.
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Yeah i think my drain tiling has ran for like two weeks straight now just water
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coming out of it constantly so i'm super excited to get three more inches of rain.
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We needed it oh we did need rain for sure but not just it could have stopped
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two weeks ago yeah we didn't need it all like right away and like right to just
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not stop like today is the first time i feel like i've seen the sun in like a year.
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Yeah, I'm just, I'm glad I got the shop now. I started building an ark so that
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way, in case it never does stuff. You're an idiot.
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Won't be calling me an idiot whenever you need a ride in the ark.
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Yeah. Putting you as the two lions, idiot.
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Fuck at least i get a run trenton i seen commented here and asked if he could
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be on a team for goose wars this year if you're down to come out trenton you
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just let me know if we're doing it and we'll get you on a team whether it's
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our team or somebody's but you'll we'll get you out there,
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it's an absolute blast.
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The like the hunting portion is definitely a blast i mean like obviously you're
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worried about killing birds but you're hanging out with a bunch of good dudes
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anyway and then we meet up at the bar to go over who won well i know bradley
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was there not really that good of a dude but,
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meet up at the bar afterwards and then that's when all the gets a little wild
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that night i wish i could have got wild but instead i had to drive to work at,
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two in the morning so i just sit there and watch you guys drink late dude i
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know thanks for the ride home,
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you're a real one i think i drank one beer when we got there and that was the
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last one I had, and it just sucked.
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She's calling next year. Well, I'm going to make sure I'm not working the next
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day, this year. If we get to do it again.
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Oh, we're doing it again. Yeah. We'll find a way.
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Well, let's talk a little bit about the enclosed trailer and kind of the plans
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we have for it and what we have coming up on it.
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I'm stoked. Things looking like it was already a unit, but man,
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it's going to be it's going to be killer.
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Once we get everything in it.
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I guess I'll talk about it. Well, I was kind of hoping nobody else was going
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to talk about it, but he's just sitting there like, I don't know what.
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He's just hanging around.
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I'll talk about it, too. I don't care. I mean, it's your trailer, but... Well, shit.
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Somebody else? What did we put on there? Five light bars?
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Two on each side, one on the back. We're sliding back.
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What did we call it? Like, 20 or 21 dozen full bodies in there now yeah we're
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we need to count them need to pull them out yeah but we will again we do we do every year we just,
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some break sometimes we add more throughout the season so but sliding all those
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bags sliding our layouts and using the front of it,
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i got the opportunity from a guy that i know he has a whole bunch of old school
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lockers so we're gonna throw a couple there that way our gear can stay out of the back of the truck and,
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yes they were supposed to well they were supposed to work out great too tyler's busy,
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You never went and got the lockers that you said you were going to get.
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Dude, that's because you moved.
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I didn't want to get them and then take them to your old house because then
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I would have had to move them again.
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It's going to be sick to have those lockers because we can shove Austin in there
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so we can relive his peak high school years.
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Yeah, that'll be sick, dude. If you can fit my big fat ass in one of those school lockers, good luck.
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You're going to need all the KY jelly lubed around them. Yeah.
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But no dude it should be sweet putting in a couple shelves tyler got a switch
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panel so like all those light bars are going to be wired individually but
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they'll be able to all go on together as well to add some new lights to the inside of it,
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as well to hopefully at some point the uh solar kit,
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ships and we put that on that way we don't really have to fuck around with the
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batteries anymore i mean we still might have to at some point if the weather's
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like this and we don't have sunny days for three weeks at a time but,
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yeah just a lot of really cool stuff coming with the trailer we're still trying
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to figure out exactly what we want to do with the decoys and try to maximize
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the space that we have in there that way it just doesn't feel so crammed but,
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then again when you're talking about potentially anywhere from 20 to 22 dozen
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full bodies like shit takes up space so you just kind of adapt and go with it i've.
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Been trying to hold it back but i couldn't hold it back anymore,
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to anybody wondering why we're laughing it's because larry zach's dad commented
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asking asking if uh zachary's drinking out of a sippy cup right now and hell
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of a guy yeah he he actually is so he actually stopped by on Sunday wanted to,
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check out the boat and see what was going on and obviously make fun of me on our Facebook live.
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I couldn't I don't yeah it's perfect really.
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But no, to add on to that trailer, I'm really looking forward to getting that
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solar panel kit installed to have 110 to be able to charge all our stuff when
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we go on a trip or even just sit in the shop.
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We can just have it plugged in and everything that we need to have charged in
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there is charged. That'll be nice.
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Not this year, but hopefully next year, get the diesel heater installed in there.
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One of those little V4 ones or whatever they are.
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And that will be nice to have to kick that have us set on a timer to kick on
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you know an hour or two before we leave or whatever and everything's warm in there and good to go,
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yeah it'll be not stepping into cold waders or cold jackets is me really nice,
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yeah a little that and you know batteries last longer charge better when it's
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warm in there so if it's cold it nothing's gonna charge right yeah or nothing
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will hold a charge at least so,
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um i do agree with trenton that zach should do a calling seminar on one of these
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episodes i think that that would be very beneficial
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not only to us like tyler and i but to all of our listeners as well too like
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yeah i think that they would greatly benefit from that,
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no i love it absolutely i just got the the straight meat from foils so yeah
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maybe here in a couple weeks, Trenton, right before we kick off Big Duck season.
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We'll get together and do a little tutorial.
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Well, first, he's got to ask AI how to blow a duck call, and then he can make
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the step forward to set up a seminar.
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I've got the feeder call down. They said similar to like Machine Gun Kelly,
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just and that's it. So, we're good there.
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I just need to work on my hail calls, because I heard that's what really brings them down.
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It's all I want is a hail call and a fast feeder, and that's all we need.
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According to Siri, last year was just aggressive feed chuckling.
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We'll bring him in every time. It worked.
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We hammered that aggressive feed chuckle, and sure as shit, a group worked in.
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Yeah, no, it was instantly, too. That was some of the craziest shit I've ever seen in my life.
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Yeah, so if anybody's got, like, tips and kind of how they set their trailer
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up to store decoys, like, we leave, like, the bases on our decoys.
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We don't put them in bags. Like, we just have them in a seed bag,
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two or three dozen at a time.
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But I'd be curious to figure out the best way, and that's the kind of thing
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we're going back and forth on is trying to figure out the easiest but most efficient
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way of putting them in there and storing them, because it's not easy.
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You also got to think about, like, the seed bags. I mean, I don't hate it because
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then it's halfway easy to get them out too, right?
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I mean, you get certain trailers with like your rod system or whatever,
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if they leave the bases on and you're sliding them, those poles through the
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bases. I mean, that's great. But then, man, putting them in and taking them
24:46
out, it's taking an extra hour.
24:50
Hats off to the guys that have patience enough to bag their decoys every day
24:54
and take the bases off. And then when they go hunting next, I have to pull them
24:58
out individually, put the bases on and set them up. Like, I don't have that much time.
25:02
Right i might if we had a good day of hunting but the second we had a bad one
25:06
they would be thrown in there.
25:09
Be launching them in the trailer from 20 feet behind it? Leave the bags in the
25:13
field. I do not care for the geos in the trailer. Let's leave.
25:19
But no, that'd be cool. I mean, we're leaning towards the bar system,
25:23
but we'll see how it kind of goes.
25:26
We're going to figure that out between this season and next season.
25:31
This year is going to be just get the shelving and lights and everything else
25:34
done, figure it out from there.
25:37
See, I'm here with Jared, too, about the bar system.
25:41
I'm just a fan of, honestly, the way it looks like or, like,
25:44
how it looks in there, and I think that it's a super simple system to run as well, too.
25:53
I would be curious, like, if he leaves all of his bases on them in there and
25:58
how well that works, part of it.
26:00
I've seen people do it both ways, and I just don't know, like,
26:04
what way is the best way, so.
26:06
I think go ahead i was gonna say it just it depends on your decoy too right like,
26:13
bigfoots i think bigfoots are great decoys if you want to run bigfoots they suck to store,
26:18
like the dakotas with the motion stakes i think those are the personally unless
26:23
somebody's got a better way are the best,
26:26
storing decoy because they have those loops on the tail so you can hook squabble
26:31
up through a carabiner hook it up to an eyeball and then you have a stack of stakes Now, obviously,
26:37
we're not going to sell off a whole spread just to buy that many Dakota decoys,
26:41
but if you started from fresh, I think that would be the way to do it.
26:45
You're talking about clipping the carabiners to the bases? No,
26:48
so you're on the loop around the tail loop.
26:52
Yeah, and then you hook like a dozen in a big carabiner, and you can store them
26:55
up top, and then you just have them lined along the side.
26:59
Dakotas don't have the tail loop, though, do they?
27:01
Mine do. Are you talking about the loop that goes into the stand?
27:06
No. Like, mine have a loop through the tail of my Dakotas that have the motion
27:12
decoy. Did you buy those new?
27:14
No, actually, I bought those used. I wonder if someone added them to them.
27:19
Maybe they did.
27:22
I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure. Maybe they don't. They do not have it on the tail.
27:27
At least none of mine do, because I've got 15 dozen Dakotas, and none of them have it.
27:34
I got a few dozen DOAs and some fillers.
27:38
But I do. Dakotas and DOA are my two favorite for honker full bodies right now, as it sits.
27:44
I did like the avians, but the heads are screwed on. They suck.
27:49
And their base system wasn't it. Like, it was a good concept,
27:51
good idea, but it didn't. It just didn't work for me, at least.
27:55
Yeah, Charles says his Dakotas don't, so. Maybe it's an aftermarket thing,
27:58
but I think that's the way to do it. Yeah.
28:01
Maybe I'm with avians. I've got Dakotas and avians promotions,
28:05
so maybe it's avians. Either way, maybe it's aftermarket.
28:08
It could be the avian lessers. I think the avian lessers have it.
28:10
Lessers. Yeah, because I did get a dozen of those. Yeah, I think it's those.
28:17
Are those on stakes, though? That's what I thought. Yeah, that's which suck.
28:21
Because as soon as it starts getting frost, and I even tried...
28:24
As soon as that ground freezes. Uh-huh. I tried to hammer it a couple in,
28:28
and I just snapped that. I'm like, mm!
28:30
And every year, I'd keep meaning to buy the round bases, and I forget.
28:34
Yeah, that's why I hate stakes. I refuse to buy a stake.
28:40
Yeah, they're terrible. Not bad. If it's like right now, they'd be great.
28:45
And Trenton here had the same problem with the Avians that I did,
28:48
where the cones just don't last.
28:50
Because the base, you can collapse. You can push it into the body,
28:54
and then you can pull it out of the body.
28:55
And it's a great concept, and it just doesn't last. And then the rubber band
29:01
that comes down to the stand to prevent it from swiveling around in 360s doesn't last.
29:07
It gets stretched out super easy. Just too thin.
29:10
Like I said, good ideas they had just didn't work out.
29:13
And I think they're still running that it's great because yeah a buddy of mine
29:17
bought a fresh half dozen of the.
29:21
Full bodies with those stands and if your fingers are cold,
29:25
there's like two or three if you're trying to pull those bases out we ended
29:29
up just leaving them and it looked like they were laying because it was like fuck that I'm done,
29:34
I actually think I might have like three or four in the trailer still that I've
29:38
had for probably I think I bought them brand new when they came out originally,
29:43
great looking decoys I mean fresh out of the box anyway I think they look great yeah no,
29:50
they do look really good I love them I love the way they look I just wish they'd,
29:54
change their base and make their decoy a one piece like the lesser is yep to me,
30:01
I used to love swivel heads like especially on mallard floaters but anymore,
30:06
give me a one piece decoy I could care less to ever own another two piece decoy
30:11
again in my life 100%. Yeah, I mean...
30:16
Because you'll have an upright that's facing directly backwards.
30:20
And then it's like you're sitting there looking at it in the spread.
30:23
You're like, I got to go out there.
30:25
Well, and it's not even that, but like just how hard we are on decoys and equipment
30:30
when you throw them in a boat or throw them in a trailer.
30:33
Or if you're Zach and you run over their heads with a side-by-side.
30:37
RIP to that one. Yeah, that one's toasted. Yeah, he got retired early. Yep.
30:44
Actually, I think I can make it work still. but we'll see.
30:48
But I mean, seriously though, it's, I hate when them heads pop off or like you're
30:52
tossing decoys out of the boat and setting them up in the water and they,
30:55
the heads laying next to the decoy. It's like, Oh fuck. Mm-hmm.
31:00
Jared wants to know how many full body pintails you can fit in that trailer.
31:02
And we don't care about numbers. It's quality. And Kevin is the finest there is.
31:08
Yeah. We only have one full body pintail and we will only ever have one full
31:12
body pintail. We are at it. ride or die.
31:15
We are adding Jamal this year.
31:19
Yeah, I've got a full body blue heron that we're going to throw on that bitch.
31:21
We're not putting that in there.
31:25
Dude, he's just going to step beside the layout so Zach can reach out and just pet him quick. Dude.
31:30
Is it fully clocked? No, unfortunately.
31:34
But we got Kevin and Jamal. We'll be pulling out the nines.
31:40
Yeah. Shout out to Zach Brockmeyer here. He's the one that donated Kevin to
31:45
the trailer years ago, and Kevin's been with us since, like, 2020 or 2019.
31:53
It was a good look. I tell you what. I was with these people.
31:56
Dude, they're just coming at you.
31:58
I'm not a bad person. Everybody's just cameraing on me. That's okay.
32:03
Let's back it up a notch. Yeah.
32:07
Hey, Trenton asked you, Tyler, if you looked at those lanyards.
32:11
I have not, but that's funny he asked that because we were just talking about lanyards tonight.
32:16
I'll have to look those back up and share them with you guys because earlier
32:20
me and Austin were talking about getting some lanyards made for us that are
32:24
on the podcast here and involved with the podcast.
32:28
What was those ones we found last year? They were really cool.
32:31
They did some custom engraving on the leather.
32:34
There's like a leather back and you could do logos on there and then like your
32:38
name or a name on there i think it was i think it was on etsy that we found like we just found,
32:45
somebody on etsy that did a style that we liked and they were like pretty well
32:51
customizable to anything that you wanted to do but,
32:55
i'm sure if we look back hard enough like we got the link somewhere but i do
32:59
think that it would be really cool to do something for the guys that are involved
33:03
in the podcast and And then we just have similar lanyards, but,
33:09
the other guys get to vote on the name that goes on your lanyard.
33:12
So have fun with that.
33:16
Yes. Have fun with that. That would be interesting. I really don't want you
33:21
guys picking what's online, but that would be fun. We could leave it up in the comment section too.
33:26
That's another one that would be interesting. I'm sure that could also go badly for me.
33:32
Top comment for sure. yep yep we if we get get these going and figure out what
33:38
we want to do with which lanyard we'll just have to do that we'll put it out
33:41
there to the public to let them absolutely what goes on the lanyards i'm in.
33:47
Yeah i mean it's obviously it's obviously the pig on one,
33:53
Very similar to Porky and Pig, right? I mean, it's still good together.
33:57
All right, so quick question for you guys. Can you see me?
33:59
Because my computer just, like, blue screened, but I can still hear you guys, so.
34:05
Yeah, no, we can see you. Oh, that's sick, because I got nothing on my computer
34:10
screen right now, so we're just going to send it. Yeah, just writing it out.
34:14
You know why it messed up? Why? Because you just talked about how proud of it
34:18
you are. Yeah, you're right.
34:20
You're right. like work work two times in a row for me to log on no problems
34:25
at all nothing so i hype it up and then it just shits on me halfway through
34:30
this podcast can't have nothing nice around no never,
34:35
speaking of lanyards i would say i mean i had naughty ropes for those that are
34:39
looking for lanyard that lanyard's a badass little lanyard,
34:42
just apparently you need to run it by your friends first because i'll make fun of the color choices.
34:47
What? I said, apparently you need to run it by your friends first because they'll
34:50
make fun of the color choices.
34:52
Yeah, well, that's really not the only thing that we make fun of you about.
34:56
So honestly, I don't know if it would have mattered what the colors were. That's fair.
35:02
So the lanyard company that Trenton's talking about is On Point Lanyards and Outdoors LLC.
35:09
It's a veteran-owned company, and they custom-make anything you want out of Illinois.
35:14
So if you're, I mean, if you're looking at lanyards, It's another one that is quality.
35:19
And somebody that's in the chat here can vouch for that.
35:24
That it's good, you know, high-quality made laner. But I wish I could...
35:28
I'll have to look it up and find the ones that we were talking about this winter
35:32
and compare a few before we order some. Because I'm about due for a new one.
35:36
It's getting a little bit older.
35:39
I still like it. Might keep it for putting a few extra calls on.
35:44
Be the one that goes on the call shelf. few retired calls throw it on throw on there and hang it up,
35:51
wish i still had all the calls i've ever had like now that i look back on it
35:55
i wish i wouldn't have thrown a lot away when i was younger right we had a lot
35:59
of calls and i mean cheaper calls but throwing a lot of them away,
36:05
i when i first started i thought we needed i mean i'm a quality over quantity
36:09
guy so i went and bought a power max,
36:13
i think is what it's called i think pookie froze i think it did too yep yeah
36:18
about that like 180 power max power max i think that's what it is anyway,
36:25
and i was like man i just really i mean not that i'm any better at calling but
36:29
at the time i was like man that call really kind of i suck at calling and then
36:33
i tried an actual decent call and i'm like no i just overpaid for something
36:36
i didn't know anything about right and.
36:40
You know, Jared here is like, he just said that we still need that perfectly
36:44
tuned straight street by Foyles.
36:46
And mine has came up missing within the past year from moving.
36:51
And I'm really upset that I can't find it.
36:54
Because that is my all-time favorite call from Foyles is a straight street.
36:58
And if Foyles has been my calls I've used for years. And he makes some quality
37:04
calls and he's super, super good about getting back to you on stuff.
37:08
Yeah i just bought my first one at the delta expo have you really blown it much,
37:13
trying to here and there mary gets annoyed when i blow it in the house that
37:17
much but you could go outside why i'm trying to watch tv and blow my duck call.
37:23
You need to get tv in your shop i know i've got actually my spirit my tv that's
37:28
going to the shop is actually a christmas house because i don't i need to get
37:31
a router or an extender for my wi-fi to reach in the shop so i've got one i
37:35
just don't the internet out there yet,
37:37
gotcha yeah that's one thing i need to get to is as an extender to reach out
37:42
to the shop but i've got i don't know how far away your shop is from your house
37:45
but mine's pretty probably,
37:47
yeah mine's closer than yours is it yeah i'm not probably 50 feet 60 feet,
37:54
shouldn't have about being i can reach it if i have the doors open but with
37:57
the steel on it i want to get a router that goes right inside the door.
38:01
And yeah, Trenton, he just needs to practice 24-7, 365 days of the week.
38:07
Not just on the way to work and home because he works at home.
38:11
I was just going to say, I can't practice on the way to work and home.
38:14
I used to when I drove to work.
38:16
And now I walk 2, 4, 6, 8, 12 feet to my desk.
38:23
I'm going to get you a treadmill. Yeah, I'm going to have to get a walking pad
38:26
or something. I'm getting chubby. Well, get you one of those,
38:28
like, do you have a stand-up computer desk?
38:31
No. We're going to get you one of those and like a little treadmill and you
38:36
can, you know, high-stepping as you're working.
38:39
High-stepping, even. Got to keep you in shape for hunting season.
38:43
Yeah, after that one hole with you and Trevor and Cade last year,
38:49
that mud was shit and I was like, I need to.
38:52
Which spot was that? Which time? The morning with the aggressive feed chuckle
38:56
or the aggressive feeder call.
38:59
Oh, it wasn't that muddy in there. No, we had to walk back behind the boat to,
39:03
get willows cut. And that part sucked.
39:06
That part sucked. It's like the shallower water you get, the more muddier,
39:09
like softer the bottom comes. Yeah. Trash.
39:14
He's also got another idea for you. You could practice on the toilet every day
39:17
before work. That would get me a solid 30, 35 minutes of practicing.
39:23
And I highly recommend all highballer practicing first to start out the morning first thing.
39:29
That's that's all i want to get good at really is just yeah it'll call highballs,
39:34
yeah kind of like the the competition style calling you know just like that
39:38
guy we heard at delta at the foils booth yes,
39:42
yeah i want you i want you to just open your lungs up it's.
39:49
All you need to know yeah that'll bring a man from north dakota,
39:54
That'd be awesome. Wish you could do that.
39:58
I do need to get my calls. Oh, son of a... I need to get my calls back out. Listen, Trevor.
40:04
That's like the... What movie is that? When they send him to fat camp and make
40:08
him walk around a pit full of mud.
40:17
That's good. I'm,
40:20
going to get an excavator and dig a pit in my yard and just fill up a lot of
40:23
sloppy mud and just do laps all day.
40:28
Yeah. No, welcome back, Pookie. Did you get your blue screen figured out? Hello.
40:35
No, like the whole thing actually just shut down, so I just pulled you guys
40:38
up on Facebook just to make sure that you guys weren't...
40:43
What? What was that look for? That we weren't what? You got to finish your sentence.
40:48
You can't just stop. There's something wrong with your face, Tyler.
40:51
Well, yeah, that's just his face. Oh, all right. that.
40:55
Well, so I pulled you guys up on Facebook to make sure that you weren't talking
40:58
shit about me while I was getting long back on.
41:01
We would never do that. Hi, Jared.
41:04
Doesn't sound like us. I really only came back because I knew Jared was watching.
41:09
That's a lie. The Marvel King. Don't let it fool you. And took you through off
41:13
my entire sock train. What was that? Good.
41:17
Were you going to talk about how Tyler was cooler when he smoked cigarettes?
41:22
No, we were talking about Fat Camp and Hail Calls.
41:27
What a combo yeah I'll tell you what boys we gotta be on the lookout because
41:33
we are coming into little Debbie Christmas tree cake season,
41:38
that they've gotta be coming out anytime now I think it's always like the first
41:42
week of October when the first ones drop hell yeah the only little Debbie's I eat yeah,
41:50
I don't care for little Debbie's other than Christmas tree cakes two things
41:55
I love and that's Jake breaks and Christmas tree cakes baby.
42:01
There's nothing better than shooting a limit and then just it's like a reward,
42:06
every time the first time I was like you guys want a Christmas tree cake and,
42:10
Tyler was like no you can't do that let's shoot a limit and I'm like oh,
42:16
alright that's bad juju yeah dude like you can't celebrate before the victory,
42:22
true that's like going into the fourth quarter winning the game by just a touchdown
42:26
and already throwing a party.
42:30
Very fair. Plenty mature. Yeah. I will be on the lookout for some Little Debbie
42:35
Christmas tree cakes now. Mm-hmm.
42:38
You know, I'm really hoping that they bring back the ice cream because I've only had it one time.
42:44
But I will say it tasted exactly the same.
42:47
And you can break out your Christmas present this year.
42:51
Oh, I got to find that. Honestly, don't leave me hanging.
42:56
I think that's in the camper. I think it's in the camper. Dude, that's crazy.
43:01
Can we start the over-under on how many hunts Austin sleeps in for in the 2026-7 season?
43:08
That's actually a similar topic to where I was going to head to before we ended
43:12
this podcast, but we can go ahead and start that. Yeah, let's roll into it.
43:16
All right. I better get a beer for this. Hold on. Yeah.
43:20
All right, so now we start talking about how many Zach is going to miss because
43:23
he moved 30 minutes further away from us.
43:27
If he doesn't stay at my house or your house or whatever, he's going to miss,
43:32
like, I'd say 75% of them.
43:33
Yeah. Yeah, just absolutely not going to happen. No.
43:38
So anyways, how's your day going?
43:42
Mine's good. Yeah. So that just tells me you guys are absolutely talking shit.
43:49
Actually, we were talking about how often you're... We started with you,
43:52
the over-under on how many times you're going to be late or sleep through a
43:56
hunt because you moved fucking 30 minutes away.
44:00
Can we talk about the difference in being late versus sleeping in?
44:04
Is it one or the other, or are they both grouped into one category?
44:07
If you're not 15 minutes early, you're late.
44:12
I had to come and wake you up in your camper one time. You did it once.
44:15
And I think Pookie did it once this year too. Yep.
44:18
You know how many times I've had to call Austin because he got off at one.
44:22
Hold up. I'm not done yet.
44:23
Because he got off at midnight and then he set up to like two and then would
44:27
pass out and sleep through his alarm at three.
44:30
But out of all those times last year that I got off at midnight and was planning
44:35
on hunting, I only did not hunt one time. So.
44:39
That is true. That is very true. he was he was holding strong there with the
44:44
late night and early morning i was absolutely i was a fucking problem on the boat though,
44:50
like could barely keep my eyes open for slow parts of the morning i'd be like sleeping just,
44:56
taking snoozes for sure yeah but no we also said zach that if you don't stay
45:03
at like my house or like austin's or whoever's house the night before you're
45:08
gonna miss 75% of the hunts that you stay at home on.
45:11
75? 75. Yeah. That's a big number, fellas. Yeah.
45:15
It's a realistic number. Yeah, no, I mean, we meant it when we said it. No.
45:20
What do you mean, no? Dude, you and me, a couple, like, the early,
45:24
early ones, I'm gonna be like, yeah, I'll probably sleep on Tyler's couch.
45:27
But, like, on a standard hunt, I won't be, it's not gonna be 75%.
45:37
What do you think then what's your number i'll you know what i'll just go i'll
45:41
just say now i won't miss a single one you're not gonna be late do,
45:47
hold on whoa due to sleeping or being late i'm not saying i won't miss a hunt
45:52
with the kid and everything well no i say if i say yeah i'm hunting tomorrow
45:57
i'm not gonna miss one it's not gonna happen,
45:59
No, not a chance, dude. You are, you're insane. Nope, I'll call it now.
46:04
That's criminal that you would even say that. What do we want to put on it?
46:08
If I win, I want Tyler's left nut in a jar on my desk.
46:15
That's not happening, but what's your next choice?
46:18
If loser has to buy the winner, a case of shells.
46:23
A case? Case. Oh my God. What kind of shell? Does she still owe me a half a case?
46:30
I do. All right. What do we want to order for season? I should do that this week.
46:35
I've already got shells. I've got like three cases. I mean, let's just run what you shoot. Apex.
46:39
I mean, I've had good luck with them. I mean, I'm going to keep shooting them.
46:44
Loser buys the winner. A case of Apex.
46:48
I'm in. A case of Rios. So wait.
46:53
Is this a three-way bet or a two-way bet? How are we doing on this here?
46:56
Because you're already going to lose, Jack.
46:59
But like how are we going to determine the loser like by the farthest off well
47:04
if i say yeah yeah the close well like the closest to the correct number right
47:09
so if you say 75 and austin says 50,
47:14
then the one who's closest with that number wins right and obviously mine's zero i mean no.
47:21
Okay, so what are you calling, Austin? I don't know if I'm going to stick with
47:25
my 75 number, but I'll let you go first. Well, I'm not going to go percentage-wise.
47:29
So there's 60 days in duck season.
47:31
How many days do you think you hunted last year?
47:34
Or do you know that number? Talking about sack? Yeah. Yeah. Not you.
47:39
You hunt fucking all of them. Zach, how many days did you hunt?
47:43
There was only a couple that you went that I did, Little. I think he hunted
47:48
around 10 days, like duck season-wise.
47:52
With us.
47:53
Yeah, with us. Yeah.
47:56
So I think that you'll probably go on 15 with us this year.
48:03
But I think that number is going to be... Is that including Duck and Goose?
48:08
No, this is just Duck. Just Duck, okay. But I think that number...
48:12
I think your magic number is 22, but you'll be there for 15.
48:18
Locking it in. Okay. Okay. Hmm.
48:23
See, I don't think he hunts 22 times this year. I'm going to say 19 times. And he shows up for...
48:33
What did you say? 22 and 15, but was it... He's going to hunt 22 times when
48:37
he's slated? No, he'll be slated
48:39
to hunt. Like, he's telling us he's hunting 22 times, showing up 15.
48:44
Okay, so I'm saying 19, that he's supposed to hunt, and he hunts 13.
48:50
Ooh, yeah, that's close. That's close.
48:54
Okay. I'm going to really, really need to feed you hard liquor on Fridays and Saturdays.
49:05
So Austin said, you said 22 and 15. So we also got to get a little pie graph
49:12
going here and keeping track of everybody's hunts.
49:16
And 15, and Tyler said 19, and what? 13.
49:23
Okay. Jared says 11, and I just want you to know, Jared, if I surpass that,
49:28
I'm messaging you directly.
49:31
Hate mail. Yeah. Let's write a strongly worded letter.
49:40
What are your numbers here, Zach? Oh, you're going to just hunt all of them, but how many hunts?
49:44
How many hunts I'm gonna say 25,
49:51
and you're gonna you're gonna commit 25 times and hunt 25 times yep that would
49:56
be so sick that's a lot of that was true it is but I'm also off work for the
50:03
almost entirety of duck season,
50:05
yeah it's just too bad you won't show up for half of them here we go,
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alright anyways Watch me sleep in the first hunt of the year.
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Instantly lost. Yeah.
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All right. So let's start with Pookie. Or not start with Pookie. Let's go to Pookie next.
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I think he hunts. Pookie's pretty solid. I think he hunts 16.
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Says he's going to hunt 16. Misses two of them. So 16 and 14.
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That's a that's a good one but I think he's gonna hunt more than that I'm going
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with Pookie hunting 23 times and only missing one committing 23 times and only missing one hunt 22,
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he is if I he's usually reliable usually he's going that's what I mean he's usually pretty good,
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I think for me personally this year, there will probably be less hunts for me
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where I get off at midnight and then go out in the morning.
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But like when I'm not on nights and I can get away with it because I have weekdays,
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off. So like and and those don't bother me at all. And they don't bother the wife tent. It's true.
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Two long nights of window window tickets.
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Does jared have window tent on his truck honestly i'm not sure i didn't keep
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track of when his truck was here that'd be a real shame,
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real shame did you write those numbers down zachary i did i did i've got uh
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your guesses for me and our guesses for pookie perfect,
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i don't know can we make any bets on how many times we have to wake tyler up,
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because i mean obviously you're going to go every one we go but like how many
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times this year we gonna have to wake you up when we get home i'll be done for that,
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well so what in the this will be the third season that i've hunted with tyler,
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and i would say on average it's either two or three times a year that we have
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to wake him up so i think you we either hit the hit the,
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over under for it over under i'm gonna say over what What is the over to three?
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Two and a half. Two and a half. Yeah. I'm going to take the over. Yeah. Same.
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Ooh. I'm taking the under. Okay. You'll see. Slamming the over.
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Yeah. House payment. Now. Yep.
52:41
Right then. Yeah. Matt asked how all that was the opener for everybody.
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Well, we didn't get to hunt an opener yet because we haven't opened here where we hunt.
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But hopefully some of the people in the audience that are listening had a great
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opener or are having a great start to their seasons because I think a couple
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of seasons or a couple of states are in their second week now.
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Yeah. Yeah. Because I think North Dakota resident, this was their second weekend.
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So North Dakota today, I believe you were able to hunt as a non-resident for the first time.
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And North Zone doesn't open up until next weekend. It's this weekend.
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Yeah. Because North is this, Central is next, South is after. Mm-hmm.
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Yeah. There was something else we were going to talk about, but I can't remember what it was.
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But it was going to be something about what our thoughts were now that season's here.
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We did a way too early season prediction last year. At the end of the year.
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Let's make one quick before we get off of here. If you've got any questions
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in the chat, make sure you pop them out there now because we're about to end
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this and we appreciate you guys joining in. But let's shoot off some predictions
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for the season real quick and we'll close this one up.
53:58
All right. I got mine already. I am going to shoot my first speckle belly and
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I'm having Brett Henderson mounted after.
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So if my wife's watching this, we're having a burden now.
54:14
Well, hopefully you have your gun loaded next time a speckaballet comes in so
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you can shoot speckaballet. Dude, that wasn't even... You were the one that
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told me to get out and dust off decoys. So, like, you can't even really be that mad. No.
54:25
Well, I didn't tell you to. You guys asked if I wanted you to.
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Well, it was still a good idea to do.
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No, I'm not disagreeing with you, but you can't be mad at me.
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I didn't yell at you so I get the fuck out of the boat and go sweep decoys off.
54:38
Well, that's usually what he sounds like, though.
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50% of the time. Mm-hmm.
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All right, Zachary, let's hear it. I don't know.
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Like with the water and lack of food.
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Here we fucking go. I think my prediction, dude, I really do like this.
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I like the speckle belly prediction because I think that could happen this year.
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Oh, you haven't killed a speck either. Nope. Nope.
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So my, my prediction for this year is it'll probably be the ugliest duck.
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It'll be a hen spoonbill more than likely, but I'm going to shoot my banded duck.
55:23
Hell yeah. That was kind of where I was going to. Have you guys,
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either one of you killed a band yet? Geese, not duck.
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You killed a band of goose, Austin? Yeah, just one.
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Hmm. I was going to say, I think both of you, or each of you are going to kill
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a band this year, but I don't really foresee it being two band of ducks.
55:46
I think one person kills, the other probably, like I think both of you probably
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get banded geese as well, but one of you is going to kill a banded duck.
55:54
And I'll go with Zach on this because you predicted that as well.
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But I do think somebody else in the boat this year is going to get a banded duck for their first.
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That would be sick to see a banded duck killed out of the boat for sure.
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I mean, obviously I want to kill one, but if anybody killed a banded duck out
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of the boat, it'd be sick.
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I would love to say that we got two, but I mean, we're very unlucky with banded ducks.
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AJ early here commented that those are rookie numbers. We need to get those numbers up.
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And if we're talking about bands, we just are very super unlucky and we don't hunt a lot of geese.
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So we don't kill a lot of bands in general.
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Like we do do that, but usually it's late. AJ goes to the old Arkansas and smacks
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the ducks. So he's probably got a handful of band of ducks out on his lanyard.
56:44
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I've killed a lot of ducks through the past 85 years of
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being alive and hunting?
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And how many bands have you shot? I've killed one banded duck.
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I truly do not care if it's,
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banded when it can fly four miles west of Knoxville, hand spoonbill, I'm mountain it.
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And Brad Henderson, sorry, we have to work on the pin feathers, I mean.
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I was going to get my first band bounded, but it was a banded goose and it was
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banded here in Knoxville. That was cool.
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I'm not going to mount that.
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I should have bounded the banded cackler last year. You should have.
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Especially since you shot it on your birthday too. That was just the whole thing
57:36
was really cool coming together.
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I think I would mount a cackler that's not banded. Like, I just think they're badass-looking birds.
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It was, too. I've killed a lot of them through the years, so they're not,
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like, it's still, no matter what, cool to me, but, like, I've killed a good,
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fair number through the years, so. Right. It's not as big of a deal,
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but the band was a big deal.
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We definitely tried to get you to Mountit as well, too, but,
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and I understand, like, that was our first day in North Dakota,
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too, like, we were really hoping that we were gonna end up getting into more
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ducks while we were there and we just didn't too.
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So it was just kind of a thing that happened. But I mean, still cool nonetheless.
58:19
It was really cool to be a part of.
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I don't think that I have been a part of a band being killed out of your boat, period.
58:30
I don't think so. I think every band that I've been a part of was in a field.
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Really? Yeah. And think about how crazy that is.
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With how many geese that we've we have shot out of the boat that's yeah no that is wild so.
58:47
No again just i some people like some people just get lucky and we aren't those
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people not with bands but i mean we'll shoot them i'm,
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not even with bands just in life in general that's me yeah that's what's up
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yeah there's that let's go ahead and wrap this up zach why don't you why don't
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59:19
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Peace out. Have a great youth hunt weekend and Northstone opener.