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My Motion Decoy Hotlist For Finishing More Ducks In 2026 · Last Stop Waterfowl Outdoors Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the marsh is waking slow, got that brackish water glow.
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  Speaker 2: On the southern flyway run, chasing that Louisiana sun. Last stop,
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  Speaker 2: Waterfowl Outdoors. Last stop, Waterfowl Outdoors.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to another episode of Last Stop Waterfowl Outdoor Podcast.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host, Jacob Robry, and I'd like to welcome
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  Speaker 1: y'all all in, guys, for a new episode. And just honestly,
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  Speaker 1: spend a little time with me. Let's talk a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of duck hunting as, man, it is that time
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  Speaker 1: of year. Hunting season has officially kicked off. We talked
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  Speaker 1: about it last time in a previous episode. We were
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  Speaker 1: getting ready for the dove opener. For those of you
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  Speaker 1: who were looking to do a little bit of dove
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  Speaker 1: hunting with the family, with the boys, whoever it may be,
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  Speaker 1: that kicked off. And when that happens, we know that
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  Speaker 1: we are even closer to duck season.
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  Speaker 3: At that point.
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  Speaker 1: Now, this week, we are fired up. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: us across the flyways, we're getting excited. I know here
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  Speaker 1: in Louisiana, we are excited because we kick off till
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  Speaker 1: season this coming weekend.
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  Speaker 3: And I know, I know what y'all are going to say.
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  Speaker 3: You're going to say, Jacob, I don't know. I don't know, man.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't feel like hunting season is kicking off right
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  Speaker 1: now because it's 100 degrees outside right now.
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  Speaker 3: It is hot. It is sticky.
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  Speaker 1: That old Will Ferrell meme that they talk about.
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  Speaker 3: It's sweat. It's stanky.
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  Speaker 1: It's just hot. That's what it is right now, guys.
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  Speaker 1: And it doesn't feel like duck season. And I get it.
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  Speaker 1: I get it. For those of us who are ate
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  Speaker 1: up with it, it's in our blood. It's something that
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  Speaker 1: we can't live without, waterfowl hunting, and it's just that
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  Speaker 1: time of year to kick things off. We get teal
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  Speaker 1: season this coming weekend.
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  Speaker 3: I know here in Louisiana, a bunch of my buddies,
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  Speaker 3: they're fired up right now.
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  Speaker 1: A bunch of my friends over in Southwest Louisiana that
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  Speaker 1: I've talked to, you guys down in the rice fields
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  Speaker 1: right now, in the southern marshes of Southwest Louisiana, you
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  Speaker 1: guys are fired up.
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  Speaker 3: They're starting to see some teal, and that's a good thing.
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  Speaker 1: Now, we all know we only get one Week of
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  Speaker 1: teal season now here in Louisiana and a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Of places across the flyways.
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  Speaker 1: You guys have also seen it cut back as far
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  Speaker 1: as what we get for teal season.
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  Speaker 3: So it's really a hit or miss.
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  Speaker 1: It's a feast or famine type situation because you have
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  Speaker 1: to make sure, you know, or hopefully you get catch
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  Speaker 1: that week when you open up that you have some
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  Speaker 1: teal hitting your area in the migration right now. And
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  Speaker 1: if you look at the migration charts here, that are
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  Speaker 1: out there right now. A lot of those teal have
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  Speaker 1: began making their way down. A lot of them are
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  Speaker 1: down in the south right now, and they're making their
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  Speaker 1: way towards Mexico. So we just have to hope that
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  Speaker 1: we catch it right now. Is the condition set up
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  Speaker 1: right right now?
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's hot. We talked about that. We're looking at
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  Speaker 3: a full moon, you know, coming up.
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  Speaker 1: If we could catch it just right, maybe we'll have
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  Speaker 1: some success next week.
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  Speaker 3: But I don't know. I really don't know. People keep
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  Speaker 3: asking me. They're like, man, what do you think teal
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  Speaker 3: season is going to look like, Jacob?
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  Speaker 1: And honestly, it's a crapshoot, guys. You never freaking know.
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  Speaker 1: Because with one week, that window is very small. You
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  Speaker 1: either hit it right or you don't. But from what
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  Speaker 1: I'm hearing, the reports are that there is some teal
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  Speaker 1: down here.
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  Speaker 3: People are seeing some birds.
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  Speaker 1: I know for me personally, the area that I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to be hunting this weekend is I'm actually not going
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  Speaker 1: to hunt opening morning. I'm going to be hunting Sunday
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  Speaker 1: morning because I have to work on Saturday. Yes, that
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  Speaker 1: kind of sucks for me because I would love to
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  Speaker 1: catch the opening morning. Those birds haven't seen any kind of,
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  Speaker 1: you know, hunting around them.
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  Speaker 3: But I can't. I got to work. We got to
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  Speaker 3: pay the bills at the end of the day.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm going to hunt Sunday. But Jackson, David, my buddy,
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  Speaker 1: they're going to be hunting opening morning. And from what
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  Speaker 1: I'm hearing is there has been a couple of birds
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  Speaker 1: that have been seen in the area, but nothing serious.
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  Speaker 1: too big, which, to be honest with y'all, I'm cool
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  Speaker 1: with that. I'm hoping they show up kind of later
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  Speaker 1: this week for the opener this weekend, or honestly, even
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  Speaker 1: if it's next week, that's fine. You can hunt all
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  Speaker 1: through next week into the following weekend for that full
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  Speaker 1: seven days, and I'm perfectly fine with that. I'm only
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  Speaker 1: going to be making one hunt, it looks like, with
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  Speaker 1: my schedule that I got. I got other obligations right
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  Speaker 1: now that just happened to fall.
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  Speaker 3: But I promise y'all one thing.
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  Speaker 1: My butt will be in that Doug Blonde on Sunday morning,
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  Speaker 1: this coming Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm looking forward to that. And really from there,
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  Speaker 3: it just keeps rolling, guys.
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  Speaker 1: We go into, for us here in Louisiana, I know
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  Speaker 1: for me, Small game hunting season is right around the corner.
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  Speaker 1: Just a couple of weeks away, we're going to be
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  Speaker 1: doing a little bit of squirrel hunting. You guys know
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  Speaker 1: if y'all follow us on the channel on our social
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  Speaker 1: platforms that squirrel hunting is always something we look forward
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  Speaker 1: to in October. And hopefully, along with that, when that
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  Speaker 1: kicks off, hopefully, and I'm hoping, fingers crossed, it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: look like it right now when you look at the outlook,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the future forecast. Hopefully, we could get a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of cool weather finally making its way down south. Now,
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  Speaker 1: when we look at till season, I talked about hitting
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  Speaker 1: it just right. If you do look at the forecast
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  Speaker 1: for this week, the good news is there's a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of dry air that is expected to move into
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  Speaker 1: Louisiana this week. And it's going to make its way
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  Speaker 1: down south, according to what the weatherman says. We all
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  Speaker 1: know the weatherman's, you know, wrong probably 90 percent of
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  Speaker 1: the time. But if you look at those temperatures, yes,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to get hot during the day. It's going
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  Speaker 1: to be in the 90s, which is a slight dip
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  Speaker 1: in the temperature. They're saying about 67, 68, depending on where.
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  Speaker 3: You are in Louisiana and other areas, Mississippi, Texas.
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  Speaker 1: As it makes its way to this coming weekend as
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  Speaker 1: we get ready to open up teal season. And that
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  Speaker 1: little bit of slight difference in those temperatures could make
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  Speaker 1: a difference with those teal and that migration. So it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be interesting to see what happens this week
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  Speaker 1: when that kicks off. But the fact of the matter is,
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  Speaker 1: it is here, guys. It is the best time of year,
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  Speaker 1: in my opinion, and I'm sure a lot of you guys.
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  Speaker 3: Agree with that as well.
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  Speaker 1: To get y'all fired up, we have been talking over
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  Speaker 1: the last couple of episodes.
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  Speaker 3: We've been talking about equipment.
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  Speaker 1: We've been talking about strategies, kind of prepping for the
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  Speaker 1: upcoming big duck season that we're going to kick off
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  Speaker 1: in November. And in this episode, we're going to be
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  Speaker 1: talking about motion decoys. We're going to do another equipment
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  Speaker 1: episode on this one because I'm going to give you
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  Speaker 1: guys my top picks for motion decoys as you're preparing
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  Speaker 1: for duck season this year.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of us are buying equipment. A lot of
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  Speaker 3: us are buying gear right now.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm intrigued by a lot of products out on
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  Speaker 1: the market right now. And I'm going to tell you
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  Speaker 1: my top list of motion decoys in this episode. It's
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  Speaker 1: my hot list, I guess you could say, for finishing
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  Speaker 1: more ducks in 2026 when it comes to motion decoys.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody loves talking gear. Everybody has an opinion on decoys.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of you are brand specific in what you
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  Speaker 1: have in your spreads. You may be a Mojo guy.
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  Speaker 1: You may be a Higdon guy. You may be this brand.
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  Speaker 1: You may be that brand. Well, I'm going to give
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  Speaker 1: you all my hot list in this episode. We're going
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  Speaker 1: to talk about on some of the decoys that I've
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  Speaker 1: personally used through the years that I know are reliable,
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  Speaker 1: that I know finish ducts. And some of them I
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  Speaker 1: haven't used, but I'm intrigued by them. I've been watching
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  Speaker 1: what's out there on the market. Haven't had to put
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  Speaker 1: them in my spread yet, really, because I don't need
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  Speaker 1: a whole lot of decoys right now. You know, I'm
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  Speaker 1: pretty stocked up right now on what I got on decoys.
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  Speaker 3: So I really haven't.
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  Speaker 1: This is probably one of the first seasons where I
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  Speaker 1: haven't had to buy many decoys this year because I
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  Speaker 1: am stocked up pretty well. But that doesn't mean that
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  Speaker 1: my eyes not paying attention to what's out there. And
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  Speaker 1: some of these products I'm going to talk about today,
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  Speaker 1: which I'm actually going to kick off the list with
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  Speaker 1: number one. I'm intrigued by, I like them, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to tell you why I like them. So this
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  Speaker 1: is a top seven list. That's what we're going to
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  Speaker 1: break it down to. My top seven hot decoys. when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to motion for this year that I think
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  Speaker 1: you guys maybe might be interested in taking a look
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  Speaker 1: at because I know I am and they are appealing
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  Speaker 1: to me. So let's get into it and let's start
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  Speaker 1: breaking it down. I'm going to give you all my
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  Speaker 1: first one, guys, and my first motion decoy. that I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to mention is the Japu Flyaway Deputy. Now, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of you have been seeing Japu on the market. Man,
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  Speaker 1: when we went to the duck show, or not we went,
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  Speaker 1: when a lot of my buddies went to the duck show,
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  Speaker 1: they were raving about Japu. Japu's a brand name that
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  Speaker 1: I saw break out into the hunting market About a
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  Speaker 1: year or two ago, started seeing them, started looking at
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  Speaker 1: the decoys that they had, and then they really started
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  Speaker 1: catching my attention more and more and more.
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  Speaker 3: Now, it's not a decoy that I personally have as
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  Speaker 3: of yet. As of yet, I'm going to say that
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  Speaker 3: because I will eventually own one. I like the way
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  Speaker 3: it looks.
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  Speaker 1: So where does the Japu decoy fit into your hunting scheme,
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  Speaker 1: into your hunting style? So I made some notes on this,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm going to tell you all what I wrote down.
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  Speaker 1: So the Japu Flyway Deputy decoy, what I think of
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  Speaker 1: is this as a stealth play. It's a stealth decoy.
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  Speaker 1: It's a subtle movement, subtle motion decoy. Doesn't make a
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  Speaker 1: lot of commotion. It's a bobbing, kind of natural look
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  Speaker 1: to that decoy. It looks like a duck that's feeding,
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  Speaker 1: but it's creating water movement. It's creating ripples on the water,
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  Speaker 1: and it just looks natural. But it's more of a
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  Speaker 1: stealth decoy is what I made a note on. So
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  Speaker 1: on those dead calm bluebird mornings where aggressive motion or
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  Speaker 1: high flash actually spooks some of those nervous birds, so
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  Speaker 1: that's for some of you guys on public ground, When
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  Speaker 1: you start having a lot of pressure on those birds,
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  Speaker 1: that Japu decoy may be something that you want to
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  Speaker 1: look at.
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  Speaker 3: It's not as aggressive, and I mentioned that a second ago.
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  Speaker 1: That's where this decoy, I feel, comes in clutch from
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  Speaker 1: all the video I've watched on this decoy. And I've
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  Speaker 1: watched a lot of video on this decoy, just seeing
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  Speaker 1: what they have to say, the company itself, but what
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  Speaker 1: other people have said about it as well that have
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  Speaker 1: used it.
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  Speaker 3: It's compact.
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  Speaker 1: It has an internal vibration unit that creates micro ripples
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  Speaker 1: and subtle body chatter across the water surface.
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  Speaker 3: That's what it claims.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what I've seen from it so far, guys.
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  Speaker 1: That Japu, like I said, it's not something when you're
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  Speaker 1: hunting those heavily pressured birds, it's not a decoy that's
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  Speaker 1: going to be spitting water, throwing stuff all over the place.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's just a subtle movement.
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  Speaker 1: So they get over that spread or they get over
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  Speaker 1: those tree tops or they see it in a marsh pocket,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a pond that you're hunting and they have,
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  Speaker 1: it's a calm blue bird day. There's no wind. You
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  Speaker 1: don't have anything moving those other decoys around it. It's
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  Speaker 1: something that's going to create a ripple and those birds
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  Speaker 1: could look at it and say, okay, this looks natural.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's not something that's going to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: scare them off. It's going to push them out of
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  Speaker 1: that area. that's where the job who comes in into play,
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  Speaker 1: in my opinion, guys, any other notes I got on it,
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  Speaker 1: you know, That's pretty much it. I think what it
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  Speaker 1: is about the Japu is that it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: a natural look decoy.
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  Speaker 3: And it is a motion decoy. It's going to give
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  Speaker 3: a little bit of motion.
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  Speaker 1: And ripple to your spread on those calm days where
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  Speaker 1: you don't have any kind of wind.
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  Speaker 3: It's just a dead, stale day. I think that's where
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  Speaker 3: it's going to pay off.
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  Speaker 1: So it is number one on my list for hot
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  Speaker 1: new decoys in 2026 for you guys to maybe take
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  Speaker 1: a look if you haven't done so already.
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  Speaker 3: All right, so moving into it.
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  Speaker 1: Next up on number two, This is a decoy that
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  Speaker 1: I have a lot of experience with, guys, and it's
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  Speaker 1: the Higdon Pulsator. Now, I have the Pulsator XS listed
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  Speaker 1: on here because it's the more modern version of the Pulsator.
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  Speaker 3: So I have a lot of history with the Higdon Pulsator.
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  Speaker 1: I have been using the Higdon Pulsator decoys in my
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  Speaker 1: spread for motion since they had the old versions where
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  Speaker 1: they had the big heavy battery pack that was attached
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  Speaker 1: to them. You had to go in there, attach the
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  Speaker 1: cords to the battery, the 12-volt battery that was in
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  Speaker 1: that waterproof battery pack.
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  Speaker 3: And then you had to throw that whole thing out
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  Speaker 3: on there, that decoy.
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  Speaker 1: That battery pack was act as an anchor, basically the whole,
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  Speaker 1: that Higdon Pulsator decoy.
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  Speaker 3: Down in your spread and anchored down in your spread.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm going to tell y'all that since day one
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  Speaker 1: that I started putting the Higdon Pulsator in my spread,
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  Speaker 1: it is probably one of the most deadliest decoys to
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  Speaker 1: finish ducts that I've ever used in my entire life, guys.
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  Speaker 1: Other than a jerk string, which I did not put
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  Speaker 1: on this list, and I know a lot of you
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  Speaker 1: old school guys are going to say, man, what?
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  Speaker 3: Jacob, you left out a jerk string.
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  Speaker 1: That's the number one motion decoy that you need to
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  Speaker 1: have in your spread.
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  Speaker 3: It has worked since the Stone Age. And yes, you're right,
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  Speaker 3: but it's not on the list. Get over it. I
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  Speaker 3: didn't put it on the list.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, we all know a jerk string works, but let's
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  Speaker 1: be honest, a lot of people nowadays are trying to
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  Speaker 1: go with something that's battery operated.
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  Speaker 3: They don't want to deal with a jerk string. It's
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  Speaker 3: a hassle. It's a pain in the ass.
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  Speaker 1: And I didn't put it on the list, so we're
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  Speaker 1: going to forget about it. But the Higdon Pulsator, guys,
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  Speaker 1: it freaking finishes ducks.
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  Speaker 3: We know it.
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  Speaker 1: It's reliable for the most part. You know, it's going
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  Speaker 1: to finish birds. It creates a lot of action on it.
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  Speaker 1: So one of my notes that I wrote about the
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  Speaker 1: Higdon Pulsator– First of all, I made a comment. I
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  Speaker 1: put this is a raw water displacement workhorse.
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  Speaker 3: It is. It's a workhorse, guys. It works. You flip
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  Speaker 3: the switch. It's going to come on. It's going to work.
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  Speaker 1: It runs on an internal 12-volt lithium bilge pump that
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  Speaker 1: shoots periodic surges of water into the air. So the
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  Speaker 1: great thing about Higdon is through the years with new
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  Speaker 1: battery technology, they have really, you know, grasped that battery,
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  Speaker 1: that technology and batteries. You don't have to have that
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  Speaker 1: big battery pack like we used to with the original
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  Speaker 1: Higdon pulsators. Now it's lithium-ion batteries. It lasts throughout, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a hunt, maybe even two hunts. You can hunt all
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  Speaker 1: day with the lithium ion battery and it's going to
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  Speaker 1: continue to work, guys. It just does. The battery life
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  Speaker 1: is really good. You also, it makes it compact. It's
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  Speaker 1: easy to carry. You don't have to have that big
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  Speaker 1: battery pack like back in the days. You don't have
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  Speaker 1: to worry about carrying extra batteries with you. Everything's built
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  Speaker 1: into the decoy in the Higdon pulsator. It's extremely easy
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  Speaker 1: to use. Turn it on, throw it out with a decoy,
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  Speaker 1: with a small Texas rig anchor, and it's going to work.
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  Speaker 1: It's freaking, it's going to work. You don't have to
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  Speaker 1: worry about reliability in most cases.
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  Speaker 3: Now, can you get a bad one? Yes. In any
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  Speaker 3: of these brands out there, you can have a bad one.
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  Speaker 3: I had one on me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to be completely 100% real with you guys.
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  Speaker 3: I had one last season.
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  Speaker 1: That i was having trouble with it would it would
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  Speaker 1: periodically work i would turn it on sometimes it lasts
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  Speaker 1: a whole other times i'd get it and it i
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  Speaker 1: after 30 minutes 40 minutes it was starting to go
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  Speaker 1: bad contacted higgin on that and they took care of
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  Speaker 1: me the customer service was absolutely amazing on it got
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  Speaker 1: me one out replaced it let's go let's keep hunting
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  Speaker 1: at that point but the pulsator Lithium battery technology now, guys.
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  Speaker 1: But here is why it's so lethal. And this is
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  Speaker 1: what I said in my notes right here. The surging
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  Speaker 1: water doesn't just move the pulsator, but it rocks and
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: sways that decoy.
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: So when you look at that butt up in the water,
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: Not only.
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: Does it disperse that water, it throws that water, but
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: it makes that decoy rock.
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: It looks like a duck that's feeding on the bottom.
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: It just looks realistic. And yes, if y'all watching me
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: on video, I use a lot of hand motion. But
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: you guys that have used that pulsator, you know that
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: bobbing action it gives it.
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: It looks like a feeding duck. It looks realistic.
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: So that's something to go along with that bilge pump,
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: spitting that water out, creating all those ripples. And I
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: find it works great in windy days or on windy days.
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: And I also find it's at its peak performance on
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: those days where once again, stale days.
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: Not a lot going on, not a lot of wind.
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: So look, let's be honest.
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: Whenever we are talking about motion decoys, a lot of
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: times we really rely on those motion decoys on those
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: days where it's just stale, right? Those days where we
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: don't have wind, we don't have any kind of ripple
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: in the water, our regular decoys are just sitting still.
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: It looks like glass. Those birds come above us. It
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: just doesn't look natural. You know, it doesn't look like
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: ducks that are feeding, moving around, you know, pruning themselves,
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: doing all that type of stuff. It just doesn't look natural.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: That's where we rely on making that spread come alive
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: with all these decoys that we're talking about in this episode.
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: So that pulsator, spitting out that water, having that bob
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: and moving action on that decoy, it makes it one
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: of the best, in my opinion, that's out on the market.
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: And it's been that way since day one, since they
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: released it.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: So suddenly your entire hole looks like a living raft
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: of ducks feeding. Zero external battery boxes. We talked about that.
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: No messy wires to trip over in the blonde. Or
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: if you shoot a bird, you go out there and
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: you spread. You're not tripping over wires like you used
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: to with the old decoy strings, with the old jerk
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: string and some of the others that are out there
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: on the market. So that is number two on my list, guys,
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: for motion decoys that I think makes my hot list
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: in 2026 that you guys should take a look at
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: if you're not familiar with it.
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: So let's keep it moving.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: We're going to jump into number three on the list,
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: the Mojo Flocka Flicker 2.0.
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: Now, I'm going to specify 2.0 because Mojo.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: If I'm keeping it real with y'all, and y'all gonna
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: hear me say that a lot, y'all know I'm gonna
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: keep it real with you. I'm gonna tell you the truth.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: When the Flock of Flicker decoy came out from Mojo,
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: I was like, this is a game changer. When I
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: saw the advertisement for it, I saw that Flock of Flicker.
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: It was small.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: It sits low profile. You put it out there with
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: your other decoys in your spread. And that little spinning wing, stop, start, stop, start, action,
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: just looks like birds flapping their wings on the water,
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: drying themselves off, doing their thing, doing what ducks do naturally.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: And I was like, this is a game changer.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: I was one of the first people, when it hit
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: my local sporting goods store, I went out, I grabbed
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: a set of Flocker Flickers.
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: I was like, I got to have these in my spread.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: What I found out was that that first generation of
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: Flock of Flickers was shit for me.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: It was shit for me.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: I hated it because it could not keep water out
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: of the housing. It was a great idea, great concept,
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: supposed to be waterproof, but we were having trouble getting
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: water inside the housing of the first original Flock of Flickers.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: I've done a couple of review videos on that first generation,
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: told you my thoughts on it. Problem was, couldn't keep
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: water out of them. Some guys said, hey, never had
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: that problem, but it was an issue. It was an
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: issue for a lot of people. And what was happening is...
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: You drop one, it would stop working. The second would
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: stop working. Before I knew it, I had, I think
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: it came with six, if I'm not mistaken, at that
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: time when they first released. I could be wrong. It
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: might be four, but I think it was six. You
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: guys could correct me on that. But I want to
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: say six. Before I knew it, I was down to one.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: I was down to two. And $ 100 price point on
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: the first generation Flock of Flickers for them not to
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: make it even through a half a season, I was pissed.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: I was disappointed.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: And I didn't have time during the season to call
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: Mojo and try to complain, try to work that out.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: I was, I threw them, I threw them out. Mojo
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: realized it was an issue. They knew other hunters were
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: having that issue and they redesigned. They went back to
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: the drawing board with the flock of flicker 2.0.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: They fixed it.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: This Flocka Flicker 2.0, I was skeptical, but I said,
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: you know what? Looking at what they did to make
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: those corrections and get it corrected from the first generation,
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: it looks like they beefed it up. They put more
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: waterproofing technology into that decoy, and I went to the store.
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: I bought a second generation.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: And I'm telling y'all, I haven't had a single problem
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: with any of them since, guys. They did the job.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: They corrected the issues that were out there. And the
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: Flock of Flicker 2.0 is a phenomenal product because, like
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: I said, the concept of the Flock of Flicker is
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: just a great idea.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: What it is, is low profile.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: And a lot of guys say, oh, spinning wing decoys
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: don't work no more nowadays. Well, I say yes and
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: I say no to that because there's times it's a tool.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: There's times to use it. There's times to take it out.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: But the thing that's a little different with the flock
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: of flickers is that it's low profile. It's not a
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: Mojo spinning wing decoy or Lucky Duck decoy spinning wing decoy.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: That's up on a pole up in the air. It's
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: low profile.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: It sits right in with your regular decoys that are
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: sitting on the water, and it looks natural.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: Once again, water motion required.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Spinning wing decoy, whatever it is that you go with,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: you want it to.
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: Look natural, guys. Natural, natural, natural. And yes, even though
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: it's not.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: A water motion decoy, I still put it in this
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: category for this episode because it's low profile.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: And it's still a motion decoy that finishes birds.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: So you put it out there in your spread, it's
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: low profile, and it kicks on, spins that little set
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: of wings on it, and then it kicks it off.
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: So it's not something.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: That's constantly running in your spread nonstop where it can't
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: be controlled.
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: It turns off, turns on.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: And when you look at it from above, I've actually
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: seen drone footage of it. It looks like You know,
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: like all your decoys around there are coming alive. They're
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: flapping their wings. They're doing their thing. And it looks natural.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: It doesn't make any kind of noise. It's real low key.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: And once again, on.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: Those days where it's stale, this is where it really shines,
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: in my opinion. Don't be afraid to use it on
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: a windy day because it looks natural. Birds on a
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: windy day that sit down on water, they're moving those wings.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: They're moving around. There's a lot of movement going on,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: and it looks really, really natural, guys. So the Flocker
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Flicker 2.0, I definitely think it's one of those things.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: So instead of relying on one giant spinning wing decoy
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: right in the center of your landing zone, you scatter
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: these small low-profile units throughout your decoy spread. That's exactly
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: how you do it. You put those throughout your decoy spread,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: kind of fill in your spread. They're easy to throw out,
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: very simple Texas rig, you know, anchor, or if you're
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: in deeper water, put you a string with a longer
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: anchor on them, and they'll work. They have those splashes
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: of white and dark that mimic the whole flock preening
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: and stretching on the water. It's exactly what I just
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: talked about. It completely breaks up the unnatural single-point spinner
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: look that late-season birds avoid.
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: Enough said. You guys get the point.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: It is a great decoy to throw into there, and
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: you will have success finishing birds if you choose to
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: use the Flock of Flicker 2.0s. I promise you, a
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: lot of people I know that hunt with them, they
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: swear by them, they love them. The Flock of Flicker 2.0,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: it's a great product, guys, and that's why it made
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: this hot list for 2026 on motion decoys.
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: All right, number four. We're already through the list, guys,
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: halfway through the list right now. So number four.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Uh, the avian X power, but kicker who, a lot
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: of guys are talking about that decoy over the last
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: season or so, because they were having issues over at
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: avian X with these decoys.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: They would be able to turn them on. And a
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: lot of guys couldn't get them to turn off. They
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: worked so well. You couldn't turn them off.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Even when you threw them in the truck bed, you
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: threw them in the boat after the hunt, you brought
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: them home, they were still kicking.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: Those Avian-X power kickers were still kicking.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Now, a decoy that I haven't personally bought, but I
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: have a couple of buddies of mine that I've hunted
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: with that use the decoy. And I'm telling y'all, this
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: is a great looking decoy. So it's a little different
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: than a Higdon Pulsator. I would kind of put it
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: in that category, but it's a little different.
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: And I'm going to tell y'all why it's a little different.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: So if you hunt Shallow rice fields, flooded timber, mudflats,
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: traditional propeller-driven decoys are a nightmare.
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: Bilge pump decoys throw a lot of water, cause a
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: lot of commotion.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: You know, some of these propelled decoys, they, you know,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: if you hunt any kind of vegetation, you'll know they
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: could fail in those heavily vegetated duck holes that you're
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: going to hunt.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: Those propellers get caught up.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: Even some of those bilge pumps, guys, they can get
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: caught up and cause issues with some of the decoys.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: That won't happen with this D car right here.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: The power button uses realistic kicking web feet right at
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: the surface.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: So those web feet design right at the surface, what
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: it does.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: You turn it on and those feet, those web feet
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: on that power kicker just kind of kick up and down.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: splashes that water, creates those ripples, and it looks really,
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: really good, guys. It's not as aggressive of a decoy
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: as a pulsator is because it's not spitting and throwing
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: water and causing as much commotion. It's something that's a
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: little bit more low-key, but it's more than what you
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: see with some of the swimmer decoys and decoys. I
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: would say even compared to like the Japu, which we
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: put on this list at number one already, we talked about,
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: it's going to create a little bit more motion.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: So it's kind of in between.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: A bilge pump style decoy and it's, you know, in
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: between like something like a little dabbler that's going to
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: move or a quiver butt decoy, something like that. It's
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: going to give you a little bit more motion. But
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: those feet kicking look real natural. It's a butt up decoy,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: just like you see with the pulsator. But it's a
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: little more subtle than a pulsator, guys. And I really,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: really like the look of it. Now, like I mentioned
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: early on with this decoy, they were having a lot
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: of problems with it last year, not being able to
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: turn off those switches or that automatic deal that they had,
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: that mechanism that turned it on, that was water activated.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: They went back this year.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: AvianX went back and redesigned the decoy to kind of
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: address that problem. Now they have an on-off switch on them,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: and time will tell.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: But an on-off switch, a.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Manual on-off switch on this decoy is going to correct
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: that problem where you don't have to worry about it
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: being water activated. And some water activated decoys, like I've
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: used from Lucky Duck, which I'm going to talk about
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: in a second, that makes this list, it's really worked
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: well with them, you know, on some of the decoys
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: that I've used with them.
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: AVNX on this one didn't have it right.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: They just put an on-off switch, corrected that issue supposedly.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: And I think that's going to make a big difference.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: You won't have to.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: Worry about the problem that they were having last year
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: with them.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: So the second gen redesign, you know, model, I think
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: this is going to be much better. But as the decoy,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: for the decoy itself, It's a phenomenal look. It looks
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: real natural, and it's a great decoy, guys. So I
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: think it is going to be much, much better with
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: that on-off switch that they put on.
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: But don't get me wrong. The idea, the concept, those
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: legs kicking up and down.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: Creating those ripples, a little bit of splash, something that's
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: a little bit more subtle than a bilge pump-style decoy,
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: it's something that definitely has a niche in the market
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: when it comes to motion decoys. So that's the Aviadex
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Power Butt Kicker, guys.
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: It's made my hot list for 2026.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: If y'all haven't checked it out, go take a look
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: at that one. I think you might like it. All right,
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: number five. All right, so number five. We're going to
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: go to a spinning wing decoy. The original OG spinning
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: wing decoys. I have number five, the Mojo Elite Series
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Green Wing Teal decoy. And the reason I put it
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: on this list is because a lot of us, I
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: know down south here in Louisiana, a lot of us,
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: duck season kicks off, we have a lot of teal.
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: We have a lot of teal.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: Whether it's teal season you're using it or once big
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: duck season opens up, I know a lot of us
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: harvest a lot of teal throughout the whole season, to
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: be honest with y'all.
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: It's not just early in the season. A green-winged teal.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Decoy works really well on both green wings, blue wings,
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: whatever it is.
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: It finishes big ducks.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: And the reason I put it on this list, guys,
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: is because it flat out works. If you have teal
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: in your area and you kill a lot of teal
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: throughout the season, I'm telling y'all, put.
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: It in your spread. It's going to make a difference.
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: They are attracted to it.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: They see it from a long ways off, especially when
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: there's flocks of 15, 20 and even bigger than that.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: Sometimes it catches the attention of those teal from way
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: off and it brings them closer to you. A lot
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: of times they're a real curious species.
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: They come to those, those green wing teal, those mojo.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: Decoys, those spinning wing decoys, and they'll at least get
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: into your vicinity close enough to take a look, check
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: things out.
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: And at that point, hell, if you got it on
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: a remote, shut that remote off.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: If you think it doesn't work because it's, you know,
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: they just don't have the effectiveness.
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: They used to have.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: At least use it as a tool to get them
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: closer to your spread, especially you guys that are hunting
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: open water.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: If you're hunting the marshes or you're hunting big lake reservoirs,
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: I'm going to tell y'all, I got my ass handed
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: to me last year because, look, I'm going to blame
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: this one on Jackson. I'm going to blame this one
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: on my oldest son, Jackson.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: He has it in his mind that he hates spinning
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: wing decoys, and a lot of you probably feel that
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: way as well.
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: Y'all hate it. You say it don't work anymore like
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: it used to work.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: And maybe that is true. Maybe that's a true statement
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: that it doesn't work like it used to. Because if
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: you were around when the first generation of spinning wing
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: decoys from Mojo came.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: Out, it was stupid, y'all. It was absolutely stupid.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: That thing would suck birds from the stratosphere down to
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: your spreads and get them down there. And yes, it
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: may not work like it did back then, but does
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: that mean that it still doesn't work today?
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: No, it does not mean that. It works.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: And I'm going to tell y'all that I got my
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: ass kicked by not having one of my spreads last year.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: When we kicked off the season last year, Jackson, I
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: had said, hey, do you want to bring a mojo,
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: a spinning wing, tilt, decoy? Nope, I don't want it, Dad.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: I don't want it in the spread. He said, we're
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: going to use the pulsator. We're going to use, you know,
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Flock of flickers. We're going to use that type of stuff.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: And he said, we're not going to bring in no
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: spinning wing deco.
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: I don't want to use it. Don't work no more.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: I said, okay. I went ahead.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: I went with it. And we didn't use it. Well,
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: I could tell y'all that we were on public ground.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: We were hunting around an area where there were other
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: people that had them up in the air.
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: They had them on poles, big, tall poles up in
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: the air. And we could see their spreads not too
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: far down from where we were. We were hunting open water.
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: And there was a lot of teal when that season
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: kicked off last year. And when I tell y'all that
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: they were flying.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: Past our spreads, over the top of our spreads up high,
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: and they were bypassing us and going straight, sucking down
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: to those spreads that had those spinning wing teal decoys,
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: those mojos on those poles, them boys were blasting away.
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: And we watched.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Ourselves get our ass kicked by those guys. We actually
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: had two setups, that one-on-one end of us, one-on-another end.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: We were kind of sandwiched in between. And those birds
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: would pass over us up high, kind of, you know,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: or they would fly straight through the open water out
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: of distance of the spread where we were. And they
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: would go straight to those spreads on both ends of us.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: And those boys went to pounding them. And we had
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: to watch that show all day long. You talk about
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: humble you. It will humble you very fast and will
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: make you go to the store. Now, I was three
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: hours away from home. We had left those decoys at home.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: I looked at Jackson. I said, when we leave here today,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: because we were there for the weekend, I said, we
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: are going to Walmart and we are going to get
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: a goddamn mojo. I may have 20 of them at home,
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: but we're going to Walmart and pick up a mojo,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: which we did. And guess what? Walmart was out. In
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: a small town, it was the only sporting goods store
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: around me that would have had Mojo's, and they were
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: sold out, and I was effed that day or that
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: weekend because we couldn't get our hands on a damn Mojo. So,
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: I learned right then and there, guys. I said, hey,
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: we have got to have them. Whether or not we
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: think they work, they don't work. We're bringing them with us,
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: especially when we know we have a lot of teal
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: down in the area. We're going to have that Mojo
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: green wing teal decoy with us in the boat. And
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: if we want to use it, we're going to put
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: it out. If we don't want to use it, fine.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: We're not going to use it, but that son of
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: a bitch is going to be in the boat. It's
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: going to be with us in the duck blind to
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: have ready to go in case we needed to draw
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: some of those birds in. Now, look, that may not
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: always be the case, but I could tell y'all weeks,
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: the next week when we went back to hunt that
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: next weekend, we had it with us.
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: We had it out in the spread and lo and behold,
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: same story, guys. Guess what? We were smashing.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: We had teal still hanging around that area and those
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: birds were.
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: Coming to those mojos. So, I'm telling y'all it works.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Yes, it may not work like it did back in
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: 2000 when they first came out.
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: Late 90s when they first came out.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: But guys, there's a time and a place for the
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: Mojo spinning wing decoys, the old school spinning wing decoys.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: And it is going to make my list for 2026 because.
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: Don't be like I was.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: Don't be like Jackson was and not have one ready
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: to go whenever you go out there.
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: At least have it ready to go.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: If you see, if you don't want to put it out,
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: like I said, don't put it out in your spread,
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: put out what you want to put out there. But
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: if you're on public land and you see other guys
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: smashing that, have one out there, at least you got
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: that decor ready to roll and you could get out there,
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: walk out, put it out in your spread. And who knows,
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: it may save a hunt for you, but I promise you,
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: I'm not going nowhere without it anymore because it will
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: be with us. And that for the single reason and
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: single purpose is why I have it on my hot
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: list guys. But if you, have teal that you hunt
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: most of the season. And it's not only teal. Don't
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: get me wrong on that. it will bring those big
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: ducks in as well. And I'm going to tell you
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: all another secret. It doesn't have to be a spinning
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: wing teal decoy. I can't tell you how many years
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: we use dove, mojo dove spinning wing decoys, and they
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: will come to that just like they will any other
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: spinning wing decoy. Don't think because it's not a teal
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: on that little pole that they don't come.
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: To them because once they get.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: Close enough to identify what the hell kind of species
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: that is, they dead at that point. They too close
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: at that point, right? I know a lot of you
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: probably use those doves as well. It ain't no secret.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: I promise you. And if it is, if you haven't
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: heard of that, You want to save a little bit
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: of money? Get you some of the spinning wing Mojo
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: Doves and put them out there. They will do the
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: trick as well, guys. So that was number five on
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: my list. Don't leave home without it. Trust me on that.
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: Have it ready to go if you need it. The
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: Mojo Elite Series.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: And the reason I mention the Elite Series is because
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: that's the newest generation out there. Man, the battery life
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: on those things are really good. You don't have to
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: have any kind of, you know, AA batteries to worry about.
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: You just basically recharge everything and you're good to go.
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: in that situation.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: They make a really good, realistic-looking call right there, guys.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: I know I talked, but I made a few notes.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: The wing flash still does the job.
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: Just have it in the boat. That's the simplest thing
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: I can tell you. If you need to use it,
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: use it. If not, Whatever, you have it ready to
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: go if you need it.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: So moving on to number six, the second to last
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: decoy on my list, guys. This is an older decoy
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: that's been out for a while. The Lucky Duck Splasher HD.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: So if you're not familiar with that, just to give
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: you a visual concept, What this decoy does is it's
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: a hybrid decoy from Lucky Duck. And I have used
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: this in my spread now for many years. And when
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: I say it's a hybrid decoy, it's a spinning wing decoy.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: It's a floater decoy, first of all. It sits on
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: a foam pad, has a hole in it. It sits
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: on its pad. You set the decoy. Looks like a
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: resting duck on the water.
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: And it sets on this pad.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: You have an anchor weight attached to it that goes
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: down and touches the bottom to anchor it down.
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: But it's a spinning wing decoy.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: Decoy that sits on that pad so you have it
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: on a continuous motion. It has a couple of different options.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: You can do a continuous spin, you can do a
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: time spin, or you can run it on a remote
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: like you can with all Lucky Duck decoys. And I'm
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: a fan of Lucky Duck decoys. I've always thought the
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: quality of Lucky Duck was really good. To be honest
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: with y'all, I've never had really many problems with Lucky
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: Duck at all. I've always thought they were some of
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: the most reliable motion decoys out there. for giving less
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: problems than any other brands out there. So I'm really
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: a fan of Lucky Duck. Now, I don't run as
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: many Lucky Ducks nowadays just because there's so many competitors
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: on the market now and there's so many options you
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: can use on what you put in your spread. But
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: I still have the Lucky Duck HD Splasher. I actually
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: have six of them. that I still have out there.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: Some of them are seven, eight years old, and they
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: still work just like they should.
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: They run on a 12-volt battery.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: They have a housing that sits inside that pad that
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: houses a 12-volt battery on it, and it anchors it down,
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: but it's a hybrid decoy because it has spinning wing motion,
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: but it also has tabs that are built onto those
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: spinning wings, and what those little tabs do is you
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: put them down, and when that Decoy spins on the water.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: It kicks water. It splashes water. It has like a
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: sprinkle basically that comes off of that decoy. So it's
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: a spinning wing decoy, but you can also put those
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: tabs down to where it hits the water when they
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: spin and it creates a splashing motion.
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: So it creates ripple. It creates movement.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: And since it's floating on a pad, it also kind
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: of turns that decoy left, right. If you have a
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: little bit of wind, it kind of moves it like
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: it would with any other decoy that floats on the water.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: And it looks really good, guys. And it doesn't, you know,
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: create too much ruckus. It's more of a subtle decoy,
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: water motion decoy, spinning wing decoy.
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: And it works.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: It's low profile, a lot like I talked about with
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: the Mojo Flocker Flicker 2.0s. It's low profile. It sits
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: in the middle of all your decoys. You can put
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: it right there with all your regular other floaters out there.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: And it looks natural, but it has that spinning wing
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: action to it. It's not way up in the air looking,
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: you know, like kind of maybe throwing something off, spooking
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: pressure ducts. It looks natural. It looks subtle. And it's
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: kicking that water. It's sprinkling that water around. It's creating
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: a little bit of ripple. So it works really well
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: on those stale days where you don't have no wind.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: But on those windy days, it also works really well
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: as well because They see that little bit of splash.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: They see that decoy floating on that pad and the
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: pad blends in. Don't worry too much about the pad.
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: It looks natural. It's nothing that's going to throw them off.
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: And I could tell y'all I have got birds to
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: finish right next to those decoys through the years with
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: that Lucky Duck HD Splasher.
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: So the unit bridges the gap between flash and splash.
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: It spins its wings while simultaneously throwing a thick spray
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: of water into the air. You get the long distance
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: visual attraction of a spinner combined with the real surface disturbance,
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: all packed into one decoy right in your primary landing packet.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: That's my notes I made on it, guys. And that's
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: exactly what I just explained to you. So the only
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: downside to that decoy is it's a little bit more
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: work to set it up than some of your other
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: decoys out there, like the Higdon Pulsator.
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: Like I mentioned a while ago, hey, throw it out
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: there and it works. It just does its thing.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: You know, the flock of flickers, put them out there,
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: turn the button on, and it does its thing. Several
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: of the ones, the spinning wing decoys, turn it on,
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: does its thing.
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: With the HD Splasher, there's a little bit more that
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: goes on to it.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: So you have to open up the housing to it,
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: attach the wire to the battery to kick the power on.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: It has a water-activated sensor on the bottom of the
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: housing that sits in the water. Once it hits the water,
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: it starts turning on that decoy. It starts doing its thing.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: You have to open up that housing, that battery housing,
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: attach that positive wire to the battery. And then at
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: that point, screw it back. Put it in its pad
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: and then put it in the water and get it going.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: It's a little bit more work, but it's nothing crazy, guys.
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: It works.
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: It's a great decoy and birds love it. It will
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: finish birds for you. So out of all the decoys
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: on the list so far, it's the one that probably
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: requires some of the most work to prep it, to
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: get it ready. But it's nothing that's going to take
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: you long once you use it, once you get familiar
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: with it. You can do it within a couple of minutes.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: Put it out there and you're good to go, guys.
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: If you have multiple ones that you're using in your spread,
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: it's gonna take a little bit more time than some
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: of the other decoys on the list, but it works.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: Trust me, the Lucky Duck HD Splasher really works. It
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: comes in at a price point right around 110 bucks,
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: nothing too expensive. And yes, I know I didn't focus
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: too much on the price points of these decoys, but look,
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: if you guys like them, to be honest with y'all,
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: a lot of y'all, if you like what it looks like,
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: You're going to go out there and you're going to
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: buy it. They all somewhat priced competitively to each other.
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: You know, they got to be because they wouldn't be
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: able to sell decoys if they weren't priced competitively. So
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: I didn't get too much into the pricing on all
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: the decoys on the list. I just want to tell
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: you about the functionality, the style of decoy it is,
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: and why I think it's a good fit for you
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: guys to look at for this season. So that wraps
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: up the Lucky Duck HD Splasher. So the final water
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: motion decoy, or in this case, not so much a decoy.
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: It's an addition to your decoys that is going to
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: make the list at number seven. It's something that you
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: add on to what you're already using in your spread.
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: So if you guys are using, you know, Mojo spinning
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: ring decoys, if you guys are using AvianX spinning wing decoys,
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: if you guys are using any brand of spinning wing
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: decoy in your spread, This is an addition.
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: Number seven, the Bluebird Waterfowl Animator.
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: So a lot of you guys have heard about Bluebird Waterfowl,
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: the animator product.
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: And what it is, is it is an attachment.
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: That goes on those spinning wing decoys that you're already
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: using in your spread.
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: It attaches to those spinning wings.
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: It slides onto that shaft where that spinning wing, you know,
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: attaches to all of us that carry our wings. And
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: then we attach them to those spinning wing decoys. The
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: animator goes onto that wing shaft. It has a shaft
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: that comes down. It's adjustable.
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: It has a cup at the bottom of the shaft.
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: And what it is is when those spinning wings start going,
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: that shaft and that cup on that spinning wing goes
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: down and it hits that water and it makes that
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: water splashing sound. It sounds like birds that are on
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: the water, landing on the water, getting up off the water.
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: It sounds like birds, and it's a very natural sound, guys.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: So I had the owner and operator, the creator of
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: the animator, on our podcast several seasons ago. He had just,
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: you know, came out with the product. He hadn't even
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: released it whenever I had George. George Parker is the
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: owner and operator of of bluebird waterfowl and george at
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: the time nobody really knew who george was he had
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: hit me up he said jacob i have this product
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: that i came up with it's a concept it's in
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: the development stages right now he said but i'm telling
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: you i think i have something special here so he
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: said i'd love to come on the podcast talk to
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: you kind of explain it to your audience what it
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: is and.
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: He was getting ready to release it but he was
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: still kind.
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: Of working out some of the things I wanted to
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: perfect it. And George came on. And when George came
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: on and his passion that he had for this product, man,
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: it just oozed out of George.
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: I could see it. I was like, you know what?
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: He's going to do something special with this product because
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: not only is it a great idea, but just his
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: passion to perfect it, to get it right, to get
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: it to where it fit multiple brands of decoys out
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: on the market and get it in the hands of
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: hunters and He knew that if he could get it
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: in the hands of hunters, get it on their decoys,
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: in their spreads, that they were going to rave about it.
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: They were going to come back. And man, honestly, that's
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: exactly what happened.
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: Since then, there's a lot of guys who have added
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: this to their spreads and they go back and they
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: buy another one and they buy two, three more to
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: put on other decoys and they're telling their friends about it.
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: And guys, it works.
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: The product really just simply works. That's the simplest thing
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: I can tell you. So, It's a little bit more work, yes,
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: than some of the decoys you could just throw out there,
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: but it's not hard. It's a very simple process to
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: slide it on the shaft. You're already putting on those
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: wings on those decoys when you add them to your spread.
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: You put it on that shaft of that decoy to
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: throw your wing right over it, and you're.
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: Good to go.
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: Adjust it to whatever water depth you're in, and guys,
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: you're ready to go, and it's natural. So if you
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: want absolute realism, this is some of my notes I wrote.
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: If you want absolute realism, the animator's probably one of
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: the best tools that you could use. Instead of relying
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: on robotic repetitive pulse, the Bluebird Waterfowl Animator pulls an
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: entire line of decoys in a fluid continuous swimming motion.
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: So basically what I mean by that is it will
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: operate on all your decoys in that situation, okay? So
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: you can put it on all, like if you got
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: a Lucky Duck spinning wing decoy, you got a Mojo
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: spinning wing decoy. Maybe you're not using all the same brands.
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: The animator, they have an animator that will go on
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: all those decoys and it'll work in sequence on all
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: those decoys that you got in your spread.
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: For that day.
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: You don't have to have one brand of spinning wing decoy.
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: George makes an animator for every mob. That's my point
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: I want to make. I don't want people to think, okay, well,
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: if I have a Mojo spinning wing decoy, then it'll
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: only work on Mojo spinning wing decoys.
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  Speaker 3: But I may have a couple of Lucky Ducks that
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: I have in there. I may have a couple of
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: Avian Xs that I have out there. No, guys, it'll work.
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: They have an animator model that'll work in sequence with
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: all those decoys. So don't worry about if you have
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: multiple brands. There's an animator product for you. But it's lightweight,
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: and I'm telling you all the sound that this thing makes.
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: If you haven't heard of the animator from Bluebird and Waterfowl,
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: go to YouTube right now. Go check it out. Go
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: to their website right now, bluebirdwaterfowl.com. Go see what I'm
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: talking about. It's an attachment that goes on your existing decoys.
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: It creates a realistic duck sound. And it's slapping that water,
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: creating a splash, creating water movement. It puts beautiful ripples
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: out into the spread.
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  Speaker 3: It works really, really well, guys.
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: And that is why it made my hot list for 2026.
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: That's it. We have come to the end, guys. I
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: don't know. Let me know what y'all think.
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: Is there something that you think should have made this
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: hot list that I talked about for 2026 that's not
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: on the list? I think some of these decoys, like
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: I said, it's not all decoys that I personally used
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: in my spread. I may have hunted with guys that
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: we've hunted over them because they had them in their spread.
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: Or I've seen them, I've kind of researched them, I've looked.
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  Speaker 1: At them, and they're on my hot list for my
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: next buy to add to my decoys in my spread
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: whenever it's time to add new decoys to my spread.
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: But you guys, let me know what you think on
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: these decoys that I talked about in this episode. Are
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: you using them in your spread? Have you used them
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: for the last past couple of seasons? What are your
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: thoughts on them? What do you like about them? What
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: do you maybe not like about them? And what did
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: I miss on this hot list? Because there's, hey, look,
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: let's be honest. There's many, many more. We could have
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: made the hot list 10, 15, 20, 30 decoys probably.
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: But I want to keep it small. I want to
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: narrow it down for you guys. I don't want to
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: overcomplicate things. Hey, this is seven great options I think
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: I've given y'all in this episode to go check out
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: if you don't already have them in your spread.
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: You may be looking to expand on your spread. Go
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: check out these brands.
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: Go check out these specific decoys I talked about in
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: this episode. And you guys let me know what you
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: think if you add them to your spread this season,
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: if you're killing more ducks and getting those ducks to
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: finish better than what you used previously.
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: I'd be interested to know.
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: Drop comments down below, guys, on what you think of
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: the list that I gave you today. and maybe some
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: that I might have missed that you think other people
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: could benefit from this season. I want to hear your feedback.
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: They want to hear your feedback. We're a community of brothers.
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: We want to talk about it. We want to help
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: other people kill more ducks. That's what it's about at
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: the end of the day is brotherhood and enjoying the
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: sport that we all love so much, man. So let
• 48:45
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• 48:47
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• 49:16
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• 49:20
  Speaker 1: I want y'all to be safe out there if you're
• 49:22
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• 49:26
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• 49:28
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• 49:29
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• 49:31
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• 49:34
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