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Limits, Lost Keys, and Flooded Corn: Hunting Stories & Season Wrap-Up · DuckFellas Podcast

3:00
That makes me miss duck season. It does. I wasn't even there,
3:04
but damn, that makes me miss it. Those were some good hunts that year. Yeah.
3:09
Well, we're back. Episode 12 here. What are we?
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We're just going to share some hunting stories and just kind of bullshit our
3:17
way through it. Not normal. We're missing someone, aren't we?
3:20
You know, I don't. Yeah, I do think someone is feeling a little under the weather.
3:27
Yeah, he tends to have that attitude about him. Yeah.
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But, hey, if you're going to party, you got to go all out. I guess.
3:34
I guess. There's no in-between.
3:37
All games. No breaks. Poor guy.
3:41
Might as well full send it if you're going to do it. Yeah, I suppose.
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Well, there was no hunting to be discussed this past week. No.
3:50
I think we've pretty much hung it up for the year. Yeah, after shooting 30 geese,
3:55
that was my cue to just see ya. Yeah.
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Yeah, because you know if we would have went out again, And like this weekend,
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we'd have shot nothing and just been miserable.
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That or we'd have had to sit there all day and wait for him and been like,
4:07
why the hell did we even do this? That was dumb.
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Yeah. I wanted to go, but there's no way I could go.
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Can't drink all day if you don't start in the morning. Well,
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it's a very valid point, but I'm kind of hurting from yesterday myself still.
4:24
Yeah. Not feeling great. No.
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I woke up this morning. I'm like, that was terrible. Yeah.
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It was more staying up that late than the beer, I feel like.
4:35
Yeah. I don't think I left until like 3 something. Yeah, 3.30, I think.
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I think I laid on the couch and I'm like, oh no, way too late.
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It happens. It always seems to be my house that does it too.
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Yeah, but nobody would leave. No. It's a party. Woo!
4:56
Things were getting spicy too at the end of the night. Oh yeah, oh yeah.
5:01
Well, let's just start with, what was one of your favorite hunts we had this year?
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I would say, I mean, it's hard to pick, really. That day we hunted in the snow was badass.
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That was a good day. And it was cool to hunt in that blizzard.
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Yeah, that was by far the heaviest snowfall that I had ever hunted in,
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especially on water. That was cool to see.
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I still think the day that I had the camera and we took that photo on the log,
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that was a pretty badass day.
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Was that the day that was just me and Austin? Yep. That's the hunt that I was going to pick. Yeah.
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That was fun. And we didn't see a ton of ducks. No.
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But the ducks we've seen came right in. Yeah.
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For me, since you picked my hunt, I would say, I think it was the day before
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or maybe the day before that when it was just me and Trevor the first day that
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I hunted in that hole. The day before.
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Yeah. me and him shot him up pretty good because I think the day before you
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went but then you had to work the next day and you couldn't go and you're like dang.
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But we just couldn't keep him off of us that day like it was every 10 minutes
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another group would come over the willows and they're like we're gonna do it
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yeah it was funny that day that I went.
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Just I mean as soon as that sun would pop out for the 5 minute intervals it
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would it was like they would just,
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Yeah, it's amazing the difference that sun makes. Yeah, it's huge.
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I mean, granted, we were kind of in a timber hole, but still,
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I mean, even when you're hunting open water, the difference of the way the ducks
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work, whether it's sunny or cloudy, is nuts. Yeah, it's night and day, legit.
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Especially if you can have that thing to your back. Yeah. Put yourself in the
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shadows, they lose sight of you, go.
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It's like goose hunting with no wind versus hunting with wind.
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Yeah. I hate goose hunting anyways. Same.
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Why the hell do we do it? I don't even know why I have a 24-foot trailer truck
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full of decoys because I really hate geese. Yeah, they're assholes.
7:03
They tend to get the best of us a lot more than ducks do. Oh, for sure.
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We win on the ducks a lot more than we win on the geese. Well,
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you got to pass the time somehow.
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Yeah. And usually when duck season's over in Iowa here, I'm not ready to be done.
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Same. But then after the second goose hunt, I'm reminded why I hate goose hunting.
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And it's like, hmm, let's go home. Yeah, they're dickheads.
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I think one of my all-time favorite hunts is in that clip there.
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It was that day on the intro video, one of the main clips that was in there.
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There were seven or eight of us that day. I think it was seven,
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because I don't think McKenzie had showed up yet to do some pictures.
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But we just couldn't keep the ducks off of us.
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We worked thousands and thousands of ducks trying to find a pintail.
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Because we all had our five mallards and a pintail and Cody needed a pintail.
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And when you're talking about having 500 to a thousand mallards backpedaled
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in front of you, picking out a pintail is really hard. Yeah.
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So you don't, and also making sure you don't mess up and kill another one.
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That was, that was a blast though. You don't get to do that very often.
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And some people don't ever get to see that. Yeah.
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So that was definitely something cool to see.
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That is sweet. Especially, like you said, that number of ducks is, that's a lot.
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Yeah. No, it was, it's crazy is they were all coming off of a little bitty pond.
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Really? Yeah. Like, I mean, it was.
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I don't even know what to say the size of it, but I mean, it was maybe three
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acre pond at most, at most. I think it was probably closer to two.
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And those, you could walk across the pond and never touch water. It was nuts.
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And we hunted those same ducks, I think four days in a row and we beat on them all four days.
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We hunted that, we hunted one field twice. We hunted another field twice.
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I think in total, we only hunted three different spots up there and we were
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there for seven days hunting.
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It wasn't like that the last time you guys went I don't know what you're talking about,
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I didn't go to North Dakota this year I'm honestly glad I had to work that week
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it saved me the trouble it was still fun I mean we were able to get on birds
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we just weren't able to get on ducks we found the ducks the last day we were there,
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I still think as far as.
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Obviously as far as fun goes goose wars hunt was entertaining as hell The second
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one that comes to mind was that the day that you had to run to get batteries.
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Yeah, we didn't kill anything that day, did we? I know, but that was still one
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of the funniest days that we had all year long.
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The jokes and the roast were on a whole different level that day.
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At one point, I legit had tears coming out of my eyes. I was laughing so damn hard.
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I know we had John with us. Who all, me, you, John, Austin. Who was the other one? Curtis was there.
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So, Curtis. Yeah, that was...
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I don't think I ever stopped laughing. I mean, we got rained on.
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Yeah. We didn't kill any. Did we kill one? I don't think we killed anything.
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I don't know. I think we got scum. I know we had a big group of teal come ripping in.
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Yeah. Right as we were finishing setting up the boat. And we didn't even get a look at those.
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But no, that was definitely probably the funnest time. That was a good time.
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Yeah. That was hilarious.
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A lot of making fun of John. I'm glad it played out like that because I was
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so nervous when you got back with batteries. I was like, he's going to be so
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pissed off all day long. Well, we probably would have been okay.
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But it was one of those weekends where there was 30 plus boats out.
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I mean, there was trucks lined up down the street. Yep.
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And it's like, when I got back, I'm like, where are we going to go?
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Because there's not that many spots out here. And I don't want to be on top of somebody.
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Yeah, that was nuts. Like we pulled up and there was only one other truck,
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wasn't there? When we got there originally?
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Yeah, one or two, something like that. And we knew them though.
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We knew where they were going. Yeah.
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And then we legit unstrapped the boats. And next thing you know,
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the whole fucking road going down there is just lined up. And I was like, oh.
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Yeah. Then we looked like jackasses. Get going. And then I about wipe out into
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the trees because I lost the power of steering. And I couldn't turn that thing for anything.
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And we almost didn't get it started back up. No. Luckily, I had that jump pack with me.
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And we were able to barely get back to the ramp. Yeah.
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On the plus side, we did have a spare boat that we wouldn't have been stranded
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by any means. No, but it would have sucked. It would have.
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And what's wild about that weekend is it wasn't even the hunting sucked at that
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point in time, which it, I mean, it was early.
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I'm going to say it was, well, it had to be the first week in November because
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I think it was my first week home. First day out almost.
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Close to it. Yeah, it might have been the second weekend you were home.
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So that would have been, because I was home the last, like, Halloween weekend.
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Yep. And then I think it was the following weekend. Yeah.
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Because I don't feel like I got wet that day. I know the first weekend you were home, I got soaked.
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Yeah, it was a little windy that day and took a couple waves. It wasn't even that.
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It was, we hit the corner there and the water was low enough that your wake
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bounced off the willows.
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And yeah, I took a fucking monsoon over the nose of the boat.
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You got there and you were not happy.
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I'm not running this boat anymore. I hate it here. I think I threw a little
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fuel in the fire, too, and said, well, you just got to learn how to run it. Yep.
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Probably not the best thing to say at the time. It was funny.
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Looking back, it was funny. Yeah. I think the funniest thing was,
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like, I just, I hit that wave, and all I could see was stars in the sky, and I'm like, oh, shit.
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I'm in the air. Yeah, then I landed, and I had, like, water droplets running
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off my eyelashes and rolling right into my eye.
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So then I was pissed. That thing, I was like, yeah, fuck this.
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That thing got pinned, and I don't think it got un-pinned until we got to where
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we were going. I think when you got there, you told Austin that he's running the boat back.
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I did. I did. He's like, what?
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I'm not doing it. Because back then, he was a little nervous running that thing.
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He got a lot more comfortable as the season went on, which, like anything,
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if you have a little bit of time in the seat, you get used to it.
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But running a 115 tiller handle, not many guys do that.
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No so it's definitely from never really running a boat before yeah to run on
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a 115 it's a big step yeah and he he didn't crash he almost did one day so did
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i in your defense the headlights went out.
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Hello darkness my old friend dude the amount of panic i had when that happened
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just because i've said it on here before but that point is always super shallow
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yeah and all i saw was like that much of the grass sticking up and I was like oh god,
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yeah I made it up into the spot and I'm like god damn where the hell is Kate.
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Oh, I'm stuck. Help. I need somebody.
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It was funny because like I got the motor trimmed up and shut off before I even stopped.
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And then I like I went to move in the boat and the boat didn't move. And I was like, oh, shit.
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Not even kidding. I get out. Boat just goes.
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I'm like, oh, thank God. That was after I called you, though.
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Going to have to lay off some cheeseburgers, buddy. I know.
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Couldn't be the almost 900 pounds of decoys that are in that thing i don't know
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what you're talking about shit pile fucking shit those are all still in there
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too and they're probably going to stay in there all year long did you put them
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back in there oh yeah you took the decoys out yeah,
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what's in there nothing's in there right no the one one bluebell decoy is all that's in there,
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Oh, Lucky. Yeah. Love that decoy.
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If we were going to hunt water for goose wars, he was going out.
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Is that why you left him in the boat? Yep.
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Kind of like Kevin. When we're hunting the field, Kevin's got to go. Yeah, Kevin's got to go.
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Kevin's the Lucky Pintail. I should bring Kevin for the podcast when it's the
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off season, give him something to do.
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He probably gets tired of hanging out with all them goose decoys.
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We'll put him up there. Yeah, right. Let him have a second place trophy.
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At least you can see it this time. It's not hidden in the duck camp sign.
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And then Josh has to go and just throw salt on the wound as we're talking about it.
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Damn. Man, I hope you choke on it.
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Participation trophy. That's pretty much what it was. Yeah.
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Still a fun day. Oh, yeah, for sure. We did the best because we're the only
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team that killed a 10-man limit of geese.
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Suck it. We said it last week, but we brought over a third of the geese to the party. Yeah.
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It was wild.
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What is your all-time favorite hunt? Like of all the hunts you've been on.
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Dude, it's hard to put a finger on one. Like I've never had a day like you were
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talking about where it's just, I mean, you're beating mallards off your boot bag.
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Well, yeah, if you'd ever be able to get off work and go on a trip.
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Yeah, how'd that play out for you guys this year? Once again,
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we're not talking about it.
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I was a smart guy that stayed in work.
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I don't know. It's hard to put a finger on one specific one.
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I just love hunts that, like, obviously shooting birds is what we go to do.
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But the days, like, we were just talking about where we didn't shoot a goddamn
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thing, but we had a blast for the whole five or six hours we were out there.
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Yeah. That shit's fun. Those are hard to beat. I mean, killing a limit of mallards is a blast.
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That's what we're all out there to do. But at the same time,
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I'm content with just being out there as long as everybody's in a good mood
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and we're having a fun time laughing, joking, and roasting each other, you can't beat it.
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Yeah, I'd much rather do that than sit on the couch and watch TV. Depends.
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Depends on if it's raining or not. For some reason, I've been saying it for
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years, that I'm done hunting in the rain, and then what'd I do?
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I went and spent the money on a nice rain jacket so I could hunt in the rain
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like a retard. Yeah, that happens.
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I always ever accused me of being the brightest.
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Should have pulled a few bands off the lanyard.
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Yeah, but we would have had to not register him. He did. He did ask for certificates,
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proof of certificates, which we didn't have to show that because we only had
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one band and not enough points.
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Yeah. But. We were cooked. He did. Joey did check him. We'll see how everything plays out.
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Nah, those guys had a great hunt. Yeah. We just sucked out of that.
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Hunt in that area. I know we talked about it last week, too, but hunt in that area.
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I would have never guessed that we only killed one band. No.
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That we hunted. No. No shot.
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If it would have been October and we hunted that spot and shot 30 of them,
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we'd have shot like 28 bands. Yeah.
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At least 10. Yeah. And if we didn't, I would have just quit. Yeah.
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Because that, I mean, that's pretty much where they banned them at.
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A mile from there. Yeah. Yeah. Can't kill them all. We tried.
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You sure tried. Yeah.
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Put a pretty good dent in their population there. Yeah.
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That's all right. They'll make some more babies. Oh, yeah. For sure.
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Go walk around on the golf course.
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Get all fat and happy. Yeah. Yeah. Assholes.
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Find a field out there and I'll bring the snow spread for a weekend. Absolutely not.
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I'm not going snow goose hunting. Same. That is the worst timing for me. Yeah.
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I used to love snow goose hunting, and I still do, but man, whenever you got
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to walk shit in or it's just kind of like our last day goose hunting, it was so sloppy, muddy.
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Your boots weigh a hundred pounds. If you're, if you're not a layouts,
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like all of our layouts got to be pressure washed.
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Oh, for sure. Because they're wrecked. Yeah. Straight wrecked.
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Well, I think me and Austin were talking about that their day.
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It's like, yeah. We got to take all those to the car wash or get them out of
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the trailer this year and make sure we wash those out.
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Because they're also full of Little Debbie snacks and yours are full of,
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was it Reese's wrappers?
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Yeah, there was a Reese's wrapper. Yeah, no, I think there was a couple.
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I hunted out of your blind. There was... Potato, potato.
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Little Debbie and Reese's is thriving off a cade. Yeah, for sure.
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Yeah snow goose season I'm fortunate enough I have a guy Steve Stark he hunts
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down here quite a bit for snow goose season that the one that puts the spread
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out yeah so I'm lucky enough I mean,
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I usually don't have to go help him but if he's by himself he'll call me and
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say hey while it's frozen can you come out here and help me get my shit out
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and he's always nice enough to let me go if I ever get a free minute while trying
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to get race car shit ready,
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yeah that would be I mean it I'm not saying it's not fun to
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go do it it's just i don't for me personally i don't
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have the time to take off i take off too much time yeah to go
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chase stupid ducks yeah the way that
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he does it too with leaving that spread out in that field that's honestly the
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ideal way to do it obviously you're not going to shoot the amount of birds you
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would if you're chasing fields but yeah you definitely can't expect just to
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wreck them every day no whatever you're like you're gonna have probably more
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than likely you're gonna have a day or two that's just pretty good and the rest are gonna be,
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single digits or maybe a double digit day here and there.
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We only hunt usually three to four guys out there anyway, so it's not like we're,
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putting out massive numbers of snows.
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Well, we don't hold I mean, we get a fair amount of snows, but we don't hold
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them very long. I mean, they're here for a week, tops, and they're gone.
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And it also depends which jackass wants to go down there and blow the roost
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out, because it happens every year.
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I'll make sure, I hope I'm home at that time. I'll go down there and go do some
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donuts in the boat? Yeah, I'll make sure I hide the keys when you leave.
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I got extras in my truck. Shit. I'll hide the truck keys, too.
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I got an extra one of those, too. And I can start it from my phone.
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You can't drive it with your phone, though.
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No? No? There is a way. You call OnStar.
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I'm losing here. I'm cooked.
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Now, that was a Ford. I don't know if you can do it with the Fords,
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but GM with OnStar, I know you can have OnStar, or let you have access without
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the key. Really? Good to know.
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Don't ask me how I know. Speaking of that, one of my favorite pookie stories.
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I went and we were hunting down the big part of the lake.
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Well, my dumbass, I shouldn't even say my dumbass, it was my dog.
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But I had my keys sitting on the back seat. We go out to go hunt,
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dog gets out of the truck.
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I already had the truck locked because I thought the keys were in my pocket. Oh, no.
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Well, he kicked the keys into that little pocket in the back door.
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So I was cooked. Didn't have OnStar on my phone. So Austin was working that night, and I called him.
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And I'm like, hey, can you meet me out here and we'll get my keys out of my
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truck? Sure enough, get the truck unlocked.
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Five fucking minutes of that horn just blaring, and I could not find my keys, dude.
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So I'm like, I give up. Oh, you were probably pissed. Oh, I was super pissed.
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Then I opened the back door one last time and I kind of like flung the door
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open while my keys rattled in the door.
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And I'm like, how in the fuck did those get back there? Hank's just sitting there wagging his tail.
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No, he was home at that point. This was like nine o'clock at night. Oh, geez. Yeah.
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Dang did he so austin had
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one of those sticks or whatever yeah i didn't
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know the state patrol carried those that was when he was a sheriff
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still oh yep those
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guys carry them yeah i think it's i know city cops back home where i grew up
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used to have them i think our city cops do too yeah here it's really handy yeah
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i've locked myself out of a couple vehicles and it's like oh no it was so funny
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though because i'm like losing my shit looking for my keys and he's just sitting
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over there laughing at me.
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Dang, you just got called out? That was the exact day I was talking about, actually.
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Yep, we had to go back that night and get my keys. Then I shit you not,
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it was at least five minutes. It might have been closer to 10 that I tore that
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truck apart looking for my keys.
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Yeah. No, I can imagine. I can just see the anger in your face.
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Oh, dude, I was so pissed. Just throwing shit out of the truck? Yeah.
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And there wasn't really anything in my truck. Like I had taken all my hunting
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shit out because we were hunting.
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No, that's usually what I generally take my hunting stuff with me when I'm hunting
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too. Not always though. I have forgot stuff. Yeah.
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That is fair. I don't think this year though I had to come back for anything.
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No, we did pretty good this year. Yeah. Normally it's either me or you that
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forget something. Yeah. No, I usually just forget the breakfast.
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Yeah. That has happened a few times and there's a lot of angry faces looking
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at me in the boat on those days.
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You forgot. What? At least you didn't
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bring breakfast and not look at the package. See that you need eggs.
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Yeah, dude, that guy's never going to live that.
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I wonder if he's even awake yet watching this, but... I doubt it. Probably not.
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I doubt it. That guy's just being a bum. See if he opened my snap yet.
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I know he's got to work tonight, so... Yeah.
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He's probably resting up. He has not opened my snap.
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Dang, that dude's cooked. He's cooked. Yeah.
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Too many beers. It'll happen. Thank you.
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Yeah, going back to the hunting stories, years ago, and I can't remember how
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long ago it was, over 10 years ago, our lake back home flooded real bad.
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And we were hunting in one of the state parks, one of the parks there.
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And we didn't get black ducks down there. But that week, we were killing three
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or four black ducks every day. Damn.
25:15
It was that year was unreal the
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ducks we have and i that's crazy to me on flood
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years like we had that flood year here seven eight years ago how
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them ducks find that yeah and like that the
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year last time we had the big flood we didn't have like cold weather no like
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it was it got cold eventually but we didn't have any cold weather and them ducks
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just showed up yeah so like they must just get up when they get up there on
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their migration they just say whoa what is that over there and they didn't show
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up by the thousands. They showed up by the fucking millions.
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Somebody told me a while back that they legit estimated there to be a million
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ducks in Des Moines River Valley. Yeah. I would not doubt it one bit.
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And it was over, like, well over a million. Yeah.
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Which is, I definitely believe it too, because you could go hunt anywhere you
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wanted and you were going to kill your ducks. Yeah. I remember the day,
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It was like the day after they showed up because they showed up overnight.
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Yeah, because I was killing teal at first. Yeah.
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Went out and scouted like normal, you know.
26:14
Went out the next day and I'm like, whoa, where the hell did that come from?
26:19
Like it was just waves of ducks.
26:21
Mm-hmm. And they didn't leave. No. I mean, they were here all year.
26:25
Yeah. Because even when the water started coming down, they just moved out to
26:27
the lake. Mm-hmm. And I went out there and we were beating them up.
26:30
Yeah. That was another fun day.
26:32
My buddy Jared and I had my buddy Jared and Zach with me, but that was the year
26:36
I moved here, so I didn't know anybody then. I just met them that year too.
26:40
And I was like, hey, I found a spot that's loaded up, you know,
26:44
like there was a ton of ducks and there was some geese there too.
26:48
I was like, you guys want to go?
26:50
Yeah, yeah. How long the boat ride is? I'm like, oh, just short boat ride.
26:55
Five minute boat ride, your boat. It is a long boat ride.
26:59
But as they're coming across the mile long, Jared is a little nervous going
27:03
across big water at night.
27:05
So they're coming across the mile-long dam in their pickup.
27:09
And Zach's like, look at that, Jared. We got to go across those big waves.
27:13
And he's like, oh, whatever. Because
27:14
neither one of them knew that we were going across the lake. Right.
27:17
So we get to the boat ramp or the gravel road because there was not a boat ramp available back then.
27:23
We get to the road, get the boat launched. I come out of that cove and I just
27:26
go straight across the lake.
27:28
We get like maybe halfway across it. And Jared's like, just,
27:32
just turn around, take me back because it was bad.
27:35
Every wave we hit that nose of that boat just ate it and then the lights would
27:39
turn off. So we're in the dark and then we hit the next wave, lights back on.
27:45
Jared is in the bottom of the boat, basically in tears, just scared for his
27:48
life. He had his dog grizzly too. And his dog was even hiding underneath him.
27:54
I had a layout. We had layout blinds piled up on the front of the boat.
27:58
Zach's layout blind ripped out.
28:00
About took me out, out of the back of the boat.
28:03
I turned around to go get that thing, and they both just started yelling at
28:06
me, just leave it, just leave it. And I was like, no, I'm going to try to find that thing.
28:10
Terrible idea. Did not find it. I got soaked.
28:13
Finally make it across the other side of the lake. We stopped in a little cutout,
28:18
get out of the waves. I couldn't open my jacket.
28:21
Froze? Yeah. I was trying to smoke a cigarette.
28:25
Because dealing with those two people crying in the bottom of the boat the whole time was ridiculous.
28:29
And finally get unthawed, and I was like, all right, let's go.
28:33
Let's get... We only got another, like, two miles to go. Like, it's not much farther.
28:37
I take off, get back out there in the waves, and then Zach's all scared,
28:40
and Jared's fine. I was like, all right, guys, we got to figure this out.
28:45
But we get there, and we get set up. That whole cove froze over,
28:48
so that kind of sucked. It was like... I mean, it was single digits. Yeah. It was like...
28:53
Smashed our ducks. No, we smashed our geese.
28:57
We ended up being like one or two shy on ducks, which was surprising.
29:01
I did not expect the goose thing to happen as well as it did, but it worked out.
29:06
That was a good time. Yeah.
29:09
Listen to those guys cry in the bottom of the boat. Take me back.
29:12
Take me back. I'm done. I'm done.
29:15
Let me tell you something. Let's get ready to say it.
29:20
Oh, shit. They were a lot more comfortable in the boat ride back,
29:24
though. I bet. Yeah, no. When they could see what was going on.
29:26
Yeah, yeah. And they knew they probably weren't going to die.
29:29
Yeah. The waves had died down a little bit, too.
29:31
I mean, they were, Jared was still nervous. He was like, I'll call somebody,
29:35
have them come pick us up on this side, and we can go get your truck.
29:37
And he's like, nah, dude, we'll be just fine getting across that lake.
29:42
Unless something real bad happens. Yeah, like lower unit shits out.
29:46
We still would have made it to the mile-long bridge.
29:51
We launched in painted rocks there's no way we'd have made it back to painted
29:53
rocks it was a northwest wind and it was like a 30 or 40 mile an hour northwest
30:00
wind and that lake was high nice,
30:04
those are probably the biggest waves I've ever seen out there on that lake,
30:07
that was another cool day your lower unit shit out just sitting out in the middle
30:10
of absolutely nothing I think our definitions of cool are a little different
30:15
I mean it was a cool day until we were going back to the boat ramp Oh, yeah.
30:19
No, like you're meeting the hunt. Yeah, the hunt was cool. Okay,
30:21
yeah. I could agree with that. The end of the day sucked.
30:25
All smiles until lower unit left the chat.
30:31
Oh, that was interesting. I knew it was, I could, because when you're running
30:35
back, I'm like, man, it's like bogging down.
30:38
Yeah. Like those bearings started welding themselves up and all of a sudden
30:43
they just locked up and killed the motor.
30:45
I'm like, hmm, not good.
30:48
Went to start it, didn't even attempt, just went no flick. I'm like, beep.
30:53
We're going to need a tow. and then
30:56
we got towed directly into the dock yeah mock jesus
30:59
oh man i almost broke my arms
31:02
that day trying to stop us and i was like whoop this is a bad idea i was
31:06
ticked yeah that was not good i went back i think i came home from texas just
31:11
to go hunting that day yeah you did and then i went back to work that day just
31:15
madder than a rattlesnake and i ordered a found a lower unit on eBay and had
31:20
it there for the next opener. I think it was home second opener.
31:24
I remember I had to take your shit one up to Tracker to see if they could fix it.
31:30
I remember that phone call. Hey, I gotta order another one. I was like, fuck!
31:37
Lower unit left the chat.
31:41
That thing's still in your shop, isn't it? Yeah. No, it is. What are you doing with that?
31:47
My plan was to just Just break open the case. See what was in there.
31:51
Get parts out of there that were still good. Yeah.
31:54
It's been sitting there now for like three years, three, four years, whatever it's been.
31:57
I think when you get your shop built, you should just put it up on the wall
31:59
as like a little Hall of Fame piece. Actually, it might not be a bad idea.
32:06
Hall of Shame. Hopefully, the wall anchors go better than ours did yesterday. Yeah, no, that was...
32:12
If you guys see this sign just kick over sideways, mind your business. Yeah.
32:16
Because that thing at any point in time could just say, I think the problem
32:20
was I tried to put that one that was already screwed up in there.
32:23
And then that just like, it never grabbed the wall. And it just started eating
32:28
through it. And then that one just kept eating through it.
32:31
Yeah. I seen that thing spin. I'm like, ooh, not good. Not good.
32:36
This dude is cooked. Yeah. Time for some plaster.
32:42
Duck. It fixes everything. Yeah, that's a fair point. Could just put like a
32:46
little dowel rod in there. Right. I don't see the problem with it. Yeah.
32:51
What, so what are some of your off-season plans this year? Obviously.
32:54
Reese car, go fast. Yeah, I don't know what you're talking about off-season plans.
32:58
We don't have an off-season. We have work season and we have,
33:02
oh shit, we're hunting in two days. Yeah.
33:07
Know i think i feel like i did a decent job this year getting ready for hunting
33:10
season yeah for sure for as crazy as it was with having that wedding
33:13
and i think something else yeah we had
33:16
everything mostly ready for it yeah off
33:19
season for us is just a show we're both
33:23
working a lot i got race car going on yeah this garage is getting ready to be
33:27
a mess and it's not gonna be a mess it's gonna be a organized chaos yeah honestly
33:33
though i don't think like the way i'm gonna do it this time it won't be bad
33:36
yeah before it was a shit show there was just shit everywhere,
33:42
i mean it will be nice having your stuff at home yeah it'd be nice to walk outside and not,
33:47
care how long i spend in here really yeah instead of i
33:50
mean the shop you guys had was only what 10 minutes away
33:53
from here yeah 15 that still wasn't bad
33:55
but that's 30 minutes of driving every day just to
33:58
go there and back that and like even being
34:01
15 minutes away if i go to the shop i can't just
34:04
be there for like a half hour or an hour like it's a four hour event every time
34:09
i go there right that was the worst part is like i would have the race car shit
34:13
done but i would have to go to the shop to do like little button-up shit yeah
34:17
just get it get it ready to go and then it's like well i'm already here i might
34:21
as well clean the shop or something while while i'm at,
34:25
so it was legit every day at least four hours.
34:29
And that shit gets old quick. I can imagine.
34:33
I don't know why that camera does that. I'll have to look into that.
34:36
Yeah, it went kind of dark there for a second. I almost went and wiggled the
34:40
mouse because I thought the computer was turning off.
34:43
There's got to be like auto exposure or something. We'll have to mess with it.
34:50
It looked like somebody turned the lights off. Yeah, no. I kind of looked around
34:54
too. I'm like, is somebody coming in?
34:55
I didn't hear the foam slam on the ceiling. I need to get that fixed.
35:02
I got a busy off season two of
35:05
being homeless yeah i could be homeless here in the next
35:08
week and a half two weeks yeah it's exciting but i'm ready for the process to
35:13
be over with i'm ready to have this shop built and be done with it yeah it'd
35:18
be nice when it's done it's kind of like i was saying like all week about cleaning
35:22
this place out like the shit sucks but It'll be nice when it's done. Yeah. Yeah.
35:28
It's already been a fiasco now,
35:31
but it is what it is. We'll get through it and hopefully have it done.
35:37
Hopefully it's done enough for hunting season.
35:41
I mean, I don't think it'll be completely done by then.
35:44
That's going to be, they'd have to hoof it to get it done by then.
35:46
Because realistically, we're not going to start on until April, best case.
35:51
Maybe not until May. I got to find the property still.
35:54
I mean might not find property until maybe even start buying yeah,
35:59
that'll suck that sounds like such a shit show I'm glad I'm not doing that right
36:03
now you will one of these days I know yeah I know well the good news is I'll
36:08
have experience going through it so I can tell you what not to do and what to do yeah.
36:13
Or what to expect at least yeah by the way this part's gonna take way longer
36:17
than you thought yeah yeah and don't do this yeah whatever you do don't do that Yeah.
36:25
Yeah, I don't quite know what to expect for next year. I'd love to say that
36:29
I hope it's better than this year, but I'm not even going to get my hopes up for that.
36:34
For hunting season? Yeah. What fucking weather?
36:38
Well, the one thing we have going
36:40
for us this year is the prairie pothole region is doing better. Yeah.
36:44
Even in Canada, like Western Canada, where they've had the wildfires and been pretty dry.
36:48
They've gotten a decent amount of snow and precipitation towards the coming of the fall.
36:54
So hopefully hopefully the ducks get back up there and it does get cold on them
36:59
when they get back up there and they have a good hatch we need a good hatch
37:03
our numbers are doing terrible,
37:05
and I don't look to see us keep doing this 60 and 6,
37:10
much longer if we do with the numbers and the way they're declining I mean what
37:15
is it Pintail had a jump last year and then maybe Blue Wing Teal or was it Green Wing Teal,
37:21
Green Wings but everything else was breaking
37:24
even or doing way worse from the long-term average
37:27
so we definitely need a good hatch the poor honkers are going to get a fucking
37:32
beating on their numbers this year oh yeah the i've thought about that during
37:36
goose season when we're hunting and seeing all the the coronavirus patients
37:41
out there it's that'll be interesting to see yeah what's actually left of those guys yeah.
37:48
A lot of geese hanging around, hanging around here just because they got left behind. Yep.
37:52
We've said it before, but that shit sucks, dude. Right. No, it's no good for anybody. No.
37:59
What does work? Well, I'm busy.
38:02
What time are you coming back? Now that you called me? Never.
38:05
Yeah. I'm not coming home. I'm going out for milk.
38:11
And I'm never coming back. Oh, shit.
38:15
We are We're kind of talking about doing some trailer upgrades.
38:20
Yeah. If we find the time, obviously. I would love to get that done.
38:24
I just don't know when that's going to get done or where.
38:26
That could be something too. Like we don't use the trailer a whole lot early season.
38:31
No. And typically we hunt the morning because the afternoon is dog shit.
38:34
Right. So we could always hunt mornings and work on that in the afternoon.
38:38
Yeah. No. I don't think it'd take that long.
38:41
No. I mean, I'd like to get another solar panel for it. That way we can put
38:46
at least two batteries, but probably three for having the inverter and everything.
38:52
But no, that thing will be sick if we get it done.
38:56
Not so much for hunting around here, but when we go out of state hunting,
38:59
it'll be the cat's ass. Yeah, for sure.
39:04
It's just, I've been talking about it for a long time and I haven't done it
39:06
yet. Well, it seems like he got Pookie all fired up about it,
39:09
so maybe he'll, that'll be his contribution.
39:12
Getting that all organized. He can't even show up for a podcast.
39:14
You think he's going to work on a trailer? You make a fair point.
39:20
Poor guy. Yeah. Poor, poor guy. Dumber than fuck, but... Nice guy.
39:31
What do we got coming up here? Anything? No banquets, no nothing,
39:36
really, right away, do we? No. No, we got some time before those.
39:39
I am looking forward to the Delta Expo being here. Yeah.
39:42
Hopefully, you can make it down at least one day while it's here.
39:45
I know you'll be racing that weekend, but it's, I mean, I think I heard it's
39:50
going to be in Des Moines and then Kansas City and then come back to Des Moines
39:53
the third year. I heard that same thing.
39:55
But I haven't seen Delta release any info on that.
39:59
But that'll be cool I've never been to one I've heard they're a good time but
40:02
then I've also heard they kind of suck yeah so I'd like to just see it for myself
40:05
and I'd rather see it for myself while it's here than have to drive 8 hours to go see it yeah,
40:13
but like I'd like to go to a few more shows this year too like I want to go
40:16
to Game Fair yeah that'd be sick and I think Game Fair is after race season it's over so it'd be,
40:21
it's not till the end of August really yeah we could make it I want to say it's
40:27
the end of August It's for two weeks too.
40:29
So even if it was like your championship race weekend and then it might be the next weekend too.
40:34
Be fun to go do that because there is anybody and everybody that is involved
40:39
in the waterfowl industries there. Yeah.
40:42
I've always heard really good things about that one. Yeah. Oh, it's a freaking party.
40:48
I've heard that too. A lot of people bring their campers up there and it's a
40:52
rager all night long and they get up and do it again.
40:54
I'm like, oh, that sounds terrible. Yeah, count me out on that.
40:57
The ragers i mean we'll drink some beers but i'm not doing that shit for multiple
41:01
days in a row i'm getting too old for that i can't imagine how you would feel grandpa.
41:09
As soon as you said i can't imagine how you'd feel like all right here we go,
41:13
i'm cooked again it happens what the,
41:19
anybody that's watching i mean if you guys got if you guys want to share
41:22
anything that you got planned or ideas or shows that you think we should maybe
41:27
think about coming to or anywhere you'd like to see us shoot us a message or
41:31
or drop a comment here and i mean we you never know um we're gonna be probably
41:37
i know i'll probably be at the isc banquet i don't think you'll be able to be there,
41:43
and then we got the Delta banquet here in town that we should all be at because
41:49
you're off that weekend yep,
41:53
it's odd how that worked out too as soon as I seen the date I'm like I'm pretty
41:57
sure K's not racing that weekend,
41:59
I got on the schedule and looked it up and I'm like nope he's not 410's only
42:03
that day yeah I think we race, we do race that Friday yeah you race Friday night,
42:08
I forget what event it was but I think that's the USAC weekend could be yeah
42:15
I think you're right yeah because that's the only weekend that we race Friday
42:18
and the wing 410s race Saturday yeah,
42:22
I think I was home that weekend this year too yeah I can't remember.
42:30
I'm kind of excited for the coming episodes we have cooking up shit's gonna
42:36
get interesting the flooded crops the whole flooded corn thing that is going on right now is wild.
42:44
It has sparked a war on Facebook. Yeah.
42:50
You got the cornies and you got the non-cornies. The cornies.
42:53
So everybody's calling them cornies.
42:55
Jesus. Can't kill your ducks without your corn, cornies.
42:59
Yeah. I mean, it goes pretty good. It does. Yeah.
43:02
It does. They are, as soon as you call them a corny, they freak out.
43:05
Oh, I'm sure. Yeah. No, they get their popcorn and they leave.
43:07
Popcorn a lot of corn yeah it's corn yeah.
43:15
That video cracks me up still. Oh, yeah. It's cool.
43:20
But no, we got that one. And then what was the, we're going to have,
43:25
I think we're going to do one with the ISC at some point here,
43:29
about the waterfowl meetings with the DNR this summer that we're going to need
43:34
everybody that listens in here in Iowa.
43:38
We will need your help going to these meetings and showing your support and
43:42
voicing your opinion on whether you are for this or not for changing the zones,
43:47
just to kind of split up the two largest man-made lakes in Iowa that are right
43:51
next to each other and in the same zone.
43:53
And it's a pretty minute change, but I think it's possible.
43:58
Everybody's got to show their support one way or the other. It don't matter.
44:01
I mean, if you don't agree with it, that's fine. Everybody has their own opinion.
44:05
Yeah, and like we were kind of talking in that group chat, I've never personally
44:09
seen the info for the dates and stuff like that.
44:13
So I'm going to make a little graphic with, with all the dates on it and,
44:17
and locations and we'll, uh, we'll blast that and hopefully people show up.
44:21
Yeah. I know it's, I've seen it posted normally in Iowa water followers.
44:25
What's his name? Bill Smith. Yeah. He usually pretty good at posting that stuff.
44:30
Cause that guy's, that guy's a go getter.
44:32
Yeah. He gets stuff done and he knows how to work with the DNR too.
44:35
He gets, he's made a lot of progress and change through the years and not just
44:39
in Iowa. He works a lot in Illinois too. Yeah. That's where he's originally from too. Mm-hmm.
44:43
But, yeah, between those two, I mean, the flooded corn debacle is going to be,
44:49
we're going to talk about that a lot this offseason because there's a lot of
44:51
change coming this year with all of that. It's going to be interesting to hear everybody's take on it.
44:56
Yeah, and obviously that doesn't, I mean, there's arguments behind it,
45:00
but that doesn't directly affect us.
45:02
Like we were saying yesterday, there's not enough flooded corn in Iowa for it
45:05
to really change anything for us.
45:08
I don't know if there's any along the Mississippi or the Missouri River anymore.
45:13
In Iowa, but the only flooded corn that I know for sure there is still is in
45:17
Riverton. And there's not much there.
45:20
I think that's regulated too, where they can only plant so much a year.
45:23
And I'm not, I don't know 100% on that. I don't know all the details,
45:26
but it's definitely a lot less than some of our neighbor states,
45:31
like Illinois and Missouri.
45:32
Those two states have a ton flooded corn.
45:38
Yeah, but it's, like you said, it's a big, big topic. We'll be touching on it
45:42
quite a bit as that goes through.
45:44
Yep, yeah. And that, like I said, next week should be our intro for that.
45:49
And hopefully some of our listeners here can voice their opinions on that or
45:52
give us things they'd like us to discuss on next week's episode.
45:57
But it should be a good one. Yeah, I feel like we'll have a pretty good list of shit to talk about.
46:02
And then I feel like the comments are going to pop off on that one.
46:05
Oh, that one. That's going to be nuts. That one should get Western.
46:07
Hopefully Pookie's here for that one. Yeah. Frickin' guy.
46:15
But, no. Yeah, so that should be fun. And then we'll have lots of stuff to talk
46:18
about this summer because I do think there's a lot of change coming for our
46:23
waterfowl seasons. Yeah, for sure.
46:25
And limits. And I don't know what's all going to change or if anything's going
46:29
to change, but there's going to be a lot of debates and a lot of shit going
46:33
on in the government with it. Yeah.
46:35
I mean, that letter that Kennedy put out and mailed off to the,
46:39
what is it, the head of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service?
46:43
Yes. That letter he sent out really, really ruffled some feathers.
46:50
But he's, that guy, Kennedy's a waterfowl hunter just like the rest of us.
46:54
Yeah. The dude just loves to go out and be out there. Yep.
46:57
I know people personally that have hunted with him and said he's just a blast to hunt with.
47:01
We'll see. See how everything plays out. Shit's going to get Western.
47:04
I look forward to it. I'm always up for a strong debate. Oh, yeah. This shit's fun.
47:09
But, I mean, I think that pretty much wraps us up for this week's episode.
47:14
I mean, you got anything to add while we're closing this down here?
47:19
Not really. No? We kind of went through what hunts we liked,
47:23
and I didn't really have any that I absolutely fucking hated this year, which was different.
47:29
I mean, normally we have that one or two days that really piss you off,
47:33
but yeah no I get that we didn't really have that this year I didn't feel like.
47:39
The shit days we had made up for it with comradery.
47:44
We did. We did make up for the bad days. Good stuff.
47:49
What is going on here? I don't know. You got cooking. I don't know.
47:52
I'm trying to play the music here. Yeah, play it for a second.
47:59
Oh, it's back. All right. Well, you know what? We'll just leave it there. It's working.
48:07
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