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10 Things Every Duck Hunter Should Do Before Opening Day · Last Stop Waterfowl Outdoors Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the Marshes waking slow, got that brackish water.
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  Speaker 2: Glue on the Southern.
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  Speaker 1: Flyway, run chasing that Louisiana sun. Last Stop water Foul Outdoors,
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  Speaker 1: Last Stop water Foul Outdoors.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, everybody, what is going on?
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  Speaker 3: Jacob would Last Stop Waterfowl Outdoors podcast. Hope everybody's having
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  Speaker 3: a good one this week as we are getting just
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  Speaker 3: another week closer to another waterfowl season. And I know
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  Speaker 3: I'm fired up. Hopefully you guys are fired up about
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  Speaker 3: it too. So it don't seem like duck season right now.
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  Speaker 3: I can tell you all that because it is extremely
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  Speaker 3: hot right now, especially here in Louisiana. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: about you guys where you are, but I could tell
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  Speaker 3: y'all as a South Louisiana boy, it is extremely warm
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  Speaker 3: right now.
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  Speaker 2: Chairs up there.
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  Speaker 3: It feels like it's hotter than Satan's as crack, I
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  Speaker 3: guess you could say. And it's not very comfortable right now.
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  Speaker 2: But we're already in mid.
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  Speaker 3: August, which is the good news, and that just means
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  Speaker 3: that we're a little bit closer to the duck season,
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  Speaker 3: and that's what this is about. We're gonna talk a
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  Speaker 3: little bit of duck hunting today and have a little
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  Speaker 3: fun with it, keep it light. And I got a
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  Speaker 3: topic that I think you guys will find interesting today.
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  Speaker 3: So what I figured we could prepare for or at
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  Speaker 3: least discussing this episode is ten things every duck hunter
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  Speaker 3: should do before opening Day. And that is a loaded question,
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  Speaker 3: a loaded topic that you could really delve into some
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  Speaker 3: stuff on. But as duck hunters here we are, we
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  Speaker 3: sitting in mid August right now, before we know it,
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  Speaker 3: we're about four to five weeks away from early till season,
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  Speaker 3: and before you know it, it's gonna be right on
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  Speaker 3: top of us, and we're gonna be reaching for those
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  Speaker 3: those bags, we're gonna be reaching for those shotguns. And
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  Speaker 3: or if we're doing that a day or two before
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  Speaker 3: the season, is it too late at that point are
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  Speaker 3: we going to be left behind as far as being prepared,
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  Speaker 3: or if we don't till hunt, maybe we don't have
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  Speaker 3: a till season where you are, before you know it,
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  Speaker 3: we're gonna be doing the same thing for a big
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  Speaker 3: duck season in November. For a lot of us that
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  Speaker 3: kick off things in early November or mid November. So
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  Speaker 3: what I found myself through the years doing is kind of,
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  Speaker 3: you know, every year, trying to improve on my preparation
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  Speaker 3: when it came to getting ready for duck season.
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  Speaker 2: So what I'm gonna do in this.
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  Speaker 3: Episode, I'm gonna share with you guys some of the
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  Speaker 3: things that I do to prepare for duck season and
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  Speaker 3: my top ten list basically of what I think some
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  Speaker 3: of the most important things to do to make me
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  Speaker 3: more efficient when it comes time for, you know, the
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  Speaker 3: season to kick off.
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  Speaker 2: So with that being said, I want to jump into it.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to start out with number one on my list, guys,
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  Speaker 3: and what that is is typically patterning my shotgun. So
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  Speaker 3: if you're a person who maybe is buying you waterfowl
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  Speaker 3: shotgun for this season, this is gonna really apply to you, guys,
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  Speaker 3: because it's going to be vital that you get out
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  Speaker 3: there and pattern your shotguns, especially a new shotgun. And
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  Speaker 3: what I tell people that a lot of times when
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  Speaker 3: I talk to people on social media, they'll tell me
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  Speaker 3: they'll say, hey, what do you recommend when it comes
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  Speaker 3: to making sure you have the right shotgun and the
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  Speaker 3: right shells to make you more successful during duck season.
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  Speaker 2: And for me, the answer to that is exactly what.
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  Speaker 3: I just told you, guys, is to get out there
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  Speaker 3: early and pattern those guns. Even if you're a guy
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  Speaker 3: who's not going with a new shotgun this year for
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  Speaker 3: the season, you've been shooting the same gun for a while,
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  Speaker 3: the chances are you kind of know what choke, what
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  Speaker 3: your gun is going to be best for your gun,
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  Speaker 3: what ammunition is going to be you know best for
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  Speaker 3: your gun. But let's be honest, there's a lot of
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  Speaker 3: new products that hit the floor and that hit the
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  Speaker 3: market every season that a lot of us, as water
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  Speaker 3: five hunters were intrigued by. You might want to try
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  Speaker 3: out a new brand. You might want to try out
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  Speaker 3: something new, you know, say like a mixed blend shotgun
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  Speaker 3: shell or something like that. Bismuth that could be it
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  Speaker 3: could be tungsten for the first time, and you don't
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  Speaker 3: have a lot of experience with when you're trying something
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  Speaker 3: new like that. So you want to go out there
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  Speaker 3: and you want to pattern those guns and make sure
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  Speaker 3: that it's the right combination for your waterfoul shotgun and
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  Speaker 3: your choke system. Whether or not you're using a stock
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  Speaker 3: choke that comes with your gun or an aftermarket choke,
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  Speaker 3: you still need to get out there and pattern your
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  Speaker 3: guns guys. So what I tell people is when you
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  Speaker 3: start really kind of honing in on prepping for duck season,
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  Speaker 3: you want to shoot the exact choke, the exact gun,
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  Speaker 3: and the exact load that you're going to be waterfoul
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  Speaker 3: hunting and taking to the bla and with you. That
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  Speaker 3: is the best advice that I could give to somebody.
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  Speaker 3: Like I said, whether you're somebody new that's getting into
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  Speaker 3: it or you're somebody who's been doing it for quite
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  Speaker 3: a while, no matter who you are or where you
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  Speaker 3: are in that experience, take what you're going to use
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  Speaker 3: this hunting season to the blind or to the field
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  Speaker 3: right now in the off season with you go put
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  Speaker 3: it on paper, see what kind of you know, pattern
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  Speaker 3: you're throwing out out there downrange, and see what works
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  Speaker 3: best for you.
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  Speaker 2: Guys. Know where your guns hitting before opening morning.
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  Speaker 3: That's always the advice that I recommend to people is
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  Speaker 3: know where you are on paper before you actually take
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  Speaker 3: it out there to the dug line. And I think
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  Speaker 3: if you could do that right now in the off season,
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  Speaker 3: you're going to be much better off once we get
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  Speaker 3: things going. So that is number one on my list
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  Speaker 3: is to pattern your shotgun. I think that is vitally important,
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  Speaker 3: and I think that's something that a lot of hunters
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  Speaker 3: overlook when it comes to getting ready for duck season,
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  Speaker 3: is actually taking their firearms out there and patterning them.
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  Speaker 3: So number two on my list that I have here
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  Speaker 3: in my notes is inspect your gear, guys, So inspecting
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  Speaker 3: your gear. We have so much gear that we carry
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  Speaker 3: with us nowadays as duck hunters.
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  Speaker 2: Whether you're a public land guy.
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  Speaker 3: If you're a public lan guy, you probably have even
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  Speaker 3: more gear sometimes than a guy who may be hunting
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  Speaker 3: on a piece of private land. So you're always on
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  Speaker 3: the go, you're taking stuff in and out of the boat,
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  Speaker 3: and you have a lot of gear that you're carrying
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  Speaker 3: with you. Because honestly, I know, I found myself in
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  Speaker 3: that position for many years, was just over carrying gear
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  Speaker 3: with me because I had that fear of feeling like
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  Speaker 3: I left something at home and I might forget something.
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  Speaker 3: So I didn't want to do that, so I had
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  Speaker 3: it in my truck. I just loaded my boat down
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  Speaker 3: with me and I'd go out there and I had
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  Speaker 3: too much gear sometimes, which can be an issue because
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  Speaker 3: it would get my way and it would make me
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  Speaker 3: less efficient. Whenever I was trying to do what I
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  Speaker 3: needed to do out in the field. So when you
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  Speaker 3: have a lot of gear, you have a tendency that
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  Speaker 3: want to carry gear with you, maybe sometimes more than
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  Speaker 3: you need. Inspecting that gear is very important, and that's
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  Speaker 3: why it's number two on my list. So when I
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  Speaker 3: say inspect my gear, I want to look at things
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  Speaker 3: like my waiters. Waiters are huge as waterfowl hunters, all
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  Speaker 3: of us are typically going to be wearing waiters. So
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  Speaker 3: just because you had a pair of waiters this past year,
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  Speaker 3: and you think that you're good to go because at
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  Speaker 3: the end of the last season, you stowed it away,
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  Speaker 3: you put it in the store's shed, you put it,
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  Speaker 3: you know, wherever you store it in the house, don't
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  Speaker 3: assume that those waiters are still good to go this year.
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead and inspect them. Take a look at them,
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  Speaker 2: pull them out visually.
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  Speaker 3: Inspect those waiters. Make sure all your rubber on your
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  Speaker 3: boots look good. Nothing looks dry rotted. I know, down
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  Speaker 3: here in the South we get really hot. We just
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  Speaker 3: talked about that a second ago. So when you got
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  Speaker 3: really warm conditions, if you're storing those waiters outside in
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  Speaker 3: a shed or you know, like we used to call
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  Speaker 3: them my grandpa and name. Here in Louisiana, we'd call
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  Speaker 3: them a caban, which is just a French word for
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  Speaker 3: shed store shed. Then he could get to those waiters.
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  Speaker 3: It could really dry out that rubber on those boots.
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  Speaker 3: It could you know, crack them, have them to you know,
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  Speaker 3: start cracking and therefore lead to leaks if you go
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  Speaker 3: ahead to get out in the water. So waiters is
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  Speaker 3: one of the most important things I check every year.
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  Speaker 3: Now I've been very lucky, guys. I'm going on season
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  Speaker 3: five or six right now with the pair of waiders
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  Speaker 3: I got, and I look at them every year, and
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  Speaker 3: I can tell y'all, I'm getting very close to having
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  Speaker 3: to replace them this year, if not need to replace
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  Speaker 3: them this year, because they have some mileage on them.
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  Speaker 2: I've been, you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, through several seasons with them, and they're starting to
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  Speaker 3: show a little wear and tear on them, for sure,
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  Speaker 3: even though they've held up for a little well, but waiters,
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  Speaker 3: go out there, put them on, even though I know
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  Speaker 3: it's hot as hell right now, Like we talked about,
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  Speaker 3: go put them on, get out in the water, maybe
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  Speaker 3: run the water holes over them if you need to
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  Speaker 3: saturate them real good, make sure you don't have any
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  Speaker 3: kind of leaks in them, and I promise you you're
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  Speaker 3: gonna be a lot better off. You're gonna find yourself
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  Speaker 3: not having to scramble for waiters once the season kicks off,
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  Speaker 3: because I can tell y'all from my experience, once the
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  Speaker 3: season kicks off and everybody's rocking and rolling, they're going
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  Speaker 3: there out there hunting, and you try to go look
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  Speaker 3: for waiters, it can be really tough to find a
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  Speaker 3: pair of waiters once the season kicks off. So you
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  Speaker 3: don't want to find yourself in that position where it's
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  Speaker 3: tough to find boots, waiters. That type of stuff, the
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  Speaker 3: stuff that's gonna keep us protected from the elements and
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  Speaker 3: really tools of our trade is the way I look
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  Speaker 3: at it's a tool of the trade. We need that
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  Speaker 3: to be able to, you know, get out there and
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  Speaker 3: do what we do is duck hunters. So waiters are
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  Speaker 3: very very important. Also, inspect jackets, gloves, stuff like that,
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  Speaker 3: all your clothing that you wear. Yes, we spend a
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  Speaker 3: lot more money on clothing than we probably ever did
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  Speaker 3: in the history of waterfowling.
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  Speaker 2: Most of us.
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  Speaker 3: But just because we spend a lot of money on it.
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  Speaker 3: Just because that gear is expensive doesn't mean that it's
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  Speaker 3: in the best shape from season to season. We need
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  Speaker 3: to inspect it. Do our gloves have any kind of
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  Speaker 3: holes in them? Did maybe a mouse or a rat
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  Speaker 3: get to it during storage and it chewed them up
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  Speaker 3: a little bit? Or you know some of us we
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  Speaker 3: have labs. I know my lab has chews on stuff
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  Speaker 3: before and I go to use it and I find
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  Speaker 3: out I have holes in it because they chewed it.
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  Speaker 3: Just little things like that as duck hunters that we
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  Speaker 3: may find if we don't inspect them early on, right now,
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  Speaker 3: in the off season before duck season starts, we may
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  Speaker 3: be surprised once it kicks off and find ourselves scrambling
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  Speaker 3: to be able to replace that gear. So you don't
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  Speaker 3: want to be in that situation, So inspect your clothing,
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  Speaker 3: make sure everything good to go. You know something else
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  Speaker 3: that I can tell you as a tip, waterproof and
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  Speaker 3: like your jackets, stuff like that. Even gor text some
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  Speaker 3: of the best stuff that's out on the market out there.
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  Speaker 3: Gore Tex needs to be recharged from time to time
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  Speaker 3: as it ages.
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  Speaker 2: They have instructions on that. You guys can look it
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  Speaker 2: up on social media.
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  Speaker 3: I know the only way they used to recommend it
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  Speaker 3: was throwing it like in a dryer and reactivating some
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  Speaker 3: of the materials in there to get that stuff water repellent.
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  Speaker 3: Make sure that it's good to go, or some guys
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  Speaker 3: spray silicone, like a spray silicon on them to just
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  Speaker 3: kind of rejuvenate it. Make sure that everything is ready
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  Speaker 3: to go as far as waterproofing and ceiling that piece
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  Speaker 3: of clothing out to make sure that you're one hundred
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  Speaker 3: percent protected from the elements in the rain once season
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  Speaker 3: kicks off.
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  Speaker 2: So that's a little tip that you could do on
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  Speaker 2: that as well.
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  Speaker 3: Besides that, when we're talking gear calls, guys, duck calls,
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  Speaker 3: that is one of the biggest tools that we have
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  Speaker 3: in our bag as waterfowl hunters is the duck call,
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  Speaker 3: and a lot of us, you know, we throw them
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  Speaker 3: in the bag at the end of the season, and
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  Speaker 3: then once the season kicks off, we go ahead, we
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  Speaker 3: pull them back out and we start go make a
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  Speaker 3: hunt with them. Well, what happens whenever things aren't right,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you have reeds that come loose, or you
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  Speaker 3: have the barrels of those duck calls that are loose
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  Speaker 3: and they're not fitting right. You get out there, you
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  Speaker 3: get in the water, and the next thing you know,
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  Speaker 3: you have an insert fallout or something like that. The
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  Speaker 3: barrel drops out of the call, just simply because we
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  Speaker 3: didn't take the time to inspect it. You know, I've
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  Speaker 3: also had me, you know, being on public land. We
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  Speaker 3: hunt cypress brakes, we hunt marshes. That type of stuff.
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  Speaker 3: I found that when I go to blow my call
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  Speaker 3: the next year, that it doesn't sound quite right. And
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  Speaker 3: when I take it apart, I look at it. I
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  Speaker 3: got little pieces of trash. It could be duck seed
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  Speaker 3: in and it could be you know, pieces that failed
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  Speaker 3: from the tree, or maybe when I stored it in
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  Speaker 3: my bag, I had some trash in their kind of
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  Speaker 3: got stuck down the barrels of those duck calls. So
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  Speaker 3: all that type of stuff is things that I kind
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  Speaker 3: of pay attention to now to where I pull my
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  Speaker 3: calls apart and I go ahead and inspect to make
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  Speaker 3: sure those reeds aren't sticking, we don't have any kind
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  Speaker 3: of debris in them.
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead and blow on them.
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  Speaker 3: Me personally, I keep a duck call in my truck
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  Speaker 3: year round. I start practicing. You know in the off
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  Speaker 3: season to kind of get my air, my wind, build
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  Speaker 3: my wind up, make sure that everything is good whenever
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  Speaker 3: we kick it off, just like everything else I'm talking
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  Speaker 3: about in this episode. You know, so duck Hall's very
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  Speaker 3: very important as far as that goes. Guys also boots.
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  Speaker 3: We talked about that. That kind of goes hand in
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  Speaker 3: hand with waiters. But some guys they may not wear waiters,
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  Speaker 3: but they have boots. You might be a rice field guy.
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  Speaker 3: You're looking at hip you know, boots, you're looking at
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  Speaker 3: knee boots, that type of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Inspect those boots, just like I talked about with waiters.
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  Speaker 3: Make sure that rubbers good on them, it's not dry rotted,
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  Speaker 3: if it's neoprene, you know, I'm any kind of holes
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  Speaker 3: or any kind of tears in it. Make sure that
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  Speaker 3: you are good to go and you are protected from
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  Speaker 3: you know, allowing the water to get into those boots.
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  Speaker 3: So that's something that's very very important.
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  Speaker 2: So inspect your gear.
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  Speaker 3: That is something and then if you find gear, let
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  Speaker 3: me make that point it should go without saying, but
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  Speaker 3: if you find gear that is not in great shape,
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  Speaker 3: replace it.
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  Speaker 2: Right now is the time to replace it.
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  Speaker 3: Like I said, you don't want to be scrambling for
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  Speaker 3: that stuff once the season kicks off, because it can
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  Speaker 3: get tough to find stuff to replace once the season
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  Speaker 3: kicks off because everybody's done prepared, they bought their gear,
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  Speaker 3: and when you start looking for specific size or something
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  Speaker 3: like that, it can be tough to find the guys.
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  Speaker 2: So you don't want to have to be waiting on.
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  Speaker 3: Gear if you have to order it online to come
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  Speaker 3: in to where you can't go out and make a
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  Speaker 3: hunt because you don't have the right gear. So if
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  Speaker 3: you find gear that's in bad shape, go ahead and
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  Speaker 3: replace it right now.
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  Speaker 2: So that is number two on my list. Guys. Inspect
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  Speaker 2: your gear Number three.
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  Speaker 3: Another very very important thing as duck hunters go through
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  Speaker 3: your decoys. So we all use decoys, whether it's motion decoys,
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  Speaker 3: whether it's standard decoys, floater or decoys, whether it's silhouette decoys,
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  Speaker 3: or you have field.
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  Speaker 2: Decoys that you're using.
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  Speaker 3: No matter what, you want to inspect those decoys to
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  Speaker 3: make sure that they're good. If you're water you're gonna
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  Speaker 3: be using floater decoys, you're gonna be using motion decoys.
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  Speaker 3: Make sure that those decoys are in tip top shape.
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  Speaker 3: They don't have any kind of cracks in them.
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  Speaker 2: They don't. They're not taking on water that type of stuff.
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  Speaker 3: And the only way you really know that is by
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  Speaker 3: putting them in the water in the off season and
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  Speaker 3: make sure everything's still good on them, or visually at
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  Speaker 3: least visually inspecting those decoys to make sure that they
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  Speaker 3: don't have any kind of seams that are cracked or
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  Speaker 3: any kind of holes in them from pellets that may
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  Speaker 3: have entered them last season, that type of stuff. Because
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  Speaker 3: there's nothing more frustrating than when you get out there,
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  Speaker 3: throw those decoys out and you have a couple of
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  Speaker 3: those deeks that start to sink on you. Then you
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  Speaker 3: end up getting frustrated, you know, So you don't want
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  Speaker 3: to you don't want to be in that situation where
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  Speaker 3: you have decoys you're finding out once the season kicks
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  Speaker 3: off that they're not floating anymore.
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  Speaker 2: They're decoys.
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  Speaker 3: We need them to float, right, pretty simple, it goes
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  Speaker 3: without saying, but you want to make sure that those
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: decoys are in good shape. And another thing when it
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: comes to decoys, you know, is dirt, debreathe all that
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: type of stuf. Are those decoys looking the right part?
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: Are they? You know?
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: Looking like realistic live ducks. If you look at realistic
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: live ducks, guys, they are on the water, they're pruning themselves,
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: they're cleaning their feathers. They have just that good look
• 15:14
  Speaker 3: to them. They look natural. Well, you want your decoys
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: to match that. So if you're out there, especially as
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: public land guys, we're dragging them through the muck. We're
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: dragging them through the mud, and then you know, are
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: you cleaning them off. What I like to do in
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: the off season, I take a little bit of dawn detergent,
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: something very very simple. I'll just wash them in a bucket,
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: take a brush, scrub those decoys. Those ones that need
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: to be touched up. I go ahead, I touch them up,
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: and if I need to, I could even add a
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: little bit of spray paint to them to make them look,
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: you know, brand new again. So you can get a
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: lot of seasons out of a good quality decoy if
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: you just take a little bit of care of it.
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: If you don't, that's when you're gonna oftentimes find yourself
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: replacing decoys pretty regularly. And then that's the guys that
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: you hear a lot of times saying, hey, those decoys
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: ain't worth a damn because they don't hold well.
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: What are we doing to take care of those decoys?
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: We I'm not saying you got a baby, but let's
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: take a little bit of care of them. So I
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: go through, I clean those decoys up, I get them
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: looking right. If I need to touch them up with
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: a little bit of spray paint, I do that. And
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: it's also a great time for you to filter through
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: some decoys. So we talked about a while ago carrying
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: too much gear. Are we carrying too much gear? Well,
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: if that's the case and we don't need, you know,
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: two hundred decoys, then we could filter some of those
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: older decoys out and we could, you know, have our
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: better looking decoys ready to go. So I'll take some
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: of those out of the spread if I think I
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: could filter through some of them, dispose of some of them,
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: or refurbish them. And a lot of times what I'll
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: do is if they're still in physical good shape but
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: the colors don't look as good, I'll take them, clean
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: them up, I'll paint them black, make me some cool
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: decoys or something like that, something that I could refurbish
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: and reuse when it comes to needing, you know, a
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: wide variety of species for my decoys spreads, So that's
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: a little tip. Maybe refurbish them, spray paint them, touch
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: them up, maybe change them to different type of species.
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: A black, solid black decoy works really really well. And
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: that's something that I've done through the years when I'm
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: looking at off season maintenance on my decoys. So, and
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: which is actually what I had on my list. Next
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: was clean dirty decoys guys. So and then, like I said,
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: something really important to ask yourself is do I really
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: need to haul all the decoys that I got with
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: me everywhere I go throughout the season? Do I need
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: to carry two hundred decoys? Do I need to carry
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: a hundred decoys with me? Do I need to carry
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: fifty decoys with me? The answer may be noted that question.
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: And if that's the case, then you could have those
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: decoys cleaned up ready, kind of narrow it down to
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: what you want to carry for wherever you're gonna be
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: hunting with you, and then have those other ones put
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: away and ready to go in case you lose a
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: couple throughout the season. Maybe you have some pellet holes
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: throughout the season, you have somebody that shoots up a
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: couple of them, or you have some stuff cracked on you,
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: or you know, just kind of wear and tear dragging
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: it around throughout the season, you can be able to
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: pull from that other stat you got and replace them.
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: So number three, go through your decoys.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: That's very important.
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: That's something I always look at when I'm looking at
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: a preseason prep when it comes to preparing for the season, guys.
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: Number four them all list servers. Your boat and trailer
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: so very important us as duck hunters. A lot of
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: you listening out there. You have your own boat rigs,
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: so servicing that boat. Are we using it jouring the summertime?
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: Are we constantly in our boat throughout the summertime, or
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: are you in that situation where you might have multiple
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: boats and you have one that's for summertime.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: You do your fishing out of it, you do your pleasure.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: Riding out of it, and then your hun boat you
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: pull it back out come duck season, and then you're
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: ready to go for hunting. You know, if that's the case,
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: then you really need to pay attention to your boat.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: Is it ready to go it?
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: Is it have everything that it needs to be legal
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: on the water, Like you're running lights, you know, you
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: have your bills, pump working. Is your battery in good
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: operating condition? Because the last thing we want to do
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: is pull it out a couple of days before opening weekend,
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: take off out there on the water, and then we
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: have a bad battery on it, you know, go out
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: on us, or billge pumps failing on us, and we
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: get caught in a rain, torrential downpour or something like that,
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: and then we're in trouble at that point. So we
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: want to make sure that that boat is in great
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: operating condition. Do we have all of our life jackets
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: that we need to have on there? Is all of
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: our light switch panels working with you know, our navigation lights,
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: all the stuff that we need to maintain our safety
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: on the water and really everybody else that's out on
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: the water as well. Is that stuff in good operating shape?
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: Because if it's not right now in the off season,
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: that's when we want to be fixing that stuff up
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: and getting it ready to go. So boat maintenance very important.
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: Something else I do on boat maintenance too, is I
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: always do a visual inspection of the whole itself. So
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: when I say that, I look for you know, most
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: of us are running aluminum boats. I look underneath the
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: bottom of my boat. I kind of checked make sure
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: that there's no bust of the wells, there's no cracks
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: in the hole, that type of stuff, and that's something
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: that a lot.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: Of people don't do.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: Me being in the boat industry for so many years,
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: I saw just about everything happen and can happen to
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: an illuminum hole, no matter how thick it was, no
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: matter how thin it was. I've seen all kinds of stuff.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: I've seen, you know, dancing holes. I've seen people not
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: be aware of that type of stuff. They're losing speed
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: with their surface drive, can't figure it out, might have
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: a hook in the hole, they could have dance in
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: the hole, and all that stuff is playing a part
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: in the performance of their rig and they can't figure
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: it out. They think it's everything else, when in reality,
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: it's the hole they've been banging in, the logs, they've
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: been banging into, trees, stumps, all that type of stuff,
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: and all that could play a part. So do a
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: visual inspection of your hull as well to make sure
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: that everything is okay. Just because somebody builds a hole
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: and tells you that you know, there's no way you're
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: going to bust it up. Don't mean that it can't happen.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: Go check it out, do a visual inspection on that hole.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: It's also a great time if you have a hole
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: that's camouflaged, maybe touch up some of that paint scheme.
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: If you see some stuff from rubbing against the trees
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: throughout the season, or you've been banging it around and
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: you have some paint kind of coming off of it.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: After a while, it will happen to the best and
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: the most expensive holes.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: Trust me on that, I've seen it happen through the years.
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: Maybe it's time to do a little touch up on it,
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: a little touch up paint, a little touch up, clearcoat,
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: whatever you need to do. That's also involved in that
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: boat maintenance, looking at over making sure everything is good
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: to go. So that's on the boat aspect of it. Now,
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: what about how do we transport those boats to and
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: from the water. Well, that has to be on a trailer, right,
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: So trailer is very important or our bunks securely secure
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: to the frame of the trailer itself. I can't tell
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: you all how many times. And you guys will probably
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: agree with this. If you've ever seen this happen. But
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: a guy launches his boat, you know, and season and
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: the next thing you know is running boards of floating
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: off of the trailer with it because they had come
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: loose and they weren't both down to the frame of
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: the trailer. I've seen that happen through the years many times.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: Check those bunks on your trailer, make sure they're good,
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: if they're carpeted, and make sure all that's good. You're
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: not getting that whole hung up on anything when you're
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: trying to take it off of the trailer or put
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: it on the trailer.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: That's one thing. Running lights on the trailer, that's another
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: thing for road safety.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: Make sure that's all up to poar looking good. But overall,
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: just same thing that you do for the boat. Make
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: sure that you're doing it for the trailer as well,
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: that it's in good shape and it's safe. You know,
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: Are your tires inflated properly? Are your tires in good shape?
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: I know right now in mine it's time I need
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: to replace my two tires. That's something I'm planning on
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: doing right now in the off season. I'm gonna get
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: those trailer tires replaced. That way, when we're traveling all
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: season long, back and forth, you know, from point A
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: to point B, from this WMA to that WMA, or
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: wherever we're gonna be going.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: I know that my tires are in good shape.
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: They're inflated properly, and I don't have to hopefully worry
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: about a blowout. You know, could it happened, Yeah, it
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: could still happen. But if we properly look at that,
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: we don't have any kind of dry rod on our tires,
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: you know, and everything's looking right. Hopefully we won't have
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: any issues. Also check that spare tire too. If you
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: have a spare tower, any trailer, it's been sitting on there,
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: like mine for about fifteen years. It seems like never
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: really had to use it. I still look at it,
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: make sure it still looks good. There's no dry rod
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: on it. It's enough to hold air and get me
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: down the road in case I have an emergency. You know,
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: when I'm coming, you know, to a spot early in
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: the morning and it's dark, or returning home late in
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: the evening, I can get there safely. So trailers, boats,
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: serviceship boat and trailer guys. That's number four that I
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: have on the list now. Number five, it's not actually
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: a equipment you know, thing that I'm gonna mention and
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: talk about right there, But it's more of kind of
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: a common practice that I have, and.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: It's scout new areas.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: So if if you ever listen to us on our platforms,
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: we talk about putting in time, boots on the ground,
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: time scout, go out there, especially public land guys, you
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: got to go out there and really.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: Do your scouting.
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: Because look, it's a competitive world that we're in right now.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: When we're talking about public land duck hunting. We all
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: know the game. We all know how it operates. If
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: you needed a game, it will not take you long
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: to learn it. If you hunt public land, you're gonna
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: learn very quickly how public land operates. And it operates
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: pretty much the same from state to state from what
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: I understand, but your specific area, you're gonna learn how
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: it operates very quickly. It's only gonna take you a
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: short amount of time to learn the ins and outs
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: of how everybody does everything on public land. So scouting
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: becomes very important. Can you get away from some of
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: that pressure. Can you locate the birds on maybe their
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: habits and their patterns for that season. Are you finding
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: birds holding to a certain food source? Are you finding
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: them holding to a certain water source? All that is
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: intel that you're gonna have to gather through scout in gods,
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: So don't depend on last year's birds. That's very important
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: and that's something that I underlined in my notes. Just
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: because you killed birds in an area last year does
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: not mean you're going to be able to go this year,
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: show up and find birds holding to that area again.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: We all know it changes.
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: That old saying you starting to hear more and more
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: people talk about it on podcasts. More and more people
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: say the only thing you can depend on is things
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: changing from year to year.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: And that's true. That's a very very true statement. It
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: changes from year to year.
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: So scouting is something that you have to do and
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: don't depend on what happened with last year's results or
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: where birds were holding to last year and think it's
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: going to repeat and be the same. Spend time finding
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: fresh water and currents, current bird activity. I just kind
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: of talked on that, So birds last year may be
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: in a completely different area. And when you do that
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: scouting this year right now in the off season, as
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: those we get a little closer. You know, the till
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: season those teals start showing up, you're gonna have to
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: locate where those birds are moving to and from where
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: they're you know, kind of crossing in between. And the
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: only way you're gonna do that is through scouting. So
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: that's something that's very very important, is to put in
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: that time scouting. Let's see if I have anything else.
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: So yeah, scouting, guys, that's pretty much it right now.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: In the off season, that's when I do most of
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: my time for scouting. I go out there and I
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: try to find those birds and I try to do
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: my scouting. So number six moving on, like I said,
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: top ten, and I'm reading my notes, so I want
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: to make sure I don't leave nothing out here. So
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: number six on my list guys, is organize your blind bag.
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: That's something I do probably multiple times a year, to
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: be honest with y'all, is organize my blind bag.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: Because we go through different seasons. I know here in
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: Louisiana for us, from till season to the end of
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: duck season, it's like you experienced totally different you know, atmospheres,
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: totally different temperatures, totally different seasons. We go through about
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: ten different seasons.
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: It's really really hot when we kick off teal season,
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: so I'll have certain gear in my bag.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: I'll have my.
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: Hunt repelling, I'll have you know, my all my headlights,
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: my shells, all that stuff. But it's really kind of like,
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: you know, my hot season gear that I'm gonna have
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: in my bag early on jaring teel season, and then
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: as we move closer to big tough season, I'll start
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: putting things like my gloves, my beanies, all that colder
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: weather gear. It'll start showing up in my blind bag
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: and I kind of do a purge of my early
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: season stuff. Then I'll start having some of my you know,
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: my kind of milder temperature gear that I'll put in
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: my blind bag. And then as we get later into
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: the season, I'll have all my colder weather stuff, so
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: I'll have all that. So that changes constantly. But things
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: like hunting license, make sure that you have hunt license.
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: Most of us nowadays have that on our phones. We
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: don't really have to worry about old school way of
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: putting it in our blind bags, carrying in on us
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: in our wallet. Most of us have that stuff electronically now.
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: So hunting licenses duck stamps, all that stuff. Make sure
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: you're up to par on that stuff. You got your
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: hip certifications, all that type of stuff. WMA permits all
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: the stuff that you need to be legal. That's the
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: simplest way I could put it. Make sure you got
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: all that. What I also do is I screen shot
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: all that stuff from the apps that I use where
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: we have all that stuff stored on nowadays. So like
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: for us here in Louisiana, we have la wallet that
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: has all of.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: Our license stored.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: Well, for some reason, I can't get that pulled up
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: my phone or the apps down or something like that,
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: I get pulled over by game bar and I get checked.
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: I always screenshot that stuff when I renew my licenses
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: just to make sure I have it in my camera
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: role and I could be able to pull it up
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: even though maybe an app's down or something like that.
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: So that's a good idea to do. That headlamp, well,
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: all need a headlamp, is duck owners guy. So make
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: sure those flashlights, those headlamps, everything's in your bag ready
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: to go. And make sure if it's something that runs
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: on batteries, the old school batteries like you double as
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: triple as all that stuff has fresh batteries and it's
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: ready to go. Knife first aid, kid, that's very important, guys.
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: I can't tell you how important having a good knife
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: in the boat is with you, or any blind bag
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: with you is in case you have to use it.
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: You might have to cut something out of a prop.
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: That has happened to me numerous times operating a boat.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: You run over a crab trap, you run over a rope,
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: something grass, you know, salt grass, that type of stuff
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: gets caught up in the prop. You gotta cut something out.
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: You have a good sharp knife on you. What I
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: like to actually carry is a multi tool. That's something
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: that I love to carry. As a matter of fact,
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: I just went to my local Walmart this week and
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: I picked up three multi tools Osur Trail Walmart multi
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: tools hold up really well. Seven dollars, Guys. I could
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: buy multiple ones like I did this week. Throw one
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: in my bl linebag, one in my boat, one of
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: my truck. I got them all over the place in
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: case I need them. They got a little screwdrivers in them,
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: they got plyers, they got knife, they got bottle openers,
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: you name it, it comes into multi tool. You put
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: that in your boat and you're ready to go. You
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: pretty much get fix just about anything you got to
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: fix throughout the season.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: So multi tool is something.
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: That I made a note of, and that's really what
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: I like to use, uh, you know, as a tool
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: that I carry on me working on my surface drive
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: if I need a tight boats up, if I need
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: to tighten up a throttle, uh, you know, cable something
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: like that. I got a multi tool in the boat
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: with me that I can use at all times. Hell,
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: I even I've even processed dust with my multi tool
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: before if I left my pocket knife or misplaced it.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: So I've done that before.
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: So go get you a couple of multi tools at
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: your local Walmart Osar Trail in the sporting goods section.
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: If you have a Walmart in your area, go pick
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: up those multi tools. They're cheapest. Hell, and they're they're
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: actually pretty good. They hold up really well. Uh. First, ay, kit,
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: I mentioned that guys, everybody, every one of us as
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: a duck hunter, whether we have a boat, whether we
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: walk into spots, whether you with somebody, you should all
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: in your blind bag or at least in your boat
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: or truck have a first aid kit with you. You never
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: want to get caught in a situation where there's something
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: traumatic happened, you know, out on a hunt with your
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: buddets and you need a first aid kit, or you
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: do something accidentally to yourself. You know, you cut yourself,
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: you you know it could happen. I've seen it happen.
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: I had a situation a few years ago where Jackson,
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: my oldest son, he was with me. We had a
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: malfunctional a shotgun that actually had a bad shotgun shell.
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: When he fired, it exploded and the entire gun exploded,
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: and we had a first aid kit with me. We
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: were able to wrap him up and make sure that
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: he was good to go so we could get.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: Out of there safely. And if I wouldn't have had
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: that with me, we would have had open wound, we
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: would have had bleeding, that type of stuff to where
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: you know, we needed to take care of it right
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: then and there, and we wouldn't have had that if
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: we didn't have a first aid kit with us. So
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: that is very important. Guys. You never know what's gonna happen.
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: You cut yourself accidentally or something, and you need a
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: first aid kit, bandages, you know, some kind of sanitizer
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: or disinfectant to be able to you know, put into
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: a wound something like that. A first aid kit is vital, guys,
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: very very important. A change of clothes that's also something
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: if we're a boat goy, you know, and you know,
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: you fall out of that boat, or somebody falls out
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: of that boat, or you're in the water, maybe you're
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: transporting somewhere, you're walking in somewhere and you fall into
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: the you know, water, and well it's cold. We're dealing
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: with cold temperatures as duck hunters. You get water in
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: your waiters, you could freeze the weather that type of stuff.
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: Then you can put, you know, go back. You could
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: definitely have another set of clothes to be able to
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: take that wet clothes off of you and then go
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: back and warm yourself up with a fresh set of clothes.
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: So carrying an extra set of clothes in your boat
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: throughout hunting season that's a great idea as well. That's
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: something that I'm guilty I haven't done my entire life,
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: and I've been in boats my entire life, either fishing.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: You know, for pleasure purposes or during hunting season.
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: But as duck hunters, we're dealing with cold temperatures, we
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: fall in the water, it can be serious, it can
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: be life threatening. So having a change of clothes with
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: you is something that is very very important. That that's
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: a good idea. Carry an extra set of clothes with you.
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: That's something that can save your life. So organize your
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: blind bag, guys, that's the point there. Make sure you
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: know where everything's at. You have your calls, you have
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: your lights, you have everything that you need that you're
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: gonna want to possibly carry what you in your blind bag.
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: Number seven, going back to calls, what do I do
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: in the off season? I kind of mentioned it in a
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: while ago. That is I find it's very important. Is
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: I practice my calling in the off season. That's another
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: way I prepare for duck season. I told you all
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: a while ago, I said, I carry a duck call
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: in my vehicle with me year round. You'll see me
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: you pull up a red light. Sometimes somebody knows me
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: or don't know me. They're gonna see me just wailing
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: on a duck call. I'm doing a chuckle call. I'm
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: practicing my duck call. That's my point I'm trying to make.
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: I'm there building up that air, keeping my lungs in
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: good shape. And I am practicing that duck call, trying,
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: you know, to practice different sounds with it, do different
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: little things. You guys know, y'all do it. A lot
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: of you already do it. I do it all the
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: time as well. So practice your duck calling. I put
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: ten minutes a few times each week is plenty. It
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: don't have to be every day you do it. But
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: practice for ten, fifteen, twenty minutes once a week before
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: duck season and when we open up, you guys gonna
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: be in prime form when it comes to hitting those
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: duck calls. You're gonna be ready to go. So practice
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: your duck call, especially you new guys. If you're new,
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: don't have a lot of experience on a duck call.
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: Put a duck call in your vehicle and practice in
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: your vehicle. It's a great way to learn. You buy yourself.
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: You don't have to worry about what other people think
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: about what you sound like, and it's a great way
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: to call. When I was coming up learning how to
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: blow the duck call, guys, and I'm not the best
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: duck caller there is out there.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: I don't claim to be the best duck caller. Out there.
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: But I know I could call birds, you know, and
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: I could get birds to turn around a lot of times.
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: I've been doing it long enough. It comes with experience.
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: But the best way that I learned was having it
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: in my vehicle. I would keep it in my truck.
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: And back then when I was learning how to blow it,
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: I was listening to Bug Gardner calls CD calls in
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: my truck.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: That kind of dates me. Put y'all, let y'all know
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: how old I am. Puts me.
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: At a certain age, I had CD player in my
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: vehicle and I would listen to Buck Gardener CDs. And
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: then also I had the opportunity to meet Phil Robertson
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: and talk to him.
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: He taught me some things early on.
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: At certain events that he was at, where I would
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: take what he showed me and I would do it
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: in my vehicle. I would learn kind of practice what
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: he taught me. That old ten ten ten Phil used
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: to be a big proposed, a big person talking about
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: how he would, you know, teach people call on a
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: duck call and it was a ten ten ten sound
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: that E would tell people.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: That's the same exact thing he taught me.
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: Whenever I had an opportunity to sit down with him
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: and kind of him show me what to do, so
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: I would practice that stuff in my truck. So that's
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: a great place to practice your call on guys, focus
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: on sounding not natural, not loud. I highlighted that focus
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: on sounding natural. Nowadays, everybody wants to get that duck
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: call and they just want to well on it. They
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: want to be loud because they think they have to
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: turn those ducks away from everybody else. And yes, there's
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: a lot of competition on public land, US public plan. Guys,
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: we're at a disadvantage because you have a lot of
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: pressure around you. But sounding natural, in my opinion, is
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: more important than how loud you are. You could be
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: as loud as you want. That don't matter if you
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: don't sound like a duck. Guess what, They're not gonna
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: give you a second look. They're not gonna give you
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: the first look. They're gonna stay away from you because
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: you don't sound natural. You don't sound like a duck,
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: so they're not even gonna pay attention to you. They're
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: gonna get as far away as they can from you
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: because you don't sound like a duck.
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: Right, kind of makes sense.
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: So it doesn't matter how loud you are, it matters
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: how natural sound sounding you are. Or do you sound
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: like a duck? Do you sound like a mallet if
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: you have mallets in your area? Do you sound like
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: a gab wall? You know, you want to sound as
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: natural as possible, So the off season I always kind
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: of practice sounding as natural as I can on those
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: calls to prepare for duck season and get ready. So
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: that's number seven, guys practicing calling. I think that's something
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: that's very important to prepare for duck season. Number eight,
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: prepare your retriever. So that's not gonna apply to everybody.
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: Some of you may say, well, Jacob, I don't have
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: a retriever, and that's that's right. You don't have a dog,
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: so this isn't gonna apply to you. But for many
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: of you, you do have dogs that you hunt with
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: throughout duck season. So preparing your retriever is your dog
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: in good shape to get to be ready for duck season,
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: just like we are. So physically we should try to
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: be in as good a shape as we can for
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: duck season because there's a lot of stress that goes
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: on our body. Well guess what it happens to our
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: retrievers as well, whether it's a lab or whatever species
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: of dog you have. Are they in shape or have
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: they been sending around all off season, eating, putting on weight,
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: all that type of stuff that we look at as
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: human beings.
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: We also should be paying attention to that for our retrievers.
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: Are they ready to go for the duck season? So
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: conditioning and basic obedience. Conditioning just talked about obedience, that's
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: the other half of it. As dog owners. Are they
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: ready to go? Do they listen to the commands?
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: Have they been practicing what they're taught and have been
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: taught in the past, and are they responding and ready
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: to go once that season kicks off.
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: The off season is when that work gets done guys.
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: Keeping them in shape, keeping them obedient, making sure that
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: they're responding like they should. Water retrieves, make sure that
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: they're ready for opening day as well, so water retries.
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: You know, in the summertime, you may not be taking
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: them to the water like you do during duck season.
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: They're not getting those water retries like they do during
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: the season. It's important in the off season for a
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: retriever and for you as an owner of a retriever.
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: To make sure that they're getting those water retrieves. Take
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: them out to the lake, take them out to your
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: local parks, your ponds, that type.
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: Of stuff, and let them do some water retrieves.
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: Treat it just like the situation I talked about when
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: you pattern them your gun, make it as realistic as possible.
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: Make sure that they're having fun most importantly, but make
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: sure that they're there in the moment and they know
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: what the assignment is when you're practicing that stuff, because
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: that's what's going to translate to that success once the
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: season kicks off.
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: So number eight, preparing your retriever.
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: Not a lot to talk about there, but making sure
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: that their diets good, they're in good condition physically, and
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: they're also in good condition and responding to hand signals,
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: you know, verbal responses, all that type of stuff, whistles,
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: all that type of stuff that goes into retrieving. Number
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: nine very important guys review the regulations. A lot of
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: people don't take that time to review regulations, state regulations,
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: federal regulations. All that type of stuff is their new seasons.
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: I know here in Louisiana, s here we have a
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: new whistland duck season what are the limits, the bag
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: limits in your state. What are the regulations if you're
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: hunting a Wildlife Management Era national refuge, if it's public,
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: state land, whatever it may be. Make sure that you
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: know the regulations and the guidelines. That's something when those
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: pamphlets come out, they hit those countertops at your local
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: sporting goods stores, they come out online. There's a reason
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: they put those out into off season guys. It's to
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: get familiar with that stuff in the off season, so
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: you know what the rules are.
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: You know what the regulations are once we get going,
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: once the season's open, So season dates, bag limits, you know,
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: touching on bag limits.
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: We all know that that stuff changes. It could change
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: from year to year. What we had on the limits,
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: say for penn hils last year, may not be what
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: penttails are this year. Are in a certain species, so
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: we got to make sure that we're on top of
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: those regulations and making sure we know the dates. If
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: you have splits in your state, like here in louis
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: In and we have a first split, a second split,
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: know what those split dates are. You don't want to
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: get caught up in the wrong area when the season's closed.
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: And old mister Green Jenes comes, pay to your visit
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: and get your ticket. Not a good situation. You know
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: tons of people that that's happened to during the years.
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: You want to make sure that you know the regulations.
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: You know the season dates as well, shooting hours. Regulation
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: changes on shooting hours, that's something through the years I've
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: seen change. Make sure you know when legal shooting time is.
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: Make sure you know that you're not shooting before legal
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: shooting time. You know when to stop shooting.
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: If you're somebody that has the opportunity to hunt afternoons,
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: you make an afternoon hunts. Know when you know sunset
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: is and when it's time to put those gun barrels down,
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: pack it up and head in for the evening.
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: So that's something that's very important. But reviewing regulations very
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: very important. Guy. It's gonna save you money in the
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: long run, keep you from getting those tickets, keep you
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: from getting checked by the game wardens.
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: Do what you gotta do. Know those regulations and you
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: should be good.
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: So I always review that stuff in the off season
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: to make sure I try to keep up to par
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: on that number nine or I'm sorry, yeah, number ten,
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry. So this is the last one that I'm
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: gonna close with. Guys, set realistic expectations, realistic expectations.
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: That is so important.
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: Because a lot of people do not have realistic expectations
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: when it comes to preparing for.
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: A duck season.
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: Look, we're waterfowl guys. We're all optimistics, optimistic. Everybody thinks
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: they're gonna go out and have the best How many
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: times you hear us talk as a group when we
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: say this is gonna be the year, this is gonna
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: be the best year possible that we've had in years.
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: Man, though the.
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: Former's Dominac showing is gonna be one of the coldest
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: years on record, it's an El Nino year. That's gonna
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: mean a lot of water out of cold weather. That
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: should be good. You know from my area that I hunt,
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: and we hype ourselves up, and that's just part of it.
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: That's what makes it's so great to.
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: Be a duck hunter, is that we are optimistic as
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: hell when it comes to a new season. Being on
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: the horizon, we are all optimistic. And then you know,
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: a week goes by, two weeks goes by, we're a
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: month into the season, and then all of a sudden,
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: we're so disappointed because we it was supposed to be
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: the greatest season ever. There was supposed to be more
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: birds according to the annual surveys than they've had. You know,
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: last year or the year before. The weather was supposed
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: to be cold. Man, we've had nothing but hot weather. Look,
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: we know change is going to happen, and as waterfowl hunters,
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: we are constantly going.
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: To be battling changes.
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: We're not only battling each other on public land, We're
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: not only battling mother nature with the conditions. We're not
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: only battling the birds us against the birds and trying
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: to outsmart them.
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: But things change, and we have to be able to
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: accept that.
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: If we don't, we're not setting realistic expectations in my
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: opinion on that. So don't hype yourself up so much
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: that you let yourself down when things don't go your way.
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: Once the season kicks off, say hey, look, I'm gonna
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: make sure that all my equipments right, I'm gonna make
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: sure that I've done my scouting. I'm gonna make sure
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: that I am ready to go, My dog's ready to go,
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: my boat's ready to go. And that's the things that
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: you could control that's the factors that you, as the
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: hunter can control. All that other stuff you can't control.
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: So don't be disappointed when those other factors play into
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: the equation and they set you up with failure or
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: they set you up for not what you thought.
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: Your trips should be, your hunts should be.
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: So that is the quickest way to become this gruntled,
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: to start pullting fingers, blaming everybody else on why you're
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: not having the season that you thought you should have.
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: And honestly, that's why a lot of people hang it up.
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: They just give it up because they get so aggravated.
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: They thought it was gonna be one thing and it
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: turned out it's not that at all, and they say,
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: you know what, screwed. I don't want to be a
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: duck hunter anymore. I'm gonna go play golf now, or
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna go start deer hunting, you know, or do whatever.
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna go fishing now. So realistic expectations is something
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: that is very important. And I tell people this success
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: is not measured by limits, guys. And some of you
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: guys are gonna say bullshit. I kill limits all the time. Man,
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: that's awesome. If you somebody who kills limits all the time.
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: You have a really good spot, or you full of shit.
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: One of the two.
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: There's no in between in between that, and don't take
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: that as being a cutdown to you. But you're either
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: in one of the best spots that's available out there,
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: or you full of shit. Because most of us do
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: not kill limits all the time. So when we say
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: realistic expectations, limits is not a realistic expectation for most
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: duck hunters. Guys, you're gonna take what comes to you,
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: especially if you're a public land god, you know how
• 45:52
  Speaker 3: that is. You're grinding out there, you're fighting everybody for
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: a spot out there, and odds are against you. Mother
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: Nature's against you, the birds are against you. Everything feels
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: like it's against you. So limits are not gonna be
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: realistic every time you go out there. So don't judge
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: your season based on how many limits you killed this year.
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: So there's guys out there they're gonna tell you that
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: that's bullshit. That's the way you should. You know, Oh,
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: they're great because they kill limits. They look like they
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: kill limits on social media all the time. I can
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: tell you that's bullshit. They're not killing limits all the time.
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: They have their bad days, just like everybody else. So
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: success isn't always measured in limits. I put that as
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: a note, highlighted it and underlined it, and that's something
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: that I want to stress to my audience. Enjoy the sunrise,
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: the fellowship and the experienced guys at the end of
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: the day. That is really what it's about, is the
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: camaraderie with the people you hunt with the God, our God,
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: the Creator himself, when we're out there seeing his beauty
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: in action, seeing those sunrises, seeing those sunsets, and just thinking.
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: Him at the end of the day.
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: For having the opportunity to go out there and see
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: a sunrise and to see Mother Nature at its finest
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: in all its beauty. That is something that it took
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: me years to kind of start appreciating more and more
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: and to realize. And now I've been doing this, guys
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: for just over forty years that I've been into a
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: Doug blinde watching sunrises come up, and I could tell
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: you that it means more to me today when I
• 47:29
  Speaker 3: get that opportunity than it probably ever did in my
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: younger years of hunting, because with maturity you just appreciate
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: it a lot more. I enjoy sitting back and seeing
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: my kids with me, and I appreciate my kids being
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: with me in the Doug Bline now, and I enjoy
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: seeing the looks on their faces when they pull up
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: and pull that trigger and they take the life of
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: a bird that comes over id Cais and appreciating and
• 47:53
  Speaker 3: respecting that wildlife when I see them, That's the type
• 47:58
  Speaker 3: of stuff I get those little joys out of, and
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: that's very very important to me. So fellowship being together,
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: enjoying God's creation out there, and just the experience, enjoying
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: the experience. There's mornings where you could go out there
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: and you could kill nothing and you don't pull the trigger.
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: And I've had people tell me, but I had this
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: happen to me, or but I saw this in the
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: Dug bline from a dug blind where I never got
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: to see that from that angle before, and it was
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: one of the most rewarding.
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: Hunts I ever had.
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: I've had people tell me that through the years, and
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: I can relate to that because I've been in that
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: situation before where it's just, man, you see something that
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: just absolutely takes your breath away from a duck blind,
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: and it's not about the birds at that point. Necessarily,
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: it's about whatever is in the moment that you're appreciating
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: and enjoying. So when you get those days where you
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: get that, plus you get the birds, and you get
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: the birds cooperating on top of that, it makes it
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: all come together. And that's the total circle right there.
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: For me, it's just that perfect day. And those those
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: are not every day, guys, it's not the majority of
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: the days, even I would have to say throughout a
• 49:11
  Speaker 3: duck season. But when you get those days, we all
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: kind of know it.
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: You have that.
• 49:15
  Speaker 3: Feeling, that that instinctive feeling to know that, hey, today
• 49:20
  Speaker 3: was just a good day. It was a perfect day,
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: and I thank God for it and I appreciate what
• 49:25
  Speaker 3: I got to experience and be a part of today.
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: So that is extremely important. I don't want that to go,
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: you know, be forgotten, I guess I could say. And
• 49:34
  Speaker 3: that's why I put it at number ten on my
• 49:36
  Speaker 3: list that I wanted to close with that. A couple
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: of bonus tips I have here. I made some notes
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: on bonus tips wearing your life jacket. That's something that's
• 49:45
  Speaker 3: very very important.
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: Guys.
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: Once again, we fall out the boat, you know, we
• 49:49
  Speaker 3: running these these surface drives. We run in these tiller
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: handles through timber, sometimes through these open marshes. All it
• 49:54
  Speaker 3: takes is one accident to eject people out of there.
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: Having a life jacket to death, save your life. Look,
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: I've been guilty.
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: I've ran my boath many times not having a life
• 50:04
  Speaker 3: jacket on jurn duck season, cold water, cold temperatures, we
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: should we should have a life jacket on us. So
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna say, wear your lifejacket. That's that's something that
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: I would mention. Check the weather before every hunt. I
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: think as waterfowl hunters, that goes without being said. A
• 50:20
  Speaker 3: lot of us we live and die by the weather
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: app whenever we're getting ready to go out there and
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: make cunts download offline maps for GPS. So no matter
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: what we're using for GPS, whether it's you know, duck
• 50:33
  Speaker 3: Smart that's one of them that I use, uh on X,
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: that's one that a lot of us use.
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: You have that option on these apps now to download maps.
• 50:43
  Speaker 3: So when you don't have cell service, we still have
• 50:46
  Speaker 3: access to mapping, and that could be the difference in
• 50:49
  Speaker 3: you getting out of an area versus not making your
• 50:51
  Speaker 3: way out of there because you're lost. Could be a
• 50:53
  Speaker 3: new area that you in and you just don't know
• 50:56
  Speaker 3: it real well. Well, mapping is what we oftentimes rely
• 51:00
  Speaker 3: a lot of us. We leave in the dark you
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: can't see real well. We rely on mapping. So if
• 51:06
  Speaker 3: you lose cell service, sometimes we're way out of cell service,
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: you know, offline mapping could be very important. So that's
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: something that we could all do. If we're using apps
• 51:16
  Speaker 3: like the ones I mentioned the second ago, we could
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: go right now in the off season. Download the areas
• 51:20
  Speaker 3: that you're looking at hunting and planning on hunting this season.
• 51:23
  Speaker 3: Download those offline maps to your phone. That way you
• 51:26
  Speaker 3: got them in case you need them. Get yourself physically
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: ready for those early mornings and long walks. I kind
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: of talked about that earlier with the retriever side of things,
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: But us as humans, we need to make sure that
• 51:37
  Speaker 3: we're in good enough shape to go out there and
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: fully make a season and be healthy about it, you know,
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: So maybe do a little bit of walking before the season.
• 51:46
  Speaker 3: If you're a god it's a public land guy, you're
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: gonna be walking into a lot.
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: Of spots this year.
• 51:50
  Speaker 3: Even if you're a boat guy, you're gonna be getting
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: in and out the boat constantly. You're gonna be putting
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: decoys out, you know it is we get stuck in
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: that mud and the marsh man you can't get.
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: Them feed out of the mud. It'll wear you out.
• 52:00
  Speaker 3: If you're not in some sort of shape or you
• 52:02
  Speaker 3: haven't kind of been you know, active in the off season,
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: you could really end up in a bond there.
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: So get yourself into physically good shape to be able
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: to make it through a season safely. Guys.
• 52:13
  Speaker 3: So yeah, that is kind of my top ten. That's
• 52:16
  Speaker 3: kind of the way I approach Duck season. And you
• 52:18
  Speaker 3: guys may have some ideas that you could share also,
• 52:21
  Speaker 3: so drop that down in the chat in the comments
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: down below.
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: Drop it.
• 52:25
  Speaker 3: If you have some things that maybe I didn't touch
• 52:27
  Speaker 3: on in this episode, then it's something that I think
• 52:30
  Speaker 3: could really help other hunters out. Guys, how do you
• 52:33
  Speaker 3: prepare for Duck season? That's the question that I would
• 52:36
  Speaker 3: ask and pose to you as an audience and drop
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: those comments and let us know kind of what you
• 52:40
  Speaker 3: do to prepare. Is it similar to kind of what
• 52:43
  Speaker 3: I talked about here today in this episode or is
• 52:46
  Speaker 3: it something that you maybe do a little different. I'd
• 52:48
  Speaker 3: love to hear what you guys have to say on that.
• 52:51
  Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean, that's that's kind of how I
• 52:54
  Speaker 3: approach it. I think it's for me. It works out
• 52:56
  Speaker 3: really well. And look, I find that stuff changing from
• 52:59
  Speaker 3: year to years. Well, I might do some of these things.
• 53:02
  Speaker 3: This is kind of my bible, my little punch list
• 53:04
  Speaker 3: that I go through when I'm looking at preparing for
• 53:06
  Speaker 3: Duck season. I do a lot of this stuff the same,
• 53:09
  Speaker 3: but hey, sometimes we get curveballston As and things change,
• 53:13
  Speaker 3: so we'll kind of I'll mix some things into my
• 53:15
  Speaker 3: checklist up from year to year, add a couple of things,
• 53:18
  Speaker 3: maybe change up a couple of things. So that's perfectly fine,
• 53:21
  Speaker 3: that's all right. But this is what works for me,
• 53:24
  Speaker 3: and I figured, hey, this would be a great time
• 53:26
  Speaker 3: to share this in an episode with my audience and
• 53:29
  Speaker 3: kind of maybe help you guys out or maybe remind
• 53:32
  Speaker 3: you of something that you didn't think about that you
• 53:34
  Speaker 3: could say, hey, okay, I heard that Jacob talk about that.
• 53:37
  Speaker 3: Let me go and make sure that that's done as
• 53:39
  Speaker 3: we get ready to open up Duck season. So hopefully
• 53:42
  Speaker 3: this will help you guys, and I hope this episode
• 53:45
  Speaker 3: you find it useful in preparing, you know, for yourself
• 53:49
  Speaker 3: for duck season and making you a little bit more efficient.
• 53:52
  Speaker 3: So with that being said, guys, on this episode, there's
• 53:56
  Speaker 3: something that I do want to discuss in closing that
• 53:59
  Speaker 3: I just kind of want to.
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: Get my final thoughts on.
• 54:01
  Speaker 3: So look, in the off season, a lot of stuff
• 54:04
  Speaker 3: has been being said. Uh, there's a lot of controversy
• 54:07
  Speaker 3: in the waterfoul industry right now. There's a lot of
• 54:10
  Speaker 3: tug of war between groups of people, between groups of hunters.
• 54:14
  Speaker 3: We all know the situation that we've been facing with
• 54:18
  Speaker 3: all the stuff that we're talking about in regards to
• 54:21
  Speaker 3: why we don't have the duck hunting that we used
• 54:23
  Speaker 3: to have.
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: One of the biggest topics that came up for discussion
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: over the.
• 54:27
  Speaker 3: Last week or two was the prairie pothole region and
• 54:30
  Speaker 3: I did a video on that when they came out
• 54:34
  Speaker 3: with the information on that situation about the possibility of
• 54:38
  Speaker 3: these prairie pothole regions being affected by agriculture draining some
• 54:43
  Speaker 3: of these areas that these ducks rely on to be
• 54:45
  Speaker 3: able to you know, populate every year for generations of
• 54:49
  Speaker 3: ducks to be had for you know us throughout the
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: years that is a subject that is, you know, very
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: important to me as a conservationist, as a waterfowl hunter,
• 54:59
  Speaker 3: as an outdoorsmen.
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: That's something that was very very important to me. And
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: I did a video on it.
• 55:04
  Speaker 3: I gave you guys, you know, my thoughts on it,
• 55:07
  Speaker 3: and they were asking us to go and leave our
• 55:10
  Speaker 3: feedback in order to show support on how we felt
• 55:13
  Speaker 3: about it in not draining those those ecosystems, basically to
• 55:17
  Speaker 3: make sure that those ecosystems stay around. And when I
• 55:21
  Speaker 3: post that video, when I started reading the comments, I
• 55:27
  Speaker 3: have to say, I was blown away, and I was
• 55:30
  Speaker 3: blown away in a in a.
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: In a hurtful manner.
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: I guess I should say that I was just absolutely
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: kind of disgusted at the comments that I saw that
• 55:41
  Speaker 3: were being left on my feed and many many others
• 55:45
  Speaker 3: feeds on social media. A lot of people were doing
• 55:48
  Speaker 3: videos talking about the importance of going and leaving that feedback,
• 55:52
  Speaker 3: you know, and how important it was for them to
• 55:55
  Speaker 3: hear our voices as waterfow hunters. And when I tell
• 55:59
  Speaker 3: you the negative comments that I saw, that just blew
• 56:02
  Speaker 3: me away.
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: And just kind of just hurt me in my core.
• 56:05
  Speaker 3: Man, I'll be honest with y'all kind of kind of
• 56:07
  Speaker 3: shook me to my core just saying how how I
• 56:12
  Speaker 3: don't I don't know, I don't know the night.
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: I'm trying to put this the nicest.
• 56:15
  Speaker 3: Way I can, but but there's really not a nice
• 56:18
  Speaker 3: way to say it. Just how selfish I guess people
• 56:23
  Speaker 3: that call themselves waterfowl hunters, people that call themselves conservationists,
• 56:27
  Speaker 3: people that call themselves duck hunters, people that call themselves outdoorsmen.
• 56:33
  Speaker 3: Some of the comments that these people were making, There's
• 56:36
  Speaker 3: no way that you're in it for conservation. There's no
• 56:42
  Speaker 3: way that these people are in it for the good
• 56:45
  Speaker 3: of waterfowl. There's no way that these people are in
• 56:49
  Speaker 3: it for the longevity of having generations of family members
• 56:53
  Speaker 3: who enjoyed duck hunting have waterfoul when their time comes.
• 57:00
  Speaker 3: Because there was so much greed in the comments, so
• 57:04
  Speaker 3: much selfishness in the comments of people opposing saying that
• 57:09
  Speaker 3: they didn't care, they didn't give a fuck, in much
• 57:12
  Speaker 3: much more choice words that they were using in comments,
• 57:16
  Speaker 3: saying that they didn't give a fuck if they got drained,
• 57:19
  Speaker 3: who cared about it. It's only for the rich, it's
• 57:22
  Speaker 3: only for ducks and limiteds only for delta waterfoul its
• 57:26
  Speaker 3: only for this organization. And of course all the short
• 57:30
  Speaker 3: stopping comments got to come in that flood, all the feeds,
• 57:34
  Speaker 3: every time somebody talks about duck hunting, shortstopping corn, all this,
• 57:39
  Speaker 3: and that.
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: It's really just it's enough, man, It's enough.
• 57:45
  Speaker 3: In my opinion, I think a lot of people who
• 57:47
  Speaker 3: are here to enjoy waterfowl hunting, who are here to
• 57:52
  Speaker 3: be true conservationists that want to see generations of waterfowl
• 57:56
  Speaker 3: for many years to come around.
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: I think people are just disgusted.
• 58:01
  Speaker 3: They're tired of hearing the bitch and the complaint in
• 58:04
  Speaker 3: the tug of war, all that stuff that is going
• 58:07
  Speaker 3: back and forth all the time. I think people are
• 58:10
  Speaker 3: just absolutely disgusted with it, that truly care. And when
• 58:14
  Speaker 3: I saw the comments from these so called people that
• 58:17
  Speaker 3: are conservations, call themselves conservations, call themselves waterfowl hunters, call
• 58:22
  Speaker 3: themselves outdoorsmen, quote unquote, that's not that's not the definition
• 58:28
  Speaker 3: of those titles.
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: Guys, that's not what it's about.
• 58:32
  Speaker 3: And it's truly discussed and what I saw, and uh,
• 58:35
  Speaker 3: and we could do better, we could do better. But
• 58:37
  Speaker 3: but but when I say that, you know, I say
• 58:39
  Speaker 3: we can do better, and I'm still saying that.
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: That's what I thought when I read the comments.
• 58:43
  Speaker 3: But then it hit me that I was like Jacob,
• 58:46
  Speaker 3: that's the people that aren't gonna be around long term.
• 58:50
  Speaker 3: That's the people that's not gonna be here down the road.
• 58:54
  Speaker 3: The people like myself that truly care, and the other
• 58:59
  Speaker 3: ones out there that are listening. Many of you listening
• 59:02
  Speaker 3: to this podcast right now, you believe in the right reasons.
• 59:07
  Speaker 3: You try to do the best you can to be
• 59:10
  Speaker 3: the best outdoorsman and conservation as you can. When it
• 59:13
  Speaker 3: comes to waterfowl hunting, you guys are the ones that
• 59:16
  Speaker 3: are going to be there along haul. You're the ones
• 59:19
  Speaker 3: that have probably been there if you've been doing this
• 59:21
  Speaker 3: like I have for forty plus years, where I was
• 59:24
  Speaker 3: being dragged by my grandfather and my dad through the
• 59:27
  Speaker 3: swamps of Louisiana, through the rice fields of Louisiana when
• 59:30
  Speaker 3: I was six seven years old. We were chasing ducks
• 59:34
  Speaker 3: and wood ducks and you know, whatever else we could
• 59:36
  Speaker 3: go out there and have an opportunity to hunt as
• 59:38
  Speaker 3: a family. We're the guys that stick around for loan hauls,
• 59:43
  Speaker 3: and these people that are commenting most of these people
• 59:48
  Speaker 3: are here today and they're going tomorrow. So make that
• 59:52
  Speaker 3: something that kind of sits in your mind when you
• 59:56
  Speaker 3: think about what I'm saying. There all these people that
• 59:59
  Speaker 3: are bitching, all these people that are complaining, all these
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 3: people that are on social media for show, for the comments,
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 3: for the likes, when they're out there bashing other organizations.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 3: They're out there bashing, you know, other hunters because they
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 3: believe in conservation. And why should they believe in conservation
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 3: because only the rich benefit from it, and only these
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 3: organizations benefit from it, and only this group of people
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 3: benefit from it. Trust me, those people are not gonna
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 3: be around for the long haul, nor do they care
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 3: to be around for the long haul. They are here
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 3: to stir shiit up, is what they're here for. They're
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 3: here for short term attention and they're here to stir
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 3: the pot. Guys, they're the ones sitting there with a
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 3: spoon stirring the pot. They're not here for the right reasons.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 3: And that's the point I want to make. And that's
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 3: what I realized when I sat back and I thought
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 3: about it, I said, those people are not here for
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 3: the right reasons. They're not here to educate nobody. You
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 3: ever notice those people they're not they're not on they're
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 3: on social media, but they're the first people that's gonna
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 3: sit there and bash other people on social media, whether
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 3: they have a social media page, whether they're an organization,
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 3: whether they're a duck hunting club. And I'm not saying
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 3: none of those people, those those ones I just mentioned,
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 3: are one hundred percent right in everything they do either
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 3: because we're not we're human. All these organizations, all these
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 3: hunting clubs, all these you know, whether it's an individual
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 3: like myself, none of us do it right one hundred
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 3: percent of the time. But what I do notice, as
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 3: these potsters, like I call them these shit stirs, when
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 3: they're out there on social media, take a look at
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 3: what they're actually contributing on social media when they're out
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 3: there bashing the comments, sections, calling people out, you know,
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 3: stirring up shit, you know, all this type of stuff.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 3: And look, there's a time and a place sometimes bullshit
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 3: needs to be called out.
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: I agree with that. I'm old school. I'm from the
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 2: old school book.
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  Speaker 3: You know, our elders, my dad, my grandfather, my uncle's
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  Speaker 3: older adults when we when we were younger, if you
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  Speaker 3: were doing something that wasn't ethically right, they called you
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  Speaker 3: out of it.
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  Speaker 2: That was called being disciplined, is what it was called.
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  Speaker 3: Nowadays, there is still a place for being calling out,
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  Speaker 3: you know, discipline when it needs to be called out.
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  Speaker 2: In my opinion, but I'm old school. That's how I
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  Speaker 2: feel Nowadays.
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  Speaker 3: People get offended when they hear that, and other people
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  Speaker 3: look at that from a different perspective because they come
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  Speaker 3: from different generations. But there is a time and a
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  Speaker 3: place for that. So I don't want to say that
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  Speaker 3: there's not a time and a place for that, and
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  Speaker 3: that shouldn't happen sometimes. But look at these people that
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  Speaker 3: constantly stirred a pot. They are there for a short
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  Speaker 3: short term, short term, a short term.
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  Speaker 2: And they're not going to be around.
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  Speaker 3: They're not any for the right reasons, and that you're
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  Speaker 3: not going to see them after a while. Guys, I
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  Speaker 3: truly believe that they're there to get comments. They're there
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  Speaker 3: to get people fired up. They're there to stirt the pot.
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  Speaker 3: They're there to start shit between other people, and they
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  Speaker 3: want to see us as a community kind of battle
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  Speaker 3: and struggle with each other and not get along. That's
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  Speaker 3: what makes them. They're not happy themselves. So they want
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  Speaker 3: to see that happen between us as a community. And look,
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  Speaker 3: I called for it in that video. I said, we
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  Speaker 3: got to come together. This was an important something that
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  Speaker 3: we needed to really come together as a community, as
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 3: a water five hunting community and come together leave our
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  Speaker 3: feedback on our support for not draining these ecosystems.
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  Speaker 2: It was vitally important that we do that.
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  Speaker 3: I really feel that way true to my core, and
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  Speaker 3: I don't care who it benefits in the short term.
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  Speaker 3: I care about who it benefits in the long term,
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  Speaker 3: which is generations of waterfowl, generations of waterfowl to be
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  Speaker 3: seen by generations of family members that want to participate
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  Speaker 3: in duck hunting, in our.
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  Speaker 2: Families, our friends.
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  Speaker 3: I want to see future generations that are here for
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  Speaker 3: the right reason have the opportunity to go out there
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  Speaker 3: and do what we've been able to do, what I've
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  Speaker 3: been able to do for forty plus years, and what
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  Speaker 3: many of you have been able to do for your
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  Speaker 3: career in waterfowl hunting. So that's why it's important to me,
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  Speaker 3: and that's why it should be important to you. And
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 3: if it's not important to you, then you're probably one
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  Speaker 3: of those other people that I'm talking about where you're
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  Speaker 3: not here for the long haul. You're probably one of
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  Speaker 3: those people that want to see the you know, people
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  Speaker 3: argue they want to see you just you want to
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  Speaker 3: see the comments section light up. You want to see
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 3: how many lights you could get for you talking shit
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  Speaker 3: on social media and not supporting something or not you know,
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  Speaker 3: being in.
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  Speaker 2: It for the right reason.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm sorry, I'm just gonna say it like it
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  Speaker 3: is because that's the truth. You're that person, and that's okay.
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  Speaker 3: You have your place and you have your right to
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  Speaker 3: be able to do that, but I could guarantee you
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  Speaker 3: for all of you that it matters and you truly
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  Speaker 3: care about it. Those people aren't gonna be here. They're
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  Speaker 3: not gonna be around for the long haul, and you
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  Speaker 3: guys will.
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  Speaker 2: You're gonna be here.
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  Speaker 3: And that's why this sport is gonna continue on. This
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  Speaker 3: is gonna be something that This is why traditions are
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 3: made because of people like us that truly care and
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 3: want to see it get better. And yes, we get
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 3: disappointed when it's not great, but we look beyond that
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 3: and we try to say, hey, it's okay, We're gonna
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 3: enjoy it as it is now, but we're gonna do
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 3: our part behind the scenes to make sure it continues
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  Speaker 3: to grow and continues to get better. And we're gonna
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 3: tell stories about the old days, and we're gonna share
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 3: stories about the old days. And we're gonna teach other
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  Speaker 3: people coming to this sport, this hobby, whatever you want
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  Speaker 3: to term it. Ask We're gonna teach people the right
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  Speaker 3: way to do it, the right way to approach it,
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  Speaker 3: and we're gonna carry on for the rest of the
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  Speaker 3: people down the road that really want to see it
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  Speaker 3: headed in the right direction.
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  Speaker 2: I know, with my.
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  Speaker 3: Platform, that's something that's become a major goal of mine.
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  Speaker 3: My kids are getting a little older, you know, my
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 3: son's getting older. He's gonna be on his own now.
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  Speaker 3: Hopefully he's taking what I taught him, and he's gonna
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  Speaker 3: carry it on to his kids when he has kids,
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 3: you know, in a couple of years. You know, my
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  Speaker 3: youngest one's twelve. I'm teaching him now what I taught
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  Speaker 3: my oldest one. He knows what's right, what's wrong. Will
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  Speaker 3: he always do what's right, No, not necessarily, but he
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 3: knows what's right. He knows what's the right way to
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 3: approach the outdoors, when he goes out to Dougline, when
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 3: he hunts, you know, with some friends, it's up to
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  Speaker 3: him at that point, I can't control it. Once he's
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 3: on his own, I can't control that. But he has
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  Speaker 3: got the right morals, he has the right lessons talk
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  Speaker 3: to him. He has the background that was taught to
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 3: him how to do it right. And I'm continuing to
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 3: do that with him right now. And that's the people
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  Speaker 3: that if they continue to pursue this as a lifelong passion,
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  Speaker 3: they're gonna be the ones to teach the next generation.
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  Speaker 2: And that's why it's so important.
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  Speaker 3: When people hop on and say, oh, you're you're a
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 3: content creator, you do it for the money, you do
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 3: it for this, or you're out there and you think
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  Speaker 3: you know everything.
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  Speaker 2: It's not about that. It's about educating. Now.
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  Speaker 3: I'm at a point in my waterfowl hunt career where
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 3: i want to educate people to the best of my knowledge.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 3: That don't mean I'm always right, don't mean I'm always wrong.
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 3: I want to educate the next generation. I want to
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 3: educate people that are my age, that are getting into
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 3: it for the first time, and I want to hear
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 3: stories and I want to be educated by other people
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 3: from different perspectives. If we always think that our perspective
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 3: is only the right perspective, we're gonna fail. We have
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 3: to be open on both ends of that spectrum. But
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 3: to see what I saw from the videos that were
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 3: out there, from the social media posts that were out there,
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 3: in the comments, let it go. Those of you who
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 3: truly care, let it go now it's over, it's done with.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 3: Those people aren't going to be around for the long haul.
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 3: And that's the point I want to make on this
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 3: as we close out this episode. So that's my two
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 3: cents on it, guys, But truly discussing there's some truly
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 3: evil people out there, some selfish people out there, and
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 3: some people that just aren't happy with themselves and they
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 3: don't want to see anybody else happy. And that's just
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 3: the way life is in general. Unfortunately that trickles over
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 3: to what we love as a as a passion, you know,
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 3: and uh, that's just the way it is. But they're
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 3: not gonna be here for the long haul. I could
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 3: guarantee you all that. And that's something I've seen come
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 3: and go through the years. It's nothing new. This isn't new.
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 3: It's happened before on other topics. It's just a cycle
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 3: that we go through. So that's all I'm gonna say
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 3: about that.
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  Speaker 2: Guys.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going long enough on it, but I had to
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 3: do my due diligence and speak about it a little bit,
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  Speaker 3: and uh, you know, with it happened recently, this was
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 3: the episode that I figured we'd do it on.
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  Speaker 2: So well, guys, that's all I have for y'all on
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 2: this episode. If you're still with me, thank y'all so
• 1:08:41
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• 1:08:44
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• 1:08:47
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• 1:08:51
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  Speaker 3: So much and thank you so much for taking time
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• 1:09:22
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  Speaker 3: my name is Jacob. We'll see y'all again soon. Guys,
• 1:09:29
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• 1:09:32
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