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Things Duck Hunters Won't Admit · Last Stop Waterfowl Outdoors Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the marsh is 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's Sun. Last Stop Water Foul Outdoors,
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  Speaker 1: Last Stop Water Foul Outdoors.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, what is going on? Everybody?
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  Speaker 3: Welcome back to an all new episode of Last Stop
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  Speaker 3: Waterfoul Doors Podcast. I'm your host, Jacob Robery, and it
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  Speaker 3: is good to be back with y'all again this week. Guys,
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  Speaker 3: As we're still an off season right now, but we
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  Speaker 3: are getting closer.
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  Speaker 2: And I say that every week because that's the truth.
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  Speaker 3: We are literally getting closer every week right now to
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  Speaker 3: another duck season. It's just around the corner. We have
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  Speaker 3: till season getting ready to kick off just a little
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  Speaker 3: under a month from here. Now that a lot of
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  Speaker 3: guys starting to talk about that buzz is starting to
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  Speaker 3: get out there, You're starting to see a lot more
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  Speaker 3: of y'all get on social media and start posting that
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  Speaker 3: you're prepping for duck season. And honestly, we've been doing
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  Speaker 3: the same. We have kind of been added full throttle.
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  Speaker 3: It seems like we're added a little bit earlier this
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  Speaker 3: year than we have been in the last couple of
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  Speaker 3: years because we have a big project that we've been
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  Speaker 3: working on. If you guys have been following us on
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  Speaker 3: social media, you will know that me and some friends
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  Speaker 3: of mine, a good buddy of mine, David Lemoye, we
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  Speaker 3: hunt together up around central part of Louisiana, and after
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  Speaker 3: last season, or I should say even during the end
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  Speaker 3: of last season, before the season ended, we started kind
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  Speaker 3: of brainstorming and talking about building a new Dug bline
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  Speaker 3: for a little piece of private property that David has
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  Speaker 3: access to and that I'm able to hunt with him
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  Speaker 3: on and a couple of other friends of ours, and
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  Speaker 3: we kind of said, hey, we need to expand on
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  Speaker 3: the dugline that we had. We were able to fit
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  Speaker 3: about two or three guys into it, and really wanted
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  Speaker 3: to try to accommodate a couple of more people. When
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  Speaker 3: we do get our little group of guys together to hunt.
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  Speaker 3: We all got kids now too, and even some of
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  Speaker 3: the wives they want to come on some of the hunts,
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  Speaker 3: and my wife not so much. She hates cold weather,
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  Speaker 3: which is not a good deal for duck hunting. So
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  Speaker 3: but some of the other guys in the group, they
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  Speaker 3: have wives that do like to get out there and
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  Speaker 3: make a hunt.
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  Speaker 2: Or two, so we wanted them to be comfortable.
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  Speaker 3: So we started kind of brainstorming on a new duck
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  Speaker 3: blind project that we were gonna try to get in
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  Speaker 3: place for this season. And if you are following us
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  Speaker 3: on social media, guys, you know the project that we
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  Speaker 3: just completed or just about the tail end of it,
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  Speaker 3: I should say, because we constructed or you know, brainstorm
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  Speaker 3: came up with an idea for a new duck blind.
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  Speaker 3: My buddy David, who's the actual architect behind it, he's
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  Speaker 3: the guy who constructed it.
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  Speaker 2: We built it, got it all put.
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  Speaker 3: Together, and we just did a video last week where
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  Speaker 3: we got it out to the spot where we're gonna
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  Speaker 3: be hunting on that little piece of private land this season.
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  Speaker 2: So it was a it was a fun deal that
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  Speaker 2: we had going on.
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  Speaker 3: We had a group of about six or seven of
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  Speaker 3: us that in our in our little hunting group, we
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  Speaker 3: got together last week and we told that thing out
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  Speaker 3: to the hunting spot and UH, if you had the
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  Speaker 3: opportunity to take the time to watch the video, hopefully
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  Speaker 3: you guys enjoyed that and uh and a lot of
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  Speaker 3: you did. You commented on it, so we appreciate you
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  Speaker 3: tuning in. I know, a lot of people told me
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  Speaker 3: when they knew we were working on a new blind
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  Speaker 3: for the season, they said, Jacob, you got it documented.
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  Speaker 3: You definitely gotta shoot a little bit of video so
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  Speaker 3: we could see the process of it being built and
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  Speaker 3: how you guys actually get it out there to the
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  Speaker 3: hunting area where you're gonna be using it this season.
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  Speaker 3: So that was a lot of fun doing that. That
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  Speaker 3: kept us busy over the last month or so, really
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  Speaker 3: kind of kicked off our duck season prep early. And
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  Speaker 3: uh and besides that, just kind of been getting everything together, man,
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  Speaker 3: decoy is getting together, you know, checking on equipment, making
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  Speaker 3: sure everything's going okay with.
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  Speaker 2: That and gonna be ready.
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  Speaker 3: We're we're also looking at, you know, getting our guns ready,
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  Speaker 3: our shot shells ready. I'm gonna be testing out some
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  Speaker 3: new shotgun shells from Shoneer shot Sheales this year. Mister
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  Speaker 3: Damon Abart, the owner and operator of Shaneer shot Shells.
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  Speaker 3: He actually just sent me a couple of boxes this week.
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  Speaker 3: H then you guys are gonna see us do a
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  Speaker 3: video on coming up or we're gonna be patterning those
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  Speaker 3: in our gun. Me and Jackson, we got a round
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  Speaker 3: or a box of twelve gage shels for Jackson and
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  Speaker 3: then you guys that know I shoot a twenty gauge
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  Speaker 3: throughout the season for the most part. He sent me
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  Speaker 3: a box of twenty gauge shells and we're gonna be
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  Speaker 3: testing out those Shaneer shot shells. Been hearing a lot
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  Speaker 3: of good about those. I have some buddies of mine
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  Speaker 3: that used them last season and they were impressed. They
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  Speaker 3: told me, they said, Jacob, you got to try these
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  Speaker 3: shells out as compared to anything else on the shelves
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  Speaker 3: and stores. Right now, I'm telling you there's a difference.
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  Speaker 3: So we're gonna find out. We're gonna test them out,
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  Speaker 3: and I am very thankful to mister Damon a Bear
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  Speaker 3: for sending over a couple of sample boxes first to
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  Speaker 3: try out and pattern, and we're gonna bring that to
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  Speaker 3: you you guys shortly on our platforms, just so you
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  Speaker 3: could see kind of how it breaks out and you
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  Speaker 3: know how it works out for us in our particular guns.
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  Speaker 2: I always tell everybody.
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  Speaker 3: Make sure you're shooting your exact chokes, your exact gun,
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  Speaker 3: and the exact shells. When opening day kicks off, you
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  Speaker 3: want to make sure that you have all that fine
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  Speaker 3: tune and dialed in and ready to go.
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  Speaker 2: So a lot going on.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it seems like Dutch season's kicking off early for
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  Speaker 3: us because of everything we got going on, you know,
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  Speaker 3: with some of the extracurricular stuff that has to do
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  Speaker 3: with Dutch season. But I'm excited and I'm sure a
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  Speaker 3: lot of you guys are as well. It is hot
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  Speaker 3: as hell, I'll say that temperatures.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, man.
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  Speaker 3: We have a little bit of dry air that moved
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  Speaker 3: in over the last couple of days. It's still one
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  Speaker 3: hundred degrees here in Louisiana. It's still very, very hot.
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  Speaker 3: But you noticed that a little bit of dry air
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  Speaker 3: kicked in. Not quite as human, I guess I could say,
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  Speaker 3: as it has been.
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  Speaker 2: I know a lot of you are going to say,
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  Speaker 2: what the hell you talking about?
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  Speaker 3: Damn human, and it is, but you can kind of
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  Speaker 3: feel that dry air.
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  Speaker 2: I saw justin Martin over that is dealing. You know.
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  Speaker 2: He's with Duckamander. He did a video this week.
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  Speaker 3: He was out there scouting for Teal and he talked
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  Speaker 3: about a little bit of dry air that had came in,
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  Speaker 3: and I was kind of like, man, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: And then the next day.
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  Speaker 3: The very next day after I watched that video, he
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  Speaker 3: put out, you know they're.
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  Speaker 2: In North Louisiana. I'm in South Louisiana.
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  Speaker 3: I noticed that yesterday that that even though it was hot,
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  Speaker 3: that dry air pattern. You look in the sky, not
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  Speaker 3: many clouds in the sky. It's those blue blue bird days.
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  Speaker 3: That's that little dry air pattern. I think he was
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  Speaker 3: talking about it, and something like that can definitely get
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  Speaker 3: those teal on the move and get things going for
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  Speaker 3: till season, which, like I said, where about you know,
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  Speaker 3: three to four weeks away.
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  Speaker 2: We only get a week here in Louisiana.
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  Speaker 3: As they've now lowered the time for us to hunt
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  Speaker 3: blue wing teal here, it's not a month anymore.
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  Speaker 2: You only get nine days.
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  Speaker 3: So if you get a weather pattern that comes through,
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  Speaker 3: you could really miss that TiAl season or that migration.
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  Speaker 3: I should say you could be early, they can move
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  Speaker 3: in early and move out of here early, or they
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  Speaker 3: could be a week after the season, or you could
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  Speaker 3: get lucky and hit it during that week. But having
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  Speaker 3: only nine days, it definitely limits you to how successful
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  Speaker 3: of a teal season you're gonna have. When you're talking
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  Speaker 3: about blue wing till and their migration patterns, so move
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  Speaker 3: playing into that and then this little bit of dry air,
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  Speaker 3: even though it's hot, doesn't take much to get those
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  Speaker 3: till moving. And if it's not exactly right when teal
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  Speaker 3: season opens up, you could miss till that till migration
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  Speaker 3: by a couple of days, could even be at day.
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  Speaker 2: I've seen that happen through the year, So I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not real crazy about the whole nine day TiAl
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  Speaker 3: season thing. I would rather them have, you know, maybe
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  Speaker 3: lowered the limit down to three or four and then
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  Speaker 3: give us a little bit more time during til season.
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  Speaker 3: But look, at the end of the day, I'm not
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  Speaker 3: the guy who makes the rules. All I am is
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  Speaker 3: somebody who buys a duck stamp and goes out there
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  Speaker 3: and enjoys the sport and the rules that they give us,
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  Speaker 3: the regulations that they give us.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: You guys had a lot of comments on that. I
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  Speaker 3: have thoughts on that.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. But we're gonna try to get out
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  Speaker 2: there at.
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  Speaker 3: Least make a hunter two during till season, try out
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  Speaker 3: that new duck blind and see if we can maybe
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  Speaker 3: have a little bit of fun and harvest a futile,
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  Speaker 3: So that's gonna be coming up. But in this episode, guys,
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  Speaker 3: I figured we would have a little bit of fun.
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  Speaker 2: Today, we're gonna have a little bit of fun. I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna laugh at myself in this episode.
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  Speaker 3: We could kind of laugh together look back on ourselves
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  Speaker 3: as hunters and what we're gonna talk about. And I
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  Speaker 3: got all my notes written down right here, so if
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  Speaker 3: you're watching me on video format, you're gonna see me
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  Speaker 3: looking down at my notes. I have to write this
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  Speaker 3: stuff down. Guys, I'm getting older. I have to follow
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  Speaker 3: it and be struttured. So in this episode, where we're
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  Speaker 3: gonna talk about is things that duck hunters don't admit.
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  Speaker 3: That could be really open ended, right, So we could
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  Speaker 3: have guys tell lies all the time and you know,
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  Speaker 3: they line and they'll never admit it. And that's some
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  Speaker 3: of the topics that we're going to discuss in this episode.
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  Speaker 3: This should be a fun episode. So the things that
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  Speaker 3: duck hunters will not admit. So my number one thing
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  Speaker 3: I put on my list is the lies duck hunters tell.
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  Speaker 3: How often we know that they're lying or us ourselves
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  Speaker 3: we've lied being duck hunters. Because I have to say,
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  Speaker 3: although duck hunters could be some of the greatest sportsmen
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  Speaker 3: and outdoorsmen and conservationists out there, we can also be
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  Speaker 3: some of the biggest fing liars out there as well.
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  Speaker 2: I find a lot of hunters lie.
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  Speaker 3: Because look, if you're a public land guy, you gotta lie.
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  Speaker 3: You can't tell all your secrets. You can't put all
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  Speaker 3: your information out there because there's always somebody out there
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  Speaker 3: that's looking, especially nowadays when social media is out there
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  Speaker 3: and all this information is available.
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  Speaker 2: But the lies that we.
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  Speaker 3: Tell as hunters is something that is pretty funny to
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  Speaker 3: me because you'll hear things like there weren't many ducks yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: That's one of the ones I wrote down.
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  Speaker 3: And what will happen is you'll be out there, you'll
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  Speaker 3: be scouting, You'll find these ducks, you know they out there,
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  Speaker 3: and then you got your buddies calling there asking, hey, man,
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  Speaker 3: you saw anything, because they know you went out there scouting,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and they want to know, and you say, man,
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  Speaker 3: there really wasn't a whole lot.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't see a whole.
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  Speaker 3: Lot of ducks out there, And I know that's one
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  Speaker 3: I've told in the past.
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  Speaker 2: And then you go out there and you make a hunt.
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  Speaker 2: They make a hunt the.
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  Speaker 3: Next day and you go whack them, and they kind
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  Speaker 3: of like, what the hell man, And you said there
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  Speaker 3: wasn't many ducks, And all in all, you were lying.
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  Speaker 2: There was ducks.
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  Speaker 3: You knew there was ducks there. You just couldn't tell them.
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  Speaker 3: You didn't want to say too much about it. You
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  Speaker 3: knew you were going. They were gonna be going the
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  Speaker 3: next day. Hey, if they hit it right, they were
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  Speaker 3: gonna find out.
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  Speaker 2: There was ducks. And we'll say, let them know, and they'll.
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  Speaker 3: Look at you and say, hey, why you lied about it?
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  Speaker 3: Or did you lie about that? Hell, yeah, I lied
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  Speaker 3: about it. There wasn't many ducks. I told you there
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  Speaker 3: wasn't many ducks.
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  Speaker 2: I was lying. You know, damn well, you were lying.
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  Speaker 3: So that's one that I've told through the past, and
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people you'll hear that saying. In the
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  Speaker 3: next day, it turns out you go and you hammer
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  Speaker 3: them and you slaughter them, and guys are kind of
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  Speaker 3: shaking their hair and saying, you lying, sob son of
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  Speaker 3: a bitch. You know that they had some birds. So yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that's a common one that we hear duck hunter say.
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  Speaker 3: Quite often, the opposite ends of that they were everywhere yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: How many times have I said that, because I'll go
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  Speaker 3: out there, man, we all excited, you know, And that one,
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  Speaker 3: that little lie right there is told oftentimes at the
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  Speaker 3: opening of the season, whether it's the opener of the
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  Speaker 3: first split of the season, the opener of the second
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  Speaker 3: split of season.
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  Speaker 2: I've said that myself. You go out there, you scout,
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  Speaker 2: you're hoping for the.
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  Speaker 3: Best, and you say, you know, you go out there
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  Speaker 3: open the morning, you make a hunt, and you end
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  Speaker 3: up flopping.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it just sucks. You don't. You don't the.
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  Speaker 3: Birds don't cooperate with you, and you end up putting
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  Speaker 3: up wote numbers or you scratch or something like that.
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  Speaker 3: And you look at your mothers and they like, what
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  Speaker 3: the fuck, man, I thought you scouted? There was tons
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  Speaker 3: of birds yesterday, and you out there saying they were
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  Speaker 3: here yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they were everywhere yesterday. You weren't there yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: You saw a couple of birds maybe out there while
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  Speaker 3: you were scouted, and you were just hoping that more
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  Speaker 3: birds would show up that next hunt, that opening morning hunt,
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  Speaker 3: or wherever it is that you're gonna be going, or
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  Speaker 3: whatever time the season it is that you're going and honestly,
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  Speaker 3: you didn't see tons of birds. Were just optimistic as
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  Speaker 3: waterfowl guys, you saw a couple.
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  Speaker 2: Of birds, or sometimes you might have not even seen
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  Speaker 2: no birds.
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  Speaker 3: But the habitat. I've heard gods say that the habitat
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  Speaker 3: just looks so ducky, it looks so good, And yeah,
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  Speaker 3: what looks good may not to you, may not be
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  Speaker 3: good to duck How many times have we been in
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  Speaker 3: that situation where we found that to be true?
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  Speaker 2: So that old lie of.
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  Speaker 3: They were everywhere yesterday, I think us, as waterfowl guys,
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  Speaker 3: probably every one of us has used that, especially us
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  Speaker 3: public land guys, even our private land guys. You guys,
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  Speaker 3: probably you take somebody with you and you don't do
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  Speaker 3: as good as you hyped it up. To me, you
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  Speaker 3: probably told that lie as well. So that's one that's
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  Speaker 3: real common. Another one, the dog lost it. I've heard
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  Speaker 3: that one told by several people. Before the dog lost it,
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  Speaker 3: they'll say, man, I thought you shot a certain bird
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  Speaker 3: species that you told you buddy on the phone.
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  Speaker 2: During the hunt, Hey, I shot this bird. Man, it's down.
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  Speaker 2: We got to go retrieve it. And then at the
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  Speaker 2: end of the hunt, you can't find it.
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  Speaker 3: You have the dog with you, and your buddy's saying, man,
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  Speaker 3: shoot me the pictures of that bird.
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  Speaker 2: I want to see what you shot.
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  Speaker 3: And you say, couldn't recover it, man, we lost it
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  Speaker 3: in the Roso canes, or the dog lost it.
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  Speaker 2: He couldn't find it.
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  Speaker 3: I have heard guys tell that lie many many times,
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  Speaker 3: and that's something that always kind of cracks me up,
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  Speaker 3: because you say, hey, we shot a limit of bird.
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  Speaker 3: You tell you buddy on the phone after you fired up,
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  Speaker 3: you had a good hunt, and then whenever you go
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  Speaker 3: to take those pile, piccks you a bird short or
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  Speaker 3: two birds short, and they like, hey, I thought you
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  Speaker 3: limit it out and you say, yeah, well we couldn't
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  Speaker 3: find that. It was in the rose oh canes, or
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  Speaker 3: the dog lost it. That's a common one that I've heard,
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  Speaker 3: and they'll.
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  Speaker 2: Blame it on the dog.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, because they couldn't find that bird when
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  Speaker 3: in reality they shot that bird, might have shot.
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  Speaker 2: It, saw it go down. You damn well, we wasn't
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  Speaker 2: gonna recover that bird.
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  Speaker 3: But we gotta we tell our buddy we got a
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  Speaker 3: limit because we want to look good, right, we gotta
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  Speaker 3: look good. It's all about looking good, right for a
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  Speaker 3: lot of us nowadays, And uh, and look, I've been
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  Speaker 3: guilty of it. That's why I'm saying us, guys, we
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  Speaker 3: all want to look good in that situation. We tell
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  Speaker 3: our buddy that we want to know let them know
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  Speaker 3: that we've done our part, and hey, we show up.
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  Speaker 2: We don't quite have that limit.
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  Speaker 3: It was the dog's fault, right, or it was my
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  Speaker 3: buddy's fault, or I lost it in the vegetation.
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  Speaker 2: You could never recover it.
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  Speaker 3: So that's an unfortunate situation when you can't recover a bird.
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  Speaker 3: But how many times that we blamed it on the
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  Speaker 3: dog or something else out there?
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  Speaker 2: So that's lies that duck hunters tell guys.
• 14:45
  Speaker 3: Definitely a couple of them that we uh that we
• 14:47
  Speaker 3: that they won't admit. But that's just a couple of
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: them that I highlighted, And there's many many more. You
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: guys could probably chime in and say something as well. Uh,
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: or hey, another one, I didn't shoot that bird. That's
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: a another common one that I'll hear my guys that
• 15:02
  Speaker 3: I found up with through the years say, and what
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: what that typically is gonna be is gonna be some
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: kind of trashed up that somebody shoots in the group
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: and they're like, man, who shot that?
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: You know? And you're like, I didn't shoot that bird
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: when you know.
• 15:14
  Speaker 3: Damn well, you don't want that shot that hood at
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: Marganza or you're the one that shot that that dogree
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: or whatever it was, And nobody wants to claim the bird.
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: Somebody gotta claim it because it's in your bag limit
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: that day if you're gonna follow the guidelines, but nobody.
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: Wants to admit it.
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: So I guarantee you the person who shot that bird
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: always knows just about that they're the one that shot
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: that bird. They just gonna lie to you and they
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: won't want to admit it. But at the end of
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: the day, I've heard that one a million times. That
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: guy comes in, those birds come in, you shoot that
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: hood of Morganza.
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: That comes in the group. You pull up and you're like,
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: oh shit, that's a hood of Morganza. Who shot that?
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: I didn't shoot it. I didn't shoot it. I nobody
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: wants to admit to it. But somebody shot it. It's
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: obviously on the water right there dead. So that's a
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: common one that I've heard through the years as well.
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: So My question to you guys is what's the Vegas
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: lie you've ever heard or told as a duck hunter?
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: Drop that in the comments.
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: I would love to know what you guys have heard
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: and some of those big lies out there from your
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: fellow duck Hunbuddis that help with you?
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: So Number two, we buy way too much stuff.
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: That's something you will never hear a waterfowl hunter say,
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: is that they buy too much gear.
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: We all know how it is.
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: Every season new equipment's coming out, companies are constantly marketing
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: or marketing new equipment, and they are marketing. They're spending
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: millions of dollars on marketing because they know that marketing works.
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: They know that they have to build a new design
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: to sell more product. And every year, we're sitting there
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: as the consumer, and we're going out there looking to
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: see what new gear came out, and we're going out
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: there and buying that gear whatever we like. And we
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: will never admit to our wives, our girlfriends, to each
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: other that we buy way too much equipment and we
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: don't need new equipment, but we're gonna go out there
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: and buy it anyway. That's just how we are. It's
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: in our DNA that's how we're built. We're duck hunners.
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: That's what we're gonna do. Man, y'all know the truth.
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: That's what's gonna do. Duck calls. You can never have
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: too many duck calls. Right, I got two new duck
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: calls sitting behind me right now in packaging that I
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: picked up. And now what I tell my wife is
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: that I collect duck calls, which I do.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: I do collect duck calls. I'm a duck call hoarder.
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: You'll never hear me say that I have too many
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: duck calls. Just not gonna happen. Not gonna admit it. Decoys,
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: how many of us every year we go out and
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: buy decoys even though we don't need more decoys. I'm guilty.
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna go out there. I'm gonna pick up some
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: decoys if I see. I saw some decoys at my
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: local Walmart last season, after I had just bought some
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: brand new decoys last year, and I had a company
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: actually send me some decoys last year. So between the
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: ones I bought the ones they sent me last year
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: to test out and try, I was the last person
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: on earth that needed new decoys. Well, guess what my
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: wife goes to Walmart. We have a local Walmart five
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: minutes down the road from my house. She calls me
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: at the end of the season. She says, Hey, they
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: got these river Falls decoys. You guys know them if
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: you go to Walmart and you shop any kind of
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: duck gear at Walmart. I think it's river Falls is
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: the name of them. She says, they got these river
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: Falls decoys on clearance. You probably don't need no decoys,
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: but do you want them? I said absolutely? How much
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: are they? She says, they're eight dollars far I have
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: does and I said, hell, yeah, I need more decoys.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: Buy them. Bring all the.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: Boxes home with you that you could get your hands on.
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: Case in point, I didn't need more decoys. Trust me,
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: they are now in my shed outside in my store shed,
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: and they're just sitting there in the box, ready to
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: go for when I do need them and I need
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: to replace decoys. You'll never hear us as duck hunter
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: say that we don't need more gear and we have
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: too much stuff. So decoys that's a great one. Chokes
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: that's another one I highlighted on my list. How many
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: times do we have a choke that we go spend
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: eighty dollars one hundred dollars on for our shotgun. We
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: use it for a season, and then we see another
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: new choke come out, or we get a new gun
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: and we have it.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: We need it.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: We can't go with the factory chokes were too good
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: for that. We gotta go out there and buy an
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: extended choke. We want the one that reaches out five
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: hundred yards to be able to shoot a duck. Right,
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: we've all kind of been guilty of that, or we
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: know guys that are guilty of that.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: Well, you're gonna go out there and you're gonna buy.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: Another choke, and then you might buy another choke because
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: your buddy says that he likes this one better because
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: of X reason, We're.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: Gonna go out there.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: We're gonna buy that guns. That's another one. That's a
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: huge one. I have a whole shot a whole display
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: case safe in my house full of waterfoul shotguns. I
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: will buy a waterfoul shotgun every probably two years. Something
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: new comes out. I go to the store, I see it,
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: I hold it, I play with it, I finger bang
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: that thing in the store, and I'm like, gotta have it,
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: Gotta have it. I'm gonna pass it down to my
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: kids later on. I'm gonna use it later on, or
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna use it in this application. If I go
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: rice field hunting and I don't want to bring it
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: in the salt water marsh, I'm gonna use it in
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: this situation. I can bring this gun to the salt
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: water marsh. It can get you know, destroyed, and I
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: don't have to worry about it. Whatever the lie is,
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: I tell myself. Guns, guns, guns.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: We love guns as waterfoul hunters, a lot of us.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: And every time they mark it a new gun or
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: a new Banelle Super Black Eagle comes out, or a
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: Browning A five comes out, or a Maxis or whatever
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: the brand is.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: You guys get my point.
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: We're going out there and we are buying that new
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: shot gun if our budget allows us to so.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: Guns. There's another thing that a lot.
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: Of us seem to just accumulate and collect through the years,
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: and it's really a great investment, I'll be honest with you.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: Out of all the bullshit that we buy for a
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: gear that is never gonna up mount to nothing, low term,
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: buying new guns, it's always a great investment because as
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: strict as they are on regulations. The values of these
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: things keep going up all the time. A gun is
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: a great investment, it really is. It's an investment. Long
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: term waiters that's another one I have on my list. Waiters, man,
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: that's another one. I can't tell you. I've had waiters
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: right now for the last five.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Or six seasons.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: I've been using the same pair of Cabella's waiters. I'm
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: about at that point where it's time to get a
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: new replace them, and get a new pair. But even
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: in that five or six years, knowing that I love
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: my Cabella's waiters, my breatheable waiters that I've been using,
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: I have still bought a pair of tide We waiters.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: I have still bought a pair of True Dave waiters.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: You know, just a couple other brands to try out
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: because I may need them, or hey, my waiters aren't
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: quite what they are to getting old. Now you know this,
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: and that these are a good price. I catch them
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: on a clearance cell. I'm gonna buy, and I do
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: I buy? How many of us do that are? A
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: new pair of Citca Waiters comes out for all you
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: Sitca guys that love Sitka even though you have a
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: lifetime warranty on a pair of waiters or shin waiters
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: or whatever. The high end premium brands are out there
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: that you guys are using what a lifetime warrant, telling
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: them the next model comes out and then we.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: Go to the store.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: We're gonna go buy that next model. Were insane. That's
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: what we do. We're duck hunters. That's what we do.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: Boats. That's another one. Man.
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: I got guys that I have known through the years,
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: especially when the boat craze in water five hunting started.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: You know, when I was coming up, there was no
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: such thing as the boat craze. I mean, it was
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: basically a per roll. It was p rocks pretty much.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: Or we walked in or you had a John boat.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: That's what you had. That's what we used for duck
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: hun That's what my granddad used, my dad used, That's
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: what I came up using a little John boat and
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: a p rock.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: That's pretty much what we used.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: And then we got into the modern age of duck
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: hunting and all these dove boats started being designed and
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: coming out.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: I was in the boat business. You guys know that.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: A lot of you that follow me and.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: Know me that started becoming mainstream, and all these companies
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: started building boats. And there is guys that I know
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: that we're getting new boats just about every year, every
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: new waterfowl season would come around, they had an excuse
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: of what they liked better on this new design as
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: compared to their old design, and the boat that they
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: loved the last year, all of a sudden wasn't so
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: good anymore, wasn't good enough, and they got to get
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: a new boat. There's guys that would literally buy boats
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: for me, say this was going to be their last boat,
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: and next season coming around, they were back in my dealership.
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: They were giving me a call saying, Jacob, what could
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: you give me on a trading value for this boat.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: I saw this boat and I want to switch to
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: this boat, or I want to go from a surface
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: drive to an outboard, or an outboard to a surface drive,
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: whatever the case may be. They are constantly adding new boats,
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: and they'll never tell you that they got too many boats,
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: or they have multiple boats. They have a fishing boat,
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: then a hunting boat, and then they have a boat
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: for pleasures, so they have multiple boats. You'll never hear
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: say that we got too many boats. You're just not
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: gonna hear guys say that meat. I don't have that budget.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: A lot of you don't have that budget. But trust me,
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: there's guys out there that do have that in their
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: budget or they lived that lifestyle and they can't ever
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: have too many boats gadgets. That's a general assumption when
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: I say gadgets, guys. It could be headlines, it can
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: be decoys, it could be this and that for you know,
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: blind bags. It can be a pail, it could be
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: all of that. We never have enough gadgets, we never
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: have enough gear.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: We're duck hunters.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: You're never gonna hear us admit that we have too
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: much gear, which is the main point I'm trying to
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: make number three on the list something you'll never hear
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: duck hunters admit to stuff that we're all guilty in
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: the blind of.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: So what is that?
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: What do we not admit to that we're all guilty
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: in the blind at some point or another throughout our
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: water file hunting career, calling when you should That's one
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: of the first things I put on the list. How
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: many times do we call we're hunting with a couple
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: of buddies. We jumped the gun. We hit that call
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: when we should, and those birds that come towards us
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: instead of away from us.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: We're excited. We ain't seen a group of millets in
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: two seasons. We get a group that.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: Drops in from the skytspair out of nowhere, get excited,
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: start hitting that call. We got all that adrenaline pump
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: and all that air built up in them lungs. Because
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: we're fricking pumped up. Hit that call. Those birds kind
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: of turn away and they end up leaving us. We
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: blow too early. We're not in sync with the rest
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: of the group. I've had that happen to me personally.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: I know you guys probably have had that happen to
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: you at some point or another. Calling when you should.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: And that's one of the main things that I have
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: seen through the years that I've hunted with people that
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: a duck hunter will not admit. A guy steps up,
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: he says, man, why you hit the call on that,
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: And they'll say, man, you know, they'll give you every
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: excuse on why those birds were turn away when they
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: they know damn well they were coming at us, you know,
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: And they will make up all these bullshit excuses with
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: knowing damn well that they hit that call at the
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: wrong time, and they should have never hit that call.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: So I've seen that one happen out a bit moving
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: when the ducks are working. That's another one that kind
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: of goes hand in hand with the whole calling thing.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: How many times are we working a spread of birds
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: and you'll see all of a sudden those birds look
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: like they want to commit it, and they make that move
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: and then all of a sudden they just flare up
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: and they get the hell out of dodge and you
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: look at them and you know, damn well, somebody in.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: The blond flinched, moved, looked up.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: We give them no face, look up, and those birds
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: saw something they didn't like and they got the hell
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: out of there. And we kind of looking at each
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: other in the bond, said, man, why'd you move or
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: why'd you do this?
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: And there ain't a person in that blond gonna sit.
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: There and admit that they were the one that caused
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: them birds to flare and get the hell out of there.
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: They moved, They know they moved, or they looked up.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: They ain't gonna admit it. Hell no, they ain't gonna
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: admit it. That's just how we are that guy don't
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: want to be responsible for fucking that group of birds up,
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: and they're never gonna admit it. I've heard that live
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: a million times. Shooting too far. All right, let's say
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: this shooting early. How about that shooting early. We're in
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: a group of birds. We have somebody that you know,
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: comes in. They pull up on those birds. They excited
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: once again, pull up early, fire off a shot. The
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: rest of the guys wasn't ready, and there you go.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: You're in that situation once again where you have somebody
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: that will never admit it. And then, like I said,
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: shooting too far. That also plays in there. A lot
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: of us have been in the botm with our butters
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: before we pull up.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: Guy shoots maybe early.
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: A lot of times shooting early and shooting fars associated
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: with each other.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: That happens quite often.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: They'll pull up early, they'll take a shot too far
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: instead of letting them birds get a little bit closer.
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: That guy shot too far, the birds got out of there,
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: never had a chance. Never gonna hear him admit it. Gods,
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: you will not hear it. Shooting somebody else's bird. That
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: is something that I have seen that through the years
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: you know, maybe you're a guy who's the swing guy.
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: You're on the end of the bond. You maybe have
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: a guy in between. Y'all, you have birds that are
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: coming from your side. They're working around the edges, they
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: make that circle around, they come in from the right side.
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: You would think what I typically try to do is,
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: if it's a group of birds, I'll try to let
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: those first couple of birds swing in past me. If
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: I'm the swing guy on the end, that way, the
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: guys on the middle and the other end of the
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: blind have an opportunity to be able to shoot into
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: that group of birds.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: That's always how I was taught. It's kind of what
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: I've always done.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: But you'll see a guy that those birds are coming,
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: and the middle guy he'll pull up and he'll shoot
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: right on the right hand side or right on the
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: left hand side of the blond and shoots way too
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: early because he's worried he's in the middle, he ain't gonna.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: Get that shot.
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: It's a competitiveness thing, that's what it all boils down
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: to a lot of times, or sometimes it's just a
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: lack of knowledge, don't have a ton of experience that
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: could happen sometimes, but he'll shoot too early, prematurely and screw.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: It all up for the rest of us. And we
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: know that that happens.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: That happens, That's happened with me through the years, and
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: I've done it myself probably at some point in time.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: But we ain't gonna admit it. Guys.
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: It's something you're not gonna hear us admit his duck hunters.
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: So that's very, very common. That's something that I've seen
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: happen through the years as well. And then second guessing
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: everyone else. I put that as a note, second guessing
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: everyone else. So a guy says, hey, birds ain't working right.
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: And then he said, well, maybe we should move the decost.
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: Should we go out there and make it change in
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: the decoy spread? And the other guys are like you,
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: sitting there saying, I don't agree with what he's saying.
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: I don't think he's right on that. I think we
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: need to keep it the way it is. It's just
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: the birds. It ain't us. It's the birds, right, It's
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: never us. It's the birds. That's why the decoys look great.
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: Birds just don't want to cooperate, So you second guessing.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: That idea that he has.
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: When you know, damn well, those birds don't like something
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: in the spread and they're not committing fully, you can't
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: get a good shot, you can't get him to come
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: in one hundred percent and commit. And then eventually a
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: couple of more groups come through, same results, not working working.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: Your buddy says, hey, I really think we need to
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: go out there. We need to make that change. And
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: you've done it. You go out there, you make a
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: little slight, subtle change, and then next group of birds
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: comes in and just commits and comes in. You over there,
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: high five and you know, helping each other out. And
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: your buddy says, I knew it. I knew we needed
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: to make that change. Look at the difference of me
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: and then you sitting there as the guy who was
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: against it at first, and.
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: You like bullshit, bullshit calling him out, saying, I don't
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: think it's that. I don't think it's this, you know,
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: I think.
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: It's just that the group of birds did this and
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: that's why they committed. Knowing damn well, he was right.
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: He was right from the beginning. Hey, it's a fifty
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: to fifty chance. Yes, he could have been wrong, but
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: he was right on this given day. But you damn
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: well are not gonna admit it, right, No, No, you ain't.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: Don't even sit there in line and say you're gonna
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: admit it. You're gonna still argue the point knowing he
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: was right.
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: That's why them birds came in, But you're still gonna
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: sit there at an argued point and saying that he wasn't.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: It wasn't because of him, and he was right in
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: that situation.
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: So that things that you're gonna hear us as duck
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: hunters never admit to, right, I think we can all
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: agree on that, And yes, I agree, I laugh at
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: when I look back and I look at myself in
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: the dug blind through the years, I'm guilty of all
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: this stuff probably at some point in time, which is
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: why this is such a fun episode.
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: To kind of do with you guys, because we.
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: Kind of laughing at ourselves. We're calling ourselves out on
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: this and if we're being one hundred percent honest with
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: each other. So that was things that we're all guilty
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: of in the Blonde that you'll never hear a duck
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: earner admit to guys. Number four on my list the
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: excuses after a bad hunt man, we duck hunters. That's
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: what we're gonna do. We're gonna make excuses after a
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: bad hunt. You're a public guy, you're a private guy.
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: We're all making the same excuses after a bad hunt.
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: It's not the birds, it's uns. But we never are
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: gonna admit that, right, So what are the excuses? What
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: are some of the excuses that we make and that
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: I've made through the years because we.
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: Had a bad hunter. I had a bad hunt. It
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: was the wind.
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: The wind something we need as duck hunters, right, we
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: gotta have the right wind.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: Those days where we don't have.
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: Wind, you don't kill birds. Even though you had birds
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: in your area, you don't kill birds. It's the wind's fault.
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: The wind wasn't blowing, There was no ripples on the water.
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: The dcoys aren't moving. It looked like glass. Why would
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: the birds commit when it's so steel they could see everything.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: It doesn't look natural. How many damn excuses that.
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: We've made through the years were we're blaming the wind
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: because we didn't have a good excuse. So that's one
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: that is very popular. They were there yesterday once again. Man,
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: I scouted yesterday. There was tons of birds yesterday. Don't
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: know what happened and not here today. They just got
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: up and left. Probably we weren't there yesterday, right, Probably
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: wasn't the numbers that we told all the guys that
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: were there yesterday that was coming on the hunt with
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: us today. It's a lot of guys. It's an excuse
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: that we made the pressure. That's another one. The pressure changed. Man.
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: I hunted yesterday. Hey, if I saw so many birds,
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: we had a good hunt. You guys know we limited
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: out yesterday. You saw the pick I sent you, and
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: then today we only got two birds on the strap. Man,
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: and the guys asking what the hell happened? Dude, Well,
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: yesterday was a Friday. Today's a Saturday, and there's more
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: pressure out there. Man, Look all the hunters out there today.
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: The pressure changed, the man. They got to be hearing
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: those mudmotives coming in. You heard all the mudmotives coming
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: in the darkness morning. Birds were getting up and leaving,
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: and they were going somewhere else because of all the pressure. Man,
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: it's all about the pressure. Those days where we don't
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: have pressure, we kill birds them. Days where we have pressure,
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: like today, looking the results, we didn't kill them.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: Hey, how many times we've heard that.
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: I've said that myself and I always talk about pressure
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: because I do believe pressure makes a huge difference, especially
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: on public ground. But sometimes we also use it as
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: an excuse when we don't have success in the blind guys,
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: and it's not always the case. Sometimes we didn't have
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: the right set up, We weren't on the X, we
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: weren't in the right spot.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: It wasn't about the pressure.
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: But we gonna blame it on the pressure, because you
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: damn right, that's what it was. It wasn't us. It
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: was the pressure, man, all the people around us. Come on,
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: I'll ask about you know why they didn't kill them?
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: You know why? It was the pressure. They didn't want
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: to work. That's another one I have in quotations.
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: They didn't want to work. They meaning the birds didn't
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: want to work. Dude, it ain't us. Decaus look awesome.
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: I got forty two motion decaus and the spread. This
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: thing's rippling like a wave. Pull up in there, looks awesome.
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: You know we in the right spot, we on the X.
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: They have birds flying around the area. They saw those
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: decoys down there. They just didn't want to work.
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: Man. They probably pressured birds.
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: They've seen everything all up and down the flyway from
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: Canada down to us. We're in a lower portion of
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: the flyway. What you expect these birds to educate it?
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: You know they are. That's why they didn't want to
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: come in. It ain't nothing we did wrong. You're never
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: gonna hear submit it, guys. But they didn't want to work.
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: Something was wrong. Probably, Yes, they could have been pressure.
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: We know that they could be heavily pressure ducks. They
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: could be educated ducks, but they're ducks. We give them
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: way more credit than they deserve. Sometimes in their logical thinking,
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: something wasn't right. Decoys spread wasn't right, We wasn't on
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: the X. Things just wasn't right on our end. Them
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: birds saw the decoys, didn't look realistic, didn't want to work,
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: and guess what, they just didn't come in. Never gonna
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: hear us submit that though, not gonna happen. Promise you.
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: What's some other ones that I've heard through the years.
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: Somebody educated them yesterday? Once again we giving them a
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: lot of credit right there, man, those birds, Yeah, they
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: saw a decays.
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: Dude. What happened? Why they didn't work?
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: You buddy? Ask you man? I don't know those birds
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: were educated. They probably local birds. They were here the
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: last couple of days and they seeing all these same
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: decoy spreads. Somebody educated them.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: They the sky busted them and made them real weary
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: and educated them.
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: They've been, you know, skinners because they getting shot at
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: people of sky busting at him or man. They saw
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: these motion decoys working, and they used to seeing these
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: spinning wing decoys, and they educated birds. Hey maybe so,
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: but that's an excuse that we use when we have
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: a bad hunt. Right, we've all heard that excuse. We
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: should have been on the other side. That's one that
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: I have said myself through the years. Hey man, they
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: didn't want this side of the Morse Pond. They wanted
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: that other side of the Morse Pond, and we should
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: have been on that side.
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: The reason we didn't get.
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: Them that you saw them all flying on that other side.
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: We should have been on that side. We were just
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: on the wrong side. That's why we didn't have as
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: much success today. And a lot of times that could
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: be the case, especially on public grounds. They gonna want
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: little certain areas, you know. But we're gonna use that
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: as an excuse on a day where we didn't kill
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: them right. We were in off the X a little bit.
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: They wanted that other spot, not right down a couple
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: of hundred yards. We've heard that from quite a bit,
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: So that's one that I have heard through the years.
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: Sometimes I'll say this, Maybe we just sucked today. Maybe
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: we didn't have success today because we sucked. We made
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: the wrong choices, we had the wrong amount of decoys,
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: we had the wrong spot to begin with, We didn't
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: we were in an area where there was nothing that
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: attracted those ducks to us. They were just passing around
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: that area to go to another area that had more feed,
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: more stuff, you know, more habitat, just less pressure on it.
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: Maybe we just suck sometimes. And that's what this episode
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: is so fun for me to do today, because we
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: get to laugh at ourselves. We get to be honest
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: with each other as an audience of duck hunters, and
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: we get to kind of look back and say, maybe
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: we sucked that day. Maybe we sucked at this point
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: in time, and that's why we didn't have success.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: So I know I sucked on certain days for sure.
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: We probably suck a lot more on days and on
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: hunts than we have success throughout the season. A lot
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: of us, you know, and that's the truth, because at
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: the end of the day, we're at a migratory of waterfowl,
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: all species species at his disposal. Basically us as the
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: waterfowl hunter. That dude could choose to go down and
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: touch his ass on that water wherever he wants, and
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: it's really a crapshoot on whether or not he comes
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: to where we are or not, so it's a gamble.
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: It really is number five on my list of things
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: that you'll never hear us as duck hunters. Admitt is
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: duck hunter ego, duck hunter ego. There's a lot of
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: duck hunter ego in today's modern waterfowl hunting. Wouldn't you
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: agree with that? A lot of us have different opinions.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: A lot of us are very proud. We're very proud.
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: We're all prostests.
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: We have certain brands we represent and that's the best
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: brand that's out there. That's the only brand you should
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: be using. And if you ain't using the brand that
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: I'm using because they're my sponsor, then guess what you're
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: doing it wrong. That's all ego, man. Everybody's ego is
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: playing into it. Nowadays and to some extent, and we're
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: that's something that we can all share in common at
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: some point or another, a lot of us. And you're
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: never gonna hear us admit that it's duck hunters. But
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: it's the truth. It's the damn truth, y'all know it is.
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: That happens a lot, not everybody, but a big majority
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: of us. So duck hunter ego, the best duck call, boy,
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: that topic comes up all the time. Who's blowing the
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: best duck call? Well, I got the most expensive duck
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: call out there. That's the best duck call. I blow
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: an echo and only a premium echo. And if you
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: ain't blowing an echo duck call, guess what, that's why
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: the ducks you ain't having no success. That's why the
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: ducks ain't responding to you. You don't sound like a duck.
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: Your duck you're twenty dollars. Duck call sucks, ego, duck
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: calls big deal man. A lot of people are very
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: very biased when it comes to that. The best choke,
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: kind of going back on some of the things we
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: talked about earlier. If you ain't shooting the kicks high flyer,
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: you got the roll damn choke. Don't matter what your
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: gun is, don't matter what shot shell you're shooting, you
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: should be shooting this choke in every gun. And in
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: reality that ain't the case, because we all know different
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: chokes work better with certain guns and certain shot shells,
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: and we should all be patterning those guns to know
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: that combination and what's the perfect fit for our gun
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: and our situation that we hunt. But Ego plays into that,
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: because Hey, my choke's the best choke, My brand's the
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: best brand. Decoys, Ego. Once again, guys, I only use
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: flock tat decoys. Flock Tat decoys are the most realistic
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: damn decoys on the water.
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: Just look at those things out there. There ain't nothing
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: looks more.
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: Realistic than that duck that's got flocked heads on it. Meanwhile,
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: I'm a pupplic Land guy and I'm walking in and
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: out of spots. I'm throwing my decoys in the boat,
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: and I'm banging my decoys from hell to back, and
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: you know, beating the shit out of them throughout the season.
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: And a flock Tat decoy to me, is gonna be
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: absolutely useless.
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: But I got this guy telling me I'm not.
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: Having success or I should be using flock ted decoys
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: because that's what he uses.
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: That's who's sponsoring him. You know.
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: The Code of Decoys is sponsoring me in my flock
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: ted decoys, you know. And you should be using these too,
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: and they gonna sit there and they gonna make fun
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: of you. Meanwhile, that ain't the best fit for you.
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: You banging those decoys up so badly that they barely
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: got paint on him.
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: How the hell are you gonna keep up with flocked
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: heads throughout the season? Ego?
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: Ego, ego guys, dcoys, That's a big part of it.
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: Goes hand in hand, a lot of guys having an ego.
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: When it comes to dcoys. Uh, the best way to scout,
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: that's another one.
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: I made a note of.
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: How many of us you gonna You're gonna say, hey,
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: I scout this way, I do it this way, and
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: you're gonna have another.
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: Guy said, Man, you're doing that wrong. You're wasting your time, dude.
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: Why you going out there putting boots on the ground,
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: wasting all that gas, money, wasting all that time.
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: Dude? You ever heard of on X, You ever heard
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: of duck Smart?
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: Right here? You guys can see it. I got it
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: right there, duck smart. I started using that app. Man,
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: I love that act. And you're gonna hear him say, Man,
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: you're wasting all that time on money gas.
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: Go eat scout.
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: Go find you some spots man online and then go
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: hunt them.
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: That's how I scout. That's the best way to scout.
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: And you're gonna have that guy that chimes into your comments,
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: into your DMS, and you're gonna.
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: Tell you doing this wrong, You're doing that wrong.
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: You should be doing it this way when it comes
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: to scouting, when in reality, you know what it works
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: best for you. You know what scouting works best for you.
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: Do you, You do you, and let him do him
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: and see what works out best for the both of you.
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: That's what I would tell you.
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: But ego people are very opinionated when it comes to scouting.
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: Gods.
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: The best way to call that is a huge one.
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: That irks my ass so bad. When I see somebody
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: who's new to duck hu it, they get on social
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: media and they're so proud, man, they got their first
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: duck call or they got new duck call. They're learning
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: how to call, and they get on there and they
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: want a little bit of feedback from somebody, you know,
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: and on social media, you're gonna get it. You're gonna
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: get some feedback. You don't have to worry about that.
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: It may not be good, but you're gonna get some feedback.
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: So a lot of guys are scared to get on
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: social media. But what irks my ass and tears me
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: up inside is when I see somebody who's new or
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: even not new, they get a new duck call, they
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: get on their social media page and they make a
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: little video posting because they proud, you know, of their
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: duck call, or they want to show people their duck call,
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: and then you'll get all their comments flooded. Man, this god,
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: I don't know how to fucking call sound. You know
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: that it's supposed to sound like a real duck you know. Bruh,
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: This dude sucks. You know you need to stop calling.
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: You know you don't know how to blow a duck call.
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: Brou That irks my ass so bad. When somebody hits
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: that record button, they're proud of their their new duck call,
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: or they're proud because they're making progress in their duck
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: calling experience, you know, in their journey of learning how
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: to blow a duck call. And then you get you
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: assholes that chime in on those comments and you just
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: totally destroy their confidence. And that irks my ass gets
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: me fired up, lights a fire unto my ass when
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: I see people do that, because I sit back and
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: I say, man, I've been doing this over forty years
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: now personally, and if I would have had myself in
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: my first couple of years learning how to blow a
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: duck call, I remember, hey, I was scared of death
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: to blow a duck call in front of somebody because
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: you just don't have that confidence. We've all been there before,
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: but we all started out that way.
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: You ain't no different, mster, professional duck caller.
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: You ain't no different when you started out you had
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: that lack of confidence, but boy, that ego. Now I've
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: been doing this, I know how to do it. I'm
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: the best fucking duck caller. I want my local duck
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: calling contest. Fuck you dude. Nobody cares. All we care
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: about is that everybody that wants to participate gets to
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: participate in this situation of blowing their duck call the
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: way they want to blow their duck call. They are
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: participating in the sport, and they're having fun doing it
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: and going out there and building that confidence to become
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: a better duck call.
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: That's what I care about.
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: So all you guys with the ego that says that
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: duck call sucks, you don't know how to blow that
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: duck call, screw you.
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: Let these guys do their thing.
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: Let them go out there and learn how to blow
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: their duck call, just like you did and just like
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: I did.
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: And we all sucked at one point. That's how it is.
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: That's how you learn.
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: You suck in the beginning, but that ego as you
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: gain experience a lot of you boils. That ego kicks
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: in and you want to tell everybody else how.
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: To do it.
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: Hey, unless you're a world champion duck caller, that's one
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: numerous prizes. Don't fucking try to cold teach people in
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: a negative way when they're trying to learn. Just like
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: you did and I did. Let him, Hey, give him
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: some positive feedback, you know. I try to make I'll
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: be honest with y'all. I try to make a point.
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: There was a video this week. There was this young
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: man get a sip of coffee right here, real quick,
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: gotta wet that whistle for a second.
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: But there was a young duck caller.
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: He was online I saw on social media, and some
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: guys were bashing him. And I always when I see that,
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: when I see especially a young a young guy who's
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: getting into it and he's learning how to call, I
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: always try to stop and make a comment of positive
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: reinforcement for that person.
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: You don't even have to be a young person.
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: It could be somebody who's an older guy and he's
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: blowing a duck hall you know, he's showing it off
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: or whatever, and I'll try to stop on that post
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: and I'll always try to say, hey man, sounds good,
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: or hey man.
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: Really doing a good job with it.
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: You know, I don't give some kind of positive reinforcement,
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: And if there's any positive feedback I can give on critique,
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: I'll maybe drop a comment from time to time and
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: say something. Trust me, I'm not the best duck caller
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: out there. I know I'm not the best duck caller
• 47:12
  Speaker 3: out there, and I've been doing it for forty years
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: plus a little over forty years, you know, but I
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: know when to call. For the most part, I know
• 47:21
  Speaker 3: what works for me in a lot of situations. I
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: know it's worked for me in the past, and I
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: try to just keep producing that, you know, reproducing that
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: I should say and mimicking what I've done. That's you know,
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: calls me to have some success in the past. So
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: I'll share those little tips with somebody when I see
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: them on social media making a post and they're maybe
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: asking for some feedback or something like that.
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: But positive reinforcement is what I try to do. I
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: really do.
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: I'm not gonna get on there and say, man, you
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: suck or that's supposed to sound like a duck and
• 47:53
  Speaker 3: you sound like a fucking dying cat, you know, screaming
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: for help or whatever. You know, I've seen so many
• 47:58
  Speaker 3: just negative comments, So that's one that really irks my ass.
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: You guys can tell I'm a little passionate on that
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: one and gets a fire lit up in me when
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: I see that happening. So, but we'll never admit that
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: ego wise, if you that guy, you know you're that guy,
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: but you're never gonna admit it because ego is something
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: that you're not gonna sit there and say that's a
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: problem for me. I have an ego that's affecting people
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: on a negative way. You ain't gonna admit it, and
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: some of us, that's why we're talking about it in
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: this episode because some of us, unfortunately, we call ourselves
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: waterfowl hunters, and that's us, the guys with the ego,
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: you know. So my question with that segment would be,
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: why do duck hunters sometimes think they know everything? Why
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: do we think we know everything? And this is a
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: question for you guys as an audience. Why do we
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: think we know everything when we're still all trying to
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: figure it out? That's what it's about, right, We're all
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: still trying to figure it out. As long as I've
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: been doing this, I'm still trying to figure it out
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: because it changes every year. I don't know it all.
• 49:06
  Speaker 3: I try to keep my ego in check. I look
• 49:10
  Speaker 3: at it from that perspective. I was raised that way.
• 49:12
  Speaker 3: I was raised not to have an ego. I was
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: raised to be respectful of my co hunters and my
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: fellow friends and family and anybody that's with me. And
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: that duck blinde why do why do we do it?
• 49:25
  Speaker 3: Why do we have an ego like that? Why do
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: some people have it worse than others? Y'all drop that
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: down in the comments. I'd love to know what your
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: thoughts are on that. Oh, I don't know, man. I
• 49:38
  Speaker 3: think a lot of what we talked about here covers it, man. Uh.
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: And I have some I have some closing notes on
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: a couple of things. Uh.
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: You know, my own confessions. I've confessed a lot of
• 49:49
  Speaker 3: my own confessions to you. Uh.
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: You know, things that I've done through the years.
• 49:54
  Speaker 3: Uh, man, I you know, my journey on my platforms
• 49:59
  Speaker 3: has been kind of an open journal to a lot
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: of people.
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: It's a lot of you my audience.
• 50:06
  Speaker 3: I've admitted things that I've done through the years that
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: I wasn't proud of.
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: One that one that comes to mind, and I'll tell
• 50:13
  Speaker 3: this story to you guys that never heard it before,
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: has to do with safety, with just gun safety.
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: There there was a situation years ago.
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: We were at Wildlife Management Area up around central part
• 50:27
  Speaker 3: of Louisiana, Dewey Willis. We were there, we were hunting
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: and I had a group of buddies of mine. We
• 50:33
  Speaker 3: had made a steak out hunt and we were on
• 50:37
  Speaker 3: the bank. We had parked the boat down the bank.
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: We were on the bank. We're in some buddon wood
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: trees and we were hunting this pinch point where these
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: birds were coming out of Cattahula Lake.
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: They were hitting Seline Lake for those of you who know.
• 50:49
  Speaker 3: The area, and we were in a little bayou area.
• 50:53
  Speaker 3: It was a pinch point that opened up to Celine
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: Lake and those birds were coming out of Catahoula Lake.
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: They were in that pinch point. They were following it
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: like a highway. They would come down where we were
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: in this by you which was called Nolan's by You
• 51:08
  Speaker 3: in case some of you are interested and you know
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: that area. We were all Nolan's by You set up
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: that opens up in the Saline Lake and those birds
• 51:15
  Speaker 3: were hitting Noland by You and they were entering the
• 51:17
  Speaker 3: lake in Saline Lake and we were a staked out
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: of the button woods on the bank on Nolan by
• 51:23
  Speaker 3: You and they had a big group of till come
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: in shot them. As soon as we shot those till,
• 51:30
  Speaker 3: we had a group of widget that showed up out
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: of nowhere.
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: We heard them whistling boo boo. They were just communicating.
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: Came straight over those button woods we were standing in,
• 51:39
  Speaker 3: came over our heads, saw the decoys, made a big
• 51:42
  Speaker 3: swoop around. They kind of went to the right side
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: of where we were set up on to kind of
• 51:46
  Speaker 3: land on the outside of the right side of those
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: decoys we had set up, and we shot had a
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: cripple go down, hit the water, started.
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: Trying to swim away, and I was worried.
• 51:59
  Speaker 3: Me and a another buddy on the right hand side,
• 52:01
  Speaker 3: we were worried that that duck was gonna get away,
• 52:03
  Speaker 3: hit the bank and get up into those button woods.
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: So we take off running we have It was a
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: low water year.
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: It was real muddy, real nasty, just like you'd step
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: and you'd sink in the mud on't knowing by you.
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: And we had to both park down there to the
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: right side. So my buddy goes first. He takes off
• 52:18
  Speaker 3: and I take off. I'm trying to put the shells
• 52:20
  Speaker 3: back in my gun, get it reloaded, and I take
• 52:23
  Speaker 3: off and we kind of run it down the bank
• 52:25
  Speaker 3: because we could see that wedge and going further away
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: from us, going towards our boat that was parked way
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: down there. So we take off and ask he's ahead
• 52:35
  Speaker 3: of me. I'm kind of starting to jog. I have
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: my shells in my gun and I have waiters on.
• 52:41
  Speaker 3: I step in that mud and as I'm running, I
• 52:44
  Speaker 3: go to take that next step, I step that leg sinks.
• 52:46
  Speaker 3: And I'm a big guy, y'all know that it don't
• 52:49
  Speaker 3: take much from me to sink in some sloppy ass mud.
• 52:52
  Speaker 3: I step in that mud, I plant, and when I
• 52:55
  Speaker 3: go to pick that leg up to run that next step,
• 52:58
  Speaker 3: my leg comes out of that waiter. But those waiters
• 53:02
  Speaker 3: stayed in that mud. And I fell forward, and as
• 53:05
  Speaker 3: I fell forward, I shot a shot off.
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: My buddy was in front of me. Thank God.
• 53:14
  Speaker 3: To this day, I thank God, And this is something
• 53:17
  Speaker 3: that has haunted me my entire waterfowl hunting career.
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: Because we were blessed.
• 53:24
  Speaker 3: The Good Lord was looking out for me and for
• 53:26
  Speaker 3: him that day to where when I fired my gun,
• 53:31
  Speaker 3: barrel was enough left to where I didn't shoot him
• 53:36
  Speaker 3: to God in front of him and my buddy, but
• 53:38
  Speaker 3: I came very very close. And that's the biggest misque
• 53:43
  Speaker 3: that I've made in my duck hunting career. It's the
• 53:46
  Speaker 3: biggest miscue I ever made in my duck hunting career.
• 53:50
  Speaker 3: And trust me, every year that's probably been fifteen years now,
• 53:55
  Speaker 3: did that happen? And I could tell you when I
• 53:58
  Speaker 3: fell forward in my face hit that trigger and that
• 54:01
  Speaker 3: the gun went off. It put a chill through my
• 54:03
  Speaker 3: body like nothing I've ever experienced in my life, because
• 54:09
  Speaker 3: the first thing I thought of was did I kill him?
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: That I did I shoot him?
• 54:15
  Speaker 3: And we saw the pellets fly and hit the water
• 54:17
  Speaker 3: right past the boat motor that was parked up on
• 54:19
  Speaker 3: the bank in the brush. And I don't know how.
• 54:22
  Speaker 3: It was an act of God, that's all I could say.
• 54:25
  Speaker 3: I'm a man of faith. It was an act of
• 54:27
  Speaker 3: God that that shot shell and that shot did not
• 54:32
  Speaker 3: hit my buddy. And you talk about scared him, it
• 54:35
  Speaker 3: scared me worse. We were just very, very lucky. So
• 54:40
  Speaker 3: that's one of the biggest confessions. And I told this
• 54:42
  Speaker 3: story on on my social media platform several years ago.
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: I remember if it was in a podcast episode or
• 54:48
  Speaker 3: it was just a video. We were talking about things
• 54:51
  Speaker 3: that you know, we've done as hunters that we regretted,
• 54:54
  Speaker 3: and that was my number one thing, my number one
• 54:57
  Speaker 3: memory that I have, And when that happened, we definitely
• 55:04
  Speaker 3: changed our perspective on the way we look at gun safety.
• 55:08
  Speaker 3: Because God gave me a chance, he gave him a chance,
• 55:12
  Speaker 3: a second chance, and that's something that I'll admit, you know,
• 55:17
  Speaker 3: and I had several people when I told that story,
• 55:19
  Speaker 3: they were like, man, we appreciate you telling that story.
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: We appreciate you admitting. Hey, look, I'm not asking for that.
• 55:25
  Speaker 3: I'm not asking for people to sit there and say, man,
• 55:27
  Speaker 3: we appreciate you telling that story.
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: I'm ashamed of that.
• 55:30
  Speaker 3: But if I'm gonna sit here and I'm gonna be
• 55:33
  Speaker 3: real with you guys as an audience. And like I said,
• 55:37
  Speaker 3: my journey in social media and in this outdoor industry
• 55:41
  Speaker 3: has been a journal for me some that my kids
• 55:45
  Speaker 3: are gonna be able to look back at, and we're
• 55:47
  Speaker 3: gonna be able to share those memories later on and
• 55:50
  Speaker 3: my family members when I'm dead and gone, all this
• 55:53
  Speaker 3: will be there for my grandkids to see and for
• 55:56
  Speaker 3: my kids to be able to look back on in
• 55:58
  Speaker 3: their wives. And that's what's always kind of, you know,
• 56:02
  Speaker 3: driven me or got me started in social media, was
• 56:05
  Speaker 3: that that we could document this and see it later
• 56:07
  Speaker 3: on and they can experience it later on. What it
• 56:10
  Speaker 3: was like when Grandpa was in his youth and we
• 56:13
  Speaker 3: used to hunt together, and what it was like when
• 56:15
  Speaker 3: their dads were coming up hunting and got to see
• 56:17
  Speaker 3: those experiences. And then as I've got on in this,
• 56:22
  Speaker 3: you know, down the road, in this journey of social
• 56:27
  Speaker 3: media and my platforms, it's become more of an educational perspective.
• 56:31
  Speaker 3: I look at it to help educate other people that
• 56:33
  Speaker 3: are coming to the to the sport, you know, and
• 56:35
  Speaker 3: to the to our community.
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: Of waterfowl hunting, you know, and that that drives me.
• 56:40
  Speaker 3: So if I'm not honest and I can't tell those
• 56:43
  Speaker 3: stories like I'm telling you right here that happened, then
• 56:48
  Speaker 3: am I really being real with y'all?
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: And I try to be as real with you as
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: I can. You know. That's the truth. That's that's the
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: best way I could say it.
• 56:57
  Speaker 3: So that's a confession you know that I have that
• 57:02
  Speaker 3: I share with you guys, with my audience. So I
• 57:09
  Speaker 3: don't know, not proud of it, but it's something that happened,
• 57:13
  Speaker 3: and it's something that definitely taught me something. Not that
• 57:17
  Speaker 3: it won't happen again, but it shouldn't happen again because
• 57:20
  Speaker 3: I look at that type of stuff and I make
• 57:22
  Speaker 3: sure that I'm aware of that type of stuff because look,
• 57:25
  Speaker 3: we go go go, especially in our younger years, in
• 57:29
  Speaker 3: my younger years, we were going going going now stop.
• 57:32
  Speaker 3: It was about the birds. It was about the limits.
• 57:35
  Speaker 3: We were doing whatever we had to do. We were
• 57:37
  Speaker 3: staying up late, sleeping in the trucks, you know, doing
• 57:41
  Speaker 3: everything that all of you in your younger years right
• 57:45
  Speaker 3: now are doing. We did that too. It hadn't changed
• 57:48
  Speaker 3: that stuff hadn't really changed a whole lot. Now there's
• 57:51
  Speaker 3: energy drinks and there's all that type of stuff. But uh,
• 57:54
  Speaker 3: you know, we didn't have so much of that when
• 57:55
  Speaker 3: I was coming up.
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: But we were.
• 57:57
  Speaker 3: Still grinding, having fun. Life was good. There was about
• 58:03
  Speaker 3: the limits. It was about the birds. We were doing
• 58:06
  Speaker 3: what we had to do to go kill the birds
• 58:07
  Speaker 3: and have that advantage on the next guy that was
• 58:10
  Speaker 3: competing against us on public ground.
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: That's what it was. You know.
• 58:14
  Speaker 3: So that stuff, when you talk about all stuff that's
• 58:17
  Speaker 3: changing duck hunting, guess what that ain't changed. Might do
• 58:22
  Speaker 3: things a little differently, but it ain't changed a whole
• 58:25
  Speaker 3: lot when it comes to that type of stuff I'm
• 58:27
  Speaker 3: talking about. No matter what generation you're from, I find
• 58:32
  Speaker 3: that that hadn't changed a whole lot. So I don't know, guys,
• 58:36
  Speaker 3: I don't know what do y'all think of this episode?
• 58:38
  Speaker 3: What do y'all think of this little list and these
• 58:41
  Speaker 3: topics that we discussed, things that duck Hunters will not admit.
• 58:46
  Speaker 3: Y'all share some stories because I want to know your
• 58:49
  Speaker 3: take your comments on this episode. I want to know
• 58:52
  Speaker 3: some of your stories because there's a ton of things
• 58:55
  Speaker 3: that us as duck Hunters won't admit, and I know
• 58:59
  Speaker 3: how it touch on everything.
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: So I want you guys to give us some feedback.
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: If you listening on.
• 59:04
  Speaker 3: Apple, you listen on Spotify, drop a comment in a
• 59:07
  Speaker 3: comment section. Not only do I want to hear what
• 59:10
  Speaker 3: you guys say, I think everybody else would love to
• 59:13
  Speaker 3: hear some ideas and some stories that you guys have
• 59:16
  Speaker 3: to tell. Or if you're listening on social media on Facebook, YouTube,
• 59:21
  Speaker 3: drop a comment down in the comment section.
• 59:23
  Speaker 2: Leave a story.
• 59:24
  Speaker 3: What are some things that duck Hunters don't admit that
• 59:27
  Speaker 3: they're too proud to admit that you'll never hear them
• 59:29
  Speaker 3: say that we didn't talk about in this episode. I
• 59:33
  Speaker 3: know I had a lot of phone in this episode
• 59:35
  Speaker 3: because I get to laugh at myself, but I also
• 59:38
  Speaker 3: get to tell the truth and I get to kind
• 59:40
  Speaker 3: of have a confession with all of you as an audience,
• 59:42
  Speaker 3: and I think a lot of you guys will probably
• 59:44
  Speaker 3: agree that the things we talked about in this episode,
• 59:48
  Speaker 3: it's true. It's all things that we've heard duck hunters
• 59:52
  Speaker 3: or we know that duck hunters are guilty of that
• 59:54
  Speaker 3: they won't admit and us being one of those duck
• 59:57
  Speaker 3: hunters a lot of times, you know. But I want
• 59:59
  Speaker 3: to hear what you guys have to say. I want
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 3: to hear your stories. This is the off season right now, man,
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 3: this is the time we can to keep it light.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 3: And this is what it's all about. Man, We're a community.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 3: We got to become a community for those of us
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 3: who are separated in the community. Right now, let's have
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 3: some fun. Let's laugh at ourselves. Let's keep that ego
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 3: in check. That's something that I love to see happen.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 3: I know it can't happen completely, but let's keep it
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 3: in check at least, you know. Let's try to help
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 3: each other in the community. Let's try to grow the
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 3: community the right way, and let's have a little fun
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 3: with this episode. Let's laugh at each other. So drop
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 3: those comments down below and let's tell some stories. Let
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 3: me know what some of those things are that you
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 3: think hunters won't admit that maybe we didn't talk about
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 3: in this episode, because I think a lot of people
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 3: would enjoy that. I would love to enjoy reading it,
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 3: to be honest with y'all. And it's been a lot
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 3: of fun in this episode. So I hope y'all enjoyed it. Man,
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 3: I really do hope y'all enjoyed it. That's really all
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  Speaker 3: I got. We're getting you closer, guys. It's right around
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  Speaker 3: the corner. We're prepping. You guys are prepping. It's fun, y'all.
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  Speaker 3: Waterfoul Outdoors Podcasts. We got ten seasons of episodes for
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  Speaker 3: one of y'all for tuning in to all these episodes
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  Speaker 3: and to our social media content.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 3: Y'all motivate us, you inspire us, you keep us engaged,
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  Speaker 2: So thank y'all so much.
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  Speaker 3: We appreciate y'all, And until next time, this is Jacob
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  Speaker 2: We'll see y'all in the outdoors soon. Guys, y'all take
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  Speaker 2: care