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Squirrel Opener Recap: Ewing's Grocery, Étouffée & Big Fox Squirrels · Last Stop Waterfowl Outdoors Podcast

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  Speaker 1: All right, everybody, welcome back to another episode of Last
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  Speaker 1: Stop Waterfowl Outdoors Podcast. I'm your host, Jacob Robury. And guys,
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  Speaker 1: it's good, as always, to be back with y'all this week.
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  Speaker 1: A lot been going on over the weekend, and a
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  Speaker 1: lot of you guys were pretty busy or had a
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  Speaker 1: lot of plans going on that revolved around some outdoor
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  Speaker 1: activities like I did this weekend. And for us, it
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  Speaker 1: was opening weekend of squirrel season, which kind of really...
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  Speaker 1: and truly kicks off our hunting season for the year
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  Speaker 1: most of the time. Yes, we did, you know, make
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  Speaker 1: a teal hunt earlier a couple of weeks back And
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  Speaker 1: for a lot of you, teal season kind of kicks
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  Speaker 1: off your hunt season, dove season, something like that. But
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  Speaker 1: for us here, for me, my group, it's really always
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  Speaker 1: revolves around opening weekend of squirrel season. And we talked
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  Speaker 1: about that on last episode and just how important that was.
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  Speaker 1: So in this episode, we're going to kind of recap
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  Speaker 1: our weekend, let you know how it all went down.
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  Speaker 1: We had some really interesting events that occurred over the
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  Speaker 1: weekend with opening weekend of squirrel season.
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  Speaker 2: Some stories to share with you guys.
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  Speaker 1: And, uh, and you know, really when we hit the
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  Speaker 1: road for hunting season, um, you never know where it's
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  Speaker 1: going to take us. And that's what I really love
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  Speaker 1: about traveling across the state.
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  Speaker 2: Of Louisiana during hunt season.
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  Speaker 1: Even though I've been through a lot of these areas
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  Speaker 1: numerous times, maybe even hundreds of times throughout my hunting career. Um,
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  Speaker 1: I always find little places that I stumble upon when
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  Speaker 1: I'm out on the road, headed towards a certain location
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  Speaker 1: that I've never even been in before, or maybe some
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  Speaker 1: new restaurants to stop at along the way. Just never
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  Speaker 1: know where it's going to take me. And honestly, that's
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  Speaker 1: what I love about it, and that's exactly what.
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  Speaker 2: This past weekend was.
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  Speaker 1: So with that being said, opening weekend of squirrel season,
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  Speaker 1: it is in the books, guys.
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  Speaker 2: It's a special time of year.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about that on last episode, how we look
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  Speaker 1: forward to that all the time. But we're going to
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  Speaker 1: talk a little bit about the hunting. In this episode,
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  Speaker 1: kind of recap how that all went down. And so
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  Speaker 1: you guys can kind of compare it to how your
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  Speaker 1: weekend was. If you had the opportunity, I know a
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  Speaker 1: lot of you went hunting over the weekend for squirrel season.
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  Speaker 1: And we'll kind of compare what we saw and some
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  Speaker 1: of our stories versus what maybe you guys had. We'll
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  Speaker 1: also talk about a hidden gem of a country store
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  Speaker 1: that I stumbled upon, something I was just talking about.
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  Speaker 1: You never know where it's going to take you, what
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  Speaker 1: you're going to find when we're out on the road.
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  Speaker 1: We had that experience this weekend. We're also going to
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  Speaker 1: talk a little camp cooking, let you guys know what
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  Speaker 1: we cooked over the weekend. Because look, let's be honest,
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  Speaker 1: camp cooking, that's one of the biggest things when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to hunting season for a lot of us. That's
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  Speaker 1: a huge part of our culture here in Louisiana. It's
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  Speaker 1: a huge part of probably your culture, your traditions, wherever
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  Speaker 1: you are in hunt camp. And it's just something that
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  Speaker 1: people want to know. They want to know what's the
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  Speaker 1: culinary experience like. what you cook, how do you cook it.
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  Speaker 1: They want to know the recipes. And a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people are intrigued by that. So they want to know that.
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  Speaker 1: And then we also celebrated a couple of birthdays. So
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  Speaker 1: our little group of guys that we had get together
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  Speaker 1: for the weekend, two of my buddies, we were celebrating
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  Speaker 1: their experience, their birthdays. And that's always something that we
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  Speaker 1: get this time of year when it comes around. So
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  Speaker 1: we had a little bit of that going on. And
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  Speaker 1: when that happens, that means there's a lot, a lot,
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  Speaker 1: and I do mean a lot, of cold beverages involved.
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  Speaker 1: Good food, good friends, a lot of lies being told,
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  Speaker 1: and cold beverages. And that's exactly what it was for us.
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  Speaker 1: So let's get into it, guys. Let's talk about the
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  Speaker 1: hunting this weekend. So Saturday was opening day, and it
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  Speaker 1: was one of those years where We didn't have any
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  Speaker 1: cool temperature for opening weekend of squirrel season. As a
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  Speaker 1: matter of fact, on Saturday, to be quite honest, it
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  Speaker 1: was warm.
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  Speaker 2: It was humid.
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  Speaker 1: And like that old meme says, there's some stank on it.
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  Speaker 2: It was just freaking warm. It was.
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  Speaker 1: Was it as hot as some that I've experienced for
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  Speaker 1: opening day of squirrel season like it was in the past? No,
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't as hot as some. I was telling my
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  Speaker 1: buddies this weekend, I said, I remember a couple of
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  Speaker 1: seasons ago, I got some photos.
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  Speaker 2: I look back at my.
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  Speaker 1: Boys that were with me for that opening weekend, probably five,
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  Speaker 1: six years ago. And I remember it was absolutely miserable.
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  Speaker 2: Hot, and I'm talking hot. Humid.
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  Speaker 1: Humidity so thick you could freaking wring your drawers out
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the hunt that's how hot it
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  Speaker 1: was and the mosquitoes were so bad it didn't matter
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  Speaker 1: how much thermosails you had around you it didn't matter
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  Speaker 1: what mosquito dope you had around you know sprayed on
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  Speaker 1: you it didn't matter man and that was before my
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  Speaker 1: hunt my hunt days now i'm gonna be honest with
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  Speaker 1: y'all this hunt repellent that I've been talking about, and
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  Speaker 1: you're seeing all these guys that are influencers or online
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  Speaker 1: outdoorsmen talking about, they're talking about hunt repellent. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to be honest with y'all. Hunt repellent works, y'all. It
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  Speaker 1: ain't just for show. It ain't just for talk. It
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  Speaker 1: ain't just because people are promoting it out there.
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  Speaker 2: The stuff, it works. And it worked this weekend for
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  Speaker 2: me on Saturday. I can tell you that.
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  Speaker 1: I sprayed my clothes. I sprayed my son's clothes before
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  Speaker 1: the hunt. let it dry and went out there and
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  Speaker 1: it helped a lot.
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  Speaker 2: It helped a lot, but it was warm.
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  Speaker 1: It was human and the mosquitoes were out, but I
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  Speaker 1: wasn't getting bit.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what I love.
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  Speaker 1: I could deal with the mosquitoes as long as they're
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  Speaker 1: not biting me or not biting my son and it
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  Speaker 1: drives us out the woods. And we treated ourselves, like
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  Speaker 1: I said, with our hunt repellent, kind of prepared for it.
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  Speaker 2: We knew it was going to be some mosquitoes out there.
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  Speaker 2: And it worked. It kept them off of us. They
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  Speaker 2: weren't biting.
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  Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, I'm looking at my arms
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  Speaker 1: right now. I'm looking at my legs. I have shorts
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  Speaker 1: on right now as I record this episode. And I
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  Speaker 1: don't have a single bite on me from the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: So when that happens, my mosquito dope's working. So Hunt Repellent,
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  Speaker 1: shout out to you guys. You make an excellent product.
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  Speaker 1: And another thing I loved about it was that when
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  Speaker 1: we sprayed ourselves down, we didn't have that grease, that film.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't have to worry about none of that. So shout
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  Speaker 1: out to Hunt on that. But my point to all
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  Speaker 1: that is that it was not cold by any means.
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  Speaker 1: So we started out the morning warm. But at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the day, guys, we had an awesome weekend.
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  Speaker 2: We really did.
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  Speaker 1: Our little group of guys that we had, we had
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  Speaker 1: an awesome weekend. We killed plenty of squirrels. Now, I
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  Speaker 1: want to say this. I posted pictures on social media,
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  Speaker 1: a couple of photos this weekend, a couple of short videos.
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  Speaker 1: And I had a lot of you guys comment on
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  Speaker 1: those that saw it. They said, holy shit, Jacob. They said,
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  Speaker 1: y'all killed all fox squirrels this weekend. And that's the truth.
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  Speaker 1: That's exactly what it was.
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  Speaker 2: And even I.
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  Speaker 1: I'm kind of blown away because in years past, we
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  Speaker 1: usually have a pretty good mixture for opening weekend. We'll
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  Speaker 1: have a good mixture of fox squirrels. We'll have some
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  Speaker 1: cat squirrels, gray squirrels, whatever you want to call them.
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  Speaker 1: We even have a couple of black squirrels sometimes. When
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  Speaker 1: we have a good year, we get lucky because to me,
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  Speaker 1: a black squirrel is a trophy. That is a trophy
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  Speaker 1: squirrel as a squirrel hunter. It's always been a trophy
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  Speaker 1: for me growing up. If I could kill a black squirrel,
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  Speaker 1: that's kind of the unicorn of squirrels for me because
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  Speaker 1: I don't usually hunt Areas that have a ton of
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  Speaker 1: black squirrels. So if I could kill a black squirrel,
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  Speaker 1: that's awesome. Didn't have no black squirrels this weekend. But
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  Speaker 1: didn't even have any cat squirrels. No gray squirrels. Guys,
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  Speaker 1: we shot all fox squirrels. Big fox squirrels. Just nice,
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  Speaker 1: mature fox squirrels. Now, one thing that I noticed this
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  Speaker 1: weekend was we killed a lot of young squirrels.
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  Speaker 2: Wasn't no, you know, real old, tough squirrels.
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  Speaker 1: You know, when you try to cook them, it's like
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  Speaker 1: you're eating boot leather, you know, or a rubber tire.
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  Speaker 2: None of that. It was all fairly young, but nice
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  Speaker 2: size fox squirrels.
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  Speaker 1: We killed a good mix of males. We killed a
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  Speaker 1: good mix of females. So it was awesome. It was
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  Speaker 1: from a standpoint of being a social media person. You know,
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  Speaker 1: somebody who follows his hunting journeys and takes a lot
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  Speaker 1: of photos and takes video and stuff like that to
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  Speaker 1: share with my audience. It was one of the most
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  Speaker 1: beautiful hunts we can make this weekend for opening week
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  Speaker 1: of the squirrel season to share because all these beautiful
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  Speaker 1: big red fox squirrels in the photos, in the video clips.
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  Speaker 1: And that was awesome, man. So to be able to
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  Speaker 1: have that, which absolutely blew me away that we didn't
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  Speaker 1: kill any cats, any gray squirrels. any black squirrels, just
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  Speaker 1: straight red fox. That was pretty cool, man. That was
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  Speaker 1: really cool. It was a lot of fun because any
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  Speaker 1: of you that squirrel hunt, you know that fox squirrels, man,
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  Speaker 1: that's the ultimate trophy for a lot of you out
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  Speaker 1: there that like to squirrel hunt. And that's why you're
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  Speaker 1: probably listening to this episode because you want to hear
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  Speaker 1: our experience. You want to see what we did as
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  Speaker 1: compared to what you guys saw in the woods. And Man,
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  Speaker 1: we saw nothing but fox this weekend where we were. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I know that dictates a lot of times what area
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  Speaker 1: you hunt in the state. And I had several people
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  Speaker 1: that hit me up yesterday afternoon and today as I
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  Speaker 1: record this episode on a Monday right after the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: They hit me up and they said, man, where do
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  Speaker 1: you go to kill fox girls? We don't see that. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, if you're in southeast Louisiana, you know, you
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  Speaker 1: don't always have a ton of foxes.
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  Speaker 2: Squirrels.
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  Speaker 1: But as you get to the central part of the
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  Speaker 1: state or even the upper portions of the Chappalot Basin,
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  Speaker 1: like your Henderson, your Indian Bayou, your Sherbourne areas, once
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  Speaker 1: you start hitting that and you move up into central
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  Speaker 1: part of Louisiana, Evangelical Parish, Avoyeaux Parish, Rapides Parish, all
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  Speaker 1: those areas, There's a lot more fox squirrels, guys. And
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  Speaker 1: that's where we were this weekend. We were hunting up
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  Speaker 1: in those areas. So am I surprised that we killed
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  Speaker 1: all red fox this weekend for opening weekend? I am.
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  Speaker 1: I am because I've hunted those areas before and it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't like that.
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  Speaker 2: We've killed a mix of squirrels on opening weekend.
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  Speaker 1: But we just happened to be in a spot where
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  Speaker 1: that's all there was. And that kind of blew my mind.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be honest with you. It kind of blew my mind,
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  Speaker 1: but it was awesome.
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  Speaker 2: It was. It was fun.
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  Speaker 1: Because when you stalking those big fox squirrels, it's really fun.
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  Speaker 1: They real alert to what's going on around their surroundings.
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  Speaker 1: Because at the end of the day, like I tell
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  Speaker 1: my youngest son, I told Hudson all weekend, I said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we're in their living room. When we step into those woods,
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  Speaker 1: we're in their living room. They know everything that goes
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  Speaker 1: on in that environment and what's normal and what's not normal.
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  Speaker 2: Just like we would in our house, you know?
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  Speaker 1: And you make a wrong move, you make a subtle
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  Speaker 1: move to where they see any kind of movement that
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  Speaker 1: looks abnormal to them, then them babies are rolling. They
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  Speaker 1: are on the go. They're getting to a spot, a
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  Speaker 1: fork in a tree, a hole in a tree. They're
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  Speaker 1: going down to the base of the tree, getting where
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  Speaker 1: they can hide, and they are some stealthy son of
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  Speaker 1: a guns. Y'all all know that if you squirrel hunt.
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  Speaker 1: They are stealthy. So first day, opening morning, hot. We
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  Speaker 1: talked about that. We also didn't have a lot of wind.
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  Speaker 2: Open in the morning. So that was nice.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't have any kind of little front coming through,
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  Speaker 1: so you didn't have to worry about the wind. So
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  Speaker 1: you were able to catch those squirrels in those feed trees,
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  Speaker 1: and you could see them feeding in the tops of
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  Speaker 1: the trees. Now, I had several people that said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: what did y'all find them in? What were they keying
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  Speaker 1: in on? So where we hunted, it was on some
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  Speaker 1: ridges around water. And it's a good mix in those
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  Speaker 1: ridges of cypress and Oak trees is what it is.
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  Speaker 1: You have a little bit of beech nut mixed in there,
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  Speaker 1: no pine whatsoever at all. And I can tell y'all
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  Speaker 1: that they were not in the cypress balls. They were
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  Speaker 1: not eating cypress balls. They weren't in the cypress trees.
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  Speaker 1: I did see a good bit of nest in cypress trees,
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  Speaker 1: but those squirrels that we killed were not in the
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  Speaker 1: cypress trees. They were feeding on those acorns. They were
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  Speaker 1: in those beech nut trees, those bitter pecan trees. That's
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  Speaker 1: what they were keying in on. So all that stuff
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  Speaker 1: is premium feed at this time of year. And if
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  Speaker 1: you find some good clusters of those mix of trees,
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  Speaker 1: then typically you're going to have some success finding some squirrels.
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  Speaker 1: And that's exactly what we did.
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  Speaker 2: We found them.
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  Speaker 1: They were in the hardwoods and they were keying in
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  Speaker 1: on bitter pecan. They were keying in on bigger acorn trees,
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  Speaker 1: mature acorns, and they were eating in those. They were
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  Speaker 1: in the very tip tops of the trees is where
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  Speaker 1: we found those fox feeding that. So That was Saturday morning.
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  Speaker 1: You were able to kind of pinpoint once you found
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  Speaker 1: those cuttings. We didn't do no scouting prior to this.
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  Speaker 1: We just kind of, we were all dogged. We went
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  Speaker 1: in the woods, hunting an area that, you know, had
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  Speaker 1: been hunted through the years based off of history. Something
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  Speaker 1: that I preach against when it comes to waterfowl hunting,
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  Speaker 1: with squirrel hunting, it's a little different a lot of times.
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  Speaker 1: You could go back to those areas year after year.
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  Speaker 1: You know which clusters of trees usually produce, you know,
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  Speaker 1: some feed. Or they're going to have some areas that
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  Speaker 1: have some good trees, and you can go back and
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  Speaker 1: get lucky, and that's what we did. But they were
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  Speaker 1: in the tip-tops of those trees, and honestly, just a
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  Speaker 1: really good opening morning on Saturday. Conditions set up to
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  Speaker 1: be really good. Now, Sunday was a little different. It
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  Speaker 1: was sunny on Saturday. Sunday, we had that little front.
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  Speaker 1: That rain was in the area moving in, and it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't sunny whatsoever. We never saw the sun yesterday. Now,
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  Speaker 1: we partied very hard on Saturday night, and I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to talk about that in a little bit, but we
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  Speaker 1: partied pretty hard Friday night into Saturday, Saturday night, and
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  Speaker 1: some of our group didn't make that Sunday hunt. We
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  Speaker 1: had two of us, or actually, I'll say three of us,
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  Speaker 1: my 12-year-old son, Hudson, He came with me, of course.
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  Speaker 1: But two adults, we hunted on Sunday. No sun on Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: and we had some wind. Early on in the morning,
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  Speaker 1: we had wind. So I knew it was going to
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  Speaker 1: be tough on Sunday. I'll be honest with y'all. So
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  Speaker 1: you have wind. You have cloud cover. Sometimes on them
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  Speaker 1: clouded days, those big fox squirrels, they don't move real well.
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  Speaker 1: They'll feed for a short time, and then they'll get
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  Speaker 1: back to the nest, kind of hunker down, and then
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  Speaker 1: they'll do their thing and maybe go feed mid-afternoon or
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  Speaker 1: late in the afternoon. And then that's about it. They'll
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  Speaker 1: wait until that weather clears up, especially on them windy days. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it was a little tough to find them yesterday, but
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  Speaker 1: we did find some that were moving around. They actually
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  Speaker 1: moved pretty well, to be honest with y'all. I was
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  Speaker 1: surprised by that. They moved better than I thought they
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  Speaker 1: would with that wind blowing like it was, especially with
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  Speaker 1: them being in the very tip-tops of those hardwoods on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: I said, with that wind blowing, it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: hard for them to get up there. And what I
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  Speaker 1: found is that the ones we did kill, we ended
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  Speaker 1: up killing, I think, five or six yesterday on Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: It was, I think, five. We ended up losing one
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  Speaker 2: of them that we couldn't find.
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  Speaker 1: But what I found was that they, instead of being
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  Speaker 1: in those very tip-tops with that wind blowing, it moved
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  Speaker 1: them down a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: They were kind of in that midsection of those trees.
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  Speaker 1: Still up, you know, not low to the ground, but
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  Speaker 1: they were in those midsections, I guess you could say,
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  Speaker 1: where they fork off the trees, a lot of trees
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  Speaker 1: fork off at.
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  Speaker 2: So they were kind of feeding in there.
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  Speaker 1: And we had to really walk yesterday. We walked yesterday
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  Speaker 1: quite a bit more than we walked.
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  Speaker 2: We took a track.
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  Speaker 1: Me and my buddy that hunted yesterday, we put some
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  Speaker 1: mileage on our boots yesterday because we had to go.
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  Speaker 1: And we would get to a little section, maybe shoot one,
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  Speaker 1: and then, you know, we'd move on. We'd keep moving,
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  Speaker 1: sit for a second, try to see a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of movement, finally would spot one. And I'll be honest
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: with y'all, with that wind blowing pretty good yesterday, we
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: lost several of them that we saw from a distance.
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: So it wasn't that we didn't see a good bit
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: of squirrels yesterday.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: It was just hard.
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: The conditions were tougher for us yesterday. And we would
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: see them a long ways off. I'd see one maybe
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: going down a tree trunk or on a limb or something.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: And I'd get to it and creep it. And man,
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: I'd lose it because it was just tough to find
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: it with all the wind blowing. And these trees we
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: were hunting, they were pretty thick. So when they got
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: up in that, they could.
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: Blend in really, really well.
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: And they did a good job of escaping us yesterday.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: A couple of times.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: So we could have had a really stellar hunt yesterday,
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: to be honest with y'all, if we would have had
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: a good calm day again. But the conditions made it
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: a little tougher for us yesterday. So overall, honestly, it
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: was an awesome weekend. We killed plenty of squirrels, man.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: Y'all saw the pictures if you follow us on social,
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: you know, on our platforms. And we had plenty, plenty,
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: plenty of squirrels to cook Saturday night, which is always
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: a big tradition. We'll talk about that in a second,
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: the culinary.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: Aspect of it. But overall... plenty.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: Of squirrels to make a good supper on Saturday night
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: for a group of people. We invited some more friends
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: to come out and meet us for Saturday night. And
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: Also had plenty to put in the freezer to be
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: able to have another supper on another night, maybe.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: For, you know, one of the duck weekends that we go.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: We'll probably cook some squirrels for duck season as well
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: and do that. So my schedule looking forward, usually October,
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: you know, usually in October, I'm going to squirrel hunt
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: just about every weekend in October. Now this year, it's
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: going to be kind of awkward for me because we're
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: playing fall baseball right now. I coach fall baseball. We
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: have tournaments stacked up this coming weekend. next weekend, and
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: the weekend after. That's pretty much every weekend in October
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: except for opening weekend that we're playing baseball. So to
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: be honest, completely honest, I don't know if I'm going
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: to be able to score a hunt again. I hope
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: I can. I hope I can make a couple of
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: score hunts. But I don't know if I'm going to
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: be able to. So I'm kind of disappointed with that. But, hey, look,
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: that's the life of a father. You have other obligations sometimes.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: Because it was this. It was either we play a
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: little bit of fall baseball in October or they had
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: some options to play in November.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: And that's not happening.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: Me and the other coach, the other coach I coach with,
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: he's a big deer hunter. He said, hey, we ain't
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: playing if it's cool with you in November. I said,
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: absolutely not. Duck season opens up. It's balls to the
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: walls hunting. Once duck season opens up, we're not playing baseball.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: So we went ahead. We took our little lick, scheduled
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: them in October. play a couple of tournaments, and then
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: we're going to move on from there. So I really
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: don't know. My point being, I don't know how much
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: more squirrel hunting I'm going to be able to do.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: I really hope to make a couple of more hunts
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: and squeeze them in. Maybe first weekend into November. I
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: know we open up duck season kind of mid-November. I
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: might make a squirrel hunt or two a little bit
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: later than I usually do in previous years, just because
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: I'm not getting as many opportunities in October. But I'd
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: like to make a couple of more hunts. That's the
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: point I'm trying to make. If it ends up being
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: the most I'll be able to do was opening weekend
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: and overall, hey, I'm very happy. We had some fun
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: and we made some memories, man. So the hunting itself
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: was really good. The fox squirrel thing just still kind
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: of blows.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: Me away, man. Talk about some beautiful hunts.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: To harvest all fox squirrels, that was kind of mind-blowing
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: to me. But some of you, that may be no
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: big deal because you hunt. areas where that's all you
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: kill too is fox squirrels.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: So I don't know. I don't know.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Me, I've always had a mix of squirrels, like I said.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: So that was, that was something a little different, but it's, it's,
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: it's awesome. It's a, it's a cool deal.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: So that's the hunting, guys. That was the hunting aspect
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: from opening weekend. Overall, really, really good.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: Weather conditions, we kind of talked about all that. And
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: you guys kind of get the picture, you know. So
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: how did that stack up to what y'all saw? What
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: I explained, what we witnessed in the area that we hunted,
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: is that kind of what you saw?
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: Did you see them feeding.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Kind of in the same manner as I described? Were
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: you seeing them keying on, you know, hardwoods, acorns? bitter pecan,
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: that type of stuff? Or did you guys find them
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: and maybe in some cypress ridges in some cypress trees,
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: you know, munching on cypress balls, that type of stuff.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: Let me know that I'd like to know to kind
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: of compare to what we saw. So one of the
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: things I want to talk about, I talked about this
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: right when we started this episode was that how being
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: on the road during hunt season, we stumble upon stuff
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: all the time, whether it's little dive ins for lunch,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: for dinner, little sporting goods stores that we may have never,
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: you know, been to before. I love, and I'm really
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: trying to do this on my social media platforms. When
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: I'm bringing you guys content throughout the season, I also
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: want to highlight locally owned and operated businesses. That's something
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: that I've really made an effort to do over the
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: last year or two. I want to key in on
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: the mom and pops, not the big box stores for
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: hunting gear, not the big chain restaurants for.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: Good food to eat while we're out on the road
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: during hunting season.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: I want to tell not only the story of our
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: hunting journeys, or let me rephrase that. I guess I
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: am still telling the story of our hunting journeys, but
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: the small mom and pops, the locally owned and operated stores, restaurants, dive-ins,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: all that type of stuff is part of the hunting experience, right?
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: We're all on the road. We all stop in and
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: eat at places. We all pick up, you know, food
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: to be able to cook and hunt camp, you know,
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: to go along with what we bring in already. And
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: a lot of that is mom and pop owned when
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: you get to these remote areas. And I want to
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: tell that story. So over the weekend, there is a
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: little town called Ennis, Louisiana. And if you don't know
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: where Ennis, Louisiana is, well, trust me, you're not alone.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: I didn't know exactly where Ennis, Louisiana was either, but
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: it's a little tiny community. I guess it's not even
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: a town, I guess, but it's a community. One of
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: those little communities like where I grew up at, you know,
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: and it's in Pointe Coupee Parish. It was on my
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: route and there's this little store that I have been
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: seeing for years. Never stopped at this little store. And
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: it's called Ewing's Grocery. And I've seen this little store
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: and on their sign, they have a little, little print
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: on the sign that says sporting units.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: And I told Hudson, we were coming through on Friday.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: We had left. We weren't hunting.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Obviously Friday, we were headed to the camp. And I
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: told Hudson, I said, I've seen this store. We need
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: to stop in there and see what they're, what they
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: got in this little store. Cause I found some of
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: the most awesome little places when I do this before
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: stopping in there and we go through in us and
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: we get to where that little store used grocery is. And,
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: We decided to stop. And Hudson said, I'm going to
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: stay in the truck. He said, you go in, dad.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: He said he was, I think he was watching a
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: little movie on his phone. And I said, okay, I'm
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: going to go in and take a look. So I
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: go in and guys, when I walked through the doors
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: of Ewing's Grocery in Ennis, Louisiana, I was blown away.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: Now this is a, let me paint this picture for you.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: This is a gas station. Okay.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: So when you go into a gas station, most of
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: us know modern day gas stations. You have Your gas
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: pump's out in the front. You walk in, you're going
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: to have your front counter.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: And then you're going to have all.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: Your normal, you know, gas station stuff. Snacks, food, drinks.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Some of them have little delis and this and that.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: But this is like an old school general store. Ewing's
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Grocery in Ennis, Louisiana was like stepping into a time warp.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: And what's really cool about this is that this area,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: this Avoyles Parish, Evangela Parish, all these little parishes in
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Central Park, Louisiana, North Louisiana also. I've been to several
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: stops in North Louisiana hunting WMAs up there. They have
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: these little general store setups because they're in remote areas.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: So they're kind of like a one-stop shop. You have
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: your groceries, you have your drinks, you have your ice.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: you have your liquor, your cigarettes, all that type of stuff.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: But then they also have a little bit of everything else.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: So they might have plumbing, you know, a little plumbing material.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: They might have a little bit of a hunting material.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: And when I stepped in through the doors of Ewing's
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: in Ennis, Louisiana, guys, they had more sporting goods, hunting
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: related stuff in there that I've seen some big full
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: blown sporting goods stores that are supposed to Be gearing
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: all their business and their effort towards outdoorsmen.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: It was awesome.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: Man, I walked in these doors, they had trail cameras.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: You're talking about modern stuff like Tacticam trail cams. But
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: they had more ammunition than maybe even my local Cabela's
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: that I live 10, 15 minutes from in Gonzales, Louisiana.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: It was like stepping into a fully loaded sporting goods store.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: I was just blown away. And it's all within a
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: little section of this store, which is crazy. They had,
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: whether you needed rifle ammunition, 22 bullets, hunting bullets, they
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: had it. If you needed steel shot, they had every
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: brand from Migra to Heavy Steel to Winchester to Remington
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: to Estate.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: I saw Rio. I saw all these brands of ammunition
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: in there. And it was loaded.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: They had cases, or you could buy it by the
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: case or you could buy it by the box.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: It was loaded.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: And as I walked through the ammunition being blown away,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: they had hunting knives. They had boat items like plugs, bills, pumps,
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: little things that you would need for your boat, maybe
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: rope for your boat, you know, life jacket, just little
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: things like that.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: They had a little bit of all that.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: And then as you went past the ammunition, I started
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: hitting duck decoys and me being a waterfowl guy. I
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: was all attention at that point. I was like, you
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: got to be kidding me. They had Mojo, Spinning Wings,
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: Water Motion Decoys, Avian X Decoys. They had Higdon. They
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: had all the major name brands, guys. And I was like, wow,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: this is awesome. This is what America is. This is
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: old school America. This is those old school American general store,
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: back road, family owned and operated businesses. that you just
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: don't see in the big cities. And that's the truth
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: of it. You just don't see that. So unless you
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: get off the beaten path, you don't ever get to
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: experience these type of stores, these type of communities, these
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: type of people, which is what America was built on,
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: in my opinion.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: I think I even said that. I filmed, I went
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: back into my truck.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: I grabbed my meta glasses and I said, I have
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: to share this experience of what I found in this
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: little general store at Ewing's Grocery with my audience. I
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: got to tell other people about it because so many
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: like myself probably have went through there at some part
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: during hunting season, headed somewhere else, saw that little store,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: never thought twice about it and bypassed it and may
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: have been looking for shells for a hunt or something
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: for their boat or some kind of decoys because they
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: forgot some decoys at home or whatever it may be.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: They bypassed it, not knowing that this existed, just like
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: I did a million times on that same path that
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: I was on headed to the camp, that same route.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: And man, I went back in, I grabbed my meta glasses,
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: I kicked them things on and I went in and
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: I filmed a little video showing you guys what I
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: was seeing from my perspective. and just telling the story
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: of what I saw. So I started talking to the
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: clerk there, the cashier, and she told me, she said,
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: Ewing's is a family-owned and operated business, been around since 1959.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: Guys, that's awesome.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: That's, like I said, that's those old school general stores.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: That have a little bit of everything for everybody.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: That this country was based on, that this country was
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: at one point. When I was a kid growing up,
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: I'd go in a store with my daddy on a
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: hunt or after a hunt, and every little general store
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: like that in the middle of nowhere had this type
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: of setup to it. So not only did you have
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: all the normal stuff, they had all this hunting gear.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Then they have a little deli, and as we walked
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: toward this little deli, we filming it, Hudson had got
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: out the truck to come in. I said, you got
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: to come see this little store. They have this old lady,
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: probably in her 80s and 90s. She might have even
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: been in her 90s. This lady was up in age.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: She's behind the counter, and she's battering some fried chicken,
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: cooking and dumping a fresh batch of fried chicken out
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: in this warmer on the counter. And then I talked
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: to her for a second, and she said, baby, she said,
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: you like sweets? We make all our own sweets. She
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: had a little cooler top on the counter with all
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: these homemade cakes, pies, And you could buy it by
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: the slice or buy it by the whole cake or pie.
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: Just an awesome little experience, man, to make for a
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: little dive in, you know?
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: So it just had all the nostalgia for me in
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: that little store and just an awesome little place. So
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: if you guys are traveling through Pointe Coupee Parish, and
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: that's my point to this, If you guys are traveling
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: through Pointe Coupee Parish and you have the opportunity to
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: stop in Ennis, Louisiana, Ewing's Grocery, family-owned and operated since 1959,
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: do yourselves a favor and stop.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: In and let me know what you think of it.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Let them know you heard about them right here on
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Last Stop Water for Outdoors podcast.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: I'd appreciate that, guys, because it is the type of
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: business we need to support.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: It's a family-owned and operated business that caters to outdoorsmen,
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: caters to the sportsmen, and caters to our local community.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: that doesn't have all the resources of a big city.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: So that was really, really cool to be able to
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: find that hidden gem. And really just one of those things.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: They even had, you know, all the meats, like your
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: steaks and all that. They had a little section with
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: all the meat. So if you want to pick up
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: that type of stuff, you could do that to bring
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: to the hunt camp. If you don't want to, you know,
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: bring something with you, you could stop on the way
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: and pick it up. So that was pretty, pretty cool.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: And then as we continued on our route, Hudson said, Dad,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: we got to stop in a Vols over at Marksville.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: He said, pick up some lunch. He said, I want
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: to stop at Juno's Cajun Meats. And if you've ever
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: been to Marksville, then you know Juno's Cajun Meats, guys. Boudin,
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: whole cracklings, chicken cracklings, pork ribs, whatever you want, all
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: your specialty meats, they have all of it.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: So we stopped at Juno's. Got a little lunch.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: We got us a couple of links of boudin. Got
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: us a link of regular boudin. They have the smoked boudin.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: We got that as well. And then we had it
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: cut up for me and him to eat on the
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: road as we were going and picked up some chicken cracklings.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: And I'm telling y'all, if y'all know.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: Juno's guys, not only is the boudin good, but you
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: better be picking you up some pork cracklings. You better
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: be picking you up some chicken cracklings because them son
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: of a guns are freaking phenomenal.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: Really, really good.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: So we ate good on the road, guys. We ate
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: good on the road, headed to the camp. That's before
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: we even got to the camp. So another thing that
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: we talked about in Hunt Camp that's a part of
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: the tradition for opening weekend of squirrel season is the
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: culinary side of it. So what did we cook Friday night? Well,
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: Friday night, like I said, we were celebrating two of
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: our guys in the group.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: It was their birthday. So that's a big weekend. Not
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: only is it opening weekend.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: Of squirrel season, but it's also birthday weekend for two
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: of our buddies that were there. And they're 10 years apart.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: So Friday night, there was one of our good friends.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: His wife cooked a phenomenal crawfish etouffee. We had crawfish
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: etouffee on Friday night. And what I'm telling y'all, we
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: washed it down with some adult beverages. It was not
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: pretty on Friday night. We cut a rug.
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: We sang. We acted up.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: And we probably did some things up. Funny that we
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: laughed our asses off that we didn't catch on camera.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: And we never will catch on camera so you guys
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: can see it. I promise you all that. But we
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: had a good time. It was all in good fun.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Nobody got hurt. Nobody did nothing illegal. None of that
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: type of stuff. But it was a lot of fun.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: We did film a couple of things. We played a–
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: we were all drinking, man. We were feeling pretty good.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: We played like a– we pulled out a golf club,
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: pulled out a bucket with a couple of golf balls.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: We played a closest to the pin. Whoever could get
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: it closest to the bucket. And a lot of us
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: don't even play golf. I play golf and a couple
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: of others, but some of them don't play golf. So
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: y'all know how that goes. And whoever was furthest away
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: from the bucket had to shotgun a couple of beers.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: And we played that. We did some funny things. But
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: we cooked crawfish etouffee on Friday night. And we had
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: some dinner rolls. And it was just really, really good.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: We ate like some kings, plenty left over. But played
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: a little bit of cards Friday night. And that was
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: pretty fun. So we had a good time on Friday night. Now,
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: Saturday night, like I talk about, the goal on Saturday
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: on opening morning is always, and you guys are all
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: the same that hunt squirrels. The objective, the goal, excuse me,
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: is to kill enough squirrels Saturday to be able to
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: have a squirrel graven. for supper on Saturday night for
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: the hunt camp. That's what you wanna do. You wanna
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: kill enough squirrels.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: And we did that.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: We killed plenty of squirrels on Saturday. And boy, like
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: I said, we pulled out about 10 of them big
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: fox squirrels. And when you put that up and you
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: slice that up and quarter them up, you got a lot.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: Of squirrels to go along with.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: One of my buddies, he brought some green onion andouille sausage,
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: threw a little bit of that in there, and we
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: made a gigantic squirrel gravy, man. You talk about delicious
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: on Saturday night. We had some homemade potato salad. We
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: had a little three-layer dip for an appetizer. One of
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: our buddies picked up some pork cracklings at Juno's. He
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: brought that. That went pretty quick. But, hey, if you
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: starve at the hunt camp, at our hunt camp, like
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: many of you probably at your hunt camp, then that's
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: your fault. You just didn't participate in the culinary experience
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: that weekend. But I can promise you, you ain't going
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: to lose weight at hunt camp in our hunt camps.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: Y'all know me.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: Y'all see me, the size I am. You ain't losing
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: weight during hunting season typically. I got to watch it.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: I got to watch it because I'm one of them
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: big boys. You eat like that nonstop, you're going to
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: put on some LBs.
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: And I got to watch it. I'll be honest with y'all.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: But boy, it's hard. Boy, it's hard because the food's
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: so damn good, man. There ain't no food better than
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: hunt camp food a lot of times.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: Almost every hunt camp I've been in across Louisiana and
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: any other hunt camp I've ever been to out of state,
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: the food's always really good. But much less in Louisiana.
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: We know how to cook. We all know how to cook.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: And yes, we may cook different ways, but at the
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: end of the day, we could all cook and it's
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: all good pretty much, man. You know, even you know
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: our Louisiana boys that are listening, I know, y'all don't
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: use as much seasoning as we use down south here
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: in Louisiana, but y'all could cook too. You got your
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: own ways of doing things. I'm not turning it down
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: if it's at Hunt Camp.
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: It's going to be good. So we had for dessert
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: on Friday night, homemade strawberry shortcake. Phenomenal. And on Saturday,
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: red velvet cake. One of the other guys' birthdays wanted
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: red velvet. Phenomenal.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: So like I said, hard to lose weight at our
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: hunt camp this weekend, but The culinary experience, that's a
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: big part of it, guys.
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: And we ate like kings, like many of you probably did.
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: I had a lot of people.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: I did a little video, a short video of us
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: cooking that gravy. And we always talk about getting that
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: bubble going when you're cooking a good gravy. And those
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: of you who cook rice and gravy, you know what
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: I mean by getting that bubble going. And I shot
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: that video of the squirrels we were cooking in that gravy.
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: And my buddy was dead set on putting them squirrel
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: heads in the gravy. Now look, I'm going to be
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: honest with y'all. I'm not a squirrel head guy. I'm
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: not a eat the brain type of guy. And some
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: of you are. And my old grandfather and uncles, you
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: couldn't cook a squirrel gravy without having squirrel brains in there.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: I ain't eating no squirrel brains. It just ain't. I'll
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: eat squirrels. I love them.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: I ain't eating the brains. And I looked at Hudson.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: Hudson had fixed him a plate, my 12-year-old. And, uh,
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: I looked at his plate and he had a big
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: old squirrel head sitting on there. And he looked at
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: me and said, daddy, how you eat this, this head?
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: And I said, well, baby, I said, daddy don't eat
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: them heads. I said, but some people do. I said,
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: it got a little bit of meat on it. He said,
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: it's all bone.
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: I said, it is.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: Some people eat a little bit of meat off of
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: the head and then they crack it open and eat
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: the brain.
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: He said, I'm not eating that daddy. I said, well,
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: I don't blame you, buddy.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: Daddy ain't eating that either, but that's a delicacy to
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: some people. So, In our hunt camp this weekend, they
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: didn't throw nothing away. Pretty much the feet and the
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: tail was thrown away. But hearts, all that stuff, that
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: went in the gravy. And I'm going to be honest
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: with y'all, for flavoring, it don't get better than all
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: that being put into a gravy.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: It's phenomenal. It's really, really good.
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: And if you don't do it, even if you don't
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: eat those parts, put.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: It in there when you make your gravy. Because it
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: adds flavor, and that is true.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: It is excellent, and it gives it just that unique flavor.
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: It's better that way. I'm being honest with y'all. It
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: is better that way.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: So that's the culinary side of things from this weekend, guys.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: We ate like kings. We had some really, really good
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: hunts this weekend. And honestly, we had a shit ton
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: of fun.
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: It was fun. We made some memories. We took some pictures.
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: We sang some karaoke, shotgun beers, drank whiskey.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: Drank everything under the moon pretty much that we could
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: get our hands on. Some of them drank so much
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: they couldn't make that Sunday hunt like I talked about.
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: But me, look, hey, be honest with y'all. I'm getting old, man.
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: I'm getting older now. It hurts.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: It hurts a lot. Whenever I have them rough, them
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: long nights like that, I got to get to bed, man,
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: if I'm going to make it the next day.
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: To go hunt.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: I ain't like I was full of piss and vinegar
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: like a lot of you young guys are when I
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: was in my 20s, 30s.
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: You know, at that age, I could just rebound. I
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: could drink all night.
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: If I drank too much, I'd throw up and go
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: back and drink some more, which one of our good friends,
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: he did that this weekend. And I will say this.
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: He's an old Army veteran. And I told his wife
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: this weekend, I said, I don't care how shit-faced David gets.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: I said, he is there. at that boat trailer the
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: next morning, meeting me there and he is like, it's
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: like he hit the reset button.
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: He is ready to roll. He's ready to go. Like
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: he never drank anything the night before. And some of
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: us know people like that. I ain't like that.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: Me, it takes me now, since I'm older, it takes
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: me a long, if I get really hammered like that,
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: it takes me a little while to recover. But look, hey,
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: I don't drink like that anymore, really. I don't drink
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: a ton, to be honest with y'all, anymore. I do
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: drink socially. But them days of power drinking like I
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: did when I was younger, We saved that for opening
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: weekends of duck season, opening weekend of squirrel season, and
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: for special celebrations.
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: And this was exactly what all of that was.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: It was a birthday celebration, and it was a celebration
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: of brotherhood to come together for opening weekend of small
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: game squirrel season and just make some memories. And that's
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: what it's about, guys. And that's what I love about
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: it all the time. Every year I look forward to that.
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: I talked about that last episode. That's what I look
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: forward to. And I think a lot of you do
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: the same. That's all I got, guys. That's our recap
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: of opening weekend of squirrel season this weekend. I'm on
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: the road today, which is why we did this episode
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: from mobile. You're not getting all the fancy opening to
• 40:35
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• 40:39
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• 40:43
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• 40:48
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• 40:52
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• 40:56
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• 40:59
  Speaker 1: so blessed to have y'all along with us for every episode.
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: I feel so blessed. I thank you all as an
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: audience because, look, y'all my people. Y'all my brothers. And
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: at the end of the day, we're all here for
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: the same reason, because we love the outdoors. Whether you
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: duck hunt, you deer hunt, You love to squirrel hunt,
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: rabbit hunt, fish. We all love the outdoors. And at
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: the end of the day, we share the same passion.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: And I never forget that. And I thank you each
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: and every time you tune into an episode of our podcast.
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: I really, sincerely, from the bottom of my heart, I
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: say this all the time. I appreciate you guys. I
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: love y'all like brothers. I love you like sisters. I
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: love you like family. And that's what we are. We're
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: an outdoor family. So I enjoy bringing this content to
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: y'all and I hope y'all enjoy listening to it. And
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: if you have questions, I always want to make that
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: a point to reach out to me on social media,
• 41:55
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• 41:58
  Speaker 1: somebody who's new to hunting or you're new to fishing
• 42:02
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• 42:05
  Speaker 1: are content creators and you have questions on how to
• 42:08
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• 42:12
  Speaker 1: what do I use to equip? I get all kinds
• 42:14
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• 42:18
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• 42:21
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• 42:23
  Speaker 1: their experiences with all of us that love outdoor content
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: and love doing what we do. So yeah, just want
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: to make that point as well, guys. But I hope
• 42:33
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• 42:41
  Speaker 1: is Jacob with Last Stop Waterfowl Outdoors Podcast.
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: We'll see y'all again soon. Y'all have a good one.