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Rain, Regulations & Ready-Up: Duck Season Kickoff (Ep. 37) · DuckFellas Podcast

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This is a duck fellas podcast episode 37 what's up my guys what is up my guy,
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fucking loser being responsible adults out here zach and i are,
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oh whoa what is that supposed to mean,
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i don't know just some of us have other things to do we can't just take a week
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off of work to play boats with friends but that's all right we're here i think
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he's referring to the The fact that we take care of the kids we have.
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Damn. Yeah, but if I have any, I don't know of them. Well, valid excuse.
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Thank you. Thank you. I'm trying.
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Which is a first. Shut up. How's it been?
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What have you been up to? Dude, I've been in the hospital since Wednesday night.
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Not for me. Did they ask cancer catch up to you? Nope. Set them clear.
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I had them check all the way up to my large intestine.
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Said I'm good to go for a few more years so the problem is you probably enjoyed
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that way too much there's a reason I asked him to leave his rings on,
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yeah yeah but yeah other than that man came home there's two ponds in my yard,
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this rain just does not quit no it's rough out there i mean we needed it right
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and i'm glad for the moisture but,
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dude i mean it's it's wild how much rain we've gotten and me and austin were
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talking about it earlier we were working on the little boat and it's like the
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most rain we've had in the month of september since what the 40s 1941 i think something like that,
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yeah most in the month of September but I was uh reading a fact that I would
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have the fact check to know if it's actually accurate or not but the last time
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we had this much moisture in the fall,
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was in the fall of 2007 and the fall of 92,
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I think we all know what the spring of the following years looks like yeah I
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I think I know which one you're which article you're talking I think I I seen
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the same one too the other day and was reading it and that's,
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it's shaping up to be a very wet year yeah,
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the next six months are going to be very interesting for,
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anybody that hunts a man-made lake in Iowa.
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Facts. All the food's gone. I mean, we might as well just cancel hunting season
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at this point because it's going to be pointless. Yeah, nobody show up, please.
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Honest to God, yeah, it's bad. I heard, yeah, multiple boat ramps washed out
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around the lake and river, so they didn't even bother coming and looking.
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All the willows are clogging the dam currently, and that's why we're flooding
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right now. Fuck, I knew they shouldn't have sprayed all of them. Yeah.
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The Goyne River was running so hard that it actually cleared out all of the floating logs.
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It's crazy to think about no it's I mean it's honestly wild I can't believe that would happen,
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but yeah no so we got I got home last night and now we are on the grind in the
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hurry of getting everything ready to go for duck season because youth hunts next weekend,
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I mean if I'm I don't know if you guys plan on taking any youth out if I'm not
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home but I know if I'm home I'm gonna try and get a couple youth together and
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get them out there because I mean it's goose season too but I'd rather,
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it's their one or two days they get to go and shoot ducks by themselves.
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Yeah, I'm planning on taking Vernon.
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Yeah, Vernon and Wesson are about to have a heck of a time, let me tell you.
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They're going to shoot so many ducks.
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Speaking of do season open up, I do have a field that we could probably get
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on if we don't find any uses to take. Yeah.
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Well, I think we got a few options. I mean, the high water is kind of changing
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things, but by then the water is supposed to be back down to like 743 here.
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So that's about a foot and a half below our normal winter pool that we've had
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the past few years. So that,
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Bring them back down into the areas that usually hang out this time of year, too. Yeah.
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Yeah, I think it's going to depend on, obviously, there's like.
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Seven days out of the next 10-day forecast has a chance for rain in it as well, too.
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So I definitely think that it's a possibility that water numbers could still
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fluctuate and we would see where that ends up and how much water they're pushing
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out and how much they're leaving in, depending on how much rain they get north of us as well.
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I mean, if they're planning on dropping it, they're going to have to stop it
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shortly after that to get it back up to what they're claiming, right?
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So the water is forecasted to be down to 743 by like the end of next week I
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believe and then they're going to start gradually raising it through duck season,
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because I know his plan like the long term plan from the DNR here from Todd
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was to have it at 743 and a half for youth season which I mean we can be at
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that no problem because we're at 747 right now,
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and then by the end of duck season or towards like the second half of duck season was to be at 747.
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Which is over there.
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Yeah. We're going to drop the water and then bring it back, I guess,
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which, I mean, whatever.
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I think the mindset on that, if anybody's wondering, was just to try and not
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put all the food and water right away so that obviously whatever birds we have
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don't try and eat it all up, all the millet and stuff right away.
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But I would kind of just rather leave it where it's at.
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If we're going to go here anyways for duck season, and try and leave it at this
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level and hold it. We already got it. We know we can have it.
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Yeah. I mean, I'm kind of in the same boat. I don't know.
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I understand the thought process, I guess, but at the same time, just leave it.
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In a perfect world, right? It would work out the way that they have it planned,
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but in reality, how often does Mother Nature play nice?
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I bet if it was a percentage, it would be like 1.75%.
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That's a pretty weird number that you just pulled out of your ass.
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I don't have to pull it anymore. It kind of falls out after that checkbook this week.
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Oh, man. I mean, I'm definitely looking forward to, if I am home, getting some youth out.
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Hope that some of our listeners, I know we've got a pretty good listener base in Minnesota.
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And I believe this weekend's opening weekend for duck season there.
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If I remember correctly, I think it's opening weekend somewhere in Minnesota.
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I know North Dakota. for residents opens this weekend, I believe.
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And then next weekend, it's only residents still. That's new this year.
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So if you're planning on going up there for open or non-resident,
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you're going to have to wait a couple extra days. Don't forget that.
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And, yeah, it's all kicking off here. We're here. I mean, it's time.
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Speaking of, I'm going to sidebar that strictly out of the fun of rabbit holes. Yeah.
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Did you see the IO? I mean, it has nothing to do with ducks,
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but IODNRs are introducing that they limit the amount of public hunting for
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a small game during deer season.
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No. I did see that, yeah. Non-residents can't hunt pheasants the first seven
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days of pheasant season, and then you cannot hunt squirrel rabbit and grouse,
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I think, or those three from October 3rd to November 3rd as a non-resident.
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A whole month? Yep.
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Wow. I mean, I guess in reality, I mean, I don't know. I don't do any of the
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above. Do we get a lot of non-residents come up here to do that?
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Oh, yeah. We get a pile of them from up north that do squirrel hunting on like 1,000 acres.
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And they'll do like weak camps that I've ran into. And they're just walking
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around playing, which public ground, you can't be mad about it, right?
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But yeah, a bunch of non-residents, like 1,000 acres is littered with non-residents
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doing some small game hunting.
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Now, my question to that is, is that on state-funded land? Or does it include
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federally funded land as well?
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I didn't read far enough into the bill to see if it included both or not.
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I would assume it has to be just state funded. Yeah, because,
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I mean, that's something that's similar to the Kansas situation that they're
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doing this year where non-residents can't hunt any WMA, whatever the hell it is, on certain days now.
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And it's one of those things that it's a big thing down there,
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and I guess it won't be as big of a thing here because not as many people come
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to Iowa and hunt, I would say, for waterfowl compared to down there.
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That's just a thing all around. Like, I mean, we talked about it,
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I think it was last week or the week before,
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on them, the government's limiting people, non-residents, and where they can
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go whenever it's their own tax dollars that are paying for it when it's federally
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funded. Like, that's, to me, that's just not right.
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Nope. Federally funded grounds should be open to anybody at any time.
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Yeah. As long as it's in season and you buy your license for a non-resident,
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you should not be limited on any kind of federal land that you're allowed to hunt on.
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Yeah. State ground, I can see the state catering to their residents,
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giving them an extra week or whatever to not have to deal with as many people and parties.
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But the federal stuff, I wish we'd kind of control some of that stuff.
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Yeah, I agree. I mean, you've got to take care of your residents.
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Your residents are the ones that are there paying taxes and owning businesses
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or whatever else. But yeah, the federally funded stuff.
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I should be able to go hunt any federal park or park. Oops. Any federal ground.
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And he stayed at that one.
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Well, you know, another thing too is like, how much does that affect local businesses?
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Like, I mean, here in Knoxville, we have the big lake, but I mean,
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our revenue is from the racetrack.
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I mean, without the racetrack, this town loses a lot. And then,
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but we just canceled late model nationals here last weekend.
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And look at, I mean, there was a, there was a decent little outcry on that.
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It's not near as big as our sprint car nationals, but it's still a big deal.
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Yeah, I've been seeing a lot, you know, airbnbs and stuff like that i mean granted
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it's not a small business per se but people with airbnbs that are like well
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shit now you know they booked it now they got a refund to the deposit or whatever and you've got,
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like i hate to include dingus right but dingus and,
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Yeah, I mean, you know, case of games and candies and stuff like that.
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Yeah, they're struggling a little bit.
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Not, again, they probably made their gold in August.
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Generally, our town is nationals for sprint cars, like 360, 410 nationals.
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I mean, that's where our money really comes in. But late model nationals does bring in money.
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But, I mean, just right off of that, though, I mean, how much does that affect?
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It wouldn't be on the same scale as what the 410 Nationals are,
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but it's in the same thing, same category.
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Them boys drink quite a bit, that late modern national crowd.
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Well, I'm just talking about for hunters, though. On these states,
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like Iowa, that just is doing what you just said.
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I would like to know. The groups that I have run across were strictly tent camping, eating.
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Oh man how do i word that so nicely while we're on a podcast eating they they're
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eating rice and squirrel meat probably,
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right if you're picking up you don't mean like no it's not but i mean the small
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game hunters realistically they're probably not bringing that much i mean we're
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not a big fasant destination we've got a few good spots right but
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right we're not it's comparing iowa kansas for ducks and iowa and,
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you know north dakota or south dakota for pheasant like we're not a giant destination
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for pheasants or anything like that,
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the frick just happened.
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No, and I mean, I used to live in North Dakota, so like we had a similar thing in North Dakota.
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Whenever North Dakota started to get more strict on all their regulations for
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waterfowl hunters, and it's changed the game there because like a lot of bars,
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local bars up there, that's where they make their money is duck season.
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Duck season and pheasants.
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Without those two things, a lot of them local bars up there and whatever,
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and motels, they don't survive.
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And it's all these laws changing where they're restricting like South Dakota's
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been doing it for years and I still think what North South Dakota does is kind
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of bullshit to a point but,
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I get it like you have your high
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destination place and you want to kind of control the crowd that comes in,
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but at the same time at one point do you hurt your own economy yeah and that's,
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it's yeah when you can look at it from both sides right because if I travel out of state for hunting,
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like I'm a big go to the local bar eat there, like I'm not a fast food guy by any means, right?
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So I'm always down to go to the local bar and have a few beers and eat local,
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or eat to smaller places, you know?
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So I get that, like on both sides of it, like yeah, that definitely sucks and has an impact.
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Every trip I've ever gone on. Now, when we were younger, we used to go to the
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bar and eat every night. Nowadays, we get a little smarter and we cook more
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nights than not and not go out as much. But we still go out, you know.
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Wasn't there a story about last year in North Dakota?
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Somebody didn't wake up on time. None of us woke up on time. Okay. None of us.
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The one night that we all went to the bar together, nobody woke up.
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The only person that woke up was Trevor, and that's because he didn't go to
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the bar with us all night. Correct.
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And he woke up and he's like, yeah, these guys are wrecked. I'm not waking them up. I am.
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But, I mean, I still make it a point. I like to go out one or two times when
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we're on a trip because you never know who you're going to run into.
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We met some boys from, they were from Maryland, I believe.
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Yep. And they were a good time.
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Honestly, we should have. I don't know if you got their number, but I never did.
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And we should have, you know, I've made a lot of friends that way or contacts
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through waterfowl hunting and not just to, like, contacts, like,
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Hey, you know, hit them up whenever you're in a certain area and see if they
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want to go hunting or they come out to you and you hunt or your trade hunts
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going back and forth, but.
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It goes the same way for work, too. I mean, I travel for work,
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so I see people all the time. And I've hooked up with people to hunt with through work.
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Yeah, no, I didn't get any of those guys' numbers. But, yeah,
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the two nights that we went to that bar, I mean, you could definitely tell that
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that group of guys was a little bit younger than us.
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They probably rebounded a little better the next morning when we didn't because,
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they got after it both nights. We were there, and then both mornings when we
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were leaving, their trucks were on and ready to go, too.
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Yeah, the one morning they were out there getting ready to hit the road as we
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were pulling out of the cabin we stayed at.
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I'm going to check the grill. I'll be right back, boys.
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Okay, goodbye. Hopefully it's not burning to the ground. Probably is.
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But no, I mean, so going off of that, I didn't know that.
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Did that just get announced? Is that if they're actually doing that this year or? Yeah.
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Yeah. No, I, I meant to send that in the group chat actually to spark conversation,
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but I just saw it maybe like two or three days ago or so. And yeah.
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Yeah. Bill, Bill just asked about it here. Bill, we were, we've been talking
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about that here and just talking about how we talked about it last week. You know what?
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I was asking these guys cause I hadn't heard it. I was asking these guys if
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it was a thing on federal land and state land, which like we talked about last
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week or whatever it was that it's on federal land too. It's kind of bullshit.
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I don't agree with it. I do agree with, you know, to a point on state land kind
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of catering to your residence for like an extra weekend or week to a point,
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but at some point you're going to hurt the economy too much.
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And it's just one of those things.
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Well, yeah, again, I think that it makes perfect sense to cater to your, your resident hunters.
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Anyways, like that is your perk of being a resident of this great state,
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whatever state that may be that people want to come and hunt is,
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hey, you live here. So you get this perk and you get to like hunt that week or weekend first.
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Axe, just to hit on this real quick, Axe asked if we've talked about the high water already.
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We've talked a little bit on it, Axe. We're going to get into that here in just
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a little bit when we finish up with this. But we're going to talk about water
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levels and just the upcoming season and what to expect out of the DNR and for
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the lake levels because it's going to be an interesting year.
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But we'll get to that here in just a bit when Zach gets back too because he's
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over there freaking charcoal and burgers up to hockey pucks as Jason said here in the comments as well.
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Yeah, I definitely want to wait until Zach and gets back to hit on the rest
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of the stuff that we have planned this weekend or sorry this week uh getting
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ready for the upcoming season and the water levels as well too because,
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yeah hopefully i mean i know obviously it it feels like every single year like,
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oh yeah like we're right on schedule well like this year with zach and i being
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so busy and obviously all this rain and it affecting like not necessarily what
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you're doing for work but how Cade's kind of moving.
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It feels like, oh shit, we really have this whole week to just crank everything
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out and then just go from there.
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It feels like this one kind of snuck up on us a little this year for sure.
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I mean, we've been talking about it. We just haven't been about it.
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I've been busy. I changed jobs recently and it's been juggling all that.
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I've been super busy as well as long as all of us really.
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I mean, obviously Cade hasn't been on here not on here again tonight because
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he's still dealing with race season stuff.
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And it's just part of it he should be I look to see him be pretty regular here
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anytime now as as race season's more or less over he's got maybe one or two
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races left on the schedule that he's gonna try to hit but right we'll see how that goes for him.
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It's definitely winded down. The weather's starting to change.
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We're all wearing hoodies. Pumped. One thing I will be pumped for is for it
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to quit freaking raining and drizzling so we can see the sun.
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That'd be awesome. Yeah.
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Yeah, I'm looking forward to it not raining anymore.
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I'm not exactly looking forward to what my yard's going to look like after stuff
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starts to dry out a little bit. If anyone has the hookup on a tractor and a
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baler, might need it for my backyard.
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Unsure yet that's no shit on that i'd talk about mowing your grass because bad
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deal yes we're all cooked on that for a while,
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bill also said like it's going to hurt us resource wise for an investment into
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habitat when it comes to that stuff limiting you know who gets to come hunt
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here and when they get to come hunt here and,
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it yeah i mean we talked about that just a little bit ago it's all around it
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hurts everything the local economies for the little bit that that the people
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do travel here to come do those like pheasant hunting and,
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all that but it's not as major of an impact as what deer hunting also would
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do like that's a major one we have,
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that they change all the time but i don't know it's going to be interesting
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just like many states are trying to do this stuff of limiting and i don't i
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don't exactly agree with the way that a lot of these states are going about it at all,
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sidebar Jason S 25 34,
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not hockey pucks.
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I make sure I put them way off the flame before I came down here that way it was.
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Why I mean it is 830 at night my guy and you are still cooking dinner like what
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are you what have you been doing all day brother we ate lunch at 2 o'clock all
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right her parents showed up at 7 with all this food,
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and I was out putting a primary clutch in a four wheeler and then I got hollered
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at and said are you going to run the grill?
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And that's why I was joined in the chat roughly 10 seconds before we went live. That'll happen.
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Yeah, that'll definitely happen. But. Well, let's move on to some stuff about.
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Bill, we're eating mac and cheese with brisket, homemade canned green beans, and cut up fillets.
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Like beef tenderloin, filet mignon.
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Hell yeah. Damn, dude. You should have invited all of us out. Yeah.
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No shit. Well, so Zach, are you going to be able to make it over here this week
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at all? I know we talked about it.
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Yeah, I think I'm going to... I'm thinking tomorrow. I'm going to sneak out
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of here. I'll probably... Baby's been eating about 8.
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I was able to get out of here today. I had to go pick up a bed frame and do
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a couple errands about 1 o'clock. So I think I'll get everything rolling.
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And yeah, I'll be over tomorrow. We'll work on the big boat a little bit.
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Yeah, I know I plan on... Tomorrow's plans are a lot.
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I plan on getting all the brush off the big boat, getting that done,
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and then cleaning the enclosed trailer because we got the stickers.
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Should be maybe done tomorrow.
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Tomorrow or Wednesday, it's happening.
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Got some decals coming for it. And then the little boat trailer,
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I'm going to get that rewired, so that is done.
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We got today, Austin came over and helped me this evening get the wires ran,
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and that was a mess from when we had anybody that's been listening to this podcast for a while.
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We talked about it back in December. Cade about crashed the little boat in the
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willows because the headlights quit working.
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And I finally figured that out. Hey, it looks sick now.
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There was two broken wires up in the front of that boat that just rubbed against,
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the channel that runs along the bottom of that boat and cut them in half.
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So I had to fix that wire, which is a nightmare since I put a fuel tank in the
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bow of that boat and you cannot get it back out. I welded it in there.
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It's not removable unless you cut the deck off.
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So I was kind of regretting that for a little bit today.
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And then we had to replace one of our marker lights on that because the Shark
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Eye green quit working. That was handy. Luckily, I had spares on hand.
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We played electrician for a little bit today. I mean, we definitely aren't electricians
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by any stretch, but we got the job done, and the lights work for the time being.
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Yeah, and we did blow a fuse for some reason right away, but I don't really
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know what happened there. I put a new fuse in it, and it is working,
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and didn't quit working. So we should be good.
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Let Pookie, you can bring the blockers over. We'll throw them in the big trailer tomorrow.
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I can do that after work. Oh, lockers. Yeah, he's got to pick them up yet.
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Yeah. Oh, I thought they were at your house. No, I'll do that tomorrow at 2 o'clock after. Okay.
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After work. Yeah, because we're cleaning that big one out. Might as well get
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them thrown in the front of that tank.
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Mm-hmm. Yeah, my biggest thing is I'm going to try to get it clean,
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like pressure washed on the outside to get it ready to, like,
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I got this. Put the vinyl on.
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Yeah, I've got this black paint polish so I can clean it up,
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make it look good, and get that vinyl put on there. And then this weekend is
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what I'm kind of looking at doing the inside of it.
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We ordered a solar panel kit for that. If anybody has any tips,
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tricks, and stuff like that, that they'd want to throw at us for,
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what they did, that they liked for building their enclosed trailer that they
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used to go either you're hunting locally or traveling around the country doing it, let us know.
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Like I'm always up for ideas on that. And we've got some ideas that I think
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we're going to like, but you never know. Sometimes other people have better
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ideas that you didn't, you don't think of.
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Speaking of anybody we're gonna be working on the trailers a little bit this
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weekend i think tyler offered to grill hamburgers and steaks for anybody who
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wanted to come help so if you guys are listening come on over sunday well i
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thought we were doing a hot dog eating contest,
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that's not really contest if i come.
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No i was gonna bring that up here as we got going real quick i seen curtis commented
23:47
he asked if we film any of our hunts and curtis we do not as of now but here's the deal, Curtis.
23:53
I said, hey, I'm going to order this camera that clips right here,
23:56
right? So I can get a nice little POV action.
23:59
And Tyler texted me and said, I'm not doing that. I'll look stupid.
24:02
Doesn't matter. He looks dumb without the camera.
24:05
So, either way, we're going to try to get some clips going this fall.
24:10
I think, uh, I'm going to order one of those. You guys looked at those Max cams?
24:14
I have not. So it's like the Shotcam. I was going to order a Shotcam for this fall.
24:19
And they were, what, 700?
24:22
Oh yeah, they're expensive. Yeah, Maxcam looked.
24:25
I was looking some videos up and they were doing, or they were doing,
24:28
they looked just as clear. And they're like $3.50.
24:33
So.
24:34
Yeah. No, we got, I mean, we do plan on doing some like GoPros. I got a DJI.
24:39
Cade's got a fucking good camera. We plan on doing some more filming of it to
24:43
a point and getting some at least reels out there. Because our reels do really
24:48
well. I don't know how our reels do so well, but they do really well.
24:51
And a lot of the people enjoy them.
24:53
So that's our main focus this year.
24:55
I am kind of looking into, in the next year or so, getting somebody to kind
25:01
of come along with us and record some hunts and put some more YouTube content out there to a point.
25:07
It's not really anything to try and make a living on, but just for fun and to
25:12
kind of grow the podcast and see what kind of people we can get to come listen
25:17
and hopefully people will enjoy it.
25:19
I mean, we have a lot of fun hunts. So now we don't always kill the most ducks,
25:23
but I can guarantee you it's always a good time in that blind.
25:26
I think we're probably going to put more reels out this fall of the camera looking
25:31
in the blind than we do of the camera looking out.
25:35
That's where the action's at. Yeah, that's full of surprises.
25:40
I mean, some of it's going to be rated R for what is said in the blind,
25:43
but at any rate, your own risk. Mm-hmm.
25:47
You'd be proud of me, Tyler. I probably won't, but what's up? I know.
25:52
Ordered myself a waterproof coat today.
25:56
Dang. Hopefully we can get Cade to do that. No, Cade already got one.
26:01
Did he? Yeah. He got tired of working in the rain the other day.
26:05
Oh, yeah. He bought a raincoat at work. Yep.
26:08
Just bleep it out with a duck quacker. Well, here's the problem.
26:14
The clip's just going to sound like a bunch of duck quacks. Yeah.
26:17
Yeah, that's all you're going to hear.
26:18
Quack you. It'll sound like a hunter in refuge. Quack quack you.
26:22
Quack quack. Quack quack.
26:24
Well, I tell you what. If you ask Siri, if you're ever having a really boring
26:28
hunt, because this worked really well for us last year.
26:31
If you're ever having a bad hunt and you're waiting around, like you haven't
26:34
seen ducks in a while, and you just ask Siri, hey Siri what do I need to do
26:38
to like what do we ask her or is it how do we bring how do,
26:42
yeah how do we get ducks how do we get ducks to come in or something like that
26:45
to come near us or something like that and then we she said what aggressive
26:49
feed chuckling so we did you know like a merganser call,
26:53
really really loud and really aggressively and we did the MGK on the duck call,
26:58
and it wasn't two seconds later we had a group come in and we're just red well
27:03
they would have came right in but I decided to play the,
27:06
trombone as they were trying to come in and drop everything in the blind so
27:10
that was super handy no it kind of really screwed us on that one so,
27:14
dude i'm i'm really hoping that espn kind of locks it in for me this year,
27:20
it was a little disappointing last year it was i'm not gonna lie especially
27:23
after the numbers that put up the year before like it was pretty consistent
27:28
two years ago like espn popped off like grab your shit,
27:33
birds are here i think it was a pretty big letdown last year.
27:37
I think it's going to be good this year. I did fairly decent in my gambling
27:41
addiction on sports last year, and so far I'm owed for about $400,
27:45
so I think ESPN's going to come in clutch during duck season.
27:50
I need that.
27:52
Damn it, boy. So yeah, no, back to grilling this weekend. If any of you consistently
27:57
listen to the podcast or are new to the podcast and you're interested to come
28:01
meet us, hang out with us, you know, this weekend, I'll be obviously here all
28:04
weekend because I live here.
28:06
But Zach and Austin will be in and out here and there and then Kate will be
28:09
around. So if any of you want to come out, eat some food, I'll make a post on the page.
28:14
Not sure what day we're going to do it. Depends on kind of how the weather works
28:17
out if Kate's going to be here or not Saturday or Sunday and kind of how it
28:21
all works out for all of us. I think kind of for my general sense. We plan it on Sunday?
28:25
Sunday I think is going to work the best for all of us, no matter how we look at it.
28:29
So we'll probably do it Sunday. Probably, you know, we'll probably all be around
28:33
off and on. I'll be here all day. Kate will be around.
28:36
I mean, then these two dingleberries should be around quite a bit.
28:39
Yeah, at least for a few hours. Come check it out. Fair warning.
28:42
Tyler's a douche in person. Absolutely.
28:45
He's actually like really incredibly short too.
28:49
You can't tell on the camera, but solid like five foot five five six right he
28:55
sits about right here that's why he put him on the end of the boat so if they
28:58
swing wide we can shoot over him,
29:01
yeah he only drives the boat to uh stand on the top step so he can be the same
29:05
height as all of us yeah yeah that's it you guys well it's real it's really
29:09
annoying that he makes us crouch like my my thighs get tired after a while,
29:16
No, but we'll make a post on there and then hit us up if we.
29:21
A lot of people here know where I live, but you can also, I think, find it on the website.
29:27
I think my address is on there for Willow's Edge Outdoors.
29:30
I may or may not make the post on Facebook about it. Or I'll make a post about
29:33
it on Facebook, and then I might just say message for details on where to come,
29:36
or just put the address there. Either way.
29:38
We'll figure it out here, but it will be Sunday. You can always message this.
29:41
Zach Neuendorp on Facebook. I'll share it and just post his address.
29:45
I don't give a shit. Mm-hmm.
29:47
You don't even know where I live. Yeah, I do. It's shit. I don't know the actual
29:51
address. I just know where it's at.
29:55
It could be like a 1,400 block of East Pleasant. You would know, pig.
30:00
Something oh all right whoa he's not a pig he's a window tent police that's
30:04
crazy all right both of you,
30:08
i'm over it don't make me but yeah so it should be
30:12
i look forward to that it'd be cool if we get some people to show up from the
30:15
podcast that listen to it and enjoy it and you know when we come hang out and
30:18
see how we do things how we prep compare or ask ask us questions you know i mean,
30:24
and tell us kind of how you do it i'm always it's always interesting to see
30:27
how other people do it because,
30:29
your way is not always the best way and sometimes other people have better ideas.
30:32
Or just talk hunting stories.
30:34
I'm more than happy having a beer and bullshitting, so.
30:37
All right. That's cool. You know what? I don't drink.
30:42
Beer apple juice with ice.
30:47
But no that'll be fun I do look forward to that yeah and we should have this
30:52
big boat should be ready at that point in time so if you want to come check it out see how,
30:56
we kind of built our blind and all that stuff come check it out come check out
30:59
the trailer come check out little boat all that stuff it's all fun,
31:04
we may all fucking act tough during duck season but before and after we all
31:08
get along for the most part mm-hmm,
31:11
bill said what about a legend bill you're more than welcome to come buddy,
31:15
oh yeah bill you can you can come i got a couch that's calling your name get
31:19
drunk and stay with us yeah you have to sleep on the couch because puky already
31:22
called dibs on the other half of the bed yep he sleeps on the same half,
31:28
yeah i have a i have a standing appointment on that side of the bed actually so uh.
31:34
Well what do we what's up let's kind of talk about let's move into some water
31:38
levels and kind of what we're expecting for duck season here and i know not
31:43
everybody hunts here at red rock but we do and that's all we care about so,
31:47
what's what what are your guys's thoughts on these these water levels that we're
31:51
experiencing with all this rain because we're getting more i mean the next the
31:55
10-day forecast looks terrible for rain,
31:57
and it's really took a turn of event quick,
32:01
yeah i mean personally i'm excited i,
32:04
i would rather keep it where it's at right if they're planning on bringing it
32:07
747 i would be a little more excited if they kept it where it's at,
32:12
versus dropping and then trying to bring it back,
32:15
water isn't that high and it's gonna continue the fluctuation so i don't really
32:19
know if you're benefiting much by dropping it and and trying to salvage what food there is or not,
32:25
so i don't know i'm excited for some higher water period a little more places
32:28
to hunt kind of spread some guys out hopefully i'm also giving some give ducts
32:32
a little break in certain pockets if they can find it.
32:35
Absolutely. I kind of agree with holding it where it's at. One thing I will
32:41
say that I wish we would do,
32:44
Man, what the fuck was I getting ready to say? That just wrecked.
32:46
I was trying to change my screen up here so I could see stuff a little better.
32:49
That was probably something dumb.
32:52
Absolutely, it's always something dumb. Austin, what do you think?
32:56
Yeah, no, I'm pumped to have water.
32:59
I agree with you. I wish they would just keep it where it's at right now.
33:04
If they already know that they want to bring it back up to this,
33:07
I would prefer to just keep it.
33:08
I am kind of excited. I know that the water level is coming down quick at this
33:14
point, and we're trying to figure out schedules.
33:19
For the rest of this week but it would be kind of nice to
33:22
get out and kind of check it out and see what it looks like this early in the
33:27
year and kind of with them spraying a whole bunch of the willows last year just
33:31
to kind of see where we're at with all that,
33:35
and yeah if i mean if they're going to bring it up to 747,
33:39
or whatever like i'll be curious to see the places that we can hunt that haven't
33:44
been able to be hunted in the last.
33:49
Eight ten years right real real quick we're going to change change topic touch
33:53
on this comment that trent just made trent commented and asked if we need any
33:57
donations for marker poles trent this year,
34:01
if if the water comes down in time or i can get out there and do markers i'm
34:04
just gonna do it myself this year one thing i will say is if anybody's i know
34:09
you've been here for a while listening to the podcast pretty much weekly,
34:13
we've been working with the isc on starting something for waterfowl hunters
34:17
in the state of iowa to kind of give them a voice outside of delta and du i
34:21
know bill's involved with a group that's over on the missouri riverside,
34:25
and that is making progress finally we're moving forward with making the right
34:29
steps to getting that going so this year i'm going to just go ahead and handle
34:32
it between between us for now,
34:34
just because it's just it's just easier than trying to get donations right now
34:37
but next year and years moving forward hopefully here the isc deal is going
34:42
to be kicking off here you know we're hoping i think to roll that out this year
34:46
zach or is that going to be a next year thing yeah,
34:49
we got a meeting coming up here the next within a month here mid-october,
34:53
if everything at that meeting looks good we got a couple more guys interested
34:56
i think it's going to be something that takes off quick be a waterfowl and an upland bird division,
35:03
but yeah i think i think by next.
35:07
June july it's full bore we should be able to get some support from there and
35:13
do some markers with that and i say i think we're hoping to be kind of full
35:17
bore before the the deer classic right we are yeah absolutely full bore i just mean like,
35:22
self-sufficient essentially by july hopefully kind of,
35:27
depends on participation depends on members depends on donations depends on
35:32
when we decide to do the banquet stuff like that so we we will keep you guys
35:36
informed on stuff like that because the more members we can grow
35:39
obviously the more we can put back directly here. So yeah.
35:44
It's going to be a huge thing. There's not really a group around that I know
35:48
of that other than some of the groups that Bill works with and we've been talking
35:52
about it since last year in like December, January and we brought it up that it's going to be it.
35:57
We were working on it then kind of we've been working on it the whole time.
36:02
It's not like that we've really forgot about it. It's just been a work in progress.
36:07
So we're trying to get to that point, and like Bill said, everybody bitches.
36:11
It's just not, it's hard to get help, but when you can get a group like this
36:15
together where you have a committee, and then you have members,
36:19
and then we put stuff to votes, and it just,
36:22
it is what it is, you know, as long as the majority votes or whatever we,
36:25
whatever the committee comes up with, what kind of vote you need,
36:28
that, you know, that's going to benefit the most people that want that is how it's going to be.
36:33
It's not going to be just, you know, that committee just says,
36:36
oh, no, we're doing this no matter what.
36:37
But it's going to be a member-associated thing.
36:41
And all the waterfowl hunters and upland hunters are going to have a voice in,
36:46
what happens. And they can try and have their voices go somewhere instead of,
36:51
just bitching on Facebook.
36:53
Yeah. And then I was saying there's a lot of, I think a lot of it's bitching.
36:57
I don't want to talk shit on either group, right? Because you should support a group.
37:01
It doesn't matter which one. do you or or both or both you know the nice thing
37:05
is with with us and kind of what we're working towards is going to be you know
37:10
95 of what we raise is going to stay in iowa so,
37:14
we're going to we're going to have a a big say now it's not millions like do
37:18
you can put up right but it's,
37:19
and it's going to be it it's not going to be a huge thing right away like like we're not going to have,
37:24
thousands or millions of dollars just to throw at certain projects or do big
37:29
things but if the more people that join the more people that get involved and
37:33
the more involvement you get period and even if it's a smaller group,
37:37
and spread the word it the more money you're going to have to put to places
37:41
to help benefit your hunting and yep make your hunting more successful hopefully
37:46
in the long run i mean obviously there is no guarantee in hunting it's hunting
37:49
for a reason you just never know what you're going to kill,
37:52
but it's mother nature that decides what you're going to get to kill that day yep,
37:57
Or sometimes it's your hunting buddy that drops the vape in the boat and scares
38:03
all the birds off. You can fuck off now.
38:07
But no, I just wanted to, I just wanted, I seen Trent's comment,
38:10
so I wanted to touch on that a little bit.
38:12
We do, honestly, we really do appreciate the offer because it,
38:15
I mean, that offer doesn't get brought up ever.
38:18
I mean, I think that's the first offer that's been, I mean, a couple of buddies
38:22
are like, hey, if you go out, let me know, I'll go with you, right?
38:24
But well it's yeah so that's that's coming soon and it's definitely made more
38:29
progress now than it has in the past seven months from when we talked about it originally so
38:34
don't lose spirit we got stuff coming down the pipeline hopefully it turns into
38:38
a good thing i mean obviously you never know with stuff because it's hard to
38:41
get people to agree on anything,
38:44
so but we're trying to do something to benefit not just waterfowl hunters but
38:47
pheasant hunters as well and and everything you know make it,
38:50
make because isc is already a big organization right so the more things you
38:54
can do the better off you are for health and habitat in iowa,
38:57
and with with the hunters i just want to point out that pf does the same shit
39:01
that du or delta does so that's kind of why we include everybody right bunch
39:06
of bunch of bird guys general.
39:09
But to go back to the water thing because we i got sidetracked there but i wanted
39:13
to touch on that because there was a comment there i seen and i wanted to i
39:16
didn't want to forget about it so to touch on the plan i know I talked about this a couple weeks ago.
39:22
The plan is October 3rd, which is a used season opener, to have the lake at 743.5.
39:29
It looks like that's not going to quite happen because they're dropping the
39:31
lake too much. It might be really close to that mark, so we'll be within two tenths or so.
39:36
And then the plan is just to gradually raise the water until middle of November, get it to 747,
39:43
and that's where they're going to hold it for the rest of the season and hopefully,
39:45
through goose season because that'll be a game changer for goose hunting on
39:50
the water. That'll be dirty.
39:54
The biggest thing I'm excited for is when we get to 747, I mean,
39:57
we have became a lot more popular of an area to hunt in central Iowa than ever
40:03
before within the past two or three years.
40:05
And it could be because of wild water followers and everybody talking about it.
40:08
But it's, I mean, any given weekend, we've talked about this before,
40:12
it's 35 rigs at the ramp every week nowadays until you get towards the end of
40:17
November when you start seeing some ice.
40:18
And then obviously some of the rigs, some people have little 14-footers and
40:22
it's just a little bit more sketchy and they'd make the right decision to not
40:25
go out those days. And, or, they're just pussies.
40:31
Could be. Say it with your chest. Yeah. But, I mean, it's so,
40:38
it's going to be a big deal.
40:39
There's going to be a lot, a lot, a lot of area and there will be no excuse,
40:43
should be no excuse, for people hunting close, right on top of each other this
40:47
year. Whenever that water gets up to 746 even.
40:50
And at 746, the amount of square footage we have of huntable acres with water
40:56
on them is going to be insane.
40:58
It's going to be nice, especially when you run into, you know,
41:01
there's a few days last year with that many boats. And it's like when we showed
41:04
up, you're like, holy shit.
41:06
And then, you know, Pookie running a midnight shift or whatever and can get
41:10
there at 9 a.m. And you go back and you're like, oh, my God,
41:13
I thought there was a pile when we put off. And now there's double that.
41:18
Yeah, imagine me pulling in there like,
41:22
I just got off work, ran home, changed, meet you guys out there, and I'm like,
41:27
oh my God, I'm driving through the parking lot, obviously, I'm the only one
41:30
there, everybody else has launched, so curious me, I'm like,
41:34
not from Marion County, not from Marion County, I'm like, there's people from
41:38
all over, which, I mean, it's cool to see that it is,
41:43
that it is so popular around here, but at the same time, it's like,
41:47
I don't remember that from a couple of years ago.
41:52
I love this comment. So Todd just said, and Todd's a legend in Iowa.
41:57
Todd's been doing this forever.
41:59
This will be his 47th Ducks season, and he can confirm that anytime the Rock
42:03
is above 745, it's game on. And I would agree with him wholeheartedly on that.
42:09
When we get water and we have the habitat that we have right now, it's game on.
42:17
It is fun. And then we got Bill. So, Pookie, you're going to have to answer
42:21
to that Bill said that you're the asshole that shows up at first light,
42:25
Yeah, it's me, but it's always Tyler is the one that comes and picks me up So,
42:31
actually, I mean, he's the asshole that drives through twice When he has to come and pick me up.
42:39
Oh, yeah, dang And now Todd's saying he's calling me out for calling him old
42:43
I didn't call you old, Todd I don't think anybody specifically said old I just
42:47
said you're an Iowa legend, my guy. That is all.
42:51
If anyone's old, it's Tyler. I mean, that's fine.
42:55
We get it. You guys are just distinguished. Oh, and I do want to say,
43:00
big shout-out here while we're talking about age, anybody that knows Cade,
43:03
make sure you message him and tell him that he's one year older tomorrow. Yep.
43:08
It is that. It is Cade's big day to be picked on tomorrow. Yep.
43:12
It's good times. But no, it's going to be...
43:16
I'm really excited for...
43:19
I'm really excited to see how much water we have this season and how many birds
43:23
we can hold. Because every year that we've had ample water and habitat like
43:26
we currently have, we've gained some really good habitat through the past five years.
43:32
And there's many acres that hasn't been, there's probably a thousand acres,
43:37
if not more, that haven't been hunted in the past five or six years because
43:42
there's been no water on it. And we're going to have water on that this year.
43:46
I think it's going to be sweet. I think it's going to be a stellar year.
43:50
If we hold what we're saying we're going to hold. Yeah.
43:56
I'm not as excited for the refuge to have water because the refuge has been
43:59
dry every year for the past few years, but the refuge is going to have water
44:02
too. So it's going to hold birds this year.
44:06
This comment, right? I want to take a second because I was not duck hunting
44:10
in 2018. In 2018, I was only running goody poles up white breast.
44:16
You missed out. and it was it was insane looking back i know what they were
44:21
right then i was like oh birds oh my god cool birds and now that like obviously
44:26
i can kind of identify birds a little bit except for them rainbow teal they still get me but,
44:32
you know now it's like looking back i'm like dude like man if i would have been
44:35
able to hunt or into the hunting the waterfowl hunting in 2018 it would have
44:39
been amazing dude that was my i want to say that was when i my first year hunting in Iowa.
44:47
And that was insane. Like everybody kept telling me like, Oh,
44:51
you know, the hunting in Iowa is subpar.
44:53
And I still don't believe them on that. Like I've had very, very good luck in
44:57
Iowa since I've lived here. I got, I mean, I've had a couple down years,
45:00
but I've never had necessarily terrible years. I can't say like,
45:03
Oh yeah, this sucks in Iowa.
45:05
I think Iowa is kind of a sleeper state when it comes to waterfowl hunting to
45:07
a point in all honesty, I think it gets overlooked because we're everybody says
45:12
it's flyover state. Maybe that's because they don't want people to come here
45:14
and hunt or they just, Maybe you suck at hunting.
45:19
It's, uh, that, that 2018 year was one that I will never forget.
45:24
And I didn't have, I didn't know anybody here at that time. I knew my neighbor.
45:27
I got him into duck hunting that year and then started meeting people as the year went on.
45:33
Yeah. I made friends. And that's somehow I ended up knowing you two retards.
45:38
Whoa. You knew, you knew Austin first, so I'm just the tag along retard.
45:46
You're definitely the straggler behind us. yeah for sure we definitely did bring
45:51
you along and somehow you stuck so here we are,
45:56
remember how nervous he was to go hunting with me for the first time last year was it last year before,
46:01
two years ago two years ago dude it's kind of just a thing with you like the
46:05
first time i went hunting with you like,
46:09
i wasn't really nervous i just didn't know who anyone was and then i saw that
46:14
fucking window tail on your truck and was instantly pissed off but,
46:19
we shot the fuck out of some geese that day yeah we did that was a good day
46:23
and then we we had a couple good days on like we went goose hunting one other
46:26
time on the lake that year and we shot a few geese should have probably had
46:30
our limits and then yeah definitely we packed up before the snow hit,
46:34
and then the snow hit as we go halfway across the lake and the geese were everywhere
46:37
i'm like yeah that was that was i mean obviously i was brand new to it at that
46:42
time but like as we're going across big water in the boat and there's just birds everywhere.
46:48
I'm like, I don't know what's going on, but this is really cool and I would
46:52
like to stay and do it again.
46:54
Yeah. And since then, you've been hooked. Mm-hmm.
46:59
But like Trenton says, we know the terrible years in Illinois at Illinois.
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Wow. Oof. That's... I just said that.
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Illinois, I think, is having way worse of years now than what we really remember.
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We had some bad years in the early 90s and mid-90s, but really by the time I
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started shooting, late 90s and early 2000s, it was getting to be pretty good
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hunting at that point in time.
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But it's way worse now, Bill. and I seen Bill mention that he's like what did he say here?
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That if it sucks he's going to be around my dad's neck of the woods and I feel
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like you're going to be highly disappointed Bill if you go down there because
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they don't kill shit down there anymore.
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It's like saying McDonald's sucks and going to Burger King. It's the same shit.
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Same shit. I have a feeling my dad will be up here hunting with us at some point this year.
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He's talked about it more and more and I think that's going to happen probably this year.
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I hope so with if like if we end up having this much water and he brings his
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boat up here and we have both boats rolling one i just think like we've talked
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about it for well ever since i've known you so for the last,
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three years three full hunting seasons like,
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we've talked about it and it's been hinted towards and like now i kind of just
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want to make it happen and want to just absolutely mow down like a fucking tin
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man or something. That'd be so cool.
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I mean, at the same time, I almost feel like I've somewhat hunted with the guy
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already because he calls, right? And we sit there and bullshit the boat and
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it's like, hold on, hold on, hold on.
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Yeah. We're killing birds.
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Well, it's either that or like he'll, like we'll talk for like 20 seconds and
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it's either we see birds and we start calling or he sees birds and he's like,
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oh, just give me a second.
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And then we get to listen to them call for the next fucking 15 minutes and work birds. So.
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It's definitely interesting. I know you guys have never met him,
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and he's a riot to hunt with.
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But I think the people of Boxcar will shit their pants if they see my little
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boat, my dad's little boat, my big boat, and his big boat rolling out from the
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ramp. And don't forget K's little boat.
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His 12-litter? Yes.
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And Trenton, you definitely, you should come out here and hunt.
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I've been trying to talk you into that for years, but you are too stubborn to come out here.
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And I guess I can say the same for myself. I've been too stubborn to go out
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there to Hawkeye with you and hunt.
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But one of these days, we're going to make something work.
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For sure. I don't know. Going off your comment about talking to your dad and
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somebody's like, hold on, hold on, hold on.
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That is the absolute worst feeling on days that you can't hunt and you call
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the guys and you're just bullshitting with them. And then all your ears,
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hold on, hold on, hold on. Just like, whack, whack, whack.
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Boom, boom, boom. I'm like, yeah, I hate it. I'm at work. Like I hate my life
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right now. I wish I could hunt all 60 days.
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I feel like the person that happens to the most though is Cade.
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Cade always gets pumped. Yeah. Especially the last couple of years,
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like two years ago, for sure.
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When it was primarily just me and you right out on a lot of weekday hunts,
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like he would call like three times a hunt.
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And to like that was the year that me and you were going every day basically
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and we were killing i mean we killed our limit pretty much every day like what was there,
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three times we didn't kill them i think you figured out or something like that
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yeah three times out of 17 hunts,
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no three times out of 21,
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hunts i believe yeah and that I
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mean, that was a good year. And a lot of people had a bad year that year.
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And I don't know if we just got lucky or what happened, but...
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I can't complain about it. That just kind of gets me hard because now I can,
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think about it as the fact that I got 12 weeks paternity to leave.
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So November's looking real open.
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It's going to be – I mean, I'm stoked about duck season every year.
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I think anybody that loves this sport and thinks about it year-round is – I
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mean, by the end of the season, I'm definitely like, yeah, fuck this.
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I'm ready for it to be over with. Let's get a little break so I can sleep in
51:18
once on a weekend or a weekday.
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At least wake up not hungover. Yeah, but I think by, what, usually April,
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May. I think I know April for sure. I'm definitely already itching for it to be back.
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And a lot of people are, by June, for sure, just jonesing for it.
51:38
So it's here. I would say it's about the time the nice-looking Spoonies show
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up. It's about the time I start.
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I'm like, damn it.
51:49
You should have seen it today Zach we were fucking around fixing the lights
51:53
on the boat like we're listening to music like we're shooting the shit and all
51:56
of a sudden just one fucking solo hunk and I'm like hold on freeze,
52:03
what fucking direction was that coming from? We both like run out the garage
52:07
door and there go to just flying right over the building. I'm like, we're back.
52:13
I was working on the four wheeler and I heard the same thing.
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And I'm just like, well, I sent you both to Snapchat. The geese are hanging
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out in my neighbor's pond.
52:20
And I think he's gonna let me out of this year, but I just sit in there for
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a four wheeler, like underneath the minister. I'm like, Oh, you know,
52:30
that can crawl out from a four wheeler real quick.
52:33
Real quick, Michael asked me a question. He said, Tyler, is Johnny going to
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give you any time off from the new gig?
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And I didn't give him a choice, Michael. I told him in the beginning straight
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up with him that that's the only time of year that I really went off.
52:46
So that's already agreed upon and he's aware, but I don't think he realizes
52:53
just how much time I take off to a point.
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Like I told him at least middle of November through December, I take off like,
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one of those guys that I kind of wish our duck season didn't start in beginning of October. Oh, yeah!
53:11
Oh. Brett. Why? Oh, Brett.
53:15
Something else. What a cuck. Jesus. But no, it's going to be cool.
53:21
We got a lot of content that we're going to be making over this next seven days.
53:25
As we're kind of going through the boats, getting stuff fixed,
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we didn't really get any content today of fixing the headlights on the boat
53:31
and the running lights because that was an absolute freaking nightmare.
53:34
You wouldn't know how to watch it.
53:36
Nightmare, no lights in the shop, a lot of cuss words.
53:41
Yeah. I knew it was going to be, like, I knew pretty much what the problem was.
53:45
I knew there was a wire that either pulled out of a butt splice somewhere or there was broken wire.
53:49
I just didn't realize it was going to be underneath the bow in front of the
53:51
fuel tank that I can't remove and can't get behind. So, that was fun,
53:55
but it's fixed and everything works now.
53:58
But we should have a bunch of content coming out with how we grasp the boat,
54:01
kind of what holds our willows on, all the good stuff.
54:06
And then, like I said, like we said earlier, for all the new listeners that
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may be listening to this podcast or in the live stream tonight, hit us up.
54:14
Sunday is the tentative plan, but probably going to be Sunday that we'll have
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a cookout and we'll all be in and out over here at the old MIG Valley house.
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We got the giant goose spread in the pasture.
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And we'll have the boats out, trailer out kind of go over some stuff get cleaning
54:32
get to bullshitting put you to work absolutely if you show up bring your gloves
54:36
or just be ready to work yeah bring your gloves or don't have soft hands.
54:42
Yeah, so Zach has gloves on at all times. I got short fingers.
54:49
This has been a good podcast. This has been fun. We didn't have any notes tonight.
54:56
It's been a hectic summer for all of us, and it's been a hectic couple weeks
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here for us as well. It just feels like it's not going to stop.
55:03
It's going, and we're trying to get more content out to you guys,
55:07
trying to get these podcasts back on a weekly basis now that it's fucking hunting
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season. and it's time to grind and kill some shit. Oh, try it, boys.
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And to all the deer hunters, I think bow season starts, what,
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the first or when is that? Thursday, baby. Yep, Thursday. So...
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Ain't ready for that either.
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Yeah. Hell yeah. It's all kicking off and it's the time of year that anybody
55:27
that's listening to the podcast fucking enjoys and looks forward to the rest of the year.
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So, we're here. Best time of the year. Yep.
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We fucking made it. Damn straight.
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But I think that's going to about wrap this one up. I feel like...
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I mean, What do you guys think? Nope. Perfect. Ended on a good note.
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Everybody go kill some shit. Have a good time. Life's a garden. Dig it.
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Life's a garden. Dig it. Thanks, Joe Dirt. Yeah, he's something else.
55:54
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56:08
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56:15
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56:23
Let's get this going. But good luck this weekend or this Thursday. Later, nerds.
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Yeah, Zach's still gay. He's going to go eat some hockey pucks after this.
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And I don't know what he's going to do with the hockey pucks after that.
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But peace out good luck chill some shit.