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Boat Lights Out, Snow in the Spread & The Last Iowa Ducks · DuckFellas Podcast

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  This is a Duckfellas Podcast, your weekly dose of waterfall wisdom,
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  blind banter, and hunting stories that might just be mostly true.
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  Hosted by Tyler, Cade, and Pookie. Three fellas chasing feathers and good times.
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  Wherever you may be listening in at today.
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  Welcome back. Had to throw in the pookie. Had to. Here we are again for another week.
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  We got to start throwing some wrenches in every once in a while.
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  Keep people on their toes.
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  I don't even know how that started, but I feel like that's what I'm referred to all the time now.
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  I have heard you call pookie. Every time I call somebody else Pookie,
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  I got to, nope, never mind, never mind. You're not Pookie.
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  We already have one of those. I do appreciate how loyal you are to me with that name.
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  It's not much, but it's honest work. Somebody's got to do it.
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  Well, we'll get into a little bit of hunting stories from this week.
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  It was not a bad week of hunting. It was my last week of duck hunting for the
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  season in the state of Iowa. What did you just say?
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  I think he said he loves you. Yeah, that's what I thought. How do your shit break in? Hmm.
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  It was one time. It's probably because you guys are too mean to it.
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  If we don't, or if you don't break your stuff, there's no way we are harder on it than you are.
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  The big boat works just fine. It didn't.
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  There was one problem this year, and that was batteries. and lights on it too,
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  because of your batteries no it was a switch oh it wasn't get your shit together,
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  if you're gonna come at me come out with these facts bro it's alright dude you
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  and boat lights just don't match they definitely don't get along,
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  it's alright and Cade just saved the day.
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  Not really. I thought he was about to just land hoe the little boat.
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  Every other year I would have been totally screwed.
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  If it would have been Austin running the boat, dude, he'd be,
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  he'd be on top of the willow trees 10 feet in the air. He legit, he legit said that.
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  Yeah. He legit said that. He's like, I would have beached that fucker so hard.
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  Yeah. Yeah. I would have.
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  Without a doubt. That would have been awesome.
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  That would have been a great clip though for a reel on our Instagram.
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  How would you have got it? Well, I would have recorded us pulling up to him
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  in the willow. What are you doing?
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  Hey, you can't park there. How'd you get here? Until you saw how messed up your
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  boat was. Not any care at that point.
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  It would have been worth the laugh.
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  That's fair. I get it. Yeah, so the backstory behind that one, it was snowing decent.
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  I mean, it wasn't snowing super hard, but hard enough to where you couldn't really see shit.
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  Your eyes were getting pelted with little ice pellets.
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  Hit a wave going back to our little hole, and the lights went out on the boat.
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  So I looked back to see if the light was still on on the switch panel. It indeed was.
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  Turned around, put the freaking strobe light on. All I saw was weeds, and I said, oh, shit.
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  Yeah, we made it into the hole just fine.
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  And we're sitting there, and I'm like, well, that's not good.
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  Where's Cade we waited for it felt like forever but I think it was like 30 seconds
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  and I'm like we better go find him because something happened,
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  I was just glad that I got that thing trimmed up and turned off before I even
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  got any sort of shallow I even had to push the boat into the weeds more to get
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  it to not try to keep rolling down,
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  Yeah, definitely avoided a possibly much worse situation with that.
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  Oh, that could have been real bad.
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  But, I mean, all in all, the week of hunting was not bad.
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  Not bad. I mean, it was a slower year in general, but it definitely got better
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  as the season went on, per usual.
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  That's usually how it works. Usually this week is our first real,
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  like, big push of birds. so it's kind of par for the course.
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  Yeah. The only difference this year is I guess the DNR probably got the seasons
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  right this year because it looks like we're going to freeze up for a hot minute here.
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  I mean, there won't be much open water other than a river by Thursday.
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  Fine with me. Fine with me too. I hope it all freezes up so tight that nobody
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  can duck hunt in the whole state of Iowa the rest of the season.
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  Jeez. Just because you're gone doesn't mean I think you ought to be so mean to us. Just you. Yeah.
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  At least make sure the river's open for this weekend. Come on.
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  I'll think about it. Yeah. Talk to Mother Nature. See what you can do.
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  Yeah. I'll put in a good word for you guys.
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  We know you won't. You're right. You caught me.
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  And then, I don't know, we had, what, three or four pretty good hunts last week in general. Yep.
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  Because we didn't hunt Sunday or Monday when we got back from North Dakota.
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  Mm-mm. And then it got pretty good. I mean, it wasn't the best, but it was good.
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  I was gone for a couple days. That was nice.
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  Yep, I bet. Thanksgiving out of state, but the wife and I had to cut that trip
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  short due to weather. so ended up coming back and being able to hunt the last
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  couple days while you were here.
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  That was probably a good call for you guys to head home. Yeah.
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  Yeah, when we woke up Sunday morning and saw that I-80 was travel not advised
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  across the entire state of Iowa,
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  and the line of cars on the news stopped in traffic due to accidents,
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  I was, I mean, it always sucks because we just don't get up there as much as
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  we would like to, But to sit in traffic,
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  standstill traffic for four hours and add that to a seven-hour drive would have been even worse.
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  Yeah. Yeah, when I left Sunday to head back to work, it was pretty messed up all the way across Iowa.
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  I mean, the farther east I got, the better it got.
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  But that first hour, so I got to almost Iowa City, the roads were pretty bad.
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  Mm-hmm well I think even still when you left like it was travel not advised
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  on 80 like all the way clear past Grinnell yeah I was not supposed to be driving mm-hmm recommendation,
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  minor recommendation what else happened Sunday morning.
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  Austin went back to bed. Oh, there it is. That's why we didn't go hunting Sunday. Yep, yep.
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  That's what I was looking for there.
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  These guys give me shit for being five minutes late most of the time,
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  and they left me hanging again.
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  Well, hey, listen. I did wake up late, but I woke up. I responded.
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  Pookie was taking way too long to respond. I'm like, this guy went back to sleep.
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  Five minutes at three-something in the morning, though, means you're definitely
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  back in bed yeah oh yeah no no no i was i i got up on time got dressed,
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  talked to cade and tyler was nowhere to
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  be found you know what's crazy though is you you got
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  you were up and out of bed so you could have just went to cade's got in his truck
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  brought the little boat over and we could have just knocked on the door and
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  said hey bitch wake up let's go yeah i mean after the day of hunting and it
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  sounded like people had out there and the unfortunate circumstances that you
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  actually didn't have to go back to work right then and we could have hunted all day.
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  Yeah, we should have been out there. If we would have gone where Tyler and I
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  talked about going, we wouldn't have been there all day. He could have still went to work on time.
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  Yeah, so actually it only took Austin two minutes to respond,
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  but it did feel like 30 minutes.
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  It felt like a good half hour. I'm not going to disagree with you there.
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  No, no, I was super ticked because I, you know, I wasn't real mad about not
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  going because I had to drive a ton yesterday.
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  Day but when they texted me and
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  said oh yeah we're not gonna start till the afternoon and
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  we didn't even do anything today fyi no work
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  but i was like god no
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  we really wish we would have gone hunting because i don't have to be at work
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  till later in the day monday so that sucks should just hook the boat up came
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  out but i was already on the road oh yeah duh should have just turned around
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  You were only three hours from home.
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  Only. I'd have got a home in time to hunt like an hour and a half.
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  We could have done it. That would have been all it would have taken.
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  Too bad. So sad. Mistakes were made. Now Tyler's done for the year.
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  I'm done for the year in Iowa. Yeah, in Iowa. At least done duck hunting in
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  the year for the year in Iowa.
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  I wouldn't rule out a trip to Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas Nebraska I'm intrigued,
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  Those are all viable options I like going to Nebraska late in the year Twist
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  my arm How would I do that?
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  Might give you a rug burn That's weird What?
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  Tyler's been up far too long He didn't get adequate sleep last night Nah,
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  I got like three hours It was awesome That's about all you sleep anyway. Usually four.
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  Yeah, no, it was a fun week. Lots of snow Friday night into Saturday.
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  Not as much as they were calling for, though.
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  No, but that snow Saturday was a pain in the ass.
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  Yeah, no, it definitely turned our whole spread into a slushie.
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  And we had a lot of snow goose decoys out. It was a lot.
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  Which we did have three snow goose decoys, or three snow geese work in the morning.
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  So maybe I thought we were going to absolutely crunch those things mmhmm,
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  that was almost pretty cool yeah well shall we dad got to shoot the spec that
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  was cool oh yeah I forgot to shoot the spec can't leave that guy hanging out because Pookie,
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  didn't have his gun loaded nope was getting ready it was loaded he just had
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  the shell hanging out the side yep I was getting ready to go be a nice guy and
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  clean off the decoys for us I couldn't do it I was making breakfast burritos
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  and then that thing was just,
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  absolute feet up saying oh my gosh look at all my friends feet up or feet down
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  feet up feet up okay so he was coming in upside interesting he almost was there for a second,
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  he was just inside out.
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  There it is. That was sweet. I wish they all did it like that.
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  Me too. But then it wouldn't be any fun. It'd be too easy.
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  It'd still be fun. Yeah. I mean, I could definitely go for some easy days.
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  We don't get those around here. There's too many people. I like to challenge. Of course you do.
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  Anyways, who cares? We're moving on. Who cares?
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  Hunting's dumb. Who are you? You're just mad you can't go this weekend.
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  I'm not mad, actually. I'm going to be making money. That is true.
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  I haven't worked in over 30 days, so I think it's time to make a couple bucks.
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  Ellie's kibble supply is running low. Dog's got to eat. Yeah.
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  She's currently passed out. If you guys can see her back there,
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  like a whole sack of potatoes. She's out.
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  Anyways, this week we're going to discuss decoy brands and styles.
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  Everybody's got their preference.
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  But there are some that are better than others. I guess we'll just kick it off.
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  What's everybody's favorite brand of decoy? Like, what do you guys prefer?
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  No, Austin's opinion doesn't really matter, but... That is true.
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  I personally feel like all around, it's harder to beat a Dakota.
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  Copycat. Can't steal my answers. Then why'd you ask me?
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  That's awfully nice of you. I appreciate you for that. You're welcome.
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  Yeah, their duck floaters look absolutely badass.
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  They hold up to the shit you do to them very well. Because you are not nice to anything.
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  No, it shouldn't have to be nice. I mean, obviously, I agree with you.
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  Dakotas are my favorite. I've ran avians in the past quite a bit.
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  They weren't a bad decoy. They
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  hold up good, but I've had troubles with their paint holding up to me.
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  After about three years, they were all black. So I got rid of those.
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  I've tried the dive bombs.
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  Everybody here knows my opinion on those. Those things could just disappear
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  off the face of the earth other than their pintail decoys.
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  I do like their pintails. Those things are sick. Yeah.
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  But I just don't like the movement. They don't have good movement, period.
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  They're a lot like an Avian. I don't think Avians move as well as some of the other brands.
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  But the Dye Bomb Mallards can just frick off. I'm not a fan.
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  I don't like the postures. I don't think the paint's all that and a bag of chips.
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  All around not a fan. That's the cool thing about your Dakotas too is for how,
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  I guess you could call them heavy. I mean, they're on the heavier side.
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  Those things move around with no wind.
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  Yeah. Yeah. They're definitely on the heavier side, but for the way we hunt,
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  it doesn't really matter.
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  But there is lighter options too. They got the packables. I mean,
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  they've got everything you could think of.
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  I've also had greenhead gears growing up, Lambos, all that stuff.
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  I mean, it's hard to beat a G&H durability.
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  The OG G&Hs were some of the best.
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  Justin, what do you like? Well, the only thing I've really ever hunted over are Dakotas.
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  So, I mean, you have, what, 13, 14 dozen? Something like that. Yeah.
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  Ducks and how many ever dozen honkers? So,
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  yeah, I mean, when you get to hunt over those all the time and I can consistently
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  get to look at them during cloudy days, sunny days, is just see how good they
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  look, see how good they move,
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  and how well I think that they can bring in birds for you with just how good they look.
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  I mean, when that's all you're used to, you're like, yeah, well,
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  I mean, it works. It's like, why would I go to or want to try to do anything else?
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  Right. The one good thing about Dakota, too, is their warranty is pretty decent.
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  They're fairly, as long as you get a hold of them, which during hunting season
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  is harder to do to get a hold of them, but they do stand behind their product
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  fairly well whenever they do respond.
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  Are your Dakotas your favorite also for goose decoys, or do you have other ones
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  you like for goose decoys?
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  I haven't found one that I like better than a Dakota for goose decoys either.
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  We've hunted over a lot of different shit.
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  I started out, well, not I didn't start out, but I used to have a good handful
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  of avians, and I like the look of the avian full bodies.
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  But I do not like their bases.
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  Yeah. That system does not last, never lasted for me.
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  It would eventually wear that groove out and they would just collapse. Yep.
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  The new Avian paint's pretty cool, too. More of that, like, brown, creamish color.
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  Yeah, I think it's a pretty decent looking decoy. Just I wish they'd change their bases up.
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  You still have a handful of those, don't you?
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  Like, four, I think. Four or five, or just a few. But yeah, I got a few.
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  Very few, but yeah. Now you can definitely tell when you grab one of those with
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  the base, because they're usually broke.
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  Actually, I'm pretty sure all four or five of those are broke.
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  I've already replaced them like three times so you can get the
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  replacement cones for them but they just don't last i've i
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  mean i've got a little bit of everything from in my goose trailer i've
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  got doas final approaches some higdens
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  i believe some gna or greenhead gears
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  a little bit of all of it and then
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  once again the dakotas even their bases just
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  seem to hold up the best the rubber bands on the bottom that hold
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  the base on don't wear out hardly
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  at all i've had a couple that the the inside the
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  guts have broken a little bit but they still work you just gotta twist the band
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  on the bottom around once to tighten it up if bigfoot could find a way to keep
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  their feet and heads on like where you didn't have to put screws in them those
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  things would be hard to beat,
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  I just wish they had movement and they, you didn't have to stake them down in high winds. Yeah.
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  Dude, that's been so annoying. It gets real windy. You look out and,
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  oh, half the decoys are laying down taking a nap.
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  Well, that's how our spread looked in North Dakota every single time we'd shoot
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  a goose because either one or both of the dogs took the most direct route to
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  whatever was on the ground.
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  Yeah, they looked like pinball machines going through there.
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  That would have been a great GoPro video. Yeah, it was terrible.
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  So what kind of goes into your decision on the paint or on the paint, on the decoys, Cade?
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  I mean, obviously we kind of discussed a little bit about how the paint holds
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  up and the durability, blah, blah, blah.
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  But is there any more that goes into kind of when you're looking at a decoy,
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  which one you like or which one you would want?
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  It's hard to tell looking at them, but obviously like paint's the biggest one.
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  And if the paint stays on, I feel like half of them, especially the way that
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  we beat them up and throw them in the little boat. But it doesn't really take
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  a whole lot to beat the shit out of the paint. Right.
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  The flocking is the biggest part for me. I don't know what Dakota does,
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  but I have, I mean, obviously I have some decoys that are missing flocking just
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  from the way my weight systems are set up.
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  But for the way they get beat up and the flocking holds up great, I think.
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  Compared to a lot of decoys. And that was my biggest worry with going to flocked
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  heads. was they would not last.
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  Yeah, they hold up surprisingly well for what we do with them.
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  I'm really surprised on the Black Ducks. Oh, yeah.
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  Those things look like new still, basically. After a full season of getting destroyed.
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  But with you picking up another, would you get two dozen?
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  Two dozen Mallards and a dozen Black Ducks.
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  So I kind of just kept a mental note all year of how those looked.
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  And then like, obviously now we're at the end of the season.
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  And I mean, like you guys have said, I mean, we're rough on stuff.
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  And they still just look pretty well brand new after a first full season of getting,
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  banged around in the little boat and thrown around and the weights taking on
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  and off around their heads and whatnot too. They look good.
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  Yeah, I feel like if it was up to Tyler, we would take every dozen of his new
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  decoys, hook them up to the hitch of his truck and just drag them down his rock
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  driveway just to break them in.
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  What was it? Two years ago, we were unboxing some decoys at my house,
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  goose decoys. I think it was last year. Either way, whatever.
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  You guys were grabbing them and like setting them in the trailer all nice.
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  And I said, fuck that. I just grabbed one and chucked it into the trailer.
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  Well, before that, I dropped one.
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  I dropped one in the shop and I was like, sorry, dude. And you're like,
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  fuck that thing. Kicked it all the way across the shop. I was like, okay.
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  Got to break them in right. Yeah.
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  Spoil them and then beat the hell out of them. Yeah. If they can't last one
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  little fall on some concrete, they ain't going to last me chucking them halfway across the field.
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  Yeah. As much abuse as your floaters take, those full-body honkers just get yeeted across fields.
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  Well, they're not all broke, at least. That is true. No.
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  Just the stands. There's a little tack weld on the stands. Don't last.
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  But that doesn't affect the way they perform.
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  We also know a welder if we're that worried about it. Not worried about it.
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  That's way too much work. That takes time. We don't have that. All right.
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  I want to hear you talk about this one. As far as mallard floaters go,
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  what do you like for postures?
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  I know we kind of struggle with some of the feeders that you have,
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  mainly because I think they're actually all dive bombs that we struggle with.
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  They are. You got rid of most of them.
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  But the feeders, the way you do your anchor system, we put the anchor over the
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  head when we're done, put them back in the little boat. The anchors always fall off.
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  It can be a real pain in the butt. Yeah. As long as they don't get tangled up
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  and everything, it's not that bad.
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  But when they fall off and you've got... Because I've run 25-foot lines on the
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  decoys because you never know the depth you're going to hunt year in and year out.
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  So if you have 20-foot-o line...
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  Tangled up in the bottom of that boat, that will make me pull the plug on the
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  boat and sink it to the bottom.
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  The other thing I don't really like about the feeders is when it starts getting
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  icy, like if you have big waves, it'll ice that whole head up.
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  And then they start just turning over.
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  Yeah, that's kind of why I've got away from the dive bombs.
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  They do, the feeders look decent, but in all honesty, if a duck's that close
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  where it notices the feeders from the ones that are sitting there,
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  they should not be alive yeah it's it's time to shoot like you're good enough let's get it,
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  smiling about over there me yeah nothing
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  it's just yeah just the way that you're like
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  oh yeah I mean you're very particular about things but then at the same point
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  you're like well if they can notice that then they should just be dead anyways
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  it's like yeah well in an ideal world yeah every every day that would be awesome
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  like if I mean if that's the stuff that we were worrying about,
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  or ducks getting that close and not dying,
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  man, we'd have a lot more to complain about, I think.
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  Well, if they get that close, I might as well not even shoot my gun because
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  I'll miss them anyway. Yeah, no, that's facts.
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  Yeah, big facts. 60 and out for Cade.
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  You just need to get rid of that big choke tube for duck season.
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  I've tried like four different choke tubes. I don't think it matters.
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  I just can't hit a duck that's right in front of my face. I think I lead them too far all the time.
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  Probably if you're used to shooting at 100 yards. laughter.
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  What are your guys' preference in mixing different species of ducks into the decoy spread?
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  I love it. Yeah.
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  Well, I'm a big fan of mixing species to a point.
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  I mean, I think if you're trying to mix in gadwalls and wigeon decoys,
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  I don't think, and teal even.
• 24:38
  I mean, I don't think those are going to make a big difference because they're
• 24:41
  the same color as a gray duck.
• 24:44
  I mean, in a mallard, they're all the same colors more or less.
• 24:47
  Especially early in the season.
• 24:49
  But if you start adding in like the pintails and the black ducks,
• 24:52
  like for me, I like the pintails, and I always like to put them at the edge
• 24:55
  of the spread for the white.
• 24:58
  Helps just a little bit, I don't know. To me, it feels like it pops a little better.
• 25:04
  And then we added the black duck decoys this year, and I tell you what,
• 25:07
  those black ducks on a sunny or cloudy day really pop in that spread.
• 25:13
  Yeah. I mean, they added a whole other dimension to it.
• 25:16
  Can't say if they really helped or not because I don't know I feel like we did
• 25:21
  the same either way but well we didn't kill a black duck in Iowa this year so,
• 25:26
  we thought we did the other day,
• 25:29
  I thought I would say that Susie was looking awfully dark she was she was looking
• 25:35
  real dark over there I think it was just because it was still a dark day outside,
• 25:40
  she was sitting in white slush laughing.
• 25:45
  I'll switch gears here. I don't even think we have it really wrote down or anything.
• 25:49
  And we've been talking about floaters and full bodies the whole time,
• 25:52
  but the new thing in waterfowl hunting is motion decoys.
• 25:57
  And we have a little bit that we dabble in, not nearly as much as a lot of people
• 26:03
  that I see, but what do we got?
• 26:06
  A couple of spinners, a swimmer.
• 26:08
  Kate has that mallard machine that absolutely ripped in the slush the other
• 26:13
  day, ordering two of those immediately.
• 26:17
  Yeah, that thing's clutch. I will say, haven't tried the new ABNX kicker,
• 26:22
  but I've heard great things about that.
• 26:24
  But the, yeah, the Mallard machine from Mojo, that thing is the cat's meow from
• 26:30
  what I can see. And it lasts all day.
• 26:33
  You know, it's not like it only runs three or four hours. It's pretty much lasted
• 26:37
  almost every day for us. We needed it to.
• 26:39
  I think the only time that it died, it was we used it in the morning one day
• 26:43
  and then we never charged it and you tried to use it damn near all day again.
• 26:48
  Yeah. And it lasted most of the day.
• 26:51
  Yeah, that thing, like if you do just your normal morning hunt till 11 o'clock
• 26:56
  or noon or whatever, you can get like two or three hunts out of that thing. No problem.
• 27:00
  I believe it. I mean, like I said, the motion off that thing's phenomenal.
• 27:05
  Yeah. Especially for how long it lasts.
• 27:10
  Good things with that avian kicker but avian has so
• 27:14
  many problems with their motion decoys i know they had problems with that to
• 27:17
  begin with supposedly they fixed them but it's a lot of money to spend on a
• 27:21
  decoy that you might take it out of the water and it just stays running never
• 27:25
  shuts off again because it leaked water in the system which has been the biggest
• 27:29
  problem with them and you didn't have much luck getting a hold of them for your
• 27:33
  warranty stuff right on your spinner?
• 27:35
  No, I tried reaching out multiple times in every way, shape,
• 27:39
  or form and never heard back from anybody.
• 27:43
  That's wild. That thing has ran less than eight hours and it just doesn't work.
• 27:48
  And you're not the only one I know that's had that problem with those.
• 27:51
  No, there's been several people now that I've been kind of talking to more people about them.
• 27:57
  Anything with a motor from them, I will never buy again. I don't blame you.
• 28:02
  I got a bad taste in my mouth.
• 28:04
  I had considered buying that spinner when it came out, and I was like,
• 28:07
  oh, I'll give it a year, see what it's like, see what the reviews are on it,
• 28:10
  and then you and a couple people I know had it, and they were all bad,
• 28:14
  not a single good review.
• 28:16
  Yep. Trash.
• 28:20
  I might as well throw mine in the trash at this point. For as much as you used it, yeah.
• 28:25
  How much did those things cost, New? I think when I got it, I can't remember
• 28:31
  exactly. I think it was right around 200 bucks with the remote and.
• 28:35
  About normal price then. Yeah.
• 28:38
  But 200 bucks to use it one day and it not work again. Right. That sucks. Yeah.
• 28:45
  That's a death bill to swallow. Yeah.
• 28:48
  That swimmer that you have, Austin, that thing rips pretty good too.
• 28:53
  I definitely have to figure out that.
• 28:57
  I think that I'm going to have to create its own rigging system instead of just
• 29:03
  a standard Texas rig that I have on it right now because it definitely needs
• 29:07
  more room than the length I have on that Texas rig.
• 29:11
  Now I had kind of debated on maybe doing something similar to how you do your
• 29:17
  decoys just to give it that room to actually create the full motion that it can.
• 29:22
  But then the only bad thing is,
• 29:26
  it seems like if that thing gets going it can get tangled up in a dozen decoys
• 29:34
  in the blink of an eye and then all of a sudden you just have a big blob of mess decoys,
• 29:41
  clanging together right in front of you I feel like a longer cord would help
• 29:46
  that too though because it can kind of go multiple different ways versus it
• 29:50
  being stuck in like a five or six foot circle it has.
• 29:55
  I have considered getting that attachment with it as well, too,
• 29:59
  that you can hook other floaters on.
• 30:04
  Like a starter choo-choo train. Yeah. Well, I mean, there's no doubt that that
• 30:09
  thing has the power to push more than one decoy.
• 30:12
  I mean, that thing will throw water when it turns around.
• 30:15
  It's a damn jet boat. Yep. Yeah, it wants to take off.
• 30:20
  Yeah, I think if I can get some kinks worked out in it, it'll be alright.
• 30:24
  Now granted, the first swimmer that I got didn't work, period. Yeah.
• 30:30
  Luckily, Lucky Duck was actually super easy to work with, like I called them
• 30:35
  immediately and had the new one in like two days there.
• 30:41
  And it worked just fine and it has worked just fine since. I mean, we took it on...
• 30:48
  Half a dozen or so hunts this
• 30:51
  year when the wind when the wind was low and it does look
• 30:54
  good i mean we've had birds land by it while it's moving
• 30:56
  too so it's clearly effective
• 31:00
  it's just working out those kinks and being able
• 31:02
  to like just contain contain what what we need from it well i'll expect you
• 31:11
  to be out there this summer on the lake in your swim trunks playing with your
• 31:13
  swimmer trying to perfect it you watch i'll be the only person out there just
• 31:19
  playing with my plastic ducky.
• 31:26
  There's one thing like you said though i was kind of worried about it that first
• 31:29
  day we used it about ducks kind of being like what the hell this thing's like
• 31:33
  kicking a wake out behind it but they don't care it's it's definitely badass
• 31:38
  no you smashed that blue wing that landed like a foot away from it.
• 31:44
  I'm like, there goes my swimmer.
• 31:47
  Like, that thing's gonna jet right in front. How it was gonna kill this blue wing and my swimmer.
• 31:53
  Two for one special. Yep.
• 31:56
  Shit happens when you party naked. Yep. It do be like that.
• 32:03
  What spinners do you run, Pat? When you like to know. I would, and that's why I asked.
• 32:09
  Okay. Yeah. So, I run the Lucky Duck.
• 32:12
  I don't even know which version is now the X HDI or something like that.
• 32:16
  The ones that have the, the wing black and white wings that always stop with black up.
• 32:21
  Those are, I've had the best luck with lucky duck in general for warranty and
• 32:27
  just lasting the longest.
• 32:29
  I mean, I know my first ones I got, they lasted two years, which I.
• 32:39
  Better than mojo mojo would last me like three hunts
• 32:42
  and they would be something wrong with them whether it
• 32:45
  was a battery already shitting out or the motor going out
• 32:48
  but every last year
• 32:51
  i had a problem with those lucky duck hdis and
• 32:54
  i emailed them about it and they ended up sending me
• 32:57
  two brand new ones of the new ones and
• 33:01
  a bag from rogers in return and
• 33:04
  those lasted all season and are still kicking so i'll tell
• 33:07
  you what that bag that they sent you that
• 33:11
  thing is the fucking cat's meow like compared
• 33:14
  to the way that we like used to have to do
• 33:16
  it with the single bags and everything no now i mean they're both just right
• 33:20
  there like that thing is slicker than shit it makes it easier until it gets
• 33:26
  left on the nose of the little boat and it freezing rains overnight and everything's
• 33:30
  frozen inside the bag or it doesn't get pushed down in the little boat and
• 33:35
  you hit a wave and see that thing pop up. Oh, God, I was so scared that day.
• 33:40
  I think the bag floats, so that would have been a bonus.
• 33:43
  Yeah, but that was a lot of money just going, whee! Yeah.
• 33:47
  It happened to me as well, too. Going the long way, and I was like, oh, don't do this to me.
• 33:56
  Well, I guess we can move on to goose decoys here. The ghosts. I mean, I don't...
• 34:08
  Goose wise I don't care for motion decoys I think motion decoys flare more Geese
• 34:13
  than they bring in The only thing we ever use is the flag Because flags definitely
• 34:17
  help you out I do, me and Austin have been talking about it Making,
• 34:22
  Kind of backboards for some flags To put in the spread and then having a jerk
• 34:26
  string Come to the blay out blind,
• 34:28
  Hopefully we can get those figured out here Before goose season gets going good,
• 34:32
  We got some, we got a pretty good idea on how we
• 34:35
  want to do it it's just a matter of putting the idea in place
• 34:38
  that shouldn't be too terrible i wouldn't think no no
• 34:42
  and it'll make it a lot easier for flagging because then you don't you can have your doors
• 34:45
  closed the whole time and you could pretty much flag at
• 34:48
  them all the way in if you need to they do love that flag especially in north
• 34:54
  dakota that was rough i i had never flagged like that before i mean looking
• 35:01
  around and everyone else is down in their blinds and I still have one door open
• 35:06
  trying to flag on them for as long as I possibly could before they'd see me
• 35:12
  just to keep their attention.
• 35:15
  But you mean you haven't flagged like that since high school when you were in
• 35:17
  the marching band, right? Correct.
• 35:21
  Dude, I could twirl those flags like it was nobody's business.
• 35:26
  I was not ready for that one.
• 35:29
  I was sitting here waiting for them just to shut up so I could throw it out there.
• 35:34
  I can normally, like, when you say something, I can normally be like,
• 35:37
  yeah, I kind of saw that one coming, but not that one. That was out of left field. Yeah.
• 35:41
  I had it ready. It was in the pocket.
• 35:44
  Locked and loaded. Ladies and gentlemen, he's been thinking of that one for a month.
• 35:50
  No, just for a whole drive yesterday and last night. Yep.
• 35:56
  Oh boy anyways okay so
• 36:01
  when you said a honker spread how many
• 36:04
  what like what's your ratio or is there different scenarios for your ratios
• 36:09
  of centuries actives and feeders in your spread if you're hunting a field i've
• 36:16
  never really like mixed it up too much i mean i obviously,
• 36:22
  it's hard to say i'm trying to think of how i can put this the way i want to say it Words.
• 36:28
  Yeah. Words. Words are hard. We, I mean, we've had before I hunted with you,
• 36:34
  Dawson and I had basically the exact same spread for a lot of years.
• 36:38
  So like, we didn't really have a whole lot of different options we could use.
• 36:43
  Aside from like running silhouettes and stuff, which I don't typically like.
• 36:48
  I use those as fire starters.
• 36:52
  Yeah. For anybody that doesn't know Tyler absolutely hates silhouettes.
• 36:56
  And he's starting to make me feel the same way because he just proves it every
• 36:59
  time we try to use them. I'm like, damn it.
• 37:03
  Some reason they quit using those in like the 90s or early 2000s.
• 37:07
  I feel like if you're going to do it, you got to do like all silhouettes or all full bodies.
• 37:13
  To me and said we're setting an all silhouette spread i'd say all right i'm gonna go back to bed,
• 37:18
  peace out have fun jeez trash that's just how dramatic he is shut up,
• 37:27
  i don't know i need i feel like you need a
• 37:30
  lot less like head up centuries than
• 37:34
  you do your actives and feeders yeah if
• 37:38
  i'm so i'm kind of i'm not super like hip on the goose hunting stuff i've having
• 37:46
  i've always just focused on ducks i'm trying to get more into geese i do like
• 37:50
  goose hunting i like killing geese but i enjoy killing ducks way more like if
• 37:54
  i have an opportunity to go out of state to go duck hunting during goose season
• 37:57
  i'm gonna go do that i don't.
• 38:01
  But I try to keep centuries down in the spread I don't like a whole lot much more than five.
• 38:09
  Normally I run about 200 plus I think it's somewhere between 200 and 225 full
• 38:15
  bodies somewhere in there,
• 38:17
  and out of that I only want like five centuries there might be one or two more
• 38:21
  in the spread but I don't know I just feel like if you have too many of them
• 38:25
  it's going to make them look less comfortable in the field,
• 38:30
  but like between the actives and feeders I do think that's kind of like site specific whether it's,
• 38:36
  if you're trafficking them I would say you'd want a lot more actives I don't
• 38:41
  know any facts on that but I've always liked to have more actives and then like do less feeders or,
• 38:48
  mix the feeders in more with the actives rather than just a bunch of feeders,
• 38:55
  but that's just all guessing Yeah, I do know like early season,
• 39:00
  which you obviously don't do any of that around here. We're duck hunting.
• 39:05
  But early season, when you kind of have them broken up into family groups,
• 39:08
  I know the sentries, like if you put one in each group, it looks pretty real
• 39:12
  because they're always kind of looking to see what that other group's doing.
• 39:15
  But when they get in a big pack like that, there's not very many heads straight
• 39:19
  up unless they're worried about something.
• 39:22
  Yeah. I feel like your city geese, though, are a little bit more cautious of
• 39:26
  their families because your city geese are all just family geese anyways. Yep.
• 39:31
  So there's probably almost always one that's watching out what's going on. Yeah.
• 39:37
  Geese just aggravate me. I love hunting them, but they aggravate me.
• 39:44
  That's why you like hunting them, because they're usually assholes. Yeah, stupid.
• 39:51
  Is there situations where you guys used to not throw big spreads and throw little
• 39:56
  ones, or was it always just a general throw what you got?
• 40:00
  No, there was a lot of times that we didn't throw a lot.
• 40:04
  Like obviously if you know you're going to be having some weather like rain
• 40:08
  or snow throw everything other than that we wouldn't throw but half the trailer most of the time,
• 40:14
  how many do you guys used to have I think when him and I first started we had
• 40:18
  like five or six dozen Bigfoots and that was it right there towards the end
• 40:23
  we sold all of our shit now but I think we had like 12 dozen full bodies,
• 40:30
  so not a shit load but about the right amount yeah no I mean if I feel like
• 40:35
  you can do pretty much what you want to do around here with that many no I don't traffic in them you,
• 40:43
  pretty much every goose decoy in the state, you can get your hands on. Yep.
• 40:48
  So I do want to do one of these days. I want to get like two or three full trailers
• 40:52
  just piled into a field that's directly under a major flight line and send it.
• 40:58
  Yeah, we thought we had that last year on Goose Wars.
• 41:03
  That spread did not look as big as I thought it would look. No,
• 41:06
  we had a shitload of decoys out.
• 41:09
  Yeah, I mean, we had everything I have and I think most of the stuff that they owned.
• 41:14
  And it's still, I mean, it looks big, but it did not look big.
• 41:19
  Yeah, we were talking about it that night before and I'm like,
• 41:22
  dude, we're going to have like half that field full. And then we threw it all out and I was like.
• 41:28
  Yeah, but that kind of goes to show though. Like when you're scouting a field
• 41:31
  and like you may not think that there's a whole lot out there,
• 41:34
  but it still looks like way bigger than your spread.
• 41:37
  There's probably more out there than you think. Yeah.
• 41:40
  I always feel like it's pretty important if you're watching a field like in
• 41:43
  the evening to try to stay and wait until they get up so you kind of have a
• 41:47
  better idea of how many are actually in there because sometimes you'll think
• 41:51
  there's 200 in there and then they all get up and there's like a thousand and you're like holy shit.
• 41:56
  Yeah I like seeing them leave too because you can know kind of like what size groups they fly in,
• 42:02
  well to that point as well too like watching them at night just to try to mimic
• 42:07
  exactly how they're in that field with your decoys too I mean whether they're
• 42:11
  super balled up like in North Dakota like they were not they were not balled
• 42:17
  up at all like it was just long fingers,
• 42:20
  like long lines of geese with just random family pods all around and I mean
• 42:26
  that seemed to trying to mimic those out in North Dakota seemed to give us a fair amount of success,
• 42:32
  when we could see they definitely were like not or like it was like a big line,
• 42:39
  a pretty long, thick line of geese.
• 42:41
  And then there'd be like little fingers that just come off it.
• 42:43
  It was kind of weird how they were sitting, but it was every field was like that. Mm-hmm. Hmm.
• 42:48
  Here where they kind of like go off in groups of 20, 30, 40,
• 42:52
  whatever, and balls, you know?
• 42:56
  There it was a big long line dense with geese and then there'd be little strings of geese off. Hmm.
• 43:03
  Be friends like they are here i don't blame them a lot different types of geese
• 43:08
  out there you got the city geese got the park geese i love city geese oh we didn't last year.
• 43:18
  No it also doesn't help hunting the very
• 43:21
  last week in the season when geese have
• 43:25
  just been constantly called at every single day for
• 43:27
  months straight the biggest thing last year i feel like was the weather it was
• 43:32
  never consistent for more than two days so like it was impossible to pattern
• 43:38
  them no matter what we did and that goose war day was cold as shit and just straight ripping winds,
• 43:47
  i feel like that was half of the problem with killing more geese was the wind
• 43:50
  was so bad that you couldn't take much further of a poke that was off your freaking boot bag.
• 43:58
  There was a lot of geese we didn't shoot out though that were close enough that
• 44:00
  But we definitely should have shot out that day.
• 44:03
  I have the videos on my phone to prove it when I was trying to walk back out in the field. Yeah.
• 44:09
  I mean, I don't know that it would have put us in first place,
• 44:13
  but we definitely could have killed probably another 10 geese. Yeah.
• 44:18
  And then I think there was one time where we pulled up and my gun didn't shoot.
• 44:21
  It was so cold. Yeah, it was brutal.
• 44:25
  I hope it's not that cold again this year. Same. If it is, I hope we go somewhere
• 44:30
  that we can put an A-frame or some panel blinds up and actually hide it and just run it over.
• 44:36
  I am in for the A-frame when it's that cold. Otherwise, we can lose the A-frame and I'm fine. Yep.
• 44:43
  If it's that cold, I will 100% have the heater bodysuit and the blind all snugged up. Yep.
• 44:51
  If it's that cold again and we have to use layouts, I will go buy one. Yep.
• 44:57
  Even just putting a sleeping bag, like something to keep you off that cold ground in there though.
• 45:03
  I mean, cause really most of the time, that's the only thing I use the heater
• 45:06
  body suit for is just to not sit my ass on the freezing ground.
• 45:12
  But it does help when it's really
• 45:15
  cold out it's just with
• 45:19
  those like the actual legs and feet that that thing has like if i have to hop
• 45:24
  out quick like it's just not happening which i would still choose warmth over
• 45:30
  over that anyways yeah oh yeah oh yeah i do not like being cold oh we know,
• 45:39
  Since he got new waders, we haven't heard him bitch that his feet are cold. Not once.
• 45:43
  He hasn't really complained much this duck season in general about being cold. It's been pretty nice.
• 45:49
  It's because it just got cold this week. There's a little bit of truth to that as well.
• 45:55
  But even all last week, though, even in those cold days, I mean,
• 46:01
  other than grabbing birds or whatnot, like your hands getting cold for a minute, I was good to go.
• 46:09
  The propane bill has been cheaper this year. Yeah. By far. Yeah, 100%.
• 46:15
  So, goose sleeper shells, I mean, do you like using them in a field?
• 46:20
  Or is it mainly just for ice purposes, hunting an ice hole?
• 46:24
  I don't mind them in the field when it gets cold and snowy. I mean,
• 46:28
  you can pack a shitload of them out there.
• 46:30
  Because there's been days that you goose hunt a field and it's cold and snowy.
• 46:35
  And they will legit land and just lay straight down.
• 46:39
  I've seen that too tuck their head straight to sleep they go,
• 46:43
  which is crazy I don't know why they stay here when it's that cold if they just
• 46:47
  go to the field and then go to bed when they get there like what was the point
• 46:51
  of going to the field why didn't you just sleep on the ice maybe the ice was getting cold,
• 46:56
  the field can't be much warmer.
• 47:00
  But yeah on the ice I absolutely love sleeper shells,
• 47:04
  I could pretty much run all sleeper shells on ice hard to beat dude if you if
• 47:10
  you got like 10 dozen sleeper shells and then 6 goose floaters and like 6 full
• 47:16
  bodies out there it just looks ugly yeah you're gonna wreck them yeah,
• 47:23
  year when we had them trying to blow off the ice all day. You know,
• 47:26
  that was a real problem. That was a pain in the ass.
• 47:30
  Dude, it was so windy that day. And we've seen so many geese.
• 47:34
  And we could have shot so many, but there was too many all at once. Yeah.
• 47:38
  I can't believe they all flew at one time that day. That was a lot.
• 47:44
  I mean, they never do that. No. Not until you bring your homies down to shoot geese. Yeah. No.
• 47:51
  And they want to be jerks. it happens.
• 47:55
  I think that about wraps it up for the decoy brands and styles.
• 48:00
  Roll right into closing thoughts. Straight into it? Straight into it.
• 48:07
  Head first? Sideways? Feet first?
• 48:11
  Head first, obviously. That's the only way to do it. Yeah, no,
• 48:14
  especially on the concrete.
• 48:16
  Yeah, nothing important going on up here. Just let it rip.
• 48:20
  Cinder tater chip.
• 48:23
  What's in store for the rest of the season as we transition out of duck season and a goose well,
• 48:29
  tyler's gone so we're gonna
• 48:32
  kill so many birds when he's gone and he's gonna be so pissed you don't be able
• 48:38
  to make me mad want to bet yep i hope we shoot like a net collar or something
• 48:45
  like that i hope you do too or a band if we shoot a band he'd be pissed i wouldn't
• 48:50
  i've already shot my one band for the year?
• 48:53
  Trevor shot it. He just won the draw. No, being a duck. Okay.
• 48:59
  Being a duck is what I'm talking about.
• 49:02
  A band of duck would be a lot cooler. Screw them ducks.
• 49:07
  Yeah, but realistically, you are leaving at the perfect time because we would
• 49:12
  be hunting the river anyway.
• 49:14
  Yeah, but it's really, the river hunts can be a lot of fun. I mean,
• 49:18
  those sometimes can be hard to beat. Yeah.
• 49:22
  Hopefully, you guys get on them good this weekend down on the river.
• 49:25
  I just keep thinking about last year, that day we goose hunted and we had the
• 49:30
  goose shells blowing all over. We literally could have killed so many ducks.
• 49:34
  Yeah, they were everywhere. I was pissed.
• 49:38
  Hopefully it's like that again, because we will kill so many ducks.
• 49:42
  Fingers crossed for you guys. I'll be rooting for you as I'm making double time.
• 49:47
  Yeah. If that doesn't happen, you'll see a huge fire. I quit sale.
• 49:54
  I call bullshit. Selling everything. Trucking all. Oh, trucks for sale too? How much?
• 50:01
  $500,000. Yeah, you need a truck, don't you? Or at least a back bumper?
• 50:07
  No, I need a new bumper, tailgate, and bedside. Yeah, no, those are the things. It did get a tailgate?
• 50:14
  Know. I don't think the tailgate's like wrecked, but yeah. It's fixed.
• 50:18
  It's going to need to be fixed. Yeah, what happened there?
• 50:22
  Oh, some random lady just ran into it. Said she slid into it,
• 50:27
  but definitely did not slide into it.
• 50:30
  Yeah, there were no slide marks in the snow. She drove directly into your pickup. Yeah.
• 50:35
  Yeah, I was like, oh, that's awesome.
• 50:38
  Cool. Winner, winner, chicken dinner.
• 50:42
  I will never forget the look on your face when I ran in the garage And I'm like,
• 50:45
  hey, you might want to come out here. Someone just hit your truck.
• 50:47
  And you turned around and I just shut the door.
• 50:52
  Gotta go. Yeah, I was like, all right, this dude just fucking with me.
• 50:56
  And I looked at Austin. I'm like, he's not coming back in here.
• 50:58
  I guess I better go fucking back out there and look.
• 51:02
  This guy might be for real. Her headlight was laying on the ground all broken up.
• 51:10
  Oh, man. Good times. Good times. Yeah, something like that.
• 51:15
  We're looking forward. Go ahead. Nope.
• 51:19
  No, I was just going to say, I know we've already like hinted at it,
• 51:21
  mentioned it a couple of times about the potential of doing Goose War. I hate you.
• 51:27
  Why are you like this?
• 51:32
  Go ahead for real this time. Do you want to talk about anything about Goose Wars? Anything else?
• 51:38
  Like. What do you mean? Like.
• 51:41
  To it excited to like pick your team,
• 51:45
  yeah I'm hoping they do it the same way as last year and I'm hoping they do
• 51:49
  it this year which they should it sounds like they do a,
• 51:53
  thing pretty much every year they didn't do it for a couple years there after
• 51:56
  during COVID and after COVID but they do this thing called Goose Wars and,
• 52:01
  it can be pretty fun it was a pretty tight group that did it for a while a bunch of good guys,
• 52:07
  they would have captains and a co-captain I believe is how they used to do it
• 52:12
  and everybody that wanted to be involved in it would just put their name in
• 52:16
  a hat and people would pick their teams that way there was it cut down on the
• 52:22
  cheating basically because it
• 52:23
  would be a bunch of random people hunting together and they're friends of,
• 52:27
  other co-captains or captains on other teams so you know somebody was cheating
• 52:30
  they might rat on them or less likely but last year they did it where you could
• 52:36
  bring your own team and that was That was a lot of fun.
• 52:39
  I mean, in all honesty, nobody cheated. I don't think. It was a pretty rough day for everybody.
• 52:45
  There was one group that got on them earlier. We didn't get on them until the
• 52:48
  end of the day, what, the last hour, really?
• 52:52
  But it's a lot of fun. Do look forward to doing it whenever we find out when it's going to happen.
• 52:58
  Hopefully we can go and take the trophy. That would be sweet.
• 53:02
  If the weather lightens up a little bit, we've got a really good shot of taking that, I feel like.
• 53:08
  Yeah, I mean, we got some spots that if the weather cooperates,
• 53:12
  we could definitely run a fat chance at winning it.
• 53:17
  The only thing that could kill us is the bans, because there are points for bans.
• 53:22
  And we have terrible luck with bans. That we do.
• 53:27
  Want to mention uh before we before we
• 53:29
  cut this out we are working with
• 53:32
  the isc moving forward with trying
• 53:37
  to start a waterfowl chapter on it i mean there's not
• 53:40
  there's the i mean there's deltas and ducks limited chapters
• 53:44
  everywhere but the problem with those is
• 53:47
  the money doesn't stay localized i mean there is
• 53:50
  some that stays localized but the mass of the money
• 53:53
  goes to bigger projects more
• 53:56
  in the prairie potholes and it's they're
• 53:59
  they try to focus more on duck production so we're
• 54:04
  working with the isc to help give people that hunt iowa for waterfowl a say
• 54:11
  i kind of help give them more of a say of season dates and zone changes if we
• 54:17
  want to make zone changes or to try to be a middleman between the DNR and the Corps of Engineers,
• 54:25
  and maybe even Delta and DU for trying to get funds together to do projects for wetlands.
• 54:31
  If you aren't a member of the ISC, it wouldn't be a good time here to start
• 54:37
  looking into becoming one if you want to help everybody and throw your opinion
• 54:41
  out there to season dates,
• 54:44
  because that's going to be a big thing coming up this year. Yeah.
• 54:48
  More info on that next week. I think we may have somebody coming in from the
• 54:52
  ISC next week for, I don't know, 10 or 15 minutes to talk to us about himself
• 54:56
  and kind of what their mission is with us.
• 54:59
  There's four or five of us that are going to be helping out with that,
• 55:03
  so hopefully some big things come out of that.
• 55:06
  Hopefully we can do some things with the Facebook comments about what they want done.
• 55:12
  Hopefully they actually follow up and want to do something about it.
• 55:17
  Yeah you talking about them keyboard warriors that like to talk but
• 55:20
  never want to make action yeah we'll just make it easier
• 55:23
  for it because we can find them yeah yeah no
• 55:26
  i mean it's a big it could
• 55:28
  be a big thing for iowa i mean that it goes for
• 55:31
  the whole state there's just there's no groups out
• 55:34
  there that really just focus on the residents of iowa yeah i feel like it's
• 55:39
  definitely going to be a huge thing at some point obviously it's going to start
• 55:44
  off a little bit slower just kind of getting our feet on the ground but that
• 55:48
  could turn into a really really big deal for the the hunters in the state of
• 55:51
  Iowa duck hunters specifically,
• 55:54
  yeah I mean I feel like there's a lot more duck hunters in Iowa now than there
• 55:57
  definitely used to be yeah so and.
• 56:02
  Something to complain about, but you'll never be able to satisfy everybody,
• 56:04
  but it'll be a way for someone to feel like at least someone listened to their
• 56:08
  word and there was an attempt at action towards it, maybe. Yeah.
• 56:13
  Unless it's just a crazy idea, but I mean, you can't just go off the wall with
• 56:19
  everything, but stuff with legitimacy will definitely be taken into consideration.
• 56:24
  Let's shoot them in March.
• 56:29
  They're really pretty then. I know. i know
• 56:32
  i'm hammer out in march it's awesome i'm really excited to
• 56:35
  work with isc a really good really good
• 56:38
  group of people i follow along with
• 56:41
  them especially with the local guys that uh are involved
• 56:45
  and i've known quite a few of them for many years
• 56:48
  really enjoy to see the work that they're doing
• 56:51
  right now they put on a killer banquet every
• 56:54
  year or two so just i mean
• 56:57
  if yeah if we can group up
• 57:00
  with those guys and get some people behind it
• 57:03
  really excited to see the things and the potential that
• 57:06
  that we have with it yeah for
• 57:09
  sure i mean they seem whenever me and had the meeting
• 57:12
  with them that they seem super excited about starting this
• 57:16
  waterfowl side of it and getting something
• 57:19
  going for what we're talking about so that's
• 57:22
  that makes me hopeful gives me a little bit of excitement too just that they're
• 57:26
  excited for it yeah because they're not duck hunters at all no no i mean he
• 57:33
  had i don't know if he's ever really waterfowl hunted in general he didn't sound
• 57:36
  like he has much yeah so it's cool to see him actually like listen to,
• 57:42
  some of the stuff that we talked about and he's like yeah i can see why that's a problem yeah.
• 57:48
  No and they've already got you know people out there in the right positions
• 57:53
  to help us present the opportunities that we're looking at presenting yeah.
• 58:02
  Wrap it up. Like I said, we look forward to working with them and hearing from them.
• 58:08
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• 58:11
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