1 00:00:07,880 --> 00:00:10,680 Speaker 1: As a guide and hunter, I've spent thousands of days 2 00:00:10,680 --> 00:00:13,760 Speaker 1: in the field. This show is about translating my hard 3 00:00:13,800 --> 00:00:17,560 Speaker 1: won experiences into tips and tactics they'll get you closer 4 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:21,360 Speaker 1: to your ultimate goal success in the field. I'm Remy Warren. 5 00:00:21,720 --> 00:00:27,080 Speaker 1: This is cutting the Distance. This podcast is presented by 6 00:00:27,160 --> 00:00:31,920 Speaker 1: Yetti Built for the Wild. While most of the big 7 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:34,400 Speaker 1: game seasons have come and gone for the year, my 8 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:38,240 Speaker 1: guess is your hunting itch is not subdued, so the 9 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:41,239 Speaker 1: question remains, where do you go and what do you 10 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:44,479 Speaker 1: do from here? Lucky for you, while the big game 11 00:00:44,560 --> 00:00:48,120 Speaker 1: season might be over, there's still plenty of waterfowl season 12 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:51,720 Speaker 1: to take advantage of. Late season duck hunting can be 13 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:54,280 Speaker 1: one of the best times, in my opinion, to hit 14 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:58,240 Speaker 1: the marsh, but it also provides a few unique challenges. 15 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:00,880 Speaker 1: This week, I want to give you some tips for 16 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:04,840 Speaker 1: late season public land waterfowl hunting, including some tips for 17 00:01:04,920 --> 00:01:08,160 Speaker 1: planning your day and finding open water even if it's 18 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:12,000 Speaker 1: all iced up, tactics for locating those birds, and just 19 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:15,760 Speaker 1: a couple of strange gear ideas that I've come up 20 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:19,039 Speaker 1: with over the years, as well as tactics for those 21 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:23,039 Speaker 1: cold January days to trick weary birds to committing to 22 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:26,080 Speaker 1: your spread. But first, I want to share one of 23 00:01:26,080 --> 00:01:29,360 Speaker 1: my favorite late season deck stories with you. Now, of 24 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:32,199 Speaker 1: all the days that I've spent in the marsh, for 25 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:49,800 Speaker 1: some reason, this one Mallard stands out Now. I think 26 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:53,320 Speaker 1: of myself as a hunter, and what I mean by 27 00:01:53,320 --> 00:01:56,480 Speaker 1: that is I love all forms of hunting, whether it's 28 00:01:56,520 --> 00:01:59,640 Speaker 1: bow hunting, rifle hunting. It doesn't matter if I'm out 29 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:03,320 Speaker 1: there thing, I'm enjoying it, small game, big game. But 30 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:07,840 Speaker 1: there's something for me that is special about waterfowl hunting. 31 00:02:07,880 --> 00:02:11,120 Speaker 1: I just love that experience of being in the marsh now. 32 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:13,600 Speaker 1: I love it so much that actually, after I would 33 00:02:13,639 --> 00:02:15,919 Speaker 1: finish my guide season, I would have a bit of 34 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:19,880 Speaker 1: time between my next semester of school and when I 35 00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:22,840 Speaker 1: had to do anything else. I pretty much lived cheap. 36 00:02:22,919 --> 00:02:25,679 Speaker 1: So I decided, oh, after the guide season, I'm just 37 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:27,959 Speaker 1: gonna hunt for ducks for two months straight. And I 38 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:32,720 Speaker 1: pretty much would go out every single day chasing ducks. Now, 39 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:35,359 Speaker 1: because I had the time to hunt them so much, 40 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:39,040 Speaker 1: It's not like I could physically eat a limit of 41 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:42,400 Speaker 1: birds every day. I kind of set myself these ground 42 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:44,600 Speaker 1: rules for the hunt. So if I was gonna shoot 43 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:47,800 Speaker 1: a bird, it had to check all of these boxes 44 00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:50,080 Speaker 1: in order for me to pull up the shotgun and 45 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:53,880 Speaker 1: shoot it. So my theory was, I will only shoot 46 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:57,840 Speaker 1: drake birds of certain species. I would say, call them 47 00:02:57,880 --> 00:03:01,160 Speaker 1: like prized species or the ones it were we didn't 48 00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:05,679 Speaker 1: see as often the Mallard's pintail every once in a 49 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:09,440 Speaker 1: while region, and so it had to be a drake bird, 50 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:11,760 Speaker 1: and then it would have to be a bird that 51 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:16,360 Speaker 1: I tricked and called to. Because of that, I got 52 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:21,640 Speaker 1: a lot of interactions with ducks and with waterfowl. It 53 00:03:21,720 --> 00:03:23,760 Speaker 1: was really just a lot of time spent in the 54 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:28,440 Speaker 1: marsh calling watching birds. I would have other species land, 55 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:31,919 Speaker 1: I would have other birds fly by, and it really 56 00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:35,480 Speaker 1: gave me a lot of interaction into the minds of 57 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:39,800 Speaker 1: these elite seasoned ducks. Now, the story that I want 58 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:42,760 Speaker 1: to tell is not about the best duck hunting day 59 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:45,800 Speaker 1: I've ever had, shooting a limited birds. It's about one 60 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:50,960 Speaker 1: particular drake mallard. The day was not much different than 61 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:53,920 Speaker 1: all the other days I'd been out. I would say 62 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:57,160 Speaker 1: the weather was kind of cold. It was definitely overcast 63 00:03:57,240 --> 00:04:02,440 Speaker 1: this day, but not precipitating. It was just overcast, light breeze, 64 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:05,880 Speaker 1: nothing real stand out about the day. In order to 65 00:04:05,880 --> 00:04:09,720 Speaker 1: get out to the spot, the ice was just thick 66 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:11,760 Speaker 1: enough where you could put a little weight on it 67 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:14,120 Speaker 1: and then you would break through. So no matter where 68 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:16,599 Speaker 1: I had to go, I had to break ice. But 69 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:19,719 Speaker 1: it was also warm enough earlier in the week where 70 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:23,040 Speaker 1: there was patches of open water as well. Most of 71 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:24,800 Speaker 1: the places that I had to get to I had 72 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:26,919 Speaker 1: to break through some ice. But I was trying to 73 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:29,520 Speaker 1: figure out, Okay, there's enough open water where the birds 74 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:31,840 Speaker 1: are spread out, and I didn't know exactly where I 75 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:33,840 Speaker 1: wanted to go this day. So what I did was 76 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:36,119 Speaker 1: I just got up waiting for the sun to rise 77 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:38,240 Speaker 1: in a good part of the day, and then just 78 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:40,880 Speaker 1: kind of glassed and looked around for birds that were 79 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:44,040 Speaker 1: flying to figure out where the concentrations of birds are 80 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:46,520 Speaker 1: in this marsh. Because it was fairly late in the 81 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:48,880 Speaker 1: season and most of the birds had already left. Not 82 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:50,920 Speaker 1: a lot of birds is stopped by because it was 83 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:54,000 Speaker 1: frozen up earlier in the season, so it wasn't a 84 00:04:54,080 --> 00:04:57,120 Speaker 1: lot of opportunities out there for a lot of birds. 85 00:04:57,279 --> 00:04:59,479 Speaker 1: I really need to know, Okay, which spot am I 86 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:02,119 Speaker 1: gonna hunt this day? So I saw a few birds 87 00:05:02,160 --> 00:05:05,600 Speaker 1: flying about a mile probably two miles out, and it's 88 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:07,760 Speaker 1: a spot that I actually hunt a lot. So I thought, okay, 89 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:11,039 Speaker 1: I'll walk to that one little pond. Back there. There's 90 00:05:11,080 --> 00:05:14,680 Speaker 1: a big wetland area, so it's it's maybe like knee 91 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:18,080 Speaker 1: deep water muddy, the type of mud where you I'd 92 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:21,000 Speaker 1: step my boot in the ground and then sink down 93 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:24,479 Speaker 1: past your ankles and then you've got ice about knee level. 94 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:27,200 Speaker 1: Then you'd step up again, you put a little bit 95 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:29,000 Speaker 1: of weight on the ice, and then you break back 96 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:31,760 Speaker 1: through a lot of work, a lot of work to 97 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:34,040 Speaker 1: get out there. So it takes such a long time 98 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:35,839 Speaker 1: to get out there. It's part of the reason it 99 00:05:35,880 --> 00:05:39,479 Speaker 1: was nearly impossible to just hunt the morning. So I've 100 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:42,240 Speaker 1: spotted where I wanted to go, and I made the 101 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:46,200 Speaker 1: long trudge into there. I don't know how long it took, 102 00:05:46,279 --> 00:05:48,280 Speaker 1: but it seems like it took most of the day. 103 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:51,120 Speaker 1: I have a little sled that I had my decoison 104 00:05:51,279 --> 00:05:55,680 Speaker 1: and a two lee stool fully camoed up thick insulated 105 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:59,479 Speaker 1: waiters just because it's so cold, and marched out to 106 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:02,200 Speaker 1: my spot. Up. I came up upon the pond and 107 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:04,200 Speaker 1: the pond that I was hoping to hunt actually was 108 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:07,960 Speaker 1: I would say partially open. There was a patch of twolies, 109 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:10,719 Speaker 1: which is just like some thick cat tail looking plant 110 00:06:10,839 --> 00:06:13,560 Speaker 1: in the wetlands there, and there's this patch of twolies 111 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:16,120 Speaker 1: in the middle, a small patch i'd say maybe seven 112 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:19,599 Speaker 1: seven ft across. I said, okay, I'm gonna push in there, 113 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:21,919 Speaker 1: and that's where I'm gonna set up. And then I 114 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:24,479 Speaker 1: made a little bit more open water right in front 115 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:26,400 Speaker 1: of it, just by breaking the ice and sliding it 116 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:29,760 Speaker 1: underneath the other more stationary ice. And then I set 117 00:06:29,760 --> 00:06:32,360 Speaker 1: out a few decoys. I didn't want to overdo it, 118 00:06:32,440 --> 00:06:34,919 Speaker 1: just a few out past me, trying to make it 119 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:37,320 Speaker 1: where there's a landing area right in front of me, 120 00:06:37,960 --> 00:06:41,000 Speaker 1: because at this time, when I did find the birds 121 00:06:41,040 --> 00:06:44,120 Speaker 1: that I wanted to shoot, because I had tricked them, 122 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:46,480 Speaker 1: I meant that they're pretty much going to land in 123 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:50,000 Speaker 1: my decoys. The ducks that I did shoot at, it's 124 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:53,640 Speaker 1: pretty much shoot and I was killing that duck. I 125 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:56,440 Speaker 1: went through very few shells this season because everything that 126 00:06:56,480 --> 00:06:59,680 Speaker 1: I shot at was one shot and done because the 127 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:03,400 Speaker 1: bird were so close. So I really tried to figure 128 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:05,680 Speaker 1: out or set my spread so the birds would be 129 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:09,360 Speaker 1: landing right on top of me. Right after I got 130 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:12,080 Speaker 1: set up, I had a few birds. You could just 131 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:16,280 Speaker 1: hear that wing tips before you see them whizz over top. 132 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:19,120 Speaker 1: I called I was actually a group of pintails like, 133 00:07:19,240 --> 00:07:22,520 Speaker 1: gave him some whistles. They dropped their wings, circled around 134 00:07:22,560 --> 00:07:25,640 Speaker 1: one time, and then continued on their way. They were 135 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:27,920 Speaker 1: within range. But I didn't feel like I tricked to 136 00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:30,560 Speaker 1: those birds. They gave it one look and decited, now 137 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:33,080 Speaker 1: that wasn't it. Maybe they saw me. Maybe I got 138 00:07:33,120 --> 00:07:36,120 Speaker 1: too impatient, looked up at the wrong time. If I 139 00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:37,880 Speaker 1: was just trying to shoot birds, I could have shot 140 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:40,240 Speaker 1: those birds. But I didn't feel like I tricked those birds. 141 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:42,920 Speaker 1: When I talk about tricked, I mean they have to 142 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:46,280 Speaker 1: be wings locked, coming in hot, just about to drop 143 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:50,360 Speaker 1: into my spot. So the day was actually pretty dang slow. 144 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:53,360 Speaker 1: And then off in the distance, I see this loan 145 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:57,480 Speaker 1: drake mallard cruising a ways out. That's a good bird 146 00:07:57,520 --> 00:08:01,160 Speaker 1: to call to. Gave him a few eating calls real light, 147 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:03,720 Speaker 1: and I saw him kind of start flying my direction. 148 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:07,040 Speaker 1: So at that point late season, I don't like to overcall. 149 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:10,120 Speaker 1: I just I took out my whistle again, and I 150 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:13,120 Speaker 1: use this. It's actually a drake call whistles like I 151 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:14,480 Speaker 1: don't have it with me, so I'll just use my 152 00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:20,360 Speaker 1: voices who sound. And he's checking it out. I can 153 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:23,960 Speaker 1: tell that he is a weary bird. He's locked his 154 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:26,400 Speaker 1: wings and he's starting to circle up pretty high, and 155 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:29,120 Speaker 1: he's just looking. He's like doing that thing where that 156 00:08:29,200 --> 00:08:31,440 Speaker 1: the duck does, where his necks out over his body 157 00:08:31,440 --> 00:08:34,680 Speaker 1: and he's looking pinpointing where he might land and checking 158 00:08:34,720 --> 00:08:37,800 Speaker 1: things out. On the first pass, does his first pass 159 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:41,199 Speaker 1: and I'm just chucked into the two. He's tight face 160 00:08:41,280 --> 00:08:43,200 Speaker 1: mask on, trying not to look up. I don't want 161 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:46,480 Speaker 1: him to see my eyes. Give him another whistle as 162 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:49,400 Speaker 1: every time he crosses by, as his backs to me, 163 00:08:49,520 --> 00:08:52,840 Speaker 1: I whistle as he's coming in. I lay off the sound, 164 00:08:53,320 --> 00:08:55,719 Speaker 1: just a few calls here and there to just make 165 00:08:55,760 --> 00:08:59,280 Speaker 1: him make it seem realistic, you know, trying to match 166 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:02,200 Speaker 1: a set actually ducks that I hear on the water 167 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:05,480 Speaker 1: that time of year. Not going overboard with it, but 168 00:09:05,640 --> 00:09:08,600 Speaker 1: definitely trying to trick him into my spread. He makes 169 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:11,360 Speaker 1: another pass, coming down a little bit lower, this time, 170 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:15,000 Speaker 1: locking his wings and just checking it out. Same thing. 171 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:19,280 Speaker 1: A little call sequence, he takes it wide, comes back 172 00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:22,680 Speaker 1: in a third pass. Now I can tell this bird 173 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:26,120 Speaker 1: is going to commit. After that third pass, he swoops 174 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:29,440 Speaker 1: out to the south, locks his wings, his feet are out. 175 00:09:29,880 --> 00:09:32,920 Speaker 1: It's just his orange feet up against that dark sky, 176 00:09:32,920 --> 00:09:37,000 Speaker 1: bright green head, fully plumed drake mallard. He's locked in, 177 00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:40,480 Speaker 1: dropping straight down on top of me. I rise up 178 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:44,440 Speaker 1: and shoot the bird just maybe ten feet off my barrel. 179 00:09:45,280 --> 00:09:48,880 Speaker 1: He was fully, fully committed to that setup. And for 180 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:51,480 Speaker 1: some reason, I don't know if it's a dramatic effect 181 00:09:51,559 --> 00:09:53,840 Speaker 1: of the way that that bird looked in the sky, 182 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:56,559 Speaker 1: the fact that I knew that I had tricked him 183 00:09:56,600 --> 00:09:59,560 Speaker 1: and called that birden late season when most of the 184 00:09:59,559 --> 00:10:03,079 Speaker 1: birds are wery. For some reason, that duck, to me 185 00:10:03,559 --> 00:10:06,199 Speaker 1: was a trophy duck. It stood out in my mind 186 00:10:06,679 --> 00:10:11,400 Speaker 1: to this day as one of my favorite duck hunting days. Now, 187 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:13,440 Speaker 1: I didn't shoot a lot of birds that day. I 188 00:10:13,480 --> 00:10:15,800 Speaker 1: didn't see a lot of birds that day, but I 189 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:18,400 Speaker 1: knew that all the time that I put in into 190 00:10:18,440 --> 00:10:22,160 Speaker 1: the marsh late season allowed me the skills to trick 191 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:26,280 Speaker 1: that bird that probably would not have come in otherwise. 192 00:10:37,559 --> 00:10:40,360 Speaker 1: When I talk about late season duck hunting in order 193 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:43,880 Speaker 1: to have a successful hunt on public land, you really 194 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:48,719 Speaker 1: have to plan your day accordingly, and mostly weather effects 195 00:10:48,880 --> 00:10:53,920 Speaker 1: where you're going to hunt, because unlike fields on private 196 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:56,840 Speaker 1: land or agg land, where the birds are coming in 197 00:10:57,120 --> 00:11:00,840 Speaker 1: piling into these certain places to feed, most public land 198 00:11:00,880 --> 00:11:05,000 Speaker 1: bird hunting is on wildlife management areas or refuges, marsh 199 00:11:05,040 --> 00:11:09,280 Speaker 1: style hunting, or big water on public lakes, and sometimes 200 00:11:09,280 --> 00:11:12,360 Speaker 1: you've got your river systems, so you have to consider 201 00:11:12,440 --> 00:11:15,840 Speaker 1: the weather and look for places where there's higher likelihoods 202 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:18,800 Speaker 1: of open water. If it's a warm mirror, you don't 203 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:20,840 Speaker 1: really have to think about it so much. But on 204 00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:24,640 Speaker 1: those cold years, the marshes start to freeze up, and 205 00:11:24,679 --> 00:11:27,720 Speaker 1: you're really going to start limiting where the birds are 206 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:30,200 Speaker 1: gonna be, and you might be wasting your time just 207 00:11:30,320 --> 00:11:33,000 Speaker 1: breaking through ice all day if you don't have a 208 00:11:33,040 --> 00:11:37,040 Speaker 1: plan in place to hunt the weather accordingly. One thing 209 00:11:37,040 --> 00:11:39,560 Speaker 1: that I do is I first decide, okay, what's the 210 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:41,959 Speaker 1: temperature and what kind of ice is gonna be where 211 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:45,480 Speaker 1: I'm gonna hunt, And then I consider that and decide 212 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:47,640 Speaker 1: the types of places that I'm going to look to 213 00:11:47,720 --> 00:11:50,240 Speaker 1: hunt for that day. So if it's really cold and 214 00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:52,200 Speaker 1: I know most of the shallow water is gonna be 215 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:56,520 Speaker 1: frozen up. I'll think about targeting river systems, warm water slews, 216 00:11:56,679 --> 00:12:00,480 Speaker 1: or big water where the wind is kind kept the 217 00:12:00,520 --> 00:12:04,200 Speaker 1: ice at bay, as well as doing a lot of 218 00:12:04,280 --> 00:12:07,880 Speaker 1: scouting to try to find those pockets that ducks themselves 219 00:12:07,880 --> 00:12:11,160 Speaker 1: have kept open so late in the season. If I'm 220 00:12:11,200 --> 00:12:14,200 Speaker 1: just going in blind, a lot of times I'll go 221 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:17,480 Speaker 1: to the spot first and I won't plan on hunting 222 00:12:17,520 --> 00:12:20,400 Speaker 1: the morning. I'll use the morning to scout and glass. 223 00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:24,480 Speaker 1: It's crazy to me to think about duck hunting without 224 00:12:24,520 --> 00:12:28,840 Speaker 1: binoculars now it sounds weird, but I've always taken binoculars 225 00:12:28,880 --> 00:12:31,880 Speaker 1: with me because I prefer to glass over the marsh 226 00:12:31,960 --> 00:12:34,920 Speaker 1: and try to pinpoint where the birds are before I 227 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:38,319 Speaker 1: actually head into the area. It's key late season two 228 00:12:38,400 --> 00:12:40,760 Speaker 1: because there might not be a lot of open water, 229 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:43,000 Speaker 1: so to watch where those birds land in the morning 230 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:45,160 Speaker 1: when they're most active is going to give me my 231 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:48,040 Speaker 1: best opportunity for the rest of the day hunting, so 232 00:12:48,080 --> 00:12:50,520 Speaker 1: I can spend my time working to get into that 233 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:52,960 Speaker 1: spot and then have a good hunt for the second 234 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:56,439 Speaker 1: half of the day and potentially the next morning, as 235 00:12:56,440 --> 00:12:58,960 Speaker 1: opposed to just going in somewhere blind. Right off the 236 00:12:58,960 --> 00:13:03,240 Speaker 1: bat and not moving around enough to scout. I can think. 237 00:13:03,280 --> 00:13:05,599 Speaker 1: I actually have one really good time when I was 238 00:13:05,720 --> 00:13:08,400 Speaker 1: late season in the marsh, ran into some guys coming out, 239 00:13:08,640 --> 00:13:10,280 Speaker 1: you know, asked him how he did. I haven't seen 240 00:13:10,320 --> 00:13:13,160 Speaker 1: a bird all day. It's terrible. We're heading out, It's 241 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:15,680 Speaker 1: like okay. After he left, I stood up on the 242 00:13:15,720 --> 00:13:18,480 Speaker 1: top of my truck with my binoculars glassing over the 243 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:21,680 Speaker 1: two leies and saw a group of coots just kind 244 00:13:21,679 --> 00:13:24,520 Speaker 1: of take off in land and I thought, that's about 245 00:13:24,559 --> 00:13:27,120 Speaker 1: a half a mile away through some pretty bad ice. 246 00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:31,280 Speaker 1: I walk out there and sure enough there was open water. 247 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:34,439 Speaker 1: I jumped a couple of birds off that set up 248 00:13:34,880 --> 00:13:37,760 Speaker 1: ended up shooting a limit of awesome ducks, including a 249 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:41,000 Speaker 1: couple of redheads, some good teal, and then a bunch 250 00:13:41,040 --> 00:13:44,920 Speaker 1: of wigeon. So you just don't know what's out there 251 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:47,720 Speaker 1: sometimes just by looking with your eyes. I love to 252 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:50,760 Speaker 1: just take out my binoculars, go into a viewing tower 253 00:13:50,800 --> 00:13:53,679 Speaker 1: if I'm on a refuge that has them getting up 254 00:13:53,679 --> 00:13:56,200 Speaker 1: to a vantage point, and even just glassing the sky 255 00:13:56,280 --> 00:14:00,120 Speaker 1: and watching birds and trying to pinpoint where they're setting. Now, 256 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:02,440 Speaker 1: when I'm talking about finding a spot to hunt on 257 00:14:02,520 --> 00:14:05,600 Speaker 1: public land, you know, if it's not frozen over. What 258 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:08,440 Speaker 1: I like to do is I'll even use my satellite imagery, 259 00:14:08,520 --> 00:14:11,839 Speaker 1: my mapping software to just find areas that look hard 260 00:14:11,920 --> 00:14:14,520 Speaker 1: to get into. I kind of take the same approach 261 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:17,080 Speaker 1: with bird hunting that I do big game hunting. Get 262 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:19,680 Speaker 1: away from the crowds. You know, if it's kind of 263 00:14:19,720 --> 00:14:22,640 Speaker 1: a pain in the ask to get to, more likely 264 00:14:22,920 --> 00:14:24,800 Speaker 1: going to be a spot where you can leave some 265 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:27,920 Speaker 1: pressure behind, and it's most likely a spot where the 266 00:14:27,960 --> 00:14:29,960 Speaker 1: birds are going to be as well. You know, if 267 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:32,000 Speaker 1: you don't have a boat. Most of the time that 268 00:14:32,120 --> 00:14:36,000 Speaker 1: I spend duck hunting, I don't use a boat a 269 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:38,640 Speaker 1: lot of times because it's a late season, it's too frozen. 270 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:41,560 Speaker 1: But other times it's just that if I have a 271 00:14:41,560 --> 00:14:43,360 Speaker 1: boat and can get there easy, a lot of other 272 00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:45,240 Speaker 1: people can too. So what I like to do is 273 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:48,320 Speaker 1: find a spot that you have to walk to that's 274 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:51,880 Speaker 1: a pain to walk to, through mud, through a lot 275 00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:55,440 Speaker 1: of cover, or I'll use my mapping software to find 276 00:14:55,480 --> 00:14:57,640 Speaker 1: those places that look like, okay'd be hard to get 277 00:14:57,640 --> 00:15:00,080 Speaker 1: a boat into there because it's too shallow, but it's 278 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:02,200 Speaker 1: just deep enough that you got to weigh, and there's 279 00:15:02,280 --> 00:15:05,560 Speaker 1: also an opening in a bunch of twollies and other 280 00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:07,760 Speaker 1: things that you have to walk through a nice pocket 281 00:15:08,560 --> 00:15:10,920 Speaker 1: that Those are the type of concealed pockets that I 282 00:15:10,960 --> 00:15:13,800 Speaker 1: know birds hide, and especially late in the year when 283 00:15:13,840 --> 00:15:16,680 Speaker 1: they've been pressured a lot by other hunters. When I 284 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:19,520 Speaker 1: talk about the challenges of late season duck hunting, what 285 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:24,120 Speaker 1: I'm mostly talking about is ice. Now, it's probably the 286 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:26,400 Speaker 1: kind of ice that you're post holling through. What I 287 00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:29,280 Speaker 1: mean by that is you stand on it, it takes 288 00:15:29,480 --> 00:15:31,600 Speaker 1: most of your weight but not all of it, and 289 00:15:31,640 --> 00:15:33,960 Speaker 1: then you break through. So you've got mud on the 290 00:15:33,960 --> 00:15:35,920 Speaker 1: bottom that you sink in and ice on the top 291 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:40,000 Speaker 1: that you break through. It's honestly the worst combination for walking. 292 00:15:41,120 --> 00:15:44,840 Speaker 1: So this is where some of my interesting gear tips 293 00:15:44,920 --> 00:15:47,440 Speaker 1: come in. A few years back, I was hunting with 294 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:50,240 Speaker 1: my buddy Ross Baker, and we've been hunting all week 295 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:53,480 Speaker 1: in our shins were just destroyed from breaking through the ice. 296 00:15:53,880 --> 00:15:56,040 Speaker 1: So what we ended up doing was getting a pair 297 00:15:56,240 --> 00:16:00,400 Speaker 1: of soccer shin guards, putting those over our way eaters, 298 00:16:00,440 --> 00:16:03,000 Speaker 1: and then using those in our knees to break the 299 00:16:03,040 --> 00:16:05,880 Speaker 1: ice in front of us. It was the best thing 300 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:08,640 Speaker 1: we've ever done, and to this day, I still use 301 00:16:08,680 --> 00:16:11,480 Speaker 1: those soccer shin guards to break ice to get out 302 00:16:11,520 --> 00:16:13,760 Speaker 1: into spots that other people don't want to get to, 303 00:16:14,120 --> 00:16:16,600 Speaker 1: just because it is such a pain in the ass. Now, 304 00:16:16,600 --> 00:16:18,680 Speaker 1: if you are on that kind of ice where you're 305 00:16:18,680 --> 00:16:21,320 Speaker 1: breaking through, just make sure that you know the area 306 00:16:21,320 --> 00:16:24,880 Speaker 1: and you're obviously going over something deep. Another little piece 307 00:16:24,920 --> 00:16:27,200 Speaker 1: of equipment that I use is like a concrete sled. 308 00:16:27,560 --> 00:16:29,600 Speaker 1: Now it's not a sled that's made of concrete, but 309 00:16:29,640 --> 00:16:32,440 Speaker 1: it's just a sled for mixing concrete. They make a 310 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:34,600 Speaker 1: lot of duck hunting sleds, but I find that those 311 00:16:34,640 --> 00:16:38,160 Speaker 1: concrete sleds are a little bit more durable and they're shorter. 312 00:16:39,040 --> 00:16:41,360 Speaker 1: But it can also use that push your weight and 313 00:16:41,360 --> 00:16:43,680 Speaker 1: then break the ice in front of you. If you 314 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:46,320 Speaker 1: don't have a boat, or it's that kind of ice 315 00:16:46,360 --> 00:16:48,400 Speaker 1: where it's just too thick, would tear a boat up. 316 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:51,240 Speaker 1: Most of the time that late season hunting, it's that 317 00:16:51,360 --> 00:16:52,640 Speaker 1: kind of ice. It's the kind of ice that you're 318 00:16:52,640 --> 00:16:55,560 Speaker 1: gonna post hole through. So just having a couple of 319 00:16:55,640 --> 00:16:58,320 Speaker 1: pieces of equipment to help you get through the ice 320 00:16:58,400 --> 00:17:01,800 Speaker 1: without destroying yourself is a great thing to have. It 321 00:17:01,880 --> 00:17:04,119 Speaker 1: helps you just get into those spots that other people 322 00:17:04,160 --> 00:17:07,639 Speaker 1: aren't as willing to go, because, just like any public 323 00:17:07,720 --> 00:17:10,760 Speaker 1: land hunting, the guys that work a little bit harder 324 00:17:10,840 --> 00:17:14,240 Speaker 1: have a little bit more success. Now, all that time 325 00:17:14,280 --> 00:17:17,280 Speaker 1: that I've spent just observing birds and just time out 326 00:17:17,359 --> 00:17:20,439 Speaker 1: in the marsh, I really came up with some good 327 00:17:20,680 --> 00:17:23,520 Speaker 1: late season tactics and just things that I kind of 328 00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:27,480 Speaker 1: hold as these are the tips that help you trick 329 00:17:27,560 --> 00:17:30,840 Speaker 1: more birds. So the first tactic is, if you get 330 00:17:30,840 --> 00:17:34,239 Speaker 1: out there and it's frozen, create a water hole in 331 00:17:34,280 --> 00:17:37,560 Speaker 1: the shape that helps funnel birds to a landing area 332 00:17:37,680 --> 00:17:41,000 Speaker 1: closer to you. So what I'll do oftentimes is I'll 333 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:43,280 Speaker 1: break the ice out in front of where I'm sitting, 334 00:17:44,040 --> 00:17:46,800 Speaker 1: and I'll walk around in a circle to make the 335 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:49,560 Speaker 1: water hole where I have enough room on either side 336 00:17:49,560 --> 00:17:52,119 Speaker 1: to set decoys, but leave the open area in the 337 00:17:52,119 --> 00:17:55,359 Speaker 1: middle where I'm at. If there's ice, actually gives you 338 00:17:55,440 --> 00:17:58,919 Speaker 1: a good opportunity to create your own water hole or 339 00:17:58,960 --> 00:18:02,880 Speaker 1: own open water space where the ducks can land closer 340 00:18:02,920 --> 00:18:05,679 Speaker 1: to where you're going to shoot, and that actually is 341 00:18:05,720 --> 00:18:08,480 Speaker 1: to your advantage. What I do is I'll walk out 342 00:18:08,760 --> 00:18:11,720 Speaker 1: paste it off in different directions, and I'm careful where 343 00:18:11,720 --> 00:18:13,760 Speaker 1: I walk because when if I'm going into an area, 344 00:18:13,880 --> 00:18:16,199 Speaker 1: I don't want to walk right through where I'm going 345 00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:18,040 Speaker 1: to create this water hole. So I walk around in 346 00:18:18,040 --> 00:18:20,879 Speaker 1: a circle. I'll break it off a smaller section, and 347 00:18:20,880 --> 00:18:24,560 Speaker 1: then I'll push that ice underneath the ice that's already there, 348 00:18:24,560 --> 00:18:26,639 Speaker 1: because what I'm trying to do is create an area 349 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:29,000 Speaker 1: that looks like a bunch of live birds spent the 350 00:18:29,119 --> 00:18:33,199 Speaker 1: night there and left to the water open. Another thing 351 00:18:33,240 --> 00:18:36,399 Speaker 1: that I've realized is, especially late, your your decoys have 352 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:39,399 Speaker 1: to look right. So what I do is I don't 353 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:41,520 Speaker 1: throw my decoys late in hear because what that does 354 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:45,480 Speaker 1: splashes water around them, it gets ice built up on them, 355 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:48,400 Speaker 1: and they just don't look right after that. So I'll 356 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:51,280 Speaker 1: actually just walk out and place the decoys where I 357 00:18:51,320 --> 00:18:54,200 Speaker 1: want them. Oftentimes I'll do a few on the ice 358 00:18:54,240 --> 00:18:58,359 Speaker 1: sitting like ducks just sitting around the open water, and 359 00:18:58,400 --> 00:19:02,200 Speaker 1: then some birds in the water like they're feeding or whatever. 360 00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:05,520 Speaker 1: Another thing that I always have is at least one 361 00:19:05,600 --> 00:19:08,440 Speaker 1: motion rig in the water just to prevent it from 362 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:13,120 Speaker 1: freezing or refreezing. And what that motion rig does, either 363 00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:16,800 Speaker 1: like a jerk string or one of those vibrating ducks. 364 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:19,119 Speaker 1: I've even had the ducks there's three ducks on almost 365 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:21,399 Speaker 1: like a little motor system that pulls them down and 366 00:19:21,440 --> 00:19:24,200 Speaker 1: makes a lot of splashing water. But what that does 367 00:19:24,320 --> 00:19:26,359 Speaker 1: is the ducks that are flying over it says, hey, 368 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:30,160 Speaker 1: here's open water, not just ice. The ripples in there 369 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:33,159 Speaker 1: are key to showing ducks flying a long ways away 370 00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:35,400 Speaker 1: that might be searching for that open water, that hey, 371 00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:39,159 Speaker 1: here's some open water, and oh, there's already ducks there. Sweet, 372 00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:43,000 Speaker 1: let's drop right into that. I think the biggest tactic 373 00:19:43,359 --> 00:19:47,600 Speaker 1: and secret to tricking late season birds is to not overcall. 374 00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:50,320 Speaker 1: But I also think that you do need to call, 375 00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:55,640 Speaker 1: so just calling less and using a lot more single calls, softer, 376 00:19:56,000 --> 00:20:00,199 Speaker 1: understated calls, not big, long drawn out calls, because what 377 00:20:00,240 --> 00:20:02,600 Speaker 1: you wanna do is just sound like a few ducks, 378 00:20:02,760 --> 00:20:06,679 Speaker 1: but not desperate ducks. I think that the most dangerous 379 00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:09,560 Speaker 1: weapon I have in my late season duck hunting kit 380 00:20:10,160 --> 00:20:13,840 Speaker 1: would be a whistle type call, something a drake mallard call, 381 00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:16,639 Speaker 1: something that I can make that Drake mallard sound, something 382 00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:20,080 Speaker 1: that I can call to widgeon and pintails. Also, if 383 00:20:20,119 --> 00:20:23,000 Speaker 1: I see Widgeon a lot of times, I'll use a 384 00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:25,399 Speaker 1: mallard call to call to them, and vice versa. If 385 00:20:25,440 --> 00:20:28,000 Speaker 1: I see mallards, I'll use that widgeon or pintail call 386 00:20:28,280 --> 00:20:31,479 Speaker 1: birds that time, you're just looking for open water that's safe. 387 00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:34,439 Speaker 1: So I've kind of figured that if you're calling to 388 00:20:34,520 --> 00:20:36,880 Speaker 1: a duck with a call that isn't for that duck, 389 00:20:37,240 --> 00:20:39,760 Speaker 1: it might still get their attention as to, oh, here's 390 00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:43,480 Speaker 1: some open safe water to land. Yet you aren't trying 391 00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:47,040 Speaker 1: to be so direct at them like everybody else earlier 392 00:20:47,040 --> 00:20:49,480 Speaker 1: in the season has been every time a mallard flies by, 393 00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:55,719 Speaker 1: it's like, Okay, they've heard that before. Try something different, 394 00:20:55,760 --> 00:20:58,520 Speaker 1: Try giving a widgeon call to a mallard. Just letn't 395 00:20:58,520 --> 00:21:01,160 Speaker 1: even know. Hey, there's birds here happy, and there's plenty 396 00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:03,000 Speaker 1: of open water, plenty of room for you guys to 397 00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:06,280 Speaker 1: drop in. Now. If you're a big game hunter or 398 00:21:06,320 --> 00:21:09,200 Speaker 1: a new hunter and you haven't done much waterfowl hunting, 399 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:12,680 Speaker 1: I think the best way to kind of get into it, 400 00:21:12,960 --> 00:21:15,200 Speaker 1: or just to go out and have a good day, 401 00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:18,200 Speaker 1: especially later in the season, is to find some places 402 00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:21,840 Speaker 1: to jump shoot. Jump shooting can be a great tactic 403 00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:25,120 Speaker 1: late in the year, especially for guys that don't have 404 00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:29,320 Speaker 1: the decoy setups or the full decoy set up with 405 00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:32,160 Speaker 1: the boat and all the there's just a whole new 406 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:33,919 Speaker 1: set of gear that you need for a lot of 407 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:38,120 Speaker 1: different hunting applications. So if you don't have all that stuff, honestly, 408 00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:39,760 Speaker 1: the best way to just go out and have a 409 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:41,639 Speaker 1: good day late in the season would be to go 410 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:43,880 Speaker 1: do a little bit of jump shooting. And what that 411 00:21:44,040 --> 00:21:47,000 Speaker 1: entails is a lot of spot and stock type tactics 412 00:21:47,119 --> 00:21:50,240 Speaker 1: for the birds. I use my binoculars a lot. If 413 00:21:50,280 --> 00:21:52,720 Speaker 1: I'm gonna do any jump shooting, all kind of glass 414 00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:55,879 Speaker 1: and try to find the birds before they see me. 415 00:21:56,320 --> 00:22:01,240 Speaker 1: You'd be surprised how good a duck's or good eyesight is. 416 00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:04,280 Speaker 1: So a lot of jump shooting is a lot of 417 00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:07,560 Speaker 1: those spot and stock tactics that you use on other animals. 418 00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:11,280 Speaker 1: You just use it in a setting where you're shooting birds. 419 00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:14,800 Speaker 1: Mostly that's going to happen on rivers if everything else 420 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:19,119 Speaker 1: is froze up. I generally start downstream because most birds 421 00:22:19,119 --> 00:22:21,679 Speaker 1: will be swimming upstream so they won't be watching you. 422 00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:24,520 Speaker 1: Is often if you can do that, and then I 423 00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:28,000 Speaker 1: work my way upstream, I'll glass along the shores and 424 00:22:28,040 --> 00:22:30,600 Speaker 1: the banks, and then when I see birds, I'll make 425 00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:33,800 Speaker 1: wide paths around and then walk in. If I'm hunting 426 00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:35,639 Speaker 1: a river with a lot of bends that you actually 427 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:38,000 Speaker 1: can't see, what I do is I'll look at my 428 00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:40,959 Speaker 1: map and see where the holes are, or I'll pre 429 00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:43,280 Speaker 1: walk it the first day, and then the next day 430 00:22:43,359 --> 00:22:45,800 Speaker 1: kind of know where those holes are where birds jumped off, 431 00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:49,840 Speaker 1: and then kind of sneak into those spots, moving slow 432 00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:53,239 Speaker 1: and looking. One thing that I also like to do 433 00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:57,119 Speaker 1: late season, if you're a bow hunter, spot in stock 434 00:22:57,320 --> 00:23:00,840 Speaker 1: duck hunting instead of jump shooting with your bow can 435 00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:06,200 Speaker 1: be extremely good practice. Wow, this is a late season 436 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:09,520 Speaker 1: duck hunting podcast. I just want to make it applicable 437 00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:11,959 Speaker 1: for a lot of different people. So if you are 438 00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:13,720 Speaker 1: a type of person that says, oh, I don't really 439 00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:16,200 Speaker 1: bird hunt much, maybe you don't really shoot a shotgun 440 00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:19,480 Speaker 1: a lot, but you do bow hunt, get yourself some 441 00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:23,080 Speaker 1: of those blunt tips, some bird tips, and then go 442 00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:27,560 Speaker 1: out and just stock the river, stock creek bottoms, stock 443 00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:31,439 Speaker 1: little ponds. It's an extremely good way to get a 444 00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:34,560 Speaker 1: lot of shooting in and a lot of practice for 445 00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:38,520 Speaker 1: next archery season. If duck hunting is kind of new 446 00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:42,080 Speaker 1: to you this winter. Your homework is to get out, 447 00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:44,760 Speaker 1: go buy a duck stamp, and go hunt the marsh, 448 00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:49,440 Speaker 1: Go hunt the river, get on some ducks, because it's 449 00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:52,119 Speaker 1: overall just gonna make you a better big game hunter 450 00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:54,280 Speaker 1: as well. Whether you're just a big game hunter and 451 00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:57,560 Speaker 1: if you're just a duck hunter perfect, I think you 452 00:23:57,600 --> 00:24:00,200 Speaker 1: can use a few of those tips. Honestly, I think 453 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:03,040 Speaker 1: the best tip for late season duck hunting is the 454 00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:07,600 Speaker 1: type of calling less calling, like calling whistle calling. So 455 00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:11,200 Speaker 1: remember those tactics and you'll have a lot more success 456 00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:14,520 Speaker 1: this year in the marsh. I just want to thank 457 00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:17,760 Speaker 1: everybody again for tuning in. I know we had a 458 00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:20,320 Speaker 1: Christmas special where I kind of went over some gear, 459 00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:22,760 Speaker 1: did some giveaways. That was a lot of fun. I 460 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:25,320 Speaker 1: want to thank everybody for the participation in that. That 461 00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:28,160 Speaker 1: was a lot of fun for me. This was our 462 00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:31,439 Speaker 1: first in the small game hunting category. I've done a 463 00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:34,440 Speaker 1: lot of big game hunting stuff, but man, I'm passionate 464 00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:37,280 Speaker 1: about all kinds of hunting. So if I can impart 465 00:24:37,359 --> 00:24:39,840 Speaker 1: some of that to people that might not have exposure 466 00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:42,439 Speaker 1: or experience with some of these other types of forms 467 00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:45,560 Speaker 1: of hunting, that's awesome. You know, if you have some 468 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:49,080 Speaker 1: great small game hunting photos or stories, send them to me. 469 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:51,080 Speaker 1: Let me know if you're getting out their late season 470 00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:53,960 Speaker 1: to chase some birds, chase some ducks. I love to 471 00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:56,840 Speaker 1: hear all that stuff. As always, you can email me 472 00:24:57,040 --> 00:25:00,640 Speaker 1: at Remy at the meat Eater dot com. So give 473 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:02,680 Speaker 1: us some of your questions, because we're gonna be doing 474 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:06,040 Speaker 1: a Q and A coming up probably next week. If 475 00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:08,600 Speaker 1: you've got some questions, send those in and then if 476 00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:10,960 Speaker 1: we don't get to your question, I save a lot 477 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:13,600 Speaker 1: of the questions. You can also send questions to me 478 00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:17,840 Speaker 1: via social media on Instagram. I also just wonder right now, 479 00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:20,680 Speaker 1: reach out to you a little bit, engage your interest 480 00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:24,359 Speaker 1: on possibly having a section at the end of the podcast, 481 00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:27,680 Speaker 1: or answer maybe one or two questions in this closing 482 00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:30,720 Speaker 1: zone right here. Some of them might be relevant to 483 00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:33,119 Speaker 1: the podcast that just happened, but a lot of them 484 00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:36,600 Speaker 1: might just be your questions. Get a few more questions answered. 485 00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:39,760 Speaker 1: Because the amount of questions that are coming in, it's 486 00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:43,120 Speaker 1: it's gonna be hard to answer everybody's questions. I will 487 00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:45,840 Speaker 1: also say that a lot of the questions that come 488 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:49,520 Speaker 1: in can be answered in previous podcasts. So if there's 489 00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:52,480 Speaker 1: some that you missed, definitely go back and check them out. 490 00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:55,560 Speaker 1: I think some of the titles don't accurately describe all 491 00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:58,800 Speaker 1: the information that's going to be in those podcasts. So 492 00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:01,520 Speaker 1: if you missed one, go back and check it out, 493 00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:04,160 Speaker 1: because I think that there's gonna be some little things 494 00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:06,639 Speaker 1: that you might pick up here and there, or have you, 495 00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:10,000 Speaker 1: having listened to some more podcasts, maybe jump back to 496 00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:11,960 Speaker 1: some of those ones and answer a few of those 497 00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:14,520 Speaker 1: questions for you. So that's all I have for you 498 00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:18,560 Speaker 1: this week. Until next week, let's say, keep your eyes 499 00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:19,360 Speaker 1: to the skies.