Speaker 1: As a guide and hunter, I've spent thousands of days
Speaker 1: in the field. This show is about translating my hard
Speaker 1: won experiences into tips and tactics they'll get you closer
Speaker 1: to your ultimate goal success in the field. I'm Remy Warren.
Speaker 1: This is cutting the Distance. This podcast is presented by
Speaker 1: Yetti Built for the Wild. While most of the big
Speaker 1: game seasons have come and gone for the year, my
Speaker 1: guess is your hunting itch is not subdued, so the
Speaker 1: question remains, where do you go and what do you
Speaker 1: do from here? Lucky for you, while the big game
Speaker 1: season might be over, there's still plenty of waterfowl season
Speaker 1: to take advantage of. Late season duck hunting can be
Speaker 1: one of the best times, in my opinion, to hit
Speaker 1: the marsh, but it also provides a few unique challenges.
Speaker 1: This week, I want to give you some tips for
Speaker 1: late season public land waterfowl hunting, including some tips for
Speaker 1: planning your day and finding open water even if it's
Speaker 1: all iced up, tactics for locating those birds, and just
Speaker 1: a couple of strange gear ideas that I've come up
Speaker 1: with over the years, as well as tactics for those
Speaker 1: cold January days to trick weary birds to committing to
Speaker 1: your spread. But first, I want to share one of
Speaker 1: my favorite late season deck stories with you. Now, of
Speaker 1: all the days that I've spent in the marsh, for
Speaker 1: some reason, this one Mallard stands out Now. I think
Speaker 1: of myself as a hunter, and what I mean by
Speaker 1: that is I love all forms of hunting, whether it's
Speaker 1: bow hunting, rifle hunting. It doesn't matter if I'm out
Speaker 1: there thing, I'm enjoying it, small game, big game. But
Speaker 1: there's something for me that is special about waterfowl hunting.
Speaker 1: I just love that experience of being in the marsh now.
Speaker 1: I love it so much that actually, after I would
Speaker 1: finish my guide season, I would have a bit of
Speaker 1: time between my next semester of school and when I
Speaker 1: had to do anything else. I pretty much lived cheap.
Speaker 1: So I decided, oh, after the guide season, I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna hunt for ducks for two months straight. And I
Speaker 1: pretty much would go out every single day chasing ducks. Now,
Speaker 1: because I had the time to hunt them so much,
Speaker 1: It's not like I could physically eat a limit of
Speaker 1: birds every day. I kind of set myself these ground
Speaker 1: rules for the hunt. So if I was gonna shoot
Speaker 1: a bird, it had to check all of these boxes
Speaker 1: in order for me to pull up the shotgun and
Speaker 1: shoot it. So my theory was, I will only shoot
Speaker 1: drake birds of certain species. I would say, call them
Speaker 1: like prized species or the ones it were we didn't
Speaker 1: see as often the Mallard's pintail every once in a
Speaker 1: while region, and so it had to be a drake bird,
Speaker 1: and then it would have to be a bird that
Speaker 1: I tricked and called to. Because of that, I got
Speaker 1: a lot of interactions with ducks and with waterfowl. It
Speaker 1: was really just a lot of time spent in the
Speaker 1: marsh calling watching birds. I would have other species land,
Speaker 1: I would have other birds fly by, and it really
Speaker 1: gave me a lot of interaction into the minds of
Speaker 1: these elite seasoned ducks. Now, the story that I want
Speaker 1: to tell is not about the best duck hunting day
Speaker 1: I've ever had, shooting a limited birds. It's about one
Speaker 1: particular drake mallard. The day was not much different than
Speaker 1: all the other days I'd been out. I would say
Speaker 1: the weather was kind of cold. It was definitely overcast
Speaker 1: this day, but not precipitating. It was just overcast, light breeze,
Speaker 1: nothing real stand out about the day. In order to
Speaker 1: get out to the spot, the ice was just thick
Speaker 1: enough where you could put a little weight on it
Speaker 1: and then you would break through. So no matter where
Speaker 1: I had to go, I had to break ice. But
Speaker 1: it was also warm enough earlier in the week where
Speaker 1: there was patches of open water as well. Most of
Speaker 1: the places that I had to get to I had
Speaker 1: to break through some ice. But I was trying to
Speaker 1: figure out, Okay, there's enough open water where the birds
Speaker 1: are spread out, and I didn't know exactly where I
Speaker 1: wanted to go this day. So what I did was
Speaker 1: I just got up waiting for the sun to rise
Speaker 1: in a good part of the day, and then just
Speaker 1: kind of glassed and looked around for birds that were
Speaker 1: flying to figure out where the concentrations of birds are
Speaker 1: in this marsh. Because it was fairly late in the
Speaker 1: season and most of the birds had already left. Not
Speaker 1: a lot of birds is stopped by because it was
Speaker 1: frozen up earlier in the season, so it wasn't a
Speaker 1: lot of opportunities out there for a lot of birds.
Speaker 1: I really need to know, Okay, which spot am I
Speaker 1: gonna hunt this day? So I saw a few birds
Speaker 1: flying about a mile probably two miles out, and it's
Speaker 1: a spot that I actually hunt a lot. So I thought, okay,
Speaker 1: I'll walk to that one little pond. Back there. There's
Speaker 1: a big wetland area, so it's it's maybe like knee
Speaker 1: deep water muddy, the type of mud where you I'd
Speaker 1: step my boot in the ground and then sink down
Speaker 1: past your ankles and then you've got ice about knee level.
Speaker 1: Then you'd step up again, you put a little bit
Speaker 1: of weight on the ice, and then you break back
Speaker 1: through a lot of work, a lot of work to
Speaker 1: get out there. So it takes such a long time
Speaker 1: to get out there. It's part of the reason it
Speaker 1: was nearly impossible to just hunt the morning. So I've
Speaker 1: spotted where I wanted to go, and I made the
Speaker 1: long trudge into there. I don't know how long it took,
Speaker 1: but it seems like it took most of the day.
Speaker 1: I have a little sled that I had my decoison
Speaker 1: and a two lee stool fully camoed up thick insulated
Speaker 1: waiters just because it's so cold, and marched out to
Speaker 1: my spot. Up. I came up upon the pond and
Speaker 1: the pond that I was hoping to hunt actually was
Speaker 1: I would say partially open. There was a patch of twolies,
Speaker 1: which is just like some thick cat tail looking plant
Speaker 1: in the wetlands there, and there's this patch of twolies
Speaker 1: in the middle, a small patch i'd say maybe seven
Speaker 1: seven ft across. I said, okay, I'm gonna push in there,
Speaker 1: and that's where I'm gonna set up. And then I
Speaker 1: made a little bit more open water right in front
Speaker 1: of it, just by breaking the ice and sliding it
Speaker 1: underneath the other more stationary ice. And then I set
Speaker 1: out a few decoys. I didn't want to overdo it,
Speaker 1: just a few out past me, trying to make it
Speaker 1: where there's a landing area right in front of me,
Speaker 1: because at this time, when I did find the birds
Speaker 1: that I wanted to shoot, because I had tricked them,
Speaker 1: I meant that they're pretty much going to land in
Speaker 1: my decoys. The ducks that I did shoot at, it's
Speaker 1: pretty much shoot and I was killing that duck. I
Speaker 1: went through very few shells this season because everything that
Speaker 1: I shot at was one shot and done because the
Speaker 1: bird were so close. So I really tried to figure
Speaker 1: out or set my spread so the birds would be
Speaker 1: landing right on top of me. Right after I got
Speaker 1: set up, I had a few birds. You could just
Speaker 1: hear that wing tips before you see them whizz over top.
Speaker 1: I called I was actually a group of pintails like,
Speaker 1: gave him some whistles. They dropped their wings, circled around
Speaker 1: one time, and then continued on their way. They were
Speaker 1: within range. But I didn't feel like I tricked to
Speaker 1: those birds. They gave it one look and decited, now
Speaker 1: that wasn't it. Maybe they saw me. Maybe I got
Speaker 1: too impatient, looked up at the wrong time. If I
Speaker 1: was just trying to shoot birds, I could have shot
Speaker 1: those birds. But I didn't feel like I tricked those birds.
Speaker 1: When I talk about tricked, I mean they have to
Speaker 1: be wings locked, coming in hot, just about to drop
Speaker 1: into my spot. So the day was actually pretty dang slow.
Speaker 1: And then off in the distance, I see this loan
Speaker 1: drake mallard cruising a ways out. That's a good bird
Speaker 1: to call to. Gave him a few eating calls real light,
Speaker 1: and I saw him kind of start flying my direction.
Speaker 1: So at that point late season, I don't like to overcall.
Speaker 1: I just I took out my whistle again, and I
Speaker 1: use this. It's actually a drake call whistles like I
Speaker 1: don't have it with me, so I'll just use my
Speaker 1: voices who sound. And he's checking it out. I can
Speaker 1: tell that he is a weary bird. He's locked his
Speaker 1: wings and he's starting to circle up pretty high, and
Speaker 1: he's just looking. He's like doing that thing where that
Speaker 1: the duck does, where his necks out over his body
Speaker 1: and he's looking pinpointing where he might land and checking
Speaker 1: things out. On the first pass, does his first pass
Speaker 1: and I'm just chucked into the two. He's tight face
Speaker 1: mask on, trying not to look up. I don't want
Speaker 1: him to see my eyes. Give him another whistle as
Speaker 1: every time he crosses by, as his backs to me,
Speaker 1: I whistle as he's coming in. I lay off the sound,
Speaker 1: just a few calls here and there to just make
Speaker 1: him make it seem realistic, you know, trying to match
Speaker 1: a set actually ducks that I hear on the water
Speaker 1: that time of year. Not going overboard with it, but
Speaker 1: definitely trying to trick him into my spread. He makes
Speaker 1: another pass, coming down a little bit lower, this time,
Speaker 1: locking his wings and just checking it out. Same thing.
Speaker 1: A little call sequence, he takes it wide, comes back
Speaker 1: in a third pass. Now I can tell this bird
Speaker 1: is going to commit. After that third pass, he swoops
Speaker 1: out to the south, locks his wings, his feet are out.
Speaker 1: It's just his orange feet up against that dark sky,
Speaker 1: bright green head, fully plumed drake mallard. He's locked in,
Speaker 1: dropping straight down on top of me. I rise up
Speaker 1: and shoot the bird just maybe ten feet off my barrel.
Speaker 1: He was fully, fully committed to that setup. And for
Speaker 1: some reason, I don't know if it's a dramatic effect
Speaker 1: of the way that that bird looked in the sky,
Speaker 1: the fact that I knew that I had tricked him
Speaker 1: and called that birden late season when most of the
Speaker 1: birds are wery. For some reason, that duck, to me
Speaker 1: was a trophy duck. It stood out in my mind
Speaker 1: to this day as one of my favorite duck hunting days. Now,
Speaker 1: I didn't shoot a lot of birds that day. I
Speaker 1: didn't see a lot of birds that day, but I
Speaker 1: knew that all the time that I put in into
Speaker 1: the marsh late season allowed me the skills to trick
Speaker 1: that bird that probably would not have come in otherwise.
Speaker 1: When I talk about late season duck hunting in order
Speaker 1: to have a successful hunt on public land, you really
Speaker 1: have to plan your day accordingly, and mostly weather effects
Speaker 1: where you're going to hunt, because unlike fields on private
Speaker 1: land or agg land, where the birds are coming in
Speaker 1: piling into these certain places to feed, most public land
Speaker 1: bird hunting is on wildlife management areas or refuges, marsh
Speaker 1: style hunting, or big water on public lakes, and sometimes
Speaker 1: you've got your river systems, so you have to consider
Speaker 1: the weather and look for places where there's higher likelihoods
Speaker 1: of open water. If it's a warm mirror, you don't
Speaker 1: really have to think about it so much. But on
Speaker 1: those cold years, the marshes start to freeze up, and
Speaker 1: you're really going to start limiting where the birds are
Speaker 1: gonna be, and you might be wasting your time just
Speaker 1: breaking through ice all day if you don't have a
Speaker 1: plan in place to hunt the weather accordingly. One thing
Speaker 1: that I do is I first decide, okay, what's the
Speaker 1: temperature and what kind of ice is gonna be where
Speaker 1: I'm gonna hunt, And then I consider that and decide
Speaker 1: the types of places that I'm going to look to
Speaker 1: hunt for that day. So if it's really cold and
Speaker 1: I know most of the shallow water is gonna be
Speaker 1: frozen up. I'll think about targeting river systems, warm water slews,
Speaker 1: or big water where the wind is kind kept the
Speaker 1: ice at bay, as well as doing a lot of
Speaker 1: scouting to try to find those pockets that ducks themselves
Speaker 1: have kept open so late in the season. If I'm
Speaker 1: just going in blind, a lot of times I'll go
Speaker 1: to the spot first and I won't plan on hunting
Speaker 1: the morning. I'll use the morning to scout and glass.
Speaker 1: It's crazy to me to think about duck hunting without
Speaker 1: binoculars now it sounds weird, but I've always taken binoculars
Speaker 1: with me because I prefer to glass over the marsh
Speaker 1: and try to pinpoint where the birds are before I
Speaker 1: actually head into the area. It's key late season two
Speaker 1: because there might not be a lot of open water,
Speaker 1: so to watch where those birds land in the morning
Speaker 1: when they're most active is going to give me my
Speaker 1: best opportunity for the rest of the day hunting, so
Speaker 1: I can spend my time working to get into that
Speaker 1: spot and then have a good hunt for the second
Speaker 1: half of the day and potentially the next morning, as
Speaker 1: opposed to just going in somewhere blind. Right off the
Speaker 1: bat and not moving around enough to scout. I can think.
Speaker 1: I actually have one really good time when I was
Speaker 1: late season in the marsh, ran into some guys coming out,
Speaker 1: you know, asked him how he did. I haven't seen
Speaker 1: a bird all day. It's terrible. We're heading out, It's
Speaker 1: like okay. After he left, I stood up on the
Speaker 1: top of my truck with my binoculars glassing over the
Speaker 1: two leies and saw a group of coots just kind
Speaker 1: of take off in land and I thought, that's about
Speaker 1: a half a mile away through some pretty bad ice.
Speaker 1: I walk out there and sure enough there was open water.
Speaker 1: I jumped a couple of birds off that set up
Speaker 1: ended up shooting a limit of awesome ducks, including a
Speaker 1: couple of redheads, some good teal, and then a bunch
Speaker 1: of wigeon. So you just don't know what's out there
Speaker 1: sometimes just by looking with your eyes. I love to
Speaker 1: just take out my binoculars, go into a viewing tower
Speaker 1: if I'm on a refuge that has them getting up
Speaker 1: to a vantage point, and even just glassing the sky
Speaker 1: and watching birds and trying to pinpoint where they're setting. Now,
Speaker 1: when I'm talking about finding a spot to hunt on
Speaker 1: public land, you know, if it's not frozen over. What
Speaker 1: I like to do is I'll even use my satellite imagery,
Speaker 1: my mapping software to just find areas that look hard
Speaker 1: to get into. I kind of take the same approach
Speaker 1: with bird hunting that I do big game hunting. Get
Speaker 1: away from the crowds. You know, if it's kind of
Speaker 1: a pain in the ask to get to, more likely
Speaker 1: going to be a spot where you can leave some
Speaker 1: pressure behind, and it's most likely a spot where the
Speaker 1: birds are going to be as well. You know, if
Speaker 1: you don't have a boat. Most of the time that
Speaker 1: I spend duck hunting, I don't use a boat a
Speaker 1: lot of times because it's a late season, it's too frozen.
Speaker 1: But other times it's just that if I have a
Speaker 1: boat and can get there easy, a lot of other
Speaker 1: people can too. So what I like to do is
Speaker 1: find a spot that you have to walk to that's
Speaker 1: a pain to walk to, through mud, through a lot
Speaker 1: of cover, or I'll use my mapping software to find
Speaker 1: those places that look like, okay'd be hard to get
Speaker 1: a boat into there because it's too shallow, but it's
Speaker 1: just deep enough that you got to weigh, and there's
Speaker 1: also an opening in a bunch of twollies and other
Speaker 1: things that you have to walk through a nice pocket
Speaker 1: that Those are the type of concealed pockets that I
Speaker 1: know birds hide, and especially late in the year when
Speaker 1: they've been pressured a lot by other hunters. When I
Speaker 1: talk about the challenges of late season duck hunting, what
Speaker 1: I'm mostly talking about is ice. Now, it's probably the
Speaker 1: kind of ice that you're post holling through. What I
Speaker 1: mean by that is you stand on it, it takes
Speaker 1: most of your weight but not all of it, and
Speaker 1: then you break through. So you've got mud on the
Speaker 1: bottom that you sink in and ice on the top
Speaker 1: that you break through. It's honestly the worst combination for walking.
Speaker 1: So this is where some of my interesting gear tips
Speaker 1: come in. A few years back, I was hunting with
Speaker 1: my buddy Ross Baker, and we've been hunting all week
Speaker 1: in our shins were just destroyed from breaking through the ice.
Speaker 1: So what we ended up doing was getting a pair
Speaker 1: of soccer shin guards, putting those over our way eaters,
Speaker 1: and then using those in our knees to break the
Speaker 1: ice in front of us. It was the best thing
Speaker 1: we've ever done, and to this day, I still use
Speaker 1: those soccer shin guards to break ice to get out
Speaker 1: into spots that other people don't want to get to,
Speaker 1: just because it is such a pain in the ass. Now,
Speaker 1: if you are on that kind of ice where you're
Speaker 1: breaking through, just make sure that you know the area
Speaker 1: and you're obviously going over something deep. Another little piece
Speaker 1: of equipment that I use is like a concrete sled.
Speaker 1: Now it's not a sled that's made of concrete, but
Speaker 1: it's just a sled for mixing concrete. They make a
Speaker 1: lot of duck hunting sleds, but I find that those
Speaker 1: concrete sleds are a little bit more durable and they're shorter.
Speaker 1: But it can also use that push your weight and
Speaker 1: then break the ice in front of you. If you
Speaker 1: don't have a boat, or it's that kind of ice
Speaker 1: where it's just too thick, would tear a boat up.
Speaker 1: Most of the time that late season hunting, it's that
Speaker 1: kind of ice. It's the kind of ice that you're
Speaker 1: gonna post hole through. So just having a couple of
Speaker 1: pieces of equipment to help you get through the ice
Speaker 1: without destroying yourself is a great thing to have. It
Speaker 1: helps you just get into those spots that other people
Speaker 1: aren't as willing to go, because, just like any public
Speaker 1: land hunting, the guys that work a little bit harder
Speaker 1: have a little bit more success. Now, all that time
Speaker 1: that I've spent just observing birds and just time out
Speaker 1: in the marsh, I really came up with some good
Speaker 1: late season tactics and just things that I kind of
Speaker 1: hold as these are the tips that help you trick
Speaker 1: more birds. So the first tactic is, if you get
Speaker 1: out there and it's frozen, create a water hole in
Speaker 1: the shape that helps funnel birds to a landing area
Speaker 1: closer to you. So what I'll do oftentimes is I'll
Speaker 1: break the ice out in front of where I'm sitting,
Speaker 1: and I'll walk around in a circle to make the
Speaker 1: water hole where I have enough room on either side
Speaker 1: to set decoys, but leave the open area in the
Speaker 1: middle where I'm at. If there's ice, actually gives you
Speaker 1: a good opportunity to create your own water hole or
Speaker 1: own open water space where the ducks can land closer
Speaker 1: to where you're going to shoot, and that actually is
Speaker 1: to your advantage. What I do is I'll walk out
Speaker 1: paste it off in different directions, and I'm careful where
Speaker 1: I walk because when if I'm going into an area,
Speaker 1: I don't want to walk right through where I'm going
Speaker 1: to create this water hole. So I walk around in
Speaker 1: a circle. I'll break it off a smaller section, and
Speaker 1: then I'll push that ice underneath the ice that's already there,
Speaker 1: because what I'm trying to do is create an area
Speaker 1: that looks like a bunch of live birds spent the
Speaker 1: night there and left to the water open. Another thing
Speaker 1: that I've realized is, especially late, your your decoys have
Speaker 1: to look right. So what I do is I don't
Speaker 1: throw my decoys late in hear because what that does
Speaker 1: splashes water around them, it gets ice built up on them,
Speaker 1: and they just don't look right after that. So I'll
Speaker 1: actually just walk out and place the decoys where I
Speaker 1: want them. Oftentimes I'll do a few on the ice
Speaker 1: sitting like ducks just sitting around the open water, and
Speaker 1: then some birds in the water like they're feeding or whatever.
Speaker 1: Another thing that I always have is at least one
Speaker 1: motion rig in the water just to prevent it from
Speaker 1: freezing or refreezing. And what that motion rig does, either
Speaker 1: like a jerk string or one of those vibrating ducks.
Speaker 1: I've even had the ducks there's three ducks on almost
Speaker 1: like a little motor system that pulls them down and
Speaker 1: makes a lot of splashing water. But what that does
Speaker 1: is the ducks that are flying over it says, hey,
Speaker 1: here's open water, not just ice. The ripples in there
Speaker 1: are key to showing ducks flying a long ways away
Speaker 1: that might be searching for that open water, that hey,
Speaker 1: here's some open water, and oh, there's already ducks there. Sweet,
Speaker 1: let's drop right into that. I think the biggest tactic
Speaker 1: and secret to tricking late season birds is to not overcall.
Speaker 1: But I also think that you do need to call,
Speaker 1: so just calling less and using a lot more single calls, softer,
Speaker 1: understated calls, not big, long drawn out calls, because what
Speaker 1: you wanna do is just sound like a few ducks,
Speaker 1: but not desperate ducks. I think that the most dangerous
Speaker 1: weapon I have in my late season duck hunting kit
Speaker 1: would be a whistle type call, something a drake mallard call,
Speaker 1: something that I can make that Drake mallard sound, something
Speaker 1: that I can call to widgeon and pintails. Also, if
Speaker 1: I see Widgeon a lot of times, I'll use a
Speaker 1: mallard call to call to them, and vice versa. If
Speaker 1: I see mallards, I'll use that widgeon or pintail call
Speaker 1: birds that time, you're just looking for open water that's safe.
Speaker 1: So I've kind of figured that if you're calling to
Speaker 1: a duck with a call that isn't for that duck,
Speaker 1: it might still get their attention as to, oh, here's
Speaker 1: some open safe water to land. Yet you aren't trying
Speaker 1: to be so direct at them like everybody else earlier
Speaker 1: in the season has been every time a mallard flies by,
Speaker 1: it's like, Okay, they've heard that before. Try something different,
Speaker 1: Try giving a widgeon call to a mallard. Just letn't
Speaker 1: even know. Hey, there's birds here happy, and there's plenty
Speaker 1: of open water, plenty of room for you guys to
Speaker 1: drop in. Now. If you're a big game hunter or
Speaker 1: a new hunter and you haven't done much waterfowl hunting,
Speaker 1: I think the best way to kind of get into it,
Speaker 1: or just to go out and have a good day,
Speaker 1: especially later in the season, is to find some places
Speaker 1: to jump shoot. Jump shooting can be a great tactic
Speaker 1: late in the year, especially for guys that don't have
Speaker 1: the decoy setups or the full decoy set up with
Speaker 1: the boat and all the there's just a whole new
Speaker 1: set of gear that you need for a lot of
Speaker 1: different hunting applications. So if you don't have all that stuff, honestly,
Speaker 1: the best way to just go out and have a
Speaker 1: good day late in the season would be to go
Speaker 1: do a little bit of jump shooting. And what that
Speaker 1: entails is a lot of spot and stock type tactics
Speaker 1: for the birds. I use my binoculars a lot. If
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do any jump shooting, all kind of glass
Speaker 1: and try to find the birds before they see me.
Speaker 1: You'd be surprised how good a duck's or good eyesight is.
Speaker 1: So a lot of jump shooting is a lot of
Speaker 1: those spot and stock tactics that you use on other animals.
Speaker 1: You just use it in a setting where you're shooting birds.
Speaker 1: Mostly that's going to happen on rivers if everything else
Speaker 1: is froze up. I generally start downstream because most birds
Speaker 1: will be swimming upstream so they won't be watching you.
Speaker 1: Is often if you can do that, and then I
Speaker 1: work my way upstream, I'll glass along the shores and
Speaker 1: the banks, and then when I see birds, I'll make
Speaker 1: wide paths around and then walk in. If I'm hunting
Speaker 1: a river with a lot of bends that you actually
Speaker 1: can't see, what I do is I'll look at my
Speaker 1: map and see where the holes are, or I'll pre
Speaker 1: walk it the first day, and then the next day
Speaker 1: kind of know where those holes are where birds jumped off,
Speaker 1: and then kind of sneak into those spots, moving slow
Speaker 1: and looking. One thing that I also like to do
Speaker 1: late season, if you're a bow hunter, spot in stock
Speaker 1: duck hunting instead of jump shooting with your bow can
Speaker 1: be extremely good practice. Wow, this is a late season
Speaker 1: duck hunting podcast. I just want to make it applicable
Speaker 1: for a lot of different people. So if you are
Speaker 1: a type of person that says, oh, I don't really
Speaker 1: bird hunt much, maybe you don't really shoot a shotgun
Speaker 1: a lot, but you do bow hunt, get yourself some
Speaker 1: of those blunt tips, some bird tips, and then go
Speaker 1: out and just stock the river, stock creek bottoms, stock
Speaker 1: little ponds. It's an extremely good way to get a
Speaker 1: lot of shooting in and a lot of practice for
Speaker 1: next archery season. If duck hunting is kind of new
Speaker 1: to you this winter. Your homework is to get out,
Speaker 1: go buy a duck stamp, and go hunt the marsh,
Speaker 1: Go hunt the river, get on some ducks, because it's
Speaker 1: overall just gonna make you a better big game hunter
Speaker 1: as well. Whether you're just a big game hunter and
Speaker 1: if you're just a duck hunter perfect, I think you
Speaker 1: can use a few of those tips. Honestly, I think
Speaker 1: the best tip for late season duck hunting is the
Speaker 1: type of calling less calling, like calling whistle calling. So
Speaker 1: remember those tactics and you'll have a lot more success
Speaker 1: this year in the marsh. I just want to thank
Speaker 1: everybody again for tuning in. I know we had a
Speaker 1: Christmas special where I kind of went over some gear,
Speaker 1: did some giveaways. That was a lot of fun. I
Speaker 1: want to thank everybody for the participation in that. That
Speaker 1: was a lot of fun for me. This was our
Speaker 1: first in the small game hunting category. I've done a
Speaker 1: lot of big game hunting stuff, but man, I'm passionate
Speaker 1: about all kinds of hunting. So if I can impart
Speaker 1: some of that to people that might not have exposure
Speaker 1: or experience with some of these other types of forms
Speaker 1: of hunting, that's awesome. You know, if you have some
Speaker 1: great small game hunting photos or stories, send them to me.
Speaker 1: Let me know if you're getting out their late season
Speaker 1: to chase some birds, chase some ducks. I love to
Speaker 1: hear all that stuff. As always, you can email me
Speaker 1: at Remy at the meat Eater dot com. So give
Speaker 1: us some of your questions, because we're gonna be doing
Speaker 1: a Q and A coming up probably next week. If
Speaker 1: you've got some questions, send those in and then if
Speaker 1: we don't get to your question, I save a lot
Speaker 1: of the questions. You can also send questions to me
Speaker 1: via social media on Instagram. I also just wonder right now,
Speaker 1: reach out to you a little bit, engage your interest
Speaker 1: on possibly having a section at the end of the podcast,
Speaker 1: or answer maybe one or two questions in this closing
Speaker 1: zone right here. Some of them might be relevant to
Speaker 1: the podcast that just happened, but a lot of them
Speaker 1: might just be your questions. Get a few more questions answered.
Speaker 1: Because the amount of questions that are coming in, it's
Speaker 1: it's gonna be hard to answer everybody's questions. I will
Speaker 1: also say that a lot of the questions that come
Speaker 1: in can be answered in previous podcasts. So if there's
Speaker 1: some that you missed, definitely go back and check them out.
Speaker 1: I think some of the titles don't accurately describe all
Speaker 1: the information that's going to be in those podcasts. So
Speaker 1: if you missed one, go back and check it out,
Speaker 1: because I think that there's gonna be some little things
Speaker 1: that you might pick up here and there, or have you,
Speaker 1: having listened to some more podcasts, maybe jump back to
Speaker 1: some of those ones and answer a few of those
Speaker 1: questions for you. So that's all I have for you
Speaker 1: this week. Until next week, let's say, keep your eyes
Speaker 1: to the skies.