WEBVTT - Ep. 89: Bear Grease [Render] - Tecumseh, the Black Bear Bonanza, & Misty's First Duck Hunt 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:17.080 My name is Clay and Nucleman. This is a production 0:00:17.120 --> 0:00:20.680 of the bear Grease podcast called The Bear Grease Render 0:00:21.120 --> 0:00:25.160 where we render down, dive deeper, and look behind the 0:00:25.239 --> 0:00:30.040 scenes of the actual bear Grease podcast, presented by f 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:35.320 HF Gear, American made purpose built hunting and fishing gear 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:39.280 that's designed to be as rugged as the places we explore. 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:46.960 What's your favorite type of bonanza? Mine's when it's like 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:52.960 all yellow, no brown spots, no greens either. The favorite bonanza. Yeah, 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:54.960 I don't even know what that means, like the type 0:00:54.960 --> 0:00:59.720 of fruit. It sounds like he's describing fruit. Oh, that 0:00:59.800 --> 0:01:07.600 was like, yeah, because bananza and banana are spelled close together. 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:11.319 Joke as much as just like a bad joke, like 0:01:11.360 --> 0:01:14.480 a bad maybe dad jokeing. I think it's a dead joke. Yeah, 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:18.600 I didn't get category. I eat a lot of brown 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:22.360 bananas because because it takes two seconds. I'll tell you 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:25.600 who'd rather eat a brown one that's like about to 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:28.480 be you know, look like turned out a banana. What 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:34.319 we call real love, a real made it an ethical 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:39.120 and moral you know statement inside of our house eat 0:01:39.160 --> 0:01:41.959 brown bananas. Well, so that's where it started for me, 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:43.880 Like I'm not going to throw away bananas, but I 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:46.280 would prefer a yellow one. You know what I'm saying, 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:50.840 he would prefer I mean or did it like did 0:01:50.880 --> 0:01:54.080 it just shift that way because of the moral stand 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:56.320 But I'm saying if he went to Walmart and there 0:01:56.400 --> 0:01:58.960 was like brown ones there, he'd pick those up and 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:00.640 by the time we got home him, he would have 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:02.800 told us you're gonna eat those brown ones and you're 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:06.480 gonna love it, because not everybody gets something for free 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:10.720 in life, right Gary, So play it's all about the 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:13.240 money man. My question though, is would he eat a 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:19.720 black bear bonanza? Yeah? Exactly where we're starting. We have 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:24.240 one Well, we have many many special guests today. One 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:27.600 of our special guest today James Brandenberg. James, this is 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:31.240 your first time on the Bear Grease is render Now 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:37.600 you're a longtime bear Grease scoring throwing a devote. So 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:40.960 James would have been on the Bear Grease podcast, didn't 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:48.720 last year that the black Bear Black Bears black Banza. 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:51.760 So the reason part of the reason James here, well 0:02:52.040 --> 0:02:54.200 that's not why is here. He's here because he's James 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:58.679 Brannenberg and he's just here because he's jas and he's 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:02.119 got a cool truck. Got a good truck. He's got 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:04.920 a chivy A simmit, what is it? Thing? That's a 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:08.760 g m C a T four. It looks good. It's 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:11.040 got some I've got a GMC, but it's not quite 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:13.760 that new and fancy, James. It's got some nice flavor 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:16.639 on the on the campershell. Yep, we've got a pebble 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:21.600 mine stickers, a b H A sticker. It's got tires, 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:23.760 it's got the wheels. I mean, it's got the stuff. 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:26.160 You know. You walked right past his truck, then walked 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:27.840 right past mine. What do you think of mine? I 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:35.360 thought your truck looked real good, totally functional, Silverado work truck, 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:41.760 edition to commercials, been to Montana pool and mules like 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:47.000 four times, New Mexico, Colorado, been all over the country 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:52.400 General Motors. And every time I think about that, that's 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:54.920 every time I think about that truck and you hauling 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:56.640 that mule trailer with two mules in it, with a 0:03:56.720 --> 0:04:00.160 V six in there, I'm always impressed. Oh me too. 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:04.000 I can't believe that. Everybody I passed and my impressing. 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:06.800 I want to know I drove it the V six 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:10.200 in there, so with mules on the back and so 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:12.240 I think that you know, that kind of gives it 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:14.840 an extra layer of credibility because it was going about 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:22.840 twenty miles faster than went Drum all the way to Montampa. 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:25.760 Do you have to have a souped up new GMC 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:29.000 to attend the black Bear Mananza? I hope not? Or 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:32.760 are all vehicles welcome? All vehicles welcome? Okay, the teacher 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:34.400 and me is wanting to put some structure to the 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:37.160 black Bear Bonanza. And what we're talking about. You tell 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:41.440 us about the black Bear Bonanza. Alright, alright, black Bear Bonanza. 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:46.760 It's a educational fundraising event. Um. It's put on by 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:50.279 Arkansas b h A. It'll be March four at the 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:54.160 Benton County Quail Barn in Bentonville, Arkansas. Starts fourth is 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:57.400 a Saturday. It is a Saturday. Let me start this over. 0:04:57.640 --> 0:04:59.880 He said, this is a fundraiser event. People don't like 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:07.360 stop down, good time about Arkansas black Bears and a 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:14.040 bunch of cool people in a podcast. And yeah, it'll 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:16.839 be it'll be so much fun when people get there 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:23.920 that they won't even know it's fundraiser, fundraiser, educational event. Fundraisers. 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:28.839 I heard they were going to have a live Black 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:32.479 Bear just roaming loose in the event, dancing black Don't 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:35.120 let that secret get out. We need to keep that 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:38.239 in the what are we doing? What are we doing 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:41.320 at Black Bear? But okay, so we're gonna do we'll 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:45.640 have some cooking demos. Um, we're gonna do a Bear 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:49.440 Grease Render podcast. So we'll all be there, well, I 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:52.640 mean there will be. I mean, I'm pretty confident everybody 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:55.760 in this room will be there. Okay, I confident that 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:58.240 everyone in this room will be there. I mean, I'll goot, 0:05:58.279 --> 0:06:00.760 we gotta talk to see if he'll come. I'll go 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:03.839 with you. I really want to you'll go. If Josh goes, Okay, 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:07.520 we gottas will be there. Yep. Brent's gonna he's gonna 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:12.120 m see the ol Hoot contest this year. You're going 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:14.640 to judge it this year. So last year Clay m 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:19.799 seed and this year we're gonna put his judging skills 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:22.279 to the test. That's what you need to do. I'll 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:25.640 be the greatest Alhoot judge that ever walked this continent. 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:28.320 I have no doubt. That means you can't compete exactly. 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:30.279 It's like a food I'm not saying I'm the greatest 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:32.160 al hooter, No, I know that, but I'm saying you 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:35.440 can't compete. But he would be like if like the 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:38.479 scary food critic came to your restaurant and was like 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:40.880 picking apart every single thing he did when it comes 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:46.360 to al he's the Gordon was lacking a little bit. 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:51.720 Let me hear your laugh. Hey, you know what I 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:54.960 want to see with this this al hooting contest. I'd like, 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:57.080 I'd like to see the best guys in the world 0:06:57.240 --> 0:06:59.720 come in here. Who is the guy who's the guy 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:02.040 on the front porch of that old house. He's just 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:05.560 a dude from Missouri. A lot of good Missouri man, 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:10.200 it is. And see what I want to do is 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:14.160 I want to start bringing in these guys and like 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:18.200 they would become you know how, like like a guy 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:20.120 would have a racehorse and he would be like, I 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:23.200 want that racehorse and he's up in the stands watching. 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:25.840 I'm gonna pay for this guy to come down here, 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:29.880 and he's gonna be like a ring you know my guy. Yeah, 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:32.200 I'm imagining like twenty years in the future this is 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:34.600 turned into like the bass fishing Circuit where they have 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:37.640 logos all over their and they pull in in the 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:40.680 big trucks completely lowsed up, just to make an out. 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:43.680 If you have, if you, if you are listening to 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:48.720 this contiguous United States, Um, you should come to Bentonville, 0:07:48.800 --> 0:07:52.640 Arkansas for our hot contest. And when is it? And 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:59.280 I think even it's March fourth. Even people from Alaska 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:02.240 and Hawaiia welcome Clay. There's no barred owls over there. 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:04.239 They don't know who I would think people in Canada. 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:06.760 I feel like you're setting up a real underdog story 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:10.760 for any or in Alaska. Yeah, I just shared half 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:14.040 of Alaska, lot of or someone from the Caribbean. I mean, 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:22.800 we could have a true cool Runnings kind of thing country. 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:25.560 I'll be honest. I'm just gonna be Okay. So now 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:28.320 I'm imagining Josh Spillmaker, who is in the room and 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:30.800 a part of the Render today, as a real sort 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:37.480 of John Candy esque X who moves to Jamaica and Antiga, okay, 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:41.319 which is kicked out of the Render and you went 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:46.800 down there, yeah with my team, Yeah, come back in here. 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:49.640 I feel like this is a big high quality bear 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:53.600 Grease intellectual property. The Disney move where Okay, alright, alright, 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:59.920 so okay, we got heac hashtag. Isaac quit interrupted, Mike 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:07.319 scited about the answer. Wait, let Misty talk, don't interrupt. Okay, 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:12.040 so we got a contest, alhot contest. We're gonna Myron 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:16.240 Means from the Game and Fish Commission, Large carnivoreologist. He 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:22.679 will do another Q and A session for us how 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:25.280 big it will be wearing a pair of overalls John Dear. 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:27.920 If you have a question, asked how big he is? 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:30.520 Clay did a video with him on a bear Den 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:34.160 study that's available somewhere. Knew how big. Yeah, it's all 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:37.480 about scale video. It is scale. Um. The newer things 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:39.839 that we're adding to it this year will be we're 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:44.520 gonna do a butchering demo. Part of this is a deer, 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:46.800 hopefully a dear if we can get one. You know, 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:49.559 if it's not that, we'll get a a pig or 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:52.840 a goat or something like that. It's generally the same thing. 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:55.440 But what we're trying to do is introduce people to 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:58.640 the fact that we go outside. Yeah we can hike, 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:01.120 we can bike, but we can also a hunting fish. 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:04.199 These things are very normal activities that that we engage 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:06.160 in and and we have a lot of people moving 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:08.480 into the area who maybe don't do that but are 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:11.080 interested in learning. How We're gonna try to break down 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:13.480 the barriers to that so that they have a little 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:16.360 bit more confidence. We're introducing them to b h as 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:19.400 A as an avenue to gain those skills. And then 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:25.360 the fundraising piece of it. Um, We've got a couple 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:29.120 of things that we're going to uh raffle off. But 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:33.280 I'm gonna I'm gonna pass this around so metaphorically and 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:37.480 physically it is. It's a very large knife. And and 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:41.680 this knife was made by Garrett Polk. This knife, this 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:43.640 is not one you just want to go trapes in 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:47.000 through the woods on your hip. We'll see. And this 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:49.240 is what Garrett told me yesterday. This is what he 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:51.640 told me about it yesterday. It's a beautiful knife. The 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:58.199 handle is made with a femur bone from Batman. That 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:01.280 handlebone it looks like lp ivory. It is not. It 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:04.560 is the beaver bone from the largest black bear I've 0:11:04.600 --> 0:11:07.280 ever killed. True story. We'll get some good pictures of 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:14.280 this up on the Instagram, But um steel is probably 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:15.720 four and a half five inch blade. I got the 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:19.600 particulars And what Garrett told me is this knife is 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:23.640 made to be used. He said, that's what they all said. 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:25.960 He yeah, they all want them to be taken out 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:28.480 into the field and used. And then he made the 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:31.240 sheath for it, and it's got a beaver tail inlay 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:34.720 on the sheath. That beaver was trapped on public land 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:37.440 here in Arkansas by one of our board members, Brad Green. 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:41.600 So we will so we're this knife will be in 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:46.600 the special ticket and then put it in a bucket. 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:50.199 And yeah that's great man. I really like that beare bone. Man, 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:53.760 it for real looks like looks like ivory. Um. Can 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:58.160 we talk about Josh this thing? Yeah? Your hat? Oh 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:00.720 oh yeah, the sticks are high for the alhookm. Yes. 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:05.120 So the winner, the winner of the Alhoot contest Clay 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:10.720 is going to get handmade coon skin cap. That's a 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:13.400 big deal. Yeah, made by Josh bu Winker. There's only 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:21.000 a handful of those on this great planet. Yeah. So um, 0:12:21.080 --> 0:12:23.360 so last year we had people from all over the 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:26.920 country come. We did. We had from Pennsylvania to Idaho. 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:29.679 We had from the Dakotas all the way to South Texas, 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:32.959 you know, from across major Last year I don't know 0:12:33.000 --> 0:12:35.760 how many people were there. We had about and that 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:38.199 was our first year and we didn't It is the 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:40.280 first year we did it. It's a good event and 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:44.400 I'll be there all day just hanging out. It's family friendly, 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:47.720 bring your kids. Everybody twelve and under gets in free 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:50.880 this year. Tickets are super easy. It's ten bucks for 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:53.680 adults to get in the door that you know, have 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:55.599 a good time all day. Game and Fish Commission is 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:58.440 going to support us as well, so they'll have some 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:01.880 some educational booths and stuff like that. And then, you know, 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:05.200 we can't do all of this without sponsors. So far, 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:09.920 are big sponsors are um Rex, the airgun company. You know, 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:12.200 people listen to this podcast would have heard their ads. 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:16.440 Vortex has has just they were like, sign us up, 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:18.360 we want to help out. And Numerax was the same way. 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:20.320 They reached out to us. They're like, hey, when's that 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:21.680 going on? We want to be a part of it. 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:26.320 So good and we're gonna do a live beargrease render there. 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:28.640 I'm not sure who's gonna be on it yet, so 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:30.800 all of you in this room just be on your 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:37.280 best behavior. Maybe you get picked, maybe you won't. This 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:39.400 is our audition. Can we plead our case or is 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:46.040 it a drawing? Well? Yeah, first tis well, that's great. 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:50.120 So that's March the fourth, Benton County Quail Barn in 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:53.560 Bentonville in Bentonville, Arkansas, doors open in nine. We'll go 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:56.160 from nine to five. There will be things going on 0:13:56.240 --> 0:13:59.280 all day. Come for the whole day, have a good time. 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:03.480 We'll have a website up so it's the easiest way 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:05.920 to find it is go to Backcountry hunters dot org, 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:08.360 look for the events page and look for black Bear 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:12.280 Bonanza and by the time this podcast comes out, that 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:15.600 page will be up and people can buy tickets, and folks, 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:17.680 if you're coming, buy tickets and let us know you're coming. 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:20.480 So we make sure and have enough of everything there 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:27.000 for you. Corn dogs, enough corn dogs, water, and porta John's. Yeah, 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:32.600 the three things. I'm gonna have corn dogs stand there. No, 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:37.840 I'm not clay dogs. Well, great, fantastic. Mr Nukem had 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:44.600 a big day yesterday. She killed her first duck. Congratulate 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:49.200 everything you hoped it would be. I have things to say. 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:52.000 All right, I'm not the big hunter in our family. 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:54.520 The hunting that I've done done pretty much in the 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:57.040 last twenty years. Yeah, it's it's actually Clay. You may 0:14:57.080 --> 0:15:00.720 be surprised, um, but the last twenty years I've gone hunting. 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:03.080 Most of the time, I'm a chaperone. I'm sitting or 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:05.720 like just coming along to hang out with Clay. I 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:07.800 could get into duck hunting, like I could. I could 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:11.440 be a duck hunter. And I believe that's Huntress, Huntress. 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:14.560 That's right, that's right. We I really didn't know what 0:15:14.600 --> 0:15:18.320 to expect. I really like, I've seen pictures of people 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:20.400 duck hunting and it kind of looks really different. And 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:22.960 I knew waiters were involved, so I figured, Okay, it's 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:24.920 gonna be cold, wet early. This doesn't sound like a 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:27.640 lot of fun. But going to take one for the team. 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:30.240 First of all, Amory, just as kind of a continuation 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:34.960 from last from Amory Dramas, who was on the last podcast, 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:38.600 gave me some tips that she learned from Kaylee that 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:41.120 that she also learned and both were on the last 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:43.920 part shooting tips. And so we went out the first 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:47.160 day that evening we got there, and we also want 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:49.880 to tell you I am right handed and left eye 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:52.520 dominant as well. You're not the only one. Well, and 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:54.720 it doesn't even matter, it turns out when you're shooting ducks, 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:57.400 because you're looking at the target, not at the not 0:15:57.600 --> 0:16:00.720 down the barrel. And so that was a game changer. 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:04.000 So she gave me a few tips and really, I 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:06.720 I I couldn't believe what a difference it made in 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:09.480 a matter of seconds, not hours, and not lots of practice. 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:11.320 But I was able to shoot those skeat and that 0:16:11.400 --> 0:16:13.800 was fun, super fun. I mean not a percent, but 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:17.560 still better than zero percent um. And then the next 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:20.040 morning we woke up and I really didn't know what 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:24.360 to expect. The dog situation in duck hunting is pretty 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:28.920 amazing because the dogs just like it's super fun to 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:31.240 watch a dog that's been bred to do something that 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:34.800 has a function. It's really amazing to watch them. And 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:37.440 so the dog was like antsy and he was sitting. 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:39.800 They had this chair hooked up to a tree, and 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:41.880 it was just really enjoyable to watch him. You know, 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:44.400 we would we would talk and have which is like 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:47.720 thing too, So thing one the dog, that's that's and 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:49.240 I'll come back to the thing two in a second. 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:52.640 But um, you can actually talking duck hunting. And but 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:55.880 the dog was no nonsense he was just like sitting 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:59.200 there and he was alert and watching and he if 0:16:59.240 --> 0:17:01.200 you watch the dog, you could see, Okay, here's where 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:03.320 the ducks are coming in from. And so they were 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:08.000 really everybody was so so nice, Brittain Clay especially, you know, 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:12.159 we were with Amory Dramas, me and Brandt and then 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:19.639 Luke Naylor who is the waterfowl biologist, no, the director chief, 0:17:20.080 --> 0:17:23.400 the chief and the wildlife the chief of the Wildlife 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:27.600 Wildlife Division. Yeah, and they were so so nice. So 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:30.680 when it's the first little the first thing of ducks 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:33.560 came in, what do you call him? There? Well, what 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:36.679 do you call? What do you call? Is it? So 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:39.160 the first flock of ducks came in, they just let 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:41.640 me shoot. No one else shot. And the first one 0:17:41.680 --> 0:17:44.159 came in, it was like, I don't know what to do. 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:47.000 Where's my god? You know, I mean like it takes 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:49.520 a minute to like get in position. You don't see 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:51.800 him coming in. Yeah, I mean like you're just kind 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:53.359 of you're kind of hide and trying to be steel, 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:56.840 and it's just like all of a sudden, and so 0:17:56.960 --> 0:17:59.400 like I thought I would be prepared, but it took 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:01.440 a second to get the gun up and I mean 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:03.640 I think I shot that first time but definitely didn't 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:05.840 hit anything. But then the second one that came in 0:18:05.880 --> 0:18:09.520 they did again. They just let me shoot and it 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:13.040 was a group of a flock of teal, which apparently 0:18:13.400 --> 0:18:17.359 is a real fast little bird. And I shot and 0:18:17.400 --> 0:18:19.800 I got I got one, and it was super exciting, 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:22.239 like super exciting. There's no film of it because we 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:24.840 were just uh, you know, it was all hands on 0:18:24.880 --> 0:18:31.520 deck to get me. Yeah. And and then so what 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:33.840 was Then they released the dog and the dog just 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:36.680 jumps up and it looks like it's you know, this 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:38.679 was this is what its purpose in life is and 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:40.680 got to fulfill it. And it was so I love 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:44.760 the dog. I mean, yeah, Baron, I'm probably probably gonna 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:50.080 have to. So then we weren't working many mallards. We 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:54.040 were sitting on the edge of a overgrown field that 0:18:54.080 --> 0:18:56.480 had just kind of been and had not been planted 0:18:56.600 --> 0:18:59.240 or tilled that year, and it kind of butted up 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:01.679 against the slow and it had flooded. And so basically 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:05.440 it was a flooded field that didn't have crops in it, 0:19:05.520 --> 0:19:08.119 but it had coffee bean and a lot of just 0:19:08.240 --> 0:19:11.360 like not actual weeds and vegetation in it, and they 0:19:11.359 --> 0:19:14.879 had they had seen some mallards right there the day before. 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:17.960 So we were sitting there, but the mallards weren't working much, 0:19:18.000 --> 0:19:22.400 but we'd have Teal come bombing in. And so after 0:19:22.480 --> 0:19:25.960 Misty Kill, Misty Kill went on the second group of 0:19:26.040 --> 0:19:28.520 duck ducks that came in, and so we were like, sweet, 0:19:28.600 --> 0:19:31.120 we got a duck. And so she was getting some confidence. 0:19:31.160 --> 0:19:35.160 And so the next time I were working a group 0:19:35.160 --> 0:19:37.960 of like seven or eight Teal and they're about to 0:19:38.040 --> 0:19:41.399 light and I say, Misty, just start pulling the trigger 0:19:41.480 --> 0:19:46.639 and don't stop. You know, I just got a plug 0:19:46.640 --> 0:19:48.159 in there, and I said shoot three downs and she 0:19:48.280 --> 0:19:50.600 just looked at me, just like, oh, we can do that. 0:19:54.119 --> 0:19:58.159 I hope it wasn't bam bam bam. Well there we go, 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:00.880 there we go. So thing that I like about duck 0:20:00.920 --> 0:20:03.720 hunting dogs thing too. You get to talk to people. 0:20:03.720 --> 0:20:06.080 It's real social. It's a lot more and and we 0:20:06.080 --> 0:20:07.600 were with great people. They were a lot of fun 0:20:07.600 --> 0:20:10.160 and everybody was I mean they were across the board 0:20:10.240 --> 0:20:13.520 just fantastic hosts. And I learned a whole lot about 0:20:13.640 --> 0:20:16.399 about ducks and and just it's just fun to be 0:20:16.480 --> 0:20:19.359 with people and it's a lot and then think three, 0:20:19.880 --> 0:20:22.880 it's just the intensity of it, like it's not like 0:20:22.960 --> 0:20:25.880 you know when you go to deer hunt for five 0:20:25.960 --> 0:20:31.080 weeks and and I remember going to Clay one time 0:20:31.119 --> 0:20:33.840 describing our ship when he was taking ship hunting, and 0:20:33.880 --> 0:20:36.080 he said it was like being in a sleeping bag 0:20:36.119 --> 0:20:43.560 with a coyote, just like just like you're restless. And 0:20:43.600 --> 0:20:45.520 I kind of felt like ship and all those deer hunts, 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:48.000 it's like, well, I've just gotta sit here, and it's 0:20:48.040 --> 0:20:50.600 it's just not as it's rewarding at the end. But 0:20:50.640 --> 0:20:54.200 it's different than than duck hunting. Um, Whereas duck hunting, 0:20:54.200 --> 0:20:56.720 like they come in and it's like it's it's a 0:20:56.720 --> 0:21:01.040 lot of fun. Yeah. Yeah, you like the dog work 0:21:01.480 --> 0:21:04.000 I did, Yeah, that was pretty amazing to watch. I've 0:21:04.040 --> 0:21:06.479 got the perfect breed of dog that you guys, I mean, 0:21:06.520 --> 0:21:11.160 you get the perfect dog for me. I do Boykin Spaniel. 0:21:11.880 --> 0:21:15.320 How's it doing great? You're talking about Yeah, yeah, you 0:21:15.400 --> 0:21:19.240 talked about the and the dogs sitting there like, yeah, yeah, 0:21:19.359 --> 0:21:22.480 we went. We went this past Sunday and we had 0:21:22.520 --> 0:21:25.080 some geese come in and they landed too far out 0:21:25.119 --> 0:21:28.080 where we we had no shot at him, but he 0:21:28.119 --> 0:21:30.760 could see them. And I was sitting right next to him. 0:21:31.040 --> 0:21:33.639 We were on the on the bank of this strip 0:21:33.680 --> 0:21:40.240 pit pond, and he was vibrating like literally he wanted 0:21:40.240 --> 0:21:42.119 me to let him go so bad, you know, And 0:21:42.160 --> 0:21:43.919 I didn't have to hold onto him, but I was 0:21:44.119 --> 0:21:48.879 just in case. It's the I mean that there's a 0:21:48.880 --> 0:21:51.040 lot of good things in duck hunting, but that's probably 0:21:51.080 --> 0:21:53.760 the best part of it for me, is just watching 0:21:53.760 --> 0:21:57.000 that dog gets so excited to go out and catch 0:21:57.080 --> 0:21:59.760 the thing that it was made to do. And boys 0:21:59.800 --> 0:22:03.840 are boykins are great family dogs, they're great pets like ours. 0:22:03.880 --> 0:22:06.200 Just you know, he'll just lay around the house and 0:22:06.280 --> 0:22:08.480 be snugly and everything, and then when it's time to go, 0:22:08.520 --> 0:22:12.000 he's at the door winding ready to go. How big 0:22:12.080 --> 0:22:15.800 is he? He's thirty five pounds, he's about ya tall. 0:22:16.040 --> 0:22:20.160 You know what is that eighteen at the shoulder? Yeah, 0:22:20.200 --> 0:22:24.200 pretty small, smaller, much smaller than a than a lab. Yeah. Yeah, 0:22:24.800 --> 0:22:26.840 I think you've been deck hunting quite a bit. Oh yeah, 0:22:26.880 --> 0:22:31.120 where you've been? I can't tell you tell me, you're 0:22:31.680 --> 0:22:34.439 tell me every single spot you've been. I've been in 0:22:34.480 --> 0:22:37.760 the Delta in Arkansas, a lot and then just uh 0:22:38.000 --> 0:22:40.879 you know west central Missouri quite a bit. There's a 0:22:40.880 --> 0:22:45.560 lot of scratching out no no lights out days up 0:22:45.560 --> 0:22:48.160 in Missouri, and I managed time and so that, uh 0:22:48.400 --> 0:22:50.840 I was my time down in Arkansas last week was 0:22:50.840 --> 0:22:53.800 book ended by two really great days on either side. 0:22:55.040 --> 0:22:59.720 A limit, A limit for mallards. Yeah so yourself. No, no, 0:23:00.080 --> 0:23:05.880 I I've got a buddy down there, and no, no, no, no, 0:23:06.320 --> 0:23:09.000 they were limiting the day. The two days before I 0:23:09.040 --> 0:23:11.439 showed up, you weren't even there. I scratched out a 0:23:11.440 --> 0:23:15.400 few ducks and then they started killing them again once 0:23:15.440 --> 0:23:18.719 we left. So it feels good, got you, man. Okay, 0:23:18.800 --> 0:23:21.840 here's the thing that I have yet to well, I'm 0:23:21.880 --> 0:23:24.240