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Speaker 1: Yeah. My name is Clay Nukeleman. This is a production

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Speaker 1: of the bear Grease podcast called The Bear Grease Render,

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Speaker 1: where we render down, dive deeper, and look behind the

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Speaker 1: scenes of the actual bear Grease podcast, presented by f

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Speaker 1: HF Gear, American made purpose built hunting and fishing gear

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Speaker 1: that's designed to be as rugged as the places we explore.

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Speaker 1: The only rules on this podcast, or there are no rules.

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Speaker 1: There's a few rules. You'll find them out as we go.

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Speaker 1: Number one, do not interrupt Misty. I like how you

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Speaker 1: waited till she was done speak. You know, in your

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Speaker 1: last episode you did talk about people who respect their wives,

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Speaker 1: so it makes sense you brought that up so quickly, Misty.

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Speaker 1: Would you like me to speak to that, to give

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Speaker 1: got my flannel. Do you get cold, Misty? Very yes,

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Speaker 1: very much so. That negative temperature last week was not

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Speaker 1: good on your garden or you It wasn't. But they

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Speaker 1: built me a fire. This is not a joke. We

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Speaker 1: to it that I have marks on my back. You're kidding,

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Speaker 1: and I'm like, I'm good, I feel fine. And the

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Speaker 1: girls are like, could you step away? Nor make's night,

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Speaker 1: gown's night. I don't get that there's fireproof. No, there

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Speaker 1: you go, No, Max, excuse my friend. He's from Raydale. Okay,

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Speaker 1: here's here's what we're gonna do. I want you to

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Speaker 1: introduce the person to your left. One of these people

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Speaker 1: about him. So um, we have a very very exciting

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Speaker 1: group of people here today, everyone to follow up on

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Speaker 1: our Duck Stories podcast. To my left is Brent Reeves,

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Speaker 1: wearing a fine pair of round house overalls, looking good today, Brent.

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Speaker 1: I was talking to a guy the other day, an

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Speaker 1: old man from Clarendon, Arkansas. And when I got off

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Speaker 1: the phone with him, he said, he said, oh, you

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Speaker 1: it was like old school like I was. It made

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Speaker 1: sound great? He told me I sounded great, Brent, you

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Speaker 1: sound great, buddy. Thank you. Man. Who's who's to your

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Speaker 1: left immediate left is Austin Booth. I don't know what numbers.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what number he is on your program,

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Speaker 1: but he ought to be number one in your heart.

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Speaker 1: You gotta give us a little more functional introduction than

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Speaker 1: Austin happens to be the director of the Arkansas Game

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Speaker 1: I know you say for farmer marine officer. He's running.

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Speaker 1: He's paddling the boat over there at the Game of Fishes.

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Speaker 1: Are distinguished guests, distinguished guests Director of the Game of Fish.

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Speaker 1: He's got on a pair of Newish How about we

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Speaker 1: describe what everyone's wearing, Newish danners. Some I got him

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Speaker 1: I remember I supposed to be your church boots looked at.

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Speaker 1: Don't look like they've been beat around too much. I

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Speaker 1: just take a really good camel marine care try you

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Speaker 1: A brown T shirt with Duck calls on it. It

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Speaker 1: says call call a Pelooza, assuming at call plus m

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Speaker 1: duckson limen camp. Great. Great, have you director Booth? Always

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Speaker 1: good to be here? Yes, how about your introduced person

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Speaker 1: more distinguished than me, one of our commissioners on the

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Speaker 1: Arkansas Game Fish Commission, and Marie de Ramos, lilng outdoorsman,

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Speaker 1: avid water fowler, avid bass angler, gad wall killer wall Wall.

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Speaker 1: Yea love it amateur duck hunter. She is wearing a

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Speaker 1: really striking uh set of footwear. It's vintage Camo Christmas

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Speaker 1: Very It's great to have you here. Glad to be here,

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Speaker 1: Clay and Misty, thanks for having us. So you were

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Speaker 1: on the render last year about this time, Yeah, about

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Speaker 1: named Possum. Yes, it's a big deal. Mistery, you missed out.

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Speaker 1: remember about wife appreciation, Clay, and great to have you.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for being introduced us to another very distinguished

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Speaker 1: She's half in me up. I'm happy to be here.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for having me. There's a thousand questions I

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Speaker 1: Who's to your left? I get to scrap what she's wearing? Right? Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: water there to not only provide um lots and lots

423
00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:36,920
Speaker 1: of waterfowl habitat, but also public duck hunting opportunity. So

424
00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:39,679
Speaker 1: you so you can go in some of these g trs.

425
00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:42,760
Speaker 1: I might be going to one tomorrow, uh, and you

426
00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:47,600
Speaker 1: can hunt public land in the timber well. UM. We

427
00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:50,960
Speaker 1: did not know near as much as we know now

428
00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:55,080
Speaker 1: about what red oak dormancy looks like. Uh, and as

429
00:25:55,119 --> 00:25:59,080
Speaker 1: it turns out we were artificially flooding uh these red

430
00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:03,000
Speaker 1: oak dominant uh G t rs for decades and we

431
00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:06,640
Speaker 1: were doing it too early. UM. And so you take

432
00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:09,199
Speaker 1: that combined with the fact that our infrastructure is all

433
00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:11,640
Speaker 1: sixty to seventy years old, and the fact that we're

434
00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:14,480
Speaker 1: just seeing larger and more frequent major rain events, and

435
00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:18,840
Speaker 1: we ever have we have a a really really serious

436
00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:23,920
Speaker 1: problem in those green Shoe reservoirs with the forest health.

437
00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:27,000
Speaker 1: I mean oaks are dying, Yes, oaks are falling over.

438
00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:31,719
Speaker 1: And it's not something like a food plot where all right,

439
00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:33,840
Speaker 1: if we lose a food plot this year, we'll just

440
00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:37,440
Speaker 1: replay it next year, right, I mean these are these

441
00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:39,800
Speaker 1: are eighty year old red oaks that will take eight

442
00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:44,440
Speaker 1: eighty years to get back. So last year, UH, we

443
00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:48,160
Speaker 1: took a big, a big first step forward UH and

444
00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:52,720
Speaker 1: being more proactive with how we manage water levels. I mean,

445
00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:55,920
Speaker 1: we know exactly what to do on the natural resources side,

446
00:26:55,960 --> 00:27:00,800
Speaker 1: but conservation always involves natural resources and people. And so

447
00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:05,720
Speaker 1: we decided, uh to be more proactive with how we're

448
00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:09,000
Speaker 1: managing water levels on these green tree reservoirs. And we

449
00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:13,640
Speaker 1: also kicked off some major renovations at Hurricane Lake Wildlife

450
00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:18,639
Speaker 1: Management Area and Biodebut UM Hurricane Lake, we finished the

451
00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:22,240
Speaker 1: first phase on budget and ahead of schedule last year.

452
00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:25,879
Speaker 1: So in calendar year twenty two, we we were able

453
00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:28,399
Speaker 1: to more We were able to pass more water out

454
00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:30,840
Speaker 1: of Hurricane Lake Wildlife Management Area than we ever have

455
00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:36,840
Speaker 1: and off of the roots of these trees. Yeah, because

456
00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:39,760
Speaker 1: what happens is we can get the water off of them,

457
00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:43,440
Speaker 1: but then once the spring rains hit, it often won't

458
00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:47,840
Speaker 1: let up until Junior July. And now it's summertime. These

459
00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:50,719
Speaker 1: trees have come out of dormancy and they got standing

460
00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:53,399
Speaker 1: water on them. Uh. And that's what's the tree killer

461
00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:57,600
Speaker 1: right there. So so our goal as we renovate these

462
00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:01,800
Speaker 1: g trs is to drain water as quickly as possible. Uh.

463
00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:05,640
Speaker 1: And we we we completed the first phase at Hurricane

464
00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:07,840
Speaker 1: and saw a really good results from it this year.

465
00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:11,879
Speaker 1: So you got some water off. Yeah, We're we're underway

466
00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:15,959
Speaker 1: with the second phase. UM Earl bus By Deview Wildlife

467
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:19,080
Speaker 1: Engineer is going really well too. So Fingers Crossed by

468
00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:22,280
Speaker 1: the end of of calendar year twenty three will have

469
00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:26,760
Speaker 1: two completed green tree reservoirs and UH one more major

470
00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:30,560
Speaker 1: one launched and so where And that might not seem

471
00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:33,439
Speaker 1: like a problem for somebody she didn't understand the system

472
00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:38,160
Speaker 1: of how this works. But people you might be like, well, sure,

473
00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:41,400
Speaker 1: drain the water off the timber, no big deal. What

474
00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:45,720
Speaker 1: that means is that it's taken away at times of

475
00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:48,560
Speaker 1: the year duck hunting opportunity because you gotta have flooded

476
00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:53,600
Speaker 1: timber ducks. And so that's where the conflict people comes in,

477
00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:56,040
Speaker 1: because all of a sudden, there's people that have hunted

478
00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:59,840
Speaker 1: these places and had predictable water access on November fift

479
00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:04,800
Speaker 1: every single year, unnaturally so induced by humans. And now

480
00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:07,840
Speaker 1: we're saying, hey, we didn't realize that trees are what's

481
00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:11,120
Speaker 1: what's the term you used when when something flew Well,

482
00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:13,480
Speaker 1: you know what I was thinking was a like a

483
00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:18,640
Speaker 1: like a long term response to something. Um, you use

484
00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:21,280
Speaker 1: a great term last year. Um. Basically, you can start

485
00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:22,960
Speaker 1: doing something to a tree today and you may not

486
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:25,560
Speaker 1: know it's effect until fifty years from Oh yeah. That

487
00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:30,160
Speaker 1: essentially they're lagging consequences. Yeah right, I mean we're not

488
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:32,000
Speaker 1: going to see the consequence of what we did in

489
00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:36,840
Speaker 1: two thousand until two. That's why it makes it such

490
00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:40,520
Speaker 1: a complicated and interesting human thing because there's all these

491
00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:42,440
Speaker 1: guys that hunted their whole life. They just thought this

492
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:45,280
Speaker 1: was normal, and then all of a sudden there's no

493
00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:47,320
Speaker 1: water in their duck hole and opening day and they

494
00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:51,200
Speaker 1: get mad at you know, the powers. Yeah and so

495
00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:55,640
Speaker 1: and that's but that's my education and us just saying, hey,

496
00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:58,200
Speaker 1: this is what we gotta do to save this, even

497
00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:00,640
Speaker 1: for future generation. He asked a question as someone like

498
00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:03,479
Speaker 1: that would be in that boat. Does it do anything

499
00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:07,720
Speaker 1: for the I mean, if I did last year I did? Um?

500
00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:11,240
Speaker 1: Does it do anything for the Is it harmful for

501
00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:18,320
Speaker 1: the ducks like to because they're predictably coming in? No. Well,

502
00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:20,280
Speaker 1: I'm just wondering like if what we're doing now the

503
00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:22,840
Speaker 1: management does do they just love? Do they just go

504
00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:26,440
Speaker 1: somewhere else? Um? So there is a piece of that

505
00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:30,160
Speaker 1: that that we know that just looking Arkansas wide, we

506
00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:35,440
Speaker 1: are already at a shortage of winning waterfowl habitat um.

507
00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:38,920
Speaker 1: So are we making it? You know? Are we compounding

508
00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:44,880
Speaker 1: that um by artificially holding water later and later? I

509
00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:52,400
Speaker 1: think we are to a degree today, yes, But you know, um,

510
00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:54,800
Speaker 1: by me, there's just one wildlife managine area and it's

511
00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:58,000
Speaker 1: thirty three thousand acres, So we have to take kind

512
00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:00,560
Speaker 1: of the longer term approach of if we lose that

513
00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:03,719
Speaker 1: thirty three acre resource, I mean, that's what we call

514
00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:07,640
Speaker 1: anchor habitat. That is going to have a dramatic effect

515
00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:12,320
Speaker 1: on everybody else around it too. So it is it's

516
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:15,320
Speaker 1: very much not just from the perspective of the duck

517
00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:18,560
Speaker 1: hunters or the red oaks or the ducks, all the

518
00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:21,640
Speaker 1: way around. It is a short term sacrifice for a

519
00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:25,160
Speaker 1: long term reward. If BioMed is not good, it it

520
00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:28,880
Speaker 1: affects us really. So in uh, you know, going back

521
00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:31,640
Speaker 1: to this whole big picture thing, the state of Arkansas

522
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:35,520
Speaker 1: privately owned. So I know, in all this process, I've

523
00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:38,600
Speaker 1: heard from a lot of private landowners saying, wow, we've

524
00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:41,080
Speaker 1: been putting our boards in October. You know, we're starting

525
00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:43,280
Speaker 1: to see some die back in our red oak trees too.

526
00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:45,360
Speaker 1: So maybe this is something that we need to go

527
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:48,680
Speaker 1: back and reevaluate. And the message is starting to catch

528
00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:50,920
Speaker 1: on and get a bigger picture. We can't just focus

529
00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:54,440
Speaker 1: on just our wildlife management areas, but these other ones. Uh,

530
00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:59,360
Speaker 1: but these private lands as well. Yeah, And one of

531
00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:01,400
Speaker 1: the things that you said last year Clay in that

532
00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:05,560
Speaker 1: podcast series that that I've talked a lot about since

533
00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:07,960
Speaker 1: is if you go anywhere in the United States and

534
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:10,800
Speaker 1: you find a critter that is treasured, it will thrive

535
00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:15,880
Speaker 1: and because people, because people do something for it. And

536
00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:20,640
Speaker 1: from that perspective, I think if you look at the

537
00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:23,200
Speaker 1: progress that the agency has had the past year, the

538
00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:26,120
Speaker 1: public meetings we had, I think our Kansas deserve a

539
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:30,000
Speaker 1: whole lot of credit because, uh, we ran four public

540
00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:32,840
Speaker 1: meetings on it um and we really haven't stopped talking

541
00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:35,360
Speaker 1: about at the past eighteen months or so, and the

542
00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:39,600
Speaker 1: feedback from the public's been tremendous um and a lot

543
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:42,600
Speaker 1: of participations, a lot of participation, a lot of very

544
00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:45,440
Speaker 1: interested people that don't like it, but they get it.

545
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:50,520
Speaker 1: And I think our Kansas deserve a whole uh a

546
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:54,480
Speaker 1: whole lot of credit for for understanding the short term

547
00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:57,480
Speaker 1: sacrifice that we're gonna have to make to keep water foul.

548
00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:00,360
Speaker 1: What it is as a body of commissioner is too.

549
00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:03,880
Speaker 1: I mean, hey, this is your first year as directors

550
00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:05,720
Speaker 1: when we put this through and then as a body

551
00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:08,320
Speaker 1: of commissioners went okay, one of our main revenue streams

552
00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:10,239
Speaker 1: as license sales right now we're trying to get more

553
00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:12,680
Speaker 1: people into the sport of hunting, but we have this

554
00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:16,840
Speaker 1: and you know, we we're not gonna have water at sometimes,

555
00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:18,560
Speaker 1: but then we are. But we have to look at

556
00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:21,160
Speaker 1: the big picture and down the road and know that

557
00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:23,880
Speaker 1: our ang goal is to make these areas better for

558
00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:28,480
Speaker 1: our future so that we can retain hunters, have quality

559
00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:31,719
Speaker 1: waterfol hunts in the state of Arkansas. So it all

560
00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:34,440
Speaker 1: goes to the future. I read when I was in

561
00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:37,200
Speaker 1: college there was a I remember in one of my classes,

562
00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:39,200
Speaker 1: one of my government classes, we talked about the role

563
00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:42,480
Speaker 1: of government is really to think fifty years ahead at least.

564
00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:44,880
Speaker 1: And that's the part that it gets really tough, because

565
00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:48,240
Speaker 1: if you're doing if government is doing this job, it's

566
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:51,600
Speaker 1: it's thinking about not just the current and the things

567
00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:53,680
Speaker 1: they're having right now, but thinking fifty years ahead, like

568
00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:56,960
Speaker 1: how will will we have these animals for our grandkids

569
00:33:57,040 --> 00:34:00,640
Speaker 1: and are our great grandkids? But people have to sacrifice

570
00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:02,760
Speaker 1: now for that to happen, and they have to be

571
00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:05,720
Speaker 1: willing to pay some costs right now for benefits that

572
00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:10,279
Speaker 1: they'll never they'll never receive, And yeah, this is this

573
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:15,239
Speaker 1: is societal challenge. But it sounds like Arkansas. And that's

574
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:17,320
Speaker 1: the way that I ended all of our public meetings

575
00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:19,760
Speaker 1: last year. Where do we want to tell our grandkids

576
00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:21,879
Speaker 1: what by me to was like? Or do we want

577
00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:24,919
Speaker 1: to hear them tell us what it was like? Yeah, yeah,

578
00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:30,640
Speaker 1: that's good. Could always listen to the Burgarase podcast here

579
00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:33,560
Speaker 1: Brent Reeves tell what it used to be like. Ba

580
00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:39,239
Speaker 1: uh no, that's good. That's a good up. That that

581
00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:42,759
Speaker 1: was a that That series for me educated me from

582
00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:46,920
Speaker 1: like zero to you know, understanding what was going on

583
00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:49,239
Speaker 1: over there because it's man. The problem with all this

584
00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:53,759
Speaker 1: stuff is it's so there's so many complexities, from biological

585
00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:59,440
Speaker 1: stuff to human stuff, to social stuff two just communication stuff,

586
00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:02,600
Speaker 1: like they all a lot of the problems that not

587
00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:06,279
Speaker 1: just water, not just wildlife managers are facing, but very

588
00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:09,720
Speaker 1: complex issues and we want something like easy and quick

589
00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:21,560
Speaker 1: and yeah, I just doesn't work like that, Amory. Have

590
00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:23,520
Speaker 1: you had a good waterfowl season so far? I have

591
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:25,920
Speaker 1: had a good waterfowl season. It's been good. Yeah. I

592
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:28,359
Speaker 1: killed killed a good deer too this year. Was really

593
00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:31,439
Speaker 1: happy about that. Yeah, how big is a good deer? Uh?

594
00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:33,200
Speaker 1: Well it was a nine point I didn't score because

595
00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:39,279
Speaker 1: you weren't there. But scored pretty good. Amory's husband's here

596
00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:43,719
Speaker 1: studio audience. That's a good deer, it is, I was.

597
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:47,480
Speaker 1: I was really pleased with it. Now I did attempt

598
00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:49,680
Speaker 1: to do some bow hunting, have yet to harvest one

599
00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:51,520
Speaker 1: with my bow, but working on that. But back to

600
00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:55,000
Speaker 1: duck hunting, it's been great. Had some had some really

601
00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:56,960
Speaker 1: great hunts where we got our limits, had some really

602
00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:58,759
Speaker 1: great hunts where we didn't get our limits. It's all

603
00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:00,759
Speaker 1: about the fellowship. We talked about that last week, the

604
00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:04,640
Speaker 1: people that you get to make these memories with that.

605
00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:10,920
Speaker 1: Has the migration in Arkansas been normal or you know,

606
00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:14,960
Speaker 1: I'm amazed at the duck counts stuff? I got email

607
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:17,839
Speaker 1: from It was on an email chain, I think from

608
00:36:18,040 --> 00:36:20,960
Speaker 1: one of the biologist waterfowl biologists and you're a real

609
00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:24,600
Speaker 1: duck hunter. Yeah, oh I'm big and uh it was

610
00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:27,719
Speaker 1: it was talking about duck numbers in the state, like,

611
00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:29,799
Speaker 1: is that has it been pretty normal this year? Good?

612
00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:33,120
Speaker 1: Right now? It's been. It's really good. Yeah, we're still

613
00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:38,040
Speaker 1: we're below the long term average, UM, but I think

614
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:42,120
Speaker 1: we're up like double digits from two thousand and eighteen levels.

615
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:46,279
Speaker 1: It amazes me that you can count ducks with any

616
00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:49,400
Speaker 1: kind of any sense of like it being accurate. I

617
00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:52,319
Speaker 1: still don't understand it. They got it down to an

618
00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:56,520
Speaker 1: art though. I'm gonna go on Thursday, you're gonna fly

619
00:36:56,600 --> 00:36:59,960
Speaker 1: with them. So they missy, they they fly. Let me

620
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:07,000
Speaker 1: tell you, I know he's change the email chain now.

621
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:15,640
Speaker 1: They basically fly grids over areas of like predictable duck habitat,

622
00:37:15,680 --> 00:37:18,800
Speaker 1: and they get an estimation of numbers, just like humans

623
00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:21,640
Speaker 1: and airplanes, like guessing how many ducks there are, And

624
00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:26,960
Speaker 1: then they expound the area that they flew and they go, okay,

625
00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:31,319
Speaker 1: well there's a hundred times more land than that with

626
00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:36,840
Speaker 1: equivalent habitat in Arkansas. So they take what they actually

627
00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:39,799
Speaker 1: saw and you know, multiply it out and get an

628
00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:41,640
Speaker 1: estimation for how many ducks are here. Is That's that's

629
00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:49,040
Speaker 1: pretty good. I'll report back checking. That's yeah, and so

630
00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:53,200
Speaker 1: so is it weekly? No, we do one in December,

631
00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:55,600
Speaker 1: one in January, and then I think one after the

632
00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:58,000
Speaker 1: season closes, isn't there right? That is right? Yeah, they

633
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:01,360
Speaker 1: do the postseason fallout, which post season having that habitat

634
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:05,120
Speaker 1: for the ducks too is incredibly important when they're coming back, well,

635
00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:08,040
Speaker 1: when they're you know, maybe not coming back, but just

636
00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:11,799
Speaker 1: they're about to go back exactly. It's like a buck

637
00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:15,480
Speaker 1: right after the rut, Like they gotta rest up. They

638
00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:18,120
Speaker 1: gotta put some pounds on because they were flying, you know,

639
00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:20,960
Speaker 1: with the giest stream coming down and there they're flying

640
00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:24,399
Speaker 1: into going back up. That's a long way. That's why

641
00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:27,600
Speaker 1: they need those acorns, man. Man. I I hunted in

642
00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:29,959
Speaker 1: the Delta a couple of weeks ago for a week,

643
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:37,280
Speaker 1: and uh, I was keyed in on the the big acorns. Yeah,

644
00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:39,600
Speaker 1: there were a lot of them, and then there was

645
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:43,080
Speaker 1: quite a few of the smaller red oaks like those. Yeah.

646
00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:46,719
Speaker 1: I was gathering them up and trying to hand feed

647
00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:48,640
Speaker 1: him to all the mallards in the place that we could.

648
00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:51,279
Speaker 1: I'm kidding. I wasn't the ones in your yard. Those

649
00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:54,799
Speaker 1: are chickens, clay Man. I did see some ducks though,

650
00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:57,719
Speaker 1: Oh man, did I see some ducks. I really did.

651
00:38:57,800 --> 00:39:02,080
Speaker 1: It was pretty incredible. Actually, I two or three evenings

652
00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:04,759
Speaker 1: of bow hunting. We were we were real close to

653
00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:09,239
Speaker 1: some water, and uh it was incredible, man, I mean

654
00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:13,200
Speaker 1: mallard ducks. We watched them all day. I mean we saw, Yeah,

655
00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:15,200
Speaker 1: there were no deer down there, not a single deer

656
00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:19,440
Speaker 1: but before duck hunting, though, before you became a duck

657
00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:26,080
Speaker 1: hunter last year, last year, would you thought anything that, really,

658
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:28,920
Speaker 1: there's some ducks over there or whatever. I just wouldn't

659
00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:32,680
Speaker 1: have now I would have been keating enough on in

660
00:39:32,719 --> 00:39:35,279
Speaker 1: the hunting space to value a duck. I mean just

661
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:38,520
Speaker 1: been like, this is probably pretty cool. But without a

662
00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:42,120
Speaker 1: knowledge base, which I got last year, I really know

663
00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:47,759
Speaker 1: the answers. No, I mean the ducks were uh yeah,

664
00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:50,040
Speaker 1: making all kind of calls. I was thinking about calling.

665
00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:52,560
Speaker 1: I was saying, I was watching how they were, like

666
00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:54,640
Speaker 1: where they would be in the sky and then where

667
00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:56,799
Speaker 1: they would land and how they would land, and I

668
00:39:56,840 --> 00:39:59,319
Speaker 1: was thinking about the wind. And basically they didn't do

669
00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:03,840
Speaker 1: anything y'all to mean they would but um yeah, duck hunters,

670
00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:06,080
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if they know much about ducks. But

671
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:09,799
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding. I was supposed to get a big laugh.

672
00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:18,440
Speaker 1: Um have you have you duck hunted a lot this year? Yeah? Yeah?

673
00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:22,480
Speaker 1: And um Aiden, we took him, you know, he's from California,

674
00:40:22,880 --> 00:40:24,919
Speaker 1: take him on his first duck hint. And we went

675
00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:28,360
Speaker 1: down to um Bull Sprig, which is like a really

676
00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:32,120
Speaker 1: nice hunting club down in Stuck Guard and it's flooded, timber,

677
00:40:32,160 --> 00:40:34,560
Speaker 1: and just like the when you think of Arkansas duck hunting,

678
00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:37,279
Speaker 1: it's like that's the hunt. And I was trying the

679
00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:39,879
Speaker 1: whole time. I was like trying to explain or put

680
00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:43,440
Speaker 1: into context to him what this hunt was like. Like

681
00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:46,399
Speaker 1: you you were starting off at the top, and then

682
00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:48,319
Speaker 1: we're gonna go back home, and I'll humble, like, I'll

683
00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:50,400
Speaker 1: humble you a little bit what real duck huntings like.

684
00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:52,880
Speaker 1: But now we've been, we've been quite a few times.

685
00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:56,040
Speaker 1: Am I really enjoy working my dogs. I've got a

686
00:40:56,080 --> 00:40:59,759
Speaker 1: dog that's pretty much college education. I have a black Lab,

687
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:01,760
Speaker 1: have a yellow Lab, and I have a little English

688
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:06,719
Speaker 1: cocker that's pretty fun to duck huntly retriever. Yeah, he's

689
00:41:06,760 --> 00:41:08,960
Speaker 1: he's between the black and the yellow lab. Is the

690
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:14,279
Speaker 1: black one better? So she has more drive, I will say,

691
00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:17,279
Speaker 1: But she tore her a c l two years ago,

692
00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:20,319
Speaker 1: so she's just I am hesitant to take her on

693
00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:22,440
Speaker 1: places I don't know, just because she's got to jump

694
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:23,719
Speaker 1: off and she's got climb. I don't know what the

695
00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:27,080
Speaker 1: setting is for her. But the yellow lab, he's like said,

696
00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:29,480
Speaker 1: he's got college education. He'll call the duck in go

697
00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:34,640
Speaker 1: get it. He's a good dog. Yeah, the black one

698
00:41:34,719 --> 00:41:37,560
Speaker 1: is really better. I don't think so. I don't know.

699
00:41:37,719 --> 00:41:41,439
Speaker 1: That's like an old till really that from what I've heard,

700
00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:44,160
Speaker 1: that's like what labs started as. And then you know,

701
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:46,520
Speaker 1: the yellows came along, and the yellows have been here

702
00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:48,480
Speaker 1: for so long now they're equivalent to the blacks. And

703
00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:50,200
Speaker 1: then the chocolate is just good luck with him because

704
00:41:50,239 --> 00:41:55,360
Speaker 1: they're still not good. Yeah, and then you've got silvers

705
00:41:55,400 --> 00:41:57,640
Speaker 1: and they're just a whole another I don't consider that

706
00:41:57,680 --> 00:42:01,320
Speaker 1: a real lab. Yeah, sorry, I just own't. It's pretty

707
00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:03,879
Speaker 1: we're going that far pretty, but well, no, I mean

708
00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:11,120
Speaker 1: black chocolate labs. That's that's the three. Hey, you gotta

709
00:42:11,160 --> 00:42:14,279
Speaker 1: be passionate and have an opinion about stuff. I like this,

710
00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:17,920
Speaker 1: like chocolate labs out. I would say chocolates have another

711
00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:22,080
Speaker 1: fifty years before they and yellow you straight up fast?

712
00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:24,839
Speaker 1: Favorite dog? Like, what what's your favorite dog? I want

713
00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:28,520
Speaker 1: to hear about your favorite squirrel dog? Careful? Oh yeah,

714
00:42:28,560 --> 00:42:33,719
Speaker 1: I think it's the other one into this. This is

715
00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:39,120
Speaker 1: too treacherous a territory. I like a fight. There's lots

716
00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:41,279
Speaker 1: of dogs a tree squirrel. There's there's a ton of

717
00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:44,200
Speaker 1: different kind of dogs tree squirrel. Um. I like the

718
00:42:44,239 --> 00:42:46,400
Speaker 1: little fist just because they're a little in fun and

719
00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:49,160
Speaker 1: they're very smart, use their ears, eyes and nose. I

720
00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:52,560
Speaker 1: think everyone needs a fist in their life. That's that's

721
00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:56,080
Speaker 1: like my life philosophy. Now, Britt, would you said a

722
00:42:56,120 --> 00:42:58,719
Speaker 1: black lab was the way to go? That's all? All

723
00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:01,680
Speaker 1: of mine were always black? Yeah, I had one chocolate

724
00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:08,480
Speaker 1: for a month. A month didn't work out? I did you?

725
00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:13,360
Speaker 1: How old is it? Seven months? Seven months? When's he? Is?

726
00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:16,719
Speaker 1: He at the trainer? Now? She she? Uh? So she

727
00:43:17,880 --> 00:43:21,920
Speaker 1: This is a long story. She's a great dog. Uh.

728
00:43:22,120 --> 00:43:24,759
Speaker 1: She might be at risk for an a C L

729
00:43:24,800 --> 00:43:28,480
Speaker 1: tear yea, So how can you tell? Uh? I can't tell,

730
00:43:28,560 --> 00:43:32,759
Speaker 1: but the vets cam uh. And so that's that's kind

731
00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:34,799
Speaker 1: of what we're waiting to see. We might we might

732
00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:37,480
Speaker 1: let her get a little bit older and before you

733
00:43:37,480 --> 00:43:40,560
Speaker 1: invest a lot in Yeah really yeah, but she she's

734
00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:45,640
Speaker 1: a great dog. Now y'all have a older dog, Baron? Yeah,

735
00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:51,719
Speaker 1: black lab. I've always had black lass black ones. Uh.

736
00:43:51,960 --> 00:43:55,240
Speaker 1: Baron is six about to be seven? Is Baron named

737
00:43:55,239 --> 00:43:58,000
Speaker 1: after a Barren airplane? Yes, that's awesome. I got my

738
00:43:58,040 --> 00:44:01,120
Speaker 1: pilot's license back in. I guess it's two thousand sixteen.

739
00:44:01,200 --> 00:44:04,839
Speaker 1: So I was like, I'm going to I'm not current anymore,

740
00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:13,439
Speaker 1: sitting here, Yeah, yeah, I'm sitting here Stable day Yeah. Yeah.

741
00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:17,759
Speaker 1: A studio audience today too, do Yeah. Joe Dramas is here,

742
00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:22,480
Speaker 1: Joe Hight and then Aiden with you hating what's your

743
00:44:22,520 --> 00:44:28,040
Speaker 1: last name? Conn Aid Colin? Yeah, live studio audience pretty

744
00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:30,600
Speaker 1: pretty special, which they would encourage us a little more

745
00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:37,600
Speaker 1: because you'll give up plause. Yeah, we've not laughed at

746
00:44:37,600 --> 00:44:39,440
Speaker 1: a couple of show. So if you could feel the

747
00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:41,799
Speaker 1: I think I would help me out. Joke he's wearing

748
00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:43,880
Speaker 1: all his bear grease skin. He's got an acorn shirt on.

749
00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:46,120
Speaker 1: I like that he gets it. It's a vibe. Hey,

750
00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:48,840
Speaker 1: is there a difference between boy and girl dogs? Because

751
00:44:50,840 --> 00:44:56,080
Speaker 1: we got a lot difference in terms of quality of hunters.

752
00:44:56,160 --> 00:45:00,440
Speaker 1: Because Clay's best, best dog, best sound. It has been

753
00:45:00,440 --> 00:45:04,720
Speaker 1: a girl. You've got a girl. I've always had boy dogs. Okay,

754
00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:12,200
Speaker 1: so there's no distinction in terms there is. Okay, every

755
00:45:13,840 --> 00:45:16,239
Speaker 1: big game hunter or squirrel dog man that I've ever

756
00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:18,319
Speaker 1: met didn't want a male dog. I mean, you know,

757
00:45:18,560 --> 00:45:22,759
Speaker 1: in general, females are females because your squirrel dog, the

758
00:45:22,760 --> 00:45:25,320
Speaker 1: girl in your opinion, would be better. We can call it.

759
00:45:25,360 --> 00:45:27,200
Speaker 1: There's lots of different names we could call them other

760
00:45:27,239 --> 00:45:32,600
Speaker 1: than girl dogs. I prefer female or JIP. I'll just

761
00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:36,480
Speaker 1: be honest. JIP does not sound like enough crazy, just

762
00:45:36,560 --> 00:45:40,839
Speaker 1: not telling something i'd want to be my experience, every

763
00:45:40,840 --> 00:45:44,239
Speaker 1: female dog got that's just been so sweet and that

764
00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:51,239
Speaker 1: ain't broke picks it. Um, well let's talk. Let's talk

765
00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:54,600
Speaker 1: some duck hunting, duck hunting, duck hunting stories. What was

766
00:45:54,680 --> 00:45:57,920
Speaker 1: your what was your Austin, what was your favorite story

767
00:45:57,960 --> 00:46:00,439
Speaker 1: that you heard on the podcast? So we're well now

768
00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:04,040
Speaker 1: transition into duck hunting stories, and then I want to

769
00:46:04,080 --> 00:46:09,040
Speaker 1: hear you three your favorite your favorite story but from

770
00:46:09,080 --> 00:46:11,520
Speaker 1: the podcast, like or did anything stand out to you?

771
00:46:11,560 --> 00:46:13,799
Speaker 1: Did you hear something that was like yeah, identify with

772
00:46:13,880 --> 00:46:18,280
Speaker 1: that or that was cool or yeah? I would say

773
00:46:18,600 --> 00:46:22,359
Speaker 1: two of the stories were noteworthy. Um in my mind.

774
00:46:22,880 --> 00:46:26,960
Speaker 1: The first was is it your your friend Scott from Jacksonville? Yeah,

775
00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:31,080
Speaker 1: Scott Harness. Yeah. So he mentioned having that super interested

776
00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:35,359
Speaker 1: friend that wanted to try to duck hunt and he

777
00:46:35,400 --> 00:46:39,279
Speaker 1: was very pessimistic about their likelihood for a successful hunt.

778
00:46:39,440 --> 00:46:44,440
Speaker 1: Always happened, and I've that that's kind of the season

779
00:46:45,080 --> 00:46:47,920
Speaker 1: of duck hunting that I'm in right now, where I

780
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:50,520
Speaker 1: care less about going to shoot four mallards as I

781
00:46:50,600 --> 00:46:54,560
Speaker 1: do getting out there with new people, uh, showing them

782
00:46:54,640 --> 00:46:58,760
Speaker 1: what duck hunts all about. And one of the best hunts,

783
00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:01,640
Speaker 1: memory wise, that I ever had was one of those

784
00:47:01,680 --> 00:47:04,440
Speaker 1: where I had somebody that said they really wanted to go,

785
00:47:04,560 --> 00:47:07,120
Speaker 1: and they had been asking me for months about it,

786
00:47:07,160 --> 00:47:09,120
Speaker 1: and I said, yes, we're gonna go, and in the

787
00:47:09,160 --> 00:47:10,960
Speaker 1: back of my mind, I knew we weren't gonna kill

788
00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:14,120
Speaker 1: a thing, uh, and we did. And then the other

789
00:47:14,160 --> 00:47:18,840
Speaker 1: story that I thought was just uh fantastic was Brent's

790
00:47:19,520 --> 00:47:25,719
Speaker 1: uh talking about Buckingham Flats, um and right. And I

791
00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:27,879
Speaker 1: was talking to somebody the other day that had never

792
00:47:27,960 --> 00:47:31,440
Speaker 1: duck hunted what it's like when a big group of

793
00:47:31,440 --> 00:47:34,680
Speaker 1: mallards comes in And this is before the podcast came out,

794
00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:37,960
Speaker 1: and you said it was like rolling out of carpet. Brent.

795
00:47:38,880 --> 00:47:42,120
Speaker 1: The analogy that I used was it's like you're standing

796
00:47:42,120 --> 00:47:46,399
Speaker 1: at the bottom of a staircase and someone rolls out

797
00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:49,400
Speaker 1: of carpet and it just keeps coming and keeps coming

798
00:47:49,600 --> 00:47:52,319
Speaker 1: and keeps coming and the duckster just right wave after

799
00:47:52,320 --> 00:47:55,600
Speaker 1: a way of getting down. Yeah, chill bumps on my

800
00:47:55,680 --> 00:47:57,640
Speaker 1: arm right now just thinking about it. And I never

801
00:47:57,760 --> 00:48:00,800
Speaker 1: think about that story that it doesn't happen. It's so weird.

802
00:48:02,160 --> 00:48:07,760
Speaker 1: It was absolutely it was a not a life changing event.

803
00:48:07,840 --> 00:48:10,160
Speaker 1: I mean, it wasn't like seeing my children born or anything,

804
00:48:10,200 --> 00:48:13,520
Speaker 1: but it was like the least favorite kid was like

805
00:48:13,560 --> 00:48:18,440
Speaker 1: seeing the least favorite it. So you've seen that a

806
00:48:18,480 --> 00:48:22,000
Speaker 1: couple of times. Just had like like like you think

807
00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:25,480
Speaker 1: five hundred ducks, thousand ducks, two hundred ducks, I'd probay

808
00:48:25,520 --> 00:48:32,720
Speaker 1: say between three fifty. It's just um between the sheer

809
00:48:32,840 --> 00:48:35,600
Speaker 1: volume of ducks around you that you feel like you

810
00:48:36,160 --> 00:48:42,400
Speaker 1: can't even turn your head and uh, just the awe

811
00:48:42,440 --> 00:48:44,640
Speaker 1: of it. You almost want to put your gun down.

812
00:48:45,239 --> 00:48:48,200
Speaker 1: I've done it and just like take it all in

813
00:48:48,239 --> 00:48:52,080
Speaker 1: because you know that it's fleeting and and and it'll

814
00:48:52,200 --> 00:48:56,480
Speaker 1: end mm hmm. Put you cool. It makes you feel

815
00:48:56,480 --> 00:49:00,200
Speaker 1: like the first time I saw and heard and looked

816
00:49:00,239 --> 00:49:03,440
Speaker 1: at an elk buglin in a place where and we

817
00:49:03,480 --> 00:49:05,920
Speaker 1: didn't even kill this. It was a huge elk, but

818
00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:08,480
Speaker 1: he's like, man, should I don't know if I'm worthy

819
00:49:08,480 --> 00:49:12,240
Speaker 1: of being Yeah, in the presence of watching this take place,

820
00:49:12,239 --> 00:49:18,760
Speaker 1: it'll make you feel like like that. It did me. Yeah, Amory,

821
00:49:18,800 --> 00:49:20,640
Speaker 1: which of those stories stood at you? Do you like

822
00:49:20,719 --> 00:49:23,400
Speaker 1: any of them? Well, ditto what Austin just said on

823
00:49:23,520 --> 00:49:25,680
Speaker 1: both of those stories. But I'm going to tell you

824
00:49:25,719 --> 00:49:29,880
Speaker 1: the one that I was just flabbergasted by. And really

825
00:49:29,920 --> 00:49:32,879
Speaker 1: I'm just sitting there counting my blessings, thinking, Wow, I've

826
00:49:32,920 --> 00:49:37,080
Speaker 1: never had something that scary happened to me knock on wood.

827
00:49:37,440 --> 00:49:42,399
Speaker 1: But the first off, the story about Jimbo out there,

828
00:49:42,440 --> 00:49:44,640
Speaker 1: I mean in him talking about covering up his face

829
00:49:44,680 --> 00:49:47,000
Speaker 1: and he's afraid to take his hands down because he's

830
00:49:47,040 --> 00:49:51,160
Speaker 1: afraid about what what he's going to see. Um, I

831
00:49:51,480 --> 00:49:55,200
Speaker 1: can't imagine being in that situation and knowing Jimbo when

832
00:49:55,200 --> 00:49:57,759
Speaker 1: he said he just kept as cool. He said, Hey,

833
00:49:57,760 --> 00:49:59,760
Speaker 1: we're gonna get in the boat head back to the truck,

834
00:49:59,800 --> 00:50:03,960
Speaker 1: and you know, go um that. I couldn't believe that

835
00:50:04,000 --> 00:50:05,640
Speaker 1: he held it together to do that, because I think

836
00:50:05,719 --> 00:50:07,279
Speaker 1: I think I would have lost my mind. I think

837
00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:09,160
Speaker 1: anyone I know would have lost their mind if some

838
00:50:09,239 --> 00:50:12,520
Speaker 1: would have been shooting at them. So, uh, that really

839
00:50:12,520 --> 00:50:14,520
Speaker 1: stood out to me, and oh, my gosh, the guy

840
00:50:14,520 --> 00:50:21,840
Speaker 1: in the houseboat who fell fell off into Yes, yeah,

841
00:50:21,880 --> 00:50:25,319
Speaker 1: I mean I've been you know, baptized in the in

842
00:50:25,360 --> 00:50:29,719
Speaker 1: the duck water before like that, Oh my goodness, I know.

843
00:50:29,840 --> 00:50:33,879
Speaker 1: And him talking about those two two boys that died,

844
00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:37,719
Speaker 1: that was that was just nuts. Oh my goodness. So

845
00:50:37,880 --> 00:50:40,600
Speaker 1: those those stood out to me because that was that

846
00:50:40,680 --> 00:50:43,839
Speaker 1: was just insane. Yeah, Jim's story, I thought you did

847
00:50:43,880 --> 00:50:46,600
Speaker 1: a good job of telling the story, like just saying,

848
00:50:47,120 --> 00:50:49,319
Speaker 1: like I'm sitting there like looking at him, like did

849
00:50:49,320 --> 00:50:52,160
Speaker 1: you get shot in the face? Yeah? And then he

850
00:50:52,280 --> 00:50:54,279
Speaker 1: and then he said he put his hands down and

851
00:50:54,040 --> 00:50:58,440
Speaker 1: and he wasn't shot. But man, you know, not being

852
00:50:58,640 --> 00:51:01,640
Speaker 1: uh exposed a lot of duck hunting last year when

853
00:51:01,680 --> 00:51:05,160
Speaker 1: I was hunting, man anything. And it's the same way

854
00:51:05,200 --> 00:51:07,440
Speaker 1: with squirrel hunting with four or five people. Man, when

855
00:51:07,480 --> 00:51:10,600
Speaker 1: you got that many people with guns with moving targets,

856
00:51:10,640 --> 00:51:16,120
Speaker 1: like gun safety is a big deal, big deal. Yeah,

857
00:51:16,160 --> 00:51:18,840
Speaker 1: you you got to and you gotta make sure everybody

858
00:51:18,840 --> 00:51:21,520
Speaker 1: around he does too, you know. Like so Bear and

859
00:51:21,600 --> 00:51:23,840
Speaker 1: his buddies are starting to do some squirrel hunting and

860
00:51:23,840 --> 00:51:25,520
Speaker 1: stuff on their own, and they even went duck hunting

861
00:51:25,680 --> 00:51:30,040
Speaker 1: on their own the other day. And they I told

862
00:51:30,120 --> 00:51:32,760
Speaker 1: Bear and one of the other leaders of the crew,

863
00:51:33,400 --> 00:51:38,600
Speaker 1: I said, hey, you guys have got to absolutely like

864
00:51:38,880 --> 00:51:43,280
Speaker 1: cram it down these other guy's throats about gun safety.

865
00:51:43,360 --> 00:51:45,040
Speaker 1: And I have a little spill I do where I

866
00:51:45,200 --> 00:51:50,120
Speaker 1: grab an empty shotgun and and give them every possible

867
00:51:50,120 --> 00:51:52,320
Speaker 1: way that you could point that gun at your buddy

868
00:51:52,360 --> 00:51:54,400
Speaker 1: and not realize you did. You know, like when you

869
00:51:54,800 --> 00:51:57,000
Speaker 1: pull your gun down and drop it to your waist

870
00:51:57,080 --> 00:51:59,480
Speaker 1: and then turn around and point at everyone in the

871
00:51:59,760 --> 00:52:03,360
Speaker 1: in the in the hole, and and and then you know,

872
00:52:03,400 --> 00:52:06,680
Speaker 1: talking about shooting up, how when you're shooting up at

873
00:52:06,680 --> 00:52:10,279
Speaker 1: a squirrel or something, you often come down with a

874
00:52:10,280 --> 00:52:13,360
Speaker 1: gun off safety and loaded, and then you know where's

875
00:52:13,360 --> 00:52:15,480
Speaker 1: everybody else at But anyway, yeah, I think about that

876
00:52:15,520 --> 00:52:17,480
Speaker 1: all the time. Well, I think the one that creeps

877
00:52:17,520 --> 00:52:20,799
Speaker 1: up on people is when a dog is out there

878
00:52:20,800 --> 00:52:25,719
Speaker 1: working you put your gun on the tree because the

879
00:52:25,800 --> 00:52:30,000
Speaker 1: ducks come in. Everybody shoots, and then there's a cripple

880
00:52:30,320 --> 00:52:33,600
Speaker 1: or and and people start shooting at the cripple and

881
00:52:33,640 --> 00:52:38,080
Speaker 1: the duck dog takes off and then get back quick. Yeah,

882
00:52:38,080 --> 00:52:40,480
Speaker 1: we're all animal lovers here when it comes to our pups.

883
00:52:41,800 --> 00:52:44,040
Speaker 1: That's probably some of my greatest memories on the duck

884
00:52:44,080 --> 00:52:47,040
Speaker 1: story part, uh, hunting with my dogs over the years.

885
00:52:47,080 --> 00:52:50,279
Speaker 1: I know, Kayleie, you mentioned that when that comes to mind,

886
00:52:50,320 --> 00:52:53,239
Speaker 1: I had a dog, his name was Boomer, another black

887
00:52:53,280 --> 00:52:58,040
Speaker 1: lap and uh, he had throat cancer, and you know,

888
00:52:58,120 --> 00:52:59,600
Speaker 1: we knew we only had a little bit of time

889
00:52:59,680 --> 00:53:01,640
Speaker 1: left with them. And Joe and I were dating at

890
00:53:01,640 --> 00:53:03,759
Speaker 1: the time, and Joe was really touched this dog too.

891
00:53:04,040 --> 00:53:06,640
Speaker 1: I mean we we loved him to death. And we said, okay,

892
00:53:06,800 --> 00:53:08,319
Speaker 1: we can't take him out in the morning. He didn't

893
00:53:08,360 --> 00:53:09,799
Speaker 1: have the energy, but we want to take him on

894
00:53:09,800 --> 00:53:13,120
Speaker 1: one more hunt. And we go out there in the afternoon.

895
00:53:13,200 --> 00:53:16,160
Speaker 1: It warmed up a little bit, nothing flying. Joe and

896
00:53:16,160 --> 00:53:17,719
Speaker 1: are just sitting there. I have a picture of Joe

897
00:53:17,760 --> 00:53:20,040
Speaker 1: with his arm around him in the duck blind and

898
00:53:20,080 --> 00:53:22,080
Speaker 1: they're just sitting there looking at the sky, just having

899
00:53:22,120 --> 00:53:24,640
Speaker 1: a good time. I'm sitting there thinking this is a memory.

900
00:53:24,680 --> 00:53:27,200
Speaker 1: You know, He's not going to get his last duck probably,

901
00:53:27,239 --> 00:53:28,879
Speaker 1: but at least we got to go out here with him.

902
00:53:28,920 --> 00:53:33,719
Speaker 1: But Joe ended up killing one mallard and Boomer went

903
00:53:33,760 --> 00:53:37,719
Speaker 1: out and got it and brought it back last time,

904
00:53:37,840 --> 00:53:45,000
Speaker 1: last time, last retree. It was pretty cool, pretty special cool. Yeah, Um,

905
00:53:45,120 --> 00:53:48,000
Speaker 1: I probably should have had you tell your favorite story

906
00:53:48,360 --> 00:53:52,239
Speaker 1: while you were telling which story you liked. Usually, this

907
00:53:52,320 --> 00:53:54,680
Speaker 1: is what we do, Kall. I asked people what part

908
00:53:54,680 --> 00:53:56,520
Speaker 1: of the podcast they like. Did one of those stories

909
00:53:56,520 --> 00:53:59,399
Speaker 1: stand out to you? I would say all of them

910
00:53:59,400 --> 00:54:01,440
Speaker 1: that they mentioned, but the one that stood out to

911
00:54:01,480 --> 00:54:07,000
Speaker 1: me most was um Jimbo. And it relates back to

912
00:54:07,040 --> 00:54:10,480
Speaker 1: anybody that comes to our shooting lodger my shooting lodge.

913
00:54:10,920 --> 00:54:12,759
Speaker 1: Gun safety is the first thing that we teach. And

914
00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:14,879
Speaker 1: I have a ton of people that come to get

915
00:54:14,920 --> 00:54:17,600
Speaker 1: better at duck hunting and I always tell them before

916
00:54:17,600 --> 00:54:20,400
Speaker 1: they leave, like gun say, gun knowledge is gun safety, right,

917
00:54:20,440 --> 00:54:22,759
Speaker 1: So knowing where your gun is pointed at, knowing how

918
00:54:22,800 --> 00:54:25,680
Speaker 1: that gun operates, knowing where your safety is at, knowing

919
00:54:26,000 --> 00:54:29,080
Speaker 1: your environment that you're in. Who's got the dog? Is

920
00:54:29,120 --> 00:54:32,440
Speaker 1: the dog working? You know? Um? And it just brought

921
00:54:32,480 --> 00:54:35,560
Speaker 1: back those I've never been in that situation, but it

922
00:54:35,600 --> 00:54:38,320
Speaker 1: brought back those teaching moments that I've had for people,

923
00:54:38,360 --> 00:54:40,800
Speaker 1: because you can never be too safe when you're hunting,

924
00:54:40,880 --> 00:54:42,839
Speaker 1: especially with a bunch of people, or especially with somebody

925
00:54:42,880 --> 00:54:45,080
Speaker 1: who's never been before. They don't they don't know any better.

926
00:54:45,120 --> 00:54:47,520
Speaker 1: They could just be sitting here talking to you thinking

927
00:54:47,520 --> 00:54:50,480
Speaker 1: everything safe, but it's pointed ride at Misty or you know.

928
00:54:50,520 --> 00:54:52,480
Speaker 1: It's just that really stood out to me, and it's

929
00:54:52,520 --> 00:54:54,960
Speaker 1: it's one of the things that I stress every single

930
00:54:54,960 --> 00:55:00,120
Speaker 1: shooting lesson that I do. Yeah, um, hey be or

931
00:55:00,200 --> 00:55:02,880
Speaker 1: we leave, you'll help me. Remember, we need Kaylee to

932
00:55:02,880 --> 00:55:06,839
Speaker 1: tell us about her her lodge and what she's doing.

933
00:55:07,160 --> 00:55:11,439
Speaker 1: But tell me your we'll go back this direction. Tell

934
00:55:11,480 --> 00:55:16,000
Speaker 1: me your well, Brent, what was your favorite hold on Kaylee? Brent?

935
00:55:16,080 --> 00:55:17,799
Speaker 1: Which one of those was your favorite one? Let me

936
00:55:17,800 --> 00:55:20,799
Speaker 1: tell mine? Okay, great, thanks Brent. My favorite one was

937
00:55:22,360 --> 00:55:25,720
Speaker 1: I like the duck retrieve story that Jim bow Yeah, yeah,

938
00:55:26,440 --> 00:55:29,640
Speaker 1: that was Yeah. I just like the way he told

939
00:55:29,680 --> 00:55:32,279
Speaker 1: it to I like, I just like hearing Jim ron

940
00:55:32,400 --> 00:55:35,360
Speaker 1: Quest talk. Which one sit out to you? Brent? Oh,

941
00:55:35,560 --> 00:55:39,640
Speaker 1: let's see. I like the p ro story because I

942
00:55:39,680 --> 00:55:42,080
Speaker 1: have a p row and really about the only difference

943
00:55:42,080 --> 00:55:44,239
Speaker 1: in a piro on the submarines the way you spell it,

944
00:55:45,360 --> 00:55:48,320
Speaker 1: they're both gonna wind up on the bottom before it's over. Yeah,

945
00:55:48,480 --> 00:55:50,839
Speaker 1: but they are handed when you can keep water out

946
00:55:50,880 --> 00:55:53,279
Speaker 1: of Yeah, that was a good story. But the motor

947
00:55:53,360 --> 00:55:58,440
Speaker 1: going around the circles, the direct draft thing. Yeah, and

948
00:55:58,520 --> 00:56:00,600
Speaker 1: sharing a motor in a pin come home, that's a

949
00:56:00,680 --> 00:56:03,000
Speaker 1: rookie mistake. You got to toe a pocket full of

950
00:56:03,000 --> 00:56:05,560
Speaker 1: a little Jim since he was nineteen years old, I know,

951
00:56:05,800 --> 00:56:13,640
Speaker 1: but you gotta, you gotta. I could talk Jim. Jim

952
00:56:13,880 --> 00:56:16,960
Speaker 1: was such a neat guy, like he didn't know. I

953
00:56:16,960 --> 00:56:19,360
Speaker 1: don't think he's ever listened to a podcast before. He

954
00:56:19,400 --> 00:56:23,120
Speaker 1: wouldn't have known anything about this podcast. And we just

955
00:56:23,160 --> 00:56:26,879
Speaker 1: showed up at his office and I just said, tell

956
00:56:26,880 --> 00:56:28,960
Speaker 1: me your favorite duck story and he just started talking

957
00:56:29,000 --> 00:56:30,759
Speaker 1: and he told me like three all in a row.

958
00:56:30,840 --> 00:56:33,440
Speaker 1: And I trimmed him up. But he was a neat well.

959
00:56:33,440 --> 00:56:35,799
Speaker 1: If I could, if I could add one other thing,

960
00:56:35,880 --> 00:56:38,279
Speaker 1: it was the stuff about Mr Alvin. Yeah, yeah, I

961
00:56:38,320 --> 00:56:40,760
Speaker 1: figured you're even get in that. Yeah. Mr Alvin Taylor

962
00:56:40,920 --> 00:56:45,319
Speaker 1: and I were very close friends. And uh, I was

963
00:56:45,320 --> 00:56:46,920
Speaker 1: talking to Amy on the way up here today and

964
00:56:46,920 --> 00:56:48,640
Speaker 1: I said, I'm coming what. I told her what we

965
00:56:48,640 --> 00:56:52,080
Speaker 1: were doing, and I asked her, Amy's my oldest daughter.

966
00:56:52,200 --> 00:56:58,200
Speaker 1: She's thirty four now, and I asked her, no, thirty one?

967
00:56:58,800 --> 00:57:01,960
Speaker 1: And I asked her about Mr Alvin and she said, oh, Dad,

968
00:57:02,200 --> 00:57:05,759
Speaker 1: I have such fine memories. She was probably six five

969
00:57:05,880 --> 00:57:07,879
Speaker 1: or six of just sitting on a stool in there

970
00:57:07,920 --> 00:57:10,919
Speaker 1: in his shot while me and Mr Mr Alvin worked

971
00:57:10,920 --> 00:57:13,759
Speaker 1: on duck calls. And she says she could smell the

972
00:57:13,760 --> 00:57:16,760
Speaker 1: wood when he was turning the wood, cocabola and stuff.

973
00:57:17,840 --> 00:57:20,600
Speaker 1: But he was he was a he was a pretty

974
00:57:20,600 --> 00:57:24,480
Speaker 1: cool cat. Pick up that duck call, Austin, would you

975
00:57:24,520 --> 00:57:27,880
Speaker 1: have known the name Alvin Taylor? Yeah, so that's pretty

976
00:57:28,440 --> 00:57:31,920
Speaker 1: so this one to talk to him about the what

977
00:57:32,040 --> 00:57:35,120
Speaker 1: you told me about the shape of that, Oh the shape.

978
00:57:35,240 --> 00:57:38,320
Speaker 1: He's got an acrylic duck call, which I would have. Yeah,

979
00:57:38,400 --> 00:57:40,840
Speaker 1: it looks just like he was a plastic I remember

980
00:57:40,880 --> 00:57:42,520
Speaker 1: going in there. This is the first call I ever

981
00:57:42,560 --> 00:57:45,080
Speaker 1: got from him, and he was looking at he said,

982
00:57:45,120 --> 00:57:47,120
Speaker 1: what is that call? Right there? He says, you do

983
00:57:47,160 --> 00:57:49,160
Speaker 1: you know how to hold a blow a duck call?

984
00:57:49,360 --> 00:57:52,560
Speaker 1: Like yesterday? I know how? He said, Well, if you

985
00:57:52,600 --> 00:57:54,720
Speaker 1: were going to show somebody, what's the best way you

986
00:57:54,720 --> 00:57:56,439
Speaker 1: could tell him how to hold this duck call? Wait,

987
00:57:56,520 --> 00:57:58,520
Speaker 1: the way you put it up to your mouth and

988
00:57:58,560 --> 00:58:01,840
Speaker 1: blow on it? And I said, I don't know. He said, well,

989
00:58:01,840 --> 00:58:04,600
Speaker 1: look at it now, so it looks like a coke

990
00:58:04,640 --> 00:58:07,440
Speaker 1: bottle track. He said, that's the way, so when you

991
00:58:07,480 --> 00:58:09,280
Speaker 1: take a sip out of a coke bottle, that's the

992
00:58:09,320 --> 00:58:12,160
Speaker 1: way you put air. But he it looks like he

993
00:58:12,440 --> 00:58:14,840
Speaker 1: made that. I mean, not all duck calls look quite

994
00:58:14,920 --> 00:58:18,360
Speaker 1: as much like a coke bottle as that, but that's correct.

995
00:58:18,440 --> 00:58:21,360
Speaker 1: But that's where that's what he was after when he

996
00:58:21,440 --> 00:58:23,840
Speaker 1: made this design right here, looks like a coke bottle.

997
00:58:23,840 --> 00:58:25,640
Speaker 1: It looks like the top of a coke bottle. And

998
00:58:25,640 --> 00:58:27,480
Speaker 1: that's why you put the way you would sit out

999
00:58:27,520 --> 00:58:30,160
Speaker 1: of a coke bottles the way you put air into it. Yeah,

1000
00:58:31,120 --> 00:58:34,280
Speaker 1: that's cool. Yeah. So he's got three alban They even

1001
00:58:34,320 --> 00:58:37,479
Speaker 1: got his name on him. They say Alvin Taylor four. Yep.

1002
00:58:37,920 --> 00:58:40,400
Speaker 1: Mr Alvant signed up. I've got that's just a few

1003
00:58:40,480 --> 00:58:43,560
Speaker 1: that I brought up here, but I've got several of them.

1004
00:58:43,680 --> 00:58:48,280
Speaker 1: They're all really special. Let's it's a pretty good pile

1005
00:58:48,320 --> 00:58:50,800
Speaker 1: of money later right there. This calls are expensive. I've

1006
00:58:50,800 --> 00:58:55,439
Speaker 1: seen the money bay before. Yeah, six seven, eight hundred bucks. Yeah,

1007
00:58:55,520 --> 00:59:01,360
Speaker 1: pretty cool? Cool cool? Um, kay, favorite duck story just

1008
00:59:01,520 --> 00:59:05,800
Speaker 1: of your your stores. So I have a nickname when

1009
00:59:05,880 --> 00:59:08,440
Speaker 1: Ore in our little duck hunting community and it's called

1010
00:59:08,480 --> 00:59:14,440
Speaker 1: beaver run. So we um just like Amory here, imiliar

1011
00:59:14,720 --> 00:59:20,120
Speaker 1: with the Baptism duck hunting. So every year I kind

1012
00:59:20,120 --> 00:59:23,160
Speaker 1: of have to. But this is just like an ongoing

1013
00:59:23,240 --> 00:59:25,800
Speaker 1: memory because it happens every year at least four or

1014
00:59:25,800 --> 00:59:28,960
Speaker 1: five times. So where we hunt is flooded Cyprus, and

1015
00:59:29,000 --> 00:59:31,880
Speaker 1: it's behind our house and they're just beaver runs everywhere.

1016
00:59:31,960 --> 00:59:34,959
Speaker 1: And for the longest time, I was the duck dog.

1017
00:59:35,120 --> 00:59:37,160
Speaker 1: So my dad and all his buddies would kill them

1018
00:59:37,200 --> 00:59:40,200
Speaker 1: and they'd go, they said, Kaylee, they decided go out there,

1019
00:59:40,240 --> 00:59:41,640
Speaker 1: and I'd go get the duck and bring it back.

1020
00:59:42,360 --> 00:59:45,720
Speaker 1: And every time I would find a beaver run and

1021
00:59:45,760 --> 00:59:47,560
Speaker 1: just there I went and it would just be up

1022
00:59:47,600 --> 00:59:49,440
Speaker 1: to my up to my chest, and I'd be soaking

1023
00:59:49,480 --> 00:59:51,680
Speaker 1: wet and freezing, and it was just miserable. It went

1024
00:59:51,720 --> 00:59:54,800
Speaker 1: on for years. So I was like, I'm tired of this.

1025
00:59:54,840 --> 00:59:57,400
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get a dog. So I got my first

1026
00:59:57,400 --> 01:00:00,320
Speaker 1: dog about four years ago, Max the Yell, a lab,

1027
01:00:01,360 --> 01:00:03,560
Speaker 1: and I thought, finally like I don't have to go

1028
01:00:03,600 --> 01:00:07,080
Speaker 1: out there and the beaver runs and in and fall under.

1029
01:00:07,200 --> 01:00:11,280
Speaker 1: So I get this dog, send him to college. He

1030
01:00:11,320 --> 01:00:13,760
Speaker 1: gets all educated. He's supposed to be great. You know,

1031
01:00:13,840 --> 01:00:16,400
Speaker 1: this this new best thing. Bring him on his first

1032
01:00:16,440 --> 01:00:19,160
Speaker 1: duck hunt. And I'm trying to set up his stand

1033
01:00:19,280 --> 01:00:22,280
Speaker 1: in the tree, and I swear, if it's not a

1034
01:00:22,280 --> 01:00:25,560
Speaker 1: two ft radius that I fall four times because the

1035
01:00:25,720 --> 01:00:28,000
Speaker 1: dog and it just it just continues to happen. So

1036
01:00:28,040 --> 01:00:32,840
Speaker 1: it's an ongoing memory that still falling down. And yeah,

1037
01:00:32,920 --> 01:00:36,240
Speaker 1: so um and then I would say, my my best

1038
01:00:36,280 --> 01:00:38,720
Speaker 1: memory with duck hunting is my very first duck kind

1039
01:00:38,720 --> 01:00:42,040
Speaker 1: of went on with my dad, my grandpa and him

1040
01:00:42,240 --> 01:00:46,200
Speaker 1: built this duck blind out behind our house, and I

1041
01:00:46,280 --> 01:00:48,160
Speaker 1: just begged and begged and begged to go with him

1042
01:00:48,240 --> 01:00:51,400
Speaker 1: for for years. He's finally like, all right, you're you

1043
01:00:51,440 --> 01:00:53,680
Speaker 1: can hold a gun, You're old enough, let's go. And

1044
01:00:53,760 --> 01:00:57,800
Speaker 1: he had bought me for Christmas duck house shoes. They

1045
01:00:57,800 --> 01:00:59,400
Speaker 1: had a little they were Mallard how shoes. They had

1046
01:00:59,400 --> 01:01:01,360
Speaker 1: a little duck on them, and I was just obsessed

1047
01:01:01,400 --> 01:01:04,200
Speaker 1: with them, and I thought, that's what you should wear

1048
01:01:04,200 --> 01:01:08,560
Speaker 1: in the duck blind. It was it was freezing cold.

1049
01:01:08,640 --> 01:01:11,760
Speaker 1: It was probably twenty degrees outside, which is cold for

1050
01:01:12,040 --> 01:01:15,040
Speaker 1: a kid. And I have these Mallard house shoes on

1051
01:01:15,120 --> 01:01:16,880
Speaker 1: and I'm sitting in the duck bline and it's just

1052
01:01:17,080 --> 01:01:19,800
Speaker 1: I mean, ducks are everywhere, which is it's hit or

1053
01:01:19,840 --> 01:01:23,600
Speaker 1: miss at home, And I just remember sitting with my dad.

1054
01:01:23,640 --> 01:01:26,920
Speaker 1: We had a heater, he had made coffee and homemade biscuits,

1055
01:01:26,960 --> 01:01:29,200
Speaker 1: and I had my duck mallard shoes on, and just

1056
01:01:29,360 --> 01:01:31,400
Speaker 1: I don't think I should killed a duck that year,

1057
01:01:31,440 --> 01:01:33,520
Speaker 1: but it was just going with my dad and my

1058
01:01:33,520 --> 01:01:36,280
Speaker 1: grandpa and the duck blind he got in my mallard

1059
01:01:36,280 --> 01:01:43,600
Speaker 1: How shoes a good? All right? I know I jumped

1060
01:01:43,600 --> 01:01:45,200
Speaker 1: the gun on the dog earlier, but it seemed like

1061
01:01:45,200 --> 01:01:47,480
Speaker 1: the good segue. It was great, it was, it was good,

1062
01:01:47,560 --> 01:01:53,520
Speaker 1: it was. That was one of them. I came with multiple. Yeah,

1063
01:01:53,760 --> 01:01:58,520
Speaker 1: so similar to Kaylee, grew up going duck hunting with

1064
01:01:58,560 --> 01:02:02,600
Speaker 1: my dad and my brothers and getting all dressed up.

1065
01:02:02,640 --> 01:02:08,600
Speaker 1: I can distinctively remember the smell of chapstick, hot chocolate

1066
01:02:08,680 --> 01:02:11,480
Speaker 1: and honey buns. I know that's a very combination, but

1067
01:02:11,760 --> 01:02:13,840
Speaker 1: that and you know, just getting zipped up in my

1068
01:02:13,880 --> 01:02:15,880
Speaker 1: cover rolls and I would sit on a dog stand

1069
01:02:16,400 --> 01:02:18,600
Speaker 1: and just watch and watch, and I thought it was

1070
01:02:18,640 --> 01:02:20,240
Speaker 1: the coolest thing ever. It was like sitting back to

1071
01:02:20,280 --> 01:02:22,520
Speaker 1: watch I don't know, the razorbacks play in my mind

1072
01:02:22,800 --> 01:02:25,800
Speaker 1: as a little girl, was watching all these ducks come

1073
01:02:25,840 --> 01:02:27,760
Speaker 1: in and everyone get their limit, and then going back

1074
01:02:27,800 --> 01:02:30,200
Speaker 1: to school on Monday saying, we got our limit this weekend,

1075
01:02:30,240 --> 01:02:31,880
Speaker 1: like it was a It was a really big deal.

1076
01:02:32,000 --> 01:02:35,560
Speaker 1: So that's pretty special. Another really fun memory. Another one,

1077
01:02:35,960 --> 01:02:37,760
Speaker 1: there's some cool pictures of you when you were a

1078
01:02:37,800 --> 01:02:41,760
Speaker 1: little girl. Ye your camp. Yeah, I remember holding all

1079
01:02:41,760 --> 01:02:45,360
Speaker 1: the ducks. There's some get bulls in there. Colors are good,

1080
01:02:45,440 --> 01:02:50,360
Speaker 1: misty at taking pictures and documenting for real, Like any

1081
01:02:50,400 --> 01:02:53,880
Speaker 1: duck is going to have just a lot of real

1082
01:02:53,920 --> 01:02:58,120
Speaker 1: photographs on the wall. They really do. So that was

1083
01:02:58,120 --> 01:03:00,400
Speaker 1: pretty special. And then when Joe and I first started dating,

1084
01:03:00,680 --> 01:03:03,320
Speaker 1: uh back when we were in high school going out

1085
01:03:03,400 --> 01:03:06,720
Speaker 1: and uh we it was water sprows up that morning

1086
01:03:06,800 --> 01:03:08,200
Speaker 1: and we said, okay, we're going to go in an

1087
01:03:08,240 --> 01:03:12,120
Speaker 1: afternoon hunt. So we go out and we don't think

1088
01:03:12,160 --> 01:03:14,120
Speaker 1: we're going to kill anything. We end up with our

1089
01:03:14,200 --> 01:03:16,880
Speaker 1: limited ducks in like fifteen minutes, and we just started dating.

1090
01:03:16,880 --> 01:03:19,600
Speaker 1: We were high fiving. I mean, we're just did we

1091
01:03:19,680 --> 01:03:28,600
Speaker 1: just become best friends? So so that was that was

1092
01:03:28,720 --> 01:03:44,000
Speaker 1: that was really special. Mr Booth Duck story. Um, so

1093
01:03:44,240 --> 01:03:46,960
Speaker 1: like a lot of duck hunters. I started duck hunting

1094
01:03:46,960 --> 01:03:50,600
Speaker 1: for one reason, and it had nothing to do with ducks.

1095
01:03:51,160 --> 01:03:54,560
Speaker 1: It was because my dad and I went, not just

1096
01:03:54,640 --> 01:03:56,200
Speaker 1: so I could see ducks, but so I could see

1097
01:03:56,240 --> 01:04:00,040
Speaker 1: my dad in his element. Um. And I probably I

1098
01:04:00,120 --> 01:04:01,760
Speaker 1: kind of I don't know when I was six or

1099
01:04:01,800 --> 01:04:06,800
Speaker 1: so so thirty years ago, and um, you know, I

1100
01:04:06,880 --> 01:04:09,480
Speaker 1: remember the exact things we used to get it at

1101
01:04:09,480 --> 01:04:15,040
Speaker 1: the gas station. Twenty ounce bottles of Coca Cola peanuts,

1102
01:04:15,080 --> 01:04:18,480
Speaker 1: and we put down in the coke bottles Austin cheese

1103
01:04:18,600 --> 01:04:22,720
Speaker 1: and peanut butter crackers and some honey bums. Uh. And

1104
01:04:22,800 --> 01:04:26,480
Speaker 1: so that you know, that was just a ball for

1105
01:04:26,600 --> 01:04:29,520
Speaker 1: me to to get to hang out with my dad

1106
01:04:29,680 --> 01:04:34,240
Speaker 1: that much and be in pursuit of something together. Well,

1107
01:04:34,560 --> 01:04:37,280
Speaker 1: the week before last, my nine year old killed her

1108
01:04:37,320 --> 01:04:40,280
Speaker 1: first and she had she had she had gone a

1109
01:04:40,280 --> 01:04:47,800
Speaker 1: shot with Kaylee the day before. Um and she she's nine. Um,

1110
01:04:47,880 --> 01:04:50,760
Speaker 1: and I tried to get her to use the eight

1111
01:04:50,840 --> 01:04:54,440
Speaker 1: seventy that I learned to shoot, and I think it's

1112
01:04:54,440 --> 01:04:59,520
Speaker 1: a little bit too heavy for downgraded, a little too started.

1113
01:04:59,520 --> 01:05:02,960
Speaker 1: She probab she had a bunch of claim nights. Yeah,

1114
01:05:03,200 --> 01:05:05,320
Speaker 1: and and and then we went up the next morning,

1115
01:05:06,000 --> 01:05:11,160
Speaker 1: uh in flooded green timber. And I told her, I said, now,

1116
01:05:11,400 --> 01:05:14,360
Speaker 1: you've never seen ducks work like this before. I said,

1117
01:05:14,400 --> 01:05:16,240
Speaker 1: when the first group comes in, I don't want you

1118
01:05:16,280 --> 01:05:18,720
Speaker 1: to shoot. I just want you to drink it up.

1119
01:05:19,480 --> 01:05:21,960
Speaker 1: And you just watched him come in that way, and

1120
01:05:22,080 --> 01:05:24,600
Speaker 1: the second group comes in, you'll have a frame of

1121
01:05:24,680 --> 01:05:28,600
Speaker 1: reference for what your shot looks like. And um, you know,

1122
01:05:28,720 --> 01:05:31,680
Speaker 1: she's nine. She's sitting on a dog stand and she's

1123
01:05:31,720 --> 01:05:34,640
Speaker 1: doing so good. She's not winting, she's not cold, she's

1124
01:05:34,640 --> 01:05:37,640
Speaker 1: not fidgeting, she's quiet. She's just drinking it up. And

1125
01:05:37,680 --> 01:05:41,280
Speaker 1: that first group comes in and it's just it's textbook

1126
01:05:41,360 --> 01:05:44,680
Speaker 1: they read. They read the script textbook. And now was

1127
01:05:44,800 --> 01:05:49,960
Speaker 1: anybody else shooting? Or it was me and two other adults. Uh,

1128
01:05:50,120 --> 01:05:53,840
Speaker 1: we didn't let him land, but you know we we

1129
01:05:53,880 --> 01:05:56,480
Speaker 1: shot him when we were supposed to. And it was perfect.

1130
01:05:56,880 --> 01:05:59,880
Speaker 1: And as soon as the gun silence does us all

1131
01:06:00,600 --> 01:06:04,160
Speaker 1: or or the gun noise dies off, she just squeals.

1132
01:06:04,280 --> 01:06:09,880
Speaker 1: She got that was amazing. And then the next group

1133
01:06:10,320 --> 01:06:12,480
Speaker 1: that came in had a little bit more light now,

1134
01:06:12,560 --> 01:06:14,880
Speaker 1: so it's easier for her for her for her to shoot.

1135
01:06:15,040 --> 01:06:20,480
Speaker 1: She put up a twenty eight Gage semi automatic and uh,

1136
01:06:20,640 --> 01:06:23,040
Speaker 1: it was a green head that was the first one

1137
01:06:23,320 --> 01:06:26,120
Speaker 1: in the hole. And he's sitting there fluttering and uh

1138
01:06:26,320 --> 01:06:30,040
Speaker 1: she picked that gun up, pull the trigger and he dropped,

1139
01:06:31,120 --> 01:06:34,640
Speaker 1: and uh there were three adults in the hole and

1140
01:06:34,680 --> 01:06:40,720
Speaker 1: there was not a dry So, you know, being the

1141
01:06:40,840 --> 01:06:44,920
Speaker 1: thirty six years in advance of what I enjoyed so

1142
01:06:45,040 --> 01:06:46,880
Speaker 1: much now sharing it with her just meant the world

1143
01:06:47,000 --> 01:06:53,120
Speaker 1: name cool man. That's great, Misty. Duck hunters are sentimental too.

1144
01:06:54,000 --> 01:06:56,640
Speaker 1: I like the roles that I'm playing in today's podcast.

1145
01:06:57,960 --> 01:07:02,800
Speaker 1: I'm like the the uneducated person over here who needs

1146
01:07:02,880 --> 01:07:06,560
Speaker 1: Clay to kind of fill in. I appreciate that. That's

1147
01:07:06,560 --> 01:07:08,840
Speaker 1: what I am, uneducated when it comes to duck hunting.

1148
01:07:08,880 --> 01:07:11,600
Speaker 1: I've never been before. My favorite duck story is that

1149
01:07:11,640 --> 01:07:15,320
Speaker 1: Amy has invited me to go with her. I've never been.

1150
01:07:17,160 --> 01:07:20,400
Speaker 1: That's in here studio audience. No, she's and Rea's invited

1151
01:07:20,440 --> 01:07:22,520
Speaker 1: me to go with her, and so I'm I'm super

1152
01:07:22,520 --> 01:07:25,040
Speaker 1: excited about it. Mainly, I want to cook a duck

1153
01:07:25,960 --> 01:07:30,080
Speaker 1: like I used Clay's clay suggestion last time and it

1154
01:07:30,160 --> 01:07:35,720
Speaker 1: was no good. So I have done some research and

1155
01:07:35,760 --> 01:07:38,439
Speaker 1: I told Bear, I said, hey, if you are sun Bear,

1156
01:07:39,000 --> 01:07:42,439
Speaker 1: I mean kind of went out. He really he enjoyed

1157
01:07:42,520 --> 01:07:45,120
Speaker 1: duck coming with Clay last year and he and some

1158
01:07:45,120 --> 01:07:48,960
Speaker 1: someboddies decided that they thought they found a duck hole

1159
01:07:49,080 --> 01:07:53,120
Speaker 1: up here, which was a long shot and and anyway,

1160
01:07:53,200 --> 01:07:54,720
Speaker 1: but they went out and I told him, if you

1161
01:07:54,840 --> 01:07:57,640
Speaker 1: get a duck I'm gonna I've got recipes and we'll

1162
01:07:57,640 --> 01:08:00,479
Speaker 1: have a big party tonight. So if I if Yeah,

1163
01:08:00,560 --> 01:08:03,120
Speaker 1: And also the other thing, I would like for Kaylee

1164
01:08:03,160 --> 01:08:04,480
Speaker 1: to show me how to shoot. Do you think she

1165
01:08:04,520 --> 01:08:12,080
Speaker 1: can fix my right eye dominance problem? Yeah, yeah, you

1166
01:08:12,160 --> 01:08:16,120
Speaker 1: need to come see me. Yeah, I'll fix Yeah, I'd

1167
01:08:16,120 --> 01:08:19,240
Speaker 1: like that. We need to do that. Yeah, my daughter

1168
01:08:19,560 --> 01:08:23,160
Speaker 1: is right handed, but left eye dollar Okay. Oh that's tough. Yeah,

1169
01:08:23,200 --> 01:08:24,920
Speaker 1: it is tough. It is tough. And I didn't know

1170
01:08:24,960 --> 01:08:27,160
Speaker 1: I was until Brent Reach told me. This is this

1171
01:08:27,240 --> 01:08:31,760
Speaker 1: is your this is a problem. I think being left

1172
01:08:31,760 --> 01:08:33,880
Speaker 1: eye dominant being a right hand shooter is kind of

1173
01:08:33,920 --> 01:08:39,920
Speaker 1: like having like food allergies that aren't real. Stop this

1174
01:08:39,960 --> 01:08:45,639
Speaker 1: guy statement, Just this guy when he gets it. When

1175
01:08:45,720 --> 01:08:48,439
Speaker 1: when Clay doesn't have a lot of tolerance for weakness,

1176
01:08:48,479 --> 01:08:50,400
Speaker 1: I'll just tell you all that. Okay, he's a he's

1177
01:08:50,400 --> 01:08:55,639
Speaker 1: a fantastic he's a fantastic, fantastic husband, excellent father. But

1178
01:08:56,200 --> 01:08:58,559
Speaker 1: like people come in and say that they're they're gluten

1179
01:08:58,600 --> 01:09:01,080
Speaker 1: free or there, this or that, and Clay like, probably not,

1180
01:09:01,240 --> 01:09:08,200
Speaker 1: that's not true. And it's like he's got I see

1181
01:09:08,280 --> 01:09:10,400
Speaker 1: him when he gets a cold. I mean, it's like

1182
01:09:10,800 --> 01:09:14,080
Speaker 1: it doesn't happen very often, but when it happens, he's out,

1183
01:09:14,240 --> 01:09:21,320
Speaker 1: I mean completely years I get a cold, I've got

1184
01:09:21,439 --> 01:09:27,720
Speaker 1: I've got stories, y'all, I've got stories about I was

1185
01:09:27,760 --> 01:09:32,479
Speaker 1: not allowed to even give an introduction today. Back to

1186
01:09:32,560 --> 01:09:37,479
Speaker 1: my original point that those are very sentimental people, and

1187
01:09:37,760 --> 01:09:41,720
Speaker 1: that comes back to I thought Scott Harness he did

1188
01:09:41,720 --> 01:09:46,600
Speaker 1: a good job of describing something that from the outside,

1189
01:09:46,640 --> 01:09:49,320
Speaker 1: when you become a duck hunter like I have become,

1190
01:09:50,040 --> 01:09:52,720
Speaker 1: it is an incredible amount of work. Very early in

1191
01:09:52,720 --> 01:09:57,320
Speaker 1: the morning, very cold, very wet, very like for real.

1192
01:09:58,080 --> 01:10:01,479
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's like, wow, this is a lot of work.

1193
01:10:01,920 --> 01:10:11,640
Speaker 1: And what Scott described to me, and he kind of

1194
01:10:11,640 --> 01:10:14,160
Speaker 1: said it on his on on his story, was that

1195
01:10:14,360 --> 01:10:19,920
Speaker 1: there's so much surface area for human interaction but also

1196
01:10:20,040 --> 01:10:28,720
Speaker 1: interaction with boats, trucks, dogs, shotguns, ducks, and waterfowl. Like

1197
01:10:28,760 --> 01:10:31,920
Speaker 1: there's a there are a lot simpler things that you

1198
01:10:31,920 --> 01:10:34,479
Speaker 1: could do in in outdoor space that would just be

1199
01:10:34,520 --> 01:10:36,960
Speaker 1: like hey, let's like grab a shotgun and like walk

1200
01:10:37,000 --> 01:10:39,200
Speaker 1: through the woods and still hunt squirrels. I mean, just

1201
01:10:39,240 --> 01:10:41,800
Speaker 1: as an example, like like that's pretty simple. Duck hunting

1202
01:10:41,840 --> 01:10:47,000
Speaker 1: is not simple, but it's very It's also rarely does

1203
01:10:47,040 --> 01:10:50,040
Speaker 1: someone go duck hunt by themselves, Like you definitely can

1204
01:10:50,160 --> 01:10:53,519
Speaker 1: and people do, but generally, I mean, I would say

1205
01:10:53,560 --> 01:10:57,600
Speaker 1: the vast majority of duck hunting is totally about the

1206
01:10:57,640 --> 01:11:01,080
Speaker 1: people that you're with. There really is. It's a social endeavor,

1207
01:11:01,120 --> 01:11:05,600
Speaker 1: it really is. And uh and so it really is

1208
01:11:05,640 --> 01:11:09,879
Speaker 1: a unique culture. But it has a lot of surface

1209
01:11:09,920 --> 01:11:12,000
Speaker 1: area for stuff to go wrong. That's kind of what

1210
01:11:12,040 --> 01:11:15,000
Speaker 1: Scott was saying was that there's a lot of surface

1211
01:11:15,040 --> 01:11:19,639
Speaker 1: area for stuff to go wrong, for wild stuff to happen.

1212
01:11:19,720 --> 01:11:22,200
Speaker 1: And he was saying that duck hunters are story collectors.

1213
01:11:22,720 --> 01:11:25,400
Speaker 1: They're not really after ducks. Like if you're a deer hunter,

1214
01:11:25,960 --> 01:11:28,920
Speaker 1: like you're really trying to kill. You're trying to kill

1215
01:11:28,960 --> 01:11:31,479
Speaker 1: a deer and and a lot of times the success

1216
01:11:31,560 --> 01:11:33,720
Speaker 1: really might be whether you killed one or not, and

1217
01:11:33,760 --> 01:11:36,439
Speaker 1: you're alone most of the time too, So it's just solo.

1218
01:11:36,800 --> 01:11:41,360
Speaker 1: It's just it's pretty much a solo endeavor. And uh,

1219
01:11:41,439 --> 01:11:45,000
Speaker 1: but duck hunting, yeah, I think you can hear that

1220
01:11:45,040 --> 01:11:48,480
Speaker 1: in all their stories. Um. I always say, there's there's

1221
01:11:48,520 --> 01:11:51,200
Speaker 1: like an inverse relationship between the amount of snacks that

1222
01:11:51,240 --> 01:11:54,519
Speaker 1: our kids get and their passion for hunting. And so

1223
01:11:54,680 --> 01:11:56,639
Speaker 1: Bear and Clay will go hunting and it's like you're

1224
01:11:56,680 --> 01:11:59,880
Speaker 1: going fast for three days and here's can of sardine's, Like,

1225
01:12:00,040 --> 01:12:02,240
Speaker 1: you know, but then if he'll if he'll take one

1226
01:12:02,280 --> 01:12:04,760
Speaker 1: of our girls, are you saying because bears a passionate hunt,

1227
01:12:05,160 --> 01:12:09,439
Speaker 1: there's no quality snacks. There's another one that gets like

1228
01:12:10,400 --> 01:12:12,040
Speaker 1: you know, it's like going to a candy shop every

1229
01:12:12,080 --> 01:12:14,400
Speaker 1: time they go hunting. But I appreciate these stories. I

1230
01:12:14,439 --> 01:12:18,519
Speaker 1: think it's like these are y'all stories are especially for

1231
01:12:18,560 --> 01:12:20,479
Speaker 1: someone who's who hasn't grown up in that world, in

1232
01:12:20,479 --> 01:12:23,080
Speaker 1: the duck hunting world. Your stories all of you had

1233
01:12:23,320 --> 01:12:27,200
Speaker 1: several honeybun mentioned, uh, some biscuits, homemade biscuits. You know.

1234
01:12:27,240 --> 01:12:29,400
Speaker 1: I think that there is something about the food and

1235
01:12:29,439 --> 01:12:33,160
Speaker 1: the the socialization aspect of it and bringing your kids

1236
01:12:33,160 --> 01:12:37,760
Speaker 1: and having that multigenerational experience. Yeah, it's it's you can

1237
01:12:37,840 --> 01:12:42,240
Speaker 1: hold duck camp. Like that's something that that I missed

1238
01:12:42,240 --> 01:12:46,759
Speaker 1: out on because Gary Nucom was such a die hard

1239
01:12:46,880 --> 01:12:51,479
Speaker 1: bow hunter, like he we didn't like, we didn't really

1240
01:12:51,520 --> 01:12:53,559
Speaker 1: want to have a big camp. I mean, just need

1241
01:12:53,640 --> 01:12:57,200
Speaker 1: to say it today. And that's what's cool about duck hunting.

1242
01:12:57,200 --> 01:13:00,280
Speaker 1: And it's also what's cool about me not really knowing

1243
01:13:00,400 --> 01:13:02,640
Speaker 1: much about duck hunting until I was an adult. That

1244
01:13:02,680 --> 01:13:07,639
Speaker 1: I think makes me value it. And uh, come along

1245
01:13:07,680 --> 01:13:10,719
Speaker 1: and those emails, man, boy, I get those duck emails

1246
01:13:10,720 --> 01:13:15,200
Speaker 1: from Luke Naylor. You know, duck season is only sixty

1247
01:13:15,280 --> 01:13:18,160
Speaker 1: days and deer season you've got this bigger span to

1248
01:13:18,200 --> 01:13:22,519
Speaker 1: do it. That's from Moore concentrated, Like you get sixty

1249
01:13:22,600 --> 01:13:25,479
Speaker 1: days and guys hit it hard and they do. It's

1250
01:13:25,479 --> 01:13:28,000
Speaker 1: amazing how people are so obsessed with it in the

1251
01:13:28,040 --> 01:13:30,120
Speaker 1: idea of duck camp and you think about you're like, wow,

1252
01:13:30,120 --> 01:13:32,040
Speaker 1: it goes by so quick. Yeah, and you can't miss

1253
01:13:32,040 --> 01:13:33,920
Speaker 1: the day of it. You gotta go coast the day

1254
01:13:33,920 --> 01:13:37,040
Speaker 1: maybe the day that's right, the day you can't kill

1255
01:13:37,120 --> 01:13:39,680
Speaker 1: him from the couch. I think duck hunting to that

1256
01:13:39,720 --> 01:13:43,200
Speaker 1: outweighs them. Any other hunt is or any other hunting is?

1257
01:13:43,240 --> 01:13:45,880
Speaker 1: It kind of after season still carries on through the

1258
01:13:45,920 --> 01:13:48,280
Speaker 1: rest of the year because you have dogs that you're

1259
01:13:48,280 --> 01:13:50,800
Speaker 1: training and working and preparing for the next season. And

1260
01:13:51,280 --> 01:13:54,439
Speaker 1: it's just I think it's it sets itself apart from

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Speaker 1: dear Anger. Yeah yeah cool. Kennie. Tell me about your

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01:14:02,360 --> 01:14:06,679
Speaker 1: business And I asked her before the podcast. I said,

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Speaker 1: is you're shooting? How you make it a living and

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01:14:09,840 --> 01:14:13,200
Speaker 1: what you do? So? Yeah, what what you do? So?

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Speaker 1: Um my full time job is athlete on t mu

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Speaker 1: s A. So with that, I opened up a shooting

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01:14:20,160 --> 01:14:23,600
Speaker 1: lodge called Cypers Creek Shooting Lodge. It's out in Greenbrier

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Speaker 1: and it's basically a place where it's a training facility.

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01:14:27,040 --> 01:14:28,880
Speaker 1: It's a place where you can come and learn how

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01:14:29,000 --> 01:14:32,679
Speaker 1: to kill ducks. You can learn how to clay target shoot,

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01:14:32,720 --> 01:14:36,519
Speaker 1: you can try some squirrels whatever. We don't discriminate. Um

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01:14:36,560 --> 01:14:38,519
Speaker 1: I could. I could probably put on a clint Yeah

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01:14:38,600 --> 01:14:46,400
Speaker 1: you probably could, um yeah yeah, um so yeah. We

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01:14:46,560 --> 01:14:49,960
Speaker 1: I have a training facility there that coach. I love

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01:14:50,000 --> 01:14:52,719
Speaker 1: to coach the younger generation and just get them involved

1276
01:14:52,720 --> 01:14:56,200
Speaker 1: because shooting is one of those things that if you're

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01:14:56,240 --> 01:14:58,519
Speaker 1: not the best athlete, if you're not a football star,

1278
01:14:58,680 --> 01:15:01,680
Speaker 1: basketball star or whatever. Um, you can pick up a

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01:15:01,720 --> 01:15:03,840
Speaker 1: gun and I can probably get to you to be

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01:15:03,920 --> 01:15:05,439
Speaker 1: as good as you want to go with it. So

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01:15:06,240 --> 01:15:08,840
Speaker 1: UM have the shooting lodge there out in Greenbrier and

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01:15:09,000 --> 01:15:11,880
Speaker 1: we have every clay target discipline that that you could shoot.

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01:15:11,920 --> 01:15:15,000
Speaker 1: There's a bunch of different discipline sporting plays, Olympic trap,

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01:15:15,240 --> 01:15:21,559
Speaker 1: American trap, whatever. And so how would people would they

1285
01:15:21,600 --> 01:15:25,160
Speaker 1: how would they get your services so they can go look?

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01:15:25,680 --> 01:15:28,720
Speaker 1: Is it like a couple hour things? However, however long

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01:15:28,760 --> 01:15:30,519
Speaker 1: Amory has been out a couple of times, Austin has

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01:15:30,520 --> 01:15:32,960
Speaker 1: been out, his family, Um Joe has been out. But

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01:15:33,600 --> 01:15:36,439
Speaker 1: you can go to Cyperscreet Shooting dot com and there's

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01:15:37,000 --> 01:15:39,120
Speaker 1: a whole lot of information on that, or send us

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Speaker 1: an email at booking at cyperscreet Shooting dot com. You know,

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01:15:43,040 --> 01:15:44,640
Speaker 1: I want to do a plug for people who may

1293
01:15:44,680 --> 01:15:47,280
Speaker 1: want to get into duck hunting, and that is go

1294
01:15:47,479 --> 01:15:50,080
Speaker 1: visit someone like Kaylee or a game and fish shooting

1295
01:15:50,200 --> 01:15:53,720
Speaker 1: range and shoot a gun first before you go out.

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01:15:53,880 --> 01:15:57,440
Speaker 1: And we have instructors at all of our gaming fish facilities,

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01:15:57,479 --> 01:16:00,200
Speaker 1: and obviously Cypress Creek. That's where, that's where I I

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01:16:00,240 --> 01:16:02,599
Speaker 1: love it. Oh my gosh, Kayley straightened me out of ton.

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01:16:02,640 --> 01:16:04,640
Speaker 1: But go and learn the proper way to do it,

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01:16:04,680 --> 01:16:07,639
Speaker 1: just like Austin did with his daughter, and you enjoy

1301
01:16:07,720 --> 01:16:09,920
Speaker 1: the experience so much more because I remember the first

1302
01:16:09,920 --> 01:16:11,720
Speaker 1: time I ever shot a shotgun, it was like, oh here,

1303
01:16:11,800 --> 01:16:13,679
Speaker 1: you know your brother has done this, You've seated enough

1304
01:16:13,720 --> 01:16:15,560
Speaker 1: shoot it. And I shot it and you know, it

1305
01:16:15,800 --> 01:16:17,880
Speaker 1: just about knocked me down and it kind of scared me.

1306
01:16:17,920 --> 01:16:19,759
Speaker 1: And I was afraid to shoot a shotgun for a while.

1307
01:16:20,160 --> 01:16:22,519
Speaker 1: So I wish that I had done, you know, the

1308
01:16:22,560 --> 01:16:27,080
Speaker 1: proper outlets to do it. So it's incredibly important. It

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01:16:27,120 --> 01:16:31,360
Speaker 1: makes things more enjoyable. Yeah I know how to shoot. Yeah, man,

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01:16:31,400 --> 01:16:36,840
Speaker 1: I got So I've got a lot of questions about shooting. Um,

1311
01:16:36,880 --> 01:16:39,559
Speaker 1: I know, I'm super curious because a Marie you're I mean,

1312
01:16:39,560 --> 01:16:45,080
Speaker 1: you're a seasoned hunter and yeah, you're you're getting You're

1313
01:16:45,160 --> 01:16:48,360
Speaker 1: you're improving as a result of going to Kaylee, so

1314
01:16:48,520 --> 01:16:50,960
Speaker 1: she's able to help, like and then Austin's daughter is

1315
01:16:50,960 --> 01:16:53,960
Speaker 1: a brand new That's that's kind of fascinating to me.

1316
01:16:54,040 --> 01:16:57,519
Speaker 1: That so earlier we're talking about I dominance I shot,

1317
01:16:57,800 --> 01:17:01,880
Speaker 1: so I'm I'm left handed. I shot right handed for ed,

1318
01:17:01,920 --> 01:17:04,080
Speaker 1: did just get real? I shot right handed forever because

1319
01:17:04,080 --> 01:17:05,840
Speaker 1: that's what my dad my brothers did. I thought, Okay,

1320
01:17:05,880 --> 01:17:07,679
Speaker 1: they shoot right handed, That's what I'm going to shoot.

1321
01:17:08,120 --> 01:17:10,320
Speaker 1: I was out at the range one day shooting trap

1322
01:17:10,439 --> 01:17:12,519
Speaker 1: with somebody and they go, I go, yeah, you know,

1323
01:17:12,680 --> 01:17:14,240
Speaker 1: kind of gotta work on it a little bit. And

1324
01:17:14,280 --> 01:17:17,439
Speaker 1: he goes, well, uh, you know, what eye dominance are you?

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01:17:17,479 --> 01:17:18,960
Speaker 1: I said, well, I don't really know. I think I

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01:17:19,000 --> 01:17:21,719
Speaker 1: think I'm right eye. Did the test left eye dominant? Started?

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Speaker 1: She left handed made the biggest difference in the world. Interesting,

1328
01:17:26,880 --> 01:17:28,960
Speaker 1: I am, I'm left handed, but I do some things

1329
01:17:29,000 --> 01:17:31,280
Speaker 1: right handed. So this is back and I don't know

1330
01:17:31,360 --> 01:17:34,360
Speaker 1: two thousand fifteen. So I'd gone a majority of my

1331
01:17:34,400 --> 01:17:36,360
Speaker 1: life just shooting right hand and just kind of figuring

1332
01:17:36,400 --> 01:17:38,920
Speaker 1: it out, adjusting to it, and you know, get some

1333
01:17:38,960 --> 01:17:41,360
Speaker 1: decent shots. And then in the past few years, I'm like,

1334
01:17:41,439 --> 01:17:43,479
Speaker 1: I feel like I could do some brushing up and

1335
01:17:43,560 --> 01:17:47,400
Speaker 1: improve even more. I was a fine shot. I could

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01:17:47,400 --> 01:17:49,040
Speaker 1: go out and have a good duck hunt, but I

1337
01:17:49,080 --> 01:17:52,320
Speaker 1: want to be better. So I went and so interesting,

1338
01:17:52,439 --> 01:17:54,639
Speaker 1: my shell bill has been has been cut in half.

1339
01:17:54,840 --> 01:17:57,400
Speaker 1: It's great. Really, Yeah, I never thought of it as

1340
01:17:57,439 --> 01:18:01,920
Speaker 1: a financial move. Shot gun shells are expecting at the

1341
01:18:02,000 --> 01:18:06,880
Speaker 1: highest levels of competitive shooting. How much of it is

1342
01:18:07,320 --> 01:18:12,040
Speaker 1: natural talent and how much of it is years and

1343
01:18:12,160 --> 01:18:16,960
Speaker 1: decades of that's a great question. So at my level,

1344
01:18:17,920 --> 01:18:21,200
Speaker 1: it becomes how much work you're going to put into it?

1345
01:18:21,479 --> 01:18:24,280
Speaker 1: After you learn the fundamentals of the game, it all

1346
01:18:24,360 --> 01:18:27,920
Speaker 1: becomes mental and it's who. For example, at Olympics, I'd

1347
01:18:27,960 --> 01:18:29,960
Speaker 1: never been on that stage I was competing. It's a

1348
01:18:29,960 --> 01:18:32,720
Speaker 1: girl who is a three time Olympic medal assistance her

1349
01:18:32,720 --> 01:18:37,080
Speaker 1: fourth Olympics. She's seen that platform before. So she beat me.

1350
01:18:37,439 --> 01:18:39,320
Speaker 1: She she beat me by one time, she got gold

1351
01:18:39,320 --> 01:18:43,919
Speaker 1: by one. But at that level, one target doesn't define,

1352
01:18:44,360 --> 01:18:48,080
Speaker 1: you know, in my one target, Yeah, it doesn't define

1353
01:18:48,120 --> 01:18:50,080
Speaker 1: if she's a better shot or if I'm a better shot.

1354
01:18:50,160 --> 01:18:53,479
Speaker 1: It's it's the stage that you're on. So at that level,

1355
01:18:53,560 --> 01:18:58,320
Speaker 1: it's just who's going to outwork who. She's pretty mean,

1356
01:18:58,360 --> 01:19:05,640
Speaker 1: she wears a do rag and so, but she's the

1357
01:19:05,640 --> 01:19:09,200
Speaker 1: sweetest person. She speaks like seventeen languages. She's just she's

1358
01:19:09,320 --> 01:19:12,400
Speaker 1: very cool girl. Yeah, she's she's she's really cool. So

1359
01:19:13,240 --> 01:19:19,760
Speaker 1: the much of the shooting is is, but you've got

1360
01:19:19,760 --> 01:19:23,360
Speaker 1: to be naturally really talented. Though, the biggest part in

1361
01:19:23,400 --> 01:19:27,519
Speaker 1: shooting is learning how to use your eyes. And anybody

1362
01:19:27,560 --> 01:19:30,599
Speaker 1: can learn that. Whether your right eye dominant, left eye

1363
01:19:30,600 --> 01:19:33,840
Speaker 1: dominant right handed, left handed, that doesn't doesn't matter when

1364
01:19:33,880 --> 01:19:35,600
Speaker 1: it comes down to it. It's how you learn to

1365
01:19:35,680 --> 01:19:37,360
Speaker 1: use your eyes. So if I were to take you

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01:19:37,520 --> 01:19:41,519
Speaker 1: out and a big flock of ducks come in and

1367
01:19:41,560 --> 01:19:43,639
Speaker 1: I say, hey, Clay, what did you see on those ducks,

1368
01:19:43,680 --> 01:19:46,360
Speaker 1: you'd be like, I saw thirty or forty ducks. I

1369
01:19:46,400 --> 01:19:48,880
Speaker 1: can see the green around its neck. I can pick

1370
01:19:48,880 --> 01:19:51,280
Speaker 1: out a detail on that duck, and that's what separates

1371
01:19:51,680 --> 01:19:53,840
Speaker 1: what I'm going to shoot versus what you're going to shoot.

1372
01:19:54,160 --> 01:19:56,760
Speaker 1: So it's just really learning how how to use what

1373
01:19:56,840 --> 01:19:59,719
Speaker 1: you have. Remember got one time on a some type

1374
01:19:59,760 --> 01:20:03,040
Speaker 1: of training instructional video saying that he was trying to

1375
01:20:03,120 --> 01:20:06,000
Speaker 1: count the wing flaps of crows and they're just like,

1376
01:20:06,360 --> 01:20:08,880
Speaker 1: and I think about that a lot. I don't do

1377
01:20:08,920 --> 01:20:11,840
Speaker 1: it very often, but yeah, that's interesting. So it's all

1378
01:20:11,840 --> 01:20:14,599
Speaker 1: about It's about it's about detail. Like when Amory comes down,

1379
01:20:14,640 --> 01:20:16,599
Speaker 1: I make her pick out a detail on the clay

1380
01:20:16,600 --> 01:20:19,360
Speaker 1: target that we're shooting, whether that be the center dome

1381
01:20:19,600 --> 01:20:21,600
Speaker 1: or the ridges that's on the clay target, or the

1382
01:20:21,640 --> 01:20:24,639
Speaker 1: black rim. Because if she's looking at a hole, she's

1383
01:20:24,680 --> 01:20:27,360
Speaker 1: looking at a whole picture. Her site is going to

1384
01:20:27,400 --> 01:20:28,640
Speaker 1: be a little bit different, her aim is going to

1385
01:20:28,680 --> 01:20:30,080
Speaker 1: be a little bit different. If she might be a

1386
01:20:30,120 --> 01:20:33,000
Speaker 1: little left, and because she's seeing the whole picture, she's

1387
01:20:33,000 --> 01:20:34,519
Speaker 1: gonna say, I feel like I was right on it.

1388
01:20:34,560 --> 01:20:36,720
Speaker 1: But if you hone in on the detail, now we

1389
01:20:36,800 --> 01:20:40,719
Speaker 1: can say, okay, so where you look at when clay pigeon,

1390
01:20:41,520 --> 01:20:43,720
Speaker 1: I'm trying to see a detail where that's a light

1391
01:20:43,760 --> 01:20:45,799
Speaker 1: spot on it from the sun, where that's a shadow,

1392
01:20:45,880 --> 01:20:47,760
Speaker 1: just any kind of detail that I could pick out.

1393
01:20:47,840 --> 01:20:52,040
Speaker 1: It's like a therapy lesson when you go out there

1394
01:20:52,080 --> 01:20:54,559
Speaker 1: talking with her and her dad and figuring it all out.

1395
01:20:54,640 --> 01:20:57,479
Speaker 1: And once we did that and I realized, Okay, I've

1396
01:20:57,520 --> 01:21:00,479
Speaker 1: been using my eyes wrong for this long, you're starting

1397
01:21:00,560 --> 01:21:03,759
Speaker 1: knocking him down and it's so much more fun. Yeah.

1398
01:21:03,800 --> 01:21:05,479
Speaker 1: So if I was going to toss my phone to

1399
01:21:05,479 --> 01:21:07,680
Speaker 1: you and say, hey, catch this, I throwed up, the

1400
01:21:07,720 --> 01:21:09,519
Speaker 1: first thing that you're going to look for is your

1401
01:21:09,560 --> 01:21:10,920
Speaker 1: eyes are going to look for it, and your hands

1402
01:21:10,920 --> 01:21:12,760
Speaker 1: are going to know where to go. Shooting is the

1403
01:21:12,840 --> 01:21:15,920
Speaker 1: same same concept that parallels with your hand I coronation there,

1404
01:21:16,600 --> 01:21:22,280
Speaker 1: M you think I'm ready. I don't want him around

1405
01:21:22,479 --> 01:21:27,360
Speaker 1: because he doesn't believe that I have a condition. We've

1406
01:21:27,360 --> 01:21:32,320
Speaker 1: been over this. He doesn't believe in conditions. But I

1407
01:21:32,360 --> 01:21:37,719
Speaker 1: have a feeling you're you're shooting learning that would Uh.

1408
01:21:37,880 --> 01:21:40,479
Speaker 1: There's a guy I don't I don't know him well,

1409
01:21:40,600 --> 01:21:44,759
Speaker 1: but there's a there's a guy that does some traditional

1410
01:21:44,800 --> 01:21:48,120
Speaker 1: archery bow hunting classes and most of his stuff is

1411
01:21:48,120 --> 01:21:52,600
Speaker 1: about mental understanding of shot sequence named Joel Turner. It

1412
01:21:52,640 --> 01:21:54,479
Speaker 1: seems like a good guy. I don't know him, but

1413
01:21:55,640 --> 01:22:01,120
Speaker 1: he talks about like you're either He's talking about traditional

1414
01:22:01,240 --> 01:22:03,160
Speaker 1: archery where you don't have sights like it would be

1415
01:22:03,160 --> 01:22:06,200
Speaker 1: with a gun, and uh, he talks a lot about

1416
01:22:06,640 --> 01:22:11,000
Speaker 1: sequence and knowing what you're gonna do before before you shoot,

1417
01:22:11,600 --> 01:22:13,559
Speaker 1: and it kind of makes you when you hear him talk,

1418
01:22:13,640 --> 01:22:15,759
Speaker 1: you go, yeah, I guess I'm just kind of guessing

1419
01:22:15,800 --> 01:22:18,400
Speaker 1: a lot. But I'll tell you what it works good

1420
01:22:18,479 --> 01:22:27,160
Speaker 1: for squirrels long ways away and you just keep shooting guessing. Okay, great, Well,

1421
01:22:27,280 --> 01:22:32,360
Speaker 1: um Man I've I've like throw up like multiple bad

1422
01:22:32,439 --> 01:22:36,599
Speaker 1: jokes that I was looking for a little studio audience.

1423
01:22:36,640 --> 01:22:43,040
Speaker 1: Today we're all the whole thing about let the squirrels

1424
01:22:43,080 --> 01:22:45,360
Speaker 1: get far away and this kind of you have a

1425
01:22:45,360 --> 01:22:49,040
Speaker 1: little bit more room for guessing where to aim. Yeah. No,

1426
01:22:49,400 --> 01:22:54,400
Speaker 1: I'm I'm impressed with the with the the knowledge that

1427
01:22:54,800 --> 01:22:57,360
Speaker 1: I have no doubt that you you have and could

1428
01:22:57,439 --> 01:22:59,679
Speaker 1: impart to people with just a little bit of training.

1429
01:23:00,080 --> 01:23:03,639
Speaker 1: My grandfather was a there's a picture of him, where's

1430
01:23:03,680 --> 01:23:06,040
Speaker 1: it at? Where's the picture of pet? He used to

1431
01:23:06,040 --> 01:23:08,920
Speaker 1: be right there, where's oh? Right there? Yeah. He. I

1432
01:23:08,920 --> 01:23:11,679
Speaker 1: grew up shooting ski with him, and he was he's

1433
01:23:11,680 --> 01:23:14,720
Speaker 1: a bird dog man, and we we shot skip for

1434
01:23:15,160 --> 01:23:17,720
Speaker 1: all the time with cotton in our ears, probably the

1435
01:23:17,760 --> 01:23:21,800
Speaker 1: reason I'm deaf. But he always talked about blacking him

1436
01:23:21,840 --> 01:23:24,719
Speaker 1: out and follow through, like those are the main things

1437
01:23:24,760 --> 01:23:28,320
Speaker 1: he talked about, was black him out and then follow through,

1438
01:23:29,040 --> 01:23:32,040
Speaker 1: like if you're moving through a bird, just keep moving.

1439
01:23:32,200 --> 01:23:37,080
Speaker 1: But that's about as technical as we got. But shoot

1440
01:23:37,120 --> 01:23:39,559
Speaker 1: where the corn goes in, where the corn goes out?

1441
01:23:39,960 --> 01:23:43,760
Speaker 1: M M. And as his attorney, I just like to

1442
01:23:43,760 --> 01:23:48,519
Speaker 1: clarify for the record that he is not as my attorney.

1443
01:23:49,000 --> 01:23:51,599
Speaker 1: He is not employing in anyway that he duck hunts

1444
01:23:51,640 --> 01:23:55,560
Speaker 1: over corn. Yeah, that's what I was thinking that. It

1445
01:23:55,640 --> 01:24:03,800
Speaker 1: was like that does that work? Uh? Well, hey, thank

1446
01:24:03,880 --> 01:24:07,200
Speaker 1: you Austin, director of the game, and finish in here.

1447
01:24:07,240 --> 01:24:11,599
Speaker 1: I really appreciate it. Anne, Marie, thank you for coming. Thanks,

1448
01:24:11,600 --> 01:24:13,680
Speaker 1: gonna take it up. I told Misty I wanted to

1449
01:24:13,720 --> 01:24:15,479
Speaker 1: take her back down there. Come on. It sounds like

1450
01:24:15,479 --> 01:24:18,920
Speaker 1: we're gonna make something work, like you're gonna come. Yes,

1451
01:24:20,280 --> 01:24:24,800
Speaker 1: I had a request. Uh. Since I've been listen to

1452
01:24:24,840 --> 01:24:27,400
Speaker 1: this podcast, I hear about this gentleman sitting next to

1453
01:24:27,400 --> 01:24:29,800
Speaker 1: me that used to god on by me too when

1454
01:24:29,800 --> 01:24:32,599
Speaker 1: you still could, I kind of want to hear them

1455
01:24:33,000 --> 01:24:37,439
Speaker 1: call he got still Today it's not there as much pressure.

1456
01:24:38,760 --> 01:24:46,800
Speaker 1: It's like, this is the Alvin Taylor is Alvin Taylor call?

1457
01:24:46,880 --> 01:25:06,640
Speaker 1: He made this from me in nineteen Let's let's hear

1458
01:25:06,680 --> 01:25:08,679
Speaker 1: let's hear your call. What kind of calls you running?

1459
01:25:08,960 --> 01:25:12,960
Speaker 1: So I've got two separate cons. I've got to cut

1460
01:25:13,000 --> 01:25:17,800
Speaker 1: down calls, and then I've got sorry, three cutdown calls.

1461
01:25:17,840 --> 01:25:22,439
Speaker 1: And then to j Frames, which I said, those are

1462
01:25:22,439 --> 01:25:26,320
Speaker 1: just different cons. What um what? Brent Blue was a

1463
01:25:26,479 --> 01:25:30,200
Speaker 1: j frame, So I'll try to blow on these cutdowns

1464
01:25:30,280 --> 01:25:32,880
Speaker 1: and y'all can hear. You'll can hear the difference. It

1465
01:25:32,880 --> 01:25:37,000
Speaker 1: will be louder. Keep your bike up like that if

1466
01:25:37,040 --> 01:25:50,720
Speaker 1: you can be louder and raspier. Okay, yeah, it's kind

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Speaker 1: of it's it's got a little more meat to it,

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Speaker 1: doesn't rasp volume excellent. Well, heck, we're blowing duck calls. Okay,

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Speaker 1: this is I got this one from Jim Stinson the

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Speaker 1: other day, and he ill tell you what he did

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01:26:05,720 --> 01:26:08,840
Speaker 1: with me is he uh, he was trying to teach

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01:26:08,840 --> 01:26:11,920
Speaker 1: me how to just make one quack and he he

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01:26:11,920 --> 01:26:14,000
Speaker 1: wouldn't let me blow up more than once. And he said,

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01:26:14,080 --> 01:26:17,880
Speaker 1: he said, pretend like you're blowing out a candle. He said,

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01:26:17,880 --> 01:26:20,320
Speaker 1: pretend like you're blowing out a candle, but you're but

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01:26:20,400 --> 01:26:26,280
Speaker 1: you're closing your lips like going and that's and he

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Speaker 1: so he said, and then he he had me do

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01:26:31,520 --> 01:26:33,679
Speaker 1: that like twenty times, and he would go, he would

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01:26:33,720 --> 01:26:42,240
Speaker 1: come every single time I did it, he'd go, nope, nope, yep, yep, yep, nope, yep, yep, nope. Ye. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was it was like intense. And then he said Okay,

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01:26:44,680 --> 01:26:51,000
Speaker 1: do it twice you there you go, m he go, Nope,

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01:26:51,280 --> 01:26:53,360
Speaker 1: he misses it on the second one. But anyway, he

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01:26:53,560 --> 01:27:00,479
Speaker 1: just like marched me through it, which is pretty good. Yeah,

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01:27:00,600 --> 01:27:05,040
Speaker 1: just quiet. I saw it takes boys, words of words

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Speaker 1: of wisdom. That's what was an email, right, Yeah, that's

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01:27:08,040 --> 01:27:14,360
Speaker 1: what the email jokes are getting a lot of less.

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Speaker 1: I will I would like to bring up this gift

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01:27:21,120 --> 01:27:25,960
Speaker 1: that uh, that the Durramis has brought me from from

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01:27:25,960 --> 01:27:28,360
Speaker 1: a stop they made on the way to the the northwest Arkansas.

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Speaker 1: This is a black rifle. Uh, just like a twelve

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01:27:32,120 --> 01:27:36,200
Speaker 1: ounce pack of coffee, and it has a full real

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01:27:36,400 --> 01:27:40,240
Speaker 1: black panther on the cover and it's a Lava Panther

1493
01:27:41,400 --> 01:27:47,720
Speaker 1: Black Rifle Coffee Company's hashtag. They are one of my sponsors.

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01:27:47,800 --> 01:27:51,479
Speaker 1: So actually, if anybody would like a black rifle savings,

1495
01:27:51,520 --> 01:27:58,000
Speaker 1: you can use my name, Kaylee. Picture you like shooting something.

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01:27:58,040 --> 01:28:04,320
Speaker 1: I cannot confirm a black panther man. This this is

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01:28:04,320 --> 01:28:07,880
Speaker 1: a big win for us, Lava Panther. I thought it

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Speaker 1: was really special. You know, meat eaters big in with

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Speaker 1: there's a meat eater blend of black rifle. Yeah. I've

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Speaker 1: had it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's good. Yeah, they they are.

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01:28:18,520 --> 01:28:21,040
Speaker 1: They're such a good sponsor. They ship stuff to the

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01:28:21,040 --> 01:28:23,439
Speaker 1: lodge all the time, so all we drink is black rifle.

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01:28:23,479 --> 01:28:25,160
Speaker 1: That's all I carry in the lodge as well. And

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01:28:25,200 --> 01:28:27,599
Speaker 1: they support veterans, they do, they do. I think it's

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01:28:27,920 --> 01:28:29,400
Speaker 1: don't quote me on this, but I want to say

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01:28:29,479 --> 01:28:33,000
Speaker 1: over half their company is veterans work there. So yeah,

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01:28:33,160 --> 01:28:36,920
Speaker 1: I think I've heard that too. Great, well, Emory, just

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01:28:36,920 --> 01:28:39,000
Speaker 1: see my black panther up there. Oh yeah, first thing

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01:28:39,040 --> 01:28:41,280
Speaker 1: I saw when I came in. I finally got a

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01:28:41,400 --> 01:28:44,519
Speaker 1: bottle resting place for him. He was kind of bouncing

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01:28:44,560 --> 01:28:47,320
Speaker 1: around the office, but I got him. I got him

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01:28:47,360 --> 01:28:48,760
Speaker 1: up there. I don't know why he's not above the

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01:28:48,760 --> 01:28:53,679
Speaker 1: mantel in the house, but that's just yeah. Oh man, yea, well,

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01:28:53,960 --> 01:28:59,360
Speaker 1: thank you guys so much. Yeah, yeah, great stuff. And

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Speaker 1: the next series of Burgrease it's gonna be incredible. That's

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01:29:04,960 --> 01:29:08,280
Speaker 1: all I can say. It's kind I think I'll go

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01:29:08,400 --> 01:29:12,720
Speaker 1: home now. What he's quoting for stump. You have you

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Speaker 1: ever seen the TV? Not very often. This man does

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Speaker 1: not like what Hey, Happy new Year, everybody. Great