 Hey guys welcome back to the channel here with my good friend long time friend Travis you guys know as well both of us and I'm gonna do kind of like an announcement video slash decoy unboxing. These decoys that we're gonna show you in this video we're gonna show you a few different kinds from the brand Final Approach but I wanted to preface this video by just letting everybody know that we will be working with Rogers and Final Approach partnering up with them and I'm really excited to bring that to you because I mean in my opinion I mean how long we've been shopping at Rogers Sporting Goods. A long time and always had a great experience with other products and um really like their customer service they do a great job with that um very friendly on the phone um every time I've had an issue they've responded really fast and got back to me um if I left a message and just have been great customer service and pretty much if I ordered anything to have to do with waterfowl that's who I end up ordering it through as Rogers and the fact that they've been around for a long time I mean longer than the online store has been there obviously um like Travis said great customer service and they're kind of just the big hub of waterfowl shopping one of the few that there is the big big names out there so we were approached by them I was needless to say I was pretty much speechless because I took that as a great compliment for a company like that to reach out to us and got to meet uh Stevie Rogers and Chandler Smith and of course you guys know if you don't know you will know that Josh Pick from Outdoor Limits works with them as well so anyways it was a great privilege and honor and I don't want to make this long and drawn out but I just want to say that we do we're going to work with them but the biggest thing I want to again say that always matters to me from the beginning of this channel when we first start getting anything that any company or anyone that worked with us and that is I promise I will always give you my genuine opinion I'm not gonna sugar coat nothing you buy it good for you if you don't want to buy it I mean you guys know I wear sick waders and people always kind of a lot of people give a hard time about that and then other people don't it's I'm not trying to make you buy anything I'm just giving you my honest opinion so same with this even though we work with Rogers sporting goods and final approach I will give I promise to always give my unbiased opinion that being said we did a meeting with Rogers sporting goods on the um what do you call it when you do it on your computer uh like a zoom like a zoom meeting we did a zoom meeting and I hadn't seen really anything in person so I didn't really know I hadn't made any decisions we didn't agree on anything well I end up working back east if you follow us on instagram or facebook you would see I kind of was traveling around and I actually got to go to the actual factory it's amazing it's huge it's like an amazon warehouse in my opinion but when I went there they showed me all the decoys and I will tell you this not all these decoys these are but not all the decoys that I'm gonna tell you about are on the website yet because they just haven't got here yet but when I seen them all in person and I'm talking from every single decoy that they're they came out with brand new I was honestly blown away I mean I called you got you right afterwards and was like dude these are legit honestly I that that sold me right then and there and so I was like hey I want to work with you guys like it's incredible and I appreciate that you even would think about to working with us so yeah I'm excited to see him I haven't seen him yeah so let's get to the unboxing sorry to get the little uh the little emotional uh honey dude so it was like like Christmas and what are we in in August middle of August so yeah Christmas in August yeah so he hasn't seen him yet at all he's seen some pictures but he has not seen these decoys what they look like so we're gonna do unboxing he's gonna come open he's gonna we're gonna zoom in on his face and see his expression now so let's do it and let's open a box up shoveler or widget first let's go with what we like the best the shovelers we're in California California man so here they are here's the box this should be the state bird I know it should be should be on the flag this is new this year almost all of the fa stuff is EDA which is like you know um there's other brands out there that have got that soft pliable filter so go ahead open right up man see what you think I've seen them already so when they when they get the spots and what's cool about this it comes in a six pack of drakes because I mean really don't have a hand no hints so straight drakes you get that color is not popping your spread we all know what shovelers like they like to get in the water so first impression I like the the color scheme they did a really nice job on that size is I say these sizes are like spot on for what it probably a shovel would right about right on huh they're not hard they're they're not I wouldn't say they're like super soft like some other decoys I felt but they're not that hard hard like yeah like that rigid hard plastic no huh and they got some flex to them looks like we got three three positions here for uh different attachment points which is nice this is a upright and this yeah there's two head position on these so you kind of got the dabbler feeder and you got the upright head no I think they look they look really nice this is probably this is the best looking most like what I say authentic or realistic uh paint job paint scheme and uh matching up that I've seen it's not overly bright but it's what a nice you know plume doubt drake shoveler will look like uh late late December early January so all their decoys have been carved by major top championship carvers I like that that the black's not like a shiny black it's a nice matte finish and dude look at if you really look and you scratch on these colors like you can't really make it do anything yeah and it's got because of that I mean I don't virtually see this but it's got nice feather detail we also need to do if I there's some other brands that I've had their shovelers if you would grab tube and you would just sit there and do this together like that quick the brand new out of the box they'd be scratching and the paint would be coming off no you did a nice job because I mean the the colors you know I'm saying there's not like they're solid colors like they blend in these colors on the side right here where the side pockets are that blends good and and I'm taking his opinion because he's actually attacked the germs too well I don't know about that I mean I I mount burns but trust me so you know he pays attention to those details like he just said about the the wing being in the pocket and all that stuff yeah I know it shows like the side pocket I mean what do you do I mean I like honest no I really like they're probably the best these are the best looking shovelers that I've seen okay to be honest with you now mind you I'm curious to see how this really works out because this does have three attachment points and I really like that and they're nice big holes because some decoys they make it it's hard to get in there you can't get in and out I know you I got my life and trying to like yeah make the hole a little bit bigger they made these plain nice or nice and big get in and out I'm pressed I like them a lot and again guys you know we rerun with the joke everybody says oh we're spoony killers and all that stuff that's it's kind of a joke that we run with if you haven't been around long enough but um and we do shoot showers yeah um but I don't target showers yeah but if it's a nice pretty drake yeah it's hard to resist temptation you know so to throw these in your spread even if you have a spread of like you know a bunch of gaol is a bunch of pentel a bunch of green wings it just brings good pop but why it sticks out yeah I know I mean I think that's going to really stand out nice you know I'm saying almost like a good hole spray yeah the white will show up oh for sure from a distance here we go now the witching traps is we're big time witching fanatics so now we'll say this and this might get edited out but I have a thing with witching decoys where I don't put them in my spread because I have that's right I have this like I don't know what it is so maybe these right I'm not like that these right mate mate they may be they'll be the one because I shut away from witching decoys okay this comes with four drakes two hands it's two drake whistlers and then two drake I think feeders and then two hen upright oh we can show them yeah so that's what it comes with right there I guess and let me see the carver trust real quick it said it on here yeah it's right here Tom Christie so it says live feather detail provided by six time world champion carver Tom Christie oh okay the same guy that did the shutters did the same carver yeah and I'll put some more other other positions that's the same one I think say whatever you think it's fine so my first impression look at this bird to me it's it's a little dark on this one right here just from what I've seen of real of live witches this is a little dark there's another company that that I that I've seen some and I was looking at them but they were orange yeah they're not witching or not orange I like the head a lot this really stands out strong I would just say that a little dark through here but they look good I mean they've got nice feather detail on them you guys can see that great looking heads really nice now see this right here and you can see to me I can tell a slight difference maybe and it can just be the the the lot this one looks a little bit wider I'm bad too though that can't see up close but you can tell this one right and it maybe it's just me this to me this one looks a little bit lighter and ties me already with me all day long but you can see like on the back how they on these feathers right here how they trace the outline of them a little bit more I like that this one's not as strong but that's just you know as a bird to me looking at that no but like yeah but like Titus said I mean I do mount birds and so I'm always like looking at it yeah I'm a nitpicker but um I'd really like the uh whistler this looks great I like the the whole shape of it the size it's not too big and it's not too small it's my in my opinion it is a little larger I feel like well see I think what maybe it looks like and I'm talking about the head everything the head is this head is a good size head it's like a stud bird but I really this this is a good looking bird I love that right there I like that the open mouth I think I do too I think that's really sweet you know I don't know like again decoys are for hunters like yeah but people you can kill them over what decoys that are painted black but the point is but I like the art of stuff it is not exactly it is nice looking at your specimen I really like my decoys you know I mean yeah I mean the birds do they care as much I like taxidermy I like wild um you know wildfowl art um I like looking at carvings you know it's amazing what these guys can do with with just you know wood and some tools you know how they can carve but I really this is cool I mean this is something that would like put it on the wall almost I would no for real I mean I was I knew you would like these dudes when he handed me this after the final coach dill and I was like dude those are bad the bundles are the in my opinion as far as decoys I like that it's the best I've seen I like that that's in my pain that's just my opinion yeah that's nice it's like a decorative I guess I should have showed you the last one's a little bit better see if that focuses on I do like the the you know you can see I can squeeze that thing yeah it's not rigid yeah it's not gonna tear up the paint's gonna stick on really nice yeah so yeah and that's I like the whistlers there's two feet I mean nobody likes hands right right and they look good this is a good looking hand yeah yeah and and they did make it a little bit smaller than the Drake yeah no compliments to Drake nicely I love this one dude that these are good I love Wige I mean we love and I'm excited to hunt over these yeah I want to see how they work out you know like I said I have a phobia of a Wige and decoys I forgot that I forgot about that I have a phobia yeah and check this out these old these move right here and it's not like rigid so you're not a lot of times you get these cracking along in here I don't think these are really going to do that because this this flex is really nice yeah you know I'm saying hey dude it's worth yeah I mean there is other companies that make it you know I'm saying like a bunch or whatever and over time you know that's that's a lot of times where you get cracking in your and your decoys is right here along the kill and leaking and you know I don't think that this looks like it's a really a nice kill I feel as though these are can stand their own with the top quality decoys on market I don't have to give it five years of time you know I can I can know right now it's already EVA so I know it's gonna hold up I mean paint does what paint does over time yeah in all reality does it seem like our water is really harsh here I'm it must be it does seem like it I don't know I think our water is harsh keep a close eye there'll be another video the week after this one and we'll go over some other decoys that I'm really excited to show you we might have two more videos because there's a lot more different for final approach there's a lot more different birds to show it's not just like one more it's a couple more so really yeah so stay tuned for that really excited to show you also the rigging system and all that I'm telling you guys I'm so excited for this year and put this stuff to work because it's super good quality I was very very impressed like I said I wouldn't have just jumped on anything when I'm on the camera talking to you guys I want to say whatever I'm saying I want it to be the truth I don't want to just lie because someone gave me something I won't do yeah so that's my promise to you guys thanks for watching guys go check them out on their site you can go to fabrand.com or you can get these also on rogersportinggoods.com so go check it out if you guys need some new vision or some shovels for the season go check them out we'll see you guys on the next one