 Welcome back to another duck hunting loadout 2023. All right, guys, we're going to start with the actual sponsor of this video. I'm a partner that we've worked with for a long time, five plus six years now. Actually, a personal friend of mine has been from motion ducks and we have a special deal for you guys for this video. And through this season, if you go to motion ducks.com forward slash MVM, it'll take you to a separate page where you can buy an actual motion duck spreader, which allows you to attach seven decoys onto one motion ducks. And I'll kind of pop up on the screen here where you guys can see what it looks like. We all know how it is. It can be blowing 30 miles an hour all summer long as soon as duck season starts, the air stagnant and you can't get no motion in your spread. So this is our favorite tool. And right now I just have the four birds on it, but what I wanted to kind of point out and why I left it like this is a lot of times me and Thomas, when we're packing in somewhere, we're not pushing a cart. We don't got no way to get that stuff out there. We're not in the boat. We leave it like this set up, have our backpack on and then throw this over our shoulder and we walk out to the pond. One more thing to add to that is you can put in the code mid valley and get an additional 10% off that already deal that you're going to get if you buy the ultimate spreader on there. So check them out. I promise you won't regret it. High and dry sense these and for the environment that we hunt in, I think a lot of duck hunters that hunt water, it's a great tool, but you can turn these loose in them and it has little buttons that clicking right there and you can raise this too and then extend it. But like you can hang your gun on here off the top here, hang your blind bag. I mean, there's all different kinds of things that you can do, but it's a great tool and it's super easy to get out and really tough. But for the environments that most of us duck hunters are in, it is nice to keep your stuff out of the water. I stole an idea from my brother since the Avery decoy backpack. He bought one. He's first. He's, how long have you had yours? A long time. Like six years. Yeah, long enough to get it re-sewed. Exactly. He loved it so much that he took it into a seamstress and had it re... I don't remember where it was tore out, but anyways, you can hold six in one side and six on the other. So when it's full, it will stand upright and then it's got the backpack straps on the back and then, man, it's so, it's awesome. Thomas was never complaining about carrying his backpack. I had a, the refuge runner and no offense to them, but that thing was like super uncomfortable in my opinion. I've showed it on these load up videos before, but this is mine. I bought this last season. I love it. It's got the two side for like mojo, pulsators, whatever you want. And I actually put my blind bag. I think Thomas does too. I unbuckle this and slide it in between there and buckle it back. And I mean, you have everything on your back. Plus the gun holder on the side, slip your gun right in there. March stand. Always have that on us just in case you get tired those long days. Just one of my favorite dog stands I use for Rocky brand is Mo Marsh. That's the one I highly suggest. I've used some other ones. They're a little bit more rickety. This one locks in place and has the feet on these that are really good about not letting it continue to sink in mud. This is the one I've used and I've used for a long time. I've tried them all and that's my favorite one. This is almost too good to share, but the heavy hauler, they've been around for a long time. It's so easy. It's like throwing up a pop up tent, basically pull it out of this bag, you unfold it and it just pops up into an actual half blind. One of the things I'm real excited about this season, and I've already used it once and man, it looks good. And I've actually had them on the podcast. And if you guys haven't listened to our podcast or heard of it, it's the MBM show. Check it out on Spotify, Apple podcasts, any platform that does podcast, but Tyler came on. He's from Colorado and he built these flashbacks. Oh my goodness, man. Guys, these are almost a secret weapon. Duck hunters, we don't want to share sometimes our little secrets, but I'm not saying we're the only ones that use them, but man, their money, what happens is, is these come over the top with the battery operated and then it comes back through and it makes them look like they're diving for food. And there's some other variations you can set them up just to make them ripples, but man, they look so good in the spread. I've only got to use it at the beginning of the season once and very impressive. And they last a long time too. I want to say the battery can go between 12 and 16 hours. One of my dog lines that I use for Rocky, I don't use it often, unless we're hunting like a pit and I need to get him hidden. But it's really convenient because you can just unbuckle this right here on the sides. It's kind of like an accordion and boom, just pops up. Got a ground blind for your dog. Works great. All right. This is our cart we use. This is a Rogers brand. I think ties you've had this a couple of years now at least. Haven't really lost any parts or pieces yet. Still works really good. Comes with these straps and tie downs that actually come in handy. We've used them a lot. I think with this, remember what size this is? Is this the medium? Extra large. And it works with our Rogers cart there. So when you got a lot of gear, your refuge running and it's too much stuff to carry down your back. You got a lot of decoys or maybe you're hunting with three or four guys or something. A jet sled this size, especially with dog gear, is almost essential. You can't really use anything smaller. If you watched our video from last year, you knew that we were running FA decoys. We'll be running them again this year. We love these decoys. We've got Pintail, Mallard, Wigan, Teal. I'll show you their Wigan here. Might be a little dusty right now, but they look awesome. Their paint been holding up really, really good. And if you've watched us at all, you know that we love their rigs. Their coated steel, these egg weights on them, they'll just last forever. You can get several different sizes. I think we run four foot for the most part. These rigs are amazing. They never tangle. They blend well with all the environments and they don't scratch your decoys up. All right, this is one of the spinning wings we use. This is the AVNX Power Flight Mallard. We've used this a couple of years now. We don't always use spinners, but when we do, this works awesome. Battery life's good. You can do intermittent or just a solid spin. Pull up my guns real quick. Guys already know. And the Browning A5. Still love this thing. Never did change the chokes up too much. I still run my factory choke and I always felt like I shot pretty well with it. This is the Wicked Wings version. Still holding up pretty good. Maybe could use a clean, but love this gun. Gun I used mainly last year. It's my Benelli Ethos Quarroba 20 gauge. As you can tell, I got the shot came on here because I could set up and using this mainly last year. I did get the high and dry little quick hanger. I don't remember the exact name for this, but it makes it pretty nice if you're hanging it on their pole that Ty's showed you a little earlier. This thing shoots very well. Never had any issues with it so far. Like I said, I only got one year on it, but love this gun. All right, you guys already know, we love our bismuth. This is basically what I shot almost 100% of the time last year. I can't say enough about it. You guys gotta at least try a box. When you get on target, these burges, they just don't cripple. They're just dead every time. Quick look at my calls. Lander was done by Quack Lanyards a couple years ago. He's a great guy, makes quality stuff here locally. Layers T1, layers hybrid, pulp pattern, wood whistle. These two here are Billy John Quinto. I got these from him a couple years ago. Got a teal and whigeon. This does pinto. I don't always have these exact calls, but starting to acquire more and more calls. What reads do you use in your layers? My hybrid, I use it a 355 and I'm still kind of shopping around for the T1. T1, I just got this off season, so I'm gonna start playing around with it this year. Right now it's just the factory. You guys know probably from last year, I got the 28 gauge, basically same gun as Thomas's, except in the 28 gauge, the Benelli Ethos Cordoba. Love this gun. This gun is precious to me. Got me my Eurasian Whigeon last year. If you haven't seen that, you gotta check that video out here. But anyways, I just love shooting this gun. Only thing I would say about it is it does have porting on it, whereas the Super Black Eagle III 28 gauge does not, but they didn't have that when I bought this. And I will say it makes a little bit louder for sure, but gun is, shoots awesome. Love it. For this gun, I use the Heavy 12, Heavy Shot Heavy 12. It's a tungsten blend. This is actually not the one I used. I grabbed the wrong box, but I'll still use it this season, but I like the three inch because this gun shoots three inch. I shoot six shot is what I like with the one ounce shot charge, going at 1350 per second. So that's my ammo of choice for this gun. For my 12 gauge, old Betsy. Caller, I've had this one for a long time. Got this gun last year by a Cadiana Cote. Does an awesome job. Cause I got the Heavy Shot logo engraved in here and then the, oh, no dude. Slow on that. Stays room to end of this. Let's get some of this action too. Oh yeah. Mid Valley Mercenaries logo. Graved on the side. So I got the pattern Master Co Black Duck in this. That is something that's probably gonna be changing. I got the Shot Cam on it. You'll hear why here on the next gun. But out of this one, I'm like Thomas. I shoot the Heavy Bismuth for the most part out of this, but I'm also, we tried this out last year. This year is a heavy metal extreme. This is a blend of three shot for steel and six shot for tungsten. Some nasty stuff I shot it last year. I don't know how much Thomas did, but it's amazing and it's a lot more affordable than if you would ever try to go buy Heavy 12 or something like that. It's definitely a lot more reasonable. So check that out. That's what I'll be using a lot this year. That and Heavy Bismuth. As far as my 20 gauge goes. Still got the Fronkie Fendi. I love this gun. It shoots great. One thing that I changed about this year and you can check that pattern video out right here too in the little card. But I switched to a molar decoy choke. You can ask anybody that's seen it. You know, it's Thomas, the pattern on that thing was wicked. I mean, stupid. I've never seen anything like that. Yeah, literally. I'll just put it this way. I'm not gonna say any names, but I tried some other brands and had some other things in here. And it's not even, these other chokes were not even a quarter of what this had done. And there's reasons. If you wanna know why, I have four part series with Jim Muller, the owner of molar chokes, talk about this. And I don't wanna drag it out, but you gotta go check that podcast out. It'll blow your mind and it'll change your whole way of thinking of how you do things and what you do and what you've been told and what ammo companies say. It'll totally change everything. And I'm so glad I met him. Became friends with him. Not only did he say what he said in the podcast, but then afterwards I tried the choke out and it was proven on paper. Like there's no lying. Another thing that I talked about last year and I love this thing I did all season is the public pursuit. I found them on Instagram. I think they got a website too, but look at public pursuit. And basically it's a journal for all your hunts and it's made for duck hunting because it has like the times you wake up, the wind, the weather, the decoys you used, has everything that you would wanna track in it. Places where you can put notes and draw diagrams, whatever. And I really like it. You wanna open that thing up? You want me to? No, is there coordinates in there? Oh yeah. The old prayer rug? Leaked info. I know, leaked. All takes is somebody to freeze frame that screenshot. You know who you are. You're hunting right where we're at. I can't ever go. I don't know why. I just love. Especially when it's a hundred outside. Yes. Nice. Dude, I tell you what though. There's a thumbnail for you right there. Take that. When it's cold, son. When it's cold on that boat. There ain't nothing that works like this thing. I'm telling you. You're scooting 50. Yeah, next year. Big shout out to Chase Warfow. I use that to pattern 20 gauge on that video you're gonna watch, but these are sick. Simple, but everything on it that you need. It's got a 30, 20 and a 10 inch circle. You need a hundred pellets to be lethal on the vitals of a duck. So that's why when you pattern use a 30 inch, but it's got the information on the top lip, the shot, the shotgun, the choke. And then on the top right, it's got pellet hits inside the 30, 20, 10 and the distance you're at. I've already used a bunch of them. Come out at ChaseWarpow.com. So that's made the lanyard, huh? What? The whistle. This whistle? Yeah. I don't know, you tell me. I did want to say one thing about this lanyard. Freak, dude. Unbelievable. Ducked up gear, that's D-U-C-K-D and then up gear. He made this lanyard. I'm switching lanyards this year. This lanyard to me is just like nostalgic and pretty sick, it's leather. This whistle is from Shannon Kelly. He does whige and whistles and Pentel. This is brand new. Something he just prototyped, but I think it's pretty sick. It's that amethyst color. And I'm actually gonna be running amethyst this year. Psst, psst, psst. If you can't roll your tongue to do some whistles, this has got a roller in it already. And it's just a, it's pretty neat, it's custom. Like I said, this leather lanyard, I got a different one coming. I kind of customized it a little bit more. And I am running the amethyst this year, like probably not all year. I don't want to beat it up too bad, but I am gonna run it. And I do run this with a 370, a 1.370. And then my hybrid, which is a 350, which is factory. But yeah, it was actually really hard to get these colors. And then for my whige and whistle, same as Thomas, the Billie Jean Quinto Acme whistle for the whige and whistle. One of the things that's nice that we have this year for my good buddy, Chase McCullough, he sent me with his brand that he's gotten out as a shoddy gear and this is a shell holder. There's nothing worse than getting rust on your shells and end down on your blind bag. Even our waterproof one, sometimes just moisture being in there. If it gets on your shells, you're gonna get some rust. So you can fit a box and a half or two boxes in here if you want. Pretty sick. You can go and check them out and grab one of these. Big news for this year. And honestly, super stoked and super excited to announce that we are now part of the Kuyu team. It's a company out here in California that makes the top line of gear, period, bar none. And I'm about to show it to you. So let's check it out. So this year, Kuyu launched their waterfowl line. They've been making top of the line big game hunting gear for quite a while now. And we are beyond stoked to be part of the Kuyu team. Well, let's go over the waiters real quick. So Kuyu partnered up with Sims. If you've checked in Sims, Sims been around a long time and known for like fly fishing, trout fishing. A lot of fishermen use that. Actually, I know a lot of duck hunters in New Mexico and some other places that really go through some tough stuff. How they got a hunt. And that's what they live and breathe by. They swear by him. It's pretty cool that Kuyu partnered up with them. I'll do some videos later on. I'm not gonna go into super detail. Yes, there is no zip. I wore waiters on my whole life without a zip. I'm only until I got the Sitka's. Did I even start using zip? But the material, I will say, it does feel thicker and tougher to me than Sitka. I'm not saying it's better. I'm just saying it feels thicker. The boots, a little more stiffer than the Sitka boots but very comfortable and there's a reason for that. You can also go listen to that podcast and Sean Ayers from Kuyu on the top guys there talks about why and the shank and the boot and why you kind of need that. It's very comfortable though. The shoulder straps, I'm gonna show you how. That's kind of where it goes across the back right there and that's where it buckles in there. Very comfortable. Doesn't affect your shooting at all. It's got a zipper pocket inside, waterproof for like your phone or license or whatever. I can't wait this season to use these and try them out. So I showed you the waiters but we'll go kind of from the base of the setup that they have and work our way out as it gets colder. The more pieces that you put on. This is the 145. It's made out of marina wool. It's one of the base layers. It's got a hood on it. Really comfortable, great base layer. Look up marina wool. That's why they went with that. I'm super stoked about these pants. They don't really call it the waiter pants. They call it the strong fleece, the 290 I believe. They're really comfortable. Did you try these on? Just the way the pocket design is. I don't know why I just like how that pockets design. Last to get the waist, you can tie it from the inside. Here's what the inside looks like. Tom's kind of feels, I'll have to see that. He almost thinks it's like the gradient, huh? Did you think it was gonna be that hot? Or kind of in between? The heavy weight? In between the heavy weight and the gradient. And the gradient. That's kind of what we're thinking. But again, we gotta put it to the test this year. So on this, they got the side zipper. So basically you can breathe. You know, it's just when you're hiking or whatever, those long hikes. Let some air flow through. And the one thing that's sick is when you put your foot through this, it automatically, your heel catches that right there. As soon as you throw that through, boom, locks in. Basically you got your waiter pants and they don't creep up anymore. And if you're gonna wear them around town, you just pull that over right real quick and you don't look stupid. I mean, me personally, I didn't wear the underpants for the sickest around. Tom's gonna show you the rest of, as you build out. But I just wanna go to this real quick with you. This is the Kodiak 6600. And it's the duffel. It doubles and has backpack straps. So you can either just carry it with the handle or you can wear it on your back. It's airtight and waterproof. So it's kinda, I don't know, my thought was that I've talked to Thomas with it about when you go on a trip, say you have your duffel in the back without your clothes in it, before if it started raining or snowing, you're like, pull over real quick, throw your duffel back inside, everything gets wet. Now it doesn't even, it's not even an issue. There's tons of room on there playing for a week long trip, clothes or whatever. All right, moving out towards your outer layers. This could be used as a mid-layer or an outer layer. This is the Flyway. They thought about a lot on this guys. It's not just another jacket. Really, really comfortable jacket. This color here is an ash. So here's their waterproof jacket. They call this their HD Flex Storm. Again, there's a lot of adjustments everywhere in the hood, bottom of the jacket here. And then also they put pit zips. You need to do some walk-in in this and you don't wanna get real sweaty cause this thing will lock in. This here's in Velo, love this pattern. So I'm more excited about this probably than any other piece of Kuyu that we're gonna use this year. You guys already know that we've been using dry bags for our blind bags for a while now. Probably will never go back to the normal cloth dry bag. This is Kuyu's backpack style dry bag. Completely waterproof. There's an outside zipper here. Little compartment. Inside the main compartment, they got an optional little bag here that you can take out. And you can either hang it, maybe if you do some timber hunting, you can hang it on a tree or maybe if you're using that high and dry pole, you can hang this. It's got two pockets on the bottom, basically for boxes of shells. And then another compartment up here for just whatever you wanna store. I can't wait to use this. It's probably gonna be the most used piece this year by far. So this year we're gonna be in a ProDrive 1848. Love this boat. Got a removable bench seat. Another thing we love with this is the spud poles. You get somewhere, you get up on a sand bar or whatever, you just wanna, you're in some shallow water and you wanna stay right there. Those spud poles are amazing. Love those. Also, we added some more lighting to the boat. We got a bigger headlight, spotlight in front. We got interior lighting and rooster lighting on the back of the boat here. We got green in the interior and the exterior. Love that color. Love the lighting. We've got a 40 horse motor here. It's got full power reverse. Use that thing several times already. Definitely comes in handy. I hope you guys enjoyed this video. Another loadout, another year, another duck season. It's kind of crazy. I think this is like our sixth or seventh one. So hope you enjoyed it and we'll see you guys on the next one.