 Here's your new hood ornament. My hood ornament? Oh, to put on the front of my head? Looks good, dude. Trouse, beware of phone calls and messages from your work. Looks good, dude. I wish that was on going on my wall. This is that. Good. That's Trouse's handiwork, folks. I'm about a handiwork, but it is what it is. A little more samplers. That was the one he shot. That hunt from last year. I'm going to do a dead mat with cinnamon. A couple of blue wings. Maybe a shovel laying on the shovel. Another adventure is here, folks. And today I got with me, Travis and Taylan. You guys seen him on the last video. I mean, you guys know Trouse as well, but Taylan was on the last video. So I'm going to do my best to give you guys the full story of the process that we are going to about to get embark upon. It's a long process. And I think a lot of people outside of California, they might not be interested in it, but some of you may be. And this is a lot of times this is how we do afternoons in certain places. I'll try to get a video of it or help you guys follow along. But what we're going to do is, it's the day before the hunt day, we're going to drive up quite a long ways, go up north, and we're going to put in for what's called lottery. The hunt where I shot the witch and you guys just seen, that was, I just did sweatline. So that's the worst of the worst. Like basically like you just showed up way late and you're just hoping to get in. This one puts you a little bit ahead of the sweatline guys as far as getting the refuge earlier goes and possibly we could get in in the morning. Highly unlikely on a Saturday, but we'll see. If something is decent, I think it's open. We all agree on it. We'll dump in there real quick, but I don't know. But anyways, we got a long drive. We're making a move. We're going to do what we can do. I mean, make our best effort. That's all you can do. Right. I think me and Trouse agree that we have our best chance doing what we're doing. Don't you think? Yeah. And the season is winding down. I mean, we got, you know, we're in January. The season is winding down. It's, uh, this last month will go quick. So we just try to maximize our opportunities to go where we think we have the best chance to get some birds. You guys like this hat. We like our merch. Trouse is wearing the brown one. Those are pretty much sold out. I think there's a 2XL and a couple of mediums left. I couldn't find my man. That would look all over. Oh, I could. I couldn't find my gray ones. But we got the gray ones too. Go check it out. MidValium.com. A link. It's always linked down below where it says merch. You just click on that and you can see what we have. We got a bunch of hats and stuff like that. So we always appreciate your guys support. You guys always, for the last three years that we've had merch, you guys have just bought it up. So we really appreciate that. And it helps us do hunts and put more content out. So stay tuned. Stay with us. We're going to bring you along on the journey. Update. We've got Carl's in the bag. If it doesn't get all over the place, it doesn't belong in your face. So we put in for lottery. That's been done. And we met a couple dudes that were super cool and nice. We talked for a while while we're standing in line with Justin and Tyler. Thanks for saying hi and being cool. And so now we wait. And we got to wait for a while and we'll see what we drew or we can just show up in the morning. It really doesn't matter. So if you guys do lottery, you can just show up when it says to show up in the morning or you can find out sometimes through Facebook or stuff like that. You can find out. Well, folks, as you can see from this portion of the show, we're in the car and we're headed in the opposite direction that we were earlier today. We're actually headed back home. It is now 9.33 in the evening. This is the reality. This doesn't happen very often, but when it does, it's very disheartening. Let's try that right now. So we just got the results probably 15 minutes ago. And they were not good. We put in for lottery, which puts you above the sweatline. Like I was saying, you're still behind the reservation guys. But there's a lot of factors that go into this. Normally I would stay, but we almost drew dead last, which is not surprising because now we're like 78 groups back almost something like that. The issue is the weather's horrible tomorrow. No wind. It's cloudy and it's warmer than normal. That means guys are not going to be coming out. So that is not conducive for an afternoon. I'll just tell you that right now. Our odds of us getting on is not good. So now we are driving straight back home at 9.35 at night. We got a three hour drive on the way back home. Probably going to catch up with you tomorrow sometime. I don't know. We got some plans in our mind. Let's just put this way. Sometimes you got to work for it, but you know what? Guaranteed in just a month or two. Come summertime when you're sweating your rear end off, you're going to be wishing you could be playing this game right now. Really? I know I will be. So just got to stay positive honestly. It is what it is. It's reality. I just made it back and it is 12.15 at night. Just got to spend six hours driving around with Travis and Taylor. I'm back home. I'm going to go to bed, sleep till about 8 o'clock and I'll see in the morning when we go into the refuge. Deja vu, baby. We are back up. Different clan. Next morning, me, Travis, Thomas, going out going to make it afternoon happen. It flies, it dies. Hinspoonies and buffies. I don't know if I'm all over my centers. Travis got to his shoulder. I haven't heard that before. Yeah, I've heard that. I've heard that several times. And you know what the first bird he shot? It comes in, splared up right about. Oh, nice shot, Travis. Hinspoonie. I thought it was a drake. He was dark. He goes, I think that was a drake as a trouse. That was a spoonie. And him. One of our best hidden spots. Talk about being covered. Anybody that hunts here knows exactly where we're at. Those cabins are casted off asleep. Can you believe it? We actually made it in the pond. It all started yesterday at 3.30 and we just now got a tuck pond. Like seven, eight hours of driving. Moving places and locations. Anyways, I better get off here. Birds are just dumping in. Anyways, I'll let you guys go. So we're out here. Another afternoon hunt and we'll see what we can do. I forgot how bad the stupid cover was. Dead bird. Travis is sleeping on the bottom over here. No, dude. I was looking at the shoveler too. There was a shoveler headed this way pretty low. Thank you for that. Oh, nice. Sit, sit. It's helpful on a day for summer. Just because it's just easy going. Come here. You liking that right now, huh? He knows not to splash you. Oh, he tried not to splash you. Here. Hold. Leave. Good boy. Oh, sit, sit, sit. Rock. Yeah. Man. You see it now. He's like a freight train right now. My goodness. Oh, no. What? One BB hit it in the head, I think. OK. See this first little group? This shallow? No, look. See this shallow grass? Yeah. The next one. Just around the corner. OK. Not this first clump, the second clump. Yeah. Yeah. That was a good hustle, bud. OK. Go with him. Go right there while he's going. Good boy, Rocky. We came over here about 60 yards and he found it faster than I thought he was going to. I couldn't even get the camera out yet. You're too fast, bud. Come on. Good boy. Rocky ain't jacking around today, boys. You know what the thing is, people think he's slower. And I even think that sometimes. But he's usually water to his neck. Here it's super shallow and he can just full out sprint. So it's kind of fun to see him, like, turn the wheels on. He can get with it, that's for sure. Good boy. Good boy. Here. I thought the thing was dead and then he just also lifted up. Hold. Leave. Good boy. Sit. Sit. That was ridiculous. You know what? I bet you he ain't going to flirt him no more than we would if he sits on that. Sit. Did I get that or someone else could? My shot. Sorry about that. That was a terrible, terrible shot. I'll give you a shot for wasting one of yours. Here, man. Fetch it up, Rocky. Fetch it up. Dipper. Hey. Found him. Good boy. Good boy. Sneaking it. They must have flushed him out the back. Fetch it up. Sorry about that, man. Leave. Well, that took a little bit of work. But we got him. The guy that was on the other side of the pond helped us out. His dog was looking too. He actually shot. Kind of like sailed over to him. Sailed all the way over to him. He put one on it. Still was pretty alive. Anyways, I gave him one of my shells. Perhaps I'm going to waste one of his. That was terrible. Actually, we don't even know though. I didn't know about Tom's shot at the same time. So I don't know really who it was. But either way, it was a horrible shot. Sit. Rocky. I got this one, right? Did you shoot at this one? Yeah. Oh, you did? What do you, did you think you got it? Or did you or no? No. Did we do the same thing again? I never heard you shoot. I love how California tail goes straight up. They don't do that in the hold. Leave. Dead bird. Dead bird. Back. No. Wrong way. No. No. Over. Travis, you got one. Dead bird. Back. It's glit. Yeah. Uh-huh. Good boy. Good boy. Dude, that was impossible to shoot that one. Dude, there was no way I was going to hit that. I don't even know why he shot. I got one shell. Travis, help me out. Oh, never mind. Dead bird. Back. I'm done. That's the limit. You shot? Yeah. You're kidding me. No. I don't care, dude. You probably hit it, man. I don't care, dude. I literally don't. You already did that twice. You can have this one. Sit. Sit, Rocky. Rocky. That was a perfect flush for me. Leave. Good boy. Good boy. Here begins. Oh, Drake. Travis. I didn't think you'd get him. I didn't. I'm not sure though. Boy, Rocky. Putting some hustle on today. Putting the clinic leave. What do you have to say for yourself? It was a little tall. Matt, you've never seen tall until you come with us at this refuge. That's when you'll know what tall means. It's not quite our cup of tea this, but it's the only drink that's served. It's nice though because this shallow water Rocky is cooking. All these were trees. I love it. I love watching him hustle that fast. Good boy. Huh. Putting on a clinic today's time. You showing some of these people that you can still hustle when the water is shallow enough? That motion ducks is working right now, boys. See that right there? Stagnant calm day. Little ripples in the water. Well, there's my limit, boys. Five green wings. Buffy and a shriveler. Me and tall always keep thinking we get the same bird like three different times. So he let me have the first two. And that last one, he just took it because we shouldn't at the exact same time. Anyways, I'm done. I'm limited. I said, Rocky. Sit. Sit. I'm gonna take it from the trap seat. Weep. Good boy, Rocky. What are you doing? You broke my seat. You broke my seat. Uh-uh. You were on. That is my seat, though. That's all right. I'm just joking. It's been coming out. What did you get? Inima? That's beard. Crack open something. Crack open. Ding. Ding. That's what we were using today. 3-4 shot. Actually got my limit. I haven't... I don't even remember the last time I got my duck limit. No, if it flight, it died honestly today. Thanks for following along this journey. This was a long haul. You seen what it went through to get to this point, but it is cool that we were successful and got some birds. birds because we pulled out of where we were at because it was not going to happen trust me I don't think we were even going to get in the refuge it was pretty cool that we made that big of a mood and move and still got successful because I've made big moves like that and not even shot a bird so you got three so we ended up with 15 then I got five we put the end up putting the motion deck we moved the deco it's like four times we put the motion decks right there and that started helping a lot and put these off to the side with some pulsators but the tail we're just crossing here it's all passing the shots but did good today nice shallow water for you to hustle in cheers boys here's to you guys here's to you mister mountain dew drinking man you you don't just sip mountain dew you guzzle it so thanks for watching guys we'll see you on the next one