Balancing Life & Hunting

Midwest Flyways Podcast

Midwest Flyways

Sports, Wilderness

4.9 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

We get the question all the time: how do you balance your time hunting with your time at home and with your family and friends. So we thought we would discuss this week how we’ve been able to keep everybody happy…most of the time. Joey and Cal give their different takes on what you should be thinking about as you try to stay connected to your significant other and if you have kids how that throws a bit of a wrench in everything. Not saying this is perfect formula and everybody has different situations! At the end of the day, making hunting a part of your life going forward will require sacrifice from multiple parties, yourself included. Thanks so much for listening and be sure to subscribe and review! New Waterfowl Film out now! Out West | Waterfowl Hunting in Montana Stay comfortable, dry and warm: First Lite (Code MWF20) Go to OnXHunt to be better prepared for your hunt: OnX Learn more about better ammo: Migra Ammunitions Weatherby Sorix: Weatherby Support Conservation: DU (Code: Flyways) Stop saying "Huh?" with better hearing protection: Soundgear Live Free: Turtlebox Add motion to your spread: Flashback Better Merch: /SHOP

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0:00.0	Hey guys and welcome to this week's 10 minute Tuesday.
0:02.3	We are currently down in Arkansas.
0:04.1	We are shooting some mallards.
0:06.6	Some mallards.
0:07.7	It's been really fun.
0:09.4	Just want to start out this 10 minute Tuesday by talking about our sponsor for today, and that is Ducks Unlimited.
0:14.6	We've talked about it once.
0:15.5	We'll talk about it 100 times.
0:17.5	Be sure that you become a member of Ducks Unlimited so that you are helping our duck conservation
0:22.2	and our duck broods, mainly our population.
0:27.0	They're doing a great job up north and trying to restore the prairie pothole region
0:31.9	and make it so that we are making more ducks every year.
0:34.9	So go and spend $35 on Ducks.org and get yourself a membership.
0:38.5	True.
0:39.4	Guys, this week's 10 minute Tuesday, I wanted to talk to you about how to balance your real life,
0:46.3	your family life, your everyday life with your hunting life. Because like everyone else,
0:51.9	who is absolutely enamored with hunting, it's's really hard because in order to do a really good job of being a good waterfowler and shooting a bunch of birds you need to be fully committed you need to be scouting all the time you need to be hunting you need to be watching it's not always about killing and so that's the part that takes up the most time it's not
1:11.0	the hunter yeah the preparation of it yep and then being gone from your family if you want to go on the
1:16.4	trips which obviously joe and i go on a lot of trips that's hard how are you going to you know prepare
1:22.6	your family for you being gone right yada yada and obviously some of you listening you don't have a wife and kids yet and so then this isn't for you probably gone. Right. Yada, yada. And obviously, some of you listening, you don't have a wife and kids yet. And so then this isn't for you probably. It's more financial at that point versus getting a divorce. Right. Right. Right. So, Cal and I somehow are married, more so me. I don't know how I'm married. And so I would like to stay that way. And so trying to figure out the balance. I'm still
1:44.7	trying to figure it out. Honestly, by the way, we got this question is because we asked it on
1:48.8	Instagram live. And we had a bunch of people, you know, give us a lot of really good stuff. So
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