David Schuessler; Highs and Lows

Midwest Flyways Podcast

Midwest Flyways

Sports, Wilderness

4.9 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

This week we had the chance to sit down with David Schuessler, National Director of Fundraising for Ducks Unlimited and a lifelong waterfowl hunter. We talk about the highs and lows of waterfowl hunting and what makes our passion for birds run so deep. From weathering a tough year to enjoying the moment when the birds are working and the weather is right. We talk a little bit about season dates and time frames and how different areas have seen those slots change. Are the changes for the better? David also walks us through this year’s Into the Vault online auction. There are truly some insane items going on this year’s auction and you’ll want to make sure to check them out! Preview the vault here: www.intothevault.org Text +1 612-735-0278 to get your MN DU Gun Calendar now! 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	Welcome to the Midwest Flyways podcast.
0:02.6	This podcast is brought to you by Onex Hunt.
0:05.1	If you guys are not using OnX, please go check that out right now.
0:09.0	And another one of our awesome sponsors.
0:11.6	We have an incredible guest with us today, David Schusler from Ducks Unlimited.
0:15.5	We are so excited to talk to David about a whole bunch of different things today that Ducks Unlimited has going on.
0:20.6	David, how are you doing, man? I'm doing. I don't know if I'm incredible, but I'm thrilled to be here with y'all. Well, David, listen, of everyone I've talked to, you're going to be the only one that's going to say you're not incredible. So I'm going'll say it for you, and then everybody else can
0:37.8	echo me. And you can keep denying it. And that's just fine. That's why we love you.
0:42.3	All right. Well, I'll tell you, you know, the first thing I have to do is I've got to apologize
0:48.1	to all my dear hunting friends out there. Last year on the show, I made what I believe was seen as a disparaging comment about deer
1:00.2	hunting when I said that I would rather not shoot ducks than sit in a warm box.
1:05.0	And so today I want to tell everybody that I love deer hunting.
1:09.4	I love it very much, and I do it all the time.
1:11.5	And now all my deer hunting friends that watch the podcast cannot send me nasty text messages anymore.
1:18.8	Yeah.
1:19.2	Listen, David, I'll save you the trouble and I'll say it for you.
1:23.5	I would rather shoot nothing, no ducks, than sit in a box or a tree stand or the woods
1:29.9	or anything waiting on a deer. It is that time of year, especially in Minnesota. Deer season
1:35.6	just opened. So everyone's gun-ho, literally gun-ho. Gun season is open in Minnesota. So it's
1:42.6	orange season for us duck hunters.
1:44.8	Yeah, what is it, the third largest army in the world up there right now?
1:48.2	That's correct, man.
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