EP19 - Mixing Silos & Full Bodies with Alex Russo of Flatland Flyways
Dive Bomb Squadcast
Ashur Tolliver
4.9 • 561 Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2020
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
The #1 question that we see over & over again... "Can you mix Dive Bomb silhouettes with full bodies?" On Episode 19, Nick Costas & I sat down with our toughest sell yet, Mr. Alex Russo, owner of Flatland Flyways. Being an outfit that was exclusively running the most premium full body decoys on the market, how was Nick able to convince Russo to give Dive Bomb 2-D decoys a shot & what has been their experience since doing so? Russo is a humble man with a great story running a premium outfitter, you guys are going to love this one!
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Dive Bomb Squadcast presented by Dibbong Industries. |
| 0:10.0 | What's up guys? Ashert Oliver here with another episode of the Dive Bomb Squadcast. I hope you all are doing awesome and enjoying some great days in the field. For those of you that follow us on social media, |
| 0:23.4 | you already know we just got back from Cold Bay, Alaska, |
| 0:26.8 | chasing Black Brand and wow, what a trip that was. |
| 0:30.3 | Total bucket list experience, highly, highly recommend. |
| 0:33.6 | Moving forward, I got my man Nick Costas on here to co-host with me, |
| 0:36.8 | and we are joined today by our friend in South Dakota, owner of Flatland Flyways, Mr. Alex Rousseau. Rousseau, what's happening, man? Not a lot. Thanks for having me on here, guys. Yeah, man, thanks for joining us. Nick, I know we don't spend too much time apart this time of year and you've been away from me for over what like 24 hours you missing me yet it's nice to have you off my off my freaking back |
| 1:00.4 | yeah all right well let's jump into this thing all right russo can you tell me when flatland |
| 1:08.2 | flyways was officially established what was your motivation behind starting |
| 1:15.5 | a premium waterfowel outfitter? Can you just kind of give us a little introduction to Flatland |
| 1:21.3 | flyways? Yeah, so basically Flatland Flyways was officially started in 2013. |
| 1:31.0 | When we built the lodge, that would have been the following year. |
| 1:34.1 | So 2014, I guess, would be when we actually started the, I guess, attempt to have a premier |
| 1:42.8 | outfit and location for people to come and have a waterfall |
| 1:46.4 | adventure. |
| 1:49.1 | Basically, the drive of starting it was obviously the cliche thing everyone says is the passion |
| 1:57.9 | of waterfall hunting that we all shared up here and grew up on and obviously |
| 2:04.9 | it was kind of always a dream that a lot of kids you know had or have watching other hunting shows or |
| 2:14.6 | videos growing up i know like the the zinc videos and the Avery videos that we used to |
| 2:21.1 | watch kind of really got us in in drive mode to try to, you know, make waterfall hunting |
| 2:28.1 | our livelihood. So that, I think that's very similar with a lot of people around the country. |
| 2:36.2 | It's just that I was fortunate enough, and I say that with a lot of meaning behind it, that |
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