Episode #92: Armistice Day Blizzard - The Day the Duck Hunters Died
The Big Honker Podcast
Andy Shaver & Jeff Stanfield
4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2018
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Jeff and Andy explore the Armistice Day blizzard of 1940. Knowing that a cold front was expected, families of duck hunters prepared for a day in the duck spread. November 11, 1940 started off warm, leaving many ducks hunters unprepared for the snow and 50 mph north wind that was just hours away. This was the day the duck hunters died.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey ladies and gentlemen, thanks for tuning into the Big Honker Podcast, hunting seasons here, so we hope everything's going good. |
| 0:07.0 | As always, this show is brought to you by Die Bomb Industries. They're the leader in silhouette manufacturing Jeff. |
| 0:12.0 | Well, by God, they sure are. This weekend, we... They're the leader in silhouette manufacturing Jeff. |
| 0:13.0 | Well by God they sure are. |
| 0:14.4 | This weekend we've done a little shoot while we did an afternoon field hunt. |
| 0:17.2 | We've hunted two weekends in a row on Saturdays. |
| 0:19.4 | Just the guys, a fun hunt, no client, staff only. All we do is throw up a few dive bombs. |
| 0:24.7 | Last weekend all we did was use Mallards, absolutely shot the shit out of the ducks, killing |
| 0:29.0 | gadwals and wogens, you don't need nothing but them dive bomb silhouettes. |
| 0:32.0 | Highly recommend them them go get them |
| 0:33.8 | at dive bomb industries dot com. |
| 0:35.7 | And we had to walk all of our shit in so uh this past weekend for goose hunting still can't |
| 0:40.5 | drive in too wet in Texas so dive bomb over |
| 0:43.0 | dive bomb bag over each shoulder start walking to the spot you got 10 |
| 0:46.5 | dozen right over your shoulder so go to dive bomb industries dot com today and |
| 0:50.7 | get what you need and while we were shooting the shell of them ducks, we used one |
| 0:55.0 | ammo and one ammo only folks. |
| 0:57.0 | Boss shot shells. |
| 0:59.0 | No kid yourself, I had a guy asked me there today, |
| 1:01.0 | they said, well, they're a little bit more expensive. |
| 1:02.0 | He only takes one. You know, it takes one. I had a guy asked me there today, they said, well they're a little bit more expensive. |
| 1:02.6 | You only takes one. |
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