HPOWP 15: Gadwall Profile, Hunting Over Silhouette Decoys with Al Falkenstein of Big Al's Decoys
The HP Outdoors Waterfowl Podcast
Josh Palm
4.8 • 989 Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2014
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
In this week's episode our duck profile segment features the Gadwall! We are also joined by Al Falkenstein of Big Al's Decoys to discuss proper techniques for hunting with silhouette decoys. Additionally, we discuss the Senate's approval to increasing the Federal Duck Stamp to $25, and we cover a few recalls recently announced by Hevi-Shot and Remington. As always, the "Parting Shot" closes the show.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the HBO outdoors Waterfowl Podcast, we continue our duck profile segment and feature the Gadwall. |
| 0:27.5 | And we're also going to be joined by Al Al Alkenstein of Big Owl's silhouette decoys to talk about how to appropriately hunt over silhouette decoys. |
| 0:37.0 | All right, we would like to welcome you to this the 15th episode of the |
| 0:47.0 | HP Outdoors Waterfowl Podcast. Joining me on this episode as always is my |
| 0:52.2 | co-host Dan Horushka Dan how are you sir? |
| 0:54.3 | I'm doing very well how about yourself? I'm doing well. Really excited about the |
| 0:59.6 | show that we have this week I think it's just one that's got a ton of information packed into it |
| 1:05.5 | and is a lot of really great things that you know we need to to mention to a lot of |
| 1:11.8 | our listeners for safety and some things that are going on kind of in the waterfowl world right now. |
| 1:16.0 | So we're going to touch on all of that. |
| 1:18.0 | You know, we're going to continue the duck profile segment and we're going to feature the Gadwall this week and you and I have |
| 1:24.9 | certainly been on at least one really good Gadwall hunt in our time together so we'll probably |
| 1:31.2 | talk about that a little more down the road. |
| 1:33.0 | And we're going to be joined by Al Falkenstein of Big Al's silhouette style decoys. |
| 1:40.0 | And we really wanted to have him on the show because there's a lot of sort of |
| 1:44.0 | misinformation and a lot of kind of stigma out there about you know two-dimensional |
| 1:48.9 | silhouette decoy so we're really excited to have him on the show and sort of address some of those concerns, you know, with us. |
| 1:55.6 | And, you know, I think, you know, it's a conversation that a lot of people will take a lot away from. |
| 2:00.4 | So, really looking forward to all of that. I know you had the annual holiday of the Pennsylvania |
| 2:09.2 | Deer Season opener up there in Pennsylvania and a couple nice bucks were taken up there off of the |
| 2:16.0 | Hurryfka Ranch. |
| 2:17.0 | Yeah, the commencement of the Orange Army like every year, 750,000 people in Pennsylvania here. |
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