Mike Callian; Bucket Lists and Destinations, Eagle Prey, and New Decoys

Midwest Flyways Podcast

Midwest Flyways

Sports, Wilderness

2.4 • 819 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

This week we’re coming to you from the Gamefair studios presented by OnX Hunt and Ducks Unlimited. We sit down with friend, Mike Callian from Dave Smith Decoys to talk about his bucket list hunts and where he’d like to go to hunt birds. He shares some ideas with us about calling ducks as well and we get into a bunch of other topics including ducks and even dogs being taken by eagles and some new products at DSD. Thanks so much for listening and be sure to subscribe and review! New Waterfowl Film out now! Flooded Timber Duck Hunting in Arkansas 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 Real American Light Beer: Outlaw Beer Live Free: Turtlebox Add motion to your spread: Flashback Better Merch: /SHOP

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0:00.0	Welcome to our
0:01.4	Myos Flies podcast.
0:03.0	I am your host.
0:04.4	And this podcast is presented by Game Fair.
0:07.4	We are at the Game Fair in the Dux Unlimited and Onex Hunt booth here.
0:12.6	And so this is the first of the series here.
0:15.8	We are with Mike Callion from DSD.
0:18.6	Your first,
0:19.2	Mike.
0:19.9	Your first, Mike.
0:37.5	You're first. I can't wait. I'm so excited. It was really nice of you guys to set up the sauna. Yeah. This feels very therapeutic. Yeah, we have a cold plunge out back too. So you do the sauna, then you do the cold plunge, just kind of a whole thing. I can't wait. Yeah. We're big into like TikTok,
0:39.7	health fitness type videos right now.
0:34.9	Anything that we can... As you can see. Yeah. Same. Not so much TikTok, but health. You are in good shape, though. Like, you are in good shape? Yeah. No, round is a shape. Yeah. I wouldn't say that you're round. I wouldn't say you're round at all that.
0:36.0	Backhanded compliment.
0:37.2	No, come on.
0:38.2	It's fine.
0:38.9	Come on.
0:39.3	You look fit. I wouldn't say that you're round. I wouldn't say you're round at all that.
0:54.1	Backhanded compliment.
0:55.3	No, come on. He's fine. Come on. You look fit. I mean, I, you're not feeling fit. Is that what you're trying to say? You don't feel fit right now? So I actually did a 30-day carnivore diet. How did you feel? Good, good. It was kind of, and I'm sleeping better, weirdly enough.
0:53.5	Yeah.
0:54.5	I haven't done it for a while, especially with like the trade show run around and started to eat good. But yeah, no, it was good. Man, lost some weight and felt good. Did you do like a true carnivore or did you just do like animal products? No, there's like three tiers, I think, and one is like super hardcore, which is just like you're eating steak. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Anyone who does carnivore, like that's probably not correct. But there's like some extreme tiers and I did like the third one that was pretty easy. It was like some dairy and just animal proteins. So yeah, animal products. Manic. Butter, milk. Yeah.
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