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Midwest Flyways Podcast

Scouting: Where To Start

Midwest Flyways Podcast

Midwest Flyways

Sports, Wilderness

2.4819 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Scouting ducks and geese is one of the most important things you can do to help drive success in the field. Gear Guy Kolles joins us for this weeks TMT talking all things scouting but especially where to start looking and how to go about your scouting habits. Gavin gives his thoughts on how to find em and follow em to be on the X or at least on a good flight line to set up a traffic hunt. Thanks for listening and be sure to subscribe! New Waterfowl Film out now! Snow Geese in SD! Heirloom Goods for generations to come: RW Coolidge Go to OnXHunt to be better prepared for your hunt: OnX Learn more about better ammo: Migra Ammunitions Stop saying "Huh?" with better hearing protection: Soundgear Stay comfortable, dry and warm: First Lite Real American Light Beer: Outlaw Beer Better Merch: /SHOP

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, welcome back to another 10 minute Tuesday and with Gavin here, one of the guys I know who puts tons of miles on in the truck, scouting.

0:09.5

I wanted to do a little off-season refresher on scouting, the process of going through it, kind of where you start, where most people start, and like what that looks like, right?

0:20.5

So I think one of the things we get asked all the time is a lot of people try and like what that looks like right so i think one of the things we

0:22.3

get asked all the time is a lot of people try to like figure out the difference between like a

0:26.6

roost versus a loaf versus especially like if you're going to start scouting for the day are you

0:33.5

starting at water do you have kind of a list of fields you want to check?

0:40.5

Is it like based on what you've heard from people about areas?

0:42.2

Like what's your process you go through?

0:44.6

For me, like around home.

0:44.9

Yeah.

0:50.6

Around home, I generally start, like so I start scouting a little different than most guys.

0:55.3

I like to get ahead and figure out what crops are where, because then I can break it down differently.

0:57.6

So, like, we don't have a lot of small grain around.

1:01.0

So, like, there's only just say 10 small grain fields within five miles of the main roost I know.

1:03.4

So I mark those right away and I know where they're at.

1:05.5

So that way, like, for me, I can't always...

1:09.5

I try to be out the door

1:11.5

like at sunrise

1:12.5

or before and be at water at sunrise

1:15.4

when birds are getting off

1:16.5

I can follow and follow them to where they're going

1:18.4

it doesn't always work between my work schedule

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