I'm feeling I'm feeling spry

Hey, everybody's around me with the hunting dog podcast. It's the 31st of July. That means what? We got one more month. We got one more month to just plow through and we will be in hunting season. I'll be personally, I'll be starting my season in Virginia with the dove opener with the whole famed gambling. That's right. My daughter, all my daughters, and there's been my son-in-laws, my wife, my grandkids,

no, obviously not only so many of us are going to shoot. Someone's got to stay back and watch the grandkids. But yeah, we're going to be down there for the dove opener. So I hope you have great plans coming up for your dove or Prairie Bird opener on September 1st. If you don't, if you're struggling what to do, how to go? If you're still trying to figure out the stuff, I would suggest you become a Patreon patron. We got twice a month Zoom rooms and this last one Thursday.

It was a doozy. We got into a lot of stuff all about me, and NAVDA, and Wright, and Wrong, and social media. We named names. And now my HTTP talk people, you know, they got wind of this before everybody. And I'll be doing that again this coming week. And that will be the... Well, that'll be the... What was that during the Civil War? Where was that one place that the first shot was?

Fort Sumner? Something like that? That's going to be the fourth... That's going to be the shot heard around the world on the next HTTP talk. Until then, I hope you didn't miss Pike Gears Open House on Saturday. That would have been yesterday, Saturday, the 29th. I couldn't get over there. I had some family commitments, but I know they had a special open house from 10 to 2 to see all the new stuff from the T-shirts, to the new shirts, to the new pants, to the new new...

Not everything new. Not everything new. Some new colors, some new formats. It's not going to be around... If you wait till the middle of the hunting season, you may have a problem getting your Pike Gears. I'm just telling you, so don't dilly and don't dally. And in patrons, you know, you just... You write me before you buy your next pair of Pike Gears. You don't buy a pair of Pike Gears. Well, you know what I'm saying. Call me first. Write me.

Actually, I also want you to write me. Now, I asked a few people wrote in. Actually, a lot of patrons did. In about two weeks, before Justin leaves for his three or four-week hiatus, pre-season dog training, not guiding, but just... He always runs out to the west with his dogs, gets them on early sharp tails and huns before the season. He promised me we would get a podcast done. We've got a good, solid, handful of questions, but you know, they become...

You know, that one, just like that one, that one's just like that one, that one's... So, please, write me at Ronby at the Hunting Dog Podcast. If you've got a question for Justin or for I, if it comes down to Nav2Training or Nav2Testing, I'd be glad to throw that into the mix. But do that. If it's a pre-season thing, if something's going on in your training, perfect thing to do. I mean, if you haven't bought the Upland Institute, which would guide you through all of that, it's the perfect thing to do. Write me that question to Ronby at the Hunting Dog Podcast and say,

Justin, what would you do if, or what do I do when my dog does this? Anyway, so there. Onyx maps, now you will not, they will not run out of Onyx maps before hunting season or during hunting season or after hunting season. Obviously, they don't have to sew them together, like Pike here has to do. So you will not, but that's another one. If you're an Onyx Elite member, you can get a whole lot of the Upland Institute stuff.

Free, and then make your decision up. And if you are an Upland Institute member, that's not an Onyx Elite member. We will be sending you an email with a doozy. Now, you know, you can get Onyx 20% off at Walgreens. I don't care what magazine, what podcast, everybody get no. They picked it up a little bit for anybody who's an existing Upland Institute customer. Yeah, they can become Onyx Elite.

And nobody's ever saved this much money. That's truth. You know, I just, well, I think you know, we had to Hunter's Happy Hour last weekend. We're going to be starting a show called Hunting Dog Podcast trivia. And we kind of debuted it on the Hunter's Happy Hour last Wednesday. We had about a thousand people, you know, short, short notice. We put a couple ads up on Instagram, told a few people about it, had about a thousand people come in. But this is going to be a regular feature that I'm going to do once a month.

And I'll tell you what, it's tough to get good questions with a little backstory.

Can't just be like some of the ones I did where he's like, how many teeth does a dog have? I remember Nick Larson said 23.

So even if that was close, just here's a hint. It's an even number, Nick, not not an odd number. Anyway, so that's going to be coming up here. And there's going to be some, there's going to be some competition.

If you are a patron of my show or Nick show or Bob Owens show, a loan duck podcast, if you are a patron of Tyler Webster show, we are going to pick patrons.

One of these months to play against each other and Ben Brennington from Onyx Maps, he jumped in from his hospital room, not his hospital room, his wife and daughter's hospital room.

He just had a brand spankin' new baby less than 29 hours old. And he jumped down from the hospital room and he whipped everybody's butt.

Ten questions about dogs, guns, people, places. Boy, that sounds like a shooting sportsman head, doesn't it? And alcohol. And there will be some cigar and cigarette questions always tied into the upland and hunting world.

So be lookin' for that. That's going to be a lot of fun. And I will release those as just a regular podcast without me droning on like I've done for six minutes.

If you haven't ordered your boss shot shells, please do so. I'm going to be heading down there probably this week, if not certainly the week after. And after I snag a bunch of shells out of there, there's going to be less shells for you to buy.

Get your shells this year, boss's new facility. If you're anywhere near Southeast Michigan, basically for a lack of a better term to the Benton Harbor area, you oughta go down there and see the plant and pick up your shells, save some money on shipping. I would.

Well, I'm going to, actually, no, they're going to give me some shells, but that's alright. Walton's has just sent me a brand new grinder.

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