Ramsey Russell: What changes have you seen since you was a little boy here in California? Theyre on the sides of the roads picking at grass. Ive got a six-foot one thats maybe a foot long. Casey Stafford: There was a couple guys making them, but they couldnt keep up with- You know how duck hunters are, somethings working, you got to have it. His oldest sister took care of them. Ramsey Russell: Brought over to the dark side of water fowling. Its just at some point in time, geologically, those glaciers that are melting up there didnt exist, and Arizona was the bottom of the ocean. It typically has an uninterrupted water supply. Can you tell me more stories about your dad and your uncles? The rest is history I guess. We strive to keep our members happy! And this is just a particular subspecies called the Tule Goose. Its guys that are looking for something in particular, like the Pintail. Ramsey Russell: Thats incredible. Hey, just warning guys that I hunt with in Mississippi, were fixing to use one. Those seasons actually go into February, I think. Casey Stafford: Yeah that box was originally created for the Aleutians. I mean, you talk to guys all the time, and everybody wants to go cheap on shotgun shells. I cant remember, was it last year? If thats what I remember them telling me. Casey Stafford: Based on what I saw yesterday. Magnetic Pick Stick, Scoot and Shoot Turkey Decoys much, much more. Casey Stafford: No, she grew up with her dad hound hunting. CICC Outdoor Adventures, right here in Sacramento Valley of California. We always do Christmas Eve, thats our thing. Casey Stafford: Yeah, I agree. Nearby Wildlife Management Areas and refuges include Dave . Do they? Northern California & Southern Oregon Guided Waterfowl Hunts. Youve been doing this long and hard, hundred day seasons since you were eighteen years old. The high-e hoodie and base layers are personal favorites that I wear worldwide. Its not just you and Cade, its your whole family, your daughter, Quinn, your wife. Dad, I want to go. Okay, okay. So we get in the blind, and were shooting ducks, and hes blowing his whistle, and hes got the Red Ryder, I mean he was a little shit. Thats all they want to do is kill ducks. Every single person Ive hunted with out here, about a dozen of you, is shooting Boss Shotshells. And they continued to do that and continued to do that until the shell was full, and then theyd cramp it, and then thats what theyd shoot when the geese jumped up, theyd shoot that into it and itd get out there and stretch out and take off wings and heads and necks and all kinds of stuff. USHuntList.combecause the next great hunt is closer than you think. And I asked them a long time ago how that all came into being, and he didnt describe exactly what we hunted over today, but something very similar. Pretty dang impressed. It's adjacent to the Border Tule Duck Club. What does CICC stand for? No crowds. Hes making the call lanyards with the drops. Ramsey Russell: How long do you think that monofilament would have been fully expanded? Join our community of music lovers and get the latest news about upcoming shows, giveaways, and more. Casey Stafford: Yeah, predominantly rice. I rent seasonal duck blinds too, and I dont care if I have fifty, if I have a hundred, those seats dont sit unfilled. Ive seen teal hit it. I know this from our conversations, but she didnt grow into duck hunting. But Voormi is not your ordinary wool. Im assuming they kind of raised you into this hunting. I really dont think we would have that much more impact on the species period. Our properties have been expertly managed to provide safe, productive, and sustainable hunting for years to come. No matter what, the four of us go duck hunting Christmas Eve day. Ramsey Russell: Yeah, I dont want a newbie, I want one of the originals. And how old is he, sixteen, seventeen? The property is on the right side of the road. Casey Stafford: Yeah, you can put people from all walks of life together in a duck blind, and we all have that one thing in common is the love for the duck hunting. And if not, Im coming back to see you, Im coming back to see you. And the only guys flooding were duck hunters. Yeah. Three or four decades ago, they werent hunted? The current owners of this property hunt ducks, turkeys, pheasants, & dove. Ramsey Russell: After 10-gauges and 12-gauges. Casey Stafford: Yeah, it is. The salt content of drainage water flowing from the Grassland area (105,000 acres of farmland, wildlife refuges and duck clubs) on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley is high and sources of dilution water are limited. That is the BOSS Way. Casey Stafford: You get up in the air, a lot of people call it Lake California. This rarely offered, very private 304+/- acre duck club is a real gem. Ramsey Russell: I love people that do stuff like this, but theres a lot of guys making straps, making totes, making stuff like that. I mean have you ever heard the origins of how that thing came to be or who invented it? Ramsey Russell: Okay, whats the difference in there and here? Im constantly turning it on and off, but it will run four, five days. But thats really the only way to get rid of it anymore. Ramsey Russell: Outdoor Adventures. We deliver it to you in the most proficient manner possible. Mostly furnished 2,000 +/- clubhouse. This is the third morning Ive hunted in California. And I guess youre set up for specks. How to pool your resources with others to secure your own piece of waterfowling heaven. Some of them still absolutely cannot resist it. And I thought, Yeah thats cool. But looking at it now thinking, Man, theres no way, I couldnt do it.. And Ive seen them as big when they first started being made that were thirty-six inches long. That was back in the old days, and we dont get it like that anymore. Do you think theres as many hunters around? And so the time of year that theyre supposedly here and using those refuges is about mid-December through the end of the season. I mean, you see up here, thats all there is: dirt and country and thats what we do. And from that idea they had this idea of why dont we create this illusion of movement? and the rest is history. Like I have my core of my clientele right now, I would say is in the 50 to 80 year old range, and dont get me wrong, I mean I got some 30 year olds, 40 year old guys in there, but you see those thirty and forty year old guys that come up hunting, and very few of them have a kid with them, their kids just havent been brought into it, initiated into it, or they just dont enjoy it. For the hunt. Using patent-pending Specialized Target Optimization (STO), the worlds first hearing technology designed optimize hearing for hunters in their specific hunting environments. Even if we remain in the closure, if they knock it down to two birds and let us shoot them all season long, Ill quit my griping or give us three all season long, Im not asking for the ten because theres not that many days where everybody is going to go out and shoot their three specklebellies. Lets try that. That never would have crossed my mind in a million years to do something like it. You show up. Location: The Mallard Pacific is located inside the Sutter Bypass approximately 1/2 miles South of the 113 Bridge. When I went to put my gun in the back of your Can-Am there, I saw one. But they will work their way back up North, and those guys will get them good in the green. Why wouldnt you want a good clean kill? Its where the Mallards like to be. Casey Stafford: Ive had a guide license since I was eighteen years old. I mean I shoot what everyone calls the elephant gun. What are your personal thoughts on that? The reason hunters at Colusa National Wildlife Refuge enjoy some of the best public duck hunting in the Sacramento Valley is simple: location. About Us. And then after college, I started my own company -my wife and I- Stafford Waterfowl and we ran that until 2007. Have you heard anything about that? And I tell my clients, I tell the guys that lease from me all the time, I said, You guys, why are you doing that? Thats the cheapest part of hunting. And thats the only place we are restricted is inside that closure area where we hunted today. And he says, You got to see this. And I thought, Oh boy, do I? He turned that thing on, and it started squealing, making that little bit of noise that it does, and I looked at that thing and thought, No way. It started to get light, and I kid you not, them ducks would come from as high and as far as you could see them, and they would come straight to it. It just commanded ducks like nothing. True or false: Way back in the day, fifty, sixty years ago as a little boy, you once saw somebody shoot eight geese out of ten shots in the air with a 22 long rifle. Its almost worth crawling out in the middle of them to tap the shell just to watch it happen. Guided ducks hunts are the way to go for the best hunting experience. And he would sit there on a day when he never fired a shell, and hed be happy as a clam when he came home just being out there. People are passionate about duck hunting. This is the most beautiful area in California to hunt waterfowl. Casey Stafford: Well, what we were in today is called the Sacramento Valley Special Management Area. He hunted with me quite a bit. Tom BeckbeThe Tom Beckbe lifestyle is timeless, harkening an American era that hunting gear lasted generations. Following a kick-butt, pea-soup foggy morning rice field duck hunt, Casey Stafford of CCIC Outdoor Adventures and Ramsey Russell talk about waterfowl hunting in Californias Sacramento Valley. Folks, yall have been listening to Casey Stafford CICC Outdoor Adventures. Casey Stafford: We love big game hunting, I would say. We got a lot more hunting to do and a lot more good shows coming up. Call to make an appointment to view our available properties. Those blades were spinning, and the fan would draw the air through the greenhouse. Ramsey Russell: Yeah, but you were telling me youve actually shot some, I mean you do shoot these birds outside the zone. Well see you next time. But in the last fifteen years, the population, its incredible how many. Superior Suisun Duck Club on west side. I mean its farming country, but I did not expect this nice, newish Hampton Inn. No racing to claim the best blinds. Located in the heart of the Sacramento Valley Corridor and the larger Pacific Flyway, Sebia Duck Club is situated in an ideal spot. But its the same circular spinning wings that they see all the time. And look, thank you all for your hospitality. Its impressive, a lot of black-tails, and Quinn killed a heck of a buck this year. Executive Ram Duck Club offers private blinds or clubs for annual or mulit-year lease for groups of duck hunters. Ramsey Russell: Im a daddy. I just remembered from the time we stepped out of the pickup truck until the time we left, the whole time I felt like I was in a fish bowl. This 316-acre club is strategically located between the 7,400-acre North Grasslands Wildlife Area. Hes been making those, and I asked him today because I cant remember, but its been three or four years hes been making them, and I asked him, How many you think youve made? He dont even know. Casey Stafford: Hey man, hes hustling and killing it. Because if the water is hard, theyre not accessing those fields youre talking about, theyve got to go South. Ramsey Russell: California doesnt have the lax conservation order that some of the other parts of the country does. Some guys are using ten, fifteen in their spread. I hear the same thing, around here, Sutter, you wouldnt know that by looking at these kids. Whats the distinction between a Tule Goose and typical white-Fronted Goose? Sacramento International Airport is the closet commercial airport to our location. Ramsey Russells Duck Season Somewhere podcast is available anywhere you listen to podcasts. BOOK NOW WATERFOWL BLINDS GALLERY I absolutely never leave home without one. But thats part of the history, its a story. The new 36-page, full color GetDucks.com brochure is loaded with photography from the worlds best duck hunting adventures, to include trip summaries, available bird species, testimonial reviews and much more. I mean its a bigger bird and then I have noticed over the years, its not, I would say a fact, but 99% of the stuff that I can tell you that Im sure is a Tule goose, has like an orange eyelid. Theres no eighteen to twenty year olds passionate about this stuff to come in and help us. Thats kind of sobering. Quinns following in her footsteps. This duck hunting has gotten so weather dependent. Mojo Outdoors, forever changing the way you hunt. They would come over that tree line of that refuge and see that thing, and they would dive straight for it. How are you, Casey? 511 acres. We are located near Jonesboro, Arkansas, squarely in the duck rich delta region of northeast Arkansas. Argentina, Mexico, 6 whole continents worth. Flashback Decoy by Duck Creek Decoy Works. And back in the day when they were doing this to survive, that was the time to shoot. Ramsey Russell: So its not even originally a Speck zone. Its the practical hunting gear that we real duck hunters deserve. Learn More The Ultimate Goose & Duck Hunting Experience In Northern California! Whether youre a first-timer, a once-in-a-life-timer, or an every year traveler, great duck hunting is only a few hours travel away. I forget the dates this year, but it usually starts like the tenth, twelfth somewhere in February and goes for five days. Description: The Mallard Pacific is 304.57 assessed acres of restored natural waterfowl habitat. So I hope to get back up here with you one day and go after them. When I shoot my 20-gauge, thats all I shoot. I didnt pay attention, figuring it must be somebody got them in their backyard nearby. And it is duck season in California. Casey Stafford: Yeah. Casey Stafford: No, we get five days following the duck season. Casey Stafford: Thats absolutely the truth, 100%. Turn right and go 0.3 miles. Casey Stafford: Yeah they were hand loading their own ammunition, and they didnt have- I dont know if they hadnt bought any, or they didnt have any around, or they were sitting around and just thought it would be a good idea, but they would actually take like a hundred or a hundred twenty pound monofilament fishing line, a ten or twelve inch piece, and you cramp a couple split shot on each end, and then they would coil it up inside a shotgun shell. Casey Stafford: Im so busy guiding and have been for the last twenty years, that during duck season, I dont get a lot of time to hunt with my family. Making very nice totes. 2007 is when I went to work for the tribe. I know coming from the Mississippi Flyway this year, its warm up North. JOIN WAITLIST Welcome to Northern Flight Duck Club. Ramsey Russell: Thats good. Thats scary. And its all flooded, so it can be decomped, thats seven hundred thousand acres of just rice habitat sitting out here flooded. Shes a big duck hunter herself. Ramsey Russell: Oh, yeah I can see that, come all the way from the East Coast to shoot shovelers. He shot heavy shot, he shot Kent Bismuth. This duck club has a 3.4 gun average and has been a consistent shooter. You all stay tuned. Whenever that Boss first came out, he said, Dad, I just ordered some Boss. And I thought, Oh great, whats Boss? And then it showed up, and I looked at the payload on it and what it was, and I thought, Heck, that should do. He was the first one. I mean its like you go to Jackson Square in New Orleans, and theres millions of freaking pigeons. Sometimes they would come so fast and get to that steel, and theyd hit the water and sit right under it, and the mallards will just sit under there and talk to it. I know in Oregon you can shoot the little Canadas, and I think specks all the way up into March. Casey Stafford: Theyre stone dead. Everybodys loading their guns and shots are going off. I mean you hunted with my boy this morning, his friends, theyre die hard. The only thing you buy one for five, ten bucks, the RPMs are no good. Casey Stafford: I would say it was. They get like thirty days because those geese are making their way back up North and picking on the alfalfa fields and the wheat fields. Worked for Merlot Waterfowl when I was going to college up at Chico State. And so we got our hands on one of those or maybe two of them and got to looking at them and said, Okay, we can make that. So we were making our own out of all kinds of scrap metal, you name it. Since 1937, DU has conserved almost 15million acres of waterfowl habitat across North America. My dad and them, as I got a little older, and they got a little older, theyd done all the killing they needed to do, I guess. I pulled on my waders this morning, I got my jacket, got my stuff together while yall were backing off your quad. And so then people were buying motors here, buying motors there, wed go to radio shack and get remote control car motors and try those. And of course, we all know what a Mojo spinning-wing decoy is today. Ramsey Russell: Thats incredible. So why come down here? Ramsey Russell: It didnt really strike you as impressive back then. Casey Stafford: Yeah, I know. And its one I want to check off my list. But the biggest thing I think Ive seen is in years past, up until about ten or fifteen years ago, every bird, once it got cold, they come out of Canada and they ended up here, they made their way here eventually. They need to be annihilated. With ones, its two and a sixteenth ounce ones. And he says, Well, Dad, in his little kid voice. Theyre stone dead. . Back in the day with them punt guns and everything. The natural levees that border the Sacramento-Feather River system create backwater basins of heavy clay soils that sustain rice farms and duck clubs. And now with all the water, it spreads them out a lot more, but its good for all species, its good for any species of waterfowler. Casey Stafford: Yeah. Now when the season opens, the third weekend in October, we got tons and tons of Snow Geese around here. Its new breed of proprietary thermal wool takes it next levelit doesnt itch, is surface-hardened to bead water from shaking duck dogs, and is available in your favorite earth tones and a couple unique concealment patterns. Then birds get out there, they get lost, they get confused, and they dont know where theyre going or where theyre getting back to. And theres a whole big cycle thats far bigger than a human life span is what Im trying to say. All waterfowlers share the dream of having their own private marsh, where they can hunt without the pressures and restrictions of public areas. Maybe not so much with the archery yet, but you put horns in front of her, and that kids willing to chase it, ready to chase it. Casey Stafford: And as many clients as we run through the business every year, I see that. Forever. I get a lot of guys looking for the Ross geese and the Shovelers. Casey Stafford: Well, when I was young, wed go out there- Youve been in a grind of geese, how deafening they are before, especially if you can get in the middle of them. Ramsey Russell: Welcome back to Duck Season Somewhere. California aint whats beaming at you on your television, folks. . THE HUNT OF A LIFETIME IS WITHIN YOUR GRASP. But they say they did it. Casey Stafford: The CICC is the Colusa Indian Community Council. DO NOT TRESSPASS!!! Classic design and rugged materials withstand the elements. Thats foremost on my list, is a Tule goose. And I dont know. And they taught me some stuff I probably shouldnt have known. She takes them, goes with blind, does it all. Ramsey Russell: Yeah. TETRA gives hunters an edge and gives them their edge back. Casey Stafford: Im good. And historically, wed get those banks of fog like that, that would be sometimes a week, sometimes ten days, sometimes two, three weeks where you never even see the sun. How old were you when you started hunting? How in the world did you get into it? Ten, twelve inches. The club has guaranteed water rights, hosts upland (wild and planted) hunting, year round access for dog training as well as fishing opportunities. Ramsey Russell: It seemed to have worked. Ramsey Russell: And you were telling me this morning youre the original, that thing is at least thirty, forty years old. I was surprised to learn that California rice production is second only to Arkansas. Theres a million different ways that guys do it. And they said it would just start twisting out there and ripping through the air. I mean its a bigger bird and then I have noticed over the years, its not, I would say a fact, but 99% of the stuff that I can tell you that Im sure is a Tule goose, has like an orange-yellow eyelid around its eye. Thousands upon thousands of clients Im sure youve had come through your blinds. It really does. The tree lined center section of the property would be an ideal location for a tree stand! I mean thats a pretty liberal bag limit. Casey Stafford: Typically theyre going to be a larger bird. The dad loves the hunt, and the kid sits on the corner the whole time on his phone and he says, Daddy, my hands are cold. Daddy this. And now that my secrets out Ill tell yall something else: Ive got 3 of them. But we started out, we always had people around here that we knew, lamb we could hunt. Back in the day, theyd showed me some of the stuff they did. What was it like growing up duck hunting this region, who were Caseys mentors and what were their backgrounds? Casey Stafford: Yeah, thats a good way to explain it. I guarantee you because if you wing one down like that, and we didnt wing down many because I got to say this, and I know everybodys tired of hearing me talk about this on this program. Why is it that Sac Valley waterfowlers prefer foggy mornings? You look at all the cases that are all Boss Shotshells. But it wasnt just one, it was a bunch of them. Yeah, he was like maybe, four years old, me and a buddy went out hunting, and we took him with us. And we get done, and were sitting there and I said, Well, what do you think Cade, do you like it? And she got to where she enjoys it. So Id say that was a good representation. Ramsey Russell: It truly does. It absolutely positively does. I was surprised because we had stopped somewhere along the way as were coming in, we had stopped and rolled down the windows and listened, and I heard tons of pintails that I really expected to see. As a duck hunter, its worrisome that for whatever reason, and I dont hang it on any particular habitat or user group up the Flyway as much as just the weather. Its over seven hundred thousand acres of rice production. Casey Stafford: Im going to say theyre hitting the nail right on the head with that Boss copper-plated bismuth. The Sacramento Valley has mild winters and hot, dry summers. The Tensas Jacket is like the one my grandfather wore. No, I would like to see us be able to do more in California. Many hunts include volunteer or professional guides, making them suitable for novice hunters. It behaves exactly like a feeding mallard, making slick-as-glass water roil to life. It was over in District 10, and I would be willing to bet thats what it was. Duck Hunting California's Sac Valley A lot of people call [the Sacramento Valley] "Lake California." You get over the top of it and look down and all you see is water for miles and miles and miles. They called it a T-Post, they called it a Goalpost, some people called it the Blade, and some people called it the Davis Machine. I know who you are. I remembered, but of course, I didnt recognize because Cade jumped two foot since I saw him last. Business inquiries or comments contact Ramsey Russell at ramsey@getducks.com. So it had to have been mid-nineties, its crazy whats happened in such short order of time. I saw all those racks yall got lined up out in the garage. Location: From County Road 13 Go North or County Road 98 for 1.3 miles. Get involved, have fun and make a lasting impact. By the numbers, Ive bagged 121 waterfowl subspecies bagged on 6 continents, 20 countries, 36 US states and growing. Theres a lot of almonds, a lot of walnuts and stuff going in. And then they come out at night to feed. They have a hill ranch, thats seven thousand acres that I manage for them. What else are you all killing out here? All my duck blinds, the one we hunted today, like I was telling you this morning, Id already pulled like five hundred decoys this week just because the ducks were starting to not like the big spreads, and were skirting them, but we start the season typically with about five hundred goose floaters at every duck blind and a couple hundred duck decoys. All right, now look, you told me some stories this morning I want to hear. It almost pains me to tell yall about Duck Creek Decoy Works new Flashback Decoy because inthe words of Flashback Decoy inventor Tyler Baskfield, duck hunting gear really is an arms race. At my Mississippi camp, his flashback decoy has been a top-secret weapon among my personal bag of tricks. And I think it just shifts the Flyway, but theres still, I cant tell you exactly how many acres for sure there is rice, but theres plenty of rice for the birds. Casey Stafford: Our familys been here for- I guess my dad and them were kids, were born and raised here in Yuba City. That doesnt make any sense to me because when I think about hunting back home, I dont want fog. Ive got an old one thats completely different than that one thats probably twenty-four, twenty-five inches long. Ramsey Russell: And you said that thing will run forever on that thing. And it is duck season in California. If I have a cancellation or if I get done early one morning, the kids are off school, Ill come home and get them and take them. But they grew up here. Ramsey Russell: The center blade on that that you used this morning, Id say about two-foot long. I dont care what the news and what the negativity of the world says. I mean both the kids have been in the middle of this stuff since they were born, but Ive got pictures of Cade hunting with us. This check applies primarily to smaller business entities. You go into the Raleys parking lot, and you got to fight them off to get into your car. How have things changed? Casey Stafford: I know I was in high school when we couldnt shoot them. And that was pretty cool. The areas rich history makes hunting the West Gustine Gun Club something truly special. Well, I know that I didnt have a signal. That might be a good tip to know.
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