August 18, 2025 • 36 mins
The Ducks Unlimited National Trip Auction is an exciting annual online auction event that appeals to outdoor enthusiasts and travelers alike. It offers a diverse array of trips and experiences that cater to various interests and budgets. Now in its fourth year, the auction has evolved significantly since its inception, showcasing a wide range of adventures that extend beyond traditional hunting trips. Tune in to learn more about the exciting trips up for auction and get a behind-the-scenes look at the preparation that makes it all possible!
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Jimbo Robinson (00:56):
Welcome back the Ducks Unlimited podcast. I'm
your host, Jimbo Robinson, andwe have Scott Anderson on the
other end today, here to talkabout probably one of the most
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exciting things this summer asfar as online auctions are, and
that's our national tripauction. And as always, we have
our world famous audio engineer,mister Chris Isaac, gonna join
us today.
Chris Isaac (01:31):
Howdy. The people aren't used to hearing my voice.
Jimbo Robinson (01:33):
I know. That's why I asked. I'm new for them.
So Hello, Scott?
Scott Anderson (01:38):
I'm here and ready to go.
Jimbo Robinson (01:39):
How many before we dive into this topic today,
how many months have you spenton this?
Scott Anderson (01:49):
For sure, you know, it's really hard pressed
to the last two to three months,but it's one of those things
where we're kinda, you know,when we get into the details of
this, we're kinda sourcing tripsand looking for trips and
talking to people eventhroughout the year. We're we we
wanna try to find that uniquestuff out there, so it's it's
kind of an ongoing thingthroughout, you know, the entire
year, all three hundred andsixty five days, but it gets
real serious in the last two tothree months here, and it gets
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real serious the last week whenwhen trips and and stuff just
start pouring in at that lastsecond.
Jimbo Robinson (02:17):
Wow. Well, not all hosts do this, but I love
the flock shot. So we're gonnarun through a quick flock shot
with you. I'm gonna ask youquestions. Give me your favorite
really quick, so let's cue thebutton.
Chris, what's your favoritecolor Gatorade? Blue. Do you
know the flavor?
Scott Anderson (02:36):
Arctic? Is that blue? The light blue? It's like
kinda that sky blue color.
Jimbo Robinson (02:40):
Jordan or LeBron? Jordan. Elway or Brady?
Brady. Brady.
Brady. Oh. Interesting.Interesting. Over and under or
semi auto?
Scott Anderson (02:53):
Semi auto. For waterfowl. Alright.
Jimbo Robinson (02:55):
Alright. And last one, what's your favorite?
Tequila or bourbon? Oh.
Scott Anderson (03:02):
I have to choose between those two.
Chris Isaac (03:04):
Or or a cold beer? Like, generally tequila,
generally bourbon, or specifictequila, bourbon.
Jimbo Robinson (03:11):
I say either or. Like, we're in the summer.
Right? So I thought you may saysummertime, maybe. Yeah.
K. Margarita.
Scott Anderson (03:17):
Generally tequila over bourbon. Okay. I
don't think cold beer.
Jimbo Robinson (03:21):
Whatever. Good fun. Alright. Ranch water. Ranch
waters are good, especially inthe summer as hot as it is here
in Memphis.
Mhmm. Scotty, why don't you giveus a little well, first off, you
know, you're our director ofnontraditional fundraising.
Online fundraising is kind of,you know, what you do and and
well, not what you do becausewhat y'all do is so much bigger
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than that in today's world. Butwhy don't you give a little
history of nontraditional or theauction, kind of where it
started, how it how it came tobe, and then what the genesis of
it for those that may not knowwhat the DU National Trip
Auction even is.
Scott Anderson (03:58):
Yeah. So it's it's it's in its fourth year
here, and it's it's kind ofintriguing what it's turned into
and where it's gone, and it'sexciting to where it's gonna
keep going forward with it. Butabout four years ago, we were
looking at a trip that actuallycame out of Montana from a local
chapter that they used to justauction a a goose and mallard
hunt around the local area inMontana off of their local
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banquet. And, you know, you'regonna do some field hunting
there, so you're hunting kindacut cornfields and stuff like
that and in the snowpotentially. And for anyone at
that auction or that banquet inMontana, that's kind of an
everyday occurrence.
They they can go do it anywhere,so, you know, any day they
wanted, the duck season. So,like, they it sold, but it
didn't really sell impressivelyhigh. And one year, about five
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years ago, it dropped into anational auction called Into the
Vault, and it sold for a crazyhigh number. And what we kind of
realized from that is someperson, say, I think it was down
Southeast, maybe in Florida, whoreally doesn't have that
opportunity to go out and easilyhunt crop fields, ag fields, in
the snow or for mallards in inCanada's, saw that, and for
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them, it was a bucket list trip,and they just jumped all over
it, and it just started abidding war amongst several
people that were kind of in thatsame thought process. And so
that just kind of kicked intoour head is like, we have these
trips that are sourced byvolunteers and regional
directors across the country attheir local banquets that are
just kind of a normal occurrencefor them.
What if we took all those andkind of put them into a
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nationally promoted auction thatallowed anyone in the country to
get the opportunity at thesebucket list trips that they may
be dying to go on, but they justdon't know how to find the right
outfitter or the right locationor, you know, whatever setup is
good for them. And we wanna putthem all in one spot and give
them that option to jump in andtry to get those bucket list
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trips.
Jimbo Robinson (05:49):
And and do you only source them through do you
only source them throughregional directors or or
volunteers, or can somebody justsubmit one to you if they are
listening to this and and anoutfitter, they're like, man,
I'd I'd like to submit one tothis if I'm gonna get national
attention through through thisonline platform, can they submit
one to you?
Scott Anderson (06:09):
They can. We it comes in trips come in through
regional directors, volunteers,our approved outfitter system,
and from just we you know,random outfitters reaching out.
We do have a link on ourwebsite, ducks.org/nta, that
actually lets them submit theirtheir contact information for us
to reach out to about getting onthe national trip auction.
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There's there's people I'mcalling, kinda just looking
around, you know, go todifferent sports shows and talk
to people. You just kinda seestuff on social media, see an ad
for some outfitter, reach out tothem, but it is open for anyone
that wants to get in on it.
All they gotta do is either justfind their way to ducks.org/nta
and submit their information orreach out to any volunteer staff
member that they may know intheir local area too.
Jimbo Robinson (06:53):
And so today, we're recording this. It's not
open. It's in the it is, Iguess, the public viewing phase.
But when this comes out, it willbe the auction will be open.
What's the what's the time frameon the auction?
Scott Anderson (07:05):
So it is gonna open up August 14. The the like
you mentioned, the publicpreview started August 1, and
that's pretty much a standardevery single year. August 14,
8AM Central Time is when theauction opens, and it runs until
the August 25 and closes at 8PMCentral Time. So you get quite a
few days there to do someplanning, maybe gather up the
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buddies you're thinking you maywant to go on a trip with, or
talk to the spouse, or look atkids' schedules, whatever it is.
You got some time to figure thatout, and they'll be open for
that many days to to put yourbid in.
Jimbo Robinson (07:40):
And so what what so is the website the same place
as the auction is open? Is thatwhat what's the what's the
website so people can go and and
Scott Anderson (07:48):
The best the best way is travel right through
ducks.org/nta. That's thequickest quickest way to get
there. There's a big button thatsays view auction, bid auction.
It's right there. You can't missit.
Jimbo Robinson (07:58):
So let's let's kinda dive into the auction.
First off, how many trips arethere? What's what's the total
number of trips, experiences,excursions, kinda whatever
you're calling them? What's thetotal number?
Scott Anderson (08:08):
They're still trickling in. Right now, loaded
is 242. I expect there'll stillbe more coming in. I've seen a
couple emails since we've beentalking come through, and they
have trips on them as well. So,you know, we typically get north
of $2.50 in that $2.50, $2.70range.
So there's there's definitely noshortage for people to pick
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from.
Chris Isaac (08:29):
That's I mean, if you can't find something in
there you'd like to do, like,you must not like the outdoors.
Jimbo Robinson (08:35):
Well, I don't think so that's the next
question. Is it just huntingtrips? I mean, you've mentioned
other things in this opener. Isit just hunting trips, or or
what what are we offering?
Scott Anderson (08:43):
It it is not. It is it's far far beyond that. It
it is not just hunting. It's notjust fishing. It's anything.
Kind of one of our taglines is,you know, trips for all
interests and budgets, and Iwould I would vent I would
really like somebody to get outthere and try to find something
they're not interested in inthere. I mean, there's hunts,
there's fishing, plenty of thatstuff, obviously. We got
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sporting events. We havevacations, whether it's family
or kids you wanna take on, or ifyou just wanna take off for a
quick vacation with the with thewife and that's in country, out
of country, over the oceans, youknow, all in North America,
South America, Europe, Asia,there's there's tons of stuff
out there. If you're even intodrinking drinking bourbon,
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there's some options there.
You can do some tours or getinto the exclusive Pappy tasting
that we're doing with ducks andlimousine and Pappy. They're
great stuff to look at. It'syou're hard pressed to find
something that will not temptyour interests.
Jimbo Robinson (09:40):
Do you have piqued Chris' interest?
Chris Isaac (09:42):
Yeah. The pappy got me. I'm looking at that one
right now.
Jimbo Robinson (09:45):
I saw it pop up on the screen that as soon as
you said it, there was someexcitement over there. So you
did say all budgets. Like, whenI when I sometimes I think
people get lost in the factthat, you know, they think about
a Ducks Unlimited dinner eventand and and how high trips sell
for, and and they may not think,listen to this riding on the
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road, they're like, man, I knowI can't afford any of those. You
did say something about allbudgets. Like, what's the
cheapest trip?
Like, what do you what what'sthe price range of of a lot of
these trips?
Scott Anderson (10:16):
In the end, we've sold trips on auctions as
low as $300 and up to $30,000.Like, obviously, some of that
stuff is you know, some of thehigh end stuff goes big. You
know, I think that that recordthat we had over that was $30.30
plus maybe was for a two person,two grizzly bear hunt right up
in Alaska. Big big dollars, youknow, fun trip to go on. A lot
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of inclusive stuff with that.
But, I mean, we got stuff thatgoes down to that $300 range and
is just like a day trip, youknow, fishing or something like
that. Easy stuff that anybodycan get on no matter what kind
of budget you're looking for.
Chris Isaac (10:49):
I imagine the phone calls. Alright, honey. Canceling
Disney. We're go
Jimbo Robinson (10:56):
you and I are going to shoot a grizzly bear.
That would not end well in myhousehold by any means. Well,
Scott, let's let's run throughsome of the the let's go through
the auction now. I mean, this isout when this airs. The
auction's live, and and peopleare gonna be viewing it.
And and I can imagine that goingthrough that many trips, 247,
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I'm sure by the end of this,it'll be over $2.50, but going
through that many has to be adaunting task for somebody. What
does it look like? What's someof your most unique ones? What
what do you think people andlet's go top and bottom, and
then we'll kinda share some thatI've seen on here today as well.
But what's some of the newunique ones that you like?
Scott Anderson (11:35):
Yeah. And and actually to that first point of
it's kinda daunting when there'sthat many, it is. But there are
a lot of features on the sitethat help you get through that.
There's a search bar, and we tagevery single trip title with,
like, the state it's in or thecountry so that, you know, if
you're if you're like, hey, Iwanna stick to Tennessee or
Florida or wherever state you'rekinda maybe close to or in, you
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could just type in Florida inthe search, and it'll pop up
every single trip that's inFlorida. If you're into upland
hunting or waterfowl, you cansort by categories that lets you
sort just down to those trips aswell too.
So going through top to bottomindividually, it's worth it, but
it can be daunting, but there'sa lot of ways that you can kind
of sort through it. When I kindof look at it, scrolling through
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some of these, some of theunique ones that are kind of
really those different ones thatwould classify as a bucket list
trip for some people, there's anOklahoma paddlefish trip for
four where you are just catchingmassive slob paddlefish down in
Oklahoma that, I mean, are justI mean, I've seen pictures of
people that I know in there, andthey're big guys, and they look
tiny next to these fish. Kind ofa crazy looking fish too to
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catch. Iguana hunting and pythonhunting down in Florida.
Chris Isaac (12:44):
That's terrifying.
Scott Anderson (12:45):
It is, but it's also one of those things that's
a huge benefit because they'reinvasive species down there. You
can do it year long, so there'snot like there's a season. In
most cases, you don't need alicense either. Some some vary
some things do vary depending onwhere you're doing it, but, you
know, just different stuff thatyou you don't necessarily get
anywhere else in the countryoutside of Florida.
Jimbo Robinson (13:05):
How do you Well, hold on. Hold on. This is the
python cowboy.
Scott Anderson (13:08):
It is. You it's you're you're not necessarily
going out with him, but you willbe with his his outfitting crew,
the python cowboy for theiguanas and the and the python
hunt.
Jimbo Robinson (13:17):
Do you follow him on Instagram, Chris? No. Oh,
man. You have to. It'll make yousquirm.
It'll It'll make make squirm.
Chris Isaac (13:23):
Yep. I don't like snakes.
Scott Anderson (13:24):
Well, and they and they got they have And
Jimbo Robinson (13:26):
this guy jumps on them.
Scott Anderson (13:27):
It's crazy. And they they're they have python
trained dogs to be using thatfor, and it's I mean, everything
that I've read and seen is it'sjust a crazy blast, and it's a
lot of fun.
Jimbo Robinson (13:37):
That trip will bring that that I bet that one
brings a lot. There'll be somegood there would be some people
that jump all over that trip.Just I mean, even though it's
his crew, he his he has a reallybig following.
Scott Anderson (13:48):
He does. And you can actually so while it's, you
know, it's with his crew,there's no guarantee that he can
go with, but you do have thatoption if you're the end winning
buyer where you can upgrade andguarantee that he is your guide
on those trips.
Jimbo Robinson (13:58):
I want the iguana hunting.
Scott Anderson (14:00):
That that looks like a lot of fun too. Well,
Jimbo Robinson (14:02):
so a fellow employee's been on it, not this
one, but he's been down there,he's like, man, we were in city
parks. They were riding along,you know, roads shooting them,
but apparently they're soinvasive that they've become a
massive problem. And you shootthem with air guns, I believe,
right?
Scott Anderson (14:19):
Yeah. You you got air rifles, you're right. I
mean, they're destroying justlike, you know, riverbanks and
driveways, and they lay crazynumber of eggs and hatch. You're
doing them a favor by going downthere, and the reality is is
both pythons and iguanas, youyou can't hunt them enough to
actually, you know, get rid ofthem. It's just it's it's an
ongoing issue for them downthere.
Jimbo Robinson (14:39):
Chris, you buy that for us, and I'll drive you.
Okay? I'll drive you. You buyit.
Chris Isaac (14:43):
We'll see.
Jimbo Robinson (14:44):
Wow. So what's a mule deer?
Chris Isaac (14:47):
Are they the, like, the short deer? Are they short?
Scott Anderson (14:51):
They're the Western Prairie Mountain Range
deer. They just they look alittle bit different, but you're
you're gonna find them in mostof the the mountain like, you're
you basically gotta get to,like, the mountain time zone to
kinda find them.
Jimbo Robinson (15:03):
Oh, okay. I mean That's cool. I know people can
buy you know, some of thesetrips you can't buy, except in
here, but Monday night footballexperience to watch the Cowboys
and the Raiders in Vegas wouldbe awesome. I can imagine that's
on a lot of people's bucketlist.
Scott Anderson (15:18):
Yeah. I mean, going to those sporting events,
especially, you know, peoplelove traveling to new stadiums
to go watch your team. Vegas isnever a bad place to go and have
fun even if your team loses ormaybe it's not a team you're
cheering for, but you still gotplenty to do there. So
Chris Isaac (15:54):
I'd wanna do something exotic. Like Really?
Yeah. The Argentina duck hunt,that would probably be amazing.
Jimbo Robinson (16:01):
But you're not a big hunter, so True. That's
kinda crazy that you would saythat because I thought you would
pick something, like, domestic.
Chris Isaac (16:08):
I love going out of the country.
Scott Anderson (16:11):
So if you're talking exotic, one of the ones
I would look at is the SouthAfrica Vita Dart white rhino
encounter. Oh, boy.
Jimbo Robinson (16:20):
And this
Scott Anderson (16:20):
is kinda obviously, you can't you can't
hunt rhinos. Right? They'rethey're off the table for
hunting. But this trip is youare darting them for research
purposes. So you get to go outlike you're hunting them, but
it's all it's all monitored byby vet veterinarians.
They pull research data from itto help better the population
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and and the the species. It'scrazy. And you So
Chris Isaac (16:43):
you just, like, tranq them and then study them?
Scott Anderson (16:46):
Yep. Yep. And they
Jimbo Robinson (16:47):
take on that. Yeah.
Scott Anderson (16:48):
Genetic data, a lot of stuff from them when
they're when they're tranqed,and it's kind of it's kind of a
cool situation where it's it'sbeneficial to the species, and
it's a a unique way of goingabout it.
Jimbo Robinson (16:57):
Man. I mean, I'm just going through here and
looking at mean, the
Chris Isaac (17:01):
Rican crocodile bay fishing.
Jimbo Robinson (17:03):
The king eider hunt for two. I mean, if king
eiders aren't on your bucketlist.
Scott Anderson (17:08):
The musk ox hunt up in Alaska.
Jimbo Robinson (17:10):
That's always a big one, isn't it, Scotty?
Scott Anderson (17:13):
That is that one and the Iowa specialty deer tag
as well. But that, I mean, thatmusk ox hunt is a draw only. DU
gets it for purposes offundraising, and they they have
a less than 1% draw to get thattag. So this is a guarantee. You
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buy it on that auction, you'rewalking away with that tag.
Jimbo Robinson (17:36):
Are these bids we're hearing come in? Every
time it goes, is that a bidcoming in? Because I'm there's a
lot of people bidding on this, Iguess.
Chris Isaac (17:42):
Already?
Jimbo Robinson (17:42):
Yeah. Well, they
Chris Isaac (17:44):
Make it rain.
Jimbo Robinson (17:45):
When this comes out, it's already open. Man, I'm
just going down here. I'm I'mgetting lost in in
Chris Isaac (17:50):
Now something romantic, Sunset and Chuck, Top
Sail Island Oyster Cruise.
Scott Anderson (17:56):
Spring to school. Beach there's some beach
vacations if you're looking fora little getaway with a spouse.
Oh, gonna go up here. Out ofMexico or The Bahamas, wherever
you're looking to go.
Jimbo Robinson (18:06):
I'm gonna go to the search bar here. Well,
that's that you know, it'sinteresting. Interesting timing
here, Scott, because as Scottie,as a lot of people are as a lot
of people are gearing up fortheir hunting season, the wife
it's gonna be a good time to buya trip for the wife. Oh,
Palmetto Dunes, Hilton HiltonHead Island. Like, that's a
great, awesome trip becauseHilton Head is awesome.
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I think it's it's a it'sbeautiful. I'll I've, you know,
I've lived in South Carolina fora good portion of high school
and college, and Hilton Head isawesome. So that's a and that
course is great, man. Oh, that'sa good course. That'll be a fun
one.
I think that one will do well.Spanish Bay, Pebble Beach. You
got lots of Pebble Beaches inthere. I had to go to I had to
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go check out the golf. Thoselook interesting.
Chris Isaac (18:53):
Pine courses.
Jimbo Robinson (18:54):
Scotty, let's have fun with this one. What's
the weirdest? We've talked aboutsome unique, some things we'd go
to. What is one you look at andyou're like, who in the world
would take this trip?
Scott Anderson (19:05):
You know, personally, me, I'm kind of open
for anything. Obviously, I thinkthat the Python one, I'm sure
gets a lot of people that arelike, who in the world would
want to actually go in the darkchasing a python through the,
basically, the Florida jungle?
Jimbo Robinson (19:18):
Do you get insurance on that?
Scott Anderson (19:21):
I would I would guess it doesn't qualify. If
you're putting yourself puttingyourself in the jaws of a
python, it's kinda free game atthat point.
Jimbo Robinson (19:28):
Well, know, I've always heard that you don't have
to be the fastest when you'rerunning from a bear, you just
can't be the slowest. So I'mimagining it's kind of the same
thing with Python. You wanna gowith guys that are slower than
you.
Scott Anderson (19:41):
Yeah. You know, another one too that's kinda
crazy is the catfish noodlingdown in Kentucky. That's a trip
you can get on where you're, youknow, you're that's where you're
underwater, basically in muddystuff that you can't even see.
So you're going down blind andyou just shove your hand through
the mouth of a catfish that'ssitting in a pool or a box and
then just pull them up.
Chris Isaac (19:59):
Wow. I have a
Jimbo Robinson (20:00):
best friend that does that all the time, and and
they wear special gloves, but heloves it. Him and his kids love
it. I mean, his daughter and hisson, they love doing it. And
Okay.
Chris Isaac (20:11):
I want this Belize dream vacation freight.
Jimbo Robinson (20:14):
See, was looking at some of the well, I can I
mean, the dream vacations areconstantly a huge Mhmm? Discover
European soccer for two.
Chris Isaac (20:24):
Oh, that's cool. That is really cool.
Scott Anderson (20:26):
Chris, I kinda see you as a guy that's into
this one of these glampinggetaways where you get, like,
the old air
Jimbo Robinson (20:31):
Dude, it is
Chris Isaac (20:31):
a glamping percent.
Scott Anderson (20:32):
Like, that that seems like a Chris Isaac kind of
thing is just the the glampingpayaway for two.
Jimbo Robinson (20:37):
Well, as you as you Where is that? Let me As you
build on this, Scott, don'tforget that our man Isaac, you
know, he he needs to put histrip in here at some point.
Uh-huh.
Chris Isaac (20:47):
What does that mean?
Jimbo Robinson (20:48):
Uh-huh. You have a really cool destination Oh,
Chris Isaac (20:51):
I do.
Jimbo Robinson (20:51):
In your back pocket that would be fun.
European soccer, though, youcould tour a stadium.
Scott Anderson (20:56):
Yep.
Jimbo Robinson (20:56):
It has the blackout dates are are those
will be updated before thiscomes live, I would assume. But
because the blackout dates aremay have been in the past.
Scott Anderson (21:09):
Oh, yeah. We'll have to double check that. You
know, another one another onethat's kinda interesting too,
it's not, you know, weird by anymeans, but especially if you're
looking there for a kit that gotkids you wanna take out, there's
that astronaut adventure down atthe Kennedy Space Center.
Jimbo Robinson (21:22):
I just saw that one. That's was actually in
there. That's cool. And that's athat would be fun.
Scott Anderson (21:27):
Yeah. I mean, they get a they mean, you get
obviously lots of tours and allthat, but you actually get to
meet an astronaut. Like, it'd bepretty, you know, pretty cool
for any little kid that's kindainto that stuff.
Jimbo Robinson (21:35):
So, Scotty, what bidding how does the bidding
work on here? Because I I don'twant if somebody hasn't bid on
one of our online blah blah. Ifsomebody hasn't bid on one of
our online auctions before, Idon't want them to get on there
and be overwhelmed by the proxyand kind of how that explains
it. Will you kind of talk abouthow the bidding works on here?
Scott Anderson (21:51):
Yeah. So it's it's pretty it's pretty simple.
It's it's kinda runs like acheckout process like any on any
kind of ecommerce site, but youyou go to the trip, you click on
the details of it, allows you toplace a bid. You can obviously
just say, wanna bid this, andthere's there's increments that
are different that are minimumincrement increases. But you can
go in there and you can justplace a set bid, or you could
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also what we call a proxy bid,place a max bid or a proxy bid
that says, alright, I'm willingto pay up to this, and then the
system actually bids for you asthose competing bids come in.
It's a nice little touch if youcan't sit by your phone or
computer all day every day whenthose trips, but especially at
the last minute because in everyauction, that last hour, ten
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minutes, five minutes is crazy,and bids are coming in so fast.
And the benefit to that thatproxy bid or max bid is it only
bids if you need it to. So assomebody else is competing
against you, it's bidding foryou, and it'll always recognize
that max or proxy bid at thevery end. So if if someone's
going against you, going againstyou back and forth, back and
forth, and the the deadline of8PM central hits on the twenty
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fifth, if it needs to it'll thatmax bid will push you to adjust
the amount you need to to win aslong as it's there. If it if
it's someone bid over top ofyour proxy, your max bid, then
then they're gonna win.
But it'll always bid for you,which is a really nice feature
that you don't just have toworry about sitting there all
the time watching it.
Jimbo Robinson (23:14):
So if you're not around when the auction closes,
or you've got you're busy orsomething, you just put your max
bid that you want it to to thatyou potentially want to pay for
it, and and it'll take youthere, but it's not gonna bid
unless you absolutely need itto, if somebody's outbid you, I
guess. Yeah. Yep. That's a coolfeature. Yeah.
Because, I mean, if somebody wasgonna buy this trip no matter
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what, they can put a massiveamount of money in there, but at
the end of the day, it's notgonna take them up to that to
that dollar figure unlesssomebody else is bidding against
them.
Scott Anderson (23:42):
Correct. Yeah. It's just just enough to make
you the winner. That's all.
Jimbo Robinson (23:45):
And I guess nobody really knows what other
people's proxy bids are. So Ibet if you're going bid bid bid
bid bid somebody, they both putI guess it couldn't do that
because then you'd be out beat,or it would have taken them both
up.
Scott Anderson (23:56):
It just keeps going up. So if, like, somebody
was, you know, $2,000 proxy maxand somebody was 1,999, it would
wherever they're at right now,it would ding them all the way
up to that point until they'reit just gives you off to be the
winner, whatever it is, whateveryour max is.
Jimbo Robinson (24:14):
That is awesome. Wow. This is going through this
website here, this is this isfun. I mean, this is you could
spend a lot of time kindaresearching and going through
these, and there's been a lot oftime put into this auction and
and and very the details on it,and I think the ease of it and,
you know, earlier we talkedabout it being daunting with how
many trips, but the ease ofbeing able to hit the drop down
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menu and select kind of whatyou're interested in or what you
may wanna do actually makes itreally easy to navigate. I mean,
obviously, there's a lot ofwaterfowl hunts, but they're so
different.
You could scroll by the onesthat, you know, don't really
have an interest in. But, man,it's it's a really easy site,
Scott, that that you and yourteam, I guess, have put
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together. Will there be tripsthat'll be added throughout the
auction?
Scott Anderson (25:01):
Yeah. There there's like I said, there's
some that have come in sincewe've been talking. We'll get
those added. You know, there'salways a last second one.
There's even some that wetypically add during I mean, the
reality is is we wanna put theseopportunities in front of
people.
So if something comes in and theauction's still running, we'll
drop it in because it doesn'thurt to put it there. I'd rather
have someone have theopportunity to buy it than just
not not put it there at all.And, you know, you know, like
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you kind of talked about thosethe search or the or the the
categories you can kind of gothrough is the is definitely the
way to go. You know, and onceyou kind of start honing in on
some trips, pretty much everytrip, as long as it's given to
us, you know, provides a link tothe Outfitter site or Facebook
page or social media page ofsome sort. So if they want to do
a little more research in on itand see exactly who they're
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gonna go to, they they can dothat research themselves.
And, of course, there's alwaysthe contact organizer button
that's on the auction site whereit shoots an email to us with
any questions somebody has, andwe'll, you know, get back to
them as soon as we can. It'swe're pretty quick in responding
because we just know the shortrun time, it's important to get
back to people so they can maketheir decisions.
Jimbo Robinson (26:05):
Yes. And and that brought up another question
that I kind of thought of. Whathappens, like post auction, what
happens? I guess if you'rebuying this trip, you're not
gonna contact the outfitterimmediately and start booking
it. Kinda what does the afterauction kinda look like?
Scott Anderson (26:19):
Yeah. So, you know, August 25, 8PM central,
it's done. Right? It's gonna hitall the if you're the winning
bidder, it's gonna hit your cardat that point, And then we start
getting a report. It ends at08:00 at night.
We're going to kind of workthrough that report, but it's
obviously late and it's a lot togo through, so we will take some
time that night to do it. Butthen starting the next day on
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the twenty sixth, we will startcompiling all the sales. We will
start emailing every singlebuyer, and we connect them in
that email with their outfitter.So we send them an email saying,
hey, appreciate this, you know,the support. Here's a link to
your trip on the auction justfor reference.
Your outfitter is copied aswell. Here's their contact
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information. And at that point,it kind of just turns over to
the outfitter and the buyer towork the details out of, you
know, booking and setting up andgetting all the details figured
out they need to.
Jimbo Robinson (27:13):
Wow. If you're an outfitter, I mean, this is a
great opportunity. I mean, I'msitting here scrolling through
going, man, if I own a business,and I mean, this is great
advertising because you're gonnaclick on Yeah. On almost all of
them. I mean, that's what'sreally neat about it is you're
kinda clicking through them all.
Chris Isaac (27:28):
I know. They're all so unique.
Scott Anderson (27:30):
And we we have heard that feedback from some
some of the outfitters in thepast that, you know, they get
calls and emails and questions,and then a lot of times they get
secondary bookings based onpeople just asking more
questions and maybe not winningthe bid, which is which is
great. We want that too. Right?We want the ones that support
us. We want to be able to try tosupport them back, and that's a
good way to go about it.
So it I mean, it's definitely aneat process of how it's kind of
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beneficial to everybody. We getmoney for conservation to put
the habitat in the ground, andoutfitters get promoted. And I
mean, it it reaches I mean,we're talking about it on the DU
podcast. Right? I mean, it hitsthe full gamut of all DU's
social media, emails, messaging,app pushes, whatever it is, you
know, we're pushing it outthere.
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So, you know, they're getting awide swath across the country of
promotion for sure.
Jimbo Robinson (28:18):
Yeah. I was talking to somebody internally
that I mean, somebody externallythat's not in the office that
said, man, I saw the I mean, doy'all ever slow down over there?
Do you? Like, I think they thinkwe have an office of 60 people
here. But they're like, do everslow down?
I said, you know, DUX two weeksago, and now you got this big
national trip auction going on.And they had seen it on social
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media. They had seen it onFacebook. A video popped up on
their on their social media. So,yeah, you're right.
There's a lot of there's a lotof buzz going on right now, and
now the auction's open, there'sprobably a lot of people talking
about it and sharing it and kindof especially behind, maybe not
on social media, but it'sprobably the talk at football
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practices and and others ofpeople that are checking it out
because, I mean, if you can'tfind something on here, I I
think you're you probably justdon't enjoy traveling. I mean,
that's the bottom line. Mhmm.Because there is something for
everybody, and and that's yourteam and and you, Scotty.
Congratulations on this, man.
It is it is one heck of anauction, and I'm excited to see
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kinda where it goes and and whatthe what the bids are because I
think that's an interesting one.What what what normally happens?
Do people wait on the bidding? Imean, obviously, when this is
out, the bidding's alreadyhappened, and and I know people
can preregister. They've theythey did preregister.
Obviously, you can't preregisternow because we're there, but
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what do you what what itnormally looks like in the
auction bidding? What what hashappened in years past with that
initial auction? Do people comein and bid, bid, bid, bid, bid?
Are they kinda wait? What whathave you seen?
Scott Anderson (29:53):
Yeah. You know, there's that initial flurry. You
know, when people kinda askabout it or or inquire on stuff
about it, you know, I alwayssuggest, like, just just get in
and bid and put your max orproxy bid in because then you're
just kinda set and protected.But there is no doubt that in
most auctions, typically, bidsdouble, if not triple, in that
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last, like, the last day, letalone the last hour. Like, it's
it's intense, and it's fast.
And and that's again where thatproxy or max bid just comes into
into into play because itdoesn't make you pay any more
than you're willing to pay. Itjust goes as far as you need to
to win it and up to your max.But there's so many bids that
come in in that last thirtyminutes that if you're not
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taking advantage of that proxythat you're you're potentially
gonna miss out. But, you know,it's fast and furious right in
the beginning, kinda slows downa little bit through the middle,
and then really picks up hard atthe end. So, I mean, I I would
just suggest get in there, makeyour bid, set your proxy to what
you're comfortable with, and,you know, keep an eye on it.
Like, check back. You just youknow, you'll get emails or texts
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if you if you opt in for thatwhen you do get outbid. So you
you're getting notifications,but it's it's something you just
don't wanna totally ignore, butkinda get get in every once in a
while and pay attention towhat's happening.
Jimbo Robinson (31:08):
Awesome. Well, Chris is gonna put our bid in on
our iguana hunt that he's gonnabuy and I'm gonna drive him to,
so I'll make sure he puts in anice maximum bid for us. And
maybe when the now that thiswhen this is airing, we'll be
the winning bidders at thecurrent time on our
Chris Isaac (31:22):
We'll we'll have to do
Jimbo Robinson (31:23):
a follow-up after after this is done.
Discuss our iguana hunt thatyou're buying? Something like
that. Hey. Yep.
Well, find if anybody wants tobuy the iguana hunt and needs
two people to tag along, callcall us. We're in.
Scott Anderson (31:37):
Could I could imagine a a live on-site podcast
of Python Honey would beintriguing to
Chris Isaac (31:43):
listen Oh my gosh. It would just be full of
screaming.
Scott Anderson (31:46):
It would be. It'd be kind of like Blair Witch
Project without the video.
Jimbo Robinson (31:49):
Oh, boy. We'd scare a lot of people off. Maybe
we need to get our boys back forthat. Yeah. Expanded perspective
guys to come on and take it stayit live on the road.
They would be a blast to havefor iguana hunting. Yeah. Well,
Scott, anything else? Did lookat the Iowa specialty deer tag.
What what what what's it?
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What is that? I mean, I thinkyou kinda mentioned it earlier.
It's something special that Iowagives us, or or how does that
one work?
Scott Anderson (32:15):
Yeah. You know, we get you know, every state
kinda terms it differently. Somesome people kinda call them
governor's tags, but this is alittle bit different than that.
But, yeah, the the state the DUchapters in that state kinda
earn some of those tags to helpfundraise for the state and for
us. It kinda loops in the wholeconservation message and and
circle there.
And, like, for this onespecifically is, you know, the
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the nice thing is it's it'snonresidents can own it and buy
it. Right? So it guarantees youa tag in the zone with the
weapon of your choice, And thisone actually is two years
available, so you can use it forthe 2526 season or 2627. So Iowa
set that up really nicely thatit really gives the person the
freedom of when they can use itand how they want to use it. So
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it's a big tag.
Obviously, it's one of the topsellers in dollars every single
year, but, you know, if you'refamiliar with bucks, Iowa's a
decent place to be. So it's
Jimbo Robinson (33:08):
And they have a lot of public I mean, they have
a lot of public land, or is theperson that's buying it kind of
I'm not familiar with Iowa andtheir deer hunting. Knew they
have massive bucks, yes, but I'mnot familiar with how their deer
hunting works. I didn't know ifif just if you bought it, if
there if there is ampleopportunity to go and hunt there
in Iowa.
Scott Anderson (33:25):
There there's a there's a fair fair chunk of
public land in Iowa. It's I Iwould definitely say probably
more than the average state. Youknow, the one benefit there is a
lot of people are nonresidentsthat either have a lease or own
land in Iowa for hunting. Well,if you own land in Iowa, but
you're a nonresident, you haveto draw a tag still to get and
hunt your land.
Jimbo Robinson (33:45):
Wow. Okay.
Scott Anderson (33:45):
Well, this, you know, like, this could be
somebody that either leases orowns land. It's it guarantees
them a tag. Now it's no. Theybetter have a nice big buck
probably if they're if they'reif they're hoping for it. But, I
mean, Iowa's definitely a aplace where a 200 class buck is
not not out of the question.
So
Jimbo Robinson (34:00):
So people aren't shooting a doe with this tag? I
Scott Anderson (34:03):
it allows you to.
Jimbo Robinson (34:04):
You can certainly pass all that antisex.
That's crazy.
Scott Anderson (34:07):
But but I'd I'd maybe let those ones pass for a
year or two before you better bea big dough.
Chris Isaac (34:13):
Right. Let them grow.
Jimbo Robinson (34:14):
Well, we're excited, Scottie. Appreciate you
again for for taking the time tocome on the Ducks Unlimited
podcast. Thank you for allowingus to kind of just scroll
through it and discuss thenational trip auction because,
man, it is so interesting andit's so awesome, and and if you
can't find a trip that you wannago on or take your family on,
then you don't like to travel.That's gonna be my tagline for
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this one because there issomething for everybody in
everybody's budget. Yo.
Never underbid on your passion.I love that tagline they have on
the thing, on the main webswebsite because that's that's
right. If there's a trip of alifetime on here, bid it up, buy
it, take it. You're supportingwaterfowl and ducks and
conservation, and you're alsosupporting this outfit or
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whoever the trip is going on. Sowe're very excited to see what
it's doing.
Chris Isaac (35:02):
Traveling is underrated for me. Absolutely. I
love it.
Scott Anderson (35:04):
There's only so many sunsets we get. Take
advantage of them all.
Jimbo Robinson (35:07):
There you go. Man. Nothing. That's absolutely
the truth. Well, thanks againfor taking the time to listen to
the Ducks Unlimited podcast.
I am your host, Jimbo Robinson,and we are out. See you.
Welcome back the Ducks Unlimited podcast. I'm
your host, Jimbo Robinson, andwe have Scott Anderson on the
other end today, here to talkabout probably one of the most
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exciting things this summer asfar as online auctions are, and
that's our national tripauction. And as always, we have
our world famous audio engineer,mister Chris Isaac, gonna join
us today.
Chris Isaac (01:31):
Howdy. The people aren't used to hearing my voice.
Jimbo Robinson (01:33):
I know. That's why I asked. I'm new for them.
So Hello, Scott?
Scott Anderson (01:38):
I'm here and ready to go.
Jimbo Robinson (01:39):
How many before we dive into this topic today,
how many months have you spenton this?
Scott Anderson (01:49):
For sure, you know, it's really hard pressed
to the last two to three months,but it's one of those things
where we're kinda, you know,when we get into the details of
this, we're kinda sourcing tripsand looking for trips and
talking to people eventhroughout the year. We're we we
wanna try to find that uniquestuff out there, so it's it's
kind of an ongoing thingthroughout, you know, the entire
year, all three hundred andsixty five days, but it gets
real serious in the last two tothree months here, and it gets
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real serious the last week whenwhen trips and and stuff just
start pouring in at that lastsecond.
Jimbo Robinson (02:17):
Wow. Well, not all hosts do this, but I love
the flock shot. So we're gonnarun through a quick flock shot
with you. I'm gonna ask youquestions. Give me your favorite
really quick, so let's cue thebutton.
Chris, what's your favoritecolor Gatorade? Blue. Do you
know the flavor?
Scott Anderson (02:36):
Arctic? Is that blue? The light blue? It's like
kinda that sky blue color.
Jimbo Robinson (02:40):
Jordan or LeBron? Jordan. Elway or Brady?
Brady. Brady.
Brady. Oh. Interesting.Interesting. Over and under or
semi auto?
Scott Anderson (02:53):
Semi auto. For waterfowl. Alright.
Jimbo Robinson (02:55):
Alright. And last one, what's your favorite?
Tequila or bourbon? Oh.
Scott Anderson (03:02):
I have to choose between those two.
Chris Isaac (03:04):
Or or a cold beer? Like, generally tequila,
generally bourbon, or specifictequila, bourbon.
Jimbo Robinson (03:11):
I say either or. Like, we're in the summer.
Right? So I thought you may saysummertime, maybe. Yeah.
K. Margarita.
Scott Anderson (03:17):
Generally tequila over bourbon. Okay. I
don't think cold beer.
Jimbo Robinson (03:21):
Whatever. Good fun. Alright. Ranch water. Ranch
waters are good, especially inthe summer as hot as it is here
in Memphis.
Mhmm. Scotty, why don't you giveus a little well, first off, you
know, you're our director ofnontraditional fundraising.
Online fundraising is kind of,you know, what you do and and
well, not what you do becausewhat y'all do is so much bigger
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than that in today's world. Butwhy don't you give a little
history of nontraditional or theauction, kind of where it
started, how it how it came tobe, and then what the genesis of
it for those that may not knowwhat the DU National Trip
Auction even is.
Scott Anderson (03:58):
Yeah. So it's it's it's in its fourth year
here, and it's it's kind ofintriguing what it's turned into
and where it's gone, and it'sexciting to where it's gonna
keep going forward with it. Butabout four years ago, we were
looking at a trip that actuallycame out of Montana from a local
chapter that they used to justauction a a goose and mallard
hunt around the local area inMontana off of their local
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banquet. And, you know, you'regonna do some field hunting
there, so you're hunting kindacut cornfields and stuff like
that and in the snowpotentially. And for anyone at
that auction or that banquet inMontana, that's kind of an
everyday occurrence.
They they can go do it anywhere,so, you know, any day they
wanted, the duck season. So,like, they it sold, but it
didn't really sell impressivelyhigh. And one year, about five
(04:45):
years ago, it dropped into anational auction called Into the
Vault, and it sold for a crazyhigh number. And what we kind of
realized from that is someperson, say, I think it was down
Southeast, maybe in Florida, whoreally doesn't have that
opportunity to go out and easilyhunt crop fields, ag fields, in
the snow or for mallards in inCanada's, saw that, and for
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them, it was a bucket list trip,and they just jumped all over
it, and it just started abidding war amongst several
people that were kind of in thatsame thought process. And so
that just kind of kicked intoour head is like, we have these
trips that are sourced byvolunteers and regional
directors across the country attheir local banquets that are
just kind of a normal occurrencefor them.
What if we took all those andkind of put them into a
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nationally promoted auction thatallowed anyone in the country to
get the opportunity at thesebucket list trips that they may
be dying to go on, but they justdon't know how to find the right
outfitter or the right locationor, you know, whatever setup is
good for them. And we wanna putthem all in one spot and give
them that option to jump in andtry to get those bucket list
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trips.
Jimbo Robinson (05:49):
And and do you only source them through do you
only source them throughregional directors or or
volunteers, or can somebody justsubmit one to you if they are
listening to this and and anoutfitter, they're like, man,
I'd I'd like to submit one tothis if I'm gonna get national
attention through through thisonline platform, can they submit
one to you?
Scott Anderson (06:09):
They can. We it comes in trips come in through
regional directors, volunteers,our approved outfitter system,
and from just we you know,random outfitters reaching out.
We do have a link on ourwebsite, ducks.org/nta, that
actually lets them submit theirtheir contact information for us
to reach out to about getting onthe national trip auction.
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There's there's people I'mcalling, kinda just looking
around, you know, go todifferent sports shows and talk
to people. You just kinda seestuff on social media, see an ad
for some outfitter, reach out tothem, but it is open for anyone
that wants to get in on it.
All they gotta do is either justfind their way to ducks.org/nta
and submit their information orreach out to any volunteer staff
member that they may know intheir local area too.
Jimbo Robinson (06:53):
And so today, we're recording this. It's not
open. It's in the it is, Iguess, the public viewing phase.
But when this comes out, it willbe the auction will be open.
What's the what's the time frameon the auction?
Scott Anderson (07:05):
So it is gonna open up August 14. The the like
you mentioned, the publicpreview started August 1, and
that's pretty much a standardevery single year. August 14,
8AM Central Time is when theauction opens, and it runs until
the August 25 and closes at 8PMCentral Time. So you get quite a
few days there to do someplanning, maybe gather up the
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buddies you're thinking you maywant to go on a trip with, or
talk to the spouse, or look atkids' schedules, whatever it is.
You got some time to figure thatout, and they'll be open for
that many days to to put yourbid in.
Jimbo Robinson (07:40):
And so what what so is the website the same place
as the auction is open? Is thatwhat what's the what's the
website so people can go and and
Scott Anderson (07:48):
The best the best way is travel right through
ducks.org/nta. That's thequickest quickest way to get
there. There's a big button thatsays view auction, bid auction.
It's right there. You can't missit.
Jimbo Robinson (07:58):
So let's let's kinda dive into the auction.
First off, how many trips arethere? What's what's the total
number of trips, experiences,excursions, kinda whatever
you're calling them? What's thetotal number?
Scott Anderson (08:08):
They're still trickling in. Right now, loaded
is 242. I expect there'll stillbe more coming in. I've seen a
couple emails since we've beentalking come through, and they
have trips on them as well. So,you know, we typically get north
of $2.50 in that $2.50, $2.70range.
So there's there's definitely noshortage for people to pick
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from.
Chris Isaac (08:29):
That's I mean, if you can't find something in
there you'd like to do, like,you must not like the outdoors.
Jimbo Robinson (08:35):
Well, I don't think so that's the next
question. Is it just huntingtrips? I mean, you've mentioned
other things in this opener. Isit just hunting trips, or or
what what are we offering?
Scott Anderson (08:43):
It it is not. It is it's far far beyond that. It
it is not just hunting. It's notjust fishing. It's anything.
Kind of one of our taglines is,you know, trips for all
interests and budgets, and Iwould I would vent I would
really like somebody to get outthere and try to find something
they're not interested in inthere. I mean, there's hunts,
there's fishing, plenty of thatstuff, obviously. We got
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sporting events. We havevacations, whether it's family
or kids you wanna take on, or ifyou just wanna take off for a
quick vacation with the with thewife and that's in country, out
of country, over the oceans, youknow, all in North America,
South America, Europe, Asia,there's there's tons of stuff
out there. If you're even intodrinking drinking bourbon,
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there's some options there.
You can do some tours or getinto the exclusive Pappy tasting
that we're doing with ducks andlimousine and Pappy. They're
great stuff to look at. It'syou're hard pressed to find
something that will not temptyour interests.
Jimbo Robinson (09:40):
Do you have piqued Chris' interest?
Chris Isaac (09:42):
Yeah. The pappy got me. I'm looking at that one
right now.
Jimbo Robinson (09:45):
I saw it pop up on the screen that as soon as
you said it, there was someexcitement over there. So you
did say all budgets. Like, whenI when I sometimes I think
people get lost in the factthat, you know, they think about
a Ducks Unlimited dinner eventand and and how high trips sell
for, and and they may not think,listen to this riding on the
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road, they're like, man, I knowI can't afford any of those. You
did say something about allbudgets. Like, what's the
cheapest trip?
Like, what do you what what'sthe price range of of a lot of
these trips?
Scott Anderson (10:16):
In the end, we've sold trips on auctions as
low as $300 and up to $30,000.Like, obviously, some of that
stuff is you know, some of thehigh end stuff goes big. You
know, I think that that recordthat we had over that was $30.30
plus maybe was for a two person,two grizzly bear hunt right up
in Alaska. Big big dollars, youknow, fun trip to go on. A lot
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of inclusive stuff with that.
But, I mean, we got stuff thatgoes down to that $300 range and
is just like a day trip, youknow, fishing or something like
that. Easy stuff that anybodycan get on no matter what kind
of budget you're looking for.
Chris Isaac (10:49):
I imagine the phone calls. Alright, honey. Canceling
Disney. We're go
Jimbo Robinson (10:56):
you and I are going to shoot a grizzly bear.
That would not end well in myhousehold by any means. Well,
Scott, let's let's run throughsome of the the let's go through
the auction now. I mean, this isout when this airs. The
auction's live, and and peopleare gonna be viewing it.
And and I can imagine that goingthrough that many trips, 247,
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I'm sure by the end of this,it'll be over $2.50, but going
through that many has to be adaunting task for somebody. What
does it look like? What's someof your most unique ones? What
what do you think people andlet's go top and bottom, and
then we'll kinda share some thatI've seen on here today as well.
But what's some of the newunique ones that you like?
Scott Anderson (11:35):
Yeah. And and actually to that first point of
it's kinda daunting when there'sthat many, it is. But there are
a lot of features on the sitethat help you get through that.
There's a search bar, and we tagevery single trip title with,
like, the state it's in or thecountry so that, you know, if
you're if you're like, hey, Iwanna stick to Tennessee or
Florida or wherever state you'rekinda maybe close to or in, you
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could just type in Florida inthe search, and it'll pop up
every single trip that's inFlorida. If you're into upland
hunting or waterfowl, you cansort by categories that lets you
sort just down to those trips aswell too.
So going through top to bottomindividually, it's worth it, but
it can be daunting, but there'sa lot of ways that you can kind
of sort through it. When I kindof look at it, scrolling through
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some of these, some of theunique ones that are kind of
really those different ones thatwould classify as a bucket list
trip for some people, there's anOklahoma paddlefish trip for
four where you are just catchingmassive slob paddlefish down in
Oklahoma that, I mean, are justI mean, I've seen pictures of
people that I know in there, andthey're big guys, and they look
tiny next to these fish. Kind ofa crazy looking fish too to
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catch. Iguana hunting and pythonhunting down in Florida.
Chris Isaac (12:44):
That's terrifying.
Scott Anderson (12:45):
It is, but it's also one of those things that's
a huge benefit because they'reinvasive species down there. You
can do it year long, so there'snot like there's a season. In
most cases, you don't need alicense either. Some some vary
some things do vary depending onwhere you're doing it, but, you
know, just different stuff thatyou you don't necessarily get
anywhere else in the countryoutside of Florida.
Jimbo Robinson (13:05):
How do you Well, hold on. Hold on. This is the
python cowboy.
Scott Anderson (13:08):
It is. You it's you're you're not necessarily
going out with him, but you willbe with his his outfitting crew,
the python cowboy for theiguanas and the and the python
hunt.
Jimbo Robinson (13:17):
Do you follow him on Instagram, Chris? No. Oh,
man. You have to. It'll make yousquirm.
It'll It'll make make squirm.
Chris Isaac (13:23):
Yep. I don't like snakes.
Scott Anderson (13:24):
Well, and they and they got they have And
Jimbo Robinson (13:26):
this guy jumps on them.
Scott Anderson (13:27):
It's crazy. And they they're they have python
trained dogs to be using thatfor, and it's I mean, everything
that I've read and seen is it'sjust a crazy blast, and it's a
lot of fun.
Jimbo Robinson (13:37):
That trip will bring that that I bet that one
brings a lot. There'll be somegood there would be some people
that jump all over that trip.Just I mean, even though it's
his crew, he his he has a reallybig following.
Scott Anderson (13:48):
He does. And you can actually so while it's, you
know, it's with his crew,there's no guarantee that he can
go with, but you do have thatoption if you're the end winning
buyer where you can upgrade andguarantee that he is your guide
on those trips.
Jimbo Robinson (13:58):
I want the iguana hunting.
Scott Anderson (14:00):
That that looks like a lot of fun too. Well,
Jimbo Robinson (14:02):
so a fellow employee's been on it, not this
one, but he's been down there,he's like, man, we were in city
parks. They were riding along,you know, roads shooting them,
but apparently they're soinvasive that they've become a
massive problem. And you shootthem with air guns, I believe,
right?
Scott Anderson (14:19):
Yeah. You you got air rifles, you're right. I
mean, they're destroying justlike, you know, riverbanks and
driveways, and they lay crazynumber of eggs and hatch. You're
doing them a favor by going downthere, and the reality is is
both pythons and iguanas, youyou can't hunt them enough to
actually, you know, get rid ofthem. It's just it's it's an
ongoing issue for them downthere.
Jimbo Robinson (14:39):
Chris, you buy that for us, and I'll drive you.
Okay? I'll drive you. You buyit.
Chris Isaac (14:43):
We'll see.
Jimbo Robinson (14:44):
Wow. So what's a mule deer?
Chris Isaac (14:47):
Are they the, like, the short deer? Are they short?
Scott Anderson (14:51):
They're the Western Prairie Mountain Range
deer. They just they look alittle bit different, but you're
you're gonna find them in mostof the the mountain like, you're
you basically gotta get to,like, the mountain time zone to
kinda find them.
Jimbo Robinson (15:03):
Oh, okay. I mean That's cool. I know people can
buy you know, some of thesetrips you can't buy, except in
here, but Monday night footballexperience to watch the Cowboys
and the Raiders in Vegas wouldbe awesome. I can imagine that's
on a lot of people's bucketlist.
Scott Anderson (15:18):
Yeah. I mean, going to those sporting events,
especially, you know, peoplelove traveling to new stadiums
to go watch your team. Vegas isnever a bad place to go and have
fun even if your team loses ormaybe it's not a team you're
cheering for, but you still gotplenty to do there. So
Chris Isaac (15:54):
I'd wanna do something exotic. Like Really?
Yeah. The Argentina duck hunt,that would probably be amazing.
Jimbo Robinson (16:01):
But you're not a big hunter, so True. That's
kinda crazy that you would saythat because I thought you would
pick something, like, domestic.
Chris Isaac (16:08):
I love going out of the country.
Scott Anderson (16:11):
So if you're talking exotic, one of the ones
I would look at is the SouthAfrica Vita Dart white rhino
encounter. Oh, boy.
Jimbo Robinson (16:20):
And this
Scott Anderson (16:20):
is kinda obviously, you can't you can't
hunt rhinos. Right? They'rethey're off the table for
hunting. But this trip is youare darting them for research
purposes. So you get to go outlike you're hunting them, but
it's all it's all monitored byby vet veterinarians.
They pull research data from itto help better the population
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and and the the species. It'scrazy. And you So
Chris Isaac (16:43):
you just, like, tranq them and then study them?
Scott Anderson (16:46):
Yep. Yep. And they
Jimbo Robinson (16:47):
take on that. Yeah.
Scott Anderson (16:48):
Genetic data, a lot of stuff from them when
they're when they're tranqed,and it's kind of it's kind of a
cool situation where it's it'sbeneficial to the species, and
it's a a unique way of goingabout it.
Jimbo Robinson (16:57):
Man. I mean, I'm just going through here and
looking at mean, the
Chris Isaac (17:01):
Rican crocodile bay fishing.
Jimbo Robinson (17:03):
The king eider hunt for two. I mean, if king
eiders aren't on your bucketlist.
Scott Anderson (17:08):
The musk ox hunt up in Alaska.
Jimbo Robinson (17:10):
That's always a big one, isn't it, Scotty?
Scott Anderson (17:13):
That is that one and the Iowa specialty deer tag
as well. But that, I mean, thatmusk ox hunt is a draw only. DU
gets it for purposes offundraising, and they they have
a less than 1% draw to get thattag. So this is a guarantee. You
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buy it on that auction, you'rewalking away with that tag.
Jimbo Robinson (17:36):
Are these bids we're hearing come in? Every
time it goes, is that a bidcoming in? Because I'm there's a
lot of people bidding on this, Iguess.
Chris Isaac (17:42):
Already?
Jimbo Robinson (17:42):
Yeah. Well, they
Chris Isaac (17:44):
Make it rain.
Jimbo Robinson (17:45):
When this comes out, it's already open. Man, I'm
just going down here. I'm I'mgetting lost in in
Chris Isaac (17:50):
Now something romantic, Sunset and Chuck, Top
Sail Island Oyster Cruise.
Scott Anderson (17:56):
Spring to school. Beach there's some beach
vacations if you're looking fora little getaway with a spouse.
Oh, gonna go up here. Out ofMexico or The Bahamas, wherever
you're looking to go.
Jimbo Robinson (18:06):
I'm gonna go to the search bar here. Well,
that's that you know, it'sinteresting. Interesting timing
here, Scott, because as Scottie,as a lot of people are as a lot
of people are gearing up fortheir hunting season, the wife
it's gonna be a good time to buya trip for the wife. Oh,
Palmetto Dunes, Hilton HiltonHead Island. Like, that's a
great, awesome trip becauseHilton Head is awesome.
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I think it's it's a it'sbeautiful. I'll I've, you know,
I've lived in South Carolina fora good portion of high school
and college, and Hilton Head isawesome. So that's a and that
course is great, man. Oh, that'sa good course. That'll be a fun
one.
I think that one will do well.Spanish Bay, Pebble Beach. You
got lots of Pebble Beaches inthere. I had to go to I had to
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go check out the golf. Thoselook interesting.
Chris Isaac (18:53):
Pine courses.
Jimbo Robinson (18:54):
Scotty, let's have fun with this one. What's
the weirdest? We've talked aboutsome unique, some things we'd go
to. What is one you look at andyou're like, who in the world
would take this trip?
Scott Anderson (19:05):
You know, personally, me, I'm kind of open
for anything. Obviously, I thinkthat the Python one, I'm sure
gets a lot of people that arelike, who in the world would
want to actually go in the darkchasing a python through the,
basically, the Florida jungle?
Jimbo Robinson (19:18):
Do you get insurance on that?
Scott Anderson (19:21):
I would I would guess it doesn't qualify. If
you're putting yourself puttingyourself in the jaws of a
python, it's kinda free game atthat point.
Jimbo Robinson (19:28):
Well, know, I've always heard that you don't have
to be the fastest when you'rerunning from a bear, you just
can't be the slowest. So I'mimagining it's kind of the same
thing with Python. You wanna gowith guys that are slower than
you.
Scott Anderson (19:41):
Yeah. You know, another one too that's kinda
crazy is the catfish noodlingdown in Kentucky. That's a trip
you can get on where you're, youknow, you're that's where you're
underwater, basically in muddystuff that you can't even see.
So you're going down blind andyou just shove your hand through
the mouth of a catfish that'ssitting in a pool or a box and
then just pull them up.
Chris Isaac (19:59):
Wow. I have a
Jimbo Robinson (20:00):
best friend that does that all the time, and and
they wear special gloves, but heloves it. Him and his kids love
it. I mean, his daughter and hisson, they love doing it. And
Okay.
Chris Isaac (20:11):
I want this Belize dream vacation freight.
Jimbo Robinson (20:14):
See, was looking at some of the well, I can I
mean, the dream vacations areconstantly a huge Mhmm? Discover
European soccer for two.
Chris Isaac (20:24):
Oh, that's cool. That is really cool.
Scott Anderson (20:26):
Chris, I kinda see you as a guy that's into
this one of these glampinggetaways where you get, like,
the old air
Jimbo Robinson (20:31):
Dude, it is
Chris Isaac (20:31):
a glamping percent.
Scott Anderson (20:32):
Like, that that seems like a Chris Isaac kind of
thing is just the the glampingpayaway for two.
Jimbo Robinson (20:37):
Well, as you as you Where is that? Let me As you
build on this, Scott, don'tforget that our man Isaac, you
know, he he needs to put histrip in here at some point.
Uh-huh.
Chris Isaac (20:47):
What does that mean?
Jimbo Robinson (20:48):
Uh-huh. You have a really cool destination Oh,
Chris Isaac (20:51):
I do.
Jimbo Robinson (20:51):
In your back pocket that would be fun.
European soccer, though, youcould tour a stadium.
Scott Anderson (20:56):
Yep.
Jimbo Robinson (20:56):
It has the blackout dates are are those
will be updated before thiscomes live, I would assume. But
because the blackout dates aremay have been in the past.
Scott Anderson (21:09):
Oh, yeah. We'll have to double check that. You
know, another one another onethat's kinda interesting too,
it's not, you know, weird by anymeans, but especially if you're
looking there for a kit that gotkids you wanna take out, there's
that astronaut adventure down atthe Kennedy Space Center.
Jimbo Robinson (21:22):
I just saw that one. That's was actually in
there. That's cool. And that's athat would be fun.
Scott Anderson (21:27):
Yeah. I mean, they get a they mean, you get
obviously lots of tours and allthat, but you actually get to
meet an astronaut. Like, it'd bepretty, you know, pretty cool
for any little kid that's kindainto that stuff.
Jimbo Robinson (21:35):
So, Scotty, what bidding how does the bidding
work on here? Because I I don'twant if somebody hasn't bid on
one of our online blah blah. Ifsomebody hasn't bid on one of
our online auctions before, Idon't want them to get on there
and be overwhelmed by the proxyand kind of how that explains
it. Will you kind of talk abouthow the bidding works on here?
Scott Anderson (21:51):
Yeah. So it's it's pretty it's pretty simple.
It's it's kinda runs like acheckout process like any on any
kind of ecommerce site, but youyou go to the trip, you click on
the details of it, allows you toplace a bid. You can obviously
just say, wanna bid this, andthere's there's increments that
are different that are minimumincrement increases. But you can
go in there and you can justplace a set bid, or you could
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also what we call a proxy bid,place a max bid or a proxy bid
that says, alright, I'm willingto pay up to this, and then the
system actually bids for you asthose competing bids come in.
It's a nice little touch if youcan't sit by your phone or
computer all day every day whenthose trips, but especially at
the last minute because in everyauction, that last hour, ten
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minutes, five minutes is crazy,and bids are coming in so fast.
And the benefit to that thatproxy bid or max bid is it only
bids if you need it to. So assomebody else is competing
against you, it's bidding foryou, and it'll always recognize
that max or proxy bid at thevery end. So if if someone's
going against you, going againstyou back and forth, back and
forth, and the the deadline of8PM central hits on the twenty
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fifth, if it needs to it'll thatmax bid will push you to adjust
the amount you need to to win aslong as it's there. If it if
it's someone bid over top ofyour proxy, your max bid, then
then they're gonna win.
But it'll always bid for you,which is a really nice feature
that you don't just have toworry about sitting there all
the time watching it.
Jimbo Robinson (23:14):
So if you're not around when the auction closes,
or you've got you're busy orsomething, you just put your max
bid that you want it to to thatyou potentially want to pay for
it, and and it'll take youthere, but it's not gonna bid
unless you absolutely need itto, if somebody's outbid you, I
guess. Yeah. Yep. That's a coolfeature. Yeah.
Because, I mean, if somebody wasgonna buy this trip no matter
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what, they can put a massiveamount of money in there, but at
the end of the day, it's notgonna take them up to that to
that dollar figure unlesssomebody else is bidding against
them.
Scott Anderson (23:42):
Correct. Yeah. It's just just enough to make
you the winner. That's all.
Jimbo Robinson (23:45):
And I guess nobody really knows what other
people's proxy bids are. So Ibet if you're going bid bid bid
bid bid somebody, they both putI guess it couldn't do that
because then you'd be out beat,or it would have taken them both
up.
Scott Anderson (23:56):
It just keeps going up. So if, like, somebody
was, you know, $2,000 proxy maxand somebody was 1,999, it would
wherever they're at right now,it would ding them all the way
up to that point until they'reit just gives you off to be the
winner, whatever it is, whateveryour max is.
Jimbo Robinson (24:14):
That is awesome. Wow. This is going through this
website here, this is this isfun. I mean, this is you could
spend a lot of time kindaresearching and going through
these, and there's been a lot oftime put into this auction and
and and very the details on it,and I think the ease of it and,
you know, earlier we talkedabout it being daunting with how
many trips, but the ease ofbeing able to hit the drop down
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menu and select kind of whatyou're interested in or what you
may wanna do actually makes itreally easy to navigate. I mean,
obviously, there's a lot ofwaterfowl hunts, but they're so
different.
You could scroll by the onesthat, you know, don't really
have an interest in. But, man,it's it's a really easy site,
Scott, that that you and yourteam, I guess, have put
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together. Will there be tripsthat'll be added throughout the
auction?
Scott Anderson (25:01):
Yeah. There there's like I said, there's
some that have come in sincewe've been talking. We'll get
those added. You know, there'salways a last second one.
There's even some that wetypically add during I mean, the
reality is is we wanna put theseopportunities in front of
people.
So if something comes in and theauction's still running, we'll
drop it in because it doesn'thurt to put it there. I'd rather
have someone have theopportunity to buy it than just
not not put it there at all.And, you know, you know, like
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you kind of talked about thosethe search or the or the the
categories you can kind of gothrough is the is definitely the
way to go. You know, and onceyou kind of start honing in on
some trips, pretty much everytrip, as long as it's given to
us, you know, provides a link tothe Outfitter site or Facebook
page or social media page ofsome sort. So if they want to do
a little more research in on itand see exactly who they're
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gonna go to, they they can dothat research themselves.
And, of course, there's alwaysthe contact organizer button
that's on the auction site whereit shoots an email to us with
any questions somebody has, andwe'll, you know, get back to
them as soon as we can. It'swe're pretty quick in responding
because we just know the shortrun time, it's important to get
back to people so they can maketheir decisions.
Jimbo Robinson (26:05):
Yes. And and that brought up another question
that I kind of thought of. Whathappens, like post auction, what
happens? I guess if you'rebuying this trip, you're not
gonna contact the outfitterimmediately and start booking
it. Kinda what does the afterauction kinda look like?
Scott Anderson (26:19):
Yeah. So, you know, August 25, 8PM central,
it's done. Right? It's gonna hitall the if you're the winning
bidder, it's gonna hit your cardat that point, And then we start
getting a report. It ends at08:00 at night.
We're going to kind of workthrough that report, but it's
obviously late and it's a lot togo through, so we will take some
time that night to do it. Butthen starting the next day on
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the twenty sixth, we will startcompiling all the sales. We will
start emailing every singlebuyer, and we connect them in
that email with their outfitter.So we send them an email saying,
hey, appreciate this, you know,the support. Here's a link to
your trip on the auction justfor reference.
Your outfitter is copied aswell. Here's their contact
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information. And at that point,it kind of just turns over to
the outfitter and the buyer towork the details out of, you
know, booking and setting up andgetting all the details figured
out they need to.
Jimbo Robinson (27:13):
Wow. If you're an outfitter, I mean, this is a
great opportunity. I mean, I'msitting here scrolling through
going, man, if I own a business,and I mean, this is great
advertising because you're gonnaclick on Yeah. On almost all of
them. I mean, that's what'sreally neat about it is you're
kinda clicking through them all.
Chris Isaac (27:28):
I know. They're all so unique.
Scott Anderson (27:30):
And we we have heard that feedback from some
some of the outfitters in thepast that, you know, they get
calls and emails and questions,and then a lot of times they get
secondary bookings based onpeople just asking more
questions and maybe not winningthe bid, which is which is
great. We want that too. Right?We want the ones that support
us. We want to be able to try tosupport them back, and that's a
good way to go about it.
So it I mean, it's definitely aneat process of how it's kind of
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beneficial to everybody. We getmoney for conservation to put
the habitat in the ground, andoutfitters get promoted. And I
mean, it it reaches I mean,we're talking about it on the DU
podcast. Right? I mean, it hitsthe full gamut of all DU's
social media, emails, messaging,app pushes, whatever it is, you
know, we're pushing it outthere.
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So, you know, they're getting awide swath across the country of
promotion for sure.
Jimbo Robinson (28:18):
Yeah. I was talking to somebody internally
that I mean, somebody externallythat's not in the office that
said, man, I saw the I mean, doy'all ever slow down over there?
Do you? Like, I think they thinkwe have an office of 60 people
here. But they're like, do everslow down?
I said, you know, DUX two weeksago, and now you got this big
national trip auction going on.And they had seen it on social
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media. They had seen it onFacebook. A video popped up on
their on their social media. So,yeah, you're right.
There's a lot of there's a lotof buzz going on right now, and
now the auction's open, there'sprobably a lot of people talking
about it and sharing it and kindof especially behind, maybe not
on social media, but it'sprobably the talk at football
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practices and and others ofpeople that are checking it out
because, I mean, if you can'tfind something on here, I I
think you're you probably justdon't enjoy traveling. I mean,
that's the bottom line. Mhmm.Because there is something for
everybody, and and that's yourteam and and you, Scotty.
Congratulations on this, man.
It is it is one heck of anauction, and I'm excited to see
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kinda where it goes and and whatthe what the bids are because I
think that's an interesting one.What what what normally happens?
Do people wait on the bidding? Imean, obviously, when this is
out, the bidding's alreadyhappened, and and I know people
can preregister. They've theythey did preregister.
Obviously, you can't preregisternow because we're there, but
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what do you what what itnormally looks like in the
auction bidding? What what hashappened in years past with that
initial auction? Do people comein and bid, bid, bid, bid, bid?
Are they kinda wait? What whathave you seen?
Scott Anderson (29:53):
Yeah. You know, there's that initial flurry. You
know, when people kinda askabout it or or inquire on stuff
about it, you know, I alwayssuggest, like, just just get in
and bid and put your max orproxy bid in because then you're
just kinda set and protected.But there is no doubt that in
most auctions, typically, bidsdouble, if not triple, in that
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last, like, the last day, letalone the last hour. Like, it's
it's intense, and it's fast.
And and that's again where thatproxy or max bid just comes into
into into play because itdoesn't make you pay any more
than you're willing to pay. Itjust goes as far as you need to
to win it and up to your max.But there's so many bids that
come in in that last thirtyminutes that if you're not
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taking advantage of that proxythat you're you're potentially
gonna miss out. But, you know,it's fast and furious right in
the beginning, kinda slows downa little bit through the middle,
and then really picks up hard atthe end. So, I mean, I I would
just suggest get in there, makeyour bid, set your proxy to what
you're comfortable with, and,you know, keep an eye on it.
Like, check back. You just youknow, you'll get emails or texts
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if you if you opt in for thatwhen you do get outbid. So you
you're getting notifications,but it's it's something you just
don't wanna totally ignore, butkinda get get in every once in a
while and pay attention towhat's happening.
Jimbo Robinson (31:08):
Awesome. Well, Chris is gonna put our bid in on
our iguana hunt that he's gonnabuy and I'm gonna drive him to,
so I'll make sure he puts in anice maximum bid for us. And
maybe when the now that thiswhen this is airing, we'll be
the winning bidders at thecurrent time on our
Chris Isaac (31:22):
We'll we'll have to do
Jimbo Robinson (31:23):
a follow-up after after this is done.
Discuss our iguana hunt thatyou're buying? Something like
that. Hey. Yep.
Well, find if anybody wants tobuy the iguana hunt and needs
two people to tag along, callcall us. We're in.
Scott Anderson (31:37):
Could I could imagine a a live on-site podcast
of Python Honey would beintriguing to
Chris Isaac (31:43):
listen Oh my gosh. It would just be full of
screaming.
Scott Anderson (31:46):
It would be. It'd be kind of like Blair Witch
Project without the video.
Jimbo Robinson (31:49):
Oh, boy. We'd scare a lot of people off. Maybe
we need to get our boys back forthat. Yeah. Expanded perspective
guys to come on and take it stayit live on the road.
They would be a blast to havefor iguana hunting. Yeah. Well,
Scott, anything else? Did lookat the Iowa specialty deer tag.
What what what what's it?
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What is that? I mean, I thinkyou kinda mentioned it earlier.
It's something special that Iowagives us, or or how does that
one work?
Scott Anderson (32:15):
Yeah. You know, we get you know, every state
kinda terms it differently. Somesome people kinda call them
governor's tags, but this is alittle bit different than that.
But, yeah, the the state the DUchapters in that state kinda
earn some of those tags to helpfundraise for the state and for
us. It kinda loops in the wholeconservation message and and
circle there.
And, like, for this onespecifically is, you know, the
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the nice thing is it's it'snonresidents can own it and buy
it. Right? So it guarantees youa tag in the zone with the
weapon of your choice, And thisone actually is two years
available, so you can use it forthe 2526 season or 2627. So Iowa
set that up really nicely thatit really gives the person the
freedom of when they can use itand how they want to use it. So
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it's a big tag.
Obviously, it's one of the topsellers in dollars every single
year, but, you know, if you'refamiliar with bucks, Iowa's a
decent place to be. So it's
Jimbo Robinson (33:08):
And they have a lot of public I mean, they have
a lot of public land, or is theperson that's buying it kind of
I'm not familiar with Iowa andtheir deer hunting. Knew they
have massive bucks, yes, but I'mnot familiar with how their deer
hunting works. I didn't know ifif just if you bought it, if
there if there is ampleopportunity to go and hunt there
in Iowa.
Scott Anderson (33:25):
There there's a there's a fair fair chunk of
public land in Iowa. It's I Iwould definitely say probably
more than the average state. Youknow, the one benefit there is a
lot of people are nonresidentsthat either have a lease or own
land in Iowa for hunting. Well,if you own land in Iowa, but
you're a nonresident, you haveto draw a tag still to get and
hunt your land.
Jimbo Robinson (33:45):
Wow. Okay.
Scott Anderson (33:45):
Well, this, you know, like, this could be
somebody that either leases orowns land. It's it guarantees
them a tag. Now it's no. Theybetter have a nice big buck
probably if they're if they'reif they're hoping for it. But, I
mean, Iowa's definitely a aplace where a 200 class buck is
not not out of the question.
So
Jimbo Robinson (34:00):
So people aren't shooting a doe with this tag? I
Scott Anderson (34:03):
it allows you to.
Jimbo Robinson (34:04):
You can certainly pass all that antisex.
That's crazy.
Scott Anderson (34:07):
But but I'd I'd maybe let those ones pass for a
year or two before you better bea big dough.
Chris Isaac (34:13):
Right. Let them grow.
Jimbo Robinson (34:14):
Well, we're excited, Scottie. Appreciate you
again for for taking the time tocome on the Ducks Unlimited
podcast. Thank you for allowingus to kind of just scroll
through it and discuss thenational trip auction because,
man, it is so interesting andit's so awesome, and and if you
can't find a trip that you wannago on or take your family on,
then you don't like to travel.That's gonna be my tagline for
(34:36):
this one because there issomething for everybody in
everybody's budget. Yo.
Never underbid on your passion.I love that tagline they have on
the thing, on the main webswebsite because that's that's
right. If there's a trip of alifetime on here, bid it up, buy
it, take it. You're supportingwaterfowl and ducks and
conservation, and you're alsosupporting this outfit or
(34:59):
whoever the trip is going on. Sowe're very excited to see what
it's doing.
Chris Isaac (35:02):
Traveling is underrated for me. Absolutely. I
love it.
Scott Anderson (35:04):
There's only so many sunsets we get. Take
advantage of them all.
Jimbo Robinson (35:07):
There you go. Man. Nothing. That's absolutely
the truth. Well, thanks againfor taking the time to listen to
the Ducks Unlimited podcast.
I am your host, Jimbo Robinson,and we are out. See you.
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