The Big Honker Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

Jeff Stanfield & Andy Shaver are joined by Josh Taylor & Morgan Nabors of the Oklahoma Fowl Company.

The guys at the Oklahoma Fowl Company specializes crafting items that help waterfowl guides in every flyway keep their trailers and blinds organized during the chaotic waterfowl season.

They talk about the start of the Oklahoma Fowl Company and how they continue to improve product and development... they also share a few of the products that have flopped.

Jeff & Andy deliver useless facts, myths, forgotten stories and weird truths in the episodes to follow in this series.

This episode, Jeff shares some unsavory facts about lithium batteries and he tells how dolphins use pufferfish to get stoned, and Andy outlines the correlation between GDP and air conditioners, and the reason the amount of people behind bars has doubled in the last 25 years.

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Jeff Stanfield & Andy Shaver joined by one of the treasures of the waterfowl world, Dale Bordelon.

Dale has made it his mission in life to follow the rich origins from waterfowl hunters of the past and produce duck calls the same way the old timers did in the 1800’s and 1900’s.

The guys discuss his method to producing duck calls, the lack of mallards in southern Louisiana and the decline in the mallard population as a whole, chasing gators and snakes away so he duck hunt, and an incredible piece of history that he found in an old shotgun.

Jeff Stanfield & Andy Shaver look back on the Super Bowl and the moments that made the difference in the game. They also look at some startling advancements in AI, and then the guys play with Chat GPT.

On this episode, Jeff Stanfield and Andy Shaver, are joined by the President of Natural Gear Camouflage, John Adams. The guys discuss what's new from Natural Gear for the upcoming season, duck hunting in Arkansas, and how we can recruit more people into the sport of waterfowl hunting.

On this episode, Jeff and Andy, are joined in studio by, Zach Shaver. Here they discuss waterfowl hunting during the full moon and the effect it seems to have on the ducks and geese. They also argue over which Shaver brother is the better caller and hunter in general... things get messy!

On this episode, Jeff and Andy, are joined by one of the industry's leading Sandhill Crane hunter, Brent Fowlkes. Brent has shifted his love from duck and goose hunting to a more wary prey... the Sandhill Crane. Crane hunting can be a difficult sport to master but with countless hours chasing these birds, Brent has seemed to crack the code.

On this episode, Jeff Stanfield and Andy Shaver, are joined by Jeff Foiles of Foiles Migrators waterfowl calls. Jeff started his waterfowl call business in the late 90's and became the biggest personality in the waterfowl industry by the mid 2000's, until a Federal investigation would turn his world completely upside down. And now he’s back to tell all the stories from his darkest days to the redemption that follows. 

In this episode, Jeff and Andy, debate whether or not waterfowl outfitters and waterfowl guides should be required to have special licensing to be in business. They also discuss lead shot and the best hunting pickup.

On this episode, Andy and Zach Shaver, tackle a problem that every waterfowl hunter runs into... mid morning adjustments. The guys run through all the different scenarios that can keep birds from finishing in your decoy spread and what you can do to change that.