Casey Self is a hardcore waterfowler who resides in Kansas and co-owns Tribal Outdoors with his brother Shawn. Over the past few years he has been competitively competing in duck and goose calling competitions. On top of all that Casey has been involved with producing, filming and being featured in several waterfowl DVDs. He is also a member of the RNT Team, Rig’EM Right and Natural Gear Camo pro-staffs.

Casey, you’re a busy guy, so I’ve got a lot of different questions for you, but let’s start with your roots, back in Illinois where I understand you grew up; can you tell me about your youth and how your upbringing has resulted in your success in the waterfowl industry?

Casey: Well I grew up in South-Central Illinois in a small farm town called Greenville, just 15 minutes north of Carlyle Lake, which is the second largest lake in Illinois, next to Lake Michigan of course.  Carlyle Lake was rated one of the top duck hunting spots in the U.S. when I was a kid, which comes as a shock to a lot of folks because we are mostly known for Crab Orchard National Refuge, which used to hold in upwards of 300,000 Canada geese a season. Crab is where you would find me from about Christmas time until January 31^st every season. When I was a kid, I had the best of both worlds for a long time. Best duck hunting around was in my back yard and we were only a couple hours from our pit down at Crab.  I would have never known anything about either one, if it wasn’t for a great family and an avid hunting Dad and 3 brothers to share the love of this sport with. Like a lot of guys out there my dad, Gary Self, got me started pretty young, around the age of 6, along with my 2 older brothers Shawn, Shane and then later on my little brother Corey. The first time I watched my dad turn a flight of honkers with a flute goose call, I was hooked and I wanted to learn how to master a goose & duck call and he was more then willing to teach me.  I drove my mom absolutely nuts blowing my PS Olt A-50 Flute call around the house. It wasn’t long and I had it down good enough to kill geese.

One thing about Southern IL is there is a lot of die hard hunters and people that travel in from all over the country to hunt there. I’ve goose hunted all across the nation, but Crab Orchard will stick with me for life because you had to be on your game there, you had some of the best in the industry hunting nearby and decoy spreads in literally everyone’s back yard.  Duck hunting was different, I know a lot of people will tell you that there state is pressured the most and their area is the toughest, but Carlyle public hunting is the only place I have ever hunted where you have to race on bicycles or by foot to get to your spot. I’m talking grown men on 10 speed mountain bikes in full waders and decoy bags racing each other. I wish I was joking, but I was usually the sucker on the bike or sprinting on foot for my older brothers. It’s crazy, everyone lines up with there runner and at 4:30 am, when you can legally go onto the levy’s the race begins, but it was sure worth it when you got your spot! In 1999, I moved to Kansas City, MO to attend a Technical College and let me tell you, I’m glad I don’t see bicycles at the parking lots anymore; out here the hunting is better and way less people!

Now besides hunting, I understand you are or were an avid motocross racer. Are you still competitively racing? How does racing motocross fit in with your waterfowling life style? What is the highest level you’ve raced at?

Casey: Yes, I do still race a bit; it gets harder and harder each year to make it to as many races that I want to between attending waterfowl shows, doing seminars, and competing in calling contests. Luckily it doesn’t interfere with the regular hunting season because by the time hunting season rolls around, most of the racing series are done with. MX racing came before calling contests for me and when I first went buck wild at calling contests back in 2004, I started missing a lot more races and finally started trading in my MX sponsors for waterfowl sponsors. It was a tough one for me because I’ve been riding and racing dirt bikes almost as long as I’ve been a hunter. My dad when he was younger raced at the professional level, before being drafted to the Vietnam War. So it was just another thing for me to follow my dad in.

In 2003, I was the Kansas City All Area Points leader Super-Cross Champion where I received a 5 foot tall trophy. In 2004 I was 14^th in the Missouri State Series out of over 150 riders after barely finishing the season after breaking my ankle at the start of the season. The nice thing about contest calling versus motocross is you don’t break bones, just reeds!! Unfortunately, I’m like the bionic man with metal parts from all my racing crashes, I’ve shattered both my left ankle and right foot, broken numerous ribs, fingers, and suffered several concussions. Broken bones hasn’t stopped me, I love to ride and I don’t think you could ever keep me off a bike, in fact I’ll never forget the race I won in Southern Missouri, where I had to stand on a bucket to kick start my bike because my right foot was broke, don’t worry I’ll pay for that in about 10 years.  I still ride or race every weekend or weekday I can get out in the spring and summer and hope to continue for a long time. My daughter Joelle is a year and a half now, so a few more years and I can have me a racing buddy!

Was it your competitive nature from motocross that turned you to duck and goose calling competitively or something else? How long have you been calling competitively? What are your biggest wins?

Casey: I’d say racing has a lot to do with it. When I didn’t win a race, I worked harder in the gym and longer on the practice track, which is what you have to do, if you are geared to get better at anything. So when I was about 23 (2003) I started meeting some friends around the KC area, who were competing already in duck contests like Jody and Cory Niccum and I decided it was time to see what I really had by putting it on the stage with a goose routine. My first 2 contests were pretty brutal, cut first round in both of them and the second contest was at IWA in IL, where some say its one of the toughest contest of the year, my first note I air locked my call and it sounded like someone shot the goose on his opening hail call.  Around that time, I met John Vaca who just lived a few miles from me at the time and he offered up his help to me because I was bound and determined to win a contest. A few weeks after that contest, I won the WCA Missouri State Contest in Sedaila, MO and then a month later won a Open Goose Reginal in Owatonna, MN, at that same event I blew in the Open main street Duck and took 2^nd place in that one with the help of close friend Mike Anderson. That year was a big one for me, I worked really hard practicing and traveling to as many contests as I could and started placing in the top 5 for the next few years in big open contests, 2^nd and 3^rd place finishes in several 2-man contests and a couple other smaller wins, which started getting me noticed by people as a contender.  This past summer, I won a big open meat duck contest in Central Missouri and that was a big one for me, since I am mostly known for being a goose caller.

Besides making you a stronger caller for hunting and maybe a few extra bucks in your pocket, how has duck and goose calling competitively benefited your ‘waterfowling career’?

Casey: When I first started it was all about getting my name noticed and hopefully landing a dream job in the waterfowl industry, the big winnings where never much because you would spend twice that amount traveling all over competing. It has paid off for the most part; I found myself spending a lot of time in the bull pen with top names in the industry and became friends with most of them including several who are now World Champions. The main thing was right off the bat, I had call company’s that wanted me to use their calls and at that time I joined the Buck Gardner Team because Vaca was the head of the pro-staff and he was the one that was helping me the most. Soon after, I was on the team; I got to travel a bunch doing seminars and then got involved doing all the video production as a side gig for Buck for about 3 years. During my stay there, Shawn Stahl came on board and he and I worked together quite a bit and became close friends. In 2007, I left Buck Gardner and just really spent a season trying out different calls and getting back to just hunting for fun! Toward the end of the 2008 season, I started getting pursued by RNT Calls to join their team, it wasn’t long after that Stahl joined the RNT team and he got me involved in helping with the new G3 Goose Call line, and I am really enjoying being apart of the RNTeam, it has really opened some new opportunities up for me, like being involved in the Goose Calling Instructional CD’s coming out soon and a lot of other cool things I hadn’t done before.

Waterfowl Hunting Videos and TV shows… so you’ve been involved in several and from many aspects from producing, being a camera man, to being featured in them. What is it like being part of a filmed hunt and then later seeing yourself on a DVD or TV?

Casey: When I was a kid, it was my dream to some day be on a hunting DVD, so when I made my first appearance on Buck’s Fowl Play 3, I must have watched the hunt about a million times. <Casey chuckles> Then the next 3 years I appeared more and more on his videos and after leaving Bucks team I have been on several TV shows and stuff, so it has been a surreal thing.  Being in a filmed hunt is not a cake walk though and especially if you’re the one running them. There is a huge difference between smacking birds in your favorite corn field and then trying to film it so it looks like it does in your mind when you’ve had a killer hunt. You’re limited on which birds you can shoot, where you hunt in the field, so that you can hide a moving camera man (which is 90% of the battle) and you know that when you miss a bird at 10 feet the world will witness it unless you pay off the editor. The main thing I’ve learned about video hunts from being apart of them is not every good hunt on camera is DVD or TV show worthy, some times a company can have too much good footage and a really great hunt you were involved in may just not make the cut. I never felt like it was a huge deal outside of my friends and family until the first time a kid asked me to autograph his DVD at a waterfowl event. It caught me off guard that someone actually wanted my autograph, I bet I smiled for a week strait. Knowing that kids where looking up to me, I had to realize quickly that I needed to always make sure I leave my ego at the door and set a good example out there. Its really important to stay late at events and always return phone calls and emails to people seeking help or just wanting to chat, it really goes a long ways. It’s always my favorite thing when we get to get a young guy or girl on film, they think it’s the coolest thing ever and will say the funniest things. A few years ago we were interviewing this kid for Fowl Play 5 “Made in the USA” and the cameraman said “what did you think about the guys calling?” And the kid goes “Casey was kind of like Chuck Norris, calling shots and busting birds” We laughed for a long time that day, hopefully Chuck doesn’t see that someday. <Casey laughs>

What is your favorite part about being part of filming hunts?

Casey: My favorite part now is after we are picking up decoys on the last day and I know we got good footage!! <Casey chuckles> No really its seeing the finished product on the screen and being able to look back at that hunt and remember the day’s events. There is a lot of pressure about filming hunts, when I was running my own camera crews and filming stuff for Buck’s videos, I knew that we would get the footage through out the season and I only took the camera along when I knew it would be a good film worthy day. Now that I’m hosting hunts for other companies, like Stahl’s Fowl Pursuit, RNT, Waterfowler-TV (when it was still a TV show) it’s all about picking the right days or months in advance and scouting really hard when the time gets there and not only scouting the X, but mainly scouting for spots you know you could get away with having a camera guy behind you, so that takes a lot of patience. It’s in no way as easy as it looks, but man when you get a good one it makes it all worth the effort for sure.

Are there any differences between filming a hunt for TV and one for a DVD?

Casey: Yes and No, TV shows are a little easier as far as the hunt goes I think, mainly because you will have lots of other stuff to entertain the viewers that take up the 30 minute block, however the extra stuff that goes into a TV show like footage at the shop, interviews, joking around, etc. it takes a lot more work up front making sure you get all of the required footage to complete a show.   DVD filming is being mixed in with a ton of other hunts, so you can focus more on the hunt, which your usually looking at just 10 minute segments and you usually have some sort of a story line planned out, but the hard part with DVD filming is you want only the best of the best hunts, so the hunt itself needs to be a barn burner. Either way, it’s all about having a plan going into it, knowing what type of footage you need and executing it right the first time. I’ve seen a lot of great hunts filmed that laid on my desk and we never used them because the extra stuff that makes the hunt worthy was never filmed.

Do you have any current waterfowl video projects going or planned?

Casey: Stahl is planning on coming out in a couple weeks to film for 4 days; we are planning to get some hunts for both RNT and Fowl Pursuit. We will be filming out in Western Kansas for specks and cacklers for a couple days and then coming back toward KC for a couple days shooting late season ducks and some fat daddy honkers. He comes down every year in late January and we’ve had really good success, but he keeps coming down on the coldest weeks of the year, which makes for long tough days waiting on geese to fly. This year we are changing it up and getting him down when the birds haven’t been hunted as hard yet and the weather is at least above zero. So we’ll see if he brings the cold weather jinx with him again. Other than that, we have some of our pro-staffers filming highlight and lifestyle footage for us, so I can edit it together for a TV & DVD commercial for Tribal Outdoors. My idea behind it is to get these guys involved and give them some time to shine instead of some of the other guys that have been in the spot light already. I really try to limit myself to 1 or 2 filmed weekends a season now just because I like to just hunt and have fun with friends & family and not worry about getting footage anymore.

Let’s talk about your company Tribal Outdoors.  I’m not sure how many of our readers are familiar with it, so could you start off just explaining a little about what the company is about and how it came to be.

Casey: Sure no problem, well I’m an Engineer, so building and creating stuff is something that comes pretty natural to me. I have a basement and garage full of the next “hunting invention” that would allow me to retire and work full time in the hunting industry. Although a lot of my inventions are great and my hunting party use a lot of them daily, I hadn’t found the one thing that I wanted to pursue. My oldest brother Shawn who is a heck of an artist with a imagination the size of Texas created the Tribal Goose logo’s on the Shawn Stahl’s SS1 & SS2 calls, while we were all staffing for Buck and then later designed the logo’s on the Kryptonite call as well. The hype really started to grow about the designs and it transposed onto clothing that people bought just to display the cool edgy logos. Soon after the buzz really caught on and guys started calling my brother from all over the nation asking him to design logo’s for their call company, guide services, etc.

I was looking at my closet and clearing out some pro-staff logo’d gear one day and thought about how cool it always was to be at a waterfowl event and have guys pumped about the shirts or hats we had just as pro-staffers.  It was pretty much at that moment the light bulb popped in my head for an idea that no one else was doing. Soon I talked to my brother about getting Tribal Outdoors started, which would start out as an edgy waterfowl clothing company. We started off looking at all different camo patterns, blank colors, hats, the whole nine yards. Then finally, I made the decision that we would go for it and pulled some money from my savings and went after it. While I was looking at what camo pattern we would start with, I came across the guys at Natural Gear partly because I was on with RNT, but mostly because it was the camo pattern for the guys that wanted to be different and that was exactly what we were going for. Our first design was what we call the ‘Spider Duck’. It’s a tribal duck with its wing’s up and tribal stuff going out both sides of the design almost like a spider, hence the name.  When I took the design to my embroider he thought we were nuts to put this 300,000 stitch logo on the back of a Natural Gear fleece pullover, but when he printed the first one he had people that don’t even hunt admiring it and he was ready to print as many as we wanted. The logo stretches across the back of the shoulders, which is the coolest thing when being filmed or someone snaps a hero shot while casting your retriever on a blind. This is also the same logo you’ve probably seen Stahl wearing in almost ever RNT-V episode this season, you can’t miss it.

After we made it through hunting season and guys started buying them pretty steady, we switched to T-shirts for the summer that have full frontal logo’s working up the sides of the Shirt and across the chest. Later we brought in black and white hooded sweatshirts, trucker mesh back hats, and now my other brother Shane has started creating a fishing line. We not only created a clothing company like no other, we created a clothing line that anyone can wear despite their affiliation with any call company, decoy company, etc, mainly because we were the only ones, but also it’s a hunting clothing line you can wear out on the town with the girlfriend, wife, or who ever and not feel like you have to wear camo to show you’re a full fledged hunter! Now that we have been in business for a few years we keep seeing some other company’s that are starting out with clothing, but I think that it will only help us by keeping the trend going. On the flip side of the clothing, we also do graphic design for companies out there and we do a lot of business that way. Basically any company can come to us and contract our services for logo design. One of my brothers will quote the services then design you what ever you need. If you see an awesome looking tribal or non tribal design out there, then chances are we did it.

How old is Tribal Outdoors and who’s involved with the business?

Casey: Tribal Outdoors started doing business in 2006 and was founded officially in 2007. It started out just my oldest brother Shawn and me, but now my wife, Robyn handles special accounts and the pro-staff team making sure they have everything they need. My other older brother Shane heads up the upcoming fishing line and helps with design work as well. We also have a few sales guys that do a lot for us as far as getting us into stores and spreading the word. But our biggest help is the pro-staff.  I feel very blessed in the friends I’ve met over the years that have stepped up to help us and it really shows you who your real friends are when it gets down to it. We’ve been fortunate enough to gain almost the entire RNT Team, including 5 World Champions, dozen’s of champion callers and other well known guys in the industry. In fact this year both the World Goose (Robbie Iverson) and World Duck (Mike Anderson) Champions are both on our Pro-Team. These guys are really making my life easier because when you have guys of this caliber pimping your gear and talking it up, it takes a lot of pressure off a guy getting the name out there.  In addition to that we have a great field Staff of guys that we put on that are doing a great job for us as well!

How do you like working with your brothers on this joint venture? What roles do each of you assume in the company?

Casey: I wouldn’t have it any other way really. I’ve seen a lot of good friendships ruined by partnerships and when your partners are family its makes things a little easier depending on the family. For us, the 4 of us brothers are really close and I consider them all my best friends. Along with my dad and brothers who all still reside in the Greenville, IL area travel out several times a year, even though we live about 300 miles apart to hunt together.  We have been really close since we were all little sharing a lot of blood, sweat, and tears.  I think what keeps us healthy is we aren’t afraid to be candid with each other. I’m not afraid to tell my brother his design sucks and move on, and he’s not afraid to tell me when I’ve made a dumb business decision.

When we were kids we would of just fist fight it out, but now that we are older and know each other so well, we laugh it off. Mom jokes are always a good ice breaker, except we have the same mom so...<Casey laughs> You just don’t get that through a normal partnership because someone’s feelings are going to get hurt. Our roles are laid out, so that I’m the CEO & President of Operations and Sales. I basically run the business everyday, making sure we have positive cash flow, product development, media, PR, final decision making, and making sure the sales team has what they need to get their job done. Shawn is the President of Graphic design and heads up all design work, new product development, outside customers, and helps the other graphic artist we have. Shane is the Vice President of Graphic design and basically takes the overflow design work that we get, helps Shawn, and does a lot with new product development ideas, he has some really cool stuff that you’ll see spring of 2010. My little brother is still in college, but he does his fair share of helping when we need it. We go to him usually if we are trying to see if our clothing fits the trend out there for his age group.

Where do you see Tribal Outdoors five and ten years down the road? Do you have any long term goals for the company?

Casey: Well we named it the way we did to keep it open for all Outdoors Sports, so the sky is the limit at this point. But if things keep going the way they are going now I hope to have our clothing line growing each year, adding new designs for numerous hunting types and fishing types, which we have been doing.  Then my ultimate goal is to start adding my hunting “inventions” that we have been testing for years now and then moving into other extreme sports like Snow boarding, MX racing, BMX, etc.  We also have some ideas for new trend setters in the clothing business that you’ll just have to stay tuned to find out more.

So how is this season going for you and your crew? Any big trips planned for later this season?

Casey: This season has been pretty decent starting off. We’ve had to jump back and forth a lot between Kansas and Missouri to stay on top of the less pressured birds, but we’ve had some good success despite the warm weather. It seemed like we got colder than normal about 3 weeks before the season started and we gained a ton of mixed ducks and then we haven’t had anything until just the Saturday after Thanksgiving. We hunt mainly out of marsh boats in marshes around here in flooded millet and so we have been able to get where they want to be and hide good, which is why we’ve been successful. We recently made a trip after a call from a buddy down to Truman Lake in Central Missouri, which is a leg of the Ozarks and got in on a knock dead green timber hunt where 4 of us killed 24 big ducks and 2 honkers in time to make it to breakfast, which has been my favorite hunt so far, especially since we talked a couple honks into giving it up in timber. We are getting hit with pretty cold weather now, dropping into the teens at night, so the mallards are really showing up and we should start pounding them over the next few weeks along with a good number of honkers, so I’m pumped for the 16 days I have scheduled to hunt over the next 3 weeks. I find myself having guests in from other areas more then me traveling anymore, which I really enjoy. However I’ve hunted over a good portion of the US and Canada and there are some areas I still want to check out this season or next. I am planning on making 2 trips south, one to hunt with the RNT crew for the pro-staff hunt they put on down in Stuttgart, AR, and secondly down to Louisiana to hunt with the owners of Natural Gear at their camp. That will probably do it for me this year other than 2 to 3 hour trips out in different areas of Kansas and Missouri.

Before we wrap this up, you mentioned to me before the interview that you and your wife are volunteers for an organization called Young Life. Can you tell me a little about the organization, what it does, how you and your wife are involved and maybe how others can get involved?

Casey: Young Life is something I’m very proud of, but I gotta hand all the credit to my wife (Robyn) on this one. YL is a world wide non-profit outreach youth ministry organization geared toward high school and middle school students that normally would never darken the door of a church or just don’t know anything about church or God.  It’s the gospel presented in a non pushy way that shows kids how you can have a lot of fun, while being a believer, which strips out the stereo type that youth groups and churches get sometimes. We do a lot of contact work on the kids’ turf, meaning school sporting events, plays, etc and we have bi-weekly YL club get togethers, usually in a parent’s basement, with 40 to 80 kids in the community we lead. The  leaders are insane and do funny stuff, like lead games and skits with regular popular music, mixed in with some worship music, and a talk given by one of the leaders. For me growing up I had never heard of YL being from a really small town, but my wife started off as a YL kid in high school and got involved so much that she became a volunteer leader and later went onto student staff.  After college and seminary school, she became a youth pastor at a local church (where I met her) and 3 years ago got offered the position of Area Director for YL, in a small farm community called Kaw Valley, just west of KC, Kansas. The area had just started YL and needed an Area Director and some volunteer’s ready to get things going. When she was trying to make the decision on if she would take the job, she asked if I would be willing to help her lead and although I’m already a busy guy, I decided to join her in leading. Its been one of best things that I have ever signed myself up for and I have gotten to be really close with about 18 high school guys that I’ve gotten to mentor and spend every week with watching them grow as individuals and Christians. I also get to take a week long trip with them to a camp each summer. The ones that have graduated high school now help us out by being leaders with us.

I love getting involved in any type of youth event, we do a lot around Kansas helping the Kansas Department of Wildlife lead youth hunts, seminars, and about anything else they need. So getting to help kids on the other side of the fence is a real treat and I can only hope that some crazy YL leader is there for my little ones when they get older. If anyone wants to get involved you can check out their website at http://www.younglife.org/us

Outside of Tribal Outdoors, waterfowling, motocross and your youth volunteer services… is there any time for other hobbies or a regular job?

Casey: <Casey Laughs> Yeah I get that a lot, I think growing up on the farm and working on a dairy farm all through high school just taught me to keep busy. I could fill 7 days of the week with an event or activity and be just fine, but I do usually keep most of my weekdays as open as I can for spending time with my wife and 1 year old daughter.  My parents where busy people too, but they always set time aside for the family as it always came first, so we do the same thing in our household. Outside of all of that I do have another passion that is right up there with MX racing and hunting, which is fly fishing for trout. We are lucky enough to live within 2 hours of a couple really nice state parks that stock trout daily in natural streams. You’ll find me there a couple times a month from about March until August with my fly rod and waders. My wife really enjoys fishing with me down there, so we do some trips together and with my entire family, as we started that tradition ever since I was about 8 years old as well. Real job…oh yes… despite many peoples’ thoughts most of us in the waterfowl industry have real jobs too. Mine is working in the Wireless Telecom Industry as a Technical Support Engineer for Ericsson Services Incorporated, where I primarily work on the Sprint/Nextel account providing the highest level of support for all engineering and installation teams when designing and installing new telephone switching equipment in the Network. I also get to do a lot of up front development testing and technical writing where I develop the procedures for installing and figuring out how to operate new equipment.  This is what has helped me learn the ins and outs of starting and running a company myself on the side. I work a lot of long hours, so most of my Tribal work gets done late in the evening after the kido has gone to bed, but since it’s a family run business we work on things together and it runs smoothly how it is. I would say in the next couple years, I can hopefully call Tribal Outdoors my Real Job.

Thanks very much for your time today. Before I let you off the hook, seeing you work with a camouflage company, could you leave our readers with some advice for choosing the correct camo pattern for their environment?

Casey: Well camo is a tough one for a lot of guys and I feel most people out there are buying a certain patterns because their buddy has it or it looks the coolest to them, but not a lot of guys actually go out and test camo patterns to see if they work in the environment they hunt regularly. A lot of it depends on how you primarily hunt and the vegetation or crop you hide in. I’ve had the privilege to wear about every camo pattern there is and being a perfectionist, when it comes to having everything right when I hunt, I’ve tested different patterns and colors on various terrain and have been sponsored in the past by different companies as well. There are some great ones out there that have developed new camo’s to blend in perfectly with certain habitat. Although great patterns, most of them only work in that one habitat, so they force people to buy several different patterns, which isn’t a big deal if you only stay in one area all year. Others appeal to the hunters by looking cool up close, but step away 50 yards and you have yourself a black blob, but guys buy it because it looks cool. Now Natural Gear Camo is the total opposite, they’ve created a camo pattern that works in every situation, but up close doesn’t look that glamorous. They built a camo that is lighter in nature, but disappears in shadows and really adapts to any type of cover, which is perfect for guys like me who travel across the US. Up close when you look at it in say a corn field, you think its gray and corn is yellow. Well step back 50 yards and when you’re next to your buddy the black blob, you are blending in with shadows of the stocks and will disappear. Then when you throw it in with any tree’s in flooded timber, buck brush, or willows, your talking about a camo that not only works from a distance, but virtually disappears up close even. I’m not just saying this because I am a Natural Gear advocate either, I’m there because I tested a product and became a believer in it so much so that I’ve built my entire company around it.

Thanks again Casey, best of luck to you the rest of this season.

Casey: Thanks a bunch for giving me the time, I’m honored to get to talk with you and hope everyone is having a great season. Maybe you’ll have to make a trip down here next season so see what it’s like here. Or maybe we can get you on one of those bicycle races in IL!! <Casey laughs>

For more information about Casey or Tribal Outdoors, check out Tribal Outdoors’ website www.tribaloutdoors.com or visit RNT’s website www.rntcalls.com.You can also see Casey in several waterfowl hunting DVDs, such as RNT’s Fowl Mood, Fowl Pursuit 6 and 7 and a host of others.