The Doug Pike Show 12-8-24

In this episode Doug talks about the weather and what it means for deer and other animals this time of the year. Do you know how to tell if the deer your looking at is old or young? Doug will tell you the key things to look. What is the best Buck to Doe ratio be when starting a hunting ranch? Doug and a caller talks about the best ratio and why its needed. FYI: Do you know how to stop a noisy gutter when it starts to rain? Its an easy fix but you have to listen to the show to find out what to do. Get those kids out of the video games and bring them fishing. Doug offers parents advise on helping the kids catch their first fish. Now, you create memories with you kids. Doug talks about the new Chinese camouflage technology material. What are the pros and cons of this new clothing. Doug see some issues with this and he attacks it head on. Your fence height matters, especially when it comes to keeping your deer on your property. Find out why your fence height matters from Doug Pike.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is the Dogpike Show, brought to you by American
Shooting Centers Guns Shooting, an instruction since nineteen eighty nine.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Now Here's Doug Pike.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Sunday edition of the program starts right now on this
drizzly morning. It wasn't very pretty when I walked out.
In fact, there's a gutter down spout on the front
of our house near the front door, and there was
just enough drizzle on the roof to generate not a
steady flow of water where it just kind of comes

(00:34):
down quietly, and oh, that's cute, and this is okay.
It was just enough to get a steady drip. And
that drip for some reason, I'm gonna have to work
on this because it it was loud and that drip.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Was just a poink poink point.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
As soon as I woke up and walked out of
the bedroom I heard it, I thought, holy cow, it
sounds like something. It's like somebody hitting a little tin drum.
That's how loud it was. And so there you have it.
I'm gonna look at the radar real quickly if I
can get it to come up zippity doo. I don't
want to waste a whole lot of time here, because

(01:16):
it is Sunday morning, after all, and I want to
get to as many calls from you guys as I can.
Oh my word, I really had no idea that this
drizzle that we've got going on is gonna be so widespread.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
Maybe that's just Yeah, it's a big old chunk.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
It's a big old chunk of goo that's gonna move
through here eventually. Let me let me fire up the
timeline here and see how fast we can get rid
of this thing. Oh man, it's just like a freight
train just paralleling the coast, moving southwest to northeast.

Speaker 4 (01:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
The good news is it looks like it'll all be
out of here by about one, maybe two o'clock somewhere
in there. But just right now, there's nothing severe to
look at. There's really not. But it's just a big
bunch of light green and dark green with little flecks

(02:10):
of yellow in it. Now, offshore, there's a pretty significant
amount of rain and already over into Louisiana from about
Lafayette south into the middle of the Gulf of Mexico.
More or less, there's more rain down there than there
is up here. But where we are, the Coastal County
is actually not getting much of anything at all until

(02:32):
about one or two, and very little then, most of
this stuff staying about thirty forty miles inland. Yeah, right now,
there's a little bit down there. Bottom line is it's
light stuff. It's gonna go away. We should have a
really good day. It'll be cloudy tomorrow morning when we
tee it up for the Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital

(02:53):
Golf tournament up there at Golf Club of Houston. It'll
be kind of iffy and ugly, but it's all supposed
to get better and by the time we finished. By
the time we finish, it's not over yet. We should
have some sunshine look at and a nice warm day too,
the last of those that we're gonna get for quite
some time.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
We've got.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
Let me just go to that forecast real quick, because
it was interesting to talk. TikTok tik talk. Let's go
to the Weather Channel forecast. I like it every bit
as much as any other I've got, And there are
so many different for you. If you don't like a forecast,
when you look one up online, just click and get
another one.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
You'll find one you like sooner or later.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
So today, h I have sixty four tonight, a low
of sixty which is not undoable. Tomorrow, a high somewhere
around where we'll be probably around seventy eight seventy nine.
The official Monday Houston high temperature is estimated to be
eighty one degrees. And after tomorrow, I'm gonna pretty much

(03:57):
bet you can kiss eighty goodbye until spring.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
We got a significant coal front coming in.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
High's near sixty on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, and low's
Tuesday night and Wednesday night of about forty I see
forty here, thirty nine on a couple of other a
couple of other forecasts I've seen. So you know, whatever
warm clothes you've got, pull him out. You're gonna need
him for a couple of days. Then maybe we can

(04:25):
back up a little bit. Let's tee it up with
Rick to get things started here, Rick, bis, what's going on?

Speaker 4 (04:30):
Man?

Speaker 2 (04:30):
Uh oh, it's doing it again? Melvin hit me you there?

Speaker 5 (04:34):
Rick?

Speaker 2 (04:35):
Okay, nice doing it for me?

Speaker 3 (04:36):
Hold on, Ah, be patient, Rick will get you, you
know we will there. He is earth to come in
over uh ten to four? Good buddy, what you got man?

Speaker 4 (04:46):
Hey? Three real quick things One I can fix your
gutter ding ding problem.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
What are you putting down there at the bottom?

Speaker 4 (04:53):
Let it hit on nothing, because what the day is
the gut The water is dripping down your gutter and
it's hitting the turnout. And yeah, ain't the water hitting
stick of a sponge in there?

Speaker 3 (05:04):
Oh yeah, that's perfect. Yeah, that'll soften up the noise.
I didn't think about.

Speaker 4 (05:08):
That put up of water up. I mean, it's not
going like back up or anything.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
Yeah, that's a good point.

Speaker 4 (05:14):
It rains real hard, it's gonna wash it out anyway.
But smart, I have a spongeing one. I have one
that just drives me freaking great.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
What I might do is get some of that that
water proof glue and put that on the bottom of
the sponge and then just shove it up in there
and wherever it stops, it stops, and that'll that'll stow that.

Speaker 4 (05:31):
You might you might, you might back up and fill
up your gutter and in a good old Houston thirty incher,
just stuff it up in there and if it rains
that hard, let it wash out and you ain't gonna
hear ump anyway.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
That's a good point.

Speaker 4 (05:48):
Hey, uh man, I got ringed out this morning. It's foggy,
DRIs Man, I did a triffect to sell to speak
on the on the deer. Yeah, crows and Aco didn't
shoot nothing, but I was getting wet, but I did
call them in. Well that's yeah, it was fun. I

(06:10):
love I love I love that. But I want, I
really like to take my welcome of anytime I have
left this talk about a little hurt little this this morning,
and I've talked about it all week, is uh bub
doe ratios on your property? People of biologists, game wardens
and ranch owners, and they'll say, oh, it's one, it's

(06:32):
one to one, it's one to two, it's wonder three whatever,
blah blah blah. There is no answer to that question.
In my opinion. This is just my brain. Okay, until
you have to do a really end that deep dive
study of once you got on your place.

Speaker 3 (06:54):
Okay, well you got a couple of men also, Rick, though,
you got a couple that with what your expectations are,
what do you want don't that place to produce? That's
going to be a bigger determining factor, I think than
and even what's already there.

Speaker 4 (07:06):
Now it's we all want the same thing. We want
trophy bucks.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
Well, not everybody. You'd be surprised.

Speaker 3 (07:12):
There's still I talk to a lot of guys who
are still you know, I just want to get some
meat for the freezer.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
That's all I want.

Speaker 4 (07:19):
Well, I won't argue that because I get that, sure,
But you know, it depends geographically, and this is my opinion. Again,
I'm very got you know, you know I've got my opinion.
And geographically it depends where you're at, It depends how

(07:40):
much pressure is on your place and around you, et cetera,
et cetera, et cetera. Right, but the big argument that
I have with people, they say it needs to be
one buck per two those, and I'm going most well,
everything I have that i'm managing, which is not near
like you churning, it's one buck per four, and I

(08:05):
want I just want to explain that and then I'll
cut out. The reason I want four instead of two
those is you're gonna see your best bucks during the.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
Rut, right, there's no question.

Speaker 4 (08:20):
Yeah, yeah, okay, you really are anyway, you know, if
you average it all out, and I want them trophy
bucks or them the management bucks to be running and
moving and chasing as much as they can. That way
we can see them more, and our guys will leave,

(08:41):
our bucks will leave and go to the neighbor because
they're gonna go find what they're looking for, and then
the neighbors is gonna do the same thing. So I
want them moving as much as I can get them
to move. So I like them one to four in
most of my stuff. He'll country the Post of Savannah,
a little bit of East Texas. But anyway, I was

(09:03):
be curious to see what your some of your listeners
might think about it. They might think I'm nuts. We
talked about to have a nuts but glore anyway.

Speaker 3 (09:13):
Yeh yeah, we can certainly talk about that. I appreciate Rick,
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (09:16):
Man, tell you hey, hey, why last question? Sure looks
like you're gonna have good weather for the turnam I know?

Speaker 6 (09:23):
Man?

Speaker 4 (09:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (09:24):
And you got I know Alan well enough to know
that he's put together a pretty good team. I expect
to see his team and your team, which you two
are sharing, even though you've never shook hands. And thank
you for doing that. By the way, I really appreciate
it for those who are just tuning in and not
have any idea what we're doing. Rick jumped up this
past weekend and said, you know what, I can't buy

(09:45):
a whole five thousand dollars team, but I'll pay for
half of one if somebody else will pick up the
other half. Alan picked up the other half within what
was it, Melvin ten minutes. We knocked that out, and
he's got a team together and they'll do you proud, Rick,
they will, they will, man.

Speaker 2 (09:59):
I gain to you.

Speaker 4 (10:00):
I just want to see that picture of Alan's team
on the podium lit trophy.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
I don't know who he's I know he knows the
right people.

Speaker 7 (10:12):
I just don't know if he got the right Hey, hey,
I will tell you that. I will tell you this.
I know that that tournament is a great tournament, and
there's gonna be a lot of really great golfers and
some ringers there. Yeah, and I think that makes it
a lot of fun.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
Sure does, man, it does. For sure, We're gonna have
a good time.

Speaker 3 (10:31):
We're gonna raise a lot of money to you that
I can't I can't say how much it is, but
I already know.

Speaker 2 (10:36):
We we did well. We did well, so it's gonna
be great.

Speaker 4 (10:39):
I'm proud of you for your company. At the last thing,
thank you, Rick, I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (10:43):
Tell you okay, all right, let me click that, do that.
That's done.

Speaker 3 (10:49):
Yeah, he's I guarantee you Allan's put together a pretty
good team. I I did a little research while Rick
and I were talking on but go ratios, and the
the most current thing I found just with a snapshot.
Let me lean in where I can read this a
little bit better. Ideal buckdough ratio? What is the buck
dough ratio? There are there are a lot of opinions here,

(11:12):
as you might imagine. The one that seems to be
the least the least biased, just to straight up overall
thing comes all the way back from two thousand and eight, unfortunately,
sixteen years ago, says the adult sex ratio for white
tailed deer in Texas in that year was three point

(11:33):
one dose adult dose to one adult buck. And then
it goes on though to say a more balanced sex
ratio where there are the same number of dos and bucks,
is considered better. And there's no question about that. Most
of the best managed herds are ideally looking for one

(11:56):
to one, maybe two to one, and that keeps the
that keeps the carrying capacity of the land sufficient to
take care of moving those deer toward good health through
a bad winter, toward surviving some sort of outbreak of disease,
a lot of things. That keeps them healthier when they've

(12:16):
got plenty of food, and it also keeps you from
having to as some of the MLD permit holders will
will attest, it keeps you from having to call everybody
you know to come in and shoot does at the
end of the regular season. To maintain that permit to
where you can have a little extra hunting time on

(12:37):
your ranch. It's a big it's a it's a chess
match with the deer. The deer are going to breed.
Every dough that these bucks can get to is going
to get bred and is going to throw either one
or two fawns, usually one, but surprising a pretty good
number of twins as well in a lot of these seasons,

(12:59):
and as they become more and more deer on a property,
if you don't keep that balance in check, then you
have a problem. And that problem is going to be
either starvation or disease. Unless you can take those deer
out of there and let them have enough food, unless
you want to supplement food, unless you want to start

(13:19):
buying truckloads and freight train car loads of corn and
protein and all of the things that they get fed
and love to eat. Blame Friar Mood did it right,
and has done it right for so many years.

Speaker 2 (13:36):
I've got to turn that volume down on that little
laptop of mine. It's making me crazy.

Speaker 3 (13:41):
He has for a long time bought deer food in
bulk and in the it as it's spillage from down
where big shiploads of grain are unloaded, all of that
mass leaving and going of grain where they pour that

(14:04):
stuff into big old container ships.

Speaker 2 (14:06):
There's a lot of spillage, and that.

Speaker 3 (14:08):
Spillage either just sits there and goes to waste or
somebody who's got the capacity to buy it. And you
can't just go down there and buy a shovelful, But
if you want to go down there and buy a
whole truckload of that stuff, it's it's all all or
mostly good deer food. And the places he hunts, the

(14:29):
ranches he manages, and and how he feeds his deer
is probably one of the best examples I've seen or
heard of doing it affordably at that scale. His idea
of affordability in deer food and yours or mine on
a on a private lease with just a couple of
guys might be pretty different. But there's there's value in

(14:53):
what he's doing and those deer getting a more balanced
diet than if they only were supplemented with food or
only corner only with one or two other things. They
eat all kinds of stuff when when they're dining at
Cafe Friar mood.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
Great guy, man, great guy. I need to call him.

Speaker 3 (15:12):
I may call him during the break and see if
he can give us a couple of minutes find out
what's going on in South Texas. Seven one three, two
one five seven ninety Email on me, Dougpike A iHeartMedia
dot com.

Speaker 2 (15:21):
We do need to take a little break here.

Speaker 1 (15:24):
This is Sportstock seven ninety, Facebook dot Com, slash sports
Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 6 (15:30):
Back to the Doug Pike Show.

Speaker 3 (15:32):
Oh gosh, I gotta start writing stuff down. I've already
missed No, I haven't missed one yet, have I?

Speaker 2 (15:38):
Well, rejoiner, No if this is the first one, Okay,
I got to write this down and then we'll go
from there.

Speaker 3 (15:47):
We're gonna start, I think next week, because I'm gonna
get out and get those prize packages from Breazs River Provisions.
The jellies and jams and sauces that are I mean,
these are boot an tique things you can put on
your toast in the morning or put on your chips
for the big football party or whatever.

Speaker 2 (16:06):
They've got a host of things you really ought to go.

Speaker 3 (16:08):
Look at the website just Brasisriverprovisions dot com.

Speaker 2 (16:13):
I think that's it.

Speaker 3 (16:14):
I'm almost positive and yeah, it's good stuff.

Speaker 2 (16:18):
It's really good stuff. And I'm gonna meet up and
get some.

Speaker 3 (16:21):
Four packs of boy large enough jars of these things,
just samplers. They're gonna be kind of random four packs.
And if you win the game, which we I think
we'll start playing next weekend, then you can swing by
here and pick one of those up as your prize
for winning. And figuring out the theme to Melvin's Jams

(16:47):
I got. There's not much jelly in music, is there?
No no jelly, just jams. So it's okay because it's interchangeable. Okay,
what was yesterday's theme?

Speaker 4 (17:02):
That one?

Speaker 3 (17:02):
I think was too easy? Yesterday's theme eyeballs man eyes
the eyes had it right.

Speaker 8 (17:11):
What are you digging up right there? The eyes the eyes.
What have you got a phone book in there?

Speaker 4 (17:16):
I have?

Speaker 2 (17:17):
It's everything.

Speaker 3 (17:18):
But with the show is that every song that has
the word eyes of the title pretty.

Speaker 2 (17:22):
Much every.

Speaker 3 (17:25):
Every playlist that ipp So, now have you made today's
list tougher?

Speaker 2 (17:29):
Yes? I have.

Speaker 8 (17:30):
Okay, it's a combo combination, a combo.

Speaker 2 (17:33):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (17:34):
And if someone were trying to win these sauces and
jams from Breslas River Provisions, would they have to come
up with both halves of it?

Speaker 2 (17:43):
I guess so well that it's easy. It's an easy
it's an easy feel.

Speaker 6 (17:46):
You kill it out.

Speaker 3 (17:48):
Okay, that's probably a hint. Yes, okay, all right, I'm
in there. I'm in there.

Speaker 4 (17:55):
You know.

Speaker 2 (17:56):
Now you've got me confused. But there's only one.

Speaker 3 (17:58):
Once I have two or three songs, then I'll start
worrying if I haven't got a clue at that point,
no problem.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
Yeah, and feel free to make them hard.

Speaker 3 (18:05):
I mean, there's no reason to just no reason to
just get somebody's name and tell them just come on
down and pick up a prize.

Speaker 2 (18:11):
They gotta work for this one. You work for it
a little bit. Yeah, this is one of the better ones.

Speaker 3 (18:15):
I'm actually working on some fishing stuff too that I've
tried to get in here and see if we can't
make that work. That's a prize that I gave away
years ago, many years. I've been doing this show now
for twenty four years, believe it or not, and many
years ago I had some good prizes from one of
my bigger sponsors back then, and I'm going to try

(18:37):
to revitalize that type of prize, and I guarantee you
that one.

Speaker 2 (18:42):
Will be worth coming over and picking up. For sure.

Speaker 3 (18:45):
That'll be every bit is everybody won't be delicious, but
it'll be something you want to come pick up.

Speaker 2 (18:51):
So back to.

Speaker 3 (18:52):
Where we are kind of right now and moving forward
through the next couple of weeks. This front that's come
and after we get finished with the golf tournament, is
it's gonna deliver a wake up call to any fish,
any duck, any goose, any bird, any four.

Speaker 2 (19:13):
Legged animal, anything down the whole continent of the United States.

Speaker 3 (19:18):
Pretty much they're gonna know it's winter if they were wondering,
because the temperatures have fluctuated so much lately. Now from
the farther north you go, the colder it gets and stays.

Speaker 2 (19:28):
This time of year.

Speaker 3 (19:30):
But down here we get the influence of the Gulf
of Mexico and the Rocky mountains. You get the cold
from the north, you get warm from the south. That's
why it's gonna be nearly eighty degrees tomorrow. And what
that's gonna do is shift these animals generally into fatten
up for winter mode. They're gonna have to They're gonna

(19:53):
have to fatten up for winter. Who is that, Oh,
that's Mike. I can't Mike, if you're listening this morning,
I cannot answer that phone in here. I've got to
turn that off. Hang on, Oh man, how do I
how do I get over here? Yeah, Mike, understand O boy,
I bet he's he's calling the office line and I

(20:13):
can't answer it on this laptop. By the way, anybody
who's gotten an email from me will see my cell
phone at the bottom of it, and that's that's a
better option. I don't not trying to overload my phone
with messages. I don't want anybody selling it on the
dark web or something. But the long and the short
of it is that office line is it's a strictly

(20:36):
digital computer line, and ninety nine point nine percent of
the people in our offices.

Speaker 2 (20:43):
Don't use that.

Speaker 3 (20:44):
Just just hit me on my cell phone and you
will have a much better chance of reaching me. Shoot
me a text and say hey, give me a call
and need to talk about this, and as soon as
I can, I'll get back to you. So back to
back to these ducks and deer and geese and chickens
and everything else whatever's living in the wild out there.
At least they're fattening up as fast as they can,

(21:07):
and they're gonna keep doing that where there hasn't been
deer breeding yet. That's gonna kick off the later ruts
that are gonna go off. We were talking about that
with Rick just a minute ago. All of these animals
are gonna be fattening up for winter, and it makes
them more susceptible to our lures or our bow hunting,

(21:32):
rifle hunting, whatever kind of hunting you want to do.
This is a good time to be out there before
it gets just bitter cold. Sitting in a deer stand
when it's thirty nine isn't really that much different than
sitting there when it's twenty nine, except that those ten degrees.
Trust me, I've been out there enough times, especially in

(21:54):
the waterfowl world, there's a big difference between forty and thirty.
Especially when the wind's blown across that prairie. There's nothing
bigger than a barbed wire fence to block the wind.

Speaker 2 (22:05):
Let me go talk to Dave. Dave.

Speaker 4 (22:08):
Hey, now, oh, Chuck Berry, boy, I wish we had
a nickel for every time that we played that song
in forty one years. Yeah, man, that's it. That's the cluestion. Hey,
you know what, And I'm pretty sure wasn't it Back
to the future one? The guy he gets up there,
the guy that got transported. Yeah, he got up on
stage and he started playing that, and then he started

(22:30):
playing some real wow well like Stephen Ray Vaughan and everybody's.

Speaker 2 (22:33):
Just looking at the mouth. Yeah, they were like, what
is he doing? That was funny over that?

Speaker 4 (22:40):
They well, okay, uh, yes, it's drizzling over here. But
I'm in Houston right now. But when I left out
this morning about four o'clock, I was going down eight
thirty and boy, I may you know, I was doing
only about forty thirty five, because you never know, And
sure enough I come up on two dolls. Man, you know,
here the headlight. Look, man, they had their ears up

(23:02):
and they were looking and I just kind of slowed
down a little bit, uh you know, and got to
do that and just went on by man, because I know,
like my older brother hit a hog one time. Oh lord, no,
that's not good.

Speaker 6 (23:14):
You know, a hog.

Speaker 3 (23:15):
The bad part about a hog is that it's it's
it's rib cage is so solid that if you hit
a hog in a car, like a low, low running
sedan of some sort, it's gonna junk it up, but
the whole front end's coming off the ground. It's you're
not just gonna smush it and keep going. Uh yeah,
that's bad, man. You got to slow down when you're

(23:36):
out in the wild.

Speaker 4 (23:37):
Yeah. Hey, and on this weather and everything. You know,
we all talk about, you know, dressing layers and take
them off one time. You know where the uh what
is it? Where the uh submarine is over there? And
guy around the Sea Wolf Park? Yeah, Sea Wolf Park, yes, sir. Well,
back in the day, I believe it was Larry Boskin time.

(24:00):
Dickerson the producer didn't come in on time, and then
somehow I was trying to call in and somehow they
got me on there. So I did about forty five
minutes of interviewing people in the sleet and snow, and
one dude he caught a red fish right there while
I was talking. Yeah, and then I let him talk
to him. Yeah, but it was ice cold, man, But

(24:23):
I mean, at least it was. It was just sleeping
and sleeping a little better than rain to bounce off,
at least to bounce off. But hey, you know, I
really do enjoy being, like I said, like a field report,
going out here to look and see what's going on.
And oh I did, I did dag me buy me
a bag of range cues over there yesterday and I

(24:47):
had one of them socks from the hospital, you know,
yeahsha yeah, yeah, yeah. Well I put a bunch in
there and then I tied the brick onto it. But
then I stabbed it with a knife a few times
and make some whole. I threw it out yesterday evening,
so by the time I get back up, there may
be some fish all the money.

Speaker 3 (25:05):
There'll be catfish all over that thing. You know, it's
gonna be funny, man. You know right where you threw it, right,
and you sunk it with that bridge, right, Yes, sir,
you're gonna snag that sock you know you are.

Speaker 4 (25:18):
I've already thought of that. You know that sock Hey
wait a minute, or it's just it's about fifteen or
twenty feet from your shore there, but you can steal
The water was kind of clear enough where you still
see that yellow oh okay down there yellow. So yeah,
but I even thought about, uh, you know, snaging it

(25:41):
and pulling it out and maybe put it in another spot.
And I bought I bought a bundle of wood here,
and it's got that you know, the it's like a
toat sack or whatever. It's got all the holes in
it already. Yeah, I was thinking about taking that and
put a bunch of range skews in it. Sure, and
then just drop it straight down off the bridge there

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in ninety seven and then see what happened.

Speaker 3 (26:03):
When you're gonna start using corn soaked in vanilla, Man,
I'm trying to put you off of those rounds.

Speaker 4 (26:10):
I've got. I have been using it, but I just
have Man, I've been doing so much of doing this
and doing that. I mean, I fish for a little
while and I've tried the corn. But man, you know
it didn't work right that time. But that don't mean
you want to work. You know, trust, I know, practice practice.
I need to practice more so.

Speaker 3 (26:30):
All right, man, whatever you like to throw that gets
you out of bed and gets you over there to
the edge of the water and you're gonna start fishing,
that's fine by me.

Speaker 2 (26:40):
That's fine. I got you know that.

Speaker 4 (26:41):
Hey, I got you, all right, sir, Hey, all right, man,
God bless her, but I like.

Speaker 2 (26:46):
Yeah, always a pleasure, Dave, I'll see buddy. Audios. All right,
let's can that. Let's get going to the break question.

Speaker 1 (26:53):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety they Houston sports Fan
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Speaker 6 (27:01):
Back to the Doug Pike Show.

Speaker 3 (27:02):
Okay, I've got my theories. Now we'll see how it
turns out. Seven one three two, seven ninety Email me
dougpick at iHeartMedia dot com. The theory about which I
spoke just then is in this Melboyn's gems and jellies.
Let me see maybe if Mike sent me an email
to let me know what was going on, standby, I

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do want to check this real quick because if there's
something I need to be saying or differently or whatever,
TikTok TikTok Okay, I'll call him in a little while. Ah,
so I want to go back to what Rick mentioned
in the very beginning of the program at the bug
dough ratio, and I've done some reading during the breaks
everything that everything that Rick was saying and that I

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was saying pretty much falls in line with what this
this chart and the reams of words, if you were
to print them out tell you, is that if you
want to manage for an older herd, especially older bucks,

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which is it's kind of synonymous with better antlers, if
you have the right genetics on your place, then you
want to go you want to lean tighter into a
one to one ratio, and that's hard to get because
there are more fawns born than bucks, or more doze

(28:32):
born than bucks.

Speaker 2 (28:33):
In the fawn crop.

Speaker 3 (28:34):
There are a lot of little girls, not as many
little boys when there when they're babies. And the another consideration,
depending on where you hunt and how you hunt, is
whether everybody on that lease can recognize the different age
classes in deer on the hoof. It's it's kind of easy,

(28:58):
but it's after fact if you're using I remember going
into some of these processing houses and stuff and looking
at these There was a big board they would have
of jawbones, on there jawbone from a year ling, a
one year old at one and a half, two and
a half, three and a half, four and a half,
five and a half, and on up. And you can

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see the wear of the teeth. But you can't check
the wear of those teeth you're if you're looking at
a deer walking through the field, And so you have
to find other ways. And that was one of the
things that Bill Carter taught me, was how to age
deer on the hoof. And there are half a dozen

(29:41):
different factors that you can look at at least that
can give you a better idea. One is just the
kind of the overall body shape. The older they get,
kind of like a lot of us in this audience. Now,
those deers start to get a little bit of a
pot belly on them when they get older, they tend

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to get a little longer in the in the face.
It's hard to describe what I'm trying to do with
that face, but I think it would be easy enough
to find to look at the difference in the heads.
The younger deer just tend to be leaner looking. They're
they're they're teenagers. Okay, let's call them that. They're teenagers,

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and as they go into adulthood that that nose gets
a little bigger and more pronounced. It kind of almost
becomes like a Roman nos. It gets a little bit
of a hump in it getting older.

Speaker 5 (30:33):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (30:34):
The one the one thing that he taught me that
I wasn't aware of at all when I first started
hunting with him was the ears. And how after years
and years of flapping those ears forward to hear something
and flapping them backward to hear something behind them, they
develop creases in the hair between just right there at

(30:56):
the base of the skull. And if you're looking through binoculars,
that's easy enough to see unless the deer is six
hundred yards away, But if it's at a reasonable distance
and you've got good glass, it's pretty easy to see
those little, those.

Speaker 2 (31:12):
Little wrinkles in there.

Speaker 3 (31:13):
And there can be distinctly one or two or sometimes
three distinct creases in that hair from all that back
and forth, back and forth, back and forth movement. And
that's a really good age to start looking at three
three folds in that hair at the base of the ear,

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and you're you're looking at an old deer.

Speaker 2 (31:34):
There's no question about it. I don't know how.

Speaker 3 (31:37):
I don't know anything that would impact that out of
the out of the succession of years that Bill and
I talked about when we were riding around. It was
interesting when he first invited me down there. He may
be right around with him for two days before I
could even go hunt, and just driving, riding in, either

(31:58):
riding with him in the in the middle of the day,
or riding in the feed truck, the one that fed
the I think it was the eastern half of the ranch,
the feed truck that went out and just dropped off food.
He would allow people that he wanted to teach to
sit in the back of that. You had to wear
a full face mask, you had to be fully camoed,

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and there could be no indication that the that there
were any other humans in that vehicle other than the
guy who was the one man who was getting out
pouring the feed into the into the troughs there, and
then driving away. Because those deers saw that every single
day at the same time, early, early, early, and for

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just for as long as they lived, that was that
was the routine. And two have been out there even
when I wanted to take pictures. He said, that's fine.
But you got to put on gloves, you got to
keep your face mask on. You still got to do everything.
The only thing I could leave exposed was my eyes.
And boy did I learn a lot. Boy did I
learned a lot? And boy did I see some monster Bucks.

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That's all Texas jeans too. He didn't never introduce any
genes from any other part of the country into that herd,
and he was determined to grow giant Texas Bucks, South
Texas Bucks. And that's what that ranch continues to do.
I want to say, they had I don't know, half
a dozen deer over two hundred out of there last year.
And that's there's no there's no fancy genes, you know,

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major league, big time blood lines from all over the
country being brought in there. That's just that's just generations
after generations of Texas Bucks. Pretty image in pretty amazing place. Actually,
all right, we got to take a little break.

Speaker 1 (33:41):
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Speaker 2 (33:46):
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Speaker 6 (33:48):
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Speaker 2 (33:50):
Welcome back, Doug Pike Show on Sports Talk seven nine.
Was that enough?

Speaker 3 (33:54):
Did they get the clue they needed? Probably had half
of it, so we had the we have to play
the whole song Melvin. Oh no, no, no, okay, just
make it sure you're good, but you're no casey caseum. Okay,
right with we still need a show. Ah yeah, something

(34:15):
something to go with that. Yeah, uh okay, I got
that taken care of. By the way, today Melvin is
National Brownie Day. All you're all about that, you're gonna
go buy one to celebrate? I might do something at
bask and Rippings. Then, oh that sounds pretty good. So
you're an Ala mode guy? Yeah, big old pollum? What

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what would you? Would you put vanilla ice cream?

Speaker 2 (34:37):
Just to you old school? Or you got something special
in money?

Speaker 8 (34:39):
We do a plourine and cream. H that ice cream
that along with just a regular vanilla sitting on top
of a big fat brownie fudge brownie Sunday.

Speaker 2 (34:53):
You know who does a pretty good job of that
is Chili's. Actually.

Speaker 3 (34:56):
Have you ever had one of those big chocolate chip
cookies with all of ice cream all over it? Yes,
that's not horrible. I'm a desert guy, are you now?

Speaker 6 (35:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (35:03):
All right?

Speaker 3 (35:04):
All right, Oh there's Lane. Go check in with Lane.
Get let's get him hooked up because I want to
talk to him. Boy, if we can have some fun.
This is all our all of our cast of characters
rolling in this morning, and we do have some characters
for sure.

Speaker 2 (35:18):
Just put him on hold, I'll take him.

Speaker 3 (35:20):
Okay, he said, they're they're discussing something very important.

Speaker 2 (35:25):
I'm sure. So, oh, we got him there you are?
What Lane Recks? What's up man, Doug Pike?

Speaker 4 (35:31):
How you doing, buddy?

Speaker 2 (35:32):
I'm very well. Thank you, appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (35:35):
This is this is duck hunting weather, not golf weather. Man.

Speaker 3 (35:38):
God, isn't that the truth? It'll be golf go weather
tomorrow though.

Speaker 2 (35:41):
I'm all for it too.

Speaker 3 (35:42):
We got that tournament for Saint Jude tomorrow. So fingers
crossed its forty good? Yeah, it looks good man, it does.

Speaker 5 (35:48):
Where are you host Where are you hosting your event?

Speaker 2 (35:51):
That's at Golf Club of Houston.

Speaker 3 (35:52):
We fill up both courses and and yeah, I can't
I can't announce the number that we raised yet, but
I know it's a good one.

Speaker 2 (36:01):
I'll just leave it at that. Well.

Speaker 4 (36:03):
Good, good for you, man, that's a great cause.

Speaker 2 (36:05):
I thank you. So what's on your mind? Are you
fishing this morning?

Speaker 4 (36:10):
No?

Speaker 5 (36:11):
No, I'm in Katie. I wished, uh I wish I
could be out there fishing, but uh I was going
to go to work. But on a day like today,
ain't much going on the golf course.

Speaker 2 (36:21):
You know they can handle it without you.

Speaker 5 (36:24):
Yeah, I mean take take them donuts and then go
and then go home, right about it.

Speaker 2 (36:28):
So glad to see you guys.

Speaker 1 (36:30):
Here.

Speaker 2 (36:30):
Here's a KLATCHI bye.

Speaker 5 (36:32):
Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 2 (36:33):
So you talked to you talked to her boys for
us today or not not today. But he sent me
a text last night.

Speaker 3 (36:39):
He said, send me kind of the things that I
need to start off learning golf, you know, because I
want to.

Speaker 2 (36:45):
I want to.

Speaker 3 (36:45):
I can't wait till I'm banging drivers into the trees.
And man, first of all, you got the wrong attitude.
You don't need to be taking a full swing for
quite a while.

Speaker 2 (36:55):
Actually.

Speaker 3 (36:56):
So what I told him to do in that little
half acre or acre whatever he's got behind the house
there is just put some little sticks in the ground
about ten yards apart and practice with everything up to
seven iron, trying to just hit a ball to that stick.
Don't try and roll him out, just where it lands
at that stick, and get some feel.

Speaker 2 (37:15):
Yeah, before you start swinging real hard. That makes sense.

Speaker 5 (37:18):
Hey, yeah, absolutely, I'm gonna give it.

Speaker 4 (37:21):
I'll get him some lessons maybe.

Speaker 5 (37:22):
This spring, when when it warms up a little bit,
you know, go go over there to there's there's a
little golf course right around a corner of there, Westwood Shores,
and they got a driving race.

Speaker 2 (37:32):
We're going to get over.

Speaker 5 (37:33):
There to this spring maybe and get him to get
him tuned up a little bit.

Speaker 2 (37:39):
He said.

Speaker 3 (37:40):
Man, he's I think he's already addicted. And he hadn't
even taken a swing yet.

Speaker 4 (37:43):
Oh yeah, I got him some clubs last week.

Speaker 2 (37:47):
I was out there. He sent me a picture of
every club you got.

Speaker 4 (37:50):
Him, No way.

Speaker 2 (37:52):
Yeah, man, I got this long string of photographs.

Speaker 4 (37:57):
Like you had a literate.

Speaker 2 (37:58):
Lump you know.

Speaker 4 (38:01):
Yeah, that's funny.

Speaker 2 (38:02):
Oh yeah, yeah, I.

Speaker 5 (38:03):
Uh that's good man, that's good.

Speaker 4 (38:06):
Well.

Speaker 5 (38:06):
I had some stuff, you know, left over from my
you know, hows are just like bad fisherman they got on.
I got thirty putters in my you know, five sets
irons and ten drivers and thirty putters, you know.

Speaker 2 (38:17):
Sure, So yeah, what's great from you?

Speaker 7 (38:21):
Man?

Speaker 4 (38:23):
Well, good luck on your tournament tomorrow. Man, I hope
you raise a lot of money. I uh, I.

Speaker 5 (38:27):
Hope you do good over there.

Speaker 1 (38:28):
The weather's good for you.

Speaker 3 (38:30):
Yeah, figures it's gonna be cloudy in the morning. But
the percent of chance of rain, the highest one I
can find right now, is ten. So I'm good with
that now, right, sunshine by the time we finish.

Speaker 2 (38:39):
So it ought to be good. Oh, it'd be good man.

Speaker 4 (38:42):
Get you out there, man, all right, I'd love to
do it.

Speaker 2 (38:46):
Good luck man, Yeah, thank you. It's great to hear
from you. And and good luck with faux Pro.

Speaker 7 (38:50):
Man.

Speaker 2 (38:50):
You're gonna have your hands full.

Speaker 4 (38:53):
You got it, buddy, all right, all right, see Doug.

Speaker 2 (38:56):
Yeah, Lane Leslane Rix.

Speaker 3 (38:58):
He runs a show out at Meadowbrook Farms, another fantastic
golf course.

Speaker 2 (39:02):
I love it, and I've been. I haven't been out
there in a bit.

Speaker 3 (39:04):
I gotta I gotta make a trip back over there,
run into him, visit with him, and maybe once faux
Pro gets his feet under him a little bit on
a golf course, we'll we'll all go play somewhere.

Speaker 2 (39:15):
That will be fun. He's been.

Speaker 3 (39:17):
Lane's been there quite some time and very quietly runs
one of the better daily fee courses around.

Speaker 2 (39:25):
I do like that place.

Speaker 3 (39:26):
I really do seven one three two one two five
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Speaker 2 (39:32):
I saw a story this this past week, and that's you.

Speaker 3 (39:37):
I had seen a little tease of it about a
week and a half ago that in China, these researchers
have come up with a new material that essentially will
change colors based on its surroundings and somehow allegedly, maybe
I don't know, make you invisible. Now, this is this

(40:00):
is a military thing. It's kind of like that cloak
of invisibility in Harry Potter, I guess. But as a
military application, of course, it would be great if you
couldn't see the bad guys coming. If this can be
used in peace time to camouflage deer hunters, boy, wouldn't
that be fun. Just walk through the woods and they

(40:22):
turn and look to see what's crunching the leaves and
they can't see anything. I'm going to talk more about
that when we come back. Put your thinking caps on
and ask yourself whether you would want to try that
or not, because it also brings up some safety issues
in the woods, especially in public hunting areas. I don't

(40:43):
think you could ever allow full camouflage the worse. Nobody
could even see you.

Speaker 2 (40:51):
Anyway. Let's do this.

Speaker 3 (40:53):
Let's get out of here on time. When we get back,
maybe we'll talk a little bit more about that. We'll
talk about the golf tournament going on down in the Bahamas.
It's just so hard to be a professional golfer, isn't it,
at least at that level. Not very Tell you something
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Speaker 3 (41:26):
All right, welcome back. Second out of the program starts
right now. Let me slide over to my laptop here
and see if I can get us to the golf tournament.
I gotta move some stuff down, move some stuff around.
Mood ring clothing, that's what Dennis calls that camo. Yeah,

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some of that might work, some of it might not work.

Speaker 2 (41:51):
I'll talk about that in just a second. Let me
get this.

Speaker 3 (41:56):
Hero World Challenge leader board up. Scottie Scheffler dropped a
space justin Thomas moves up He's seventeen under through three
rounds of place. Gott He Scheffler at sixteen alone in
second place, Tom Kim alone in third at fifteen. Kegan
Bradley moved up the board yesterday. He is just four

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shots off the lead going into today's final round and
the twelve under pars over there in the Bahamas.

Speaker 2 (42:27):
Once again, this is not winter golf.

Speaker 3 (42:28):
You're not going to see anybody in a ski cap
and and fluffy snow pants, not where they're playing golf.

Speaker 2 (42:36):
See he Thigala had twelve along with ash.

Speaker 3 (42:38):
Ka or Akshay Battia and then Robert McIntyre alone in
seventh place at nine under par.

Speaker 2 (42:46):
And I got a hunch that one of those top
four guys I backed.

Speaker 3 (42:52):
If I had a nickel, I'd bet it that one
of those top four guys is gonna win the tournament.
Because I don't see Thigala coming back and shooting eight
under par today on a Sunday pin placement day.

Speaker 2 (43:05):
That's just not going to get it.

Speaker 3 (43:06):
And even if he did, even if he did, he
would only be three shots ahead of Justin Thomas, and
Thomas came out yet he's been just steady.

Speaker 2 (43:16):
Eddie's sixty six, sixty seven, sixty six.

Speaker 3 (43:19):
He shoots another one of those, either one of those
two numbers, he runs away with it. I think low
round I'm seeing up here amongst those top leaders is
Scotty Scheffer's Friday round that was a sixty four. That's
what put him at the top spot yesterday. So boohoo
for the guys over there playing four days of golf
in the Bahamas. I if only I had those skills.

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I'm not jealous, but boy, it would be It would
be fun. It would be fun to have that lifestyle.
And with that said, I can tell you from knowing
a lot of these guys that it's it's not as
fun and glamorous in many ways as it appears to be,
because you have to take into consideration consideration how much

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time you have to spend away from your family. You
have to take into consideration how how fickle that little
golf ball is when you're trying to get it in
the hole, and some days it just says, no, I'm
not going, and there's just nothing you can do, even
at that level of skill. They just it seems like
some days you just you just can't make it go

(44:28):
where you want. It to go, and so they do
have a lot of highs and lows.

Speaker 2 (44:33):
There are.

Speaker 3 (44:35):
Not many missed cuts among the greatest and the most
elite players, but they still do that, and when they do,
it just wipes out a lot of a lot of
what they may have had in momentum. To let me go,
get David on the phone and see what's up with him,
and then I'll get back to that Chinese camouflage.

Speaker 2 (44:55):
David, what's up man?

Speaker 9 (44:57):
Yeah, Doug, I got a dilemma question. You've touched on
this before. That is trying to encourage kids to fish
to be Uh went out yesterday to catch some trout,
and you always you and I we want to see
kids fishing, and we want to see kids catching fish.

Speaker 4 (45:14):
Saw a dad walk.

Speaker 9 (45:15):
Up with a couple of young boys, and I noticed
over in a spot where they weren't not going to
catch anything. Uh and uh, so I walked over. And
you're reluctant to say anything because you don't want to sound.

Speaker 4 (45:27):
Out at all.

Speaker 9 (45:30):
But then you don't want to see a kid come
out there and not catch anything and have a bad
experienced fishing and not become a fisherman. But to make
a long stort, I did you know? And I'm an
older guy, kind of a grandfather, he type, So I
guess I didn't get away with a little bit somebody younger.
But uh, I told him I was doing very good,

(45:52):
and I told him come down here, and I was
study where you catch some fish. And again I was
trying to be very how you described it, not to
know at all friendly, Yeah, and ended up giving the
kid a super duper and he caught the biggest trout
and he was excited and his dad was, uh taking
a picture and.

Speaker 4 (46:12):
All of that.

Speaker 9 (46:13):
Yeah, and it made me feel God, but it again,
I said, I'm gonna call Doug see what he thinks about.
How do you how do you when and when you
do don't you help people fish, especially when their kids involved?
And I'll hang up and listen, okay, all right, all.

Speaker 3 (46:30):
Right, yeah, uh so, yeah, thank you. I appreciate the question.
So let's talk about that. So you're you're at a
place where they stocked rainbow trout, and you David has
fished that lake probably several times, many times over the years,
and knows about where those fish hang out.

Speaker 2 (46:48):
He's been fishing that day and he's caught a bunch
and thrown most of them back.

Speaker 3 (46:52):
If not all of them, And up walk Dad and
two little kids, and they are thirty yards from where
they need to be and setting up, and boy, they've
got optimism going.

Speaker 2 (47:07):
They're riding high on.

Speaker 3 (47:09):
Here we are, we finally made it to the lake.
Heard the fish are biting. That's all fine and good.
But if you're a little bit off, just like David
was talking about, and like I've experienced many times over
the years, if you're just a little ways off of
where those fish are, and they do they move around
to some degree some lakes, you'll see little if you're

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standing there, if the water's clear enough, you'll see the
little schools of them.

Speaker 2 (47:33):
There'll be fifteen, twenty of them, maybe five or six
just kind.

Speaker 3 (47:36):
Of idle on by, just running around, wandering in this new,
wide open habitat that they're experiencing for the first time
in their lives because they got raised in a little
growout pond somewhere. It's like it'd be like taking you
out of the bathtub and throwing you into a giant
swimming pool. You got to learn your way around. But

(47:58):
once those fish have been in that lake for a day,
or two. They'll settle into whatever their brains tell them
is where to go and how to find something to eat.

Speaker 2 (48:08):
And so up walk these this family, and.

Speaker 3 (48:13):
They pretty clearly, to someone who's experienced, don't know that
much about what they're doing. They may may be that
they've got a half ounced egg sinker and a four
hought hook there with a with one piece of cheese
on it. Or it may be that they're casting too
far out or not far enough out. It may be

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any of a lot of things that for David, and
for me, and for a lot of you who have
done this, a lot would be kind of red flash, like,
uh oh, this guy, this is his kids wanted to
go fishing, but he's not a fisherman.

Speaker 2 (48:49):
And that's fine.

Speaker 3 (48:50):
I'm not knocking the guy for not knowing how. But
what I would do is I would walk over there
and say, hey, y'all having any luck? And of course
it's the ANSWER's gonna be no, because you've been watching
them while you're catching fish thirty yards down the bank.
Would you mind if I offered up some suggestions. I've
had a pretty good day today and I think I

(49:11):
could help you catch some fish. And that's the dad's
opportunity to swallow his pride and not be offended, not
go into defense mode like nobody's calling him a bad dad.
They're just saying he doesn't really know where those fish are.
And so you offer the help and if and if
you look at the kids when you say it, they're

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gonna say, yes, yeah, man, how are you catching them?

Speaker 2 (49:37):
What are you using?

Speaker 3 (49:39):
And all of a sudden you get the opportunity there,
and you still have to look back at the dad
and maybe just kind of give that look, is it okay?
Get that permission first, and then once you've got that,
then just sit down with him and show the dad
how to do what you want to do. Don't show
the kids, show the dad so that he can and

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then showed them. Now if it's down to try to
tie fishing knots or something like that, just try to
show everybody at once, and who cares as long as
the hook doesn't fall off the line. It's really this
is not a time to be trying to teach somebody
how to tie not. You just got to make sure
they got the right bait, that they're fishing it at
the right depth and try to get them a couple
of bikes and stick around so you know, maybe come

(50:23):
back down to my spot, because that's where I've been
catching them.

Speaker 2 (50:26):
And there were some people here earlier who tried it
here too, and they didn't catch anything. So you get
them to the right spot.

Speaker 3 (50:34):
You just be friendly and encouraging, and if there's any
indication that the mom or dad or uncle or grandpa
or whatever who's there doesn't.

Speaker 2 (50:44):
Want the help, then just say, well, I'll be right.

Speaker 3 (50:47):
Down here if you change your mind, and then go
back to where you were fishing and go catch some
more fish. And they'll see that, and ultimately those kids
will drive their dad crazy and say, hey, man, we
got to go down with them.

Speaker 2 (50:57):
We want to go there. That's where the fish are, Dad.

Speaker 3 (51:00):
And if that were me and my son wanted to
go down there and fish with that guy, and that
guy had already offered us help.

Speaker 2 (51:11):
Yeah, let's go. Let's go see what the trick is.
Let's go learn something together.

Speaker 3 (51:15):
It's an opportunity for that dad to show that he's
not perfect and to show that he's willing to learn
new things.

Speaker 2 (51:22):
And boy, what better lesson to teach your kids.

Speaker 3 (51:25):
That's a good topic, David, It really is and there's
always somebody at these little lakes where those rainbow trout
are released who's catching them. There's always somebody who's getting them,
and that's somebody is probably not there for the first time.
There's a real there's a real subtle book of knowledge

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you have to have to really do well. Just like
giving that kid that little super duper spoon, they'd probably
never heard of that. They've never heard of a super
duper spoon. In this time of year. It's hard to
find him in the sporting goods stores because number one,
they're not something that's stalked year round around here. Really,
there's no reason. And number two, when they finally do

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stock them up somewhere, they get snatched off the shelf
by people going and chasing these rainbow trout. A lot
of ways to skin the cat, but if you're not
where the cat is, you can't skin it. You've got
to be where the fish are, and then you've got
to offer them up something that they'll eat. I have
a lot of different little artificial, fake natural bait, little

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fake worms and fake this fact and fake that and
the other, all these little tiny things that you can
put on the end of a hook and increase your
chances of catching a rainbow trout. And so long as
you put them where trout are likely to be, you're
probably going to catch one. Those fish are hungry, they
stay hungry, and they're just they're being stocked all over

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the state.

Speaker 2 (52:49):
Go get some, man, go get some.

Speaker 3 (52:51):
All right, I'll get back to that cameo when we
get back from this break. I want to address David's question,
and I hope that you don't be scared to offer
the help, but also don't be put off by a
dad whose ego is in the way and doesn't want
your help. That's it's sad for the kids, but there's
nothing you can do to change his mind. But just

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don't get too far away because the kids will bug
him enough that he might come. He might tuck his
tail between his legs and just come walking back and say,
hey man, these kids are tired of not catching fish.

Speaker 2 (53:23):
What are you doing? Why are you catching the fish?
And they're not?

Speaker 3 (53:26):
And that gives you an opportunity to help somebody. And
anytime you can help kids catch fish, take.

Speaker 6 (53:31):
It all right.

Speaker 1 (53:32):
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Speaker 6 (53:40):
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Speaker 3 (53:42):
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Speaker 2 (53:57):
And I was telling Melbourn.

Speaker 3 (53:59):
As I was saying the telling you that the website
was Brasisriverprovisions dot com, my brain was saying, shut up,
that's wrong, it's wrong. There's something wrong with that. You
got to stop. But I couldn't and I didn't. And
so that was Mike calling me to let me know
and remind me. And I'm hoping he'll call back because
I want him to talk a little bit about the

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company that's going to be providing these prizes for us,
his company, all these sauces and jellies and jams and
good stuff.

Speaker 2 (54:26):
And hopefully he will, but if he doesn't, and you
want to go.

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Brprovisions dot com.

Speaker 2 (54:42):
So you know, hey, where none of us is perfect.

Speaker 3 (54:48):
And I messed up that and I said, Ben, you
need to call me because that'll give us a good,
good opportunity for you to tell them what they're going
to be getting, and boy, he can. He can make
my mouth water when I talk to him about some
of these sauces he's making in some of these jellies
and jams. I've got an idea I'm gonna throw by
him next time I do talk to him. By the way,

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Matt's kadden, you are correct. That was an email he's
sent me asking me what Melboyne's theme was today for
his jams.

Speaker 2 (55:19):
And sure enough, Matt got it right.

Speaker 3 (55:22):
He's probably sitting over there at Paarland Golf Club, sitting
in his office waiting for that drizzle to stop so
he can get some more people out on that golf course.
I gotta hunch it there's not that much rain has
fallen anywhere around here. Although my son's baseball games today
down in oh He's that field is about maybe five miles, no,

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not even five miles, probably three miles south of belt
Way eight off of forty five going south, going down
toward the Beach Go Freeway. So they got enough rain
to wash that thing out, But I don't know that
it would take that much to do that to that field.
So hopefully not as.

Speaker 2 (56:03):
Much rain around you.

Speaker 3 (56:04):
Hopefully it's going to clean up pretty quickly for you,
if you've got outdoor plans this afternoon. I've got to
hunch most of the golf courses will be open. Some
of them might be card path only, but most of
them probably will at least be open this afternoon. I
didn't see anything really serious on the radar earlier. You
know what, it doesn't take long to go take another peak.

(56:26):
I've got to turn the hold on. I want to
take that volume down so you guys don't have to
listen to that TikTok.

Speaker 2 (56:32):
There we go.

Speaker 3 (56:33):
That's better, not much, never mind, I'm not going to
worry about that. I would rather look at the radar
and it is right there, ten day forecast. Now I
want to go to radar, come on up for me. Please,
well that in real time, it just it doesn't seem
it doesn't seem like it takes very long to looks
all this stuff up when you're just sitting at your desk,

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But when the light is on, it seems to take
forever just to get the radar to kick in. Come on, radar,
come in, Tokyo. That's an old joke. It's part of
an old joke. Probably many of you wouldn't even have
heard it, and the few who have probably have long
forgotten it. Now I gotta open this up so I

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can see more of Texas. Yeah, the big blob is
still there, and it's still moving toward us. All of
that stuff is happening. But let's see when they're gonna
when they're calling the shutdown of it. Now there's Beaumont,
there's Houston, still under green, still under green, still under green,
at one, under.

Speaker 2 (57:35):
Two and three.

Speaker 3 (57:38):
Yeah, it's gonna be doing this for quite some time today.
I I guess it's slowed down or something. Earlier it
looked like it was gonna clear out by about one
or two. Now it's looking more like three o'clock before
it stops altogether. Still nothing major. I doubt that you'll
hear a clap of thunder. I doubt that you'll feel
just the house shaken from the amount of rain that's

(58:00):
falling on the roof. And then by about three o'clock,
at least to forty five, about three o'clock, it'll all
be done. And then east of I forty five the
Gold Freeway and the the Conroe Freeway. I guess you
could call it going the other direction. It may take
a little bit longer than that. The bad stuff is

(58:20):
staying offshore, and that's the good news. It's not even
coming ashore until you hit far southeastern Louisiana, and that's
a pretty good run, pretty good line of showers out
that way, but they won't affect us seven one three,
two two five seven ninety Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia
dot com very quickly.

Speaker 2 (58:37):
Back to that camouflage, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (58:42):
First of all, I'm I questioned the technology with it,
because none of the stories I saw showed any video
of this stuff being used. And I'll take another look
on the on the World Wide Web during this next
break to see if there is such a thing.

Speaker 2 (59:02):
But I still.

Speaker 3 (59:04):
I like the idea of wild game not being able
to see me. I don't necessarily like the idea of
being on a public hunting ground somewhere and walking through
the woods with the potential for someone who perhaps isn't

(59:25):
so safety conscious as myself, somebody like that just spinning
and shooting it noise. In high school, all the way
back to the nineteen seventies, in high school, two of
my friends went hunting in South Texas and the two
of them. They ran some havolinas up into a big

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mada brush and moschiton cactus, and they decided to encircle
the animals rather than just try to hope that they
came out somewhere where they could get a shot. And
one of them made the lifelong mistake of thinking that
movement and noise he heard in the brush was a haveveolina,

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and the guy touched off around from a high powered
rifle and shot and killed his friend. That's as bad
as it can possibly get as a hunting accident goes,
and that man has had to live with that for
the rest of his life and will he probably still alive.

Speaker 2 (01:00:31):
I am.

Speaker 3 (01:00:33):
More of us alive out of my high school class
than dead at this point, and I think that's pretty good.
I think as the years go by that might change.
But nonetheless, you just can't afford to make the mistake
like that. Young old however old, whatever your age is,
it doesn't matter. And to be waltzing around in the
woods in something that makes you invisible makes you a

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target target that nobody can see, which is really even
scarier than if they can. And I guess it would
be even weirder to just see an orange vest walking
through the woods. Imagine that. Yeah, you can use that
invisibility cloak camo, but you have to wear an orange
vest and an orange hat. That would be pretty funny

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to see through the woods actually coming at you. There'd
be a lot of people scared to death to see that.
We gotta take a little break here. Holy cow, I'm
getting off on a tangent.

Speaker 1 (01:01:27):
We are Sports Talk seven ninety. Listen online at sports
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Speaker 2 (01:01:36):
That's gotta be mid to late sixties, I would gain.
I don't know if that goes into the seventies, does it?

Speaker 4 (01:01:44):
Do you know?

Speaker 2 (01:01:45):
Off hand?

Speaker 3 (01:01:45):
Melboyn when that song was released, Oh he's working, I
would go, hey, hold on, okay. Paul nineteen fifty nine,
fifty nine, Wow, Wow, okay. I had a lot of
poodle skirts and saddle Oxford's And what were the guys doing.

Speaker 2 (01:02:09):
I had brill cream in their hair.

Speaker 3 (01:02:11):
Happy days? Look, Yeah, that that's happy days for sure. Yeah,
all right, let me go see what faux Pro is
doing with his golf clubs.

Speaker 2 (01:02:19):
Faux Pro, what's up?

Speaker 4 (01:02:21):
Man?

Speaker 5 (01:02:22):
It is?

Speaker 10 (01:02:22):
It is that day where you sit in the house
and thinking twenty years ago out of it after a
duck hut. But I just think that mad out of
them no more.

Speaker 2 (01:02:28):
It's so hard getting old, isn't it?

Speaker 3 (01:02:31):
And you and you and I both know that twenty
thirty years ago, what forty probably thirty for me.

Speaker 2 (01:02:37):
I go back to then, and you just didn't even
blink on a day like this.

Speaker 3 (01:02:40):
You just put on your stuff and you walked out
the door and you went hunting exactly this.

Speaker 2 (01:02:45):
This is nothing.

Speaker 10 (01:02:46):
I'm sure we both got out some stuff you wouldn't
go out in today. Yeah, you checked the mail man.

Speaker 2 (01:02:51):
I made so many hunts back.

Speaker 3 (01:02:53):
One of the reasons we had to do it back then,
as guys is, is these people were coming in from
all over the country and that they had set aside
specific dates when all their group could get together and
come down here. And they weren't gonna let a little
ice or a little rain or a little wind keep
them out of there.

Speaker 10 (01:03:10):
There's no way, man, So you just had to bundle
up and go exactly exact man. I discovered something last week,
and before I wanted to put it on the air,
I did some check and did little research, and so
out where I hunt, I can tell you about it
off the here. I don't want everybody know where I'm
hunting at since I've actually found some mallards around around

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this part of the country. But uh, I'm so I'm
walking around scouting, you know, looking for a place to
set up what have you. And I see these tracks,
and I'm looking at these tracks, and I'm thinking, Okay,
what's around here, you know, and I'm I'm I'm pretty
good tracker. I can send myself a pretty good track
as far as identification. I'm looking at this, I'm saying, Okay,
that's what I think it is. So I did some

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research on the interweb, and so this animal has been
spotted in a van Zandt County, which is five counties
north of me, in Newton County, which right along Sabine River,
just three counties west of me east of me.

Speaker 2 (01:04:03):
In a lot in other parts of Texas, but in
this area, very rare.

Speaker 6 (01:04:07):
Can I guess.

Speaker 10 (01:04:09):
I thought I was going to get you to guess
black bear black bear tracks ha ha, walking walking straight
out of the woods to the water and straight.

Speaker 2 (01:04:19):
Back into that. I didn't have. I didn't have any firearm.
Had I had.

Speaker 10 (01:04:21):
I had my Moses staff, I called her around. I
walked around to fill the mud with and I went
about to walk into the bush with the Moses staff
just to maybe get a picture a bear, but just
a poker bear exactly about.

Speaker 2 (01:04:32):
That's cool.

Speaker 10 (01:04:33):
I saw puma up here or mountain nine years and
years and years ago, but uh, the first time I've
ever seen bear tracks. And I thought about, I don't
know if it's worth a while to call text Parks
of All Life and come hang this area. I would, yeah,
farm bear, And I tried to get a picture of them,
but the tracts were just so sketchy.

Speaker 2 (01:04:48):
I couldn't get a good picture.

Speaker 10 (01:04:49):
But I was like, hey, I don't know if I
want a bear sniff in my my bottom when I'm
looking at ducks at five o'clock in the morning.

Speaker 2 (01:04:56):
Yeah, well, yeah, Well the deer hunters need to know
about that too.

Speaker 3 (01:05:00):
The next black bear that crawls up underneath a deer
hunter in a tree is not going to be the
first Holy cow. That's kind of cool, though. I Mean,
I've known, based on the stuff I read all the time,
that that there are some black bears moving into deeper
into East Texas, and man, it's just a matter of

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time now. I thinking, if the boys can find the girls,
there'll be more of next year. Yeah, I mean, I
got no interest in hunting one. I was gonna look
at the regulation where I got no interest in it.

Speaker 10 (01:05:30):
You know, back when I was a kid, I had
this dream of having a big grizzly bear, grizzly bear rug.
But once I started to educate myself on grizzly bears
and learn about them, I said, Man, I can't killing
animill like that.

Speaker 2 (01:05:41):
No, it's pretty cool.

Speaker 3 (01:05:42):
I'll tell you this, if you want to go far
enough back, if you go back and look long, long, long,
long ago, there was a black bear hunting season in
Texas on Galveston Island.

Speaker 2 (01:05:54):
Wow, that's crazy. That's way back, real deal.

Speaker 5 (01:05:59):
Man.

Speaker 10 (01:05:59):
I figured I figure cast the characters were calling into that,
so I could. I couldn't leave myself out of that.
I had at least get involved in absolutely.

Speaker 4 (01:06:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:06:06):
Yeah, you're right there front and center.

Speaker 4 (01:06:08):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:06:08):
You said, did you hear Lane's call?

Speaker 10 (01:06:11):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah. We went out there just
kind of weather him. And he's got he's got a
hell of a grandson. Did He's gonna be a good fisherman.
I think all showed up the livescope. I think he
was more entertained with watching the live scope than he
was fishing. But uh yeah, we were out there long
at kids like you know, on the young side as
well as the old side. It was pretty frigid weed.
And he was like he had enough of it after
a couple hours. He does fun no more, let's go.

Speaker 3 (01:06:33):
I sat and watched baseball games yesterday, one and a
half baseball almost two full baseball games yesterday, in that
cool breeze, and I wasn't I thought I was dressed
for it, but when I got there, the wind was
blowing a little harder and right in my face.

Speaker 2 (01:06:48):
And I had to go back to the car two
or three times and just keep getting more stuff. It's
a good thing. I keep my car kind of full
of messy stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:06:55):
It's not it's not dirty stuff, it's just uh took
that jab, the one jacket I found that that solved
the problem. Was dates all the way back to my
duck hunt I did down in l Campo about two
and a half weeks ago now, and I was glad
to have it. O.

Speaker 10 (01:07:12):
Well, do you get a chance checking message? I sent
you a crazy snowgoos the video. This guy feel that
is far of it. You'll get a kick out of it.

Speaker 2 (01:07:19):
I will.

Speaker 3 (01:07:19):
I'm sure I will. Man, thank you, fouk pro al buddy, Yes,
they're always a pleasure idea. Sorry, all right, boyd pretty
much ran up. What I need is a Captain Scott
email right now. But I have a suspicion he's he's
helping somebody get a big giant deer this morning. That
would be my guess. Can't say for sure, but I'm
gonna bet that that's what's going on. Seven one three, two,

(01:07:41):
one two five, seven ninety. Email me Doug Pike at
iHeartMedia dot com on the way out, Your Rockets and
Astros live here we are sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (01:07:52):
The conversation continues this as the Doug Pike Show.

Speaker 3 (01:07:56):
Everybody figure out the theme for today to get you
polished up and rushed up for Brprovisions dot Com gift
packs of jams and jellies and sauces.

Speaker 2 (01:08:07):
You want to tell them you or you want me to.
It's good and bad, good and bad.

Speaker 3 (01:08:14):
Every one of those song titles either had one or
the other of those years or those words excuse me,
and the first person who emailed me that was a
good tune up for you.

Speaker 2 (01:08:24):
Matt.

Speaker 3 (01:08:24):
Matt's Kaden over at Paarland Golf Club listening this morning.
And figured it out quite some time ago. Actually, I
think it was maybe about after the third one, somewhere
in there.

Speaker 2 (01:08:33):
He nailed it before I could.

Speaker 3 (01:08:35):
I was I was trying to come up with whatever
it was, and I had Johnny be good here had
bad to the bone, hurt so good, and then all
of a sudden it kind of ohh okay, okay, and
feel free once we get these prizes, Melvin to kind
of ramp up the level of difficulty.

Speaker 2 (01:08:54):
Oh, just a little bit. And yes, there's all kinds
of obscurity you can use.

Speaker 3 (01:08:59):
It'll force somebody who wants one of these delicious things
to to really pay attention for. We have a lot
of brainiacts out there, we do. Oh yeah, we've got
a very bright audience. I'm not concerned with that at all.
Somebody's gonna figure it out, and we're not going to
abandon either. We're not going to have abandoned the Texas
Temperature game. So maybe we'll pick one day for one

(01:09:19):
and one day for the other and just make it
a winner's paradise. About that walking in a winner's wonderland,
that's what we'll call it.

Speaker 2 (01:09:30):
I just came up with that.

Speaker 3 (01:09:31):
That's not horrible, that's really not that was really good
class walking in a winner's wonderland.

Speaker 6 (01:09:36):
Nice.

Speaker 3 (01:09:37):
Okay, we'll figure out something going back to kind of
to summarize what we've been talking about all weekend. There's
Rick Bie talked about the Buck Dough ratio this morning,
and I wish I could.

Speaker 2 (01:09:49):
Have gotten Scott's opinion on it. He just caps.

Speaker 3 (01:09:52):
Scott just sent me an email a minute ago with
a deer that he and his dad are going to
be eyeballing for the next few days and hopefully it'll
step out in front of them. He said he's got backups.
This Ranchi's gonna go to has got a lot of
good deer on it. But the one that he sent
me the photograph of, yeah, it'd be hard for me

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to let that guy walk as well.

Speaker 2 (01:10:15):
That's a lot of antler. That's a lot of antler
up there. Buck Gough ratio.

Speaker 3 (01:10:21):
What we came up with toward after the research that
I did and what I'd learned years ago from Bill Carter,
I would say if you want an older class of
deer on your place, you got to bring it down
to about one to one. You got to get it
down around one to one as close as you can

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get it to that.

Speaker 2 (01:10:42):
If you want a.

Speaker 3 (01:10:43):
Lot more deer and maybe a lot of just maybe
a lot of this and a lot of that, and
not a whole lot of.

Speaker 2 (01:10:49):
Old deer, you can let it get up to two
three the average.

Speaker 3 (01:10:52):
Back in two thousand and eight, one of the stories
I saw that was the last, at least that's when
that test was done. I'm sure there have been others
since that smpling was taken was three point one to
one across the state. Now, that of course would include
all the hill country counties where there are a bazillion deer,
but not many of them very big. And so it

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all depends on what you want, and it depends in
many cases in Texas, let's face it, on how high
your fence is as well. You can't keep those deer
from running and hopping fences if they're short. And turns
out some of those fences are even though they look
tall when we're standing by them. Every now and then
you'll find a deer on a camera that got over

(01:11:39):
one of those bigger fences. We talked a little bit about.
What else did we talk about today? We talked about
waterfowl hunting. Southstone has been closed since the first of
the month. It's going to reopen here shortly. It reopens
word my notes here to the next weekend. Reopens next Saturday,
then and then March is right on through January twenty,

(01:12:00):
so there's plenty of time for that. You've got saying
hell crane's coming up, and you've got plenty of ducks
coming down once this next cold front comes through here,
I think we're gonna see a significant number of ducks
and geese pushed through here. Is after this front we
got coming now. There are still plenty of birds up

(01:12:20):
north that hasn't been terribly severe. No, they're pockets of
places where it was horrible and ran their birds out.
But the effort that's going into keeping keeping ducks and
geese farther north now is significant, and it's it can't
be taken lightly down here where we're trying to get
birds down when they've got permanent water up there, now

(01:12:43):
that they have lakes that they have bubblers in that
keep them from freezing over that gives the birds someplace
to roost. You've got corn fields up there that get
half knocked down and not all knocked down. That gives
them something to eat, and they're not gonna fly an
inch farther than they have to to escape that bad weather.
You give them food, you give them a roost pond,

(01:13:05):
and they're happy. They're gonna They're gonna put it down
roots in that area and stay there as long as
winter lets them. Sooner or later, that stuff will freeze over,
sooner or later, those birds will get here. By the
time they get here now, it's kind of hard because
they've they've already been shot at a lot, they've already
been worked over all the way down the flyway. There's
no more young stupid birds. There's still young birds that

(01:13:29):
get here, but they're not stupid. Hey, Mark, I got
just a minute. What you got, buddy, Yes, sir, they
think it.

Speaker 11 (01:13:35):
This is Mark Kardon over here and at the car
Don the Santa Maria Ranch down here in Centerville. I
just wanted to see here, yes sir, Yes, sir, I
just wanted to share a new quick story A couple
of years ago happened. I'm sitting on our little twenty
acres hunting deer and heck, something walks out down the
power line. I look down over there with a binoclears.
I think it's one of my uncle's goats and got
los and I look over there. Shoot, it's a now guide.

(01:13:56):
I mean it's a now guy, pol Down guy and
East Texas park Wood.

Speaker 4 (01:14:00):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (01:14:02):
I put the seven mag on them and shooting. I
don't usually missing.

Speaker 4 (01:14:06):
Heck.

Speaker 11 (01:14:06):
I go down there and look for him. No blood
or nothing. I looked down at my rifle. Heck, I
turned the scope down to twenty five yards the night
before because I was hog hunting and closed.

Speaker 2 (01:14:16):
I forgot it. Heard up. But it's a great story.
It felt like I want to a lot of but
then I lost the ticket. That's exactly how I felt
to look at that. Holy yeah. Yeah, not a whole
lot of dealkiny in East Texas. Wow man, Yeah, it's
a once in a lifetime you know thing. I just
want to share that with you.

Speaker 3 (01:14:35):
Oh no, you lost the ticket, Thank you, Mark. That's
really good, buddy. Yes, I bless you, bless you.

Speaker 2 (01:14:42):
Holy cow.

Speaker 3 (01:14:43):
Oh, what a disappointment that you know. That's the little
the little lesson from that always check your gear. Always
know where were you yesterday because you're not there today.
If you're not in the same place you were yesterday,
you got to take care of your business that scope,
dial it back up, take it back out wherever you
had it set for longer shots. I would not have

(01:15:06):
been surprised if he said, I know I hit him,
but he just ran off because those things were like
armored cars.

Speaker 2 (01:15:13):
It's hard to take a nil guy out, it really is.
You gotta have. You gotta have big time firepower to
do that.

Speaker 3 (01:15:20):
And it's kind of like shooting ail can shoot it
once and if it's still standing up, you better put
another one in him because he's getting ready to bolt.
I'm getting ready to bolt right now. I appreciate you
all listening. Thanks for doing that. I'll be back Tuesday
on fifty plus over on KPRC at noon, and then
i'll be right back here next Saturday morning at seven
God willing, stay safe, have some fun, get outside, audios