Clear Memories of Foggy Morning Hunts

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now here's Doug bike all right.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Sunday edition of the program starts right now. I hope
I sound a little better I sounded yesterday. I feel better,
and I think it's all that goop and garbage. It
sounds a little dry now that I turn it up some.
But I am so, so very far on the mend.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
You know.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Every time I come in here and start pushing, I
try to push my voice, and I just I got
a babysit it a little bit when I wake up.
I woke up this morning, I felt one hundred percent
and my voice sounded one hundred percent. And I've already
apparently yapped enough to dry well. I've got a lot
of stuff in me that's drying me up, pardon me,
and helping me get well, and that's part of it.

(00:41):
I'm gonna go after the electrolytes and way more water
today and just try to get back to full hydration,
and that should do it. I'm so far on the men.
I'm way past the top of the hill rounding third
and headed home. On this stuff.

Speaker 4 (00:57):
I'll be good for tomorrow. And I can't wait.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
We're gonna have that golf tournament for Saint Jude raise
a lot of money, a whole lot of money for
Saint Jude, and they need it all there. They take
care of very sick children, sick as children in the world.
So we're gonna go give it all we've got. And
if at any point, if you want to just come
out and kind of see what it's about, come out
to Golf Club of Houston and just come in and

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look around and look at who's there and see if
you want to be there next year maybe seven two
two five seven ninety Email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia
dot com. God, what a mourning it is outside for
waterfowl hunters. Holy cow. In all the years that I
guided out on the Katie Prairie, the one thing as

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a goose hunter that we all kind of hoped for.
Ideally it would be a fog about like what we
have around the Galleria area.

Speaker 4 (01:56):
Right now and out in Sugarland.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Not super thick, not where you can't just get where
you're going when you're driving out to the prairie and whatnot,
but thick enough that the birds can't. They're gonna have
to fly low to see where they're going apartment once
it gets light enough for them to fly. You want
it thick enough that it also helps kind of conceal

(02:18):
you on the ground, and when they see your little
white decoys. Because there's no sunlight anywhere, you don't have
to worry about glare and stuff like that getting in
your way.

Speaker 4 (02:29):
And a good.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
Mid range fog, nots of stuff where you can't see
your hand in front of your face, but where you
can see about maybe I don't know, fifty seventy five
yards on the ground, and then you look up and
you feel like you can't see much at all, when
in fact you can probably see a little farther up
than you think.

Speaker 4 (02:49):
Boy, those mornings turned out really really well.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
The downside now to this morning, especially for duck hunters,
more so even than the goose hunters, is that there's
just pretty much z zer row wind across the entire
coastal prairie. It's dead calm right on the coast. I
saw some values. Hold on, I'll look at them real quickly.
Wind speeds on the coast five seven three another five

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A two, And then as soon as you break and
get inside of that, maybe fifteen to twenty miles thirty
miles inland zero zero zero zero zero zero one blowing
one mile per hour at I wood something down south
of here.

Speaker 4 (03:37):
I'm not even sure where that is. It's way south though.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
And then zero's even all the way up Now here's
an anomaly. I don't know what this is. K S
something northwest Houston. I don't know where it is alleges
to have thirteen mile an hour wind when just to
the northeast of that and just to the southwest of
that a pair of zeros. So that's one where maybe

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a truck came by too close to the gauge and
spun it up a little bit. Who knows, but I'm
not buying that one. A couple of sevens on the coast,
and that's it. So anyway, the duck hunting ducks don't
really like to fly in the fog when it's dead calm.
They don't really like to fly that much when it's
dead calmb anyway. And it also makes it harder to

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make your decoys look realistic when they're sitting on open
water when there's not a just narrow a ripple being
caused by the and I'll wrap it in quote ducks
on the water out in front of your blind if
there's not movement out there, and that's the whole genesis
of the moving decoys on the water, of the mojo

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ducks and doves and whatever is now. Movement is something
those birds want to see, but they don't want to
see it from the blind.

Speaker 4 (04:54):
They don't want to see it.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
If you're in a goosebread, they don't want to see you,
your big old self roll over and on a sunny
day exposing your face. There's just so much, so much
importance that should be put on concealment for waterfowl hunting
that a lot of people think they can ignore it.

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I witnessed it almost every day that I guided as
a goose hunter.

Speaker 4 (05:20):
Get everybody out in the spread.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
You got four or five guys out in front of you,
and you're sitting in the back with your dog watching
what's going on in front of you, and there's geese coming. Guys,
Get ready, get ready, Go ahead and hunk her down.
Try to keep your faces down. I'll let you know
when it's time to shoot. I'll tell you exactly where
the birds are when it's time to take them. And

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as I'm calling these birds in, even if I'm not
even looking at my hunters, I know they're peeking, and
if I do check them out, for sure, there's heads
bobbing all around there. They're trying to figure out where
the birds are. They want to know how many there are,
and they're making their own plans, despite knowing full well

(06:04):
that that I let them know that that's gonna that's
gonna probably spook the birds if they do that. And
then half the time, if the birds did spook before
they ever got in range.

Speaker 4 (06:15):
Uh, I'd come up and.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
Say, well, yeah, I'd something something boogered them up, And
two or three guys out of the four would say yeah,
when they made that last turn to the left, it
kind of messed them up a little bit. Knowing full
that there's no way you can see that happen if
you're if you're doing what you should be doing. But
as a hunter, I understood it. Uh, these guys, if
you're if you're paying for a guided hunt, you want

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to see what's going on, you really do, and and
you you're kind of entitled to it. So you have
to just try to conceal. As a guide, you have
to try to conceal your hunters as best you can
have them kind of be as patient and and concealed
as they can be, but still feel like they're they're
getting the real experience because it is kind of cool
to watch those birds come in, especially when they just

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totally lock up and totally just do what you wanted
them to do. There's no better feeling as a guy
than having the birds just turn right where you thought
they were gonna turn the way you set your decoys,
and then set up and lock those wings and just
come gliding over pop out of the fog at about

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maybe twenty fifteen twenty yards high if that. Sometimes there
were times when the fog was thick enough that those
birds they were moving across the prairie because they were hungry.

Speaker 4 (07:33):
It'd be really cold and they.

Speaker 2 (07:35):
Had to move, they had to get something in their
bellies as fast as they could keep them going, and
they would come across that prairie at eight ten yards
off the deck, because that's about as far as you
could see through that stuff. You could hear them, you
could absolutely hear them, but you couldn't see them even
that low, and all your hearings just murmur. It's not

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the halking that they normally do, which is yet another.

Speaker 4 (08:02):
Reason not to blow up. Yeah, I don't.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
I'm gonna back off of talking so much about goose
hunting because I had so much experience with it, and
I have so much I could say if there were
still a lot of geese on the prairie and a
lot of people were hunting them, But maybe I should
just roll back onto the ducks, which, by the way,
we found out from Mitchell Holder yesterday have arrived in force,

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and I'm confident that there are still more ducks to come.
The way they're pampering those birds up north in the
last few years, they just they linger up there until
and we learned yesterday from Mitchell that the guys up
north don't really worry about the temperature so much as
the snow line. Where is the snow line? How far

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down south has the snow really covered the ground, because
that covers up their food, And once that food's covered
up with several inches of snow, it's more advent to
those birds to just pack up and fly south than
it is to try to hunt and peck through through
knee deep I don't know how knee deep is to

(09:09):
a duck, but knee deep snow, they're just gonna come
on down and we're seeing that over the last few
days even and we got this next front that's popping in.
I think, well, right now, maybe or early today sometime,
there's another line of stuff coming through, and I suspect
that this cool that we're going to experience for the

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golf tournament is also going to deliver a whole lot
more feathers on both sides of town. So far that
the season started early, wasn't doing much, and there was
the same talk up every year. Ah, the ducks just
don't come this far anymore.

Speaker 4 (09:46):
Where do they go?

Speaker 2 (09:47):
We don't know what's happened to them, and it's been
the same story for about twelve fifteen years now. But
they do get here, and by and large we've had
some not bad years, and this year, with the bonus
of that third pintail, that makes it just all the
more fun to be out there. I'm not there's no
other duck that really excites me more for hunting than pintails,

(10:11):
just because of their habits, the way they make you
work to really get them in close. They'll cooperate so
long as you do what they want you to do,
which is stay still and don't overcall them.

Speaker 4 (10:25):
I talked about this a couple of weeks ago when
I was guiding.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
Even when big bunches of pintails would come in sixty
eighty one hundred, two hundred birds, they start to get
into kind of a whirlpool of just a spiral pattern
all the way, just maybe a big spiral, maybe a
smaller spiral as.

Speaker 4 (10:43):
They get a little closer and closer.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
But there's always going to be one duck in the lead,
and that's the only duck I'm calling to. If all,
if that lead duck is flying away and there's still
a big enough spiral that some of them in the
back of that whirlpool or whatever are still coming toward me,
I'll still call it that lead duck to try to
turn it back and bring the rest of them with it.

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Not loud, not a lot, but just maybe a couple
of quick quacks or get a little bit of something,
to try to turn that bird. And if you turn
that bird, the rest of them come with it. It's
a hard thing for especially for younger duck hunters when
they've just learned how to call pretty well. It's a
hard thing to just leave that call hanging on your

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chest and not pick it up and blow it I've
been around just way too many guides, way too many
hunters who overcall birds. And as I've said many times
on this program over twenty five years, David lowpri is
one of the best wildlife biologies.

Speaker 4 (11:46):
In the state of Texas.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
When he was working at Katie Prairie, he and I
sat one morning and had the windows rolled down. It
was a nice morning on the prairie during duck season,
and we could hear duck calls in twenty different directions, loud,
some of them close and pretty loud, some of them
in the distance.

Speaker 4 (12:04):
And whack is all over the prairie.

Speaker 2 (12:07):
You could hear these duck calls being blown at poor
little bunches of teal or spoonies or whatever trying to
get in and get something to eat.

Speaker 4 (12:15):
And low Price said it best.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
He said, the duck call is the single best conservation
tool for ducks ever invented, because you're gonna scare way
more if you don't know what you're doing, You're gonna
scare away more ducks than you're gonna call. Sometimes. Now
I'm not gonna get into timber hunting and whatnot. KYD
love duck and goose hunting. I'm gonna make a couple

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of hunts this year, more than I did last year,
for sure. All right, black Horse Golf Club on the
way out here up, Take two ninety to Fry Road,
hang a south two or three miles south of there.
You'll see golf course on both sides of the road.
Put on your west blinker and pull into the gate
at black Horse, and there you'll be treated to two
golf courses. Actually, the North course still daily fee, the

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South course now private, with an option by the way,
to include five different courses in your membership.

Speaker 4 (13:08):
I've talked about that a whole lot.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
Right now, you're probably gonna want to wait till the
fog lifts to tee it up. I bet there's a
lot of disappointed golfers this morning standing out on a
tea box and can't even see halfway down the fairway.
And if you hit, if you hit your ball and
you know your game, you have probably a good idea
of where that drive went, but you don't really know,
and you you may never find that ball again, even

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if it's somewhere down the fairway. Who knows. They make
you wait, by the way, they have fog delays. Unfortunately,
I hope we don't get one of those tomorrow. I
hadn't even thought about that. I think it'll all be
cleared out by the by tomorrow though. Seven one three,
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Sports Talk seven to ninety. I should have been playing
that in my duck blinds and my gooselin and my goosebreads.

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Everyone's watching to see what you can do, but they're
watching the birds too, and that's why they don't come
in deck.

Speaker 4 (14:23):
Come it.

Speaker 2 (14:24):
Keep your head down the other one, Frankie, And this
was a safety thing I would tell these guys. Look,
when you're until I call a shot, you keep your
gun on safety. You keep it pointed out of the
spread all the time until I call the shot. Then
you lift your gun up. Then as it's coming up,

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you can take it off of safety and then go
find a bird and try to shoot it. And by
the way, the average shooter out there was shooting either
a semi automatic or a pump gun that held three rounds,
because that's how many you can shoot at waterfowl. And
if I had four guys on me, there would be
twelve shots go off. And I don't care whether there
was whether there were one, two, three, or one hundred

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birds over us. The average number of birds that fell
from those twelve shots maybe one, maybe two. Not the
greatest shots in the world. But in fairness to goose hunters,
especially those who are hunting, say in a rice field
or something like that, for the first time, all your
practice is done standing up at a shooting range basically,

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or out in the middle of a field somewhere where
somebody's got a hand thrower and they're slinging clay targets
out in front of you. Not a whole lot of
people practice hunting from a prone position or lying back,
like in a layout blind or something like that. And
I actually wish that some shooting range somewhere, And I

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may talk to Eda Riggi about this out at American
shooting centers at some point, it would be really nice
to have a setup that is that imitates shooting from
the leaning against a rice levee from a duck blind.
Bury a duck blind out there somewhere, and let people
learn how to shoot from a duck blind. Now you

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got to wear hearing protection in those things. It gets
kind of loud, and boy, if you ever take your
ear plugs out, you can bet a duck's gonna come
by and somebody's gonna shoot at it while you got
your ear plugs out to scratch your ear or whatever,
and then your ear a ring for a while. As
many shots as I had go off around duck blinds
and dove hunting and goose hunting and all of that,

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all back when we really weren't as aware as we
are now of the damage that we were doing to
our ears.

Speaker 4 (16:44):
I don't know half a million rounds, who knows a lot.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
There's a lot of shooting going on around us out there,
and my hearing suffered for that. I'm not quite depending
on who you ask, I'm not quite ready for a
hearing aid. And it just just the thought of that
kind of like, I don't want to do that yet.
But I know my friend Joe Doggett, with whom I
spent a lot of time in the outdoors. He his

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came from being in the navy on I think a
battleship or something like that. That there was a lot
of a lot of artillery being fired, and I guess
that's where he lost his. But between the two of us,
when we're riding around, about every third or fourth word
is what from one of us?

Speaker 4 (17:31):
What?

Speaker 2 (17:32):
What'd you say? I'm sorry I couldn't hear you. Well,
you could have heard me if you could hear. And
that that goes both ways. Where you're hearing protection, where
your eye protection. I knock on wood. I've said it before.
I'd never had any accidents in my spreads, and I'm
gonna put my safety sam hat on for a minute here, Frankie.

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I never had any accidents while I was in any
of my hunting spreads. I've never actually been present for
a bad accident of any kind.

Speaker 4 (18:04):
I had a couple of guns go off in the
spread with.

Speaker 2 (18:06):
The people who I told, okay, keep your safeties on
until I called the shot, and they'd be out, there'd
be super cold, and they got these big old gloves
on and they've already pushed the safety off. I could
hear those on a calm day, you could hear the
safeties click click click click, just right down the line,
because as soon as the first one goes, the rest
of them want to go. So they don't mess up

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and bring their gun up and try to shoot it
with the safety on, and every now and then a
glove would catch a trigger, and thank god, they listened
well enough to keep the guns pointed out of the spread.
That's that's the best thing that ever happened, is making
sure that everybody did that. There were I hate to
talk about it again, but there were a couple of
times when I had to tell people if you if

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you make any mistake again, I'm leaving the spread.

Speaker 4 (18:51):
And they go, no, no, no, we paid to be
out here. You can't do that.

Speaker 2 (18:55):
My safety is far more important than whatever you paid
for this hunt.

Speaker 4 (18:59):
I'm not gonna be out here and be a part
of this.

Speaker 2 (19:01):
And most of them every time, actually I never really
had to leave because there was usually just one guy
who was the source of the problem. In the other
three or four, probably none of whom had any idea
what to do with all those decoys and calls and whatnot,
the other three would get on the one who was
the problem and take care of that and just say, look,

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either you go back to the car or you straighten up.
But we're staying out here hunting. We're doing what Doug says,
and it worked out very well. Let's go talk to Pete. Hey, Pete,
what's up?

Speaker 3 (19:34):
Man? Hey, Doug, I guess your hair is standing old
in this morning too?

Speaker 4 (19:39):
Oh man?

Speaker 5 (19:40):
Yeah about old goose hunting, yes, sir.

Speaker 6 (19:43):
Back in the seventies and until the birds were going
but uh, hunting the Katie Prairie. The ultimate scenario, yagy
like this, okay?

Speaker 3 (19:54):
Then then a blue norther blow it.

Speaker 2 (19:57):
Oh man.

Speaker 6 (19:59):
The birds were up building around, you know, and then
all of a sudden they're knocked off the deck.

Speaker 4 (20:04):
Yeah, buddy, did you.

Speaker 6 (20:06):
Just get your guys back in the irrigation pitch and
bus geese?

Speaker 7 (20:10):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (20:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (20:10):
I get a twenty thirty mill one hour wind blowing across.
Are those geese just dropped down.

Speaker 3 (20:14):
Hard they got from deck?

Speaker 4 (20:19):
I did have one.

Speaker 2 (20:20):
I had one issue with a northern blowing in like that.

Speaker 4 (20:24):
The morning I was out.

Speaker 2 (20:25):
I had a man, a grown man, his grown man's son,
and that second grown man son's two kids, a son
and a daughter, who were maybe ten and twelve let's
call it. And this front was supposed to blow in
at about nine thirty or ten, maybe eleven o'clock even,
and a couple of forecast said it wouldn't get there
till twelve. We got out there and we set like

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maybe three hundred farm form decoys. I set about two
hundred of them, and I mean we were set. We
were looking really good, and then I looked as just
as shooting time came up, I looked back toward the
north and there's just this big black wall, Like, oh no, yeah, please, no, yeah,
But here's the deal.

Speaker 4 (21:09):
We were in kind of a halfway dry field.

Speaker 2 (21:12):
To their credit, both those kids were cool with staying
out there and the guy, and so was grandpa. And
we got some pretty good shooting. But Dad actually take
it back to daughter's stay. Daughter and grandpa stayed. Son
and Dad went back to the car for like two hours,
and I was so disappointed in them. But we had

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a blast out there. It was blowing so hard and
dropped the temperature dropped so much. My dog ducked into
a covert on one of the little roads that went
over a dry ditch. He just get parked up under there.
Said I'm not coming out. It was funny, man. So
where were you hunting out there?

Speaker 5 (21:55):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (21:56):
I hunted the whole cake. Well.

Speaker 6 (21:58):
Back in the seventies we hunted out Calm Robertson rice farms.
Now they were they were farther north and west and
kat Yeah, in between Hockley and Kadi.

Speaker 3 (22:14):
Yeah, but that was in the early days.

Speaker 6 (22:18):
And then I least a lot of property off five
twenty nine.

Speaker 3 (22:22):
I used to lease right off the Peak road.

Speaker 4 (22:25):
Yeah, I know exactly where I was.

Speaker 3 (22:27):
I had six hundred and forty acres.

Speaker 6 (22:29):
On either side of that, and there was of course
that was close to Gors big roof pond. Sure we're
always there, but anyway, yeah, that that's uh. One morning
out there was Thanksgiving morning. Kind of aggravated my family.

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But I'm going to hunting. But anyway, I'm cold, northern
blue ear, wet, rainey, and then started out and then
and I remember my lab she was next to me,
and uh, I was I think snow geese was still
five a day then, and I think the point system

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was leaving the fact that we had like thirty five
point birds and.

Speaker 3 (23:15):
They grizzled the points.

Speaker 6 (23:17):
But anyway, I was laying out there in a pair
of hip boots, just a man Vietnam era camo shirt
under a sheet. I was soaking wet, rain was pouring
down that I wasn't gonna leave. And I was sitting
there there. Every time I look up, the be geese
coming in much bread and uh they had pintails buzzing,

(23:39):
scalf buzzing any ducks. There was diver's puddle and uh,
I remember I knocked this one snow down. I said, Missy,
go get that burst. She goes and gets it and
comes back. She goes and gets it and comes back.
She huddled up next to me, and all of a
sudden she starts growling of that and that goose had

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got up, you know, off the off the strap of
birds and walking off.

Speaker 3 (24:06):
Oh no, oh my gosh, I can go off. You
got my hair standing all the end this morning.

Speaker 4 (24:15):
Yeah, it's so funny.

Speaker 6 (24:17):
Oh then it's it's it's something that nobody will realize.

Speaker 2 (24:22):
I feel like, all right, boy, he has so many
great stories. And then it went off the rails.

Speaker 4 (24:30):
We got that covered. Frankie. That's good, Thank you, Mercy Sakes.

Speaker 2 (24:35):
Everybody gets so excited and m yeah, some of the
language that she used these days.

Speaker 4 (24:45):
It's it's become, it's become. I don't want to say.

Speaker 2 (24:50):
Acceptable, because it's not acceptable on the radio certainly, and
it's not acceptable in I think in in good company and.

Speaker 4 (24:58):
Every now I'm I'm choir boy.

Speaker 2 (25:01):
I said bad words before, but I do try to
be careful about it, and I hope that if you
call the show, you just remember I got a lot
of little kids listening, and I don't want to have
parents driving around with their little kids having to explain
to these little kids what some of this stuff is.

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I take great pride in in this show being about
as g rated as anything on the radio. It's the Yeah,
that's the way I want to keep it, and that's
the way we're gonna keep it. Seven seven ninety. Email
me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. I'm not angry
with Pete because I'm sure he was getting excited about

(25:46):
thinking about the prairie again.

Speaker 4 (25:48):
But yeah, we got to just watch all that. Okay,
let's do that and we can celebrate.

Speaker 2 (25:56):
Well, I don't know this is now that's a horrible
segue to El Kubano Cigars. Let me just go straight
to Manty Lopez and the fine work he does down
there at Olkubana Cigars in Texas City.

Speaker 4 (26:05):
One of only.

Speaker 2 (26:08):
It's the only actual cigar manufacturing facility, and there are
only about four dozen in the whole country, most of
them down in around Miami and South Florida.

Speaker 4 (26:20):
But he's the only one within about two hundred miles
a year.

Speaker 2 (26:23):
And the advantage that gives you is that you could
go straight to the manufacturer and get just the same fine,
fantastic quality cigars you could get from anywhere else you
would order them from, only you get them from the
people who are actually rolling them right here. He has
several He's Cuban, his dad, and he came over in
two thousand and six and opened the open store there

(26:45):
in Texas City, right there on Main Street. It's very
small too. If you're looking for some big factory with
smoke billowing out of the rooftop, that's not it. It's just
a very small, very comfortable, very welcoming place where you
can go with your friends and smoke a cigar and
order a couple of boxes or whatever. Maybe you need
something for a special event. He can roll whatever kind

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of cigars you want. And then on top of that
add custom banding to those cigars. He will do custom
boxes for you. He'll even come to your event, set
up a table and roll cigars right then and there
for your guests if you want something like that. He's
got two smoking lounges actually, the one they're in Texas
City on Main Street, and then there's another one in

(27:27):
League City, which is more havana style, big roll up
garage doors on the north and the south sides.

Speaker 4 (27:34):
I'm presuming it might be the east in the west,
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (27:36):
But just to let the weather kind of come through
there and let everybody who comes in, men and women.
There are quite a few women, he says, come in
there and just sit back and relax and have a
cigar and tell stories and do business and whatever they
want to do. Elcubanosigars dot com man, he's one of
the coolest, nicest people I've ever met, So help me.

Speaker 4 (27:57):
You got to meet him.

Speaker 2 (27:58):
If you're a cigar guy or you know people who are,
you need to have his number.

Speaker 4 (28:02):
You need to have his contact.

Speaker 2 (28:03):
Elkubonocigars dot com Shooters corner Palmer Higha at twenty nine
Street down there in Texas City. Been down there forty
something years, owned and operated by the same two guys
for probably at least thirty of those years, maybe thirty five.

Speaker 4 (28:18):
I don't know. Jerry and JTK father and.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
Son, great gunsmiths, great North American hunting guides. Both of
them and the other people they have in the stores
when they're out hunting this time of year are equally
qualified to make sure you can get whatever you want
when you go in there, whether you need reloading supplies,
AMO for some boutique caliber rifle you bought recently. Maybe

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maybe you want to buy a gun, a new handgun,
new shotgun rifle.

Speaker 4 (28:46):
Maybe you want pre owned guns. They've got a lot
of those.

Speaker 2 (28:48):
Couple of mine are actually in there, a couple of
shotguns that I'm trying to move. Whether you're a serious
shooter and have been forever, or you're just brand new
to the shooting sports, Shooters.

Speaker 4 (28:59):
Corner is gonna have you.

Speaker 2 (29:00):
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and cool stories told by cool people who enjoy the
shooting sports just as much as you. And by the way,
if you wear a badge for a living, you get
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Speaker 4 (29:16):
I wish more companies would do that. Shooter's Corner does.

Speaker 2 (29:20):
The Shooters Corner t X dot com The Shooters Corner
t X dot com. All right, welcome back, thanks for listening.
Doug Pike showing Sports Talk seven ninety I got that
taken care of that, taking care of that, taken care

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of I'll tell you what. And by the way, I'm waiting,
and I'm I'm patiently waiting. I'm gonna I'm gonna ring
him up if I don't hear from him soon, though
patiently wait. Oh okay, good eight thirty or eight forty five.
That's what Scott Knowles says. He's gonna call. I tell
you you got Scott's number of Frank you do, Yeah,

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go ahead and call him right now and see if
he can get in on this segment right here. I
would yeah, no, no, no, no, wait, no, go ahead
and get him on because he's gonna need some time.
I know he is.

Speaker 4 (30:13):
Let's see if he can get him on the air.

Speaker 2 (30:15):
He told me yesterday that he had the most the
craziest deer hunting story he's ever had come up, and
he wanted to share it, but he didn't have time yesterday.

Speaker 4 (30:28):
When I called him yesterday he was still in the
blind with a couple of deer hunters. But if we
can get him on now, I'll let him get started
with the story.

Speaker 2 (30:36):
And if he can't finish it before we go to break,
because he said it's gonna take a hot minute, I'll
get him to hold and we'll get the rest of
the story.

Speaker 4 (30:44):
What was that guy's name? Who would?

Speaker 2 (30:46):
And now you know the rest of the story. I
don't remember who that was? A little water didn't hurt there.
I'm so close to being one hundred percent, just so close.
He's driving me crazy, absolutely driving me crazy.

Speaker 4 (31:00):
Any luck was caught?

Speaker 8 (31:03):
Actually, yeah, just off air, give me his number real quick, and.

Speaker 2 (31:08):
Okay, I'll yeah, go ahead and get Dave on and
I'll be looking up Scott's number for you and i'll
tell it to you in just a second. I'll tell
you like four of them, and then you can you
can figure it out. Okay, here's how we do this, Frankie.

Speaker 3 (31:21):
You ready?

Speaker 4 (31:22):
Oh wait, yeah, you're ready. So it's two eight, one, eight.

Speaker 2 (31:26):
Five zero, and then this and then this again and
then that and then six Okay.

Speaker 4 (31:38):
Oh, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (31:38):
I don't think he heard me. He's talking to Dave.
What a hot mess this is? You want that number again?

Speaker 4 (31:48):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (31:50):
Two eight one, this, this, this, this, this, this.

Speaker 4 (31:59):
And a six? You got it? Please tell me you
got it.

Speaker 8 (32:04):
I'm pretty sure I got it. I hope.

Speaker 2 (32:06):
So I don't know who You're gonna wake up if
you didn't give it a swing. See what happens, Mercy sake?
Nothing like?

Speaker 4 (32:17):
Uh yeah, Frankie.

Speaker 2 (32:18):
To Frankie's credit, Uh, he's the first producer that I
have had in twenty five years, and I've had a bunch,
believe me. He's the first producer in twenty five years
who has actually, I believe, who has actually written down
the numbers that I give him for guests.

Speaker 6 (32:35):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (32:35):
There he is right there. I'll get him. Hey, Scotty,
what's up man?

Speaker 5 (32:40):
I figured to make it easier there.

Speaker 4 (32:42):
Yeah, Holy cow.

Speaker 6 (32:43):
They just.

Speaker 2 (32:45):
Languishing there waiting for the phone to ring and we
couldn't get it working. So what's going on?

Speaker 1 (32:50):
Man?

Speaker 4 (32:50):
Tell me this dear story.

Speaker 5 (32:52):
Well, I've had a couple of guys out one time
with me before shot a really nice buck. He brought
his cousin down and goes the old fire pilot. I'm
not too worried about him shooting, but you know the
R range rules. We go shoot at the range.

Speaker 3 (33:10):
Right we go there.

Speaker 5 (33:12):
He stacks three of them on top of each other,
thirty six on our Navy gray bullets. We're good to go.

Speaker 1 (33:21):
Well, go back at a little bit, head to the blind.

Speaker 3 (33:24):
It's three o'clock.

Speaker 5 (33:25):
You know, somewhere around there, got a big oat patch
behind the blind.

Speaker 4 (33:29):
Nice.

Speaker 5 (33:30):
I drove in from the from the front side where
you know, went by the feeder, and we got so
many turkeys out there. I always sold little extra corn
around because forty fifty turkeys will show up and eat
all of it.

Speaker 3 (33:43):
And as we're.

Speaker 5 (33:45):
Doing that, he says, man, there's a lot there out
in that oat patch already. I look out there and
there's bucks moving around, and there's a big clock in
the middle of the oat patch. Looks like when grass
comes off the mower.

Speaker 4 (33:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (33:57):
Yeah, And I'm looking at but you know, all these
deer running around. I got the glasses on them, and
they're all two and three year olds. Does good good deer?
I mean there we got some one sixty class three
year olds. Wow. And adding he says that clump land
that's a deer, isn't it. I said, Now, I think

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it's a pump of grass. He goes, I is a deer.
And I put with glasses on it, and we're one
hundred yards away and all I can see is dark
and then horns, and the horns are laying like at
a forty five.

Speaker 3 (34:31):
And they're huge.

Speaker 5 (34:34):
Oh man, that's gonna miss up the whole dead gum
day right here. You know, we're gonna have a big
old buck that's been dead from fighting.

Speaker 3 (34:41):
Yeah, so let's go check on.

Speaker 5 (34:43):
I'll get a picture and send it back to the
ranch owner, let him know what's going on. I drive
a cannem across a rough oat patch, banging around, bangs
going up there. We get I stopped like ten fifteen
feet from it was laying there all piled up. That
picture I sent you, Yeah, yeah, what he looks like here.

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I'm like, man, he's a big old deer. It's bad.

Speaker 3 (35:08):
You know.

Speaker 5 (35:08):
He's pushing two hundred.

Speaker 1 (35:11):
And they deep breath.

Speaker 5 (35:13):
Well, you know, nothing I can do about it. Now,
we'll get this done, get the hunt started, and step
out of the you know, step round to the front
of him, and I see his eyelid flitter a little bit.
Oh no, I saw.

Speaker 7 (35:27):
Man.

Speaker 5 (35:27):
Now I'm gonna have to put this deer down in
front of the customer, and I can't just let.

Speaker 4 (35:32):
Him number here.

Speaker 5 (35:34):
I agree, And I was, you know, take a picture
for the ranch owner, send it back to him, telling
what was going on, take care of business. And I
kind of squatted down a little bit in front of him,
and his eye opened about halfway and then both eyes
opened wide, like cartoonish wide, and he and I are

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five feet apart. Wow, his eyes opened straight up. His
head comes straight up, and he jumps and spins and
snorts and wheezes and runs off. And there is nothing
wrong with that deer. Wow, Absolutely nothing.

Speaker 4 (36:14):
Wrong with him.

Speaker 5 (36:17):
He was so tired from fighting. And we'd had some
good fights out there the last few days, and the
ruts on and we're seeing these deer at every camera
on the ranch. You know, they were just running in circles.
And I guess he was just that tired. But if
you look at that picture, his left leg is sprawled
straight out, and the picture was taken as he was

(36:40):
waking up, as his horns straightened up. But his horns
had been laying on the ground at a forty five,
his other leg front legs pucked up underneath. He looks dead.
I've seen a lot of dead deer. That deer was
dead until he wasn't.

Speaker 2 (36:55):
That is so crazy. Well, I'm looking at him right now.
His eyes are opening that picture of Holy Cow.

Speaker 5 (37:05):
Yeah, his eyes were just starting to open up right there.

Speaker 3 (37:07):
I snapped that shot.

Speaker 5 (37:10):
And they say, I know, I've got a two hundred
class deer standing up nose to nose, and I know
what his plan was. But my plan was I'm getting
behind that bodio where as fast as I can get
over there. But I don't think it would have been
fast enough if he had been going my direction.

Speaker 2 (37:27):
Yeah, you're lucky you caught him before he had all
his strength back, that's for sure.

Speaker 4 (37:31):
Holy cal And he.

Speaker 5 (37:32):
Just ran off, Yeah, just ran off and ran off
to the northwest across the oak patch. And I turned
my guy that said, man, I guess we won't see
that one again.

Speaker 4 (37:45):
Today, probably not.

Speaker 5 (37:48):
Well about an hour and a half later, where was
there all over the place, and here he comes, Wow,
And he came in. He had circled completely around us
and came men from the southeast. He left northwest and
it's a big patch and circle all the way around
through that thick brush.

Speaker 3 (38:08):
We never saw him.

Speaker 5 (38:09):
And he got on the other side and came up
and I started scored him, and oly, guy, he's he's
what you're looking for.

Speaker 3 (38:19):
And he's chocolate horn.

Speaker 5 (38:20):
He's pretty, he's between one ninety five. I got him,
and the Colonel laid a good shot on him. He
spun and jumped off in the brush for a second,
but he was laying twenty feet away.

Speaker 4 (38:34):
Got to you, man, way to go. Good for the
colonel too.

Speaker 5 (38:38):
It got a great dam story out, I'll tell you.

Speaker 2 (38:41):
Yeah, you get a good close look.

Speaker 6 (38:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (38:45):
I would have never in a million years thought that there.
But was weird when he did come back. He hung
out in the brush and stared at that whole entire field.
He was hung up where all we could see was
just top of his head and made his white cheek
his white peg. Yeah, we could see that much of him,
and I'm pretty sure it was him. And he stood

(39:06):
like a statue for fifteen to twenty minutes at the
edge of that that field. He was like, o't what
happened out there? Wall ago? Maybe me dreamed it, but
they're not there now.

Speaker 4 (39:18):
Yeah, that's all good.

Speaker 7 (39:20):
Now.

Speaker 1 (39:21):
Everything was running through my head.

Speaker 5 (39:22):
What he's what he's trying, what he's thinking.

Speaker 3 (39:25):
I was like, Man, I don't know what that was
that that was out there?

Speaker 8 (39:28):
Yeah, got it, I got.

Speaker 6 (39:33):
Oh.

Speaker 4 (39:33):
I hate to do this to you, but I got
to run all right, man, Thank you for yeah.

Speaker 3 (39:39):
I like that.

Speaker 4 (39:40):
Thanks Scottboddy Audios.

Speaker 2 (39:44):
Holy cow, man, I'm Frankie. I know we're running late
hair ride bikes. Let me tell you about that. This
is Wayne Arrington's company up there in Tomball, in the
Tomball four Corners shopping center, right there on the main drag.
Can't miss it. You get a chance ride that little
e bike around the parking lot a little bit before
you buy it, so you understand how they work and

(40:04):
what they do. I've had experience on one now, thanks
to him when he came down here to Stafford, and
I love them.

Speaker 4 (40:12):
I'm gonna start.

Speaker 2 (40:12):
Saving my nickels and dimes right now, and I'm gonna
have one of those at some point, either to use
on the beach or to use in a deer lease somewhere.
And as we talked about yesterday, the beauty of riding
an e bike in not only are they super quiet
and easier and faster to get where you're going on
the ranch. You're not leaving any scent trail either. The

(40:33):
deer won't ever know you were there. You're just up
on your bike riding on end, nice and quiet, got
big old wide tires, gonna not bounce around and make
a lot of noise.

Speaker 4 (40:44):
And they're strong.

Speaker 2 (40:44):
The big hunting bikes are strong enough to get you
and your deer. With a little trailer you can get
get you and your deer out of there safely and soundly,
and maybe even throw somebody on the back of the
seat if you want to get two people out of there.

Speaker 4 (40:58):
They're that strong. The big ones are.

Speaker 2 (41:00):
They have three wheeled three wheeled e bikes as well
at air Ride. In case you're a little older and
you're just looking for something to kind of commute around,
maybe just along ranch roads and stuff like that.

Speaker 4 (41:12):
Maybe you want to go picking flowers or whatever. You
can do that.

Speaker 2 (41:16):
Put a little basket on the back and use it
for that. Great for commuting, great for little runs to
the grocery store or whatever. Air Ride bikes up there
in Tomball they'll put the thing together for you professionally
for a little bit extra to make sure it's gonna
work for you, and just get up there and talk
to Wayne.

Speaker 4 (41:35):
He's a great guy. He'll explain everything to you.

Speaker 2 (41:37):
And there's a big sale going on as if you
needed any more inspiration. Anybody in your family needs one
of those air ride electric bikes. By all means, he'll
take care of you. He's a good man, I know
he is. He'll take good care of you. Air Ridebikes
dot com a r R I d E. Air ride
Bikes dot com. Belleville Meet Market. You know where it is.

(42:01):
I know where it is. It's on Highway thirty six,
fifteen minutes north Sealy, fifteen minutes south Hempstead. Been there
forty something years. Great place to go get anything you
want meat related. I don't think they sell salads there.
There's potato salad because they do traditional barbecue, lunch and
dinner every single day of the week from ten am
to seven pm. So I guess that's about the only
salad you get unless you count coleslaw. Everything else in

(42:24):
there is going to be meat products that are absolutely delicious, well,
spices and cheeses and all that other stuff too. If
you are an omnivore who leans heavily toward the carnivore side.
You're going to absolutely love Bellville Meat Market. Been there
for a tremendously long time. Like I said, they've got
stuffed pork tenders with five or six different presentations, stuffed chickens.

(42:47):
They have got new sausage recipes coming out fairly often.
They have more than two dozen already. And wild game processing,
of course, which they do year round, but really ramp
up this time of year. Here Highway thirty six between
well fifteen minutes north of Sily or so fifteen minutes
south of Hempstead or so, depending on where whether you

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come out two ninety or right ten. But you'll find it.
It's easy to find right in the middle of town.
If you can't see it when you're driving into town,
get to the stoplight, roll your wind to down, and
when you smell barbecue smoke and drive up wind. Belleville
MeetMarket dot com.

Speaker 4 (43:24):
That's the website. Go check it out.

Speaker 2 (43:25):
Belleville MeetMarket dot com. Height fifty six. On Sports Talk
seven ninety, the Dunchwike shows thanks for listening. Certainly you
appreciate it. Uh, let's let's oh we don't hear. Okay,
never mind it. I see what's going on, Frankie. Now
I see what's going on. I got to reset my

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watch a little bit, running a little slow.

Speaker 4 (43:48):
There we go. Take care of that, take care of this.

Speaker 3 (43:55):
You know.

Speaker 4 (43:55):
I'm in the second hour.

Speaker 2 (43:56):
I want to talk about the golf tournament that's going
on down to the Bahamas. Wishing we were all there
bone fishing and then going in and Washington Bahamas and whatnot,
or watching the golf tournament. We're not there, though, but
I'll give you the leaderboard, and it shouldn't surprise anybody
who knows who was playing yesterday, where he finished, and
what he was probably gonna be today in any event.

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Before I go to the break though, at the top
of the hour, we're gonna go talk to Brandon real quick.

Speaker 4 (44:24):
What's up?

Speaker 3 (44:25):
Brandon?

Speaker 9 (44:26):
Hey, mister pie, carry you this on this foggy morning?

Speaker 2 (44:30):
Not good, except if I'm not in a goose bread
I wish I was.

Speaker 4 (44:34):
What's up, bry got just a minute or so?

Speaker 9 (44:36):
Anyway, your throat, you need some hot water or green
tea and some honey, and if you mix anything after that,
I'm off the chart.

Speaker 4 (44:45):
I'm working on it.

Speaker 9 (44:47):
I understand, no, I had. I had two questions.

Speaker 3 (44:51):
I fished in.

Speaker 9 (44:53):
A place when I was probably this has been about
thirty years ago, and I know exactly where the guys
asking and I was asking for a location for him
and his grandson.

Speaker 3 (45:07):
Okay, and if.

Speaker 9 (45:08):
You can text me that location, because I've been there before,
I'll tell you how far it's been back when we went.
I mean we just put money in the mailbox and
went in there fishing.

Speaker 2 (45:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (45:22):
I had a place like that years ago.

Speaker 9 (45:26):
Right, So I mean it's on seventy one south of Columbus.
So it's a gravel pit. Yeah, it's cutting strips. And
I mean the only reason I know is because I've
been there before I fished it.

Speaker 3 (45:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (45:44):
I don't know whether they still do that, but I
think I know who I could call to find.

Speaker 4 (45:50):
Out if that's still available.

Speaker 2 (45:51):
And I'll try to make that phone call for you
or email today or tomorrow.

Speaker 9 (45:55):
Maybe, Okay, I would greatly appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (46:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (46:00):
And the second thing is I would I would like
to encourage dads or moms or grandpa's or whatever to
take your take your kids out. I know money's tight, Uh,
go out on a management hunt and I mean, if
you you shoot a couple of dose or spikes or whatever,

(46:21):
that helps the land. But yet you might see some
bucks that you ain't ever seen before in your entire
very true.

Speaker 2 (46:30):
Hey man, I'm right up against it. I gotta go, buddy,
all right, all right, thank you, Brandon. I'll try and
find that number for you.

Speaker 9 (46:38):
Yeah, all right, thank you you.

Speaker 2 (46:41):
Bet uh Yeah, We're we're right up against it here.
Kobe Stevens golf apparel. I'll be wearing some tomorrow. You
can bet on that when we go out and tee
it up for Saint Jude Is. He's opening a nice
big news space up there on that north side. I
got to see kind of a computer rendition of it.

Speaker 10 (46:58):
Man.

Speaker 4 (46:58):
I can't wait till he gets it opened up. Our
really can't.

Speaker 2 (47:00):
He's gonna have all this stuff in there, men's apparel,
women's apparel, kids apparel, the men's stuff up to four acts.
That covers most of us in this audience, I'm pretty sure.
And you will, even if you're horrible at golf, you'll
still look good walking around the club if you're decked
out in Kobe Stevens.

Speaker 4 (47:16):
He's a great.

Speaker 2 (47:17):
Community guy too. I don't know anybody who works and
gives to more different events than Kobe Stevens does. He's
really good about that. Every time I turn around, I'm
trying to get him to go play golf with me.
I can I got to be at this tournament.

Speaker 4 (47:33):
I can't. I gotta be at that tournament. I can't.

Speaker 2 (47:35):
I've got to go help these people raise some money
for whatever, support that brand, and you're you're supporting some
good stuff, and you're gonna look like you know what
you're doing on the golf course right right up to
the point where you swing.

Speaker 4 (47:46):
Then you might be exposed.

Speaker 2 (47:49):
Kobe Stevens dot com c O B Y S T
E V E N S. Kobe Stevens dot com nine
oh four on four SOX seventy nine eight. I was
just did a fog check. It's still pretty thick up
about maybe from from say ninety feet and then up
still pretty thick on the ground. I'm looking at it

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about maybe three hundred three hundred fifty yards of visibility
out our windows. Anyway, I don't know what it's like
where you are. I was telling Frankie years ago when
I was guiding out there on the prairie and loving
hunting and fog and really wanting to get hunts made
in the fog. I had already decided I was taking
my guys to Katie one morning, not to Katie.

Speaker 4 (48:34):
We met and Katie.

Speaker 2 (48:35):
I was taking them to a place we had them
just south of Sealy and it was so foggy. I
had three cars of guys behind me, and it was
so foggy. I had an extra guide because we were
going to put out a big spread, and he was
riding with me. And from from Katie to the exit

(48:56):
at Sealy off of I ten, there were so few
cars first of all, that we were able to do this,
and it was so foggy. This is what we.

Speaker 4 (49:05):
Had to do.

Speaker 2 (49:06):
And I told them, I said, y'all just stay right
kind of on my bumper. I'm not going to go fast.
We did twenty miles an hour from Katie to Sea
Lee on I ten with my door cracked so I
could see the yellow stripe and I was in the
right hand lane, and I was watching the little stripes
or the white stripes in the middle of the road,

(49:29):
and my swamper, that's what they called the assistant guides
back then. He was looking out the window at the
edge of the freeway and You're still good. You're still good,
And I'd have to look up and actually look where
I'm driving to make sure nothing was in front of us.
It took us close to an hour just to get
down there. But man, when we got set up where

(49:49):
we were going, and it was still foggy, and it
stayed foggy for about another hour and a half, just
enough because a breeze started to come up and those
birds got up and started moving and we absolutely warre
him out. It was probably one of the best cousins
I've ever had. But we worked for it, man, we
worked for it. It took it took about an hour
and forty five minutes to make what was normally about

(50:11):
a forty five minute drive, if that makes any sense.
Seven one three two seven ninety email on me, Doug
pick at iHeartMedia dot com. I promised I would go
to the golf tournament, and that's what I'm gonna do
right now. Let me see where I put it there.
It is hero A World championship leaderboard is what I'm
looking for, and that's what I've got right here. Remember

(50:31):
yesterday when you or yesterday, what was it morning? I
guess when we were talking about how Scottie Scheffler had
messed up on Friday and shot a sixty nine and
found himself with the first double bogie he'd had in
forever among maybe I don't know. I think it was
fewer than a dozen throughout the entire season of twenty

(50:52):
twenty five until yesterday. Well, he went out yesterday after
we hung up the show here and shot himself as
sixty five and elevated himself from sixth place, tied with
a couple of other guys back into second place, just
one shot south of Septstraka, who shot sixty four. Straka

(51:14):
and Scheffler were both in sixth place after the tournament
finished yesterday, tied for six.

Speaker 4 (51:20):
And now they're one and two.

Speaker 2 (51:22):
And I don't know about you, but I'm not betting
against Scottie Scheffler, No way, I'm betting against him. So
it's Straka now at seventeen, under Scheffler at sixteen, Norrin
and Matsuyama at fourteen, Wyndham Clark and JJ Spawn at thirteen,
and then Justin Rose and cam Young at twelve, neither

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of whom I believe has a chance of even I
don't think now they're neither one of those guys is
gonna win.

Speaker 4 (51:55):
It's got to be Straka and Scheffler. They're going out together.

Speaker 2 (51:58):
They're gonna know exactly what they have to do, exactly
where they have to work hard. It'll be fun to
watch if you like watching people play golf in the Bahamas,
I wouldn't mind being there, Like I talked about at
the beginning of the show, I wouldn't mind being there
watching that tournament. I'd go bone fishing in the morning.
And bone fishing is not a crack of dawn sport.
Bone fishing is a gentle It's kind of like quail hunting.

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You don't have to be out there at the crack
of dawn to go quail hunting. You don't have to
be on the water before daylight. To go bone fishing.
You need the sun up so you can see the
fish on the flats, very very refined. So you go
out there and go bone fishing for a couple of hours,
then come back and take a shower and go watch
the golf tournament. Let's go see what's on Mike's mind here.

(52:41):
Damn by Mike, what's up, buddy?

Speaker 10 (52:44):
You're sing better.

Speaker 2 (52:45):
You know, I'm pushing hard. I'm tired of this, I
really am.

Speaker 1 (52:50):
I know.

Speaker 2 (52:50):
I know.

Speaker 10 (52:51):
Listen talking about your buggy trip out to Silly, I'm
surprised you didn't put that spread in somebody else's land.

Speaker 2 (52:59):
You know, there were a couple of times when that
actually happened to some of our guides. I felt I
knew the prayer well enough that I didn't never get
totally lost. But yeah, every now and then, some of
those little just gates right off of a road looked
like other gates right off of the road, and every
now and then somebody'd mess up. But on foggy days

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out there, people understood that, and the landowners understood it,
and nobody ever.

Speaker 4 (53:25):
Got any real trouble.

Speaker 2 (53:26):
The one, the goofiest thing I ever did was walk
some guys into a rice field.

Speaker 4 (53:31):
And I have shared the story before, but I had four.

Speaker 2 (53:34):
Guys behind me, and they're just like little duck lings
walking behind the Mama duck got big bag of duck
decoys on their shoulders and some rags, and we were
gonna go set up a nice big spread and shoot
a bunch of ducks and geese.

Speaker 4 (53:47):
And we walked and we walked and said, look, just
follow me.

Speaker 2 (53:49):
I was out here yesterday once the birds went back
to roost, and I made sure I was on the
right levees. What in hindsight, what I should have done
is put surveyors ribbon on sticks all the way out there,
but I didn't. So we get out and we can't
see thirty yards man, and we're walking and walking and walking,
and I figured it was gonna be about a fifteen
minute walk, carrying everything nice and slow and steady, and

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these guys staying behind me where they can see me
in all and keep in touch. And so I kind
of stopped and planted my flag. Okay, here's where we're
gonna lay out and get everything set up. We lay
out there, we start working. We're spreading rags. There's a
little flat of water. We put a bunch of duck
decoys in there, and and the geese start getting up

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and it's shooting time, and I'm getting a lot of
birds coming to us, but they seem to be kind
of flaring off off of us for some reason. And
I'm watching my guys and they're staying down pretty good,
and I don't hear any traffic. It was we were
in a field off five twenty nine and twenty eight
to fifty five, if you know where that is.

Speaker 4 (54:52):
And I didn't.

Speaker 2 (54:54):
I didn't hear any traffic on the road that might
have bothered them or anything like that. Couldn't figure it out.
Couldn't figure it out. Finally a bird kind of sailed
off behind us that got hit and I turned around
and we had walked for fifteen twenty minutes in that
field and set up like seventy five yards from our
truck to cars like, oh man, I'm so sorry. Guys,

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turn around. I just said, turn around, man, and they go, yeah,
that explains a lot.

Speaker 4 (55:25):
We had a good turn.

Speaker 10 (55:26):
How many times in the field and on the water
have you set up your your your decoys and birds
land in them and you can't shoot?

Speaker 2 (55:35):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, that happened a ton of times, man,
happened a ton of times.

Speaker 1 (55:40):
I'll tell you you're the guy.

Speaker 10 (55:41):
I can hear the guy say, don't shoot my decoys.

Speaker 2 (55:44):
Oh yeah, man, you started putting holes in decoys. That's
that's bad medicine, bad medicine. All right, Mike, Thanks, it's
great to hear from you as ooys. Yes, sir, audios
that's an old Sharptown guy. That's where I grew up, man,
I grew up there a long, long time ago, and
I have very fond memories from all of that. I thought,

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there's something else it's fun to do in the fog,
and it'll make your imagination run absolutely away from you.
Is honting deer in the fog, in a thick, thick fog,
Because every sound you hear, you imagine is a big
buck just taking steps and marching towards you and getting
closer and closer.

Speaker 4 (56:26):
And then when the when the.

Speaker 2 (56:28):
Air finally clears a little teeny bit, you realize it's
just a squirrel trying to find an acorn somewhere. Sounds
a lot louder, sounds a lot bigger, sounds a whole
lot bigger in the fog.

Speaker 4 (56:41):
I don't I don't mind being the outdoors in a
in a.

Speaker 2 (56:46):
Goose, spread in a duck, blind and a deer stand
any of that stuff in a fog. What I'm a
little bit hesitant about is being out in a thick,
thick fog on a boat that's still, especially as fast
as all the boats go now and as as gung
ho as these guys are and they're trusting there there. Well,
most of them have GPS, but that that GPS will

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keep them on a track. But GPS doesn't tell you
if there's a boat in front of where you're that's
in your track. You got to have sonar for that.
And most of these little seventy eighty ninety mile an
hour boats.

Speaker 4 (57:22):
Don't have that yet. I wish they did. Any event, Let's.

Speaker 2 (57:26):
Take a break show. It's nine thirteen ninety fourteen. Now,
good heavens, I'll catch up. I promise, Frankie, I'll catch up.
Carter's Country, That's what I'm gonna tell you about right now.
This is a brand that's been around for sixty plus years, okay,
sixty plus years, created by a man who was one
of the best custom rifle builders in Houston, as he

(57:50):
was also laying steel on a lot of the buildings downtown.
He was a steel worker by day and then by
early early morning where he come home after working on
those buildings all day and then start building rifles. And
then in the morning he would take finished rifles to
a range to shoot them to make sure that they

(58:11):
were as accurate as he wanted them. This was Bill
Carter who founded that company, and the man who owned
the range came to Bill one day and said, look,
I'm going to get out of this business. I want
to sell you this range. He said, I can't afford it,
and the guy said, I'm going to make you a
deal that it'll work for you. Just just trust me
on this, don't worry about it. Fast forward sixty something
years later. That big old range up there on Treshwig

(58:34):
now is where you can go shoot a gun as
soon as you buy it, if you buy it from
the store up there. That's the flagship store. There is
every supporting clays, rifle, pistol, handgun, everything you need to
shoot up there. They want to shoot up there, you
can do it at that range. Trap and Skeet got

(58:54):
all of that stuff up there. They also have instructors
and all the shooting disciplines. It's been a fantastic brand.
There's two other stores too, by the way, and then
of course you can shop online. If you can't get
all the way up there to do your shooting, you
can still buy from this very trusted brand for sixty
something years. Carterscountry dot Com is the website I can't
impress upon you enough how much confidence I had that

(59:17):
they'll take good care of you if you go in there.
Carterscountry dot com nine on Sports Talk seven ninety at
Duckpike Show, thank you for listening. Certainly do appreciate it.
I uh, thanks, by the way, when I said when
I talked about not remembering who who signed stuff off with,

(59:38):
and now you know the rest of the story, thanks
to all of you who reminded me who Paul Harvey
was and that was his sign offline and for many
many years and I just couldn't drag it out of
my memory. Bang, I have the I have in addition
to AI, in addition to the Internet, I have t

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a this audience, which is fantastic help. When I can't
drag something out of the cobwebbed back corner of my mind,
all of you tend to rush to help me, and
I greatly appreciate that. Seven three two two five seven
nine Email Medugpike at Iiheartmedia dot com. I thought about
going back to what we were talking a little bit

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about yesterday, that kind of.

Speaker 4 (01:00:23):
Fill in the blank question.

Speaker 2 (01:00:25):
Uh, as an outdoors person, if Texas only had more
blank and I'm talking about fish birds four legged animals whatever.
If we had more blank I'd never leave this state.
And I think I would throw on that. I would
throw snook on there, I would throw elk on there.
I don't know who wants more bears in Texas. I'm

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cool with having a few little black bears, but I
would not really be interested in having a healthy population
of any bigger bear species, especially grizzly bears.

Speaker 5 (01:01:02):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:01:03):
I don't wanna.

Speaker 2 (01:01:04):
I don't want to have to walk through the woods
and think something's gonna come out and kill me. We
already have mountain lions that can do that, but are
more reclusive, and I think would rather run from us
given the option, than come chase us down. That's one
that now you know I hadn't I flipped it to

(01:01:25):
the other side too. What animal would you eliminate from
Texas if you could do it without upsetting the natural
balance and the the carrying capacity and all that. If
you could just take one animal out of Texas so
you didn't have to worry about it anymore, what would
it be, Frankie, can you think of anything?

Speaker 4 (01:01:44):
Do you don't spend that much time outdoors though?

Speaker 8 (01:01:46):
Do you enough to know I don't like big mosquitoes.

Speaker 2 (01:01:49):
Oh my gosh, you know, I didn't even have mosquitos
on my list. I'm just so numb to them after
living here almost all my entire adult life. Uh yeah,
I could. I could live without mosquitoes I had. I
had different things on my list, and it's more related
to being out and hunting and fishing. I could live

(01:02:12):
without stingrays. I'd be cool if there was never another
stingray in Texas. I would be cool to lose rattlesnakes. Uh,
you know, if they'll still if they'll keep rattling and
not go silent like they've done since the wild hogs
started eating them. If they would still rattle, I would

(01:02:33):
actually keep them over some other things. I could live
without yellow jackets because I flashed back to when I
was a little kid chasing a baseball into the lugustrium
bushes in the backyard and came face to face with
an entire, big, giant about a softball sized yellow jacket nest,
and all of them look at me as I looked

(01:02:54):
at them, and they just jumped right on my face
and stung the jeepers out of me. Oh my gosh,
that was probably one of the most painful childhood injuries
I ever had. I didn't break a bone until I
was in high school. I had stitches five or six times.
That just thrilled my mother every time she had to
haul me to the doctor's office for stitches. You didn't
go to the er then for stitches. You went to

(01:03:16):
the doctor's office because they would make room for you
and take care of you. I'm comfortable with the black Bears,
and they are expanding their arrange. I had a story
or a listener emailed me years ago now, probably ten
twelve years ago at least, I would say, and maybe
more about being in East Texas shooting a deer and

(01:03:38):
then leaving and going back to get the four wheeler
to come get the deer out of there, and getting
to that deer and seeing that it had been torn
up and eating on a little bit.

Speaker 4 (01:03:50):
He took the deer the carcass to the game warden.

Speaker 2 (01:03:55):
Game warden looked at it and said, you know, looks
like a black bear.

Speaker 4 (01:03:59):
Did that?

Speaker 2 (01:04:00):
Like, Holy cow? This guy had no idea he was
hunting among black bears. They're coming back into East Texas.
They've been out in the Big Bend area for a
long long time. Coming up from Mexico and maybe, who knows,
maybe one of you see a black bear in Texas.
I haven't yet. I've heard secondhand stuff about them several times,

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but I haven't seen one yet, and I would love
I think that would be pretty cool. They're fairly manageable
from what I read and what I've heard. I've seen
them in the wild, but not in Texas. I've seen
them in New York. Actually, I was up there when
I was on Field and Streams Masthead. We did a
trip up to New York to do some trout fishing,
and while we were driving up to the lodge we

(01:04:43):
were going to stay at, there was a bear. And
there were enough of us in the van who were
from the South that we made them stop the van.

Speaker 4 (01:04:52):
This guy, why you stop it? It's just a bear.

Speaker 2 (01:04:55):
Actually, I've never seen one in the wild, and i'd
like to see that. It was pretty good. Oh. RJ
oh yeah, Oh my gosh.

Speaker 4 (01:05:08):
RJ.

Speaker 2 (01:05:08):
Called Frankie and asked Frankie to ask me if I
was going to eliminate one animal from Texas. Uh, he says,
what about the bird that eats all the fish? Yeah,
that goes right to the top of the list. Honestly, God,
it has to. I am so opposed to cormorants, and
I don't know why they still enjoy any protection whatsoever. Frankly,

(01:05:34):
if if the Parks and Walleafe Department would step back
and start talking to the people who deal with them
in their private ponds, even you can get if they're
destroying something of yours that's kind of private property. Like
if if you've stalked a lake and they're eating up
all your fish, you can get a permit to control them,

(01:05:55):
but it takes a lot of time, and by the
time you get the permit, they've already eating you out
of house and home. Already eating you out of house
and home. If you are a fish farmer, you can
get that permit. But when those birds get in there,
they'll do enough damage right right out of the gate

(01:06:17):
that that can be a problematic.

Speaker 4 (01:06:19):
I'm hoping.

Speaker 2 (01:06:19):
I'm gonna I'm gonna talk to the general manager of
the club where I play most of my golf and
and see if we could get a permit to discourage
them somehow. And if we can get that permit, I'm
gonna be front of the line. I don't know how
we're gonna do it.

Speaker 4 (01:06:35):
I don't know how it.

Speaker 2 (01:06:36):
Would be okay to do it, but I'm gonna be
at the front of the line to sign on volunteer
a little time.

Speaker 4 (01:06:41):
If I have to take vacation time to go.

Speaker 2 (01:06:46):
Move and I'll wrap move in quotes, move some cormorants
out of that lake. I'll do it because it was
the lake I'm thinking of was one of the most amazing,
amazing bass fishing lakes, especially for little kids who were
just learning how to fish, because there were so many
quality fish in there and it's been basically wiped out.

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Let's go talk to Dan for a second.

Speaker 5 (01:07:08):
Was that Dan? Hey, dude, I got a black bear story.
Bring it.

Speaker 7 (01:07:13):
One time I was sitting on my front porch. I
lived in the Boston Mountains up there by halfway between
Tevel and Van Veren, Arkansas. Devil's Den State Park was
real close to where I lived. Anyway, I'm sitting on
the front porch one morning watching, you know, just watching
the hillside, watching for deer. And one time and I

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kept I kept seeing something moving coming down the hill
through the woods.

Speaker 5 (01:07:41):
What what.

Speaker 7 (01:07:44):
I watched it for probably ten minutes, and then all
of a sudden it just come out, big old black
bear come across the fence, walk down into my neighbor's
front yard and sit down at the grapevines in his
front and grapes.

Speaker 3 (01:07:55):
Wow, And I thought.

Speaker 7 (01:07:57):
I sat there and watched.

Speaker 3 (01:08:00):
Stanton bear in grape vine the grapes. It was just
really cool and we have a good day.

Speaker 8 (01:08:06):
Dude.

Speaker 4 (01:08:07):
Did you see he just sat there and nobody bothered
him nothing?

Speaker 3 (01:08:10):
Huh.

Speaker 7 (01:08:12):
I was the only one home. The guy next door
to me, he was at work.

Speaker 2 (01:08:16):
Oh wow, man, how long did that bear sit there
and eat grapes?

Speaker 7 (01:08:21):
I watched him for probably good twenty minutes time I
got up and left.

Speaker 2 (01:08:25):
Got his fill and go on to the next house.
That's a cool story.

Speaker 3 (01:08:29):
It was before before cell phones and video.

Speaker 4 (01:08:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:08:33):
Well you and I go back way before cell phones
and videos. All right, man, It is always a pleasure
to hear from you, you know that.

Speaker 7 (01:08:43):
Man.

Speaker 4 (01:08:43):
Thanks, we'll see you to welcome, Yes, sir, audios. Oh
my word.

Speaker 2 (01:08:50):
Uh let's see what this says here?

Speaker 4 (01:08:54):
Who is this?

Speaker 5 (01:08:57):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:08:57):
Man?

Speaker 4 (01:08:58):
Thank you, she says.

Speaker 2 (01:08:59):
I suspect you often that your shows unique and refreshing,
to say the least. Feels like we're sitting on the
back patio, just talking as good friends. Would you are
motivating to me to enjoy the better things in life
as I am a workaholic. That's kind of what I
am down here, actually, but I enjoy it so much.
He's trying to slow down. It says here from Steve,

(01:09:20):
and he said, do more outside things. Thank you for
what you do and all the best to you and
your family.

Speaker 4 (01:09:26):
Thank you, Steve.

Speaker 2 (01:09:27):
I man, I have a special folder because compliments like
that mean a lot to me.

Speaker 4 (01:09:32):
They really do.

Speaker 2 (01:09:34):
I just took them. I took them away, and anytime
I'm feeling kind of sorry for myself about how hard
I'm working or whatever, I actually go to that little
folder and open up a couple and yours is going
to be right at the top of it.

Speaker 5 (01:09:44):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:09:44):
That that really that motivates me. It really does get outside.

Speaker 5 (01:09:49):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:09:49):
There's I don't know where you live, I don't know
where you are around here, but there's gonna be someplace that,
at least a park where you can just go walk around,
get a little vitamin D on a so any day
like it's going to.

Speaker 4 (01:10:01):
Be tomorrow, and start doing that.

Speaker 2 (01:10:04):
And if you want to gently insert yourself into the outdoors,
but you're you're determined to do it. Do a little birding,
believe it or not. That's just that's one of the
easiest things to do. You don't have to spend a
lot of money. You don't even have to. You don't
have to buy binoculars if you don't want to, but
you'll help yourself if you can.

Speaker 4 (01:10:26):
And it's really kind of fun.

Speaker 2 (01:10:27):
All you need is a bird book and binoculars and
maybe a pad of paper or a pen. But if
you've got the book, you can look at a bird,
then look it up, and then just take out your
pen and put a check mark by it. Yeah, I
saw one of those, make notes if it's in a
cool place or something like that. That's something we haven't
talked about much on the show in a long time, actually,

(01:10:47):
and I may bring it up next week if I
can remember. Help me remember that, Frankie, would you, Because
birding is it can be. It's a great family activity.
You don't have to be strong, you don't have to
be coordinated, you don't have to have anything but a
pair of eyeballs. And there actually are people who identify
birds by their songs, and that counts in some of

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the major birding competitions, believe it or not. So all
you got to do is want to get out there,
and then if you do a little reading on it,
you'll find out that Southeast Texas has a tremendous amount
of birding opportunity for anybody who wants it. Really a
lot of places where the coast in the springtime, the

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Holy Cow, when those birds are coming back from way
way way down south when it's warming back up up here.
The Galveston Island pretty much all the way from from
the Sabine River down to San Louis Pass, that's one
of the major hit, major landing points for these little

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tiny birds that have migrated all the way across the
Gulf of Mexico. Man, I'm glad that that email of
yours made my day, Steef, Thank you very much.

Speaker 7 (01:12:00):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:12:01):
Unfortunately, we got to take a break, though, and I'll
do that by telling you about Timber Creek. A bunch
of birds down there. I guarantee you at all the woods.
By the way, when Harvey came through here a million
years ago, Timber Creek lost something like eight hundred trees.
You'd never know it, because there's still a lot down there.
And half of them have been hit by some of

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my drives. But Timber Creek, if you play it from
the right box and you do it correctly, and you
just stand on the tea box and look for a second,
you could see where the architect wanted you to hit
that tea shot to give yourself a good shot at
hitting the green with your next shot. It's a very
playable course. They're not easy. No golf courses easy, but
Timber Creek's one of the most playable courses I've been

(01:12:44):
on around here, and I've played around Houston more than
one hundred different courses. I love Timber Creek, have been
going there forever. FM twenty three fifty one in friends Wood,
just a few miles west of the Gold Freeway. Great
instruction from JJ Woods and his staff. Twenty seven holes
so they can get a lot of people out and
excellent food by the way, and beverage coming around. Just

(01:13:05):
every few minutes. There's gonna be a little beverage cart
coming around to help you out. Timbercreekgolf Club dot com
is website. You can make a tea time right now
and be there when the foglift. Timbercreekgolf club dot com
if you're looking for someplace to eat some great Mexican
food in a very comfortable, relaxed atmosphere. It's kind of

(01:13:26):
an old school Mexican restaurant for around here. Family owned
for thirty something years actually. And that's Berry Hill down
there in Sugarland at the Sugar Creek or Sugar Lakes exit,
depending on which way you're going. Right there on the freeway,
can't miss it. Get inside, you're gonna see tables and
boosts to the left. You're gonna see a sports bar
to the right, and then outside as you walk in,

(01:13:47):
you'll see where the outdoor dining is, which is going
to be outstanding for the next several weeks around here.

Speaker 4 (01:13:53):
It's so comfortable down there and the food is so good.

Speaker 2 (01:13:56):
I took a client there, a new client, took him
there instead of any place else out there where I
could have gone, and he loved what he got, as
I always do.

Speaker 4 (01:14:06):
My favorite I've told you before, it's a seafood Enchilada is.
They're outstanding.

Speaker 2 (01:14:10):
Now there's a seafood burrito too, but be careful because
that thing is almost as big as a junior football.
I barely made it through it, but I forced myself
because it was that good. The fish tacos excellent, all
the traditional textmes, dishes you can imagine. And the two
people who are the prime people in the kitchen each
have been in there more than ten years, very consistent

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with little touches that they put on the dishes themselves,
consistent delicious food. They cater all over town if you
want to really have a fun, delicious meal. And plus
the chocolate and vanilla trace leches too, by the way,
outstanding way to finish off that meal. Berryhillsugar Land dot
com is the website berryhillsugar Land dot com. Yeah, Brown

(01:14:59):
and Third had nine thirty nine on Sports Talk seven
to ninety The Duck Pike Show.

Speaker 4 (01:15:03):
Thank you for listening. Certainly do appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (01:15:05):
On this foggy Foggy Foggy checked in with Mojo Foggy
all the way up into Montgomery County. It's been a
while too since I saw this much fogg I think
it's the first time this season where it really really
just kind of hung on and dropped down. And as
long as those winds stay calm, let me see if
it's still that way down on the beach.

Speaker 4 (01:15:26):
Tiktoktalk, TikTok, TikTok.

Speaker 2 (01:15:28):
Yeah, yeah, pretty much from fifteen twenty miles inland all
the way, good heavens, where is this?

Speaker 4 (01:15:37):
Let's see.

Speaker 2 (01:15:38):
I don't know where the wee ranch is, but there's
a wind station there. They're just zeros all over the board,
well into the hill country even. And the highest value
I see in there right now is what a seven? No,
the seven just disappeared. Now it's a three. Oh, there's
a seven. Where is that rollover pass which used to

(01:16:00):
be it's not a pass anymore, rollover sand dune or
building or whatever they have there. Now that's it Galison
nor Jetty, seven miles an hour out of the east,
everything else inland zero zero one two. So this fog
is gonna hang around a little bit. I haven't looked outside.
There's no window in this in this actual room I'm in,

(01:16:23):
but I'm gonna go take a look as soon we
get As soon as we get to the next break,
lem me go talk to Barry. He's been sitting there
a while. Hey, Barry, what's up man?

Speaker 1 (01:16:32):
Here has been a while?

Speaker 4 (01:16:33):
Yeah, good to hear from you.

Speaker 11 (01:16:35):
Yeah, when do you become a bird of because I'm
becoming a birder. I thought real men didn't lose bird.

Speaker 2 (01:16:40):
No bird, Hey man, let me tell you what if
you want to if you want to just dive in
and put on the gloves. There are birdeners who are
just obsessed with it.

Speaker 4 (01:16:51):
They really are.

Speaker 2 (01:16:51):
There are bit national birding competitions. We have a huge
one here in Texas actually, and Texas has I don't know,
it's something like six hundred and nine any different species
birds that have been spotted in this state.

Speaker 4 (01:17:03):
So you got a long ways to go, all bet.

Speaker 1 (01:17:05):
Yeah, I'm familiar with wet autun sign.

Speaker 2 (01:17:08):
Oh yeah, yeah, your neck deep, aren't you?

Speaker 11 (01:17:12):
Oh yeah, well we'll Speaking of the birds sounds, I'm familiar
with the oreole and the nightingale.

Speaker 1 (01:17:17):
Did you know that?

Speaker 11 (01:17:18):
Did you know that the songbird was the best because
he's got to sing eight hours straight to attract the females.

Speaker 4 (01:17:25):
Word, that's a lot of work.

Speaker 1 (01:17:27):
And and and they compete, that's a lot of work.

Speaker 11 (01:17:29):
Yeah, you got to sing eight hours straight because the
females don't want a a wi Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:17:35):
The bird that can sing on a song for eight
I didn't know what species is that that does.

Speaker 1 (01:17:40):
That songbird's song birds.

Speaker 4 (01:17:43):
Okay, holy man, okay.

Speaker 11 (01:17:45):
And and also the the woodpeckers are going crazy because
the way they attract females that they bang on wood
but now they're banging on chimneys. No, no, but but
if it sounds loud enough to like it, Oh, okay,
it's amazing. It's amazing how the male birds that have
bowed down to the females.

Speaker 2 (01:18:05):
Huh they need what's new berry? Yeah, we gotta work
pretty hard to at least, I guess the birds don't
have to bother their mates dinner.

Speaker 4 (01:18:19):
At least that's a that's a plus.

Speaker 1 (01:18:22):
Okay, there's a sports angle here too.

Speaker 11 (01:18:24):
You know, football has the real birds, the Eagles, Seahawks, Cardinals,
but baseball has the blue Jays and.

Speaker 2 (01:18:33):
Man Birger a big part. What's your best what's your
most rare sighting so far?

Speaker 5 (01:18:40):
Uh?

Speaker 11 (01:18:40):
The the osprey, Oh yeah, he has the most graceful,
the most graceful flight. Of the large birds, I would
agree with, you know, the ravens. The raven is gangly,
but the but the osprey almost.

Speaker 7 (01:18:55):
Glides, I would I would agree with that.

Speaker 4 (01:19:00):
They almost Yeah, they almost seem.

Speaker 2 (01:19:02):
To defy gravity when you're watching them over the water
and when they're hunting and whatnot.

Speaker 11 (01:19:07):
Exactly beautiful, I mean for a big bird.

Speaker 1 (01:19:09):
Yeah, a large bird. That's very graceful.

Speaker 6 (01:19:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:19:14):
Yeah, we're talking about one of the largest birds we
got now.

Speaker 11 (01:19:17):
No longer that they read the Era of Dynamics and
manual or not.

Speaker 5 (01:19:22):
They may they may have written it.

Speaker 11 (01:19:26):
Okay, well, okay, yeah, man, I was telling them, wait
a minute, does we're going to keep this between you?

Speaker 1 (01:19:35):
Keep this quiet between you?

Speaker 4 (01:19:39):
Oh no, I'm not quiet. I'm a burder. I don't
mind being a burder.

Speaker 2 (01:19:42):
When I was when I was guiding at on the
Katie Prairie, there were a lot of mornings when the
sun was up and coyote or an eagle had run
through the rooster, flown over the roosts and blown all
my birds out, and all that was left for me
to do was identify all the little chickenye birds and
whatever we're flying around and all these long bill birds
and all these things. I used to could name all

(01:20:04):
of them now and maybe not so much, but yeah,
I had to pass the time somehow Verry, thanks for
the call man, that was really fun. Yes, sir, keep
me posted on what if you get a new one?
All right, all right, let's go ahead and take this
last break of the program. On the way out, I'll
tell you about American Shooting Centers, which actually, if the
fog will ever, I bet you there's no way you

(01:20:26):
can see the end of the six hundred yard range
out there right now. I would take that bet. That's
a long ways down, and I don't think it's I
don't think the FOG's lifted enough yet. Once it does, though,
what you'll find at American Shooting Centers is three Sporting
Clay's courses, ten trap and skeep fields, rifle and pistol
from five yards out to six hundred yards. Instruction available

(01:20:47):
in all the shooting disciplines. They have a nice selection
of high end rifles and shotguns in their pro shop,
and the man Etorigi who owns it now, took it
over several years ago, made it far more user friendly
then most ranges you'll go to. You don't have to
wait for some teenager to come pull your targets for you.
In Sporting Clazer Trapping Skeek, there's a like a coin

(01:21:08):
operated machine there that you put you buy your coins
in the pro shop, you put your coin in and
it coughs up. I think it's fifty two or fifty
three targets. It allows for a couple of broken ones
to come through there, so you can still finish your round.
It's a very fun way to take the family out
there and enjoy the shooting. There's a beginner's wing shooting area.

(01:21:29):
In addition to the trapping skeet and the sporting place,
there is a pop up silhouette range for rim fire shooting,
so you could take the kids with their twenty two's
out there and let them shoot it all day long
if you want to, without burning up the wallet. It's
just really a fun, enjoyable place to shoot, no matter
how you enjoy the shooting. Sports West tim Or Parkway

(01:21:51):
between Katie and Highway six been there for the better
part of thirty years. American Shooting Centers dot com. Americans
Shooting Centers dot com.

Speaker 12 (01:22:03):
You're willing to sacrifice sound love that's pretty harsh if
you stop and really analyze, And in fact, I've seen
some stuff on Facebook that's really kind of funny where
people are listening as adults with headphones on to the
exact words that are being sung in some of the

(01:22:23):
songs that they grew up with, and some of it
can be pretty shocking, like wait a minute.

Speaker 2 (01:22:30):
What did he say? What did she say? And yeah,
that's music though, isn't it?

Speaker 4 (01:22:36):
Frankie? You two like music, don't you?

Speaker 5 (01:22:40):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:22:42):
Who is your favorite all time?

Speaker 2 (01:22:46):
I'll start easy, favorite all time composer of classical music.

Speaker 8 (01:22:51):
We're a classical probably pro Kofiev?

Speaker 2 (01:22:55):
And where when was he composing? Nineteen entry, twentieth century?

Speaker 3 (01:23:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:23:03):
Yeah, oh okay, where's he from?

Speaker 8 (01:23:06):
Russia?

Speaker 4 (01:23:07):
Yeah it sounded kind of Russian?

Speaker 2 (01:23:09):
Okay?

Speaker 4 (01:23:11):
Contemporary pop music anybody?

Speaker 8 (01:23:15):
The only one that's kind of interesting to me is
Billie Eilish.

Speaker 4 (01:23:20):
Okay, yeah, I can see that, but I.

Speaker 8 (01:23:22):
Don't really like her the content or the sound. But
it's really interesting though.

Speaker 4 (01:23:27):
Different that I think is what makes people unique.

Speaker 2 (01:23:31):
And if you I watched The Voice, I watch and
I've really actually learned a lot watching The Voice about
how music actually works and what works and why it works,
and it's fascinating to me.

Speaker 4 (01:23:45):
I'll never be a musician or a singer.

Speaker 2 (01:23:48):
Those days are long, long in the rearview mirror, but
it does I'm I'm interested in things like that, and
I'll I'll study it at least and try to know
more about it so I can watch it with a
greater appreciation than just Gee, I wonder how many chairs
this kid will turn.

Speaker 4 (01:24:07):
I don't care how many chairs turn. I want to understand.

Speaker 2 (01:24:10):
Why they did and why they didn't, and when you
listen to them, it's kind of fun. It's the same
in anything. It's the same in golf, it's the same
in the outdoors. It's the same in any hobby or
any profession. If you are pretty good at it, you
can enjoy it. But there are only a handful of

(01:24:32):
people who are going to be really good at it.
Would you agree, Yeah, And no matter what you do,
the only way you're going to get better than the
rest of them is to work harder than they do.

Speaker 4 (01:24:44):
That's very true in sports and very true in the outdoors.
There are a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:24:48):
Of men who have and women who have gone into
professional fishing, and a lot of them are pretty good,
and they want a bunch of tournaments on their local lakes,
or they a bunch of tournaments along the coastline where
they live, and then they try to take it to
that next level and realize that there's something missing in

(01:25:10):
their game. And it's very I'm sure it's very frustrating.
And at that point you have two choices. You can
either work harder and try to learn more from more
people as fast as you can to catch up and
get back to the top, or you can go deliver
pieces or something. You know you've got to come up
with something better to do. I think it would have

(01:25:33):
been fun to be a professional fisherman, but I knew
and I love to fish. I can hold my own
with most amateur fishermen. Would I would feel I don't
know that I would want to fish against any of
the guide friends who allowed me to jump in their
boats when I was younger and they were younger, and
up to this day still the guys I fished with

(01:25:55):
back then are still at the top of their game.

Speaker 4 (01:25:58):
And there's a reason for that.

Speaker 2 (01:26:00):
It's because they're on the water three hundred days a
year and I'm on the water, not three hundred days
a year.

Speaker 4 (01:26:06):
They learn, they they know. That's why I referenced them.

Speaker 2 (01:26:10):
I had somebody years ago, years ago, I had somebody
ask me for the first time, how do you know
so much about the outdoors? And the honest answer, almost
every time it's been asked is I don't know that much,
but I know who to call, and that's that's the
key right there.

Speaker 4 (01:26:30):
And I know why I need to call.

Speaker 2 (01:26:33):
Because I don't know And if if, if you asked
me a question on this show and I don't know
the answer, I'm gonna tell you I don't know the answer,
but I'll try to find it for you. Shoot me
an email, and when I find the answer, I'll I'll
get back to you. And I've done that for twenty
five years. And you know I'm not I'm not scared
to say I don't know everything, not at all. Seven

(01:26:53):
one three two one two five seven nine. He might
have time for one more call? Are you gonna bail
me out?

Speaker 7 (01:26:57):
Early?

Speaker 4 (01:26:57):
What are you doing today, Frankie? What's my number?

Speaker 5 (01:27:00):
Man?

Speaker 8 (01:27:00):
You got a little under two minutes?

Speaker 2 (01:27:02):
Under two minutes, okay, fewer than two minutes. Let's let's
get the grammar right here, man, under over are spatial
references more than less than more than fewer than or
that's like if you're talking about minutes or something like that,
that's just you know, that's the quirky, weird part of

(01:27:23):
me being an editor of a magazine and being a
writer and talking for a living and by the way,
speech and written language are totally different, totally different. You
can get away with anything when you're talking. Almost you
can end a sentence with a preposition, what are you
talking about? Now about? What are you talking? That's what
it should be, and that that would sound so corny.

(01:27:45):
People just kick you out of the room. Ah man,
I'm thinking about birding again now. I'm all jacked up
on that. There were so many different bird species on
that prairie, including all the waterfowl species. You can imagine
they're probably I bet there were at least fifteen to
twenty different species of ducks out there on a regular basis.

Speaker 4 (01:28:06):
There were all the.

Speaker 2 (01:28:07):
Goose species, the subspecies of Canada geese, which is something
a lot of people didn't realize until they came down here.
People from the North who came down here were only
really familiar usually with the big Greater Canada geese. We
had them from there down three or four different subspecies,
all the way to the little cacklers, which weren't much

(01:28:28):
bigger than a mallard, little tiny, little Canada goose. And
because all those other species were smaller, when actual legitimate
Greater Canada geese got all the way down onto that Katie.

Speaker 4 (01:28:42):
Prairie, which was rare.

Speaker 3 (01:28:43):
By the way.

Speaker 4 (01:28:44):
You didn't see them every day.

Speaker 2 (01:28:45):
You didn't even see them every week, and a lot
of most guys went through an entire season without seeing one.

Speaker 4 (01:28:52):
But when they.

Speaker 2 (01:28:52):
Showed up, and when they were in the air, they
looked like it looked like seven forty seven's coming in.
And the rest of the birds were little piper cubs.
It was amazing how big those birds were. I'm fired up.
I want to get back any outdoors. I'm gonna go
outdoors today. I don't care what the weather is. I'm
going out there and having some fun. I thank you
all for listening. I thank you all for putting up

(01:29:14):
with this scratchy old voice of mine for an entire week.

Speaker 4 (01:29:17):
Thank you all so much.

Speaker 2 (01:29:18):
I'll be back Tuesday to kick off fifty plus again
on KPRC at noon, and then I'll be back right
here in this same chair next Saturday morning. God willing
to enjoy. The more outdoors, the better. I'm so happy
to be back in the saddle. Thank you all for listening.
Take care, go enjoy the outdoors with your families. Audios

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