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Originally aired on November 2nd, 2025. On this episode, Doug talks to David Pruett, owner of Riceland Waterfowl Club, to see when migratory birds will fly down to Texas now that it's open season for many of them. Doug also talks about how much he doesn't like flashlights, and much more.

Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:03):
All right, Sunday edition of the program starts now, all
systems go right, Freggie, Yes, sir, we are good to go.
I've got there's no baseball anymore to watch. That was disappointing.
It was to the credit of both of those teams
to go to seven games and then go to extra

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innings and be dragging starters out of the bullpen.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
All of that.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
It was a fantastic series. It didn't end the way
I wanted it to. I don't think anybody who was
a fan of the Astros wanted the Dodgers to win.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
But it was still a good series.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
It still had some great plays to play at the
plate late in the game. If there had not been
fifty pounds of chalk blowing up into the air, there
may have been a closer look at whether or not
the what's that catcher's name for the for the Dodgers.

(01:06):
I can't remember whether his foot was back on the
plate or not. But hey, it's in the history books
now and there's nothing we can do about it, and
that's the way baseball is.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
I do.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
I am glad that we're moving into the and I've
never thought I would talk about being happy to have
balls and strikes called by a machine, But every one
of these baseball games I watched this year had enough
mistakes made in them. Some in some in situations it
didn't really matter, but a lot of them in game

(01:42):
changing situations. And I think the whatever they can do
to get all of the calls right, I think it's
the same as going to instant replay when they had
it at the field. And then now there's a herd
of people somewhere up in New York who are true
charged with making these decisions going frame by frame with video.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
And if that's what it takes, then good, that's what
it takes.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
But these guys put too much effort in there's too
much at stake for some random ball or strike call
to and called wrongly to impact the game and the
results of the game. If anything that influences the result
of a baseball game and needs to be fixed, And

(02:31):
I don't even know that it's it's not quite so
so blatant in football, I don't think. I don't and
I don't know that going to you just don't have
time to go to replay on every single call. But
the balls and strikes in baseball, instant replay on challenges,

(02:52):
not on every play, but just instant replay if requested
with limitation, I think is good for that game, and
don't count on basketball getting anymore. I don't know how
much more confusing fouling in basketball could be, because sometimes
you get guys go up and and just get brutally

(03:13):
slammed to the floor, and they'll go back and replay
that and look at it. Go ah, no, just a
it's a nothing play on And then depending on who
the player is, and might get a might get a
brush of the back of a hand across the guy's
shoulder as he's.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
Going in for a layup, and they'll blow the whistle
on that. So who cares?

Speaker 2 (03:36):
Who doesn't make any difference to duck and goose hunters
I know that, or deer hunters or quail hunters or
anybody else who got kicked off yesterday duck season didn't
exactly go as planned for Dare I say the majority
of people out there. If you had a great duck
hunt yesterday and you were covered up with birds all
morning long, more power to you. I don't know how

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you did it, because very few other people did. There
were some good hunts. There's no question about that. There
were some good ones. But we are still at least
maybe two weeks and two or three cold fronts, and
I mean, we need a couple of really good ones
Like this last one. We had to push more of

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these birds down. It's it's gonna take a little bit.
The cooler weather lets the deer know that it's time
to start eating until they put on winter fat, that
or depending on the region, time to start chasing does
and getting into fights with other bucks in hopes of
getting a date with a pretty dough. But the ducks
are just trying to get down here and stay one

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step ahead of frigid arctic weather. And now that what's
going on up north of us with this heating, gosh,
it's it's the most it's the craziest thing.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
It's just the craziest thing.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
They've got these little hot tub hotel set up for
migrating waterfowl up between us and the nesting grounds, and
they put heaters in ponds and reservoirs, which really is
kind of silly for the most part, because so long
as they keep the water open, they meaning the land
owners and hunting outfitters and whatnot, which can be done
in extreme cold just with bubbles. The ducks and geese

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don't really care. That's what all those feathers are for.
I'd rather take a hot bath than a cool one, granted,
but even a cool tub would be sitting in my
bare bottom on a block of ice. But for ducks
and geese, they just don't care. They've got insulation, they've
got all they need, and their bodies are built for

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swimming around in icy cold water. There's very little meat
at all on a duck's lower legs and feet. If
you take a look at them, they're just stalks. They're
just like, not any bigger around than a straw. And
then you've got that web foot down there, and all
the must all the engine that drives those little feet

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underwater is up inside the body on the other side
of that thick layer of down and oily exterior feathers
and all the stuff that keeps them afloat and keeps
them warm. They're really amazing creatures when you stop and
think of how they've developed over time, it's pretty amazing.
This season is going to develop too. Don't worry about that.

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They're coming. They're coming, you know, opening day of duck
and goose season has traditionally been kind of on the
slow side.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
Overall.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
I've had some great openers, don't get me wrong.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
Back when I was guiding, out of fourteen years a guide,
and I probably had.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
Five or six well let's call it.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
Four great ones, four good ones, and maybe four so
so or worse hunts out of a dozen out of
fourteen openers, and not a one of them really is
super memorable either way.

Speaker 1 (07:01):
They were just opening weekend and opening weekend.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
We didn't set expectations high among ourselves as guides or
among our hunters. We'd let them know straight up, hey man,
we don't know what this is going to do.

Speaker 4 (07:11):
Now.

Speaker 1 (07:12):
If it was a little bit.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
Foggy, or if we had a very low ceiling, yeah
chances are it was going to be a little bit better.
But you just don't know, and you go because it's
opening day. And if you got a chance to go
hunting on opening day, you go if you really care
about it. I missed this opener, and it's not the

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first one I like coming in here. Actually, I've got
it's a long duck season, it's a long goose season,
a long deer season. All of that, there's plenty of
time to get in, plenty of hunting. And I also
know that.

Speaker 1 (07:44):
There will be many, many, many more birds here before
it's over. Then we're here.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
Yesterday when it started, it was just a tough hoe
or a tough road to hoe, and you get out there,
you take your chances, and you see what you can do.
Waterfowl hunting will change overnight to every season. Someplace has
no ducks for days or even weeks, and then in
a blink, I'm getting.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
A call, Hey man, we are covered up. Can you
come over here.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
We can really go have a good duck hunt if
you want to come on over, man, let's go have
some fun.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
Just don't know.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
We've got this bright moon coming up, still got a
little north wind, still got cool temperatures. There's I think
there's another front almost right behind this past one, and
I can guarantee you it's going to deliver more birds.
There was more activity on the prairie this morning, I
would bet than there was yesterday, even though the conditions
were about the same. We had a little bit of

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cloud cover and rain through the evening and night last night,
not much. When I went out this morning, the steadily
evenly distributed water on my driveway from about maybe ten
ten thirty last night when I went out and moved
cars with my son, there was that was gone and

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all of that had dried up, but there was a
ton of moisture in the air that had fallen off
that roof around the drip line, and so there's change
in the air. And that's really all it's gonna take
to get those birds moving. It's getting colder up north,
and it's gonna keep getting colder, and they're gonna come
down here sooner or later.

Speaker 1 (09:22):
Just give them a little time.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
By the way, I was thinking this morning about some
of my favorite duck hunts that I had over the years,
and some of the ducks that I consider more fun
to chase than others, more fun to try to decoy
than others. And my favorite, and I think that I'm
hoping the favorite of almost everybody that hunts a prairie
more prairie or marsh more than say timber, like gets

(09:48):
hunted a lot up north. I wonder if your favorite's
the same as mine, that would be a pintail. I
love hunting pintails. They're smart, they really make you work.
And if if you make a mistake, you can have
you can have five hundred pintails circling overhead. One more pass,
and every one of them is gonna be dumping into

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the decoys. And if you make one mistake, you'll blink
and you'll look back up and there won't be a
bird in the sky.

Speaker 1 (10:15):
They're gone. They book out of there as fast as
they can.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
I love hunting those ducks, especially later in the season
when they get that big long tail on the drakes do,
and it's just really that's symbolic of everything we did.
That that is the poster child for prairie duck hunting,
and it's it's a great one. It's a great representative too.
I like what hunting wigeons. I like hunting gadwalls. Wigeons

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I think are really good looking birds. The big drakes
late in the season, still got one mounted standing mount
uh in my house. It's it's a good looking mount.
I love that bird. I got that one. I like
gadwall hunting because they're not the smartest ducks flying around,
but they're not the prettiest either.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
I don't I don't know.

Speaker 2 (11:03):
I don't even know if I'm other than maybe at
a hunting lodge somewhere. I don't know that I've ever
seen a mounted gadwall in somebody's house. Correct me if
I'm wrong. If you've got five of them and you
love them, tell me all about it. Seven one three
two one two five seven ninety email on me, Dougpike
at iHeartMedia dot com.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
Got two hours to go through this morning.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
No interruptions for football whatsoever like we had yesterday, and
we're gonna talk about that. We'll talk about deer season,
we'll talk about I haven't even talked much about quails
this year, but we've got a really, really good hatch,
a really good number of birds on the ground thanks
to some good growing conditions all through spring and summer.
We'll get to everything sooner or later. I'm just glad

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all this technology is working for us this morning. Drinkie
on my way out Shooter's Corner, Palmer Highway, twenty ninth Street. Yesterday,
just yesterday, I can't remember the man's name who called
you got it all, Frank, You remember the guy's name, John.
That was John, Yes, John, John calls to let me know,
to let you know, in doing so, that he had

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an issue with a gun, he was having problems getting
it fixed, walks into Shooter's Corner. Jerry and Jay were gone.
They were probably all guiding somebody on a trophy deer
or bear hunt or something.

Speaker 1 (12:23):
So whoever was there, I think I know who.

Speaker 2 (12:25):
He got to work on the gun for him, takes
it to the back a couple of minutes later, brings
it back out here you go, I got it taken
care of, oh Man, thanks a lot. I thought it
was gonna cost me a lot of money. No, actually,
not not gonna cost you a lot of money. Well,
how much do I owe you?

Speaker 1 (12:40):
Nothing? Nothing. They didn't even charge the guy.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
Now, don't go walking in there thinking they're gonna just
totally redo your gun for nothing. Okay, if it's something
that takes them a minute or two, though, they'll be
very generous with their time and handle that. But if
it's something that does require some work, maybe some some
tinkering with a part, or maybe even having to make

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a part for you rather than have you wait six
months to get it. A Shooter's Corner bottom line is
going to take care of you the best they can.
That's all they've ever done since they've been open forty
some odd years. I think it's about forty four now,
I'd have to check with Jerry. The Shooters cornertx dot com.
Palmer Highway at twenty ninth Street in Texas City. If

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you wear a badge for a living, this is why
you see so many law enforcement people in there. If
you wear a badge for a living, you get a
discount at shooter's corner. And whether you're a hunter, whether
you shoot, whether you have to carry a gun for
your job, whether you just like target shooting, you want
to be a competitive shooter, anything and everything you could
possibly need is in that store somewhere and nothing else.

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The Shooters cornertx dot com. The Shooters cornertx dot com.
Brod I'm not gonna let this play very long because
I got a guy on the phone. I want to
talk to this see what the heck's going on down
to the southwest of this big city of ours.

Speaker 1 (14:05):
And that would be let me get this hold on.
Drum roll please, I'll get this set up. There we go,
David Pruitt way out there in Eagle Lake. Man, how
are you doing this morning?

Speaker 4 (14:14):
I'm doing great?

Speaker 1 (14:15):
How you doing? I'm doing all right?

Speaker 3 (14:16):
Man?

Speaker 1 (14:17):
So what's the latest how did yesterday go? Overall?

Speaker 4 (14:21):
Well, it was slow as we expected, you know, I
respected that. But we had some guys shooting. One group
shot four or five pintails and a cup of teal,
and other guys shot a few blue bills and some
green wings. And uh, but today it picked up. I
got some reports of blue wings showed up overnight.

Speaker 1 (14:41):
How nice is that?

Speaker 4 (14:42):
I mean they're talking about big groups of blue wings
and hit them. They said they was done just a
few minutes. Hey, that's something new.

Speaker 1 (14:50):
That's kind of nice to hear. Huh, holy caw.

Speaker 4 (14:52):
Yeah. Yeah, we've been behind, I mean on the migration.
I keep telling people it's behind when people up way
up north saying there's still shooting blue wings two weeks ago,
and that's that's. That shows what's going on. And uh,
I'm expected to continue to pick up and our guy's
going to be steadily shooting birds later.

Speaker 5 (15:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
If the real if the general duck season, the real
duck season was nine days like teal season was, I'd
be really really worried right now. But we got a
long road to ho here, don't we.

Speaker 4 (15:22):
Well, Yeah, muths to go good.

Speaker 1 (15:25):
I'm so glad to hear that.

Speaker 2 (15:26):
Now, when do you think, uh, well, we got a
pretty bright moon coming up and we still got some
cold air up north. Do you think that the birds
will Is that going to be cold enough to push
them down? Or do we still need something else since
they got those little manny petty spas up there with
the warm water and all that garbage.

Speaker 4 (15:44):
Well, I think you always have what we call calendar
birds that always move at a certain time of the
year just they just know. It's just in their bloodline,
I guess, and they just say time to go. And
then there's others that just hang out, and I think
then the cold weather pushes those. But our calendar birds,
it's usually starting to come. We're starting to see them.
It's just a phenomenon that we're laid on blue wings even.

Speaker 1 (16:06):
Yeah, it really is.

Speaker 5 (16:08):
So.

Speaker 1 (16:09):
I know you had a well go down yesterday'd you
get it fixed up?

Speaker 4 (16:12):
And now yet we got to get some parts nothing
dry shafts when they break they broke the ears off
on the motor side.

Speaker 2 (16:19):
Oh no, oh man, It's just it's just a fun
part of being a waterfowl outfit, or isn't it.

Speaker 4 (16:27):
Oh yes, sir, people have no idea the amount of
work and stuff goes on, you know, fixing levees or
building new levees, water boxes, pumping water radiators, going out
on the wells, you know, and then it just takes
you a nuts for four or five days before you
can get it up and running again.

Speaker 2 (16:42):
It's it's kind of a chess game if you if
you make one move with all the water you have
to manage you if you make one move and you
put water, well, let's put a bunch of water over here,
and and then the next morning you will wake up
and there was a pretty good thunderstorm came through there
and bust it out of levee. Now the rain water's gone,
and so is all that water you pumped over there.

Speaker 4 (17:04):
Huh Oh yes, sir. It can happen overnight. That's why
you've got to have water boxes in like we put
it in to make sure that it can overflow properly.

Speaker 1 (17:13):
Thrill them inute, isn't it?

Speaker 3 (17:14):
Dude?

Speaker 4 (17:15):
Oh it's a thriller minute. You got that right though.

Speaker 2 (17:18):
Now, Look, I know you've got tons of linds out there.
I know you've got tons of water out there.

Speaker 1 (17:23):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (17:23):
Do you shut off membership on opening day or will
you still take some more people if they want to
come jump in.

Speaker 4 (17:30):
Oh, we can still take more people, and we've got
discounts right now. We probaded everything out looking like four
hundred dollars off right now because they missed. Do you
know this opening weekend and pial season.

Speaker 1 (17:39):
That's a nice way to put it. Yeah, yeah, you
didn't get to do that. Yeah, give them a deal.
I like that a lot.

Speaker 2 (17:46):
Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna find a way to get
out there. I really want to come hunt with you.
There's two or three guys I want to hunt with
this season for sure. And I didn't make as many
duck hunts as I wanted last year, but one time,
I'm gonna make with you out there at some point.

Speaker 5 (17:58):
Oh good, I want me to have you out there.

Speaker 2 (18:01):
Call me when the pintails show up. Man, I was
just talking right before we came on. That's my favorite
duck of all time. I'm an old prairie rat, you know.
And I don't know how many pintails I killed over
rags or decoys or whatever, but just seeing them ball
up way up high and then just work their way
down that really gets my blood boiling.

Speaker 4 (18:20):
Man, we got a place for that. We'll go out
about twelve or fourteen dozen pintail decoys and they come
in by the waves, just non stop down the south
and I mean sometimes a thousand at a time, and
you just set them go. Which one do I want
to show them up? Yeah, I'll wait for the next one. Now,
I'll wait for the one. He's probably got a better

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tail on him or something.

Speaker 2 (18:41):
You know, here's a challenge, okay for both of us.
Get down there, and this is in fantasy land for
me for pintails. We get down there and the pintails
start balling up on top, and you get to look
while I hold my gun once, and then I'll look
while you hold your gun once. And as the shooter,
all you can do is just hold your gun straight
up in the air, and then the shot caller just

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has to say now and you pull the trigger, and
we'll see if.

Speaker 1 (19:08):
We can get a duck to fall. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:11):
Yeah, you know it might be possible without even looking.

Speaker 4 (19:17):
We've done it before.

Speaker 5 (19:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:19):
Well, I actually took out I think it was four
four clean kill and one boogered up Teal once during
Teal season. I had a guy in my spread and
we were getting really close on how many ducks we
could have, and all this is back when the limit
was pretty generous still too, And I said, look, man,
let's lay off these teal. And just as I'm kind

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of making this speech about laying off the teal and
waiting for some, you know, bigger groups of pintails, he
sees a bunch come rolling through and he swings his
gun out, shoots once, and stacks five ducks into our bag.

Speaker 1 (19:51):
You're like, oh, great, way to go, dude.

Speaker 2 (19:54):
Yeah, they do give you a shot. We'll see how
it happens. So what's down here now?

Speaker 4 (20:00):
Oh, we got a little of everything. We had people
shooting wigion, Yes, pintails today, a couple of gadwalls. Mostly
it was green wings gesture, but more today it was
more blue wings. And I went, okay, said a step up.
But I haven't seen very many divers yet on the prairie,

(20:20):
I mean more yes, but they shot a few divers, yes,
in a few places we have, And I went, well,
that's that's a plus.

Speaker 2 (20:27):
Just kind of moving through, I think those divers are
you know, they're hanging out with their buddies. Let me
ask you this, how what are the conditions or are
there really conditions late late in the season. I know
it's starter, but when we might even get green heads
out on that Eagle Lake prairie.

Speaker 4 (20:44):
They here probably to the first part of December or
after they start showing up. There's one place out the
west that we have or north of Eagle Lake, and
it's known that if there's any green heads around, they'll
be out there. It's year after yearly shoot them there.
That's something thirty years ago they were out in that
area and we diden't hunting that same spot area, and

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you know that's where we expect them.

Speaker 1 (21:09):
Yeah, you know that.

Speaker 2 (21:09):
It's really interesting because the same when I was guiding,
there were there were maybe three or four places where
if somebody just just really just couldn't stand it and
really wanted to go hunt green heads, you may or
may not get them, but if you were going to
get them, it was going to be in one of
those places. And the random one will come through with
with other ducks on the on the prairie, even over

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a rag's bed or something.

Speaker 1 (21:31):
But that's like a one in a bazillion right so far,
I'm getting so fired up about shooting ducks. How about
have you heard any gear?

Speaker 2 (21:39):
I had two guys email me to tell me they
heard geese flying over. Now they they don't live inside
the loop, okay, they live out kind of toward your way.

Speaker 1 (21:47):
But have you heard any yet.

Speaker 4 (21:49):
I haven't heard anybody. I've seen some specs. They landed
in one of my water holes, right. We just not
completely pumped up yet. They're sitting in the rice and
they're comfortable. I've just drove by them and they look
at me and not drive by them again. They just
look at it. They're not even flying off.

Speaker 1 (22:03):
They recognize your truck. It's probably a fourth or fifth
trip down here, man.

Speaker 4 (22:06):
Maybe more, yeah, maybe, But they just comfortable out there.
And I mean they did pick up a couple of
different times throughout the day because I had to keep
going by and checking water and shutting games off for
water control. And they pick some of them picked fly around,
come right back down.

Speaker 5 (22:21):
They wasn't.

Speaker 4 (22:22):
They're comfortable, and that's what I want. I want the
geese to get in there. Nothing attracts birds like other birds.

Speaker 1 (22:29):
Put a little welcome matt out for him, do.

Speaker 4 (22:30):
You, yes, sir, come on down, give them a little
a little popcorn or something.

Speaker 2 (22:36):
You know huh, if only that were legal. Don't be
throwing horn out there, David, Holy cow man.

Speaker 4 (22:44):
No, we got to play by the rules, Yes, sir,
there's other people that don't, and I can't afford a
fifty thousand dollars finds if someone else can't go ahead
and try it.

Speaker 1 (22:53):
M Yeah, more power to you.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
It's so much easier to just play by the rules
and enjoy hunting for hunting. You know, it's great that
people talk about how many ducks they shot, what kind
of ducks they shot, geese and cranes and all quailed doves, whatever.
But the bottom line is being out there is just fun.
It is, and it didn't bother me. It bothered me

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a little bit for the people who had traveled here
from really far and maybe didn't have good hunts, but
for people who are local around here and can hunt
often and can get on places like yours, where hey,
if it looks like a good duck day and I
can take a day off of work, let's go. It's
just going. That's probably seventy five percent of it for me.
What's on the strap at the end is maybe maybe

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fifteen percent, and the other ten or whatever's left over
is just crawling out of bed and seeing a sunrise.

Speaker 4 (23:47):
Oh yeah, that's seeing the sunrise. It's ever the same,
enjoying the camaraderie the blind with your friends and even
someone need that you've never met before, becoming friends. It's
those memories that's what may the hunt, you know, the
total part of it. In the end, I would like
to shoot ducks just like anybody else. In full straps

(24:08):
are great, But some of my best memories are you know,
quarter limits, And still won't get that out of my mind.
What happened that day, the friendships, the stories that was told,
and we still talk about it today, you know, fifteen
twenty years later, we're still talking about that one particular hunt.

Speaker 1 (24:23):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (24:23):
But I don't remember talking about the full limit hunts
so much.

Speaker 2 (24:27):
You know, you talked about making new friends. Back when
I first got into waterfowl hunting. I got a membership
with oh Lyles Jordan. You remember that. You remember Lyle
for sure, and Lyle's out there. He had everybody come
out to his place in town there and he'd put
these little rings on where you were going to go hunt.
It was just in hindsight, it was very rudimentary. It

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was very fundamentally, but it worked. It was a system
that worked, and a lot of times there would be
like maybe I'd be the only guy from my group
and there'd be two guys over here and two guys
over there, and all of us wanted to go goose
hunting that day, but not a one of us could
put out a decent spread by themselves. And you just
jump in with a bunch of other people, and by
the time you got through with a hunt, you knew

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who they were, you know about their family, you know
what they did for a living. And I made a
lot of really good friends, and some of them I'm
still friends with today just by doing that.

Speaker 1 (25:21):
It was so much fun. Man.

Speaker 4 (25:24):
Oh yeah, that's lasting relationships. Is the Waterfowling is a
rich heritage, nothing like any other huntings board out there.
It's where the community gets together and you look back
at the decoys it was made and the calls it
was made in the progress up to the day, and yeah,
it's a richer heritage and a deer hunting it honestly is.

(25:46):
And I admire that, and I admire the people that's
gone out there and made the new progresses for us
have to help us become better hunters. You know, so
what we didn't have YouTube back then. You know what
we learned now there's that to help other hunters learn
a little bit better about the calling. But the most
thing put the call in your pocket, your shut up.

Speaker 1 (26:07):
Hame into that.

Speaker 2 (26:08):
And you know, one of the things that's very different
about waterfowling as opposed to deer hunting is that you
in a waterfowl hunting situation, unless there are birds right overhead,
pretty much you can cut up, you can tell jokes,
you can throw dirt clods at each other, whatever you
want to do to pass the time, just just whatever.

(26:29):
Whereas if you're sitting in a deer stand, even if
it's with your best friend and you've got lots of
stuff to talk about, you kind of.

Speaker 1 (26:35):
Got to be quiet. And that you don't have to
do that in the field. I like that.

Speaker 4 (26:41):
Oh yeah. And then and the thing is, you know,
whoever started this stuff on TV and videos of just
shot a deer, They just shot it with a raffle
and woke up the whole forest and they're still going deer.
What does it matter?

Speaker 1 (26:56):
That's very good.

Speaker 4 (26:57):
It wove up the world, celebrate and that's what you
see in seeing guys doing high fives and shouting.

Speaker 5 (27:02):
Yeah, we got them.

Speaker 1 (27:03):
You know.

Speaker 4 (27:04):
That's the part of the camaraderie that's in a waterfowling
world that exists today. And especially when a little kid
shoots his first duck or he got to eat his
dad let him blow the call and the duck come in. Surprisingly,
even though how good or how dad he called and
they raised up and shot him, that memory will last
forever and that kid's life because you celebrated with him.

Speaker 1 (27:26):
That's a very good point. It's a whole different world,
isn't it. Hunting is hunting.

Speaker 2 (27:30):
Any anybody who's a licensed hunter, that's my buddy right there.
If you bought the license, if you're playing by the rules,
then we're all on the same team.

Speaker 3 (27:40):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (27:40):
But some of this stuff, especially the TV stuff and
the in the YouTube stuff, it gets a little bit
dramatic and theatrical.

Speaker 1 (27:49):
For me, it just does.

Speaker 4 (27:51):
They're way too far gone. I mean, it's uh. And
they show only on the videos you'll see limit hunts
and fashion. They don't people on the like us watching
the video unless you've been there and done that and
been with them. Where I have had the opportunities that
may be a five day hunt and crammed into one video.

(28:11):
Oh yeah, and so it looks good you know the scenes,
but you know, in reality, just to go go out
there and enjoy the sports that we have while we
still have it.

Speaker 1 (28:22):
It'd be really hard.

Speaker 2 (28:24):
It'd be really hard to watch duck and goose hunting
on TV if they just turned on a camera at
shooting time and then turned it off when they started
picking up decoys.

Speaker 1 (28:33):
That would be really boring for a long time.

Speaker 4 (28:35):
Would it, Yes, sir, We've been programmed to think that
every hunt's got to be a limit, and it's not. No,
it got back to what you just said. It's all
about the fun and the memories.

Speaker 1 (28:46):
Yes, sir, it's about the limit.

Speaker 2 (28:48):
How can people find you and get this discounted entry
into what I'm really confident it's going to be a
good season.

Speaker 4 (28:55):
Man.

Speaker 1 (28:55):
What do you what do you need them to do?
Call you to come out there or what?

Speaker 4 (29:00):
Call me? Uh at nine three six eight two seven
two four one three Rice Land Waterfight Club. I'll be
happy to meet them, talk to them about them showing
us some stuff, what we're doing and where we're even
still pumping water for the next two weeks. We're going
to be still pumping water and gaining as the season
of progresses for more places.

Speaker 1 (29:17):
You've been doing this for fifty years. You got to
be doing something right, hih David.

Speaker 4 (29:21):
I guess so everybody says, all right.

Speaker 1 (29:24):
Man, i'm let's let's talk in a week or so.

Speaker 2 (29:27):
I've got a full plate this week, but let's talk
soon at least about setting something up. And unless it's
pouring down rain, I'm coming. I don't care about blue
scot I don't mind blue skyt all. That's that's fine
by me.

Speaker 4 (29:42):
But we kill more birds on the blue Sky's that
people don't understand it.

Speaker 1 (29:45):
But now you're letting secrets out, man, don't tell everybody?
All right, all right David, Hey, great, great talking to
you man.

Speaker 4 (29:53):
Yeah, so you have a good appitite right.

Speaker 1 (29:54):
You too? Audio later?

Speaker 2 (29:57):
All right, that's David Pruett from Riceland Waterfowl Club. You
can look it up online. He's been out. He's literally
owned and operated that company. Once he got out of
high school. His parents had other plans for him, but
he wanted to get into the waterfowl hunting business and
he did and that was fifty years ago.

Speaker 1 (30:14):
Fifty years ago. He kind of knows the stuff.

Speaker 2 (30:16):
I rode around with him for the better part of
two maybe two and a half hours, him and one
of the guys who works for him, and really saw
how he manages the land he hunts, how he manages
the water he has on that property. And it's no
wonder he's been in business for fifty years. And nobody's perfect.
Nobody's perfect, especially in an operation where your product can

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just pack up and leave if it wants to. They've
got a grocery store in town where the loaves of
bread can just take wing and fly out the door
and suddenly there's no more bread. But that can happen
out there, and sometimes it does. Cayok, come along, eagle
comes along, runs the birds out for a day or
maybe an hour or two whatever. But get out there

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and put in a season with somebody who has as
much property and as much water as they've got out there.

Speaker 1 (31:10):
I suspect you might want to go back again.

Speaker 2 (31:12):
Well, speaking of going back again, Timber Creek Golf Club
down there in Friends with FM twenty three fifty one,
great place.

Speaker 1 (31:18):
I've been down there.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
I don't know how many times I've played down there
so much fun. They got those twenty seven holes, so
you can kind of mix and match. You're eighteen now
they have there's a method to the madness. You can't
just arbitrarily go I'll be I'll play two, four, six, eight,
and ten on this court or nine in this course,
and then play the even numbers or odd numbers on

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the other nine.

Speaker 1 (31:41):
No, you can't do that.

Speaker 2 (31:42):
The what you can do is go down there, and
if you go a few times, you're gonna end up
having played all twenty seven holes, and then you'll start
developing some little favorites and say, hey, man, can you
get me out on this course or can you get
me out on that nine.

Speaker 1 (31:56):
I love going down there.

Speaker 2 (31:57):
They've got great food too, by the way, and a
fine teaching staff run by a guy named JJ Woods
in that ten building adjacent to the very generous practice range.
Great place to run tournament if you've got to raise
some money for a good South Houston cause.

Speaker 1 (32:11):
Great place to just go.

Speaker 2 (32:12):
If look outside and see the weather we're looking at
now and think, you know what, all my chores are done,
My clubs are in the car, I'll be back, run
out there and head down to timber Creek timber Creek
Golf Club dot com.

Speaker 1 (32:24):
That's timber Creek Golf Club dot com.

Speaker 2 (32:32):
Nine on Sports Talk seven to ninety The Doug Pike Show,
Thank you for listening. I was thinking about how slow
yesterday was for waterfowl hunters, most of them anyway. And
there is good news. There's always good and bad news
in anything that happens. The good news, if you had
a really really slow hunt yesterday and you didn't go
this morning, you probably got plenty of shells left over

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to make your next hunt, unless you're just a horrible
shot and you ripped out three every time a bird
flew in the county.

Speaker 1 (33:06):
It takes a long.

Speaker 2 (33:07):
Time to become a good waterfowl hunter shooting wise. And
even if you're going to the range, you're shooting a
lot of trap and skied or sporting clays or whatever.
It's just different when there's five or six of you
crammed into a blind and there's a guide, and there's
a dog, and there's all kinds of other stuff, other distraction.

Speaker 1 (33:30):
Let's make sure you keep it safe with you. Yeah,
at least you got plenty of amma.

Speaker 2 (33:35):
There were several people probably yesterday, maybe in this audience,
and if you're one of them and you want to
talk about it, if you didn't fire a shot yesterday
on opening day.

Speaker 1 (33:45):
A duck season, I'd be curious. Let's go get Dave
on and then we'll move on from there. Hey, Dave,
what's up man?

Speaker 3 (33:53):
Well, hindsight is twenty twenty. You know our baseball players,
you know, I'm proud of them. They didn't do it,
but it's okay. But I own knives safety, you know,
sharp knife and uh, you know, always cut away from you.
Could you elaborate on that?

Speaker 2 (34:13):
That's pretty easy. You don't you don't drag that knife
toward you. Especially First of all, the safest knife you
can have is the sharpest knife you can get, because
that knife is going to do its job without having
to exert excess force to get it through whatever you're
trying to cut. So you got to keep your knives sharp.

(34:34):
And just like you said, you always cut away from
you and not toward you, no matter what it is
you're trying to cut, no matter how you're doing it.
And I think the third one, maybe Dave, that you
use the correct blade for the job because you don't
want to be trying to You don't want to be
trying to carve up a deer with a filet knife. Uh,

(34:54):
And there's you know, I mean, think about that, that flexible,
super flexible blade like that that is gonna hit hard
things going through parts of that deer and maybe bend
and then reflects away and end up getting you cut somehow.

Speaker 1 (35:10):
Just get the right knife for the job.

Speaker 2 (35:11):
Boy, We're just about to just roll right into a
phoenix knive spot, aren't we.

Speaker 1 (35:15):
Holy cow?

Speaker 3 (35:17):
Well anyway, no, hey, and I love it whenever I
saw those guys over there with that thing with the
hook on it and they just put that deer up
there and boom boom boom.

Speaker 1 (35:27):
Oh yeah, people.

Speaker 2 (35:29):
Who do that kind of for a living and who've
done it for a very long time. Whether it's at
a processing house, it's at a ranch somewhere, a big
high you know, beautiful high end ranch somewhere. You got
the same guy out there dressing out deer. It's amazing
to watch them. They're like surgeons at high speed. They

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are making very specific, very calculated cuts and taking care
of business and taking care of business, and before you
can blink, your deer is all quartered out. And back
in the cooler, got the tags with it, got the
antlers taped to the top of it, and off you go.

Speaker 1 (36:07):
Just amazing, you know what.

Speaker 3 (36:09):
And and those young guys, the guys that are doing it,
and the old guys that know how to do it. Man,
they're champions.

Speaker 1 (36:16):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (36:17):
I mean, sure, they need to have a champion. They
need to have a deer cutting contest.

Speaker 1 (36:23):
You know, that would be pretty interesting. Here's the dealer.

Speaker 2 (36:27):
You couldn't do it during deer season because the guys
who were the best at that are employed full time
during deer season. They're busy. They don't have time for
a contest. They don't need another belt buckle.

Speaker 4 (36:37):
Man.

Speaker 1 (36:38):
Yeah, that would be pretty.

Speaker 3 (36:39):
Cool, but it would be silver.

Speaker 1 (36:42):
Oh yeah, you know it had to be all right.

Speaker 3 (36:45):
He let me give you a quick uh lake conro
is real sick. I got, I mean slick, and I
got two guys over here on some boats over here
behind me that are fishing around for bath.

Speaker 1 (36:59):
Oh man, all right, all right, man, I'll see day audios. Buddy.

Speaker 2 (37:06):
Oh boy, you know that would be interesting. I don't
know how you would judge a deer dressing. Fuel dressing competition.
I guess you just start with a whole deer somewhere
and ready said go. But I do know some people.
I know some people who are most people are probably
better at it than I am right now, it's been

(37:27):
a hot minute since I had to do that. Uh,
some people are a lot better than the people who
are a little better than me.

Speaker 1 (37:36):
And then they are the.

Speaker 2 (37:37):
Guys who, like I said, who do it for a living,
someplace like Belleville Meat Market anyplace else that processes deer
all through hunting season. These are, whether they have the
credential or not, they're full fledged butcher's and they can.
They can get every ounce of meat off that bone
and do it quickly. Pretty amazing to watch the process.

(37:59):
Seven one three you're ready two one two five seven
ninety Email me Dugpike at iHeartMedia dot com. Speaking of
Bellville Meat Market, here is the latest from out there.
They are taking reservations, taking orders, not reservations, not a restaurant,
taking orders for those pecan smoke turkeys they're gonna have,
and man are they delicious. They average about eleven twelve

(38:21):
thirteen pounds somewhere in there and will amply feed ten
to twelve people. Really delicious turkeys from Bellville Meat Market.
You would expect nothing less.

Speaker 1 (38:32):
They have those.

Speaker 2 (38:33):
Homemade stuffed pork tender loins as well, Jalapeno cream cheese,
sweet chipotle cream cheese, dirty rice, boot and stuff pork chops.
They got pansauce at your boot in there, and these
those delicious Labuchery stuffed chickens. Wild game processing year round technically,

(38:54):
but right now they have a three lane access to
that building they built specifically for deer season deer processing
a while back, several years ago now.

Speaker 1 (39:05):
And all you do is drive up.

Speaker 2 (39:07):
Somebody's gonna come running out there with a cart, Get
all that meat out of your truck or suv or
whatever it is.

Speaker 1 (39:13):
They're gonna take it inside.

Speaker 2 (39:14):
You follow them in there, you will be handed a
menu that looks like something out of who knows where,
got every imaginable cut, every imaginable seasoning, whether you want sausage,
whether you want burgers, whatever you want, They're gonna take
care of it for you and then give you options
of things that you probably don't even know exist with

(39:36):
what you can do with a deer unless you've been
around it a long time and there's some really good
stuff dry stick. If you ever have any extra drystick,
by the way, just call me let me know. I'll
give you my address. You shoot it all over to me,
I'll get rid of it for you. I love dress stick.
Bellville Meat Market about fifteen minutes north Sealy, fifteen minutes
south of Hempstead on Highway thirty six.

Speaker 1 (39:57):
If you can't get out there, by the way.

Speaker 2 (39:59):
When you out there, you can get a full barbecue
meal ten am to seven pm every day, seven days
a week. Just in case you didn't know. You don't
have to eat on the way there. You don't have
to plan to stop and eat on the way back.
You just eat right there at Belleville meat Market. You're
absolutely gonna love it. Or you can have it all
shipped to your house. They'll do that too. Belleville Meatmarket
dot Com is a website. Belleville meat Market dot Com

(40:24):
nine fifty two on Sports Talk seven ninety The Dugpike Show,
Thank you for listening.

Speaker 1 (40:28):
I certainly do appreciate it. Frankie just told me about
a guy named Bob.

Speaker 2 (40:31):
Who called to say he liked the show and in
recognition of hunting season, it reminds me of a very old,
very tired joke. So if you've already heard it, apologies,
but I don't think I've ever told this one on air.
So this little kids walking through town and there's a
he goes by the feed store and there's this old

(40:51):
rancher out there. He got his dogs in the truck,
and the kids walking by, and the dogs all just
kind of turn and look at him, and they're pointers.
They're in the back of the guy's truck. And the
guy looks at the kids, says, what are you doing
to my dog? Why are they looking at you? You got
bacon in your pockets or something? He goes, No, Then,

(41:12):
when you're around from around here, have you been have
you been messing with any of the animals back at
your family farm or anything?

Speaker 1 (41:19):
Nope?

Speaker 2 (41:20):
Well, why are these dogs just standing there and just
staring at you and not doing anything else?

Speaker 1 (41:25):
Sas what's your name? Kid? He said, Bob? He said Bob?
What he said, Bob White? You get it, Frankie.

Speaker 2 (41:33):
The quail dogs looking at the kid, realizing his name
was Bob White like the quail You're so you're not
much of a hunter, are you. It's okay, Like I
told you no, I told you, like I said, it's okay,
you don't have to hunt. But and I messed that
joke up because I haven't even heard it or seen

(41:53):
it or read it or anything in probably thirty years.
But it just the original version was way better. And
I apologize, I work on it. If you're going to
tell anybody else work on it, look it up and
find the original, because it really it flows much much better.

Speaker 1 (42:12):
That was just kind of a wing and a prayer,
and I think I just just wrecked the whole ship.

Speaker 2 (42:20):
Oh well, fishing has held its own. By the way,
there's no golf to talk about. Really, these guys are
finally taking a few weeks off. I don't know when
the next event is. I haven't even looked at the
PGA Tour schedule. I know there was nothing this weekend
that I saw anyway that.

Speaker 1 (42:35):
The geezers like me. The Tour Champions.

Speaker 2 (42:39):
That was interesting by the way that they changed that
name from the Senior Tour to Tour Champions, and what
it did was kind of TikTok.

Speaker 1 (42:48):
The game is locked out.

Speaker 2 (42:50):
Some people who now have to jump through bigger hoops,
bigger flaming hoops to get any kind of access to
that to that field on any given weekend. I understand
to some degree that they wanted to make sure that
just wasn't some random guy who went to a qualifier

(43:11):
on Monday and found his way in. They wanted the
names on the marquee and on the leader boards and
even all the way down the leader boards to be
at least somewhat recognizable and have some sort of credentials.
But I still kind of liked the idea of having
someone who Now you couldn't just open it up to

(43:31):
anybody and everybody for qualifying, but if you opened it
up to people who were older than fifty and also
carried a legitimate from the tips handicap of maybe say
five or lower, then have a little qualifier and have

(43:52):
maybe the first or the best qualifying two dozen people
go play a quick round on Monday and then maybe
work their way into the tournament.

Speaker 1 (44:01):
I wouldn't mind seeing that.

Speaker 2 (44:02):
I would love that would be the underdog story of
underdog stories, to have somebody go in there and beat
the likes of those guys who are out there now
ripping it up still at in relative seniority in the
name of golf or in the game of golf.

Speaker 1 (44:18):
I remember finding out.

Speaker 2 (44:19):
That the mid am the midam. I was thinking when
I was in my late thirties early forties, Oh, man,
if I could, if I won the lottery, I'd play
a lot of golf and try to get better and
maybe see if I could even compete for some mid
am amateur if I could be competitive. But when I
found out that that starts at twenty five years old.

(44:42):
If I'm not mistaken something like some outrageously barely out
of school age, they consider you middle aged in golf.

Speaker 1 (44:50):
No way.

Speaker 2 (44:51):
I can't compete with those guys. I never could, never will,
but I'd like to. I'm a dreamer and I work
on my game. I was out a couple of days
ago working on short game, and it's getting better. But
the progress with these little shots that I'm trying to
to get just ingrained in my head and my hands

(45:12):
and my hips and all of that. They're very precise,
and I'm not all that precise yet. For some reason,
I need to get in front of Tommy O'Brien again.
There was something I did want to talk about, and
I'll do it when we get back from this break.
I'm gonna go to it fairly soon seven seven ninety.

(45:32):
By the way, if you want to jump in and talk, uh, Bob,
why I don't know why you don't want to talk
to us, man, There are I have had several people
say this over the years, Frankie, A lot of people.
They'll call and do exactly what Bob did. Hey, man,
I like the show, but I don't want to go
on the air. I don't know why. There's nothing to
be scared of. It's just you talking to me, and
then there's a few people listening, and maybe you'll inspire

(45:54):
somebody else to call. Maybe you'll inspire a question somebody
wants to ask.

Speaker 1 (45:59):
Maybe I can get you to tell me.

Speaker 2 (46:01):
Your best outdoor story, or if you have no outdoor stories,
what brings you here. The highest compliment I get paid,
honestly because of what I talk about, and I'm very
I take it very seriously.

Speaker 1 (46:16):
I'm not joking around here.

Speaker 2 (46:17):
But the highest compliment I get is when somebody calls
or emails or texts me and says, you know, I
don't hunter fish, but I like your show. That tells
me I'm really doing my job because most of the
time I spend talking about hunting and fishing and the outdoors.
And for someone who doesn't do that on a regular

(46:40):
basis to tolerate me in whatever I'm saying is pretty
comforting to me. That's one of the reasons I keep
jumping out of bed at the crack of down. It
was nice this morning, though, for the first time since
daylight savings time. It's kind of nice to get up
and drive to work on a Sunday in broad daylight.

Speaker 1 (47:00):
That was different. That was very different, all right, So.

Speaker 2 (47:05):
When we get back and go into next segment, what
I want to know is everybody in this audience probably
knows that I'm not a big fan of flashlights at all, Okay,
especially for and I'll tell you why when we get back.
But what I want to know, and I own several
of them, but they're very specific times and reasons I'll

(47:27):
pull a flashlight out of the bag, and they're not
the ones you would think of. I'm talking about hunting trips,
basically talking about hunting trips. What flashlight do you want?
You want batteries? Do you want rechargeable? Do you want
big broadbeam? Do you want different settings? Do you want
different filters for that light? What's your ideal hunting bag, flashlight,

(47:52):
and I want to find out because I got a
couple of ideas.

Speaker 5 (47:55):
On my own.

Speaker 2 (47:55):
I'll tell you about them when we get back on
the way out. American Shooting Centers out there at West
Timber Park between Katie and Highway six outstanding place to
go shoot your guns, whatever guns you have.

Speaker 1 (48:05):
There are ten trap and skeet fields. There are three
sporting place courses. There are five stands setups. There's a
beginner's wing shooting area. There's a pop up silhouette range
for rim fire shooting where the kids and you can
go out there and blink blink, blink blink those little
targets all the way out to two hundred and fifty yards,
which is way far for a rim fire rifle, but

(48:26):
it's still kind of fun to try. All of that's
out there, plus instruction in every shooting discipline. There is.
All you gotta do is go out there.

Speaker 2 (48:37):
You got to sign up, register up, and then you
will be treated to enjoying the shooting sports however you'd like.
The rifle and pistol goes from five yards all the
way out to six hundred yards.

Speaker 1 (48:49):
It's all out there for you. You just have to.

Speaker 2 (48:51):
Go and then under get to know how user friendly
the place is now. Rifle and pistol treated traditionally, but
the clay targets you don't have to wait for. Some
kid just scrambled out of bed and got up there
to start his shift pulling targets for people. No, there
is a mechanism in place now where you put coins

(49:12):
into the slot and you get to pull your own
targets as many from any station you want until they're
all expired, and just buy a few coins. Get out
there and shoot them up and have a good time
and get better at shooting in again. If you're not
getting any better, get some instruction. There are plenty of
people out there who know exactly what they're doing. A

(49:32):
great fun place, safe place to enjoy the shooting sports.
American Shooting Centers dot Com is a website. Go there,
check it out.

Speaker 1 (49:41):
American Shootingcenters dot Com. Now here's Doug Pike.

Speaker 2 (49:48):
All right, second hour starts right now. This clock on
the walls driving me crazy. I don't know why it
didn't roll over automatically back an hour to ditch daylight
saving time, which is fine by me.

Speaker 1 (50:01):
I guess no more.

Speaker 2 (50:02):
Afternoon golf, though I can barely get out of here
by about one point thirty, but at least one o'clock
is hard to even make out after fifty plus during
the week, and by the time I get anywhere else
it'll be two o'clock.

Speaker 1 (50:14):
And even if I just tee it up right out of.

Speaker 2 (50:16):
The trunk, I'm looking at not enough time to finish
around of golf. So I'll do a lot of practicing.
Maybe I'll get better. Who knows. I'm gonna put the
flashlight thing on pause for a minute because I got
something from Mark all the way over in Georgia. That's
where he listens from. Thank you Mark, I appreciate that,
reading from his email. According to the National Autumn Society

(50:40):
and Clemson University in a twenty twenty one research study,
where winter temperatures over the last fifty years have continued
to arrive later and have been milder at the start
of the winter season, causing migration to occur later. The study,

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they also documented that along the or the migratory corridor,
because of a change in farming habits in the last
twenty five years. Yeah, see, I think in parentheses it
would it would show see Katie prairie where farmers. Now,
this is a different thing though than development and concurrent

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to development of our prairies down here up north, here's
what's going on where farmers leave waste grain on the
fields for biomass.

Speaker 1 (51:32):
Waterfowl stay to eat that grain.

Speaker 2 (51:35):
So they've got hot tubs, they've got a free buffet,
and they've really got no reason to fly down here
because they are all about conservation of energy. They're not
going to make it down here until it gets really
cold and they've eaten up everything they.

Speaker 1 (51:54):
Have to eat up there. The warm water, I don't
think will hold them.

Speaker 2 (51:58):
It's food eventually that will go ahead and push them
on down here. So it's just gonna take a little
more time. Basically, as Mark summarizes, they will continue to
migrate as always, but apparently you might want to plan
your waterfowl hunt several weeks later than before, which really

(52:18):
sets up something like one of these operations like David's,
like Riceland Waterfowl Club. You just take the first three
four weeks off and get a discount for not being
able to hunt on those days, and then jump in.
When the ducks get here. They will get here, there's
no question about it. They will get here. It's just
a question of when. Very interesting going back to the flashlight,

(52:42):
and that's from two years ago, three years ago, wait
twenty one at four years ago. Good heavens how time
flies just like a duck. Right, So back to the
flashlight thing real quickly. My opinion on flashlights on the
way to waterfowl blinds, and if you don't know what
I'm gonna tell you, I don't like them unless there's
zero moon, the sky's super cloudy and.

Speaker 1 (53:05):
You just can't see your hand in front of your face.

Speaker 2 (53:07):
Otherwise, if there's a break in the clouds, and if
there's starlight anywhere up there, if you just wait a minute,
after all the trucks are locked up, all their lights
are off, you can actually get your eyes, eyeballs opened up,
your irises opened up enough that you can see at
least well enough just to get to the deer stand

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or the duck blind or whatever. You can see the
ground at your feet, okay, so that you're not gonna
get tripped up by a limb or stepping in a
hole or something like that. And granted, a flashlight for
those who need it provides a little sense of security
for people who are scared of wild animals in the woods.

(53:51):
Where else would you find them at I've had people
tell me, yeah, there's no way a coyote's gonna come
attack me if I'm in a flashlight.

Speaker 1 (54:01):
Well, I've hunted a long time. I know a lot
of people who.

Speaker 2 (54:05):
Have hunted a long time, and I don't recall, although
I'm sure there's one or two out there, anybody who's
actually been attacked by a coyote on the way to
a deer stand. I had some kind of circle up
around me once down at the Somburrito many many years ago,
but they never got close enough to bother me. They

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sounded like they were in my pocket, but they weren't.
They were a little farther away. But I had them
on all four quadrants of me, so they clearly knew
I was there. And I'm at that point, I'm three
hundred yards from the jeep and I'm two hundred yards
from the stand. I was packing in long ways to

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make sure that I didn't make any noise and there
was nothing to spook the deer in there, and those
coyotes came and kind of checked me out, But that
was it. All those animals are gonna run. Mountain lion
is gonna run away from a flashlight or a wild hog.
You know it's gonna run away from that flashlight.

Speaker 1 (55:05):
Also the deer.

Speaker 2 (55:07):
And you start waving flashlights around if you're gonna carry
one to walk to your stand, at least don't raise
that beam up to where you shine it through the woods,
because if you shine it through the woods enough and
then stop every now and then you're gonna start hearing
things running away from you, not toward you. Two places
I feel like that flashlights come in handy, okay. One,

(55:31):
if you're standing over the edge of a sunken duck blind,
flashlight's a good thing to help you find that water
moccasin before it finds you or your dog when you
step in there.

Speaker 1 (55:42):
And two, up in the deer stand.

Speaker 2 (55:45):
Once you get to that box blind and you have
to climb up into a tree stand or a deer
stand or something, you might be able to use your
flashlight minimally, especially in a big box blind, to get
your rifle loaded properly without any fred or worry.

Speaker 1 (56:01):
To set your dear.

Speaker 2 (56:02):
Exactly how you want to set it on the floor
where you can reach your binoculars. You can reach if
your bow honey, you can reach your range finder or whatever.
But the long and the short of it is minimal light,
minimal noise. I know some guys who drive their hunters
out to the blinds on a pretty well managed hunting operation,

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and they think nothing about driving around these ranches with
their bright lights on so they can see deer with
They have no problem opening and closing doors like a
bunch of school kids jumping out to go to to
go to the ice cream parlor, just slamming doors everywhere
and making all this noise. And their logic is that

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the deer get used to it.

Speaker 1 (56:48):
I'm not so sure.

Speaker 2 (56:49):
I think what the deer get used to is knowing
that that means that there's somebody in that in that stand,
somebody at that location that might mean them harm. That's
the way I look at that Bill Carter again. That
guy taught me so much about deer hunting. He didn't
allow you to use headlights on any vehicle that was
being driven around that ranch down there in South Texas.

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If you couldn't see, if you couldn't let your eyes adjust,
And it was pretty easy because the roads were were
worked so there was no vegetation. It's not like you
had to drive across grassy fields somewhere and hope you
came out at the right spot on the other side.
But just no headlights and just silent, quiet movement down there.

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There were only two vehicles that and when even riding around,
two vehicles at one end of the ranch, one at
the other end, because this thing was like twelve or
fourteen miles long, and they had to feed the feeders
that got hunted, and they would start at each end.
They'd meet in the middle, say hide each other, good morning,
and then turn around and go back out a different way.

Speaker 1 (57:56):
And the only way you could even ride in.

Speaker 2 (57:59):
One of those feed vehicles, because those are the only
two humans he wanted those deer to see, was if
you were full face, mask, full camo gloves, everything. I
don't care if it's eighty degrees, I don't care if
it's twenty degrees. You're all covered up so that those
deer don't know you're a human. And I got some
awesome photographs out of those feed trucks too, only cow
That was kind of fun.

Speaker 1 (58:20):
They would just come running out.

Speaker 2 (58:22):
They not now, not the biggest ones, the older wiser
bucks lay back in the weeds a little bit, but
there were some pretty good animals came out of there.

Speaker 1 (58:30):
It was truly that was like.

Speaker 2 (58:35):
Graduate level deer hunting instruction from one of the best
to ever do it. Speaking of one of the best
air ride bikes up in Tomball, this is Wayne Arrington's baby,
and Wayne has.

Speaker 1 (58:49):
Got the store where you need to go.

Speaker 2 (58:52):
If you really want to get through the woods quietly,
go up there and look at one of those Troxi's
Explorer bikes.

Speaker 1 (58:58):
The Explorer Plus is a beast.

Speaker 2 (59:03):
It is one of two brands and several models that
he has available in the store that will get you
anywhere and everywhere on most any deer lease you could
possibly go to, even uphill and downhill with some pretty
significant elevation changes.

Speaker 1 (59:19):
It'll get you up and down the beach.

Speaker 2 (59:21):
If you want to use an e bike to race
up and down like say North Padre Island and try
to catch up with those fish when they tuck in really.

Speaker 1 (59:29):
Tight to the beach in the mornings. Oh, that an
awesome way to do that.

Speaker 2 (59:34):
And of course he's also got just more civilian bikes
if you will not outdoors type bikes he's got regular
e bikes that'll get you to the donut shop or
get you to the grocery store or whatever for little
short runs at pharmacy. And then he's got three wheeled
e bikes for those of us who are maybe not

(59:55):
quite so well balanced anymore as we used to be.
Moving into little bit of seniority now that big one
that Troxus is, like I said, it's really built for hunting,
and there's a rear rack that will carry up to
one hundred pounds of cargo. Got a really durable aluminum frame,
so it's pretty lightweight still. And it's got special lighting

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even integrated into it. We were talking about that you
can change the color of the light that's coming out
up front so that the deer can't even see it.
They just don't really recognize and it doesn't go blasting
through the woods. Go up there, it's right on tom
Ball Parkway. You can't miss it. Go up there to
air ride bikes and ask Wayne to show you round

(01:00:38):
and get after some silent movement through the woods. It's
a totally different way to hunt. It's very effective. You
got tons of range. Those things will run seventy eighty miles.
Nobody's going that far and you'll have a whole good time.
You can, by the way, use the bike to get
your deer out of there too. They're that strong. You
can put your deer and maybe one of your buddies.

(01:00:59):
If you've got two guys in the stand and you're
not giants, you can put two guys in one or
two deer back in that trailer and then you and
you and your buddy on the bike, and off you go,
get it back out to camp. Air ride Bikes. Air
ride bikes dot Com is the website A r r
i d E. This first part of his last name.

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That's where that comes from.

Speaker 1 (01:01:22):
A r r i d E. Air Ride Bikes dot Com.

Speaker 2 (01:01:33):
Ten on Sports Talk seven ninety Dougpike Show, Thank you
all for listening.

Speaker 1 (01:01:38):
I certainly do appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:40):
Got a couple of flashlight emails, some funnier than others,
none really serious. Come on, I was I was talking
to Frankie at the very beginning of the show about
possibly bringing up the Texas temperature game. But we can't
find the music that Trey put together, uh several years
ago for it. And once we find that, I think

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we'll bring it back up. I've got my buddy David
Preisler to give me some foursomes for golf up at
Oakhurst Golf Club, and that would be a pretty nice
prize for anybody who plays the game and likes to
study weather.

Speaker 1 (01:02:16):
What caught me as interesting just.

Speaker 2 (01:02:18):
A few minutes ago is when I was thinking about
check it in with him again on the game, is
how much the temper temperature has changed this morning. Already,
when we started the show, the low temperature in the
state of Texas was significantly lower than it is right now.
And this is an hour and a half in Junction.

(01:02:41):
The temperature has gone from thirty degrees to forty three degrees.
With forty three, that's that's doable for pretty much any
of us. It's not super cold, but thirty degrees. If
there's a breeze blowing, and I think, hang on, I've
got the wind. I can check it out. Let's see
what the wind's doing in Junction, Texas. Most of the

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wind up through the hill country and down our way
to within say fifty miles of the coast, single digits,
every one of them. Now, when you get on the coast,
it's a little bit different. There's a northeast that's humping
pretty good actually at Galveston. Yeah, the north jetty fourteen

(01:03:26):
miles an hour, over at Calcashoe Pass, fourteen miles an hour,
thirteen down at Plasius fourteen again at the around Corpus
fourteen also there and oh a sixteen. We have a
that's going to be the max, I think at the
Port Aransas Pier and several other places.

Speaker 1 (01:03:48):
A little farther down the coast.

Speaker 2 (01:03:50):
So the coast is still taking a whipping, but everything
inside of there, in this giant state of ours, is
pretty mild. I could sit in a block, I could
sit in the blind all day at forty three degrees,
and man, when that sunshine hits the back of your neck,
if you can still, if you can stay awake through that,
you can stay awake through anything. That's that's like taking

(01:04:13):
ambient for me in a deer stand on a chilli morning,
and then I open up a window to the sunnyside
and that sun hits the back of my neck. It's
it's all I can do. I could guzzle, I could
take a coffee IV.

Speaker 1 (01:04:32):
And probably not stay awake.

Speaker 2 (01:04:34):
By the way, where was I what I wanted to
talk about, oh, speaking of you, speaking of being in
in duck blinds or a deer stands and whatnot box blinds,
window is open, or wind is closed, wind is close
just to to a crack where you can just barely
see out and the deer can't see you inside. That's
that's been something that I've talked to a lot of

(01:04:55):
guys about. They have a lot of different opinions on it.
One thing I think works if you, depending on how
you've got your stands set up, if you can not
have to look through the east side where the sun's
gonna come up, leave that one closed and then go
ahead and let a little bit of light in through
the other three plenty to see where you need to see. Now,

(01:05:18):
there was one guy I knew years ago, And some
people don't like that idea. Some it's a very personal thing.
It's almost like fingerprints. Everybody's got an idea about what
would work for them best. But this one guy I
knew long time ago, probably thirty five years ago or
so somewhere in there. What he did is for every

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stand he has on his ranch, he has gone and
bought one of those styrofoam wig stands, okay, the ones
that you see if you've ever been at a wig
store or the wig department, or maybe in some place
it sells hats, they'll have those styrofoam heads, okay.

Speaker 1 (01:06:00):
And he would go and buy women's.

Speaker 2 (01:06:02):
Stockings in flesh tones, peel one over the top of
that thing, and then put a Halloween store wig on it.
There's a little bit of hair and a camouflage cap,
and stand that up in the middle of the stand,
right at window height, and leave all four windows wide

(01:06:24):
open all.

Speaker 1 (01:06:24):
Year round and come hunting season, he claimed.

Speaker 2 (01:06:29):
I never actually got to hunt with him, but he
showed me video and stuff of it. And he'd be
sitting right in the middle of a blind videoing these
deer around him, and they're looking up into the stand
and then looking back down and looking up and looking
down doesn't bother them at all because they've seen that
same shape all year round. They can't tell the difference
between him holding up a phone and the old styrofoam

(01:06:53):
with the stocking on it. That trick, so it worked
out well for him and everybody on his ranch, he said,
And just an amazing idea that I think still has merit.

Speaker 1 (01:07:05):
If you want to try it.

Speaker 2 (01:07:06):
Of course, then it may who knows, it may mess
up your hunt, and I don't want to do that.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety email
on me, Doug Plackett, iHeartMedia dot Com. Uh, I'll go
back to fishing for a minute and talk a little
bit about how it's It's holding up very well and
we're going into we're we're getting into some of the

(01:07:27):
best time of the year to be out on the bay,
best time to be on the lakes. And I wrestle
with that some because I still still love to hunt.
I still love to fish, and I don't get because
of my schedule now nearly as many opportunities. And in fact,
when I go back to my desk, I'm I'm making
a big note right here, right now byka shawan underline underline,

(01:07:50):
underline I'm gonna set aside some time because I've got
quite a bit. And at the beginning of this this year,
I looked back and realized that I had left ten
days on the table of vacation, ten days that I
could have just said, Okay, I'm out of here.

Speaker 1 (01:08:05):
I'm gonna go do something fun.

Speaker 2 (01:08:07):
And I don't want to do that this year, and
I'm I've set myself up for that same mistake. I'm
gonna take a little time off. So if you if
you turn on the program one weekend and you hear
something that sounds kind of familiar, it might be Frankie
might have pulled a good segment from one person or another,
a good interview, maybe something that I talked about that
made sense to him for repeating.

Speaker 5 (01:08:30):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:08:30):
Just you know that he's gonna do his best with
what I ever give him, what I give him to
work with to make it entertaining for you guys.

Speaker 1 (01:08:39):
But I'm gonna be in a field somewhere. I'm gonna
be in a blind. I'm gonna be wading down south.
I'm gonna be.

Speaker 2 (01:08:45):
Up running around with faux pro somewhere on one of
these lakes. He keeps telling me he wants to take
me to and I haven't been to yet. I'm gonna
put some put.

Speaker 1 (01:08:54):
Some miles on my tire.

Speaker 2 (01:08:55):
I got brand new tires this year, by the way,
and I had a very good experience where I went.

Speaker 1 (01:08:59):
If it to you, just email me and.

Speaker 2 (01:09:01):
I'll tell you that was and the I'll just tell
you this where I went I had to get the sensors,
the tire pressure sensors, all this electronic stuff. Now I
had to get all four tire pressure sensors. Well, I
only had one that had gone out, but the other
four or the other three were destined to go out soon.
There's my vehicle's just that old. So I went ahead

(01:09:25):
and called one place that was a little closer to home,
and they said, yeah, sure, we can replace those things
for you for one hundred and twenty dollars each. Really
one hundred and twenty dollars for those little sensors. And
all they do is tell you when your tires are
going low. As if you couldn't just walk around your
vehicle when you put it away in the evening or

(01:09:48):
when you go out to it in the morning and
see a low tire.

Speaker 1 (01:09:52):
That's the old school way.

Speaker 2 (01:09:54):
We carried a tire gauge in our cars, and if
we needed to check the pressure sure of a tire,
we just put the gauge on it, and then we
went to the gas station where air was still free
and filled her up if we needed to. Now, you
got to carry a roll of quarters with you. If
you got a leaky tire, you got issues anyway, instead

(01:10:15):
of one hundred and twenty dollars. I made another phone
call to another place, a place that had actually taken
very good care of my son when he had a
tire issue right after, very shortly after he got his
little truck that he drives now brand new truck had
a tire issue.

Speaker 1 (01:10:29):
Who knew?

Speaker 2 (01:10:31):
And the bottom line is they He had been told
at the dealership and at another tire store that they
had to replace the whole tire, that there's just no
way to save that tire. Sorry, too bad, it's new.
And he took it to a third place and they said, yeah,
we'll take.

Speaker 1 (01:10:45):
Care of that for you.

Speaker 2 (01:10:46):
They plugged it. It's never leaked so much as a
breath of air. And they didn't charge him a dying
for it. So I called those guys and I thanked
them for it, and I said, you know what, as
soon as I need tires on my vehicle, I'm coming
to your store. Ain'ts a little farther away from home.
But I went in there the other day. I got
a good deal on the tires and the four sensors

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I had to put in.

Speaker 1 (01:11:10):
Oh how much are those again?

Speaker 4 (01:11:12):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:11:12):
Yeah, they're sixty bucks apiece half the price of that
other place. And the guy who told me that higher
price than one twenty set it with a straight face,
look at me right in the eye. Yeah, they're one
hundred and twenty dollars apiece. As if I wouldn't find
them cheaper. Made one phone call, got him for half.
So if you want to know where that was, shoot
me an email seven one three two one two five

(01:11:33):
seven ninety email me Dougspick at ihartmedia dot com.

Speaker 1 (01:11:36):
Speaking of good deals.

Speaker 2 (01:11:38):
Kobe Stevens Golf Apparel, Slash Outdoors Apparel, Slash.

Speaker 1 (01:11:43):
For the whole family.

Speaker 2 (01:11:46):
Kobe's got it all basically, he he deals mostly in
golf apparel that'll make you look better than you are,
that'll make you feel like you're a better golfer than
you are.

Speaker 1 (01:11:55):
You just look.

Speaker 2 (01:11:56):
Just put on all your Kobe Stephens stuff and then
go look in the mirror and tell me you don't
look like a better golfer than you probably are. That's
what happens for me every time I put that stuff
on anyway, and I have enjoyed now wearing his gear
for the better part of two years at least maybe
a little bit more. I'm not sure exactly how much
how much time I've had to enjoy this stuff. He

(01:12:19):
also for you bigger fellas in the audience, offers these
shirts and shorts and all of this stuff. The shirts
he offers up to four x that's a pretty good
sized golfer and you can cover yourself. And it goes
all the way down through an entire women's line and
then to the kids. He's also got children's sizes, so

(01:12:42):
you can make sure the whole family looks like they're
better golfers than they are, or better fishermen they are.
He's got this good outdoor stuff coming in now, and
it's definitely worth a look.

Speaker 1 (01:12:53):
I was wearing a shirt yesterday.

Speaker 2 (01:12:54):
Actually, I went by a new tackle store and I
had on one of Kobe's shirts, and he's, guess they've
got a ton of clothing in this this store. I'll
be telling you a little bit more about it as
time goes on. And they kept looking at my shirt,
going like, where'd you get that? We're not familiar with
that brand, And I'm just gonna I'm just gonna let
that linger. I'm gonna let it linger. Then next time

(01:13:16):
I talk to him, I'll tell you I'll tell him
the guy who owns a store, where it comes from
and why he needs to have it in his store.
Kobe Stevens dot com. They've got a standalone store of
their own up in Spring. I'm happy to go in
there with you and look around sometime. If i'm up
that way, I need to go up there. I haven't
been in the store yet, but I'm told it's magnificent

(01:13:37):
if you want to see most of what they carry.

Speaker 1 (01:13:40):
Kobe Stevens dot Com.

Speaker 2 (01:13:42):
You probably won't see Kobe there though, because he'll be
out working a charity tournament somewhere, like he always is
when I try to get him.

Speaker 1 (01:13:48):
To go play golf. Kobe Stevens dot com, C B
Y S, T E V E N S. Kobe Stevens
dot com. All this talk about hunting's got me fired up.
I think I need to go by Carter's Country and
buy some more stuff. I don't even know what I
need to buy. I'll figure that out when I get there.
I was over by the Iten store just the other day.

Speaker 2 (01:14:07):
Or just yesterday, as a matter of fact, and Uh,
I wish I'd had more time to go in there
and talk to those guys. One guy, and just to
kind of give you an idea who they are and
what they do. There was a customer walking out the
store and he was headed to his car and one
of the guys who works they came running out behind
him and stopped him and said, hey, man.

Speaker 1 (01:14:27):
Hey, hey, you forgot your receipt. And it was a
simple little gesture.

Speaker 2 (01:14:32):
But I and this was a guy who was he
was a grown man who worked at Carter's Country. And
I think that kind of attention to detail. A lot
of places you don't get if you forgot your if
you forgot your receipt. In some places they prob just
wadded up drop at the trash can.

Speaker 1 (01:14:48):
Carter's Country got. It's not a general store.

Speaker 2 (01:14:53):
It is a gun's, AMMO and hunting stuff store, and
that's all it is, always has been for sixty semi years.

Speaker 1 (01:15:01):
Bill Carter started the stores.

Speaker 2 (01:15:03):
Long ago and his family has continued to carry the
banner for what he put together so long ago. The
store up on Treshwig up north of the airport has
a full service range. They've got everything there. They got
sporting clays, they got rifle and pistol, all the shotgun stuff.
Every traffid skeet, you name it, they've got it up there.

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They also have fantastic gunsmithing on that side of town
if you need it. Plenty of good plenty of good
stories coming out of that gunsmith shop. The guy who
works in there, that's Billy Carter. He's as good as
they get. Guns AMMO and hunting stuff and the red
tag sail this time of year that everybody gets excited about.
I guarantee you may not think you need or want

(01:15:47):
anything to have to do with the shooting sports, but
if you go into Carter's Country this time of year,
you will find a couple of things. Carterscountry dot Com.
You don't even really have to go there. You can
get online and shop right there. Carter's Country Sport's Talk
at seven ninety the Doug Pike Show.

Speaker 1 (01:16:08):
Thank you for listening. Certainly do appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (01:16:10):
By the way, if you were thinking about getting in
the outdoors with your family today, not going duck hunting,
not going deer hunting, not going hunting at all, but
you want to get outside and all your chores are done,
and everybody's kind of hanging around going Once we get
out of church, what are we going to do. What
are we going to do this afternoon. Well, here's a

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little something you can think about. And depending on where
you live, it might be easier than for some people
than others to take advantage of this. But today is
Texas State Parks Day and there is free admission pretty
much all day long. If you've always wanted to visit

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the state park but you've never been to one, just
jump on the jump in the car, gather up the family,
pack a little lunch, and take off. Twenty twenty threes
centennial celebration kind of started all this stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:17:06):
Everybody can visit a state.

Speaker 2 (01:17:07):
Park for the day for free. They've got their parks
all over the place. They're the closest probably to me,
at least in southwest Houston's Brass's Bend. And then if
you go take off north up forty five and fifty nine,
you can find some other places to go. But the
bottom line is you can kind of go in there
and do whatever everybody else does.

Speaker 1 (01:17:26):
In there.

Speaker 2 (01:17:26):
You go walking down the trails looking for wildlife that
would be best done later in the evening, and it's
gonna get dark super early. It's not like you've got
to stay out until ten o'clock, like during daylight savings
time to see the sun go down. And then along
the way, looking a little farther down the road.

Speaker 1 (01:17:44):
Well, by the way, put the bikes, put the bikes in.
Put well.

Speaker 2 (01:17:49):
I wouldn't say swimming and paddle boarding would be a
great idea right now, but take a walk and go
look at all the park programs too. There's always a
kind of a visitor center at these state parks, and
they have all kinds of cool things in there. I
know it bras to spend. The last time I was there,
they had snakes.

Speaker 1 (01:18:05):
All the snakes.

Speaker 2 (01:18:07):
That are indigenous to that region and would be found
potentially on the park grounds are in there. And they
got a rat snake in there. They got a coral
snake in there, a cotton mouth. I believe they have
a rattlesnake. Just all kinds of stuff they drug off of.
They're probably a bull snake. I would bet a few
king snakes.

Speaker 4 (01:18:26):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:18:26):
Oh, folk, pro what's up?

Speaker 5 (01:18:28):
Man on the boat? We're at the locks the trip?

Speaker 1 (01:18:33):
Oh? Okay, what lake are you on or is it
a secret? Well?

Speaker 5 (01:18:38):
I did have to use the key.

Speaker 1 (01:18:40):
Oh my, one of those huh dang you I think
I know where you are. Dang it.

Speaker 5 (01:18:46):
Yeah, what are you one of these decades you gonna
get up here with me on that vacation you talked about.

Speaker 2 (01:18:52):
Yep, I'm gonna. I'm gonna burn some of it. I
really need to. Once we get some ducks down here,
I'll bring you down here too.

Speaker 5 (01:18:58):
Hey, yeah, we come out here today. I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (01:19:04):
I was gonna SKay. I talked to you out of it.
Uh yet you're gonna try and come down and go
duck hunting soon. I talked you out of it, and
I think with good reason, do you give it a
couple of more weeks and get some more ducks down here.

Speaker 1 (01:19:17):
It's just gonna make it better all around.

Speaker 5 (01:19:20):
Oh yeah, I forgot that, you know. This time here
we get that itchy trigger figure you got here and
shoot a limit to studies. I'll be happy with that.
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:19:28):
Between between coming down here and shooting a limit of spoony,
which by the way, I did with an entire group
of guided hunters one day, just crazily, between that and
you loving those lady.

Speaker 1 (01:19:39):
Fish at the beach, man, Skip Jacks. I don't know
what I'm gonna do.

Speaker 5 (01:19:43):
With you, man, No thing must have made me happy.
God forbid them flocking thirty five d pintail coming at once.
I went, I couldn't even shoot.

Speaker 2 (01:19:51):
Have you ever have you hunted places that had those
big bunches of pintails yet?

Speaker 5 (01:19:56):
Oh yeah, with all the kids that before it became
strip centers, we used to go down there the waller.
They'd come in there and them goose press and just
like fight clothes, like you know the hurricane they tornado down.

Speaker 1 (01:20:04):
Oh my gosh, yes, sir.

Speaker 5 (01:20:06):
But uh well, now I brought neighbor out here today.
He's uh he got tired of hearing and watching me
for ladies, big readier, readier sunfish and weigh a pound
pound throw my word, I'm gonna try it. We got
two boxes of Canadian Nightcrawlers. I'm gonna try. I'm will
try to not look at these bass that I know

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up to the everywhere. I'm gonna try to avoid them
and see if we can't do it little meat hunt.

Speaker 4 (01:20:32):
Lord.

Speaker 5 (01:20:35):
Look, so some things don't change on this lake. And
we're ridling out of the boat wrap right now. There's
a ten foot gater sitting right out there in front
of us. So they're still out and about So it's just.

Speaker 2 (01:20:43):
They are, you know, they're they're tougher than a lot
of us give them credit for. And you got to
realize that if you just kind of pause and think
about how long they've been on this planet. A little
bit of forty thirty twenty degree weather like whatever, they'll
go they'll go hibernate sooner up, but they don't have
to do it right away.

Speaker 5 (01:21:02):
It's hilarious, man, exactly exactly.

Speaker 1 (01:21:04):
We got a big one place now too.

Speaker 5 (01:21:07):
Yeah, I've seen that one year after trying, I thought
you're gonna get on and try to ride it across
the pond there for a second jump.

Speaker 1 (01:21:14):
That's not I'm not. I'm so not that tough anymore. Man.

Speaker 5 (01:21:18):
Just so, all right, light thing before I cut you?
So on the spot, so on flashlight. I invested the
money to have a really good headlight because you know,
carrying stuff to the dust line, walking in the marsh.
So I got a really good dust line. It's got flood,
it's got a spot that it even has red light

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on it.

Speaker 1 (01:21:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:21:41):
Yeah, And I like it because it's rechargeable and I
can usually hunt about two or three days on a charge.
But for my for my personal flashlight out. I spent
the money about one of their military grade metal flashlights
that when you turn it on, you can you pull
the it's not a screw. You just pull the leads

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in and out. You pull it in for flooding, you
pull it out. Yeah it'll, yeah, it'll, it'll blind you.
And it is battery tired. So because I trust batteries,
even though batteries cost more than flashlights. Like my buddy
here was saying earlier, you know, it's crazy what batteries cost.
But I trust the battery stuff when you got it,
when you when when you're depending on something, I don't
want to have to depend on something. I got to

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reach charge.

Speaker 1 (01:22:22):
Look at you.

Speaker 2 (01:22:23):
Hold on, I just opened up my phone and found
your gadwall mount.

Speaker 1 (01:22:26):
I forgot you got that.

Speaker 5 (01:22:29):
I mean, I see how much you remember my house man.

Speaker 1 (01:22:33):
You got a lot of stuff mounted up in there.

Speaker 5 (01:22:36):
Oh yeah, a lot of birds. The good thing about this,
like we idled about one hundred yards and wet till
motor down there.

Speaker 2 (01:22:42):
Now, who are who's this bunch from down south in
the air boat? Who are they?

Speaker 5 (01:22:48):
Those are those uh Texas bay out for the guys?
Oh yeah, ok, yeah, So they had, they had one pintail,
one widgeon, and uh to talk to what you did
about the bird's not been here? He he was, you know,
he's out there in the Ransas Bay and he see
one group of three to four hundred redheads. So I
told him callby when you had a zero to both

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of those. And that's what I want to go. All right, man,
I'm used to seeing three or four thousand kind there
a Matagorda bay.

Speaker 1 (01:23:16):
Oh yeah, thank you, man. We'll go see him.

Speaker 2 (01:23:19):
We'll go see him on the prairie down here. I
want to do that. I'll try and get you out.

Speaker 1 (01:23:22):
There this year.

Speaker 5 (01:23:23):
There you go, all right, but your picture here pretty soon.

Speaker 1 (01:23:26):
Please do.

Speaker 2 (01:23:27):
Yeah, I'm looking forward to it, fou pro We'll see
man all looking here. Matt Hue sent me a picture
of a bunch of the little whistling ducks, the Mexican squealers.
They're called all kinds of names they go by. Uh,
they're down at the golf course down there in Periland
this morning.

Speaker 1 (01:23:43):
How about that? He says he was out fishing at.

Speaker 2 (01:23:46):
The club this morning, but he didn't send me a
picture of any fish. Interestingly enough, I like the way
that water looks though. I'd kind of like to be
there with him right now. All right, we got to
take this last break of the program. On the way out,
I'll tell you about El Koubanano Cigars first. El Kubano
Cigars is own and operated by a man named Manny Lopez,
who started this company with his dad in two thousand

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and six. They use Cuban seed tobaccos mostly, and they
have a manufacturing facility, one of only about four dozen
in the whole country, down there in Texas City on
Main Street, and that's in conjunction with a smoking lounge there,
and then there's another smoking lounge over in League City
that's more Havana style. It probably makes many feel kind

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of like he's going home when he goes over there
and hangs out with the crew over there, because it's
just got big garage doors and whatever the weather is outside,
the weather is inside of that place, except for the rain.

Speaker 1 (01:24:43):
It keeps the rain out.

Speaker 2 (01:24:44):
The really relaxing atmosphere to go do a little business,
maybe watch a game on TV. Whatever, just sit back
and enjoy some good company and maybe make a new friend.
If you want cigars for a special event. He makes
about one hundred and fifty different kinds of cigars from
different tobaccos. If you want something special for friends, or

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maybe for a charity event or whatever, he'll even put
that special event's logo on the bands that go on
to every one of those cigars. He did that for
us over here at iHeart and they were really cool looking,
and I know everybody we gave them to was quite
impressed by what we had done for They'll come out and.

Speaker 1 (01:25:23):
Roll cigars for your guests as well.

Speaker 4 (01:25:25):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:25:25):
He'll come out there with a little one of those little.

Speaker 2 (01:25:27):
Ten foot canopies, six foot folding table, a couple of chairs,
spread it all out and roll cigars personally for anybody
and everybody who walks up to the table. If you
want cigars sent to you and you can't get to
Texas City for some reason, go online, look at all
the choices you have, and then get him to send them.
He ships out hundreds of cigars every week. Elcoubano Cigars

(01:25:50):
dot com. That's the website, El Cubano Elcoubano Cigars dot com.
Thinking about a little northwest side golf on this absolutely
drop dead gorgeous day for golf, saying for the next
several days.

Speaker 1 (01:26:04):
By the way, black Horse is just waiting for you.

Speaker 2 (01:26:07):
North Course still as wide open to anybody who wants
to come play as it always has been. South Course
taking private in twenty twenty five, and that's that's just
a change they made that's worked out really well. A
lot of people wanted that membership option. Now they have it.
If it's for you, if you think you might want
to look at it, what you can get includes kind

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of an up to and including not only both courses
there at black Horse, but also both courses at Golf
Club in Houston and Blackhawk Country Club out there in
Richmond where I play, and that it can be all
bundled into one package if you like to play different courses.
That's a great way to get that opportunity. Either way,
you're gonna have a great time there. You go two

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ninety to Fry Road, hang a south, go a couple
of miles down you'll see golf course all over the place.
Take a west into the gate at black Horse, and
once you're in there, pretty much everybody's got a name
to looking to make sure you have a good time.
They have a fantastic grill, a great pro shop staff
to make sure you get out on time and get
everything you need to get going. And then of course

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those two courses in that huge practice facility. Blackhorse Golf
Club dot com is a website black Horsegolf Club dot com.

Speaker 1 (01:27:21):
Ll right, welcome back. I'm about to wrap this baby up.

Speaker 2 (01:27:27):
Two things from the Parks and Wildlife Department we actually
won from the Parks of Wilife Department, and one.

Speaker 1 (01:27:31):
From Washington DC. Let's go with that one first. Let's start.

Speaker 2 (01:27:35):
Fed US sentate last week past the Wetlands Conservation and
Access Improvement Act, which basically extends and reauthorizes I'm reading
the interest earned on funds held in the Federal Aid
to Wildlife Restoration Fund, which is better known as Pittman
Robertson for those of you who have been around for

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a while. And what it does is just enables a
whole lot of good, solid work on public land and
public access to that land for hunting and fishing and
all the things we love to do.

Speaker 1 (01:28:08):
It says here.

Speaker 2 (01:28:09):
The Federal Aiden Wildlife Frustration Act of nineteen thirty seven
imposed an eleven percent excise tax on ammunition, firearms and
archery equipment funds generated from this tax are then distributed.

Speaker 1 (01:28:21):
To state game and fish agencies.

Speaker 2 (01:28:23):
For conservation and restoration projects for wildlife and their habitats,
hunter education, and other wildlife related recreation. It's a great
thing that just happened up there. Congress finally got something
right for a change.

Speaker 1 (01:28:36):
Huh. They finally they got this one right.

Speaker 2 (01:28:39):
For sure, that Pittman Robertson Act has helped us in
this country to have a whole lot more places to
hunt and fish than we probably would have had without it.
It's mostly designed for the hunting stuff, as you might
well think from the tax on AMMO firearms and archery stuff,
but a lot of that land and a lot of
the good it does is on places that also have

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water in there that's accessible as well. So hats off
to them for getting that right. Let me see if
I've got this other one I can. Oh, yeah, this
is just a solicitation from the Parson Wilat Department reminding
anybody and everybody who's waterfowl hunting and dragging boats around
to kind of make sure they don't spread a quatic invasion.

Speaker 1 (01:29:21):
Aquatic invasive species.

Speaker 2 (01:29:24):
Like zebra muscles and giant Salvinia, all that stuff can
get hung up on your boat, hung up in decoy bags.

Speaker 1 (01:29:31):
There's no telling where it might end up.

Speaker 2 (01:29:33):
And if you take all that stuff to a different
water body and are trying to get in and out
of there without making sure you don't carry other stuff
in there, you could potentially mess up a really good
bag or a really good body of water. There's a
video available at the website says how to properly clean, drain,

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and dry your gear so you don't get all that
stuff into that Giant Salvenia. There was a big old
scare many yars ago, probably twenty five years ago now
maybe thirty, about Giant Salvinia and the way the stories
were being written, some of them. Anyway, you would have
thought that it would have taken over the world, and
we could have just walked across the Gulf of Mexico

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all the way to Acapulco if we wanted to.

Speaker 1 (01:30:17):
By now, just on a nice bed of leaves.

Speaker 2 (01:30:20):
It wasn't quite that bad, and we've kept it under
control in this scape, in this state mostly, but it's
still something we got to watch out for, saying with
those zebra muscles, they can do a lot of damage
as well.

Speaker 1 (01:30:31):
No damage in the weather. Today or for the next
several three or four.

Speaker 2 (01:30:35):
Days at least, it's going to be absolutely drop dead
gorgeous to get outside and have some fun with your
family and do whatever you want. Free access to the
state parks today. Don't forget that. If you can't get
to one of them, go to a city park. If
you can't get one of them, go to a little
neighborhood park and just walk around and soak up some
vitamin D and sunshine. Whatever you do, though, please just

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stay safe and catch you up next time. I'll be
back Tuesday for fifty plus. I will be here next
Saturday to tee it up for the Dougpike Show again.

Speaker 1 (01:31:08):
Thank you all for listening. Idios