Identifying the Mysterious Stink Bug

Originally aired on January 4, 2025. On this episode, Doug talks with callers about scopes on rifles, and takes an email about falling iguanas in Florida. All this and more, on The Doug Pike Show.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now here's Doug bike. All right, here we go Sunday,
an issue of the program starts right now. Let me
get this microphone in a blizzard. That's better. Get my
headphothes on straight?

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Straight?

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Yeah, the back or for him, got to turn them around,
No wonder that felt uncomfortable. That's much better. AH had
some fun yesterday talking about animals. We did animals that
have tried to hitch rides in our cars. And if
I can find my notes here, it is right here
notes from yesterday. I can tell you that we discussed

(00:33):
a couple of We had two different bumblebee stories, bumblebees
flying into cars driving down the road. One man is
allergic to bumblebees and had to deal with that, had
his EpiPen with him. I thank goodness. My father had
had bad allergic reactions to wasps and hornets. I don't

(00:57):
think he I don't know about hornets he did. I
don't think he'd ever been stung by one of those,
but he had a terrible reaction once. And this is
long before there was anything like an EpiPen. I don't
even know what he would have done as he got
older if he had come across one of those things.
That had stung him. Who knows, but we all made
it through to here. My dad died early, just to

(01:19):
I don't know why I'm even talking about that. He
passed away at sixty five, major heart attack, the middle
of the night, and I'm grateful that he went fast.
My mother had other issues, and she suffered for a
long time. She fought cancer, two different cancers. So the
long and the short of it is, I'm feeling very

(01:40):
blessed to have lived as long as I've outlived my
dad now and now my hope is to outlive my
mother in age, and I've still got long ways to go.
She hung on for a very long time, very strong woman,
very demure, if you will, Southern upbringing his nails. She

(02:01):
had to be to raise me. I was no I
was no picnic. I'm sure I was always scraping, cutting,
breaking things. Now, I didn't get any broken bones until
high school, but I was had. I did have to
be taken to the doctor's office. I don't even know that,
uh the eer was a thing back when there you

(02:22):
could go to the hospital, but I'm not sure that
they even had emergency rooms. I guess they did. I
just didn't realize that when I was a little kid.
But wherever it was, we ended up going. Usually, uh,
for stitches, we'd just go to the doctor's office. It
was on a Monday through Friday. Everything shut down on
the weekends, but you could still call your doctor and
your doctor would come to your house. You're not You're

(02:44):
You've never even dreamed of a house call from a doctor,
have you, Frankie. Yeah, I've only seen that in the movies,
black and white movies. Oh yeah, yeah, that was a
long time ago. Uh And and I was kind of
tore the tail end of that as a kid growing up.
It's gone. Now. You can still get a doctor into

(03:06):
your house. You can get a doctor into your car,
you can get a doctor anywhere that you carry your phone.
Isn't that nice? All you have to do is some
hope it's not an ai doctor who doesn't know anything
about a's or I's mercy him off the outdoors. Let's
get back to it. Let's get back to where we were.
We had some fun yesterday, by the way, talking about

(03:26):
these animals. Like I'm saying, there were two bumblebee issues.
Jim calls to tell us that at I think it
was a hunting camp. He and somebody captured a fairly
young armadillo, put it in a box, put it in
somebody's car, I don't know, and then went on and
had dinner and maybe had a couple of drinks whatever. Anyway,

(03:47):
they went back in. The box was still in the car,
but the armadillo appeared to have escaped, but since the
windows were up and the doors were closed, they couldn't
figure out where it was, and started flashing flashlights all
through the car, looking under the seas, looking here, looking there,
and somebody pointed a flashlight at one of the air

(04:10):
conditioning vents and saw a little nose with whiskers in there.
And that thing had gotten up into the dash somehow
of an older car, mind you, And they ultimately had
to take that thing to a mechanic shop. That the
wise decision was made not to try to get it
out themselves, because it could have torn wiring out and whatnot.

(04:34):
So they ended up having to take it to a
mechanic and get them to just dismantle the entire dashboard
to get that thing out out of there, which was
a much better idea, by the way, than just leaving
it there and hoping it would crawl out on its own,
because if it hadn't been able to find its way
out on its own, and it had met an untimely
and I guess embarrassing if you're an armadillo, demise, they'd

(04:57):
never got the stink out of that car. On three
two one two five seven ninety email on me, Doug
pick At iHeartMedia dot com. My story was of a
humble little lizard that got loose in my car. I
talked about that, and then Glenn topped me totally with
an email about his wife being in a hot tub
in Houston while he was on a business trip in
California before cell phones. Hot tub Liz or Oh wait

(05:24):
a minute, let me get to my person. Oh yeah, Liz,
I put Liz here. I'm thinking that was a name. No,
that's a lizard. Was in the hot tub with his wife,
ran across her shoulder. She drops the phone in the
pool right after she lets out a big scream, and
that was the last sound that Glenn heard on the

(05:45):
phone with his wife more than a thousand miles away.
A big scream and then the phone goes dead. Your
mind would have to race in a million directions and
calling neighbors. He's trying to find somebody. Finally she calls
him and just lets him know. Oh, it was just
a lizard. It ran over my shoulder. The phone's dead,
but I got the other one, so I went ahead
and called you back. Oh thank you, thank you for

(06:07):
doing that. Now that my heart stopped nineteen times. You
ever had anything really scare you, Frankie? Oh yeah, I
mean not a movie. I know you're a movie buff
and a music buff, but no, I mean outside in
real life.

Speaker 3 (06:24):
I mean I went on a hiking trip and I
was in the when in Scouts. Yeah, it was in
New Mexico, and they have black bears there, Yes they do,
And it was just one of those things that they
had told us kind of how to prep for it.
But I was We had gone hiking that morning and

(06:47):
we had settled in camp and my dad was with
me on the trip. It was me and another guy
that were kind of awake. Everybody had napped or napping,
and at the edge of the camp, my dad starts
kind of well, he sew he saw something. He starts
banging a pot. I'm like, what are you doing? Like crazy,

(07:10):
You're going to wake the kids up, like this is annoying.
And then I see what he sees and it's a
black bear probably you know, a good few yards away
looking for and he and he's on his fours.

Speaker 1 (07:24):
He's just kind of checking us out.

Speaker 3 (07:27):
And but then as we I start making noise, another
guy that was also awake started making noise. And then
the bear stood up, and you're like, that's all he's doing. Yeah,
and like, you know, you don't want to mess with
a much less play basketball, and we're kind of in

(07:49):
suspense of okay, what what is.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
He going to do next? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (07:52):
Thankfully you know that was enough to scare him off.

Speaker 1 (07:56):
But it was like, okay, you or move dude. Yeah,
I mean, there's a there's a point in that it
alls well, that ends well, obviously, but there's a point
in there where the anxiety and the fear ramp up
to an apex at some point. And then as soon
as the bear turns around and starts to walk even

(08:17):
away or run away, then every it's now you can
breathe again. But until that moment, until you know you're
gonna be okay with that one, it's still it's just
gonna hang on you man, Good for you. You got
away with it. Lad. He woke everybody up to the
more the merrier in that situation. Absolutely, be big and
be loud with a little little black bear. You know.

(08:38):
I've seen so many charges on video of a big
brown bears and grizzlies up in the Northwest running at
people fishing, running at people camping, whatever. And some of
these folks who've been there doing it a long time
are very nonchalant about it. They'll just start hollering and
yelling and jumping up and down and yelling at a

(09:02):
six seven hundred pound animal that's running straight at them
and can kill them with one swipe of a paw,
and they just like, yeah, scare them off. I guess
that's that's all you can do. If you if you
cower in fear, it may not turn out so well
for you. I'm gonna I'm gonna let my presence be known.
I think I'm not gonna roll over like a like

(09:23):
a possum and play dead. That's not gonna do me
any favors. Probably. I just hope I never have that concern.
I hope I never have that concern. Basically, how did
we get from there to hear gone off? The rails already, Frankie,
I had some notes like one, two, three, four, five,
and it might as well just wat them. I just
take them and do this to them. There go the rules.

(09:48):
See you, Oh man, I do love coming in here.
I no fooling. I had the option this week. I
had the option vacation time all the way through the week.
And when it came to today and yesterday, I called Frankie.
He'll tell you. I called him Friday night and said, Man,
I'm coming in tomorrow. I'm not staying out anymore. I can't.

(10:09):
I can't stand it. Got too much to talk about,
too much to talk about. We got through the animals
yesterday pretty good. Those calls are always working. Stuff that's
kind of funny, has a happy ending like that.

Speaker 2 (10:21):
You know.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
I don't want to hear that you a bee flew
into your car and you drove off the road and
wrecked your car and got hurt. I just want to
hear that the bee came in, it scared you a
little bit, and then it flew out and everything everything
was okay. Those stories are welcome. My most recently. Actually,
I have to talk. I have to walk that back
because I was gonna stay My most recent twenty twenty

(10:43):
sixth story was about the lizard that I had in
my car that may or may not still be in
the car, by the way, but I have another one. Hey,
I left my car door, and this was my wife's idea.
It was pretty good. Actually, yesterday, we have a gate
on our driveway, so I wasn't terribly worried about doing this.
But I left the river'side door open a pretty good
way a quarter of that first little lock that it

(11:05):
gets to, so that if the lizard's still in there
wandering around looking for light, all that light pouring through
that door might attract it and get it to jump out.
And so fast forward a couple of hours yesterday, and
fast forward to yesterday. I feel like that got the

(11:26):
lizard out of there, so I'm not worried about him.
And then next thing I know, I'm going to the
golf course to meet up with a buddy mine to
do a little short game work in a little fishing.
And I'll tell you how that wound up in a minute.
I'm headed there and I look up and there's this
bright green about the size of a green pea, but

(11:49):
a much brighter, more of a sharp truce than green.
Really little bug. I thought, Oh man, I'm an outdoor
sky I'm not gonna get scared of this little, tiny, green,
pea sized bug. I'm just gonna I rolled the window.
He was on the door frame inside and just just
next to the window. Roll the window down while he's
digging in and holding on for dear life now because

(12:10):
he can feel all that breeze. So I reach up
and I just pinch him between my index finger and
my thumb gently wish him well and toss him out
the window. Now, bring my hand back in. I roll
the window up. What's that smell? And it was He's
some species of stink bug that I've never encountered before.
But now my thumb and my forefinger are reminding me

(12:33):
every step of the way, and I'm looking around. I'm
looking for a founc bottle of water, and I poured
some on a napkin, and I'm rubbing my fingers in there,
and all I'm doing is just smeared it on more
of my hand. This stuff's not coming off. Then, I
still I had a bottle of incredible in the car,
believe it or not, sustained remover.

Speaker 4 (12:52):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (12:52):
If you're familiar, Frankie, I'll give you a bottle one
after the show and you take it home and I
guarantee it it'll be something all will you a million times.
So anyway, I put that on there and it got
a little better, but not great. And I mean that
was a potent oil based of some sort, because it
just stuck to my skin. Smell that's you know those

(13:14):
little gray stink bugs or you know what I'm talking about.
I think so. Yeah, they kind of looked like their
armor plated on their backs. Yeah, and you touch one
and it stinks like crazier. You step on one and
your shoe stinks for two days. Well that's the same smell,
only every bit as intense as with one of those
bigger bugs. But this is just in a smaller package,
and it just drove me nuts man, all the way

(13:37):
to where I was going all the way. Speaking of golf,
which I'll tell you about a minute, well that won't
be more of a golf it'd be more of a
fishing story than a golf story. But this is Timber Creek,
about which you've heard me talk many times down there
on FM twenty three to fifty one in friends would
a few miles off the golf Freeway, very very easy
to find twenty seven holes. Like I've always said, no

(14:01):
golf course is easy. But if you're looking for a
place that'll be fun to play, even if you're not
hitting the ball perfectly straight, even if you're not hitting
all your greens and all your fairways and making all
your putts, it's just a comfortable, fun place to go play.
Nobody's gonna hank the horn behind you if you're going
too slow, just well, don't do that. But just go

(14:24):
out there and be prepared to have a good time.
Everybody there is wanting you to have a good time.
And if it's your swing you're really worried about, go
over and check with JJ Woods and his staff at
the Golf Academy at timber Creek. That will help you
fix that swing. The grill is great, the people in
the pro shop are great, big, big place to go,

(14:45):
a giant putting green, actually in a very generous practice
range as well next to JJ's place. Timbercreek goolf Club
dot com. Fun place to go play on your own ball,
fun place to take a big old group. Because you
got twenty seven holes, you can start them on. You
can get a lot of people out on twenty seven holes.
Timbercreek Golf Club dot com. Timber Creek Golf Club dot com.

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Welcome Back Dog Bike show on Sports Talk seven ninety
How the word that came. I spent not a lot
of time but a few seconds at least, scouring the
internet looking for this bug that was in my car
so I could give it a name. And all the
green stink bugs that show up in here, or most

(15:29):
of them anyway, are identical to the gray one that
I talked about in their backs look like kind of
like looks like a turtleshell. Almost this one had no
such covering on it. And I'm wondering if there's maybe
a molting stage or something like that, uh in that species,

(15:49):
because I'm I'm four or five pages down now and
I still haven't found that bug. So I have either
discovered a new species of stink bugug or I'm just
not looking in the right place or calling it the
right thing. But it's the identical smell to that traditional
stink bug that we all grew up with here in

(16:11):
the Greater Houston area. But I can't find the green one.
It was way prettier than those other ones, so you'll
recognize them if you don't know what I'm talking about.
Next time you see a bug on the ground, gray
or green, it kind of looks like it's got a
shell on its back, and then it kind of a
blunt nose. It looks like it's it looks like something

(16:32):
that would have been shaped oval if it ran into
a wall six or eight times. Does that make sense, Frankie,
It's just kind of a flat a flat front. Just
kept trying to get through the wall like that until
it finally grew weary of doing it and said, I
I'm just gonna have to live with my shell like this.
That's what it looks like. And if you touch it

(16:56):
and mess with it, it will leave stink all over
your hands. If you don't know what that is, welcome
to Houston and you'll find out soon enough. Seven one three, two,
one two five seven ninety Email me Doug Pike at
iHeartMedia dot com. Got that covered, Got that covered, Got
that thing out of the car. As I mentioned, oh
back to back to my buddy Daniel cooking me going

(17:19):
out to go fishing. We spent, by the way, a
fair amount of time bird watching and guess what kind
of birds we were watching out there once again, Frankie Cormoran. Yes,
what a fantastic guess. Yes, they're back now. They're not
as many now that most of them have left. They're

(17:39):
probably about eighty to one hundred right now. And that's
all out of about four or five hundred that were
there very recently. Uh, but they were. They were doing
what they do and twice Daniel and I kind of
faked them out by riding up in the golf cart
as close as we could get to where they were
doing their dirty work, and they would scatter and run.

(18:00):
They can see the hatred in my eyes. I think
when we drive up behind them now they know that
I don't like them, and so they will skitter on off.
But we need to do more than just skitter them
halfway across the lake to where they feel comfortable they
need to go. They need to go by by. That's
going to be one of my projects, I think for

(18:20):
twenty twenty six. I'm gonna find somebody who will talk
talk about this at the national level, because federal protection
needs to be lifted off those birds. And I'm not
saying they need to be eradicated. Everything's got a place.
But I've been trying for years to come up with
some beneficial value in cormorants, and there's none. There's just

(18:45):
nothing they do that benefits anything else on the planet
that I can see off the soapbox. So Daniel me fishing,
working hard, trying to catch something in lakes that have
been annihilated by those birds. Every small not all of them,
but most of the small fish gone. Most of the

(19:07):
bass gone because they either starved to death or they
got picked off after being hatched before they got big
enough to not be a victim of those birds. And
those birds, by the way, quick footnote, they can swallow
a bass longer than a foot a foot long bass,
they can just down the hatch that little skinny neck

(19:27):
of theirs. Don't be fooled. It expands and grows. Now
I'm just not gonna talk about that, but you know
what I'm talking about, and it's yeah, they that neck
of theirs can handle a lot. So anyway, we did
a lot more casting really than we did fish catching.

(19:48):
In fact, Daniel was the only guy to even get
a bite. I got zero bites. I take that back.
There was one that may have been a bite, maybe not.
And then there was another incident where the lure stopped
and I lifted up to set the hook, and the
line actually moved about a foot to the left. I thought, oh, okay,
here we go, and all I'd done is snagged a

(20:12):
little rock. Well I say a little rock. It was
about that rock was about the size of a large
baked potato, and so clearly it didn't move any more
than just vertically or whatever I put on it. But
I took the rock out of the water, so I
don't have to deal with that one again. He hooked
a good fish. He really did that thing. I'm guessing

(20:32):
five or six pounds, probably not more than six where
we were and how he was fishing, but it could
have been, but we just never saw it. He didn't.
He never got the fish's head out of the water.
Definitely a bass, no question about that in my mind,
the way it was fighting. But it ultimately pulled the hook,
and so we had that to work with. And he

(20:56):
got there a little bit late for us to try
an eat golf practice. I'd been there about ten or
fifteen minutes, and when he got there, let's just go fishing.
Let's just go do that. And that's what we did,
and it turned out all right. We had a good time.
First few casts of the of the year aren't gonna
aren't gonna define my whole year. I can assure you

(21:16):
I've got plenty more options, plenty more opportunities coming. Let's
see what who was that faux pro sent me? He says,
is this stink bug you're talking about? Let me see,
so boring to listen to me looking something up that
that kind of looks liking. But no, no, it was
completely The whole bug was the same color. The whole

(21:39):
bug was that color, and its back was not It
was not smooth like most of these bugs. Look, it
was more what's that fruit that's just kind of bumpy
all over frankie.

Speaker 5 (21:54):
Dragon fruit or maybe so it's it's not big bumps,
it's just little Oh gosh, it's almost like a tennis ball,
if a tennis ball was just a little rougher than
its actual cover.

Speaker 1 (22:06):
And that's what it looked like, and almost like the
like the skin of an oranger a grapefruit. Does that
make sense? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, let's go with that.
That's what it was. Kind of like the skin of
an orange or a grapefruit only bright green and steaks
to high heaven and was not fun to have picked
up in hindsight. You know, you learn something every day,

(22:29):
and I learned not to pick up one of those.
Get You know what I'm gonna do with the next
time I see one. I'm gonna wait until it's it's
got a clear shot to out the window and middle
finger against thumb. I'm gonna pull back as hard as
I can and just just feel goll it right out
into the street and it can fly. It might have
a chance. If it can't, that's not my problem. I

(22:51):
don't know. It had to have flown to get into
the car, though, so it should not make that mistake again.
You know, the first thing I'll do, I'll tell you
what I will do, is I I keep some napkins
in there, just in case I have to blow my
o's or I spill something. Whatever. He's gonna be picked
up with something between skin and bug. I'm gonna have
to go with that.

Speaker 4 (23:14):
You know.

Speaker 1 (23:14):
One thing that's been nice over the holidays is the
lack of traffic around here. The first few days of
a new year don't tend to be much for getting
work done for anybody. I try to do some work
during the week, and then you try to call the
people who have emailed you or email them back, and
now they're out, you get their out of office message.
It'll get back. You can tell in a city this size,

(23:36):
you can tell when it's a major national holiday. And
there's nothing more holidayish than the combination of Christmas and
New Year's being a week apart every year. It didn't
take me. It took me no time at all to
get here today. Now I wasn't speeding, I wasn't in
a hurry, but I just traffic sometimes makes you slow

(23:57):
down a little bit and then speed up a little bit,
especially on the freeways the cars running packs, and if
you get behind kind of a slow pack, that's a problem.
If you have to get over to the right lane
a lane or two to let the fast pack go
blowing by it one hundred and ten, that's a problem.
But anyway, it took me eight or nine minutes fewer

(24:20):
to get to work this morning, Frankie than it normally does.
And that was I got here and without without doing
anything crazy. I got here in like nineteen or twenty minutes.
And that's that's big time for this for my little
route there.

Speaker 4 (24:35):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (24:35):
I was scheduled, like I said earlier, to take this
weekend off too. I just couldn't stay away though, I
really I couldn't. I miss all you guys. Speaking of,
I talked a little bit about trying to get some
more first time callers, because I every now and then
i'll get somebody. Oh yeah, I've been listening a long time.
It's the first time I've called. Like, why, Surely I've
said something that you wanted to comment on. Surely you've

(24:56):
had a question. So if you want to be, you
can't be. But I think you could be either second
or third to be a first time caller this year.
This is only the second day of twenty twenty six.
I've done the show, and I'd love to get more
a couple of more brand new callers to the show
and welcome you aboard. It's easy, isn't it, Frankie.

Speaker 6 (25:15):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (25:15):
I don't ever beat anybody up, do I.

Speaker 6 (25:17):
No.

Speaker 1 (25:18):
There have been people on the radio over the years
who would just go off on callers, and why they
would do that, I don't know, but I've heard it
and known some of those people and I'm just I'm
totally the opposite. I'm I'm thrilled when you guys call
and asked me questions or tell me a story that

(25:41):
that you enjoyed from the outdoors. I love that stuff.
I really do makes it. It makes it more fun
for me. And like I said, I try to learn
something every day. I learned about that green bug yesterday.
And before this show's over, I guarantee you somebody's gonna
say something that will make me think and make me
question things. What this Southern green stink bug is? What

(26:02):
Faux pro said, and then I'll go to the break, Frankie,
I promise, is a shield shaped insects. See, that's the
shape of most of these things. It's like a shield.
The head is at the top of the shield, and
then you've got those the curving down to like an
arrowhead pointed down a broad arrowhead. But that's not what

(26:23):
I had. That's not what it was. Uh Oh. It says,
which may turn brownish in cooler temperatures. Okay, that's cool.
Maybe that's why we look at the kind of brown
gray ones. I didn't get close enough to see its eyes,
body features. Yeah, no, this is not the bug I'm
telling you this is some Maybe this is something that

(26:43):
came over from a foreign land to take over and
dominate the United States. Frankie, I saw the first one,
the the scout, if you will, knows man, there's all
kinds of crazy stuff comes through customs. I've talked to
some of those people before, back when I was at
the paper. A used to talk about that because there

(27:05):
was a big trade in wildlife, in foreign wildlife worldwide,
poaching and trading of tusks and rhino'horn and stuff like that,
and they said, you'd be amazed at some of the
bugs we see crawl out of these boxes. It's just nuts.
I'll stop now, I promise, Frankie. Shooter's corner, Palmerhuway at

(27:26):
twenty ninth Street down there in Texas City is owned
and operated by Jerry and Jtk, the father and son
team who have been there for forty five years. Maybe
now I'll have to check with them and see long
long time I've known Jerry for gosh, at least probably
thirty five years, I would say, and haven't found anybody
else who has been able to help every single caller

(27:49):
I've sent down there with an issue with a gun
that they own. Every time somebody's gone down there, and
I always kind of knock on wood when I say this,
but every time I've sent somebody down there, they've come
away satisfied with the work that got done on their
gun and the price they paid for it. A lot
of times, if it's not a big deal. I know
of at least a couple of cases where Jerry has

(28:12):
realized that somebody missed something in the gun that was very,
very minor and would fix the problem, and he does it,
and he comes back out and says, I here, this
is on me. Nothing just took a minute. Now, He's
not going to do that for everybody. And don't go
in there expecting to get free gunsmithing from one of
the best gunsmiths in the state of Texas. But if
it's if it's something easy, he'll take care of it

(28:33):
for you. If it's not, he'll tell you what it's
going to cost and they'll fix it up for you.
When you realize that you're going to get a much
better deal down there. They've got new guns, pre owned guns,
they've got Ammo, reloading supplies, optics, everything to enjoy the
shooting sports. Pretty much Yet hunting, target shooting, competitive shooting,
and there's always somebody in there telling a story, and

(28:55):
there's always people who will listen to your stories. You
can go down there just plopping, pop down on the
little couch there, that big old leather chair and start
telling the story and people will listen to you. But
you have to sit around and listen to their stories too.
Big deal down there, Shooters Corner. If you wear a
badge for a living, you get a discount, which I
think is very cool. The Shooters CORNERTX dot com, The

(29:16):
Shooters Corner TX dot com eight thirty eight on Sports
Talk seven ninety The Doug Pinks Show. I had to
take that green bug off my screen. I can't look
at that anymore. Actually, there is something I want to
go look at stand by. I'm gonna bring this thing
up real quick. Didn't have many emails either. I want

(29:38):
to go check them again real quick in a second. Um,
this is what I'm wanting. Go down, go down, go down,
go do down, goch Where did it go? There's what
I'm looking for. Kind of curious to see if there's
any reason to play the Texas temperature game this morning.
Frankie um No it's another boring day. Oh my gosh,
this may be. This may be one of the lowest

(30:00):
differentials between high and low in the state that I've
seen in wintertime. Somewhere up in the panhall I'm pursuit.
Oh no, it's not. Where is it somewhere in this
great state of ours. It's got to be over there,
a little north of Dallas. Maybe. No, Oh, there it is.
Let me see what city that is that is? Oh man,

(30:23):
I hate the way this thing doesn't want to show
you where you are. I still can't scroll down far enough.
There it is Wichita Falls, thirty two degrees. The only
reporting station in all of Texas that is showing freezing
thirty two in Wichita Falls. What do you think the

(30:44):
current high is, Frankie? Giving what I just told you,
it's just boring. It's like dry toast thirty two degrees
in Wichita Falls, Comma and blank in. Let me see
where it is that that won't help you. Oh yeah,
there it is in Brownsville, Frankie, can you hear me?

(31:11):
Oh no, he's talking about there. What's up? I was asking?
I was looking at the Texas temperature map and it
is currently thirty two degrees in Wichita Falls, which is
up on the Oklahoma border, it is also sixty three. Well,
I just told you it's sixty three. That's that's all.
There is just thirty two to sixty three, a mere

(31:33):
thirty one degree difference from the top of Texas to
the very bottom down in Brownsville. And that's that's the
tightest our temperatures have been as as a group that
I've ever seen. I think it's usually about thirty five,
maybe forty sometimes forty five degrees different. Oh well, let
me go get Mike. You go check in with Dave,

(31:54):
see what's going on, and we'll keep plodding for what's up.

Speaker 2 (31:56):
Mike, Happy young man, Happy New Year to you. I
got a couple of things for you. Number one, have
you ever been driving along at a normal speed, not
highway speed, but in suburbs and so forth, and a
dragonfly comes in the window.

Speaker 1 (32:16):
I have not had a dragonfly get in yet.

Speaker 2 (32:19):
Those are the most annoying bugs in the world. All
they do is buzz on your window and you roll
down all the windows in the car. They will not
get out. They just buzz in that back window and
a noise. The devil out of it.

Speaker 1 (32:35):
Oh my gosh. No, I have not experienced that, but
I don't doubt you want at all. Those things are.
They're pretty amazing. I'm glad we have them around for
what they do, but I don't want one in my car.

Speaker 2 (32:48):
The other thing I was calling about sitting around the
fire with a bunch of old time hunters. Yeah, a
comment came up to kind of peak my curiosity. One
of them said, you should never put a scope on
a new rifle until you have shot it with factory sights.

(33:10):
And I asked him why. He said that. He says,
you get a feel for the gun before you put
one of those high priced ledges on your gun. And
I said, well, you know, that makes a little sense.
I guess if you're shooting anything within about zero to
two hundred yards, but anything beyond that, you know, I'm

(33:33):
getting to the age now where I need little help.

Speaker 1 (33:36):
Yeah, I don't know that I would care really about
shooting the gun with just factory sights, not a scope
at all, just factory metal sites that are on most
rifles that are sold today, and just at least mass
produced rifles.

Speaker 2 (33:54):
He was talking about having a peep site on it.

Speaker 1 (33:57):
Okay, A peep site whatever. If I'm you're gonna hunt
with that rifle, I want to scope on it.

Speaker 7 (34:03):
Now.

Speaker 1 (34:03):
I've gotten I got two rifles that are not scoped,
and I think there's two still. Yeah, and I use it.
I've never put scopes on them. I don't want to
put scopes on them.

Speaker 2 (34:15):
I've never had a scope on a rifle that I
shot most of my deer with. And that's the old
model ninety four. And you know, I got to tell
you it's a little easier to shoot without a scope
to me.

Speaker 1 (34:28):
Yeah, but most of the shooting I do is a
little farther, a little farther out. And and I've got
a thirty thirty that's never going to have a scope
on it. I don't want that. I'll use that at
inside one hundred yards all day long. I like it.
But I don't think you have to wait. I don't
think you have to break in the rifle by shooting
it through peep sites or open sites or whatever. Just

(34:52):
if you want to shoot with the scope, put the
scope on it and learn to shoot it with the scope,
because it changes the eye relief a little bit. You're
not going to it's not the same.

Speaker 2 (35:01):
Thing yeah, I got a rude awakening the first scope.
I rebut the guy told me. He says, putting a
scope on a rifle is like buying a painting and
then having a custom frame foot for it. And I'm going,
what are you talking about, And he says, the frame
costs more than the painting does.

Speaker 1 (35:21):
Yeah, a lot of times. That glass is important, man,
binoculars and scopes, and that the binoculars and scopes have
to be of the same quality. Apologize today, Frankie. Let
him know. I'll grab him on the other side of
the break because I want to finish this with Mike.
So here's the deal. If you've got a great pair
of binoculars and you can see up into the dark

(35:41):
woods with them, you just they just gather so much
light and you can shoot. You can see clearly through
your binoculars at the very first glimmer light on the
horizon and the very last glimmer light. But then you
see a big old buck standing in there, and you
throw the rifle up and you've got a eighty dollars
scope on it. You can barely see the trees, let

(36:02):
alone that. Yeah, And I would rather, I would almost
if I was forced I would almost sacrifice a little
quality in my binoculars and add it to the price
of the scope that I'm going to buy.

Speaker 2 (36:16):
Speaking of binoculars, one of these programs, one of these days,
I'd like you to do, you know, a little segment, yeah,
on what you really need when you get out in
the field.

Speaker 1 (36:26):
Yeah, it's a big difference in just binoculars on the
beach looking at the scenery there.

Speaker 2 (36:32):
Yeah. Man, well, I'll let you go, Buck, thank you.

Speaker 1 (36:35):
Yeah, yeah, I would love to do what I want
to do. I'll get somebody from one of the binocular companies.
I got to go through Swarowski uh like a training
deal for their dealers. It was a two day seminar,
and no not two days, it was two separate sessions
and I think there were about two hours apiece though,
so we spent four hours learning all about binoculars and

(36:56):
it was fascinating. And I'm going to try to find somebody.
I'm going to make a little not to myself a
RS Binoculars, to find somebody who is that has that
level of expertise and can really come in here and
ask ask it or answer some straight up questions about
binoculars because that's and optics in general. And I'll get

(37:19):
somebody good. I promise. There's all kinds of people out
there who can who qualify. I'm gonna let Dave hang
on for a little bit, and I'm gonna go ahead
and go to this break, and then when we get back,
I'll catch up with him. El Cubano Cigars this is
the place is down in Texas City on Main Street,
which is it's not a big it's not a big downtown.
It's just right there. Main Street, Texas City is easy

(37:42):
to find anything on and when you find El Cabano,
you're gonna walk into a place. It's a very cool
traditional smoking lounge where you can go in there and
enjoy one of one hundred and fifty different kinds, different styles,
different flavors, different levels of intensity cigars with a bunch
of friends. Maybe you can go in there and the

(38:02):
next card game that breaks out there won't be the first.
I'm sure you can watch some sports on TV, maybe
conduct a little business, even if you and your business
partner are our cigar fanciers. There's a second lounge also
over in League City. It's more old Havana style because
Manny Lopez The guy who owns the place came from Cuba.

(38:23):
He was in the cigar business in Cuba with his dad.
They came over here in two thousand and six opening
up this company. One of only four dozen cigar manufacturing
places in the whole country, in the whole country, and
one of them is right here, and you can buy
your cigars directly from them. Save all the money you've
been spending on middlemen who picking off a dollar or

(38:44):
stick here, a dollar a stick there. You can get
any one of those different kinds of cigars. You can
also get Mandy to come out to your event and
hand roll cigars for everybody who's going to show up.
You can get custom cigar banding made pretty much anything
you want. Many put up a box of our logo

(39:05):
iheartlogo cigars and it was really cool. It was really impressive,
And you can do that with business partners. You can
do it for special events, whatever you want to do.
If it has to do with cigars, man he can
do it. They make really fine quality cigars too, from
the best tobaccos from most of the world. Elcoubano Cigars

(39:27):
dot com. If you run into Many Lopez over there
or if you have some reason to contact him, maybe
to get him to send you some cigars. By all means,
tell him I said hello, He's one of the nicest,
coolest guys I've ever met. Elcoubanosigars dot com. If you
have a hankering, as they say down here in the South,
for something delicious to bring home for the whole family

(39:49):
to eat for the next couple of weeks, how about
a drive out to Belleville Meat Market. Now, if you're
a deer hunter, you got deer to drop off, you're
already probably going to Belleville, and so you can just
do all that buying for the rest to the family
when you drop off your deer. But you can also
take advantage of the trip out there to do a
little family bonding. Maybe assign somebody to take notes on

(40:09):
everything you want to bring home from Belleville to eat
for the next couple of weeks. And then while you're there,
while they're putting your order together, you can enjoy a
lunch or dinner out there. It's served seven days a week,
Monday through Sunday ten am to seven pm, traditional barbecue meals,
and with all the size, you can imagine everything the ribs,

(40:30):
the chicken, the brisket, all of that. Sandwiches outstanding too.
It's some of the best award winning sausage you will
find anywhere. They've got two dozen plus flavors of that.
They've got the stuffed port tenders in four or five
different flavors. They've got labouchery, stuffed chickens, on and on
and on it goes. Plus all the dry stuff too,

(40:51):
the beef jerky at turkey jerky and dry stick, which
I really really love. The grab and go kind of stuff.
Fifteen minutes north of Sea Lely, fifteen minutes south of
Hempstead on Highway thirty six. All you got if you
can't get there, I'll give you a credit. If you
live far away and you can't get there, just go online.
They'll ship pretty much anything but a half a cow
right to your door. Belleville MeetMarket dot Com, Belleville Meatmarket

(41:15):
dot Com. Good have is. Look at that phone bank
looks like a Christmas tree. I gotta start with Dave,
he's been there the longest. Then we're gonna get to
I'll let Frankie tell me who was next, Mike and Brick.
We'll get to everybody in this break hopefully before we
get to the top. Uh day we day there we are.

(41:37):
What's up?

Speaker 4 (41:37):
Man?

Speaker 6 (41:39):
Hey man?

Speaker 8 (41:39):
Yeah, when I come up here, you should have seen
a cent five boat going out a gentleman over there. Yeah,
and he was going out. You couldn't even you couldn't
see the boat in the water, it was so camouflaged.

Speaker 1 (41:52):
He was really cool, man.

Speaker 8 (41:55):
And yeah, and then I got I'm looking at two
young guys over here. One of them looks like they're
chunking like wacky worms, and one of them chunking a spinner.
And I told them, man, hey man, right here we've
been I caught a full pounder over here. So I've
been kind of coaching them up on there, and you know,
going back what we were talking about. But I know, okay,

(42:16):
now that I moved into this new house, I got
a fifteen foot by a sixty foot runway. It's kind
of on the slope, but I'm thinking up by the
front gate to put me a putt and green up
in there. And then, so what are your suggestions on
getting something something up there to work? Because I might

(42:36):
probably have to have a chipper with the slope in there,
just you know, like put Putt's gonna be kind of hard.

Speaker 1 (42:42):
Yeah, yeah, get somebody out there who does that for
a living, Dave. And because I've not been able to
see the yard, not knowing exactly how much room you
have and what kind of slope you got. Let let
them come up there and use their imagination to see it,
and then I'm sure with computer today they can show it,
show you exactly what it's going to look like. Yeah,

(43:06):
it'd be tough for me.

Speaker 8 (43:06):
This is a whole lot when I had to go
hill golf course here in Houston and was on flat ground,
you know, but here, uh, this is a whole different
Oh yeah. Anyway, all right, the water looks real good.
It's beautiful out here.

Speaker 2 (43:23):
Man.

Speaker 8 (43:23):
There's a ton of boats. There's a ton of boats
and traders or trucks and traders out here, and people
fishing everywhere. Come on out and have a good time, all.

Speaker 1 (43:32):
Right, buddy, Thank you, Dave.

Speaker 4 (43:34):
God bless, yeah, God bless.

Speaker 1 (43:36):
All right, let's let's grab Captain Mike real quick. See
what's going on. What's up, Mike?

Speaker 9 (43:42):
Hey, I want to wish you a happy New Year's
thank you. I'm just going to hopefully help out some
of the fishermen's out there. I went out yesterday and
that time and the tide in Galveston was ripping out,
I mean it was leaving. So I just want to say.
People just called a ab season fishing and a's artifiching.
And I like to throw artificials when I can get

(44:04):
customers to throw them.

Speaker 6 (44:06):
And if you can't catch a fish.

Speaker 9 (44:07):
When that water is moving out that fast, is muddy
and everything up, then you got to go to bee
and bee stays for bait. As you know, a's artificial
bee's bait. If you got both of that, you should
be doing.

Speaker 6 (44:21):
See the sea's called catching.

Speaker 9 (44:24):
And I told my customers that, yes, said I had
a man and his wife from Fort Worth and it
was terrible fishing. The wind blew a little and water
was off color. What I had a corters livestroom and
we end up with a great box of fish when
it was all set and done. So it's you know,
if you can't catch the trout and the ridge's other
fish to fish for, and I'm going to fish for

(44:46):
what somebody we caught big nice sheep, piss, some nice
puppy drum.

Speaker 7 (44:50):
You know.

Speaker 6 (44:50):
It was a great trip. But I just want to
tell you customers are.

Speaker 9 (44:53):
Your people out there that you know when that tie
is ripping out, you just got to go what you
gotta do to catch fish if you want. It was
a great time yesterday, and I just want to say
I still do it.

Speaker 6 (45:04):
If you never fished at all in.

Speaker 9 (45:05):
Galveston Bay or Saltwater, I'm going to knock one hundred
dollars off the trip and we're going to have a
great time.

Speaker 1 (45:11):
Hey, I guarantee it. I know that because I've done
that with you. Thank you, Mike.

Speaker 9 (45:15):
And and also I don't charge for kids if you're right,
if you're sixteen and under it, but if you got
a fishing license, you know we'll have to do that. Yeah,
but let's get together this year. I know we talked
about it, and uh, it's some fine fishing. It's going
to be coming this year. It's beautiful weather it is.
I don't know we're going to have any cold weather
or not this year, but we need to take advantage

(45:35):
of it. And I do appreciate it. I live to
you when I can when I'm not out on the water.
But you take a good wee have a good, happy
New Year. I'll leave it like.

Speaker 1 (45:44):
That all right, Captain Mike Catchiatti. I'll send them your
way as I always do. Buddy, Thank you man, what
I do, appreciate it. You take care by all right,
let me uh, let's jump out, Rick. I don't want
to rush you, so you'll hold through the break. And
it's not a big one. I just got a I
want to do this so I don't have to hurry

(46:05):
you at all. American Shooting Centers West Timber Parkway between
Katie and Highway six very easy to find. You know
that if you've ever been out there, you can't miss
those big burns. They've been they've been absorbing rifle and
pistol and shotgun, lead and whatever, copper whatever being shot
out there for the better part of thirty years now.

(46:25):
It was taken over by Eda Riggy several years ago,
probably close to ten almost now, I think, and he
vowed when he bought the place to make it bigger, better, safer,
more enjoyable, more user friendly. And he has checked every
one of those boxes. Three sporting places, courses, ten trap
and skeep fields, five stands setups across the property, Beginner's

(46:46):
wing shooting area, pistol and rifle from five yards all
the way to six hundred yards and nestled in that
line is a two hundred and fifty yard rim fire
range where you can take the kids. If they like
to burn AMMO, like to shoot a lot, let them
shoot that cheaper twenty two AMO rather than being over
on the rifle or pistol range or out there shooting

(47:07):
shotguns and costing you a twenty bucks a box. American
Shootingcenters dot Com is the website. Go there, take a
look around, and then, by all means, if you enjoy
the shooting sports, get out there and enjoy it. Where
so many people do. They can handle as many as
two hundred and something people all shooting at the same
time out there. American Shootingcenters dot Com. Now here's Dougpike

(47:33):
nine oh three on Sports SOX seven to ninety. Big
break in the golf season. Not a whole lot going
on right now, so we don't have to talk a
lot about that. I'm sure you all heard me talk
enough about my own golf game. So I'm gonna go
check in with a Rick. What's up, Rick Bice? Happy
New Year, Happy New Year man. How's the weather? I
didn't get a sunrise picture this morning. What happened.

Speaker 6 (48:00):
I was telling Frankie that I was sitting here in
my truck is so foggy because I'm I'm on a mission,
but I couldn't see the front of my truck. And
I told him just how foggy it is that right
below me is a pond and I'm sitting here. I'm
there's so much morsha in there. I'm afraid all my
fish are gonna swim or watch, it's just might swim

(48:22):
across the truck.

Speaker 1 (48:25):
Man. You know only in Texas.

Speaker 6 (48:26):
It's been tough. I swear it's been tough. I came
here to do something and I'm I should have already left,
but I wanted to finish off with you because I
called in. I wasn't go go you man. I tell
you what, thanksgivings. I need a vacation from the outdoors.

(48:50):
I'm serious and all. If I'm getting older, watch but
I haven't done any deer, noting I cleaned a bunch
of deer, but I'm deer hunting starting now. Boy, nothing,
I'm won't shoot anything but my dear season then over
till February twenty eight. Yeah, and that's when I'm really
gonna work because or not me us. It take a
lot for me to shoot one. But we're under MLD

(49:12):
on our ranches, so we've got some time and really
and truly some of them. The rudg is just kind
of kicking.

Speaker 1 (49:20):
In a little. Yeah, South Texas just started pretty good.

Speaker 4 (49:24):
You know.

Speaker 6 (49:24):
You mentioned you're that gentleman that cause regularly was talking
about an open site down and you said you had
an open site thirty thirty. I said, it's either a Winchester.

Speaker 1 (49:34):
Or Marlin, what else, it's Winchester.

Speaker 3 (49:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (49:38):
Anyway, it made me think I had a Winchester Model
ninety four pre sixty four, And now where it is?
Can I put my hands on? I was looking for
it the other day. I can't find it, Saving my life.
I probably leaned up against a tree somewhere and walked
off and forgot it. Now, speaking of that, I did

(50:02):
walk up on a gun one day. It was leaned
up against the tree. This true stores leaned up against
the tree was a Remington twenty two two fifty with
a three by nine Leopold on it. Oh wow, it'd
been there a while, Yeah, be there a while? You
know what was laying there next to it.

Speaker 1 (50:17):
I don't know, hope not a skeleton.

Speaker 6 (50:19):
Now, this will date how long it had been there.
It'd been laying there so long? Well, laying beside it
was three pearl beer cans.

Speaker 1 (50:28):
Oh god, how long.

Speaker 6 (50:33):
It had been sitting there.

Speaker 1 (50:34):
Yeah, it'd been there a hot minute.

Speaker 6 (50:37):
But the question it made me think of, and I'm
in this, this this group. You may be, but I'll
be curious of how many people and that our listeners,
just looking at the spectrum of age, have shot a
deer in the deer season legally with an open sight

(51:00):
gun of any kind? Are a shotgun?

Speaker 1 (51:04):
Oh gosh, I don't know. You know I've done the
open sites. I haven't. I don't believe I ever killed
a deer with a shotgun. Uh huh, I have it,
And I don't know why. I mean, I've had the
opportunity certainly places I went, any place that I shot
that that thirty thirty, I could have used a slug
just as easily, or buck shot. Well, not anything about.

Speaker 6 (51:28):
Yeah, when I was a young guy. Of course, now
today there's probably people listening going, I know you shot.
You actually hunt animals with an open site, Yeah, you
actually hunt big game with a shotgun. That was the
way of the world.

Speaker 1 (51:41):
Man.

Speaker 6 (51:41):
Yeah, that's definitely that we didn't have created more six.

Speaker 1 (51:45):
Four five that's way more modern than a bowe and era.

Speaker 6 (51:50):
We had a Remington wing Master twelve gates pump if
you were lucky. Absolutely, Oh yeah, we had a Winchester
lever Action open open site in a wrapple. The guys
who it's guys. They might have had something with a
scope on it. But I'll just be curious for how
many people can say that they've done that. I can say,

(52:10):
I'm sure and uh, I enjoyed it. It sure puts
you up close and personal.

Speaker 1 (52:15):
Yeah, it does. But I think open sites are kind
of like that's it's kind of a bow hunting light.
If you will, you're you're in the middle between bow
hunting really demands a lot of skill and a lot
of stealth and whatnot, and then you've got the open sites,

(52:35):
which you still got to get closer than you do
with a scope rifle. So it's it's in the middle.
It's a good fun way to hunt too. It makes
you a better hunter.

Speaker 6 (52:46):
I think I've got two things, Okay. The one is
the problem with open site is, in my opinion, it
only worth for just to me. I think with the
open site that people that have done it orre gonna
do it, the biggest mistake they make they take too
long of a shot.

Speaker 1 (53:05):
Yeah yeah, yeah, well I'll tell.

Speaker 6 (53:08):
You something else thirty or whatever. That bullet's gonna wander
around on you anyway. The other thing is the reason
I'm waiting on this phone to lift. In this lifting,
I'm just dying to go take this two mile walk.
It's gonna be about two miles. I was sitting here
a GPS in this circle. I'm gonna break in my
brand spanking new snake boots.

Speaker 1 (53:30):
Get out of here. Good for you, Good for you?

Speaker 6 (53:33):
What brand they are?

Speaker 4 (53:34):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (53:35):
I could guess, but I want you to tell me. Cheap, cheap.

Speaker 6 (53:41):
I go through about two pair of year you need
to take them back. I literally walk out of them.
I walk out of a pair.

Speaker 1 (53:49):
Gosh, wow, Yeah, I don't want.

Speaker 6 (53:52):
To come off. You can glue on, you can, you
can nail them.

Speaker 2 (53:55):
Well them, they're.

Speaker 6 (53:56):
Gonna come back off again. So I'm not little throwing away.

Speaker 1 (53:59):
Yeah yep. Well, good luck on your hike, man.

Speaker 6 (54:02):
I want you to find some time. I want to
take you to my new place in Burnie, Texas and Minard. Okay,
to new places.

Speaker 1 (54:09):
All right, I check it out before.

Speaker 6 (54:11):
We mlod season. We can do it during the week.

Speaker 1 (54:13):
Okay, I may, I may try to do that. Happy
New Year. All right, we got that taken care of.
Let's go get Doc on the phone. Doc, what's up.

Speaker 7 (54:28):
So talking about finding them guns leaning against Yeah, of
course the beer cans. Beer cans probably explained.

Speaker 1 (54:34):
That's evidence. Yeah, that's that's critical evidence.

Speaker 7 (54:39):
Well, one other h kind of and I don't I
was out there to witness this. This is out in Wyoming.
You shoot a well endowed, antlered animal and you're so
proud of it, and then you put your rifle across
the horns to take a picture, and that only slightly
did critter jumps up and runs awfully.

Speaker 1 (54:58):
Oh lord gun, I know somebody that happened to.

Speaker 7 (55:03):
But uh, you know, many years ago, growing up Wyoming,
I'd heard that story, but I don't have any reason
to doubt it after hanging around with.

Speaker 1 (55:13):
Some yeah, no kidding, kind of makes sense to just
hang that rifle in there and get make sure you
get this trap around part of the horn so it
doesn't fall off and go off. Okay, fine, want no,
and then it jumps up and runs off. That's hilarious.

Speaker 2 (55:28):
But there's no doubt.

Speaker 7 (55:30):
There's no doubt that anymore. The quality of these glass
of the glass anymore is just.

Speaker 4 (55:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (55:37):
Frequently the glass is worth more than the gun. Yeah,
and you know, I pay a lot of attention to
military history. The most prolific Allied Stiper was a Norwegian fella,
and he never looked through it as a glass his
whole life.

Speaker 1 (55:51):
Wow. Wow, yeah, you know it'll talk to you. Yeah,
thank you, thank you, George, thank you. Don always a pleasure. Yeah,
Happy New Year. See. Yeah, he's a wise man.

Speaker 4 (56:05):
You know.

Speaker 1 (56:05):
Something he brings up about about the glass and the rifles,
the quality of rifles, even some of the I don't
want to call him cheap, not at all, but less
expensive rifles right out of the box are highly accurate,
and it's not hard at all to spend more on

(56:30):
a quality scope. Then you're going to have to spend
on that rifle. And the best thing you can do
is go to someplace that does this for a living,
go to a gun store and really have a conversation
with someone who knows about guns, a gunsmith, somebody like
Jerry or Jay Down or anybody really at Shooter's Corner

(56:51):
or some of the guys in Carter's Country. Go there
if that's closer for you, and have a conversation about
which of the newer rifles are most accurate and dependable
right out of the box. And there are some that
it's just amazing what they'll do. You just slap that
scope on there and bore sight it, take it out

(57:12):
to the range, and all of a sudden you're just
going to be shooting quarters at two hundred yards. If
you've got a good scope, the rifle is capable, and
if you find you've got to match up the AMMO
to it too. This is something we talk about a
lot before deer season, usually not after or in the
middle of but before the season starts. If you've got

(57:33):
a new rifle, you need to find out what it likes.
I'm trying to I don't know. I can't think of
anything offhand that's a good comparison. But if you take
three different boxes of Ammo, same bullet weight, same powder charge,
same everything, and you take them to the range and

(57:53):
shoot two or three rounds of each box at the
same target with the same level of accuracy that you have,
you'll see a very different there'll be one of those
that shoots tighter than the others. And kind of jokingly
found out when I got my seven mag that it

(58:13):
happens to like one of the least expensive federal cartridges
for that rifle, for that caliber that's ever been made.
It's it's just a work and it's a blue collar rifle,
and it loves that cheap ammo and I made it
a point to buy several boxes of it years ago,
and I'm darned near out and it kind of spooks

(58:33):
me a little bit, But man, that thing. I put
some really expensive ammo in it because it was at
that time it was the nicest gun I owned, and
I wanted to make sure that I was going to
give it a chance. And lo and behold, that stuff
was kind of all over the paper, not literally, but
it was a worse group, by far worse group than

(58:57):
I was shooting with that cheap stuff. So I need
to go find some more of that. Also, need to
take a break. We'll run a little bit behind here.
On the way out. I'll tell you about black Horse
Golf Club. It'sout two ninety to Fry road. Hang Us South,
go down about two three miles. You'll see golf course
on both sides of the road. After you've seen it
on the right side, the west side, and then a
little bit farther down you see golf course to the left,

(59:18):
golf course to the right. Put on your blinker, take
a right into the property, and then you've got choices.
You can go play the North course, which is still
daily fee and always has been, or you can go
in and have a visit with the membership director and
maybe see about getting a membership to the South course,
which was taken private this year. And options there include

(59:42):
one that gets you to actually get you access to
five golf courses. You've got both of them at black Horse,
you've got both of them at Golf Club of Houston,
and you've got Blackhawk Country Club out there in Richmond.
By just joining that one club, by joining black Horse South,
fantastic to hold big tournaments, fantastic place to just go

(01:00:03):
out and take a quick loop on your own ball
with three new friends you meet out there. I've done
that half a dozen times, probably in the last year
or so. I just I go out to Blackhawk thinking
I can play on Monday, they've got a big tournament
going on. I just shoot right up ninety nine, go
to black Horse, and just the next threesome or less
that goes out, I jump in with them and make friends.

(01:00:25):
Great place, great food, great accommodation of everything you need.
We've got good instruction at the far end of the range.
It's big enough that it can host super big tournaments
and has for a long long time. Black Horse Golf
Club dot Com is a website. You can make a
tea time there right now. Black Horse goolf Club dot Com.

(01:00:48):
Nine one on Sports Talk seven ninety The Dug Pike
show Man. It's fun when this coffee kicks in. And
I hadn't had coffee in like two weeks. Well, no,
last weekend I had some, but that was the only
coffee I'd had in a week, and then I went
this whole week without. I only drink it when I'm here,
and I wasn't here on a weekday this week. I'll

(01:01:09):
be back in the saddle full time on Tuesday, kicking
off the first live edition of fifty plus then and
then we'll go from there and I'll be coffeed up
almost every day. David, What's up man.

Speaker 4 (01:01:22):
Yeah, Doug, I want to respond to Rick's comment about
shotguns and open sites. My first ear I killed my
first year with a shotgun open sites and first gun
I ever owned. And I think you and I and
Rick are probably on the edge of that last generation
where if you owned a gun, it was probably a

(01:01:42):
shotgun because that's all you needed to kill, to kill
anything in the woods. That's exactly right, rabbit, squirrels, turkeys, anything. Yeah,
And look at where we've gone today is you know,
now people are I got to have some we're fighting
over calibers. Calibers, Bill, Oh, I know. And it's just

(01:02:04):
amazing and too. You owned a shotgun because you you
were hunting game. You weren't just shooting it. You were
having to get close to it enough to kill it
with the shotgun.

Speaker 1 (01:02:16):
True.

Speaker 4 (01:02:16):
And now now we look at long range hunting and
shooting gear at antelope or whatever four five hundred yards
away and more amazing, how how the sport has evolved.

Speaker 1 (01:02:30):
Yeah, and it's it's it's originally hunting was a necessity.
If you go back far enough, people had to hunt
because they didn't get to eat meat if they didn't hunt,
and they weren't successful, and that has evolved into it's
it's competition now amongst shooters just to see how far

(01:02:55):
they can push the envelope and the whole boutique caliber thing.
I'm I haven't gotten deep into that because I don't
want to invest in a bunch of more rifles at
my age, and I don't really and I'm probably going
to make some people mad if I say this, but
I'm going to say it anyway it does. It doesn't

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matter to me so long. My primary goal. If I'm
going to shoot a deer, I want it to fall quick.
I want it down. I want to be able to
walk over to it easily. I don't want to shoot
it so far out that if I have one little hiccup,
or if there's a gust of wind, that we're going
to have to call out a dog to go find
that wounded deer. I just want. I want to get

(01:03:38):
it done and as quickly and as humanly as possible,
so that that animal is not going to be just
wandering around limping for for years.

Speaker 4 (01:03:49):
I've never heard that. I've never heard that term boutique
calendar caliber, but I love it, and I'll close you
there's that well known scene in My Cousin Vinny where
he is he's trying to he's trying to decide what
type of pants he wants to wear, and his fiance says,
you know, is a deer going to really care what

(01:04:11):
kind of pants you have on when you shoot it?
And I think the same is true nowadays these as
you say, boutique calibers, deer don't care. I mean dead
is dead?

Speaker 1 (01:04:23):
Yeah, yeah, and it's again. It's it's kind of like
fishing lures. If they don't make new colors of fishing lures,
people don't buy new lures. And so the gun industry
has had to accommodate the demand for something new and different.
And everybody's got preferences. Some people like to wear leather pants.

(01:04:45):
Some people like to wear Back in the day, we
wore parachute pants, for God's sakes, going to the disco.
You know, yeah, you're laughing because you warm too, didn't you?
I know you did. They wouldn't look the same, honest, now,
would they, David.

Speaker 4 (01:05:00):
I'm thinking about some of the colors we will.

Speaker 1 (01:05:02):
Oh god, I need a bigger parachute to tell you
that right now? All right, yeah, thank you? David, I'll
see man. Oh Mercy. Yeah, thank you, Frankie. Yeah, it's
I have no quarrel with anybody wanting to own and
enjoy shooting as many different rifles as they can. And

(01:05:27):
that's perfectly fine by me. As long as you're not
taking food off the table for your family and you're
buying another rifle. Good, let's go to the range and shoot.
I'll be happy to meet you there. I'll go out
there and shoot as much as I can. I enjoy it.
I do, and I just don't own as many rifles
as a lot of my friends. I own more than
I'm more than most probably, but not that many, because

(01:05:51):
I still look at them as as more tools than
works of art or whatever you want to call it,
other than just a tool. The tool hammer hits nails
into wood. A rifle kills animals to eat or in

(01:06:11):
some cases, well yeah, let's just leave it at that.
And so as long as my tool works and works, well,
I'm not gonna go not gonna go bear hunting with
a twenty two. Oh by the way, J T. K
weighed in from down at Shooter's corner. Jay's listening this
morning and when the conversation was about open sites. He

(01:06:33):
has got a cape buffalo, to his credit, shot over
in Africa, and he shot that animal with an open
sided rifle, to which I responded, if I were gonna
hunt a cape buffalo, I would want open sites too.
I don't want to have to find it in a scope.
I don't want to look up and have that thing

(01:06:55):
running at me and me trying to figure out where
the dog one thing is in the scope. I also
put my weapon of preference would be a shoulder mounted
grenade launcher, because I don't I don't want any questions
about whether that animal's going down. That's that's one of
the handful in the world that would like nothing more
than just to stomp you into the mud if you're

(01:07:17):
if you're bothering it at all. By the way, shifting
gears a little bit, I'm gonna go back to word
I got from Lane Rix, the guy who runs Meadowbrook
Farms golf course out there on Off ninety nine at
Fry Road.

Speaker 3 (01:07:30):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:07:31):
He and his grandson Aiden were up at Lake Livingston
this past weekend. UH, or well a couple of days ago.
Not feel the whole week felt like a weekend to
me complete with all that goes with that. Anyway, his grandson,
he and his grandson out bass fishing, and his grandson
Aiden caught himself one I mean, just a pig of
a bass, A big fish. Kids started the new year right,

(01:07:53):
there's no question about that. It's that fish has got
to be I'm guessing it's pushing seven, maybe even eight pounds.
And I don't know how old Aiden is or how
strong he is, but he's doing everything he can to
hold that fish up for a picture. So hats off
to Aiden. And best of all, this was my favorite part.
I keep reading, I keep reading, and then down toward

(01:08:16):
the bottom, Lane noted that Aiden caught that fish. You'll
appreciate this. Frankie on a lure with barbleous hooks, and
there you go, barbless data. Boy. Aiden, don't let anybody
make you throw hooks with barbs on them, because if
one of those comes back and hits you, if one
of them comes back, it hits one of your buddies.
Now you got to stop fishing. Everybody's got a drug.

(01:08:38):
Let's all get out of the boat, hook it up
and drive to the emergency clinic so we can get
that hook pulled out of your whatever. No, man, just
mash those barbs down. You don't have to cut them off.
You don't have to file them off. That can compromise
the hook a little bit. Just take your needle those flyers,
squish down really hard. Maybe wobble the thing back and

(01:09:01):
forth to make sure that when you run your finger
either way across that barb, it doesn't stop. It just
smooth as glass. I've talked about it before, but I'll
say it one more time, since we're right at the
bottom of the hour. It's been about a month and
a half ago, now, probably six weeks since I actually
got a hook on a crank bait buried in the

(01:09:22):
soft tissue between my bicep and my tricep on my
left arm. This thing just came out of the water,
came out of a fish's mouth. I don't remember exactly
I think it. I think a fish threw it, like
one out of a hundred to do this. And it
comes up and I mean, it smacks me in that
upper arm, and I look down and the lure is
just dangling there, and the hook is buried all the

(01:09:42):
way to the bend. And I just told myself, okay,
this is it. This is it. I put your money
where your mouth is, Doug. You ought to be able
to just grab that hook and just slide it right
back out from where it went in if you did
that barb mashing thing right and I just kind of
crossed my fingers on my left hand because I couldn't

(01:10:03):
use it to get the hook out. I reached up,
I pinched the base of that hook with my thumb
and index finger backed it out and it was literally
it came out as though it were a hot knife
coming out of a stick of butter, and didn't feel
a thing, didn't have any issues, no tissue torn, no nothing.

(01:10:25):
It's like getting an injection, just like a needle backing
out of there. That's all it was. So if you
want to make sure that all your trips with your
kids and your friends and family, all those fishing trips
go well and at least for at least that part
of them, that and a couple of PFDs, it go
a long ways toward making sure everybody gets home safe

(01:10:47):
and sound. Seven one seven ninety Email me Doug Pike
at iHeartMedia dot com. Good heavens, it's break time again.
But I like talking about this stuff. Kobe Stevens opened
up is brand new showroom up there on that North
Side recently and he's opening ready for business. I don't
know if they're open on Sunday. Maybe if Kobe's listening

(01:11:09):
and he can call me and tell me, that would
be good. I'd love it. He makes well. He he
brings in some of the coolest designs. They don't sit
up there with sewing machines, Okay they don't, but they
bring in some of the coolest golf shirts, the coolest
outdoors shirts and shorts now that you're gonna find just

(01:11:30):
about anywhere. They've got kid sizes, they've got women's sizes
and in different styles. Obviously, not a whole lot of
guy is gonna run around in tennis shorts or skirts,
but they have that for the women. They have again
the kids sizes and for boys and girls, and they
also the men's sizes in case you're a plus sized guy.

(01:11:51):
Let's call it all the way to four X. So
anybody who's out there playing golf and you're probably gonna
be covered with Kobe Stevens gear and you're gonna look good.
You're gonna look good. People are gonna look at you. Hey,
that god. He may be a professional, and you just
smile and nod atie. Yeah, let me know if you
need some help at your game, and let him think

(01:12:13):
what they want to think about you, because you're gonna
look like a pro. I'm telling you. Kobe Garlic, the
guy who owns this company, one of the most giving
people I've met in a very long time. And what
I'm talking about is the number of tournaments at which
he attends and helps raise money for these good causes
that he backs. He's got his own tournament. I played

(01:12:33):
in it a few weeks ago, and just I like
the guy. He does what he's true. He's gonna If
he tells you something's gonna happen, it's gonna happen. I'm
working on something with him right now that I'm ready
to make happen, and I think a lot of people
will be happy when we do. Kobe Stevens dot com
is the website c O B Y S T E
V E N S. Kobe Stevens dot com. Carter's country.

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That's the only two words you really need to remember
if you're up, especially if you're up on the north
side of town. Maybe you're up on a close to
it ten somewhere. There's a third store actually down in
where's it Pasadena, I believe, And each of those stores
is managed and operated and staffed by people who know
about the shooting sports. Carter's Country's been around sixty something

(01:13:22):
years now. I don't know sixty how many exactly, But
once you get past about twenty thirty forty, you know
that you're going to a place where they know what
they're doing and they know what they're talking about, or
they wouldn't be there anymore. Carter's Country's flagship store up
on Treshweg also has a full service range. You go
into the store, you find what you want, You go
buy yourself a new gun. If you bring your own

(01:13:43):
eyes and ear protection, that's fine, you can use that,
or you can buy some in there. When you're buying
your gun and your AMMO, and you can walk right
out that back door and start shooting that thing. If
it's a rifle with a scope on it, you might
need to get the gunsmith and guys in there to
boorside it for you, and then you'll be ready to
go out and start shooting and enjoying the shooting sports
however you want to do it. Full service Range has

(01:14:04):
got it all. It's got sporting clays, trap and skie,
the rifle and pistol. Range is all there, plus instruction
for all the shooting disciplines. You don't have to worry
about that. This is just guns, ammo and hunting stuff
that's been the foundation of this company for all these decades.
They don't sell snorkels, they don't sell footballs, they don't
sell tennis rackets. They sell guns, ammo and hunting stuff.

(01:14:28):
And they know how to make sure you're gonna get
exactly what you need. Carterscountry dot Com is the website.
Go check it out. Carterscountry dot Com talking about nine
on Sports Talk seven ninety the Doug Pinke Show. Thank
you for listening, certainly to appreciate it. What a wonderful
world we live in, so much good stuff going on,

(01:14:52):
especially to be an outdoorsman and live in Texas. I'm
gonna I'm gonna tee up the new year with just
a little soap by well, first, excuse me. First, I
I have to get to Rudy's email, which I promised
I would mention thirty minutes ago and got sidetracked. Every
time I was about to do that, Rudy emailed a
little while ago. Let me put my glasses on. Tell
you exactly when he sent it. I see it eight

(01:15:13):
forty five, almost an hour ago. About we were talking
about the weather here in Texas a little bit. I
think we were dabbling in the Texas temperature game. Stuff
we didn't do today because it just was very boring
differential in the temperatures. But the long story short is
Rudy kind of went in and said, well, at least

(01:15:34):
we don't live down in Florida where frozeen iguanas are
falling out of the trees. And that's a real thing
in Florida. There are so many iguanas that have been
cut loose. What happens is, it's kind of like the
way Eurasian collared doves got all the way over to here.

(01:15:55):
Those doves were actually part of the pet trade, were
in the Bahamas, and the Bahaman people who were buying
those doves wan at a time from the pet stores
were taking them down or taking them home and realizing
that when you put one Eurasian collar dove in a

(01:16:16):
cage all by itself, all it does all day long,
is all day all night looking for a mate. And
so rather than go buy another one of those things,
thinking oh my gosh, we don't want that. Number one,
we don't want both of them cooping back and forth
to each other. Number two, we don't want baby doves,

(01:16:38):
they just opened the cage and opened the window and
let them fly away. And enough of them got up
high enough to see the US mainland, or maybe just
caught the right wind that they landed in Florida and
have expanded their range all the way over to here.
Fast forward back to the iguanas. The iguanas are part
of the pet trade as well. A lot of people

(01:16:58):
in Florida. They're iguanas. They get bigger than most people
thought they ever would, and they get kind of hard
to manage, kind of hard to keep in a cage.
So they're hoping the cage they let them go. One
thing leads to another. The iguanas find each other, romance blossoms,
and now they've got iguanas all over the place. And

(01:17:20):
there are pest control companies that make darn good livings
removing and I'll wrap that in quotes about the same
way that they would remove cockroaches or fire ants, only
it takes a little more firepower to do it. But
there are professional iguana hunters all over Florida now pellet guns,

(01:17:44):
so they're not gonna you're not gonna have bullets flying
through windows a half a mile away. They're very accurate,
they're very careful, very good there. And they're dogs. They
use dogs to go retrieve them. It's just it's an
amazing thing. But when they get cold snaps like they've
had lately down there, these iguanas, because they're cold blooded animals,
they're lizards, cold blooded animals. They're up in a tree

(01:18:07):
and it gets colder and colder and colder, and all
of a sudden, they just it's almost like they pass out.
But their metabolism has just slowed to the point with
that there's no muscle reflex or anything, and they just
a little breeze and they just fall out of the
tree hit the ground. So we don't have to worry
about walking through the woods and having an iguana land

(01:18:27):
on our backs, not like the lizard that crawled across
my leg yesterday morning. I'm telling you, Frankie, that's real.
It was dark and so help me if I hadn't
known that the lizard was there, because i'd seen it
the day before. When that thing crawled across my leg
while I'm driving trying to get on the freeway. That

(01:18:48):
would have that would a kind of spit. I'd have
been calling that paranormal caught on camera show see if
I could tell my story. There's a ghost in here,
a little grimlin, little hadded feet anything, just ran about.
It didn't run far on my leg, it kind of
I think. I think where it first got on was

(01:19:08):
up about three or four inches up the hem of
my shorts, and it was running from my hip down
toward my knee. And when it hit my knee, I'm
pretty sure it just jumped and hit the floorboard. I
didn't step on it. I didn't. I didn't know where
it was. I just kind of froze. But at least
I knew what it was, because if I hadn't, it

(01:19:30):
would have been terrifying, absolutely terrifying. But I lived through it.
It's okay. Seven one, three, two, two, five, seven ninety.
We got to take a little break here, wrap it up,
and when we get back, I'll probably have time for
a call or too. I'm still looking for I want
one new caller, just one brand new for twenty twenty six.

(01:19:50):
You never called the show before. I know you're sitting
out there. It's not hard to do. Call me. Tell
me the best outdoor story you had from the this year,
this past year, not this year. It's been too short.
Give it a time to give it time to unfold.
What is your best twenty twenty five outdoor story. It's
all I want one new caller seven one three two

(01:20:11):
one two five seven nine zero. Put it in the phone.
At some point, I'm going to say something this year
that's going to really make you mad or really make
you think or whatever, and I would love for it
to respond. Air Ride Bikes you can respond to them.
Met Wayne Erington up there at air Ride Bikes. The
guy who owns a place would love for you to
respond to my encouragement that you go to his place

(01:20:34):
up there in the four Corner shopping center in Tomball.
You go there and you look at all the e
bikes that he has there, and that includes everything from
from little commuter bikes for the kids and maybe just
for you, maybe a three wheeled e bike. If you're
a little bit closer to my age, than Frankie's age,

(01:20:55):
and your balance isn't as good as it used to be.
All kinds of e bikes up there, all the way
up to the big hunting and fishing models too, And
by fishing I mean I envision using one of these
things to get up and down the beach on North
Padre Island. That's my little, focal focused vision of how
to make the most of an e bike on the beach,

(01:21:16):
getting you up and down that beach quietly. There's no
engine rattling, there's no heaviness of an actual car vibrating
into the water. And you can sneak up on those
fish same way you can sneak up on deer on
a deer lease, no human scent trail because your feet
never touched the ground. A fantastic way to think about

(01:21:38):
starting your hunting season off, well, not starting it off,
finishing it off. Go up to four Corner shopping Center.
Ask for Wayne if he's there, Get him to tell
you all about the bikes everything, all from the little
commuters like I talked about all the way up to
Troxus in Rambo. That big Rambo bike's got full power

(01:21:58):
to both wheels, it's got a low range on it,
and it's tough enough to get you into the lease wherever,
how far, ever far and deep that lease is, and
then turn around and get you in a big old
buck out of there. If you get that extra little
trailer attachment to put on the back of that thing,
you can haul you and everything else you took in
there out of there. Air Ride Bikes a r r id.

(01:22:22):
It's kind of part of Wayne Errington's name. Air Right
a r r ide air ride bikes dot com. If
you are looking for some great Mexican food to enjoy tomorrow,
because Berry Hill is closed on Sunday. That's why I
went yet last night. I went and picked up dinner
for my wife and me last night at Berry Hill

(01:22:43):
off Sugar it's Sugar Creek Boulevard. Yeah, I think it's
boulevard at fifty nine. Very easy to find. It's on
the inbound side, northbound side of fifty nine at Sugar
Creek Boulevard. It's in a big old strip shopping center there,
and it's right it's the closest property there too fifty nine. Actually,
it's right by the ramp that gets you back on
to come on into town. Berry Hill's been there thirty

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to thirty three years something like that. A lot of
my sponsors has been around for a long time, and
it's because they do things right. Berry Hill's one of those,
been in that same location for thirty something years, because
people keep coming back because they serve up delicious traditional
text mechs dishes with kind of a twist that's been
It's a berry Hill twist that's been put on what

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they serve up by the people who have been in
the kitchen for so long. The two primary cooks in
that kitchen each have been there more than ten years.
It's a just incredibly true, consistent product that you're gonna
get out of there, consistently delicious. I might add I
had the seafood enchiladas, just seafood, Yeah, seafood enchiladas. Last

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night my wife had her usual, which is the chicken
Baja chicken tacos. They have little guac, little pico and
just the right amount of seasoning on them. They're delicious too.
Every now and then she'll leave one, she'll eat one,
and then black beans she loves. And do you want
my other talcot? Why, yes, yes I do. I'll gobble
that up too. Every now and then we treat ourselves

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to trace letches too. I'm partial to the vanilla, the
traditional flavor, but they also do a chocolate trays letches
that if you ever get the option to have one
the the other, just say, yeah, I'll have some of both.
As a matter of fact, you'll love them both. Everything
out of Burry Hill is fantastic, great family atmosphere too.
You walk in the door, well, first you'll have to

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pass by the outdoor dining area to get to the door.
Then you walk through the door to the left, very
traditional tables and booths for family style dining, very casual,
and then to the rights more of a sports bar flavor.
There were more people in the sports bar last night
for obvious reasons because a lot's going on sports wise.
Then there were over on the family side, but plenty

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of room for everybody. And if you're new to Houston,
if you're new to sugar Land, go in there and
kind of let it be known, and somebody on that
pretty much somebody on that sports bar side will say, hey,
come have a seat, join us, We'll talk to you,
and you make a couple of friends. Berryhillsugar Land dot
com is a website They also do catering all over town.

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If you want to bring that big old truck full
of delicious right to your business or party or whatever
you're hosting. Berryhillsugar Land dot com. All right, welcome back
fifty well almost said fifty plus again. He'll be tuesday,
be back to take care of that. Then I have

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to why is this thing looking kind of dull?

Speaker 4 (01:25:40):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:25:40):
I know, I bet my batteries was No, the battery's fine. Uh,
for some reason, it just looks like it's a little
bit darker screen than it was before. That's about right.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety last chance, man,
if you want to be the I think it's the
second Sammy called yesterday. He was a first time caller.
And that makes two Sammy's we have now, So we

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gotta figure that out. We got to find some differentia
distinguishing factor as the Sammy's come through, and I know
one of them is closer to my age. I'm not
the one. The Samy who called yesterday, I think is
considerably younger than original Sammy and me. He and I
are about out cut from the same cloth. I think, Wow, man,

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it's been such fun being back in here. I can't lie.
I do enjoy being in here. I really do get
that coffee rolling through me right when I get here,
still a little bit m I sure wish I could
go back to sleep, but I would rather be sitting
here doing this, talking to all of you guys and
hearing from you as well. And if hey, if it's

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if it's email that makes you more comfortable, Rudy's that way.
I don't know that Rudy and I have ever talked.
I think maybe once he might have called. I was
talking to Frankie about that during the break a little
while ago. But he's not a frequent caller, but he
he sure makes some great contributions by email, and so
if that's more your style, that's fine too. I check

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him as often as I can. Alan Wade in This
is kind of bizarre. Out in San Francisco. There's an
advertisement that got noticed and I'm not going to tell
you exactly why, but this guy offers squatter removal services,
and based on what Alan wrote that accompanied the ad,

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he's not playing around. That's something I hope we never
need here, But that's kind of crazy. John Wade in
this I like a lot. So my first deer I
shot was thirty thirty marlin open sites, nearly forty years ago.
I wonder if John has taken any more deer in

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the last twenty years with that thirty thirty. I'd be
kind of curious to see if he sticks with it.
And a lot for me if I'm gonna, if I'm
gonna have a comfortable opportunity to shoot open sites, I
need to know that I'll have chances at least or
at least the setup will be such that I might

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get a shot inside one hundred yards. And if I
can get inside one hundred I'm pretty comfortable lifting up
that thirty thirty and slinging one out there. Thirty thirty
is an old kind of a brush gun. It'll at
bullet's heavy enough and lumbering out there fast enough that

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it'll cut through a little bit of stuff if it
has to, and still hit the target and do the job.
Some of the lighter bullets tend to bounce off a twig,
and they're moving so fast it doesn't take much to
knock them off course. And that's why it's just so
important to make sure you've got a clean shot, not
at the shape of the animal, hiding behind tall grass.

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But if the animal itself is if you don't, you're
gonna at best maybe just clean miss the deer, and
at worst had that bullet deflect, and like I was
talking about earlier, hit that animal in a place where
it's not going to go down right away and may
just run off. I don't know that I've talked about

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it in a long time, But there's stock also in
making sure that you don't take off too early to
go chase a deer that's down. You got to let
them just let kind of nature take its course, and
hopefully the deer just dies quickly wherever it went down.
But if you go out too soon and go looking

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for that deer and go stomping through the woods and
spook it while it still got adrenaline course and through
its body and it has half a pulse, it may
run another half a mile before it finally falls. We
don't want that happening, all right. I don't want to
end on a sad note in the first week end
of the new year. I want to bring everybody up.
You still got hunting season going on, you still got

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fishing dew, you got all kinds of things you can
do in the outdoors in the great state of Texas.
I want you to get out there and enjoy all
of it with your family. Do it safely, do it often,
and man. If you're starting to take kids fishing this year,
congratulations to you. If you're filing your bar down or
not filing them but mashing them down, congratulations to you.
I hope to meet every one of you in the outdoors.

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At some point I'll start looking see you then. Ideos