Opening Day of Deer Season!

Originally aired on November 1st, 2025. On this episode, Doug takes in the excitement of the hunting season, and talks all things deer and waterfowl.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Alright, here we go, opening day of deer season, of
light goose season, dark goose season, South Zone ducks.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Quail season opens today. And turkeys and and whatever exotic
slipped through your neighbor's high fence onto your ranch over
the summer, all of that's fair game. But no more
there are. There are still some seasons that haven't opened,
seasons that are were opened but are closed, and then
they're going to reopen some other time, and then there

(00:33):
will be splits for ducks. And it's it's not as
complicated as it sounds, really, And if you have been
hunting in this state long enough, you realize that the
best thing you can do is just just memorize the
entire list or put it on your phone. I guess
that's the memory has been replaced by phones. We rely

(00:56):
on them to remember everything we need to know, So
put it on your phone. The Parks and Wallefe Department's
website has all kinds of information of tremendous value to you,
up to and including all the bag limits, the things
you have to do if you're gonna go electronic, like
I'm doing this year, winning if I get to shoot

(01:19):
it ear this year, I'm gonna have to tag it electronically,
and then I have to of course put the how
do they describe it? Indelible ink or something like that.
A permanent marker is sharpie, is what they're trying to say.
But they just can't say the brand name without having
to pay for it. Probably in any event, that in
a little duct tab will keep you out of trouble.
There's numbers you have to put on that, I think name,

(01:41):
rank and serial number, something like that. The bottom line
is it's all open and for those of us who
aren't out there, maybe you've got great plans for next weekend.
Maybe you just don't like the hullabaloo and hassle of
opening day. I can remember very distinctly as a guide,
opening day was full back when the Katy Prairie was

(02:05):
the world's premiere waterfowl destination. You would have had a
hard time booking a hunt on opening day with any
of the guide services if you waited even until probably
in late September maybe to make that reservation. It was

(02:26):
jam packed. The places where the outfitting, well the outfitters
met their hunters were jam packed. There were cars in
every space and spilling onto the street and the roadside
and everywhere else all to go out there. What I
think was just a little early for the opening of

(02:47):
goose season, that the majority of the birds hadn't gotten
here yet, And especially with geese, that's probably still the case.
I know there are better numbers of ducks out here,
and the duck hunters are already out there. I can't
I don't recall what time shooting time is this morning, Frankie.
We look and see, just for argument's sake, what time

(03:11):
is sunrise in Houston today, and then we'll back it
up thirty minutes and that's when shooting time will be.
Shooting time one half hour before sunrise. Wherever you're hunting.
You can't use the one half hour before sunrise time
in Liberty County to to base your first shot off

(03:33):
on down in Garwood, Yes, or what is it? Seven five?
So in about one minute, thirty minutes before sunrise, it'll
be teem uptime here inside the loop. You've got a
duck lease inside the loop. I'd like to know about
it too. I'd pay a premium to hunt inside the loop.
I'd be so much easier than having to drive for
the prairie, wouldn't it I anticipate some pretty tough warnings. Honestly,

(04:01):
if you look at the weather, there's not a whole
lot going on to make it easy on duck hunters
who would much prefer I would say a low ceiling,
low clouds, about a ten to twelve mile an hour
wind to keep the decoys kind of bouncing and wobbling
just a little bit in in a month's well. Of course,

(04:21):
now we have the mojo decoys for doves and geese
and condors and everything else. All of everything has to
be electronic now, I guess to be satisfactory. There's no
more manual labor involved really in duck hunting, unless you
count putting the bag of decoys onto the four wheeler
or into the trailer to get them out there. Now,

(04:44):
I guess you still have to throw them out. It's
gotten a lot easier, it really has. I'm thinking I'm
flashing back to some of the some of the forced
marches my hunters and I took on that Katie Prairie.
We had no four wheelers. We didn't even have three wheelers.
I didn't know one. I couldn't afford one. Back then,
we had nothing but arms and legs and desire and

(05:08):
willpower some more than others. In reference to the hunters
who had traveled here from other cities wanting to go
duck and goose hunting and concurrently for a Saturday morning hunt.
Let's say they mix in on Friday night, their last

(05:30):
shot at anything that will ever look like a bachelor party.
They end up in some gentlemen's club somewhere. They stayed
till about well till closing time till two, and then
realize they're expected to be on the Katie Prairie for
breakfast at four, four fifteen, I think is when we
met them. A lot of them were not looking so
sprye not looking so rested when they showed up, and

(05:52):
it became more apparent which ones had stayed out and
which ones hadn't when you handed them about thirty pounds
of damp goose rags, These plastic rags we used to use.
I don't know if anybody uses rags anymore, but they
would be effective. I'm sure if there were some place
where there were enough snow geese that it would attract
them with just the right amount of breeze. They were

(06:14):
very very good, very effective, A huge step up from
diapers and torn bed sheets and newspapers, which were the first,
at least that I know. That was my first experience
with goose hunting was over. My friend's dad stopped Ron
Nixon's dad, Ray stopped at the convenience store and bought

(06:36):
two Sunday newspapers and off we went to goose hunting
some field out west to here somewhere and just got
those newspapers out, shook them out and just draped the pages,
draped the pages over the rice doubble, and it worked.
We shot some geese that morning, and I was absolutely
hooked from that moment forward. We got the bed sheet thing.

(07:00):
I can assure you there were a lot of a
lot of guys got in a lot of trouble and
a lot of jewelry was sold because of what they'd done.
In desperation being told by other hunters that they needed
more torn bed sheets to attract more geese, they just
raided the laundry room, raided the linen closet, and any

(07:22):
sheet that didn't look brand new got taken out and
torn up and marched into the reichfields. I know a
couple of guys who who got threatened to within an
inch of their lives for tearing up brand new sheets
that someone had sent them. You could go into the
discount stores almost any time of year and pick a

(07:43):
few up, except from about September through October, because that's
when all the goose hunters were going in there and
stocking up on everything. Walmart had everything, Kmart there was Walmart,
came Art, there was one that started with a G
do you gym co? There was that one that's way
before your time, Frankie, probably before you were born. I

(08:06):
believe it was at the corner of beech Nut and
Fondering did beech Hunt and Fondering Cross. I know where
it was because it ended up going up on the
same property, if I'm not mistaken, as stood the church
in which I grew up, and that church moved to
a different location down the line somewhere, and in its

(08:29):
place came a giant box discount store that didn't have sheets.
After about October fifteenth or so, Good heavens, I've wandered away.
As I mentioned, the weather probably couldn't be much better
for deer hunters. The waterfowl guys are going to have
a tough go with the bright sky, and I don't
know when this little rain stuff is supposed. This slight

(08:51):
chance of rain we have is supposed to come along today,
but it keeps getting slighter, if you will, And I
don't expe to do much of nothing, as they say,
let me see if I can get to that forecast
real quick. I actually all go to the weather channel
and let it tell me where or where the clouds

(09:13):
may be if we have any right now, or at
least something that will show up on radar. Clouds don't
show up on radar much. I don't think there's anything
in Texas yet. No, it's not looking good. Not looking
good if you're looking for cover. Oh this thing is
so Yeah, we got nothing the blue sky this morning.
I'm pretty sure it was dead dark when I came in.

(09:33):
That's why I can't really tell. And now I have
no window in here, so I'm not sure. During the break,
when we get to it, I'll peek outside and see
if there's enough light to tell if there's anything in
the sky other than planets and stars. Go down to there.
Check that once. Check that once. By the way, you

(09:55):
will find if you're out duck hunting this morning, or
you will find when you come in that the ducks.
If you've been out there scouting and watching ducks and
the geese. Whatever geese are here, yet they tend to come.
I started with this, and I've drifted away from it.
I'll go back to it before we have to go
to the break ducks and geese. When I was guiding,

(10:16):
the tendency was for people to want to be first
in line. Well, we want to hunt on an opening day, Okay,
that's fine. I'm talking about out of state hunters when
they're trying to set their plans, and invariably we would
try to get them to consider coming later, say between
Thanksgiving and Christmas. That was the window that typically had

(10:40):
the most birds here, but the fewest birds who had
already been pressured all the way down the flyway. Now that,
in fact, that pressure down the flyway didn't even start
really until probably twenty years into it. When I was
waterfowl hunting. The people who were coming down here had
no idea how we hunted these snow geese and how

(11:01):
we got so many. And then the more of them
who came down, the more of them took those same
strategies back up north, and by the time they get
here now many of the young birds, the gullible ones,
the ones that are easiest to decoy, are gone from
the flock, and most of them have been well educated,
regardless of their age. The average age, by the way,

(11:23):
just a story many years ago on this. The average
age of white geese coming down the flyway back then,
and this has got to have been at least thirty
years ago, was seven. They'd made seven trips down, seven
trips back and avoided being shot the whole time. That's remarkable,

(11:43):
first of all, that they got through the gauntlet. We
had a lot of people out there hunting back then,
and it also made them very smart, and that's one
of the reasons. I'm just amazed by what geese do.
When geese are taking care of each other, and some
of the stories I've already told one hundred times, I
don't want to do that now. The first break shall
we We are coming into the holiday season, the gift

(12:04):
giving season, and if you have an outdoors person in
your life who deserves an amazing gift, that gift might
be a custom knife made by cowboys. Emanski out there
in Belleville. He's on Main Street, has been since nineteen
seventy nine. Although he's in a bigger facility right now,

(12:27):
so there's a lot more room to do a lot
more things in there. He has more people working with
him and for him now turning out beautiful knives of
any and every imagination. Whatever your imagination can come up with.
They can make that knife for you. And that knife
that you get from them is going to last you generations,

(12:48):
really if you take care of it. If you want
to go out there and have a little fun with
your family by the way, a little holiday road trip
drive out to Belleville, go in there and say, hey,
we heard that you'll help us make our own knife.
Is that true? And they'll say yes, and you'll either
be first in line, or maybe somebody else is in
front of you, but one of the journeymen out there

(13:10):
will take you back into the hot, hot steal back
where the furnace is and let you pound out a
knife blade for yourself. That's kind of cool, something most
kids don't ever get to do, and you and your
whole family can do it out there, and they'll be
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(13:33):
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him and getting in line, because it takes weeks, if
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these knives that he puts out, and so you kind
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(14:00):
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Speaker 1 (14:12):
Oh, Mercy, opening day and I'm sitting in here, what's
going on.

Speaker 2 (14:18):
I was tempted, I really was tempted, and I turned
it down because I wanted to be here to kind
of wallow in the sorrow of myself and everybody else
who loves to hunt and fish but isn't doing either
this morning. It's there was a good run, a good

(14:39):
run probably twenty five thirty years where I don't think
I missed an opening day. I really enjoyed all of that,
dove season, waterfowl season, deer season, quail season. I didn't
do as much quail hunting because I didn't have access
as much I do remember doing. I know I did
a couple of hunts, just kind of casual fun stuff

(15:02):
with Bill Carter at his place. I don't even recall
that Bill may have even come on the hunt, but
we were down there and we got to do a
little of it, and then blame Friar Mood hosted me
a couple of times down at his place, and I've
gotten invites to other ranches around the state and around
the South, and enjoy every minute of it, absolutely enjoy

(15:26):
every minute of it. That's watching those dogs work is
fascinating to me, it really is, and I greatly appreciate
the good dogs, and I greatly feel for the trainers
who have to work with dogs that are a little
stubborn and not quite finished yet, because it takes a

(15:46):
remarkable amount of patience. It's like trying to a lot
of times. One of the problems is the birds will
will break and just run in and or the dogs
will break and rush in and flush the birds before
the hunter are there. And it's almost like setting a
cookie in front of a toddler and saying, don't eat

(16:06):
that yet. Now I don't pick it. Nope, nope, you
can't have it. No, no, you can't have it. And
it never works out well. It never works out well.
They think that they that we want them to run
in there and spook that bird and they're going in
there trying to catch it for us and bring it back.
What they have to learn to do is stop when

(16:29):
they see that bird, when they smell that bird, and
then very very carefully, almost almost statue like, creep up
a little closer and a little closer, and then when
given a signal, go go ahead and eat the cookie.
And of course, fortunately for us, most of the time

(16:50):
they don't catch the cookie some most places. Here's something
that I hadn't didn't even have on my sheet this morning,
but I'll jump on it real quick. There are plenty
of places in this region of ours because a lot
of places don't have great quail populations, but they have
beautiful looking terrain on which to hunt quail. So they

(17:13):
will buy birds from quail farms. They don't grow them
like row crops, but they do raise quail on I
guess it'd be a quail ranch since it's an animal.
They buy these birds, they bring them in and then
they set them out in places where they have kind
of marked areas where everybody walks around. The guides know

(17:37):
where the birds are. Believe me, the guides know where
the birds are. They've been put out fifteen twenty minutes ago,
thirty minutes ago maybe, and then outcome the dogs and
the hunters. And if those birds have been raised in
a large enough pen, a big enough flight pin to
where from the time they're young to the time they
get scooped up and put in a box and transported,

(18:00):
they will fly nearly like wild quail. Maybe not quite
like it, but nearly so. And it's it's a legitimate experience.
It's a lot of fun. The birds are quicker even
in some of the not greatest of those situations. A quail,
if you haven't hunted many of them, and if you

(18:21):
haven't hunted any wild ones, a quail is still a
very quick bird. It's and it's there's a reason for that,
and it's in the chest muscles. That's why doves and
doves have dark meat. They're a migratory bird. They have
to they groom, No, they don't groom them. Their muscles

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are born for long distance flying. Same with a duck,
same with a goose. That's why all that meat is
so dark. The upland birds, the quail, the turkeys, the
grouse have that white meat in there because it's got
a different chemical makeup. And that is for sprinting that

(19:03):
is for uh, oh, there's a fox on my tail.
I got to get out of here right now. And
up they go. And if you've never hunted wild quail,
if you get the opportunity, do it, absolutely so. It's
just one of the most amazing, one of the most
amazing fun birds. And boy, I can slip right into
a safety sam pitch here. Quail hunting, if you've never

(19:26):
done it before, has potential to be quite dangerous because
these birds come up and they don't just fly away
from you. They may fly straight back in your face
because when the dog jumps those birds and gets them airborne,
they don't know where you are. They don't know you
from a tree or a hole in the wall. They
just know it's something they're going to have to fly around.

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And if you're not careful, then you're not paying attention
to where everybody is. Bad things can happen. They rarely
do because most people are are aware. Most people follow
the rules of safety. But just know that if you're
on a quail hunt with people who are fairly new

(20:08):
to it, you gotta be careful. It doesn't happen so
much in duck and goose hunts. Because waterfowl hunting, the
hunters are in one spot, they typically don't move around
at all. Dove hunting people get up and move around.
And anytime you do get up, if you're gonna move
during a dove hunt, where you might have to go
behind a tree somewhere for a minute, or maybe you

(20:31):
want to go over to the ice box ice chest,
which is fifty yards away by your friend and not
by you anymore. If you're gonna get up and move
and there are other hunters around you, before you even
stand up, as you stand up, holler loudly enough for
everybody to hear, Hey, I'm moving over to the ice
chest for a minute, or I'm moving over behind another

(20:52):
tree because the birds seem to be flying that way better.
And let them know you're up and in there in
their area, so that nobody who thinks, oh, he's still
by that fence post, Yeah, I don't have to worry
about this bird. I can go ahead and shoot it
it because my buddy's over there behind that fence post. It. Well, no,
if you're up walking around in the field now, you're

(21:14):
potentially in the line of fire and in quail hunting,
because it all happens so quickly. They're just very brief
bursts of action. There's nothing You're just following the dogs,
following the dogs, following the dogs. All of a sudden,
there's a point. If there's a guide involved, that guide
should put everybody in the right position before the birds

(21:36):
are flushed. And if you stray from that path, if
you stray from where you're supposed to be, knowing that
there's no way of knowing which way quail are gonna fly,
you could put yourself in harm's way. That's why it's
so important to have the bright orange or bright yellow
or neon something. If I could get a battery operated

(21:58):
vest that just flashed lights and had bells and whistles
and a siren on it, a couple of people I've
hunted quail with in the past one time each, by
the way, I would have worn something like that just
to keep myself safe. Seven one three, two, one two
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(22:19):
of your accomplishments already today, which in theory could be there.
Seven twenty eight we're what twenty three and a half
minutes into shooting time already for the waterfowl guys, and
that well, that's here, So it might be a few
more minutes a little farther down the coast, or a
little farther towards San Antonio. But the east side's already

(22:42):
started up, the Katie Prairies already started up, and I'm
hoping down Eagle Lakeway they've already started up. I'm gonna
try to get David Prut on the phone. I've left
him a message just to see how the opener is
going down there. And boy, I bet a lot of
those guys wish they had more more claud cover forrest.
By the way, folk Pro sent me a picture from

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up there around on Alaska. There's a pretty solid cloud cover,
but it's a high cover, and that's not really gonna
change where those birds fly much. It'll at least take
the hard shadows and glare off of anybody who's sitting
in a duck blind, keep them from scaring ducks that way.

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But it could have been better weather deer hunting great weather, light, wind,
nice and cool, the ground's not damp. I could have, honestly,
I could have stood a little bit more dampness in
the air and on the ground. That softened the walking
through the woods and chomping on leaves and making a
lot of noise trying to get to the stand in

(23:45):
the morning. Got to be very careful with that. I
won't go There's a detail in how you walk through
the woods that can either help you or hurt you.
And I may get into that. It's it's a really
in the weeds little thing. But if you do it,
you'll find that it actually it does keep deer at ease.
I've done it in places where I know they're deer,

(24:08):
and I actually can see deer sometimes walking through the woods.
And if you walk this way it tends to work
out better than if you walk that way. I'll tell
you about that one. Get back well, Blackhrse Golf Club
up there, off two ninety and Fry Road. Take two
ninety to Fry Road, hanging south and go down a
few miles. You'll see golf course and then a little

(24:29):
farther you'll see the gate. Turn west and head in
and go ahead and go play some golf today. It's
going to be a beautiful day for it, minus that
little random chance of a scattered thunderstorm somewhere. Hopefully it
won't hit you if you're out there playing golf. Black
Course a great place. Two courses up there. The South
course has been taken private has started up back in January,

(24:53):
and membership is going very well. There's still room for more.
And if you take one of these membership options up there,
that south course, you get four other courses. Of course,
you get the North course at black Horse in addition
to your South course that you can play, but you
also get both club both courses at Golf Club of
Houston and Blackhawk Country Club. You get access to all

(25:15):
those clubs for that one membership at black Horse's South Course.
I need to get up there. I haven't been up
there yet to kind of see what they're doing with
the place. Craig Hicks, the guy who's the general manager
up there, promised me it was gonna be worth seeing
when it's done, and I may just run up there
in the next week or so to say hello and
see what it looks like. Black Horse Golf Club dot

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Sports Talk seven ninety The Dougpike Show. Thank you for listening.
I certainly do appreciate it. This morning, boy, we may
be a loans rankie. Every out there having fun man
opening days. Just I told somebody at work here yesterday
they were moaning about having to drive home at five o'clock, said,
don't worry, there's not going to be any traffic. Half

(27:13):
the people in the city, or at least t who
live outside the loop, were gone. They left. A lot
of them left Thursday for last minute work on their
deer leases, their duck leases, whatever. They were gone, they
packed up and hauled out. There was a time, probably

(27:34):
I want to say maybe twenty to twenty five years ago,
or yeah, I'd say twenty to twenty five years ago,
right around the nineties and early two thousands, when there
were actual it was almost celebration before the opening of
deer season, and there were some radio stations, there were

(27:55):
some retail outlets that would put up these portable tents
and whatnot along the side of the interstate, now not
right next to the interstate where somebody could get run over,
but just at places where people could pull off the
road and talk about deer. Honey. It was deer season.

(28:17):
It was in celebration of the deer season opener, and
it was such a big deal that there was this
impromptu twenty four hour parade where you could pull off
the interstate and pull through there and maybe get yourself
a couple of koozies. Maybe somebody had a came camouflage
handkerchief they would give you, or whatever. All the retailers

(28:40):
out there they had last minute supplies you could buy,
and just all this fanfare around deer season. And so
I knew with great confidence. Now all of that's kind
of gone away, all that promotion, and I don't really
know why. Maybe somebody got their feelings hurt. That's gotta
be it, Frankie, somebody's feeling were hurt, so they told

(29:01):
us not to do it, and so we copped out
and capitulated, and we don't do it anymore, but I
think we should. I think that's that is something to celebrate.
The hunting seasons. The opening of hunting season is a
legitimately good thing for the state of Texas. It's good
for the people who do it because people who spend
a lot of time outdoors. There's just there's a million

(29:25):
reasons why you should spend more time outdoors, and I
can't even get into them all. Now, there's that, there's
the fact that the animals, these people are chasing are
very tasty if you know how to cook them. And
there is the really important factor, especially with white tailed deer,

(29:46):
that if we don't take a few hundred thousand deer
out of our state wide herd, the entire herd will
be will end up not overnight, but the entire herd
could end up threatened by either starvation or disease, which
are the only two tools that nature has in the

(30:07):
box to check excessive populations. There's only so much food
that our land will grow that deer can eat. There's
an x amount. And if it takes X amount of
food to feed the number of deer we have now,
and we don't take out a bunch of them before

(30:30):
the breeding season finishes up and ends up being the
birthing season next spring, then all those new deer coming
into the population also have to eat, and by the
time winter gets there, there will be too many deer eating,
and those too many deer will not as a group

(30:51):
have had enough to eat to get them through a
really hard winter, to get them through, get them through
a stretch of disease, something comes up in there. There's
all kinds of things that can affect these animals. But
the starvation is the is the It's not the worst
one to watch happen within a population, but it's it's

(31:12):
pretty it's pretty rough. If you see ribs exposed, not exposed,
but ribs through the skin of a very gaunt, very
starved deer, it's just it's a horrible way for them
to go. And unless we make sure that the land
can cover whatever deer we got, then we got a problem.

(31:34):
And we're taking habitat away from every animal in the
state pretty much. Every time a house goes up, every
time a warehouse goes up, every time anything replaces land,
just raw land, then we've we've tinkered again. We've tinkered
again with the carrying capacity of our state for its wildlife.

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And to do that and turn a blind eye to
it is is unaccepted. The boy, it can't be done.
These animals are too important to us, and not just
this is not just recreation. This is an industry. It's
a very important industry in this state as well. It
provides billions of dollars in revenue for the state overall,

(32:17):
and that's something to take into consideration as well. I
did not like seeing the Katie Prairie fragmented and concreted
the way it has been over the past twenty years.
I hated seeing that happen because that was at the
time I was getting to go out there and enjoy

(32:38):
it the way I like to enjoy it and take
as many people as I did hunting out there. Boy,
that was fun. Boy, it was fun. And it was
just wide open prairie. The only buildings out there really
were grain silos and some dryers and a few farmhouses,
maybe a couple of just miscellaneous barns and whatnot. But

(33:04):
there wasn't development like we know it anywhere out there.
There really wasn't, And that was from when I started
out there. It was really from a little west of
Highway six pretty much all the way to as far
as you could drive on a tank of gas. Now
you had Katie and Brookshire there in between, the tiny

(33:25):
little towns, but once you got out of their town
city limits, it was farms. It was just farms and farms,
and then more farms, and then a few more farms
beyond those, and rice for days and stoybeans and corn
and peanuts and a lot of fallow ground out there.

(33:47):
You just let it recover and let it regain all
of its all of whatever it needed to grow whatever
CRAPPI you were gonna put in there next year. It
was a huge business and a lot of those people
did very well financially. And I don't care how much
money a farmer makes. What they do is worth more

(34:07):
and how they do it is worth more. That's really
hard work. No guarantees. Put the seeds in the ground,
and magically, if all goes well, you get a harvest
that is worth more than it cost you to put
the seeds in the ground. All too often, especially if
you've driven between here and South Texas down fifty nine,

(34:31):
All too often some of what they plant never makes
it because you go through a drought, or you go
through some insect problem or whatever. Farming is one of
the most fragile things. I think. I don't know a
lot about it, but I can tell you from driving
down the freeway and driving down a lot of backroads

(34:52):
that those crops don't always come through. And there used
to be no crop insurance even and that was really rough.
You had a bad year. You had a bad year.
You hope you saved enough two years ago when you
had that great banner bumper crop. I hope you saved
enough to make it through. It's amazing what those farmers do.

(35:15):
They're so important to us, and we haven't treated them right,
especially the small family farms. I wish we could do
better by anybody who's a small family farmer. I really do.
All right, it's time again seven forty five. We'll take
a little break here. Let me tell you. I want
to tell you again about air ride bikes. This is

(35:35):
an e bike shop up on the tom Ball Parkway
in Tomball, owned by a guy named Wayne Errington. And
I've had the good opportunity pleasure of meeting him, finally
talk to him on the phone a bunch of times
before we got going on this, and finally got to
meet him, finally got to ride an e bike for
the first time. And I'm throwing nickels in the jar

(35:57):
every time I turn around, because some point in my
I'm gonna have one of these things. The latest addition
to his fleet up there, which includes it includes entry
level e bikes, It includes three wheelers for those of
us whose balance isn't what it used to be. That's
a little bit more for my fifty plus crowd. Maybe
it includes bikes that will get you around town to

(36:20):
the grocery store, and back to the library, and back
wherever you try, the bank, wherever you're going. And then
there are the big Boys. The latest addition to the
Big Boy fleet is this Troxis Explorer Plus. And this
one's got seven hundred and fifty watt hub drive motor.

(36:41):
It's got just all kinds of torque. It's got the
big heavy tires that can get you through any kind
of terrain, anything from the up climbing up a mountain
trail to getting through soft sand at the beach. It'll
keep you moving, getting you to the fish or the deer,
or the ducks or whatever. Master and quiet. That's the

(37:03):
coolest thing about riding bikes in the woods, going deer hunting,
going to your little favorite little duck pond that you
don't want to really cause a lot of commotion, get
into it. Anywhere you want to go hunting. I could
see that. Maybe, No, I don't know if I'd want
to be on a bike for a quail hunt. That
might not work. But the deer hunting thing is incredible.

(37:25):
Think about being able to slip into that stand in
the afternoon without making the noise of a pickup truck
dropping you off and you having to slam that creaky
door of that old ranch truck zero noise. They're gonna
get you where you're going, and they're strong enough that
you can even attach a little trailer and carry out
a couple of deer if you need to, maybe put

(37:47):
your big hunting buddy back in that back to like
a sidecar on a motorcycle. Two of you can get
where you're going and get out of there too. There's
plenty of range on these things they've got up to,
like I think ninety miles something like that. Just crazy
how far you can drive on these things, and all
with that good full power. Air ride Bikes dot Com

(38:09):
is the website. Go by there tell Wayne, I said, hello,
if you do, I haven't been up there to see
the story yet, and I'd love for somebody to tell
me what it looks like and what kind of experience
you had there. Shoot me an email with it. Air
ride Bikes dot Com, Wayne Errington, air Ride Bikes a
r R I d E a r R id E

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air ride Bikes dot Com. In case you can't see me,
well most of us can't. Frankie can, but he's the
only one I today am sporting. Check it out, Frankie. Look, Look,
look look Kobe Stevens fishing shirt that I think is
so awesome. Most of the times I've been fishing in
the last probably the last six months, Uh, this has

(38:51):
been my go to. This has been my one. I
love this thing. It is is comfortable, It keeps the
sun off my skin. It gives me a little bit
of camouflage, and this is water camouflage, not deep woods camouflage.
And it just fits well. Kobe Stevens is started as
a golf apparel company and they're branching into the outdoors

(39:14):
and they've got a few pieces for that, and men's
and women's stuff, kids sizes for the big boys in
the audience up to four X that'll cover most everybody.
I know. It looks good, it takes care of It
makes you feel good to just be wearing something really
nice and really sharp looking while you're out there fishing.
I'm kind of the same way with fishing as I

(39:35):
am with golf. I feel like looking good is half
the thing. Sometimes you like to fly under the radar
a little bit. If you're a sandbagger in golf and
you don't want to flash your your true colors, do
something else. But if you want to look good, if
you want to feel good playing or fishing, check into
Kobe Stevens. They've got a store up on the North
Side up there in Spring and they also have a

(39:57):
website Kobe Stevens dot com. And by the way, if
you're looking for Kobe Gallic, the man who owns the company,
he's probably not going to be in the store. You'll
probably have a hard time catching him because almost every
day he's at a golf tournament somewhere helping people raise
money for good causes. That guy gives back as much

(40:17):
or more than anybody I know. He truly does, and
it's sincere too. He's not doing it to try to
feather his own nests. He's just doing it because it's
the right thing to do. Kobe Stevens dot com. Go
check it out. Co O B Y S T E
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(40:38):
four already, Holy cow, did I went along on a
couple of spots, didn't I? Frankie, I'm so sorry. I
can't help myself, man. I just I like to talk
about the people who who support this show. And the
good products that they sell. It's as simple as that.
We'll tie it up with get Tar, Dave. Then we'll
go to Faux Pro. See what happens, Dave. What is

(40:59):
up man?

Speaker 3 (41:01):
Well, opening day man. People been poling at the mouth
for this for a while. Yeah, yeah, sir, And you know,
I don't hunt that much anymore, but I sure do
like I like to be, you know, like to be
a reporter person to go and just kind of do
the filming or something.

Speaker 2 (41:19):
Honestly, you know that I'm at that stage in my
life as well, Dave. I like just being there. Now.
I'll go what I do if somebody invites me to
go deer hunting, I can. I'm not probable. I'm probably
not going to shoot one of their deer. But what
I am going to do is volunteer to go to
a place that nobody's been to in a long time.
They really don't know if there's anything back there. They're
just kind of wondering maybe if there's something they ought

(41:42):
to be looking at. I'll go sit there for three
or four hours and and and come back and give
them a full report. Every chipmunk and squirrel and iguana
I see back there.

Speaker 3 (41:54):
I got you, Hey, a rattlesnaper or two anything? When
you mentioned earlier gym Co, I ain't taught about that
that man, I bought it. Hey, I bought my first TV,
like one of the TV's. It was a console from
jimtow there on forty five, the.

Speaker 2 (42:11):
One out there in Sharpstown. That one is where I
bought my first uh ambassador five thousand A man, I
don't remember. I think I paid forty nine busy board
or something like that. And boy, that just that was
a game changer, wasn't it.

Speaker 3 (42:25):
Hey, what about remember the handy dan?

Speaker 4 (42:28):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (42:28):
Lord, you know that was a good Uh, that was
a good place to go. But no, everything is going good.

Speaker 2 (42:36):
Huh.

Speaker 3 (42:36):
Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna get I'm gonna
get out of here. Oh wait, I got two guys
over here. They got a Florida license plate and they
got a they're finishing here. This is their first time here.
They're using like little spinner base and stuff. Yeah, and uh,
he travels around, he says, and services RV's.

Speaker 2 (42:55):
Oh that's kind of nice job.

Speaker 3 (42:58):
Yeah, him and his brother. So yeah, really, how you well,
I'll let you go, all.

Speaker 2 (43:03):
Right, David's good to hear from you, buddy. We'll see man.
Thank you, audios. Okay, get that. Let's go talk to
faux Procy. What's up, Faux pro What is going on
up there? You said you got a little cloud cover
up there at least huh.

Speaker 5 (43:17):
Yeah, A bunch of them, bunch of them high clouds
that you know, look like I don't see them throwing
the rain today. I don't leave it right now. I'm
pretty good on rain. Oh I'm sitting out here. I
forty sitting out here, the T shirt comfortable with. Yesterday
I went out. You're familiar with the Juggle area's legend.

(43:39):
I decided to go fishing in the area yesterday. Adjacent
to that area. It's kind of in a central hub
of dust on in Livingston. I consider that I can
kind of out for next weekend. So the next duck
I see will be the first.

Speaker 2 (43:54):
Oh wow, that's interesting, I did.

Speaker 5 (43:59):
It's just I said, let me said the un parted
you get a chest and looking at my Facebook page,
I ran in. There's a big flat out in the
middle of remember where you and I said, So if
you go south of there a couple of miles, it
opens up into the big part of white probably about
a mile wife. You know, there's a big flat out
there at foot deep next to the chattle, about fifteen

(44:20):
foot and I ran into a stool of alligator guar
and I hooked up on one. That is funny. I
after do the.

Speaker 3 (44:29):
School of guar.

Speaker 5 (44:31):
And if you drew a fifty yard radius from my
boat in a circle with that, dude, and I should
have took a picture of my life and covered it
to the sixty a half foot gaw, wow, wow, I've
never seen anything like so. I got a second video
of it on my phone.

Speaker 2 (44:48):
I'll have to take a look. Yeah, I'll do that
for sure.

Speaker 5 (44:52):
But on the duck cutting side of things, something I
do today would be a terrible day to do it.
But up there liters and we we have a lot
of a lot of flues, a lot of marshes, a
lot of stuff like that in the jungle area, north
of the jungle area, things south of Trinity to the jungle,
and we'd get out on it, super super high, windy Dames,

(45:13):
and this is Jacobs want to potholes and back one
of flues. You know, I love the jump shoot.

Speaker 2 (45:20):
Oh yeah, we go out.

Speaker 5 (45:21):
We go out in the fox in the morning, take
the boat, you go down wind of all this and
we would just talk up and always, you know, love it.
I just love that. Don't mean no decoys. Sure you
need to be forty years younger.

Speaker 2 (45:36):
Yeah, that's all. Just turn the clock back forty years.
It might be fifty for me. Good lord. All right, man, Well,
it's good to hear from you as always, Foe Bro.
Keep me posted, will.

Speaker 5 (45:46):
You, yes, sir, yes, they're have a good day.

Speaker 2 (45:49):
We'll see you all right. We got to take a
little break here, and on the way, I want to
remind everybody, actually I didn't yet. We have early dismissal
because we got to take a college football game in
a little so I'm going to be out of here
after one more hour. We'll be here till nine and
then Sports Investors Daily will go nine to ten, and
then it's football, college football coming in loud and clear.

(46:11):
By the way, Rudy echoed what Forrest said about the ducks,
just that I've heard there are few, if any big
ducks in Texas right now. He feels like something's wrong.
I'll talk about that. I'll address that, and then something
also that Steve sent when we get back on the
way out El Kubano Cigars. That's my buddy, Manny Lopez

(46:32):
down there in Texas City, hand rolling cigars every single
day to make sure he can send out. They ship
anywhere from hundreds to one thousand and more cigars every
week out of that relatively small place. But somebody's in there,
sometimes two or three people rolling cigars almost all day

(46:52):
long to accommodate these orders that they get. Some are
regular orders from regular customers, some are newcomers who are
maybe getting a special order for a charity where you
can get that charity's name and logo printed on the
bands for the cigars. They make one hundred and fifty
different kinds. In bear in mind, this is one of

(47:13):
only about four dozen cigar manufacturing companies in this old
country of ours, and most of them are down there
in Miami. As you might imagine, Well, Manny Lopez and
his dad came straight here from Cuba back in two
thousand and six, and they have been using well he
now has been using his dad's retired I believe he's

(47:33):
retired anyway. Man. He's been using only the finest Cuban
seed tobacco they grow them in Central America, so there's
no problem bringing them in. Bring these tobacco leaves in here.
They get cured and cooled and all kinds of stuff
happens to him for a while, and then they get
rolled into cigars one hundred and fifty different kinds, and
they are everything from bold to mild, everything from long

(47:57):
to short, from colorful, well colorful as shades of brown
go when they wrap them with special leaves and whatnot.
They can do anything at everything you want with the cigars,
and the best thing is you're buying straight from the manufacturer.
There are no middlemen taking their dollar or two a
stick and just racking up the price on you. Lcoubanosigars

(48:17):
dot com. Many'll even come out and set up a
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you want him out there, he'll give you the details
to get online, find his phone number and call him.
Lcoubonocigars dot com, lcubanocigars dot com. Now here's Doug Pike.
Second and final hour of this college football short in

(48:40):
the morning. I don't mind that. College football's big deal,
as we all know, and I watch some I don't
watch any specific school more closely than others. I'm kind
of semi neutral. What I do when I see a
game on TV is I look at the records of
the two sco and if they're pretty evenly matched, then

(49:02):
I'm kind of curious to see how the game goes,
especially if they're highly ranked and evenly matched, like six
against nine or something like that. But if it's the
second or third ranked school taking on an unranked school
that's oh and six or oh and seven, I don't
know how many weeks we've been going, then I know

(49:25):
I can turn the TV back on in about thirty
minutes and it'd be forty to nothing. And I don't
like watching games that aren't even close. Speaking of the
Boy of the World Series game last night, holy cow,
what a what an end to that?

Speaker 4 (49:41):
Huh?

Speaker 2 (49:41):
I just saw it. I went to bed after the
eighth inning and saw how the ninth unfolded the bottom
of the ninth when it looked like Toronto might have
something going, and all of a sudden, bam, bam bam.
Double play left fielder I don't even know who plays
left field for the Dodgers. Left fielder on the fly

(50:05):
running in catches a ball that really never had a
chance of falling in for a hit, but the runner
on second was a little too far off that base,
and the left fielder knew that and saw that as
he ran in to catch the fly ball and snap
throw spot on double play. See it tonight, Game seven.

(50:29):
That'll be kind of fun. I'm looking forward to it,
I really am. I'm looking at some emails I want
to talk about. First of all, Rudy weighed in kind
of like faux Pro did, and Rudy's saying he hadn't
heard of many big ducks, if any really in Texas yet.
I think that part of that is weather related, but

(50:50):
there's also there are also maybe mitigating factors such as
habitat loss. I don't know that it's a food because
ducks and geese, while they do eat many of the
same foods, the ducks are more adaptable to aquatic vegetation
in some cases, depending on the duck, maybe even eating

(51:11):
snails and things like that. And spoon Bill, the next
snail of spoon bil Ingus won't be the first, that's
for sure, but I'm hoping that, just as was the
case when I was guiding, it might be a little
premature based on the weather we've had up until now
to expect those ducks to be here. Now there also is.

(51:34):
And Rudy doesn't mention this. Actually technically he does. When
he mentions habitat, he I believe is referring to habitat
loss here. But what's happening up the flyway is that
hunting outfitters are kind of dressing up the place. They're
painting the house, they're they're putting out new putting new side,

(51:58):
they're landscaping there and all these things to their prairie
and woods north of here to hold those ducks until
it finally just gets so cold they have to come
on down here. And that's an issue, it really is.
And that started back when when goose hunting, When goose

(52:20):
hunting began its decline, part of it was because we
had showed the people up north how to hunt geese.
They knew how to hunt ducks, they had tons of them.
But the Central Central Flyway population of snow geese would
get up and fly all night on a favorable tail
wind and stop once, maybe twice, coming all the way

(52:43):
down from the nesting grounds. They didn't spend a whole
lot of time on the ground they'd get down here
where all the rice, where all the soybeans, all the
corn was and just spend the entire winter here. I
don't know what it is, but I think that overall
the duck season will end up going very well. I

(53:03):
think overall we'll have a pretty decent goose season here.
It's it's not gonna be anything to compare to what
I grew up with, but nonetheless it'll be if you
if you're in the right spot, and you're there on
the right day, and you have the right spread out,
go get them. Let me get to Stevens email as well.

(53:24):
Uh oh, Dan real quick, Dan Wade in Paarland was
a pretty little town when I moved here twenty four
years ago. You know, I could say almost the same
about sugar Land. It was so much less developed than
it is now. And it's it's spread out. It's it's
slabs and warehouses and neighborhoods and shopping centers that are

(53:45):
partially full. And my wife and I are kind of
looking at it like, you know, this was a wonder place,
wonderful place when we moved here thirty two years ago.
But it's changed so much. And that's that's not what
we moved there for. For Steve's email, and this one's
an important one. So I got a friend that that

(54:07):
is on a large deer lease in South Texas. He's
taking his ten year old grandson to hunt and kill
his first deer. The one thing I don't agree with
is he's gonna let him kill one of the trophy
deer on that ranch. What are your thoughts? I don't
think it's a very good idea. He should kill a

(54:27):
doe or a kullbuck, just my opinion. Your thoughts couldn't
agree with you more, Steve couldn't agree with you more.
When you take a ten year old out and that
ten year old, with his first trigger pull kills a
deer that a lot of that the majority of deer
hunters would consider a deer of a lifetime, Then where

(54:50):
where to from there? I agree that hunter's young hunters
ought to come in pretty slow, pretty and give themselves
someplace up to go for a so they can be
excited about a new a next deer hunt, and a
next deer hunt. Congratulations, your first dear, you got it.
Look we've got this nice, big fat dough here. It's

(55:12):
gonna feed the family for three weeks. Isn't that awesome? Yeah?
What next, Grandpa? Well, next time, maybe we can shoot
a little buck. I think there's a couple of them
out there that you might be able to get to.
If you're real quiet and you stick with me and
let me teach you how the woods work. We can
get you a little maybe a little spike or a
fore corn. It'll be something with antlers. Oh boy, Yeah,

(55:33):
you'll get your first buck, and then you'll get your
first buck with split horns on both sides, and then
you'll get your first eight point and then on and on.
You can go up and up and up until you
get to that crazy place with three and four hundred
points five six hundred points worthy antlers. I don't like
that very much, honestly. But the bottom line is you

(55:56):
had to go out and take that kid out there
and take him to the very top of the mountain
on the first time he climbs, and there's no place
to go but down from there. Hey, hey, grandpa, can
we go deer hunting again?

Speaker 6 (56:07):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (56:08):
But I need you to shoot a dough Well, yeah, yeah,
I've already I've already got that big trophy buck on
my wall in my room. Yeah, I'm not so interested
in that dough anymore. What else you got? Where else
can we go? And it just I'm with you, Steve.
I do agree if you start them out with something

(56:30):
that most people will never achieve in a lifetime, then
and what about when their friends come back all excited
from a deer hunt. Yeah, I shot my first deer.
I got a dough, I got a prong, I got
a forecorn, I got a spike, I got this that
and the other smaller deer and that. Grandson says, yeah,

(56:50):
well I got this this twelve point beautiful buck with
drop times and spread. What'd you get again? It kind
of deflates the balloon of the kid who thought he'd
done something good just getting his first deer. The first
deer probably, I think, in my estimation, needs to be

(57:14):
a dough. It needs to be a dough, and that
leaves all the doors open all the way up through
the succession from from spike to four point to six
point to eight point and then heavier antlers, darker all.
There's all kinds of places you can go, But if
your first deer is the best one on the ranch,

(57:36):
where you're gonna go from there? Berry Hill. That's where
we can go. How about that about that little seguey, Frankie,
We'll go to Berry Hill. That's where we'll go and
get some delicious Mexican food to celebrate whatever deer, whatever
ducks and geese you got. If you're down hunting down
fifty nine somewhere and you're coming back through toward Houston,

(57:57):
swing by Berry Hill. It's a sugar Creek boulevard fifty
nine on the inbound side, so you won't have to
make a big loop. You look around the freeway, go
into Berry Hill, get yourself some fish tacos, get yourself
some chicken or beef. Get yourself one of those seafood
enchiladas that I love so much. My wife likes the
chicken tacos. I'm a huge fan of their fish tacos.

(58:19):
Some of the best I've ever eaten anywhere. They've been
down there in thirty years. It's a family owned and
operated operation. When you pull into the parking lot, you'll
see outdoor dining, very casual. When you go through the doors,
you'll see family dining, boosts and tables, very casual, very
old school. To your left, to the right of where
you're going, to walk up in order, you'll see a

(58:41):
sports bar setup, and this evening, I got a hunch
there's gonna be a baseball game in there on the TVs.
So anytime anywhere, and that, by the way, they'll do
catering all over the city. They cater to us routinely.
And there's not a whole lot of leftovers when Barry
Hill comes around, Go get yourself some of that delicious

(59:01):
food out of their kitchen and knock it back with
maybe either the chocolate or the vanilla treash letches. Is wonderful,
absolutely wonderful. Berryhillsugarland dot com website, Berryhillsugarland dot com. Hey
twenty on Sports Talk seven ninety the Dougpike Show, thank

(59:23):
you very much for listening. I certainly do appreciate it. Yeah,
I did. I kind of circle back to Steve and said, hey, man,
by the way, on this Grandpa with the trophy deer
for the ten year old thing, you gotta remember that's
that's grandpa's that's grandpa's way, that's what he wants to
do for his grandson, his ten year old grandson. And

(59:43):
that's gotta be okay, because Grandpa isn't going to be
around forever, and who knows how much time he's got
with his grandson. And if that's the way he wants
to show his love for his grandson, tee it up.
Let him go. And when they show you that deer,
when they come in with that big old o buck,
just smile and high five and be as excited as

(01:00:04):
you can be for both of them, because that's that's
a memory. Even even if it turns out different, you know,
different than you and I may have wanted, it's not
our memory to make. And and Grandpa, who knows, he
may know something you don't even know. He may not
have a lot of time left. He wants to make
sure that grandson of his gets something special to remember

(01:00:25):
him by. And a deer hunt that leads to a
good animal like that might be just what the doctor ordered.
Who knows? Seven one three, two one two five seven
ninety Email me Doug Pike at Iheartmetia dot com. Kevin,
Let's see what Oh here we go? Oh wow, Yeah,
that's a very good point. I'd forgotten about that, Kevin

(01:00:46):
wayhs in. It's hard to compete with the heated ponds
in the Midwest. They've made it so good for the
birds up there that they don't need to come down here. Yeah,
it used to be that they would just put little
verification systems in there. Hi, welcome back. Boy. The fun

(01:01:10):
never stops around here. Huh. Holy cow. I don't know
where that static came from, but we found a better microphone.
This is just a training. This is like approving grounds.
Were just throw things up in the air and see
what sticks. And that didn't a minute ago. It's stuck
in your ears, I'll bet though. I'm sorry about all that.
I got that taken care of. I got that taken

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care of. Let me see what this is real quick.
There's that, there's that. That's all good. That's all good. Yeah,
we're back up. And I was talking about Kevin and
these heated ponds up north now that are designed to
do one thing and one thing only, and that is

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change the migratory patterns of these ducks. And you know,
at some point we may have to, as a nation
of people who appreciate wildlife, quit tinkering, because there's gonna
come a time up north there. For example, what if

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what if the heaters fail? What if there's a just
a catastrophic freeze up there and for some reason, all
those heated ponds suddenly become unheated, and those ducks are
hung out in sub zero weather and still one thousand
miles north of here, somewhere where. The day before, and

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I'm just making this up as I go along, but
the day before they were swimming around in virtually a
hot tub. They're swimming around in seventy seventy two degree water,
nice kind of cool on their little bottoms and their feet,
but not hot, and just enough to keep that water open.
Because it's forty degrees outside, or it's thirty degrees outside.

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What a frozen twenty degrees outside definitely would have started
freezing pretty quickly. But no, no, we've got that little
electric blanket somewhere on the bottom of that pond, keeping
that water open and keeping those ducks one thousand miles
from where they used to winter. I'm not so sure
how smart that is in a long term scheme of things.

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As human beings, we tend to mess with Mother Nature,
probably a lot more than we should.

Speaker 4 (01:03:33):
And.

Speaker 2 (01:03:35):
Not really think long term about the consequences. Of Katie
Prairie is a great example. We changed the migratory patterns
of a million waterfowl by uprooting that prairie the way
we did now. The mitigating factors there are the price
of rice, the price of soybeans, the splitting up of

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family farms among siblings who inherited the property but didn't
really like the farm life. They got teased for being
country people. When they went to college, they had whatever
it is that drew them toward the city and toward
a better education, which I don't blame them. I don't
blame these kids at all. It's just the way it

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turned out. But it sure did change the face of
that Katie Prairie, and it's sure going to change the
face of hunting of waterfowl hunting pretty much anywhere south
of Arkansas if they keep all that up. It was
one thing when they were just putting bubbles in it

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to keep it a little bit open and keep the
ducks and at least give the ducks and geese a
chance to overnight somewhere on the long migration down right
through here and into South Texas for some of those birds,
for a lot of the ducks, certainly a whole lot
of ducks make it down to Mexico. I wonder how
their hunting's going to be this year. If we don't

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have them here yet, it's gonna be a long time
before they make it down to Mexico. I do think
we'll get these ducks, I really do. But it is
gonna take more than one cold front. And you got
to remember that's all we've had, really is one decent
coal front, and that's not even It didn't even take
the temperature down in below the mid forties around here,

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So let's give it a little time. I got to
turn around. I'm at a different microphone.

Speaker 6 (01:05:27):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:05:27):
That's how we figured out it might work. I'm gonna
go ahead and shut down here and go to a
break because we are on that short clock and taking
time for sports investors daily at nine o'clock instead of
its usual ten because they're gonna make room at ten
o'clock for college football. On the way out here, I'll

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remind you that he hunting seats open. If you haven't
been out to American shooting centers yet, to sit in
your rifles, to work on your shot gunning, to fire
a few rounds from your handgun that you keep around
the house for personal protection. Now it'd be a good
time to do it. It's actually going to be less
crowded now that hunting season has started. Most people took

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care of that business beforehand. If you didn't, then go
ahead and take advantage of a beautiful morning like it
is today and like we will have for the next
four or five days, and get out there and do
some shooting. They're on West Timber Parkway between Katie and
Highway six. You can't miss the place. It's all these
big giant berms out there that have been stopping bullets
for about, I don't know, twenty five thirty years. I

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was there for the groundbreaking three sporting place courses, ten
trap and skeep fields, five stands setups in several places
around the property. There's a beginner's wing shooting area five
yards to six hundred yards for pistol and rifle, and
then a little in sandwich between two of the rifle
ranges rifle distances is a little pop up silhouette range

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for twenty twos for centerfire or rim fire excuse me,
rim fire pop up silhouettes from about twenty five yards
out to two fifty. You could if you're shooting your
little twenty two out to that two fifty pop up target.
You can just about eat half a sandwich from the
time you pull the trigger until that little bullet gets
out there. But it's a lot of fun to hear

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that planket. I like shooting those clothes. I love that sound.
American Shootingcenters dot com is a website. Go check it
out American Shooting Centers dot com. If you are wondering
where there might be a one stop shop for I
don't know, a delicious barbecue lunch and dinner from ten
to seven every single day of the week. Oh, I

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don't know a place where you can order a pecan
smoke turkey that's going to average about eleven to thirteen pounds,
and maybe make a nice meal for Thanksgiving for ten
to twelve people. Maybe some stuffed pork tenderloins done several
different ways that are all delicious, or I don't know,
some jerky, some dry stick stuff you want to take
to the deer stand with you or maybe put on

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the boat for snacking. Well, there is a place like that,
and it's called Belleville Meat Market. It's been there forever
and ever forty plus years forever and ever. All you
gotta do is either go out, I tend to Seay
or go out two ninety to Hempstead and hang a
north or south respectively. It's about fifteen minutes either way

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in between those two fifteen minutes north of Sealy, fifteen
minutes south of Hempstead. And they also if you need it,
we'll ship anywhere and everywhere you want. I ship some
stuff to Utah the way to Park City. Wants to
thank some people for some ski trip stuff I got
from them, and boy, they ate that thing up. And
one day I heard back also whild game processing. Belleville

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Meat Market is probably the it's the best place right
and it's right so centrally located to almost everywhere we
deer hunt. It's a little out of the way. If
you're coming home from South Texas, you might have to
make a little detour to get to Bellville, but when
you realize that you're going to be able to get
a tremendous barbecue meal there right after you drop your
deer meat off, it's kind of a bonus. Three lanes

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three lanes this time of year, an entire building next
to the main meat market, a cate quarter from it
that does nothing but wild game processing this time of year.
You drive in there, a couple of people will run
out and with carts and get all the meat out
of the back of your truck or whatever trailer. They'll
haul it inside. You follow them in. They'll hand you

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a menu that has almost unlimited options on how you
want that meat processed. They'll get all that done, and
a few days later, you'll get an email or a
text or whatever, your phone call, whatever you want to
let you know that meat's ready and you can come back
and pick it up. Belleville Meat Market has been doing
this for more than forty years. They're darned good at
what they do. Belleville MeetMarket dot com is a website,

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Belleville MeetMarket dot com. That's what that scratchy stuff did
a minute ago. I heard it in my ears just
like you heard it in yours. I'm so sorry. Brought
me down a little bit. I don't know if that's
accidentally wrong purpose franky, but it worked out pretty well. Yeah,
don't bring me down with all that feedback. What was that?

(01:10:16):
That's not feedback? What is that just static? No? I
think that's just a mic issue. Oh the mic? What
did I do? I didn't do anything to it? Well,
not the mic might be just, oh, just some wire
in there that just went rogue, something like that. Okay,
let's talk to David. Maybe he's got something good he
can tell me this morning. Good hey, David, what's up man?

Speaker 6 (01:10:37):
What's up?

Speaker 3 (01:10:37):
Doug?

Speaker 4 (01:10:37):
How are you?

Speaker 6 (01:10:38):
I didn't know if you knew, but first Mike Williams
passed away a couple of weeks ago.

Speaker 2 (01:10:43):
Yes I did. Let's talk about that.

Speaker 3 (01:10:47):
Yeah, okay.

Speaker 6 (01:10:47):
In the second of all, have you talked about the
d CL plant that's playing for Galveston Day?

Speaker 2 (01:10:52):
I have not yet. Give me a give me a
good overview.

Speaker 6 (01:10:57):
Okay, good overviews. There's a plank. There's a company that
Core that's painting to put a decil plant in Galveston
Bay if the old R. H. W. Robinson spillway which
is in Baycliffe, and so they plan on using the
intake from Dickinson, Baio, the old intake canal that h

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on't p used and that is a deemed estuary by
the Texas Parks of My Life, which number one was
a red flag. And then the discharge of the Brian
and Brian a super highlight salinity water that all the
salt and all the whatever they ask stract out of
that water will be dumped back through the discharge going

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into Galveston Bay, it will, sir, Yeah, I mean so
right away. CCA is opposed to any discharge from any
de cel plant into any basis from on.

Speaker 2 (01:11:51):
The Texas coast.

Speaker 6 (01:11:53):
So there is they've applied for permit from the Texas
Water Authority whatever TQ Texas Quality Water Administration two for
the discharge. That's the first step.

Speaker 4 (01:12:07):
So we should know.

Speaker 6 (01:12:09):
So all this shouldn't be made public pretty soon at
the end of this year, is what Shane Benay, the
average c director from the CCA said, And then they'll
have to hold public hearings. So number one is, Man,
gal Galveston Bay has so much problems already, we don't
need that's in our basis.

Speaker 2 (01:12:26):
Yeah, that's you know, they got a similar issue going
on down in South Texas right now too, and.

Speaker 6 (01:12:31):
They got yeah, in Corpus Christy Bay right they're fighting one.

Speaker 2 (01:12:35):
Oh my gosh. Yeah, everybody wants to look.

Speaker 6 (01:12:38):
We know, we know water is a big problem in Texas.

Speaker 2 (01:12:41):
Of course, we got too many peop.

Speaker 6 (01:12:44):
Well not enough water. So I mean it makes sense
to put these plants along the coast. They can pump
from the golf and discharge back into the golf. Navy
ships do it. Merchant ships do it on a low scale,
right volume, of course, because they're using the water on
their ships. But these he's playing, these these companies are
using that water to sell the commercial industry. A little

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bit of local, you know, municipalities, but most of it's
all commercial and eventually it's going to cost the taxpayer's
money to keep it going.

Speaker 2 (01:13:13):
Well, yeah, and there's a there's an opportunity, little reward,
if I'm not mistaken, there's an opportunity from Jump to
build a pipeline out into the open Gulf of Mexico.
It'll cost some more money, but it keeps that hyper
saline water from being dumped in close to shore. And
they don't want to do that because it just costs
them a bunch of money. But maybe we have to

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push a little harder.

Speaker 6 (01:13:36):
Yeah, you know, it's the same thing with East Texas
gets all the rain they need and has all the
water they need. They can pipeline oil all across the world,
all across the country. Why can't they pipeline water.

Speaker 2 (01:13:48):
No, I wondered that, I really have I wanted that
from time to time and get you get a lake
that's just super super too full. Oh, we're sorry one
of these hill Country lakes suddenly and that hill Country
is a bad exams. Well, they've been low for a
long time. But let's say what, I'm just totally filled
up to the brim and you just flip a switch
and all of that water goes down to Corpus Christy,

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that'd be pretty nice.

Speaker 6 (01:14:09):
How much? Why it would be nice? Hitting on paper?
It sounds good, doesn't It comes to the pocket, but
there's no money.

Speaker 2 (01:14:17):
Yeah, well I understand that part, all right, Yeah, I
got it wrong.

Speaker 6 (01:14:20):
Anglers just need to be anglers need to be aware
of it, and just we need to fight it.

Speaker 4 (01:14:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:14:25):
I want to be talking more about that. I'm gonna
be talking to the CCA guys about some other stuff
anyway pretty soon, and I'll bring that up and I'll
see what they say. Yeah, thanks for that, man, I
appreciate David, Okay, se anybody, thanks Doug Audios. All right,
we gotta take a little break here on the way out.
Let me tell you all about timber Creek Golf Club.
Timber Creek has been around forever and ever, probably thirty years,

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almost thirty years at least down there off FM twenty
three fifty one in friends would about three miles west
of the golf Freeway, maybe four twenty seven holes. Great food,
great bear. They've got a nice cafe there that can
get you fed and water before or after your round,
whichever is more appropriate. And then there'll be somebody coming
around with snacks while you're out there. And there's a

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nice little turnhouse grill actually that can well, they've got some.
They've got sandwiches and hot dogs all the good golf
course fair and the next boy, the next golf course
hot dog. I won't be my first. I can assure
you a great teaching staff too. If you need work
on your game, JJ Woods and his crew at that
Timber Creek Golf Club Academy will help you out. No

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matter how badly you play or how desperate you are
to get one or two shots shaved off your scores.
They can do that for you. Good people, good fun,
twenty seven holes, so there's almost always room for more
right there at timber Creek. Make your own tea time
right now Timbercreek goolf Club dot com. That's timber Creek
Golf Club dot com. If you're wondering where all these

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Houstonians who love the deer hunt and duck hunt and
goose hunt and quail hunt, where all these older folks
around here and my hands in the air used to
get all of our stuff. Before gun stores opened up
on every corner, it was Carter's Country almost all up
here in Houston. That was the place. Those were the places,

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still three of them around town where you can get
anything and everything you could possibly need to have more
fun with the shooting sports than you've ever had. They
don't sell snorkels, they don't sell footballs. They just just guns,
ammo and hunting stuff. Since Bill Carter, the man who
founded that company, did that sixty five or so years ago,

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they got a full service range and gunsmithing up at
that flagship store on Treshwig. That's where it all started.
And then you can also go online if you want
to and see anything and everything they have and they'll
just ship it to you. Carter's Country's been around a
long time. It's a family owned and operated business and
one of the largest in the gun business anywhere there is,

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and has excellent stuff at great prices. That's all you're
looking for, really, they got red tag stuff this time
of year two as well. By the way, and if
you're looking for something that you didn't even really realize
how much you want it, how much you need it,
and go to that Carter's Country website right now and
take a look around at the red tag stuff and
you'll find probably, if you're an avid person like I

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am about the outdoors, you'll probably find four or five
things you want and need and or both. Who knows,
but you ought to go get them because that's going
to be the best price you'll find for them. Carterscuntry
dot com is the website Carters Country dot com. All right,
welcome back on this abbreviated again version of the Doug

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Pike Show. Thanks to college football sports Investors Daily will
be up next at the top of the hour, and
then at ten o'clock when they would normally go on,
we will have football. Do you know who's playing? Frankie
h It is UTV Vanderbilt, University of Texas. Those long horns.
Get out of our way. It's opening day. We're gonna

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have to talk to them about scheduling games early on
opening day of deer season next year. Let me get
John on the phone. See what's going on there, John?
What's up? Man?

Speaker 4 (01:18:21):
Hey, not much, Doug. I really do enjoy your show.
I've never been much of an outdoors man, and I'm
a world's worst fisherman.

Speaker 2 (01:18:30):
But I'll take that bet. I've said, Man, trust me
you're not I've been around the world's worst and trust
me you're not.

Speaker 4 (01:18:37):
Well, I'm going to Sharrick Catton. It's worth eating. When
I was living up in Alaska.

Speaker 2 (01:18:42):
Okay, well that's a good that's a good place to start.

Speaker 4 (01:18:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:18:46):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:18:48):
I went down to the shooter's corner the other day. Okay,
I've been been collecting guns all my life. I'm not
that's about pretty much. When I get out in the field,
I go carry shoot. Sure, it took a fairly unusual
weapon there to have them ticket take it out. Was
kind of jammed up, took it in. After ten minutes

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they brought it back out from the back and handed
to me. So it's good, you go. I'm gonna show
you there's nothing. Wow that that is service about that
really is?

Speaker 2 (01:19:23):
How about that? That's you know that you're the second
person who's had something like that happened to them down
there and Jerry, who was it that fixed it? Do
you know?

Speaker 4 (01:19:33):
I'm not really sure. He's a younger man of beard. Okay,
and an elderly fellow came out and he's we were
talking about that. Yeah. The gun itself was a reproduction
of the Winchester sixty six model.

Speaker 6 (01:19:50):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (01:19:51):
Eighteen sixty six Wow. And uh that's I collect cowboy
guns and military weapons of the last century.

Speaker 2 (01:19:59):
Oh, I got some good question, gone beautiful. Yeah there,
that's how they are down there. I had somebody else
who was told I've talked about it a few times
on there. I'll keep it brief. Somebody was told by
two different gunsmiths that what he needed done to his
rifle would cost him somewhere between like two and five
hundred dollars, and I told him to take it down

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there and just cross my fingers that Jerry could help him.
And found out from Jerry about two weeks later. He said, oh, yeah,
I remember that guy. I said, what it cost him
to get out of here? Nothing. It just took me
ten minutes. There was a little burr in there that
nobody had seen, and I got it. Okay, that's how
they are, man, Thank.

Speaker 4 (01:20:37):
You well again. I told him. I haven't. I've never
been much of an out norseman. I spent always time.
I said, we're out in the field for any time
when I was lit with a military Yeah, And I
told him, I said, I'm gonna give you. Don't call
on Saturday morning, listen up. So I just want to
make sure they.

Speaker 2 (01:20:57):
You got it.

Speaker 4 (01:20:58):
John, I'll be going down there when I need you.

Speaker 2 (01:21:01):
Yes, sir, we'll end it with that. Thank you so much, John,
that's great news. I'm glad they took care of you.
I could have told you they would, but I'm glad
you did. Yeah, No, thank you. I really appreciate that.
Thanks a bunch. Holy cow. The music means we are
done quick. Two hours this morning. By the way, set
your clocks back tonight. Daylight savings time is over. It's done.

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It's no more afternoon golf for me. But I might
be able to make it out just in time for
a little sundown bass fishing. Who knows coming up next?
Sports Investors Daily at ten o'clock, it'll be ut football.
Thank you all for listening. I'll be back here tomorrow
morning about eight o'clock. Unless I forget to set those
clocks back. Stay safe, get out there, have some fun,

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will you, audios