Praying to Catch a Big Fish?

On this episode, Doug talks about best practices for dove hunting, how sonars take the mystery out of fishing, and much more.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, Rise and Shine. Sunday edition of the program
starts right now, and I certainly do appreciate you listening.
I looked at the National Hurricane Center had a yellow
blob down in the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico,
and it looked like it might be something, and it
was gonna There was a thirty percent chance, But the
keywords from that initial posting of it a couple of

(00:23):
days ago were that conditions were not conducive for further development.
So I looked again this morning and the I think
it's two days and seven days of development show the
percentage chance of it becoming something that could ever get
a name are dropped to ten and ten percentage points,

(00:48):
so that one's probably gonna just fall apart and disappear.
That's the one thing I will give the predictors at
the National Hurricane Center. They're pretty good about whether or
not something is going to become a little more than
just a rainy day, and I'm glad that they're doing

(01:08):
the job they're doing. I know that they do for
the past several years. That's kind of my first watch.
And then once something starts to develop, I shift over
to a couple of other sites to find a little
bit more precise information about where it'll track. And I
get to one of the sites I use, I get

(01:30):
to see at least a dozen it might be fourteen
or sixteen different models based on different algorithms about what
something's going to do and where it's going to go.
And I those things are just invaluable to me, and
they're really they give you an idea of when you
ought to go buy an extra case of water, when

(01:51):
you ought to stock up on a little bit of medicine. Actually,
you should have done the meds long time ago. This time,
between about June and November, you ought to try to
stay about two weeks ahead on any med you take regularly,
because there's a chance that something will come in like
it's like Beryl did last year. Beryl wasn't a giant, major,

(02:13):
horrible hurricane. It just knocked the power out, and that
better have been rectified between then and now, hopefully for
center Points potential future. They should have dotted their eyes
and crossed their ts every couple of months coming into
this season. If anything does get in here, we should

(02:35):
the lights shouldn't even flicker. As far as I'm concerned,
especially my little group on our little baby grid out
there in sugar Land. That's how I found out why
it is that we're kind of always the last to
get our power back. It's because we're on a very
small grid, and there are only I think maybe five

(02:56):
dozen of us who smile when that grid is fixed,
as opposed to five thousand dozen on some bigger grids.
Tell you where you need to move. If you're gonna
buy a house, buy one close to a hospital, or
buy one or not close to it. Just find out
where the grid is for that one and what it covers,
and by there, that and senior living facilities I think

(03:19):
get a little bit of priority. But don't buy on
my street. Actually the street the people who lived directly
across the street for a very long time got power
back and restored or even never lost power through a
lot of just nasty thunderstorms and whatnot that used to
constantly knock our stuff out. My side of the street,

(03:42):
pitch dark their side of the street. It's raining outside,
is it raining? Let's go see, let's go look out
the window. I think that's been rectified. And if it hasn't,
if I ever go through another period where my grid
is the last to be fixed. You're gonna hear me

(04:02):
pitch a hissy fit. I'll write letters, I'll be in
people's offices, and I'm just gonna say, look, at least
put it on a rolling priority. Where last year the
big grids got hit or got repared first, this year
the little grids get repared first. You start at the
bottom and work up instead of working from the top
down every stake in time. Ah, that's enough of that,

(04:27):
So welcome to Sunday morning, the morning on which so
many of you, probably I guess, are headed to church.
And as I was sitting over at or actually a
few of you I know will sit out there right
till the last minute before church and listen to the show.
And I greatly appreciate that. Sitting over here at my
desk on the other side of the office earlier, the
side that's not air conditioned on weekends and at present

(04:49):
is about eighty four degrees, I wondered if any of
you might ever, Oh, let me go talk to Day first,
and then I'll pose today's question. What's up?

Speaker 2 (05:01):
Well, you were talking about the Bob Man, Steve McQueen.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
He was in that movie. I remember that.

Speaker 4 (05:06):
Oh, golly. And then another great movie he was in
was The Great Escape.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
Yeah, that was good. That was good when he drove that.

Speaker 4 (05:14):
Motorcycle up into the barbed wire and.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
Hey no, And when I was I was coming down
FM eight thirty over here. I'm at the corner store
over here, fishing to get back to the house. And
then first song I ever learned to sing, and I
think it's on eight track Kate somewhere my dad recorded
this was dead Scum from the Middle of Road.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
I remember that song.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
Yeah, when loud and way right the third And he
signed one of my autograph fiddles. And I got an
album that he signed for me at the Munky Duck
a long time ago. Oh yeah, and I got him
in my h I got him stored away in their condition.
Hey but no, But man, I tell you what when you.

Speaker 4 (05:57):
Just drive by that man? Lord but uh no, right
down the street.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
I'm right down the street from you know, from the
boat launch down there, like I said, at the corner.
So oh, when I got my mama dog over here, dynamite, yeah,
the pitbull. Okay, I'm gonna speaker in the backyard. My
wife doesn't know she's gonna be here yet. I still
got to put the dogge, but yeah, man, and then

(06:23):
Papa Dog he's still there in Houston Garden the house,
so yeah, man, but I mean the move is on
and and uh, I'm gonna go get my fishing equipment together.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
And well, no, no, don't say no. You keep your
priorities straight, Dave. Get that fishing gear up there. Man,
you kill me, don't don't slip on me, now, don't slip.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
Well anyway, actually my fishing gear is ready to go. Okay,
but man, I still got.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
A little bit more to.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
Move out of that house across the street that we
were renting, going across the street over there, and then
I'm done, you know.

Speaker 4 (06:58):
And then I'm gonna sweep.

Speaker 2 (06:59):
It out and get all the cobwebs out there and
then leave the keys there across the street, and then
we'll be in the new house.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
At a boy. Congratulations, man, I know you guys have
been leaving.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
I'll tell you what, you know, God, God bless his God,
keep this God bless America.

Speaker 4 (07:13):
You know what, am I in a dream or what?

Speaker 5 (07:16):
I don't know?

Speaker 6 (07:17):
Many I never.

Speaker 4 (07:19):
Thought this would happen, Doug, You got it done.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
Work pays off. David really does.

Speaker 5 (07:25):
And well, yeah, hey, hey, and and the guy who
is it on the garden line, Skip, I need I
need to call him because I got a tree.

Speaker 2 (07:37):
It's a looks like an old pinoak tree, and it's
leading into the east and and and the things on there,
the straps they're all loose, so if they I'm going
to take them out and pull it back to the west.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
Yeah, you can do that. Don't don't try to do
too much at one time, just you know, do it gently.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
Right, That's what I'm gonna ask you. Yeah, I'm gonna
ask you about that. And then about a yellow rose.
I want to buy a yellow rose bush. Skipse way
more about that than I do.

Speaker 4 (08:06):
Hey.

Speaker 5 (08:08):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
Cow dung and elephant dung are excellent fertilizers, but you
gotta be careful not to burn your plan up.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
So where did you hear that? And who's importing that?
I can get over the cattle stuff.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
From volunteer at zoo would come there, you know, we
had the elephants there and people would come there and
pick it up. Or remember when the circus came to town.
Oh yeah, yeah, and they had to pick all that
up over there.

Speaker 4 (08:37):
People would go in get.

Speaker 3 (08:39):
It, you know.

Speaker 2 (08:39):
I mean, hey, you know it sounds kind of creepy,
but you know, hey, it is good fertilizing.

Speaker 1 (08:44):
Soil and soil man. Hey, it's good talking to you.
You know it is, David.

Speaker 4 (08:48):
I appreciate you. Well, get on out of here and listen.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
I'm gonna get over here and see what the wife
is the boy was she gonna when she finds my
dog over here?

Speaker 3 (08:55):
Yet? No?

Speaker 4 (08:56):
I still ain't built a cage, but I needed to
bring her here. Dynamite. I had been Poppa Dog. He's
still watching the house.

Speaker 1 (09:04):
All right, Dave. I see a letter man, I bet audios.
That's a busy guy. He has so many different he's
pulling different strings all day long, every day. But the
the theme that is just pervasive in everything. He talks
about two things, optimism and patriotism and and and just

(09:28):
a gentleness, a kindness to other people and uh an
empathy and sympathy for other people who he He's not
moving into a twenty thousand square foot house. He's moving
into a nice, comfortable house for him and his wife.
And he's excited as can be. And that's exactly as
it should be. I admire that guy. I really do.

(09:51):
I do. He does a lot for other people and
he doesn't ask for anything in return. That's that's a
pretty good way to live your life. Seven one three
two one two five A ninety email on me Dougpike
at iHeartMedia dot com. I'm gonna get into I mentioned
that a lot of you probably either are on your
way to church or maybe sitting in the parking lot
listening for a couple of more minutes. The question I'm

(10:13):
gonna pose today and is I'm wondering if any of
you might ever have actually set a prayer, really set
a prayer in hopes of catching a bigger fish or
maybe shooting a bigger buck. I never did that on
my own behalf, but I did pray a good bit
when my son was younger that he and I would

(10:36):
have safe trips to the outdoors wherever we were going,
and that he'd find joy in the outdoors the same
way I do. And that's happened. He likes being outdoors.
He liked fishing, he likes hunting, he likes just hanging
around on the beach, walking through the woods. Whatever it
is outdoors, He's in for it. But baseball is a
higher priority now, and that's okay. The same for me

(10:57):
when I was his age. He doesn't like the outdoors
quite as much as I still do at this stage
in my life. But the seeds were planted, they were
watered when he was young, and it's it's turned out
pretty well. I think part of his recent withdrawal from
from the level of interest I still have in the

(11:19):
outdoors is my own fault too. I may have introduced
him a little too early to a few higher levels
of outdoors, a little too quickly. I didn't. I didn't
practice in some cases what I preach all the time,
and that is to bring newcomers of any age, whether
it's an adult or a kid, bring them into it gradually.

(11:42):
If you're going to teach somebody to fish, the first
thing you do is help them catch their very first fish.
And that doesn't need to be a five hundred pound
blue marlin much much preferably, especially with kids. Put a
cane pole in their hand, a little bobber about the
size of a dime on there, and a little tiny

(12:04):
hook and a tiny piece of bait, and sprinkle some
corn or some other or oatmeal or some other chum
that will gather a herd of those little tiny fish
and then let them stare at that cork until it
goes underwater, and then learn to lift up gently, to
lift up with the right timing so that that little

(12:24):
tiny fish down there stays on that little tiny hook.
It's pretty thrilling to watch someone catch their very very
first fish. One of the places my son and I
used to go. I tell you what I'm gonna do.
Frankie a favor, and me a favor, and stay on time.
I pause, and I'll tell you that story when we
get back about a little kid I talked to fish.
I've never met this kid, and I'll get to the

(12:47):
story in a minute. On the way out, I'm gonna
tell you about American shooting centers, where I would bet
that there are a whole lot of people out there
shooting sporting clays. This morning. Dove season. What are we
at the twentieth of July. For heaven's sake, we are
ten days and a month away from dove season, and
it is going to be really really good from what

(13:08):
I'm hearing. Not out, We're not Brown rice Land Waterfowl
Club Boy. David and Jeff and I drove that prairie
for hours the other day and didn't see a limited doves.
It was interesting, it was fun. We had some good
conversation about it. America's Shooting Centers, if you go out there,
you probably see some doves, but you can't shoot them.
But you can shoot all the clay target shooting stand

(13:30):
There are three sporting clay's courses, ten trap and skeet fields,
five stands setups all over the place, and even a
beginner's wing shooting area that makes it a little a
little easier to get up to speed. Fastest way to
get up to speed and save yourself a bunch of
money and AMMO and embarrassment is to take a couple
of lessons. I got my son some lessons when he

(13:52):
was young. He picked it up very quickly, and he's
still a pretty good shot today. He just got a
knack for stuff like that. America Shooting Centers is on
West Timer Parkway between Katie and Highway six. Also got
rifle and pistol from five yards all the way to
six hundred yards, and there is at thirty five yards
i believe or twenty five an area where you can

(14:14):
set up paper to pattern your shotguns and that's a
really good way to understand how shotgunning works, other than
just keep missing until you finally hit something. American Shootingcenters
dot com is a website west Timer Parkway between Katie
and Highway six. American Shooting Centers dot com. Hey twenty

(14:35):
one on Sports Talk seven nine at the Doug Flike Show.
Very quickly before I get to Danny and Rick years ago,
I'm not going to tell you the fish story right now,
because the dead skunk thing reminded me of something years
ago in North Texas. I'm following. I and several other
people are following a guide at a big deer hunting
camp up there back to town. This guy's name Barefoot Bob,

(14:57):
and take too long to tell you the story of
that character. The bottom line is he was outdoors, been
through and through, and barefoot Bob because he never wore shoes.
There's one story about one time he put him on.
Doesn't matter. We're driving back. We're doing I'll wrap quotes
around posted speeds to get back to camp. Because it
was kind of late and in almost dark, it was

(15:18):
still daylight, and all of a sudden, barefoot Bob and
his old beat up truck slams on the brakes. The
front end goes down, the back end comes up and
starts bouncing a little bit. He has locked him up.
He jumps out of the truck. He runs back about
twenty yards down the side of the road on the
passenger side and grabs a dead skunk by the tail.

(15:39):
And as he runs back toward the truck, he looks
at us and says, five bucks is five bucks. He's
taking that thing in to skin it and sell the
pelt for five bucks. All right, can we get him on.
I'm ready to go. Let's see him up there. He is, Danny.
What's up?

Speaker 3 (15:56):
Man?

Speaker 7 (15:58):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (15:58):
Not much dog.

Speaker 9 (16:00):
Probably don't know me or remember me. But you hunted
with Larry back in the eighties and nineties, sure.

Speaker 3 (16:08):
With.

Speaker 9 (16:10):
John Knssemos and Mendolo Manolo.

Speaker 1 (16:14):
Yeah, oh yeah, man, Yeah, I'm sure we crossed paths
in for sure.

Speaker 9 (16:18):
Oh yeah, I think you were already gone when I
came to Larry. I was started out with Carl Hopkins
Hunters Prairie.

Speaker 4 (16:27):
Yeah, that's where I.

Speaker 9 (16:28):
Met John Cassamos and Nick and his son and Joe
Mondola and all of them back in North Boys.

Speaker 6 (16:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (16:36):
But yeah, the reason why I.

Speaker 8 (16:38):
Called is is.

Speaker 9 (16:39):
Uh I was out here wait vishing at Sea Isle,
and uh I had a probably forty year old seven
foot all Star beautiful and yeah, well not anymore. No,
the road holder pipe snapped team loose, and uh it's

(17:01):
dropped out here in the bay somewhere waste deep water somewhere.

Speaker 1 (17:05):
Have you got I know.

Speaker 9 (17:07):
The area that's in if it's sink right away, But
the PVC came out too, and I can't see it anywhere.
And you know, pre candles don't float like they say
they do when there's a.

Speaker 1 (17:21):
Yeah, when there's a yeah a reel on it, and
the weight of that pipe and the way of the
however you anchor.

Speaker 9 (17:30):
I was hoping it would float, you know, but.

Speaker 1 (17:32):
Yeah, but it's.

Speaker 6 (17:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (17:35):
I've never dumped a piece of PVC pipe in just
to see if it would float. But even it's so dense,
even if it does, it would probably float like a
soaked log where you could just barely see the top
of it.

Speaker 9 (17:46):
Right, And that's why I had to get out. And
my son's out there still fishing and looking for it.

Speaker 1 (17:52):
Have you have you tried casting? Have you you got
a couple of big hooks you could tie into your
line kind of like a droper and just drag it
through there like a dredge.

Speaker 9 (18:02):
That's what I'm gonna do. That's when I came back
to the truck and do a dragline and see if
I can find it. But yeah, artificial, I never used
it before two weeks ago, same spot limit two hours.

Speaker 1 (18:20):
Oh man, that's pretty good. Well, like I gotta run
catch another one. Yeah, good luck, Danny. Let me know
if you find that thing.

Speaker 9 (18:28):
Oh, I'll call back and give you an update. If
I find it, it'll be a miracle. All right, good
looking at me?

Speaker 3 (18:36):
Yeah man? Audios?

Speaker 1 (18:38):
All right, Rick, what's going on? Buddy?

Speaker 8 (18:40):
Rephrase your question of the day.

Speaker 1 (18:43):
The question of the Oh yeah, have you ever prayed
for anything good about the outdoors to happen to you
when you're going somewhere?

Speaker 8 (18:50):
Well over the years, which is now becoming.

Speaker 7 (18:53):
A lot that you and I have conferred and talked, Yeah,
in person or otherwise. Sure, Uh, we both have shared prayers,
so we're prayer people. Anyways, I'll just share my deal,
and this really applies to anything I've hunted, but I'm
gonna make it deer hunting because when I was younger,

(19:18):
I was. I was wanting that big one, that trophy,
and I was serious about it. Okay for years now.
This was back before these deer where they are today.
And I don't have fence for the record, But anyway.

Speaker 8 (19:36):
When I was doing, when I was serious at it,
and like I say.

Speaker 4 (19:41):
Duck hunting wonder.

Speaker 8 (19:43):
Once I got into my stand, I said.

Speaker 7 (19:46):
A prayer, and my prayer very simple. My first one
was I thank the Lord for getting me there safely
without harm and no hazards. Very I mean, I know
I know this by heart and for me as the
hunter or the swift and accurate for a clean kill.

Speaker 1 (20:11):
Right, Yeah, I understand that.

Speaker 3 (20:12):
Dude.

Speaker 1 (20:12):
You don't want to have to chase something all over
the woods that bothers me to lose something. Yeah, I'm
the same way. I don't like to leave game boogered
up and hobbling around. I just don't. That's not what
we're there for, you know.

Speaker 8 (20:26):
Well see, I'm very selfish and self centered. That you
was listening to my prayer. That was great for me first.

Speaker 1 (20:34):
Yeah, he got you there.

Speaker 8 (20:35):
Yeah, thank you for that. I made sure I was
covered first.

Speaker 1 (20:42):
Oh god, I'm.

Speaker 8 (20:43):
Just shared mine. Let's hear somebody else.

Speaker 1 (20:49):
Yeah, you know it. It's something that all of us
ought to think a little bit more about than what
we've kind of leaned out away from the beauty of
what we get to do when we go outdoors and
what we get to see. I preached from this pulpit
for twenty five years now about the just the experience

(21:14):
of going outdoors. David weighed in just a minute ago,
he said by email, he said, now that I'm into
my senior years, I make it a point to thank
the Lord every opening day for giving me the opportunity
to be in the woods for the start of another season.
That's a pretty good idea. That's a pretty good idea.
The emphasis lately has turned to what can I get

(21:41):
and how fast can I get it? This whole instant
gratification generation. And it's not their fault. They're taking advantage
of the technology that they have the same way we did.
We took advantage of free school reels before or after

(22:01):
we ditched our direct drives. The old knucklebusters I came
up during that period. There were no There was no
button to push on the reel to make the spool
just go round and round and round when you cast it.
Was all direct drive and if if you slung something
out there, that handle on the reel was gonna spin
around and beat your hand up if you had the

(22:23):
had it if you were holding it incorrectly, hence the
term knucklebuster. Fiberglass rods were replaced by graphite more sensitive uh.
Monofilament line placed by braided line, which is it's kind
of like dacron. It's high tech dicron basically, but the

(22:44):
long and the short of it is it's far more sensitive.
You can feel the fish more. And then the ultimate uh,
you can jump over trolling motors and all that stuff,
and you get to you get to the forward looking sonars,
and they've taken a lot of the mystery, a lot

(23:04):
of the allure, a lot of the Oh, please let
me catch a big fish. Please let me catch a
big fish. Some of these guides and outfitters and even
professional fishermen are going out their day these days. I
guess if they are prayerful at all, Please let me
see a big fish. Please let me see a big
fish on the screen. And that's I'm not taking that

(23:26):
away from them. For for amateur fishing, for local make
your own rules tournaments, whatever, it is, but I do
think that the highest level, I'm not so sure that
should be allowed. It'd be like allowing tour players to

(23:48):
use clubs that can make the ball go farther and
farther and farther, or or golf balls that can go
farther and farther, and that's out there. The engineering behind
that stuff, thanks to AI, is such that we could
build clubs that would hit balls farther and build balls

(24:08):
that would fly farther. But then we'd be taking something
away from the game, and I just I don't know.
I well, I got all the way here to the
bottom of the hour and didn't tell you the story
about the little kid. Okay, the little kid is next
when we come back, unless there are calls. If you
prayed for something, if you prayed for that big buck

(24:30):
you've been looking forward to walk out of the woods
and get right in front of you on opening day
or any day of a deer season, if you prayed
that you would catch a twenty four or twenty six
or twenty eight or thirty inch speckled trout, your priorities
might be a little bit off. But I could understand that.
I can understand that we always want a little bit more.

(24:52):
Those of us who appreciate the outdoors the most always
want a little bit more for ourselves. But there's also
a time, and I'm there now, and we'll talk about
this maybe some today as well, where I get more
joy now out of watching someone else catch their first
or their best or whatever it is. And anytime somebody
calls me and says, hey, man, golly, I just caught

(25:15):
a twenty six inch trout today, it's amazing. It's the
biggest one I've ever caught, the biggest one I've ever seen.
I just congratulate them, and I don't say anything about
what I've caught, because it doesn't matter to them. What
matters is that they beat their own record, and that's
a special time, and you need to celebrate it with
them and not rub their nose in the fact that
you did something better in your eyes, because it wasn't

(25:38):
better in their eyes and their eyes in that day.
That was a new benchmark for them, a new rung
on the ladder going up the outdoors, and just let
them bask in their own sunlight. I love hearing those stories.
If you caught a twenty four inch trout and the
best you had yesterday was a twenty three. I want
to hear the whole story. I want to hear the conditions.

(25:59):
I want to hear what rod and reel you were using.
I want to hear what bait you were using. And
I want to tell you what kind of I want
to hear what kind of fight it put up. Ah,
there we go. Let's get to black Horse. Black Horse
Golf Club up there on Frei Road, just a little
way south two ninety North Course, South Course, South Course,
Private North Course, daily fee. Like it's always been two

(26:21):
good opportunities to take advantage of one of the nicest
little setups there is that black Horse Golf Club, and
you can take advantage of the South Course and get
a membership that, in addition to both courses there gets
you playing opportunities also at Golf Club of Houston's two courses,
and then at Blackhawk Country Club down in Richmond out

(26:43):
where I play mostly, we get five courses for one.
That's if you're into golf and you like hopping around
to different courses, that's an excellent option and it gets
you five excellent choices. The daily fee option at black
Horse still is good. That North Course is a lot
of fun and it's not it's not a difficult course.
It's challenging, Believe me. There are some shot values in

(27:05):
there in those eighteen holes on that north course that
will they'll make you scratch your head sometimes, but you're
gonna enjoy it and you're not gonna feel beat up
at the end of it. Black Horse Golf Club dot
com is a website. Everybody inside that gate off Frar Road,
off two nine at a Fry Road south a few
miles and hang a west. You'll be there. You'll see it.

(27:27):
Can't miss it. Black Horse goolf Club dot COM's website
and take a tea time right now, go set yourself
up some golfer today. It's a beautiful day for it.
Black Horse Golf Club dot com. I'm glad to see this.
I didn't know what was coming, but my stories are
gonna have to be paused again for a quick update
from Kerrville with Captain Scott and on Captain what's going

(27:48):
on up there?

Speaker 3 (27:48):
Man? Oh? Still working, dud?

Speaker 1 (27:51):
What is the what is the status? I saw a
story and you'll know better than me if it's correct
or not. That the number of missing now has been
whittled down to three.

Speaker 3 (28:05):
There is a whole lot of discussion about that right now.

Speaker 10 (28:08):
I'll bet how did we go from ninety seven to
three in one day?

Speaker 1 (28:13):
Yeah, I mean, I know.

Speaker 10 (28:15):
They're saying that they've located a bunch of people that
were on the missing list.

Speaker 3 (28:19):
They're not actually missing. Yeah, Okay, they're.

Speaker 10 (28:22):
Saying that there was forty or fifty bodies that you know,
weren't identified positively avenue DNA and stuff like that, and
the results came back and now those those people are
off the list because now they've been identified. You know,
they were John Doe's and Jane Doe's prior to that. Yeah,
the information flows around here, so weird.

Speaker 3 (28:45):
Yeah, it's a lot of rumors show. There was one
that popped up the other day.

Speaker 10 (28:48):
They just found that ten days in we found three kids,
three girls in a hollowed out tree and they've been
living on this rain water. And yeah, I mean, stuff
like that keeps up. But this one was supposedly from
the Kerr County messages. They did a press conference and stuff,
and that they knocked it down the three myself and

(29:13):
a lot of the people who have been out here
on the ground. The whole time looking at this mess.
Have a hard time believing that we only have three
people missing and all this.

Speaker 1 (29:21):
Yeah, I'm with you, there's so much.

Speaker 10 (29:25):
There's way too much stuff. I just sent you a
picture of the area I'm working right now. We've we
finished yesterday. My crew finally kind of one of the
last crews working on cutting and moving, and I put
I threw sixty guys on an island with five or
six machines.

Speaker 3 (29:44):
I've gathered everybody.

Speaker 10 (29:45):
I've been working like four or five spots at a
time and overseeing that, and I gathered them all up.

Speaker 3 (29:52):
We'd finished everywhere else except this one.

Speaker 10 (29:55):
Bad island that we just couldn't get to a lot
of times because the water would come up with ruins
and waters down.

Speaker 3 (30:01):
So we had low water crossing.

Speaker 10 (30:02):
We were able to get in there, and I told
all my guys, everybody go over there. And I really
honestly didn't even know how many people I put on
it until they called me for lunch and they said
we need sixty plates. I thought, wow, I've got sixty
guys on it.

Speaker 3 (30:16):
It's a big island.

Speaker 10 (30:17):
I mean it's not where they're running over each other,
but I mean it's probably a mile long, wow, and
maybe two hundred yards wide, and it was just a
I mean, the whole thing was just destroyed. And now
we got it cleared yesterday. We worked on it three
days and finally got it cleared yesterday, good enough to
run the dogs.

Speaker 3 (30:37):
And so that's what I'm doing now. That's why I
got a chance to call you.

Speaker 10 (30:41):
I'm running cadaver dogs through it.

Speaker 3 (30:44):
So some dogs out of Minnesota.

Speaker 10 (30:47):
It's a there's a GSP and a black Lab that
they're really good at running the big, big areas. I've
got the German Shepherds and the Belgians. They run more spots, yeah,
where we we have a smell and we need them
to come over and check it out.

Speaker 3 (31:06):
And I got a guy flying a drone right now.
He's checking out the whole island from the air, getting
some video. So it's it's still going, but it's winding down.
Quick question to a point now.

Speaker 1 (31:17):
Quick questions. Somebody asked me, Scott, how sensitive are these
dogs noses say? If there's is it a cow or
is it a raccoon or is it a person?

Speaker 3 (31:29):
Depends on the dog.

Speaker 10 (31:30):
From what I've learned through this process, Uh, these people
their dogs are not. I mean, I ran right by
a dead deer. Yeah, okay, I know there's a dead
deer up in this pile.

Speaker 3 (31:42):
Wow. And I put them right by that, you know,
had them start over there.

Speaker 10 (31:46):
The dog turned its head, looked at that, and then
just kept going, oh wow.

Speaker 3 (31:50):
You know it's one of.

Speaker 10 (31:51):
Those Hey, that's a different smell, but that's not what
I'm looking for.

Speaker 1 (31:55):
That's incredible.

Speaker 10 (31:57):
This lady here, I got talking to her last night
after we ran the dogs on a couple other locations,
and she said she's from Minnesota and they have used
her dogs to find Indian burial grounds.

Speaker 3 (32:09):
Oh my lord, I mean, it's unbelievable.

Speaker 1 (32:12):
Is she the one you said had a little dog
with her that people didn't have confidence?

Speaker 3 (32:16):
So, okay, no, that was a different one.

Speaker 10 (32:18):
Okay, We've got we've got probably ten to fifteen, maybe
twenty different dog teams out here, and we've been running
different dogs on different places.

Speaker 3 (32:28):
And then I'll if I'm not confident in that dog,
you know, I ran them when I.

Speaker 10 (32:32):
Was in homicide, and if I'm not confident with the
way the handler acted. I've talked to enough of them
to know who kind of read them, and this lady
here got it together and her crew that came down
from Minnesota.

Speaker 3 (32:45):
They brought four dogs and they're.

Speaker 10 (32:48):
All for different terrain more or less, and so we
just ran another one on a place where we had
had a hit previously. The problem is we had so
many bodies out here that places where we picked up
bodies previously still have scent, and the dogs are hitting
on that scent.

Speaker 3 (33:06):
Now we're running that and.

Speaker 10 (33:08):
Trying to you know, we've picked up over one hundred bodies.
There's a lot of locations on this river that have
previous scents, and most of them we have marked, but
not everybody's marking them correctly, and so we're having to
go back and recheck some places. That's kind of where
I'm at now. I've got a creek that's been like

(33:31):
Hell Creek. It's called Cherry Creek and it's just down
the river from us, and it has been It.

Speaker 3 (33:37):
Had a log gym in it.

Speaker 10 (33:39):
The river back flowed because it didn't rain down that way,
so as the river rose, the river went backwards into
those creeks and then deposited I mean tons and tons
of debris literally tons, and then went back out and
left a bunch of silt and trees, and this creek
is real steep, real wooded, and some other guys have

(34:01):
worked at two or three different times. And now that
they said, we're gonna put the Redneck crew on it
and see what y'all think today. Because I've got guys,
I've got old farm boys, i got firemen. Yeah, yeah,
I've got it by picking from other groups and we
can all put our heads together and you know how
I think.

Speaker 3 (34:20):
Sure, you know I'm problem solving. I got a whole
crew of problem solvers, redneck problem solvers. And we've got
welding machines. We got big equipment. We got welding machines,
anything we need.

Speaker 10 (34:32):
We got a whole truckload of those mats that they
lay down on muddy areas to work pipelines.

Speaker 3 (34:38):
We had two eighteen wheelers of those brought in.

Speaker 10 (34:41):
We got eight thousand minute of pump gallon per minute pump.

Speaker 3 (34:45):
And we're thinking about damning.

Speaker 10 (34:46):
The creek and then draining it with the pump and
then going in there with the mats, and then we
can put machines in there and go down it.

Speaker 3 (34:54):
And everybody's standing around at the headquarters last night looking
at us, going, you think y'all can do that? My
red neck? What was like, Yeah, we can do.

Speaker 1 (35:01):
That, all right, it's gouty. Well, I can't possibly tell you,
and on behalf of everybody probably who's listening here, how
appreciative we are for what you and your crew are
doing and everybody up there is doing That's that's a
special kind of person who can tackle that and get
it done and thank you man.

Speaker 3 (35:20):
Yeah, it's kind of winding down.

Speaker 10 (35:22):
I mean, I don't know if Camill's listening or not,
but I told her i'd probably come home today. I
hadn't been home since the fifth, and I'm thinking this
Cherry Creek thing is gonna get me. What's happening to
me is it's taking me back to my homicide day. Yeah,
and this is an unclear when I had an uncleared case.

(35:44):
I couldn't sleep, couldn't do anything. I had to think
about it.

Speaker 1 (35:47):
Cold case, man.

Speaker 3 (35:48):
That's kind of where I'm back. Yeah.

Speaker 10 (35:49):
Yeah, it's kind of the mentality that I've taken with
this thing is I'm working a cold case here and
I got to figure this thing out.

Speaker 3 (35:58):
I just can't leave it.

Speaker 9 (36:00):
You know.

Speaker 3 (36:00):
It's one of those things obitually. I'm gonna have to,
I know I will.

Speaker 10 (36:04):
But we're probably gonna run the headquarters another day, uh
into Monday, and I think they're gonna shut us down.
Kirk County is talking about now that they've knocked it
down to three.

Speaker 3 (36:14):
I think that's part of it. They want to get
us out of their hair.

Speaker 1 (36:19):
That's a good point.

Speaker 3 (36:20):
I think the landowners are. I think the landowners are
a little tired of us.

Speaker 1 (36:23):
Yeah. I understand that equipment, yeah.

Speaker 10 (36:25):
Stuff, but it's important work and stuff we need to
get serious.

Speaker 1 (36:31):
Well free three to go, man, go find them.

Speaker 3 (36:35):
Yep, that's what I'm working at.

Speaker 1 (36:37):
All, right, buddy, So I really thank you so much.

Speaker 10 (36:40):
Man, sure yo, something else for you for you on
this Yeah, we're finding a ton of golf balls. Oh,
all of a sudden, I'm talking hundreds of golf balls
in this one area. I can't figure it out. I
don't know if somebody up on the hill is hitting
balls down in the river, you know, for fun, yeah,
or if there's a golf course close by here and

(37:02):
it's catching all these balls and they washed down and
they got hung up in this area, or what I knew.

Speaker 1 (37:07):
A guy was once who bought like when rain, when
driving ranges and what you know, their balls get kind
of worn out, and when they replace them, they sell
those old ones for pennies on the dollar. They're just
all beat up. And that may be some rancher up
there who just liked to hit balls and hit them
into the valley. Yeah.

Speaker 10 (37:25):
Well I picked up one of the the titleist balls.
I put cleaned it up, put it in my truck,
and that's gonna be my putting ball.

Speaker 3 (37:34):
Okay, I think that's fitting, you know.

Speaker 1 (37:36):
Yeah, that's not a bad idea. It's not Scott, thanks
man it thank you and all your crew up there.

Speaker 3 (37:43):
All right, Yeah, I will talk to you later. All right.

Speaker 10 (37:47):
Camille asked me if I was gonna change my address,
so I think she's ready for me to.

Speaker 1 (37:51):
Yeah, you kind of need to get on home at
some points, Caddy, all right, man, thanks to really I
appreciate it. All right, we got to take a little
right here. Yeah, we'll line back up. I've got time
after this break to catch that call that had to drop.
He had to go somewhere. Champions Tree Preservation all that
damage from last year during a hurricane. If you had

(38:13):
a tree fall in your yard, there's a good reason
it fell, and one of several reasons, probably the way
I understand it from talking to Irwin up at Champions
Tree Preservation up there at his place on Thursday, I
believe it was. I went up there and sat down
with him and learned a ton about what hurts trees,

(38:34):
what ruins their root systems. And one of the things
that I heard and understand now is why overwatering your
trees is just as bad as underwatering your trees. Didn't
think about that before, yeh, boy, Just keep pouring the
water to them. They'll be fine in the summertime. Well
that you can overdo it, and Champions Tree Preservation will

(38:55):
send somebody to your house to assess your trees and
explain all of that too, so that you don't make
the mistake that a lot of people, including some I know,
are probably making with their big, beautiful trees. If they
have to take a tree out, usually they can come
out and either fix the problem by feeding, changing the
watering schedule, maybe doing some pruning a little, maybe take

(39:18):
off a couple of pretty big limbs too. But if
a tree has to come out, they also have a
tree farm that can be used to refill that hole
with a brand new tree, get a fresh start there.
Champions Tree Preservation been around a long time. They own
all their equipment, They have great crews that have been
with them for years and years, and that Arborus is

(39:40):
going to come out there and start the process with
a free consultation. Championstree dot com championstree dot com. Let
me remind you that if you're thinking about hunting season
like a lot of us are now, or really just
about any well, you don't even have to have a
good reason to go out to Phoenix Knives out there
in Belleville. They're right there on Main Street in a

(40:00):
nice bigger location than they had historically and brought in
more people to build more knives anybody who shows up
out there kind of on a first come, first served basis.
If you want to actually build your own knife and
learn how to hammer hot steel, they'll do that with you.
It's kind of a fun thing for the whole family
or maybe a group of friends. Go out there and

(40:23):
build your own knife, and while you're there, take a
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have on display. And I'm talking about pretty much anything
and everything that you can imagine that would have a
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You want to buy yourself some tomahawks to throw at
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(40:45):
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(41:27):
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Sports Talk seven ninety The Dugpike Show, Thank you for listening.
The call that dropped the Fella had to go somewhere,
I'm not sure where, but he overheard our conversation about
shotguns a little while ago and wanted to remind me

(41:50):
of a book that he was aware of, written by
a man named Bob Brister, called Shotgunning The Art and Science,
And I actually, I'm I'm pretty sure I still got
to copy that book around the house. It was Bob
Brister who got me into my position at the newspaper.
And that's a funny story in itself. I'll save that
for another time. But yeah, I'm keenly aware of the book.

(42:12):
I'm keenly aware that he actually to get the data
that he was looking for, had his wife driving back
and forth down a dirt road, pulling a little trailer
that had butcher paper ten or twelve feet long up
on a little rack that he had built, and she

(42:32):
would drive at certain speeds and he would shoot at
the front end of that paper and then watch how
the shot string developed into something more flat oval than
round if you're really swinging that barrel. It's a fascinating book,
it really is. That somebody around here, I'm not going
to say who it was, but had talked to a
guy who said oh, that book's old news. That's all

(42:55):
antiquated data. But in its time, shot Gunning the Art
and Science by Bob Brister was kind of like the
shot Gunning Bible.

Speaker 3 (43:05):
It was.

Speaker 1 (43:06):
It had more information and more data, more reliable data
in it than anything that had ever been written before it,
and a whole lot of people learned a whole lot
from that, and that's that eventually became what we have now.
With everything you can do with what we have. Anyway,
let me go talk to Kevin real quick for the top. Kevin,

(43:26):
what's going on down there?

Speaker 2 (43:27):
Man?

Speaker 1 (43:28):
I know you've got a tournament coming up. Kevin? There
you are?

Speaker 4 (43:31):
Hello?

Speaker 3 (43:32):
You there?

Speaker 11 (43:33):
Does?

Speaker 1 (43:33):
Oh, yeah, I'm here man, my speaker.

Speaker 12 (43:38):
Hey, I sent you an email earlier with all the
details and everything off. Yeah, Sergeant Rodeo. That's coming up
next start next Thursday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. It's inshore
and offshore and also juve and youth.

Speaker 1 (43:54):
Divisions as well.

Speaker 12 (43:56):
They've got like twenty something different categories in shore and
offshore just for.

Speaker 1 (44:01):
The youth of course, plus blue Crab. I think a
blue Crab division. I didn't think about that. Yeah, for
the kids.

Speaker 12 (44:09):
That's something that was always fun whenever I did the
fish and fiesta.

Speaker 1 (44:13):
Sure, yep, that's crazy. I mean that's good, yep.

Speaker 12 (44:18):
Other than that, I actually got out and went fishing
one day this week. Buddy of mine, Mel McKee. We
went on down to the pass and tried our luck
for a little while. He ended up boxing a couple
of nice trout.

Speaker 1 (44:30):
Nice it was. It was hot as Oh where were you?
Where'd you fish?

Speaker 12 (44:37):
We were just off a mud island there in West
Galveston Bay. Oh yeah, yeah, okay, launched there at San
Louis Pass. I got you, went fished a little bit
around Bird Island, and but it was good to get
out on the water after doing nothing but working lately.

Speaker 3 (44:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (44:54):
Well, if you're if you're weighing fish all the time
and never catching fish, you're doing it all wrong. Dog
on it. I know that's right. I tell my wife
all the time, are you going fishing again? Are you
going to play golf again? And I said, you can't
be a carpenter if you don't know how to sling
a hammer. Yeah, yeah, it's part of my gun. Yes, sir,

(45:15):
if he buys it, I'm gonna tell you stick with it.

Speaker 3 (45:19):
Go ahead.

Speaker 12 (45:19):
Anybody that wants to get in the tournament, contact Jeff
de Rosia down there and sergeant.

Speaker 1 (45:24):
And he'll get you hooked up.

Speaker 12 (45:26):
And you can go on Facebook if you look on
my my profile or even one of my fishing groups.
I posted it on them and several of the other
sergeant sites and stuff.

Speaker 1 (45:37):
Good. Yeah, yeah, I see, I've got what you sent
me and that Jeff de Rosia. Guys, you've got his
cell phone listed here. Can I give it out, yes, sir,
sure can yeah, nine eight five two five eight eight
two three three. And like like Kevin said, there's all
kinds of divisions, all kinds of stuff you can win,

(45:59):
and it's just it's gonna it's called the hooked on
on Fishing Sergeant Fishing Rodeo. Get these kids involved, get
the adults involved, get the whole family involved in fishing.
It's yes, sir, there's they're not a There's a lot
of worse ways you can go than to get involved
in fishing. I don't know if there's any faster ways
to go broke, but there's a lot of waste.

Speaker 12 (46:21):
One thing about a three day tournament like this, even
if you don't want to fish all all three days,
you can pick and choose the day that's best for you.
That's a good point to get out there, and yeah,
I'll all be there at the scales weigh in each
Thursday and Friday from eleven to six, and then Saturday
from eleven to five.

Speaker 1 (46:38):
If you start to Kevin, if you start telling people
not to fish all three days of a three day tournament,
I may have to take away your fisherman card.

Speaker 3 (46:48):
I gotta run.

Speaker 1 (46:50):
I'm right at the top man, all right, but always
a pleasure. Yeah, keep me posted next weekend, will you.
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welcome back. Second hour starts right now. We still haven't
talked about the Open Championship. It is ongoing. Scottie Scheffler.

(48:38):
Scheffler and Lee are through two holes playing the third.
Now Lee's about to put for Birdie on number three,
and then I'll keep you posted on that. We'll get
to it in just a minute. There's so much going
on here that I would like to touch on very quickly,
going back a notch or two, I promised a little
kid story of brand new kid to fishing first fish

(49:01):
he'd ever caught. I and my son were fishing over
a little lake in meadows place that at the time
had about five million little sunfish in it in less
than an acre of water, and we routinely would catch
twenty thirty forty before he'd get bored. One day we
actually caught one hundred. We set out to do it,
and we did it. And one other day we were

(49:24):
sitting there and catching fish pretty quick. In this family,
mom and dad and about a seven year old boy,
maybe six, and then about a two or three year
old little sister walk over the bridge next to where
we were fishing, and they were just walking across, and
the little boy got about halfway up that bridge and

(49:45):
just a small little walkover bridge over that little lake,
and he stopped and he turned back and he was
watching us catching fish, and his parents said come on,
and he looked back at him, and then he looked
back down and kept watching us, and I just took
a chance. I said, Hey, is your little boy ever
caught a fish before? I said, no, no, we've never

(50:06):
gone fishing. So do you think he would like to
catch one? And his eyes lit up and he's got
a little smile on his face, and Mom looked at dad,
and Dad looked at mom and said sure. And so
we got him down there, put the cane pole in
his hands, explained a little bit about what he should do,
and it took him a couple of tries I don't

(50:27):
remember how many exactly, before the timing got just right
so that they couldn't steal his bait before he could
hook one of them, and he finally caught his first fish,
and he and the family was happy. His little sister
was clapping like he'd won the star tournament and all
turned out well.

Speaker 3 (50:48):
Now.

Speaker 1 (50:48):
I don't know if that kid ever got to catch
another fish or not in his whole life, but in
that one moment, I felt good. My son felt good
about it. I could see that he appreciated the moment
for what it was for that other little boy, and
all was well in the universe. By the way, the
call that came a little while ago was about did

(51:10):
I mention that, Frankie, did I talk about the book
yet or not? Where did I just tell you? I
think you mentioned that?

Speaker 3 (51:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (51:16):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I did talk about the art and science.

Speaker 3 (51:18):
Yeah I did.

Speaker 1 (51:19):
I'll try I'll cross that off my list now. Sometimes
I got too many things on my mind.

Speaker 3 (51:23):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (51:24):
Mojo weighed in when I was talking earlier in the
program about asking whether or not any of you had
ever prayed to catch a giant fish, or prayed to
or to take a big buck or something like that,
and Mojo reality checked me and brought me back into perspective. Said,
you know, usually my prayers are for thanks more often

(51:45):
than they are for requests. And I thought that that's
pretty deep. I aim. When I emailed back to say
thank you for the email, I also said, I wish
I'd thought of that. That's a pretty good way to
look at life. Yesterday, let's take a look at this
leaderboard first. Before I get into yesterday, let's look at
the final round of the ongoing Open Championship Scotty Scheffer,

(52:08):
by the way, birdied one. He hit his approach shot
to about a foot and just went up there and
tapped in. He now at fifteen under par and leading Lee.
Let me get my little I have an official leader
board here that I can look at that has first
and last names. It just drives me crazy that the

(52:29):
other one doesn't. Fifteenth. Oh there we go, Scotty Scheffer
at fifteen. Uh got Lee. This one doesn't have it either.

Speaker 3 (52:39):
Lee.

Speaker 1 (52:40):
I can't remember that. His name is unusual and I
can't remember his first name. But Lee's at ten. He's
five shots back. Harris English at nine, along with Roy McElroy,
Ricky Fowler at eight, Bryson Deshambo at eight, a couple
moy Horguard, Shoffley and Hatton all at eight under par.
Anybody else, holy cow, yeah, got her up in Fitzpatrick

(53:02):
all at eight under par. That takes you through eleven places,
and I'm one hundred percent sure that anybody who is
tied for twelfth or worse right now is not gonna
win that tournament. Scottie Scheffler is just he just stepped
up and yesterday and said, you know what, I'm Scottie Scheffler,
I'm gonna go win this one too. And he's built

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himself a five shot lead with sixteen holes left to play,
and he's just not hitting any bad shots. He's steady Eddy.
Now he's about to tee off on four and I
hope I haven't jinxed him by saying that we'll find
out soon enough. Back to my yesterday idea, I want

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to talk about finding doves. With dove seasons so close.
A lot of you who lost some doves last year
maybe have forgotten why you lost them. And there are
a lot of reasons for losing them, none of them good.
Mostly it starts with just knocking down and retrieving one
dove at a time, just one. If you are walking

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to a dove and that you've already knocked down, and
you see another one coming at you and you take
that shot and you hit that bird and it gets
way off the line that you're walking, there's a probably
about a seventy percent chance. I'm gonna raise it up

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from sixty or sixty five to seventy percent chance that
you're gonna lose one or both of those birds. I
don't care what you're hunting in I don't care if
you're in plowed ground. I don't care if you're in
corn stubble. Corn stubble may be the worst for hiding doves,
although plowed ground in many cases, if it's got just
a little bit of leftover vegetable matter in it that's

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dried up to the point that it started to turn gray.
You can see where I'm going with this. It's hard
to see those birds, and if you take your eyes
off of them, you're probably gonna lose them. I wherever
I'm hunting, sitting on a stool, leaning up against a tree,
whatever it is. If I'm sitting in a stool in
a like a croating field or something like that, where

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there's no fence post behind me, no tree, whatever, I'll
bring a little dal rod and stick it in the
ground so it's about a foot above the cover, and
then put maybe a piece of yellow surveyor ribbon on
it or red or whatever. A little bit of color
isn't gonna totally ruin your camouflage set up. Doves, I

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don't think are that terribly worried about camo as much
as they are about movement, kind of like ducks. But
the bottom line is. It gives you a point of
reference when you leave that place, walking toward a landmark
on the horizon. Find a tree, find a power line,
find a pickup truck, whatever it is. Have something on
the horizon between where you shot and where you think

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that dove is, and then try to get yourself a
good reference point out exactly where you think it fell.
When you get there, take that second little marked post
that you have a little half inch dow rod sharpened
on one end. Stick get in the ground there, or
put a cap on top of the croat in, or

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put something there that you can mark, and then start
making little circles around that. And if you're any good
at all at following a straight line, that little circular
path of getting bigger and bigger should get you to
that dove. If you're not distracted by other birds, it's
just so easy. And if you're hunting near really thick cover,

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just make it a habit. This is where I stop
swinging my gun. I'm not going to shoot past here,
because then that bird is going to last land in
some giant rose hedge bush or some tall trees or
whatever thick underbrush. You're not gonna find a in there,
don't do it. Don't waste the bird that way. And

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by the way, if you're taking your dogs out on
opening day, you should have started two months ago getting
them acclimated and ready to run like that. I bring
this up every year, and it draws me crazy because
I get stories. I'll hear at least one or two
stories between now and about September fifteenth about somebody's dog
getting overheated and either barely surviving or dying before it

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could be treated for heat exhaustion. Dogs don't sweat, They
lose their heat through expiration. They breathe in hopefully cooler
air and then breathe out the hot air that's overheating
their bodies. And if it's one hundred degrees or ninety
five degrees outside and they're breathing in ninety five or
hundred degree air trying to cool a body that's even

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hotter than that, it's not gonna work. It's just not
gonna work, and you're gonna end up with a dog
that's in serious trouble that if you don't address it immediately,
you can be in bigger trouble and lose that dog.
If you if you are gonna hunt with a dog,
and it is gonna be hot on opening weekend or
whenever you go. Get one of those little kiddy swimming pools.

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You can get of it Walmart or Target or whatever
for a handful of dollars less than ten dollars. Certainly
it's just a molded piece of plastic. And then bring
a couple of five gallon jugs of water and a
bag or two of ice, and a cooler, and just
keep some cool water there for the dog to come
back and lie down in every time it goes and

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makes a retrieve. And believe me, that dog will go
to that water real quickly. If it's hot outside, dog
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iron Doors dot Com on Sports Talk seven to ninety
The Dugpike Show. Thank you for listening. I really do
appreciate it. Let's get to Aaron because he's been waiting
a while. Let's get there, Aaron. What's up, man?

Speaker 6 (01:02:28):
Hey, not much, just driving through Nebraska.

Speaker 1 (01:02:30):
Nebraska. Yeah, make a U turn man.

Speaker 11 (01:02:35):
Well I'm coming up to Grand Island. I'm hoping there's
a piece of stuck around there.

Speaker 1 (01:02:40):
Oh okay, yeah, I'm sure that guy.

Speaker 6 (01:02:47):
You know, have you ever seen.

Speaker 11 (01:02:48):
The carbographs when it's just really on point after rain,
it's just been cut.

Speaker 6 (01:02:52):
It's just thinking almost almost like a scrub brush at you.

Speaker 1 (01:02:55):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what this feels.

Speaker 6 (01:02:58):
A cord thekla Wow seven foot tall? Holy cow, it
is amazing.

Speaker 1 (01:03:05):
Yeah, that's that your neck deep in corn country right there.

Speaker 11 (01:03:09):
Holy it looks like this year's gonna be a particularly
uhod crops, so.

Speaker 1 (01:03:14):
Good for them.

Speaker 11 (01:03:16):
Yeah, yeah, I'm sure gonna be different, but it would
be all today.

Speaker 6 (01:03:23):
Anyways.

Speaker 11 (01:03:24):
My question for you is is I was thinking about
going to a foot wall to beach visit my sister
and brother.

Speaker 6 (01:03:30):
Yeah, but I want to get in some spot fishing.

Speaker 11 (01:03:34):
Is it worth the extra drive to get down to
like Tampa, down down to that reach and try to
do it? Because the time I did it down there,
it was unreal. Am I gonna lose out a lot?
You know trying to try to do over there in
that area that's a beach.

Speaker 1 (01:03:51):
Probably not a lot. But if you've got how far
how much more driving? Are you talking about? An hour
and a half? Two hours?

Speaker 3 (01:03:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (01:03:59):
Oh no, boy, that has got to go all the
way from basically like fifty pullets, you know, all this
Jacksonville past tallahase See.

Speaker 6 (01:04:07):
It's like five six hours.

Speaker 1 (01:04:08):
Oh lord, yeah, if you're going all the way across
to the East coast, man, yeah, that is a little
bit of a drive. I've got a guy. I got
a guy over on the West coast, and I'll send
you his number. I'll send you send to Aaron. I'll

(01:04:29):
send you his name and number when we get when
I get off the air, and I guarantee you this
guy's name is Jeff Page in case I forget g
E O F F okay, and Jeff and I go
way back. And I've fished with him a couple of
times over on the West coast, but he's based on
the East Coast, and he will tell you one honestly,

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whether he can handle what you want or whether you
need to drive on. So yeah, he's a good guy,
he really is. I've been I had to. I just
just had a uh text conversation with him about two
weeks ago, trying to put somebody on some snook. So
let's see what we can do.

Speaker 11 (01:05:09):
Well, it's still still long term, uh in the forecast
right now, things got picked up a little bit, but
look forward.

Speaker 1 (01:05:15):
To yeah, heck yeah, if you're gonna be down that way.

Speaker 11 (01:05:19):
Yeah, you know they've got things look for to between
that their piggles.

Speaker 1 (01:05:24):
Okay, you're just you're just really borderline bragging. Now you
better be careful.

Speaker 3 (01:05:28):
Man.

Speaker 6 (01:05:29):
I had to give this.

Speaker 11 (01:05:32):
Obviously. It's just the way things are right now. Anyways,
it started to turn around. I think quarter three, quarter
four is you know, these people are going to have
to act.

Speaker 6 (01:05:42):
On some of these projects.

Speaker 1 (01:05:43):
So yeah, yeah, they can't wait anymore. And I think
with good reason. There there's we should be optimistic. There's
there's a lot of good things happening in this country
of ours right now. Yeah, they're gonna need someplace to
put all that stuff, aren't there. That's where you come.

Speaker 6 (01:05:59):
In many I'm hoping. I'm open right advertising.

Speaker 1 (01:06:04):
Yeah, come on, all right, however you're ready, do me
a favorite, send me a picture of one of those
corn fields cut off like you're talking about. I'd like
to see that.

Speaker 6 (01:06:11):
Okay, Yeah, I sure will.

Speaker 1 (01:06:13):
All right, man, travel safely, my friend.

Speaker 6 (01:06:16):
I sure will, thank right.

Speaker 1 (01:06:17):
Audios. That guy boy, he's he's a gung ho dude.
And he is living right. He doesn't. He's not scared
to drive. He's not scared to get in the car
and say, Okay, we're gonna go twelve hundred miles to
go do something. Whether it's a job, or whether it's
to go fish or go hunting, elk, whatever, if it's
if it's a thousand miles away, okay, well let's start.

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And it's he's he's gotten some fascinating opportunities. He makes
the most of everywhere he works too. He goes on
these special projects building out big warehouses and makes the
most of it. He brings fishing rods. He if it's
hunting season, he'll he'll carry some rifles with him and
and try to get permits to go do something. He's

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he's he's a good solid guy. Yeah, I'm glad he's
doing what he's doing. Seven one three two one seven
ninety Email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. Let's
go to Champions Tree Preservation. Champions Tree Preservation is that
they're based up in that kind of Spring area, but
they'll go anywhere in town, and I mean by town,

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I mean metropolitan Houston, anywhere to make sure that your
trees are ready for storm season, and we're almost two
months into it now doing okay so far, but you
never know, and if your trees aren't ready for a
big old blow, then you may end up losing one.
Hopefully it'll just fall over in the yard, but it

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might hit your house, it might hit a car, it
might hit anything that's left out in that storm. And
unless you get them out there to assess those trees
and fix whatever's wrong, that that's something you you might
lose sleepover. Trees can withstand a lot of punishment in
a big storm if they're healthy, if the roots aren't strong,

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if the if the foliage is too thick, whatever it
is can cause that tree to go down. And hopefully
they'll come out and they'll tell you, hey, the trees
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They own all their own equipment, they can get the

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job done quickly, and you'll sleep better and your neighbors
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probably do if you've listened to this show for a while.

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That would be Shooter's Corner, owned by an old hunting
buddy of mine, Jerry TK. We had a few South
Texas hunts together. Probably the best gunsmith I know too,
and builds awesome custom rifles. He and his son now
who is coming into the business and has since he
was old enough to do that. Shooters Corners an old
school gun store. It's not big, doesn't take you ten

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minutes to walk around. It doesn't take a minute to
walk around it, but as you walk you'll be going
past guns and Ammo and Camo and optics and targets
and anything you can think of to make you enjoy
the shooting sports better tomorrow than you do today. They
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you want, exactly what you need, and coming into hunting seasons,
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when you broke fifty straights clays in a in a

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target shoot. Tell the time you found a rifle in
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hole three times at one hundred yards. All kinds of
stories going on in there. A lot of law enforcement
hanging around there too, because if you wear a badge
for a living, you get a discount at Shooter's Corner,
which I think is pretty dog one nice Palmer Highway
at twenty nine Street, D Shooters Corner TX dot com

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V Shooters Corner TX dot Com. Nine thirty eight on
Sports Talk seven ninety The Doug Pike Show. Thank you
for listening. I certainly do appreciate it. I just had
to send Jeff Page a little note here and let
him know Aaron's looking for him. Seven one, three, two,
one two five, seven ninety emails on me Dougpike at

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iHeartMedia dot com. Uh, going back to where we started.
I think for a minute, by the way, Scottie Scheffler, good, heavens,
I just blinked. And now he's seventeen under par, seven
shots clear of Lee, eight clear of McElroy, Deshambeau Fitzpatrick

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and English. And unless he trips over his shoelaces and
falls into the rough and snaps an ankle, he's kind
of whole humming it around a very difficult golf course
and gonna. I'm gonna walk away with a cleric jug.

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Good for him. I want to go back. Let's get
this hold on. Let me talk to faux pro here.
Let's see what's on his mind. Tune him up for me, Frankie,
I'm ready there we go, know folk Pro.

Speaker 6 (01:12:02):
What is going on? Man?

Speaker 1 (01:12:03):
You know I'm watching Scottie Shuffler absolutely destroy the field.

Speaker 13 (01:12:09):
Uh right, he needs he needs to building getting getting
the pair of tiger tiger conversation.

Speaker 1 (01:12:14):
Well, you know we I talked about that yesterday. He's
gonna have to do this for another five, six, seven
years to be in that stratospheric uh yeah place, but
nonetheless as a snapshot of life at the last year
or two. Uh if he if he goes out and
sets his mind to win a tournament, he's probably gonna
win it. What's on your mind?

Speaker 6 (01:12:35):
Man?

Speaker 13 (01:12:36):
I'm just out of here, glass in this pasture with
my eyeballs looking at a few deer, and there's enough
you erasion doves flying around here. I could have made
a pretty good bacon rat barbecue.

Speaker 1 (01:12:46):
Yes, yeah, yeah. Seasons not that far away, is it.

Speaker 6 (01:12:51):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:12:51):
I would loaded up the wagon about to head back
to Alaska, and I was thinking about a question you
pondered about, you know, prank. Yeah, you know, big fisher,
big gear. But I let's go back to something a
little bit different. We was fishing a Bass Federation tournament
over Lake Belton, yeah, years years ago. And you know,
Belton's got these high sixty seventy foot bluff walls, so

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you can't see or hear, you know, weather coming. And
all of a sudden it just got black and quiet.
I'm like, okay, and lightning and then I hear this
roar of a train seven forty seven.

Speaker 1 (01:13:23):
Oh, yeah, you don't want to hear that.

Speaker 3 (01:13:26):
So I didn't know which way to run.

Speaker 13 (01:13:28):
So I got up against one of these real tight
against one of these bluff walls, and I just said
a little prayer, said, God, you're gonna have to be
off thee accurate to hit me where I'm sitting right here.
So if it's my time, it's my time, So whatever
it is, let this get by. So after about fifteen
or twenty minutes, went back to fishing my tournament. This
is back before I had all the technology on my
phone and stuff track all that stuff. Sure, we got

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back to the boat rapping and got back to the hotel,
watched the news and as a tornado come through within
a mile of where my boat was sitting.

Speaker 1 (01:13:56):
Man, Yeah, you know now that we are fortunate nowadays
to have instant weather knowledge on our phones. You just
go to the right space and you can see in
real time what's happening now and what's anticipated to happen,
which is far more important if you're on the water
than what's happening five miles away from you. Which way

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is it going? That's what we want to know exactly.

Speaker 3 (01:14:22):
You can plan your fishing good. There's days.

Speaker 13 (01:14:23):
When I see it's going to get bombed on the
south end the living store, I said, well, we can
go up to the north ind and fish all day
and never get rained on.

Speaker 1 (01:14:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:14:29):
We just playing accordingly and move accordingly.

Speaker 6 (01:14:31):
You know, it makes the same.

Speaker 13 (01:14:33):
But that they were out there though, we had a
couple of friends of mine that we're out there. It
was we were definitely praying for for big fishery, praying
let's not die today.

Speaker 1 (01:14:43):
One of the biggest bess I ever caught. I caught
when i'd been on the water, just at a little
private place three fifty acre lakes up in East Texas
and in a little metal john boat out there all
by myself. They'd been some other guys on the water,
but they bailed out when the first light and star.
But I was I was getting bit by really good

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fish every cast for us. They were just going nuts,
and I finally I got off the way I caught
one of only two double digit bass that I've ever
caught that day, just sitting out there by myself and
lightning cracking all around me. And once I finally got
that fish unhooked, I said, that's it, man, I'm I'm
not playing games with you anymore. Lord, just get me

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to the bank and I'll run into that barn. And
I did both, and I lived to tell the story.
But it was I was out there probably five minutes
longer than I should have been, for sure, and maybe
ten I knew better, but I couldn't stop.

Speaker 13 (01:15:40):
Af had those days with my dad back its way
back in the day. We had a sixteen foot watch
it tall sticks front sticks chair with the night the boat.

Speaker 6 (01:15:50):
We're at a dove.

Speaker 4 (01:15:50):
We're at a dove.

Speaker 13 (01:15:51):
I don't on Lake Livingston in the in the boat
ramp go to home is going back up toward Kickboo.
But out in front of it you can see this
black wall coming and uh, we're out there to dove
out every cast big white masks.

Speaker 6 (01:16:03):
And my Dad's like, so we got this.

Speaker 13 (01:16:05):
We got to all of a sudden, you see the
rain coming at Okay, it's tarting to crank up.

Speaker 1 (01:16:08):
We don't have this anymore.

Speaker 3 (01:16:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:16:11):
We got to the boat where A beached the boat
and didn't even have time to put it on the trailer.

Speaker 6 (01:16:15):
We just went sat in the truck about half of
the hour the last night. That's a little close, Paul, Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:16:19):
Yeah, it's a little bit close.

Speaker 13 (01:16:22):
You know, fishing when or stupid whatever, catching you bite
them every cast fishing, we get real stupid.

Speaker 1 (01:16:26):
Yeah, that's exactly right, man. You can you find ways
to justify it too. It's it's still not right. It's
it's still not quite right on us. It just looks
like a sheet of water falling one hundred yards from
you and coming at you. Oh we got time for
one more cast and then oh yeah, then it's over.
You get hammered.

Speaker 3 (01:16:45):
Hares.

Speaker 6 (01:16:46):
Hair's not quite rising on the back of my neck yet.

Speaker 1 (01:16:48):
Oh man. Yeah, I was explaining to somebody just the
other day. I was playing golf on Monday. I was
explaining to a guy how monofilament will just hang in
the air when there's a lot of electricity in the air.
You make a big cast in the line just sits there,
frozen in the air, Like holy yeah. We gotta go.

Speaker 13 (01:17:07):
Speaking of goal, about to load up this this purple
Purple Challengers thing. The old lady drives and we go
head head back to four hour hundred, a four hour
trip back.

Speaker 4 (01:17:17):
We might stop a bass pro shops at Katie.

Speaker 3 (01:17:18):
It's talked to me to pass.

Speaker 1 (01:17:19):
The bas pro and not stop, so do what you
gotta do. Many a faux pro. Good to hear from you, sir,
left of it. Yeah, yeah, really, all right, let's take
a little break here, shall we. Timber Creek Golf Club
twenty three fifty one down there in friends would about
four miles west of the golf freeway, very easy to find.

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All you gotta do is drive until you see a
high school on your You'll be at a light there's
a convenience store and you ride a high school on
your left. I'm not sure what's on the other two corners.
I think one of them is still undeveloped and the
other was some small business. I'm not sure what it is.
The bottom line is you take a ride at that light,
and you will go through the gate at Timber Creek
Golf Club and open up to twenty seven holes of

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fantastic golf. Beautiful little trip through the woods if you will.
There's a little creek runs through the property, a couple
of other water features, just enough bunkers to keep you
honest and make you remember how to hit a sand shot,
probably some at some point during the round, and people
all over the property want nothing more than for you

(01:18:24):
to have a good time. Need a little food and
beverage while you're out there, that'll be put put putting
around coming your way pretty often. There's a nice turnhouse
with some good food if you want to celebrate your
round after or load up before. There's a good grill
in there with great food. Good teaching staff too at
the JJ Woods Academy there at timber Creek. He and

(01:18:46):
his staff have been taking care of golfers there for
several years now. Moved in I want to say two
years ago, maybe three, but all settled in now, and
I'm sure making believers out of anybody who goes through
their pro. Timber Creek Golf Club dot com is the website.
Go there and make you a tea time right now,
there's gonna be plenty of room Timbercreekgolf Club dot com.

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I spent a long time, about two two and a
half hours riding around the Eagle Lake Prairie with David
Pruett and Jeff from Riceland Waterfowl Club, and I got
to know what kind of properties he's got, how he's
managing them, how he's managed to stay in that business
for fifty years. This is his golden anniversary as a

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waterfowl outfitter on that same prairie, been shooting a lot
of the same properties. And this year and next year.
He's even talking already. He was explaining his plans for
next year's season to me where he's going to put
more water and more water and more blinds and more
places for his hunters to go. I've never seen somebody

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so involved in it and so passionate still after fifty
years of doing the same thing, think he'd be kind
of burned out. But he's like a kid when he's
on that prairie talking about the prairie, talking about the
ducks and the geese that are still coming down and
why they do and why they don't come down. It's

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fascinating to talk to the man. He knows what he's doing,
and he takes great pride in putting the people who
are members of his club. By the way, the only
people who hunt any of his blinds or any of
his properties are club members and their guests. That's it.
It's a fantastic operation. He has a brilliant system for
making sure that everybody gets equal opportunity to hunt whatever

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blinds are going to be the best on a particular day,
and he can explain that to you better than I
can here in just this little bit of time. All
his blinds are at least a quarter mile apart. He
doesn't do any guided hunting, like I said, and that's
really important. He's got a ton of water going in
for this year, and I got a hunt. He's going
to have another great year, just like he did last year.

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A lot of his groups shot three, four or five
hundred ducks on the season. If you didn't do anywhere
near that good, you're probably like a lot of people
I know who wish they'd done something different last year.
Try Riceland Waterfowl Club. I'm very confident that you're gonna
be happy if you do that. I've never met anybody
so so single minded on making sure that his customers,

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his club members, get a really good hunting experience. Riceland
Waterfowl Club dot Com. Give them a call. You'll be
glad you did. Ricelandwaterfowl Club dot Com.

Speaker 6 (01:21:34):
Nine fifty three.

Speaker 1 (01:21:36):
On Sports Talk seven ninety Frankie just told me who
requested that song? And we do, I guess, kind of
tongue in cheek. We take requests around here. It's not
something I want to. I want to make an official
part of the program because I always tell my producers
they're they're willing, they're they're they're welcome to to play
songs they like. But I could give you five guesses

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amongst regular callers. You never guess who that one was for.
It was Dave get Tar, Dave sharp dressed. Man, he's
all puffed up and proud because he's got his new
house now.

Speaker 3 (01:22:11):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:22:11):
I'm glad for him and bringing the dogs in there.
But once you start bringing the dogs over, you know
you've moved. You're you're done. You got that's that's your
prize possession is your dogs, man.

Speaker 3 (01:22:24):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:22:25):
On the way out, I wanted to bring up something
that Jimmy West brought up yesterday. And Jimmy and I,
Jimmy and I and Joe dogget are plotting a fishing trip.
But it hasn't happened yet. We're waiting on conditions to
get just right in the surf, and that that sometimes
takes a little waiting time. Actually, today may not have

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been terribly bad. It was looking pretty good earlier. Let me,
I'm gonna take a quick peek. I'm almost I'm almost scared.
To look. Yeah, the winds come up a little bit.
It's not out of control though. Okay, so you feel
a little bit better about not being on the beach
right now. But what Jimmy talked about yesterday when I
was talking about dove hunting is that he feels like

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the biggest problem that people have is shooting too far,
is shooting at birds that are too far away. And
it's hard. If you've gone out and shot sporting clays,
or you've shot trapping skied even which is a little
bit softer entry into wing shooting, it's hard, especially on
a day when they're on a whole lot of birds flying,

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to control your impulse to go ahead and just take
the shot, and just take a shot at him. Maybe
you'll get him. Well, the farther those pellets get out
away from you, the less likely that you're gonna hit
that bird with enough pellets to make a clean kill.
And that's what you're trying to do. You don't want
to We talked about wounding birds, and I hate that

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one ry to understand how far thirty yards is and
how far forty yards is, and when you're talking about
waterfowl hunting, even how far maybe fifty yards is because
a lot of people think they can, oh yeah, we
can knock them down routinely at fifty yards. Well it

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not shooting wise, but just to get a feel for
how high that is. Get a calm morning and go
to the party store or whatever and get a little
tiny canister if you can, of helium, or if you
have to, go to the grocery store and buy a
helium balloon or two or three, and then take them

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to the neighborhood high school football field. And when you
get to that football field, walk off thirty yards and
tie a balloon to the end of a string, and
then get another string. Keep going and go to forty yards,
and then go to fifty yards and put helium balloons
on those strings. And then you stand there while somebody

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walks that balloon out to the it or just where
you're standing with the hold the end of the string
that's not on the balloon. Let the balloon go in
calm air and get it up there thirty yards, and
then get one up there forty yards, and then let
one go all the way up to fifty yards up
in the air. And now I'm not talking about blowing
something up the size of a garbage can. I'm talking

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about just a balloon, maybe the size of a big cantalope,
because that would be about a goose sized target balloon.
And then just look at how little it looks up there,
and imagine now that you're trying to hit that with
enough pellets to knock it down. If that balloon was
actually a goose with big, strong muscles and didn't really

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want to come down, you might hit it with one
pellet or two, but chances are you going to miss it.
And with doves it gets even worse. I'll pass about
thirty thirty five yards even with a full choke. You're
starting to get issues. Just remember that while you're out
there hunting, the object is to bring birds home. It's
not to just up as many shells as you can
and hope a dove flies into your pattern. All right,

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that'll wrap it up for today. Thank you all for
listening all weekend. I'll be back Tuesday, brighton, well not
bright early, right in the middle of the day, Tuesday
at noon over on KPRC for fifty plus. There's actually
a replay of one of the shows from this week
Tomorrow on fifty plus at noon, and then back in
this chair Saturday morning again, seven am, God willing. Thank

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you all for listening. I really do appreciate it, and
I hope you come back next week. Audios