The Doug Pike Show 12-15-24

In this episode Doug talks about duck calling. When to call and when to stop calling in order to have a sucessful hunt. Is it save to say, the colder the weather the more quail, doves, and deer you'll have available? What's the best way to fish with live shrimp bait? If you don't know Doug will tell you. Do you know what to look for in a scope at an affordable price? Well, Doug will tell you the most important think about scopes. Plus, and interview with Blaien Friermood, taking kids fishing and rainbow trout.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is the Doug Pike Show, brought to you by
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Now here's Doug Pike. All right, here we go. Sunday
morning starts right now. Whole lot prettier, a whole lot
prettier this morning than it was yesterday. Man, that didn't
look bad at all when I walked out the house,
although it was mighty mighty, mighty mighty mighty damp. And
I get in and I have a habit of rolling

(00:31):
down both front seat windows just to get the dew
or the fog or whatever off of them. And when
I did that this morning, the right side window decided
it wanted to be It just wanted to be a
rogue and decide when and when it wasn't going to
go up and down. And it's not a big deal.

(00:54):
Years ago, probably a year ago, maybe year and a
half ago or so, I had the same issue with
the driver's side window, and I just trial and aired
it until I figured out how to reprogram it. And
when it happened again this morning to the right side,
to the passenger side window, I thought, okay, I remember
how to do that, and just like a dope. I

(01:17):
sat in the driveway for about two minutes this morning
try to remember how to do that, and it still
doesn't want to It doesn't want to stay closed. Have
you ever had that happen to any of your windows?

Speaker 3 (01:28):
Movin?

Speaker 2 (01:30):
Not yet, thank oh man. So so the kicker is
that when you when you flip the switch to make
it come all the way up, it doesn't want to
come all the way up, so you have to kind
of lift it up and hold it up as it
goes up. And when it gets to the top, you think, okay,
well that's fine, it's done now. But as soon as
it gets there, it just ricochets off and goes right

(01:51):
back down. But it only goes down three quarters of
the way, and it won't go back up until you
take it all the way. It's just just a comedy
of errors. So I looked it up, which is what
I should have done the first time, because there's a
solution to every problem on the planet at YouTube, and
sure enough, and just here's how you do it. Here's

(02:13):
how you do it, dummy, don't try to sit in
the driveway for minute after minute figuring it out. Oh
my gosh, I'm glad nobody came along because the window,
you're trying to get it to stop at the top,
because that's a key to what I'm trying to do,
is you have to get it fully closed because that's
where it's going to recalibrate as the top. And so

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if you if you let it go a nano second
too long, it's like a rebound, it comes on back down.
And boy, it's that. That was really just loads of
fun and true confession. I wasted about another minute trying
to do it in the in the garage. When I
got here, It's like, come on, man, I know I

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know how to do this. I've done it before, and
I learned. I've taught myself. I was self taught the
first time. And then problem maybe because I'm I'm not
as young as I used to be, totally forgot like
studying for exams all rock solid. Man, I got this.
I have no problem. And you see the test, I
don't remember that seven one three two one two five

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seven ninety. Email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com.
It's amazing. I guess really that the computers in these cars,
not only do they do they serve us very well,
cars and our trucks and everything else. But when there's
a problem, the engineers and the programmers who design all

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this stuff have already got a solution to the problem.
Hard Just it's in there. You just have to know
where to go look for it. And that's where YouTube
comes in. Too bad. You and I didn't think of that, Melbourne.
We'd be sitting pretty, wouldn't we. Oh my goodness, gosh,
I wouldn't be sitting here. You probably wouldn't be sitting there.

Speaker 4 (04:01):
We'd be on.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
We'd be on. I was gonna say we'd be on
our yacht or our jet, but I think more appropriately
we would be on one of our yachts or one
of our jets.

Speaker 5 (04:11):
Yeah, you know, on my yacht off my private island. Oh,
something like that, just off the private island, just off
the prevo. Somebody runs a little dinghy out to pick
you up from the big boat.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
Oh, but to dream, you know, I don't. Honestly, I
don't know that I would want a big, giant yacht
because I spent when I was fishing off short tournaments.
I spent a lot of time getting bounced around. And
even even a cruise ship can be very uncomfortable on
big seas. It could be safe, but it's still very uncomfortable.

(04:48):
So I would rather fly over all of that and
then just have somebody run me over to the island
or just my favorite island for that day, because we'd
we'd have more than one, right at least, I don't know. Okay,
So where was that island? B real quick before I
go to Brandon somewhere in the Caribbean? What aimen to that? Yeah,

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I don't know that I'd want to be anywhere else.
I do love it down there. I've I've been to most,
I would say, of the Caribbean islands, and I can't
think of a bad one, you know. I don't recall
going to one and thinking, boy, I'll never come back
here again. Right of course, I was going down there
on fishing crips too, mostly about ninety nine percent of

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the time I was down there on fishing crips and
got to see some amazing things. You got going to
fish camps and stuff like that. You get to there's
a second level of locals you get to meet that
you're not going to meet if you're in one of
the big resorts. Somebody who's who's catering to you. While
you're at the big resort, it sees you as as

(05:54):
a client and they are there to serve you. On
the at the fish camps, it's a little more relaxed
and people tend to be a little more friendly and open,
and they'll tell you where to go, eat the good
stuff and all of that. I don't know, it seemed
that way for me. Let me go talk to Brandon here. Brandon,
Good morning, how are you man?

Speaker 4 (06:14):
Good morning, Doug? How are you?

Speaker 2 (06:15):
Oh great, how are you?

Speaker 4 (06:18):
I'm doing okay. We're getting rest of the stuff out here.
I have some good news. What's that The house is
going to get sold on tuesday?

Speaker 2 (06:29):
Oh okay, man, Well that's great. That'll kind of complete
the whole package, won't it. Yep, fantastic. Man. Are you
excited about moving being in a different.

Speaker 4 (06:40):
Spot we just moved?

Speaker 6 (06:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (06:43):
I know, man, So you you like where you are? Yes,
that's good man, that's good.

Speaker 4 (06:50):
I'm going to have you come sometimes.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
I may try to do that. Yeah, I make you
which we can probably work that out. I'd like to
shake your hands. Say hello, Now where are you? What
part of town are you in? Conra in Conro Holy
cow man, I'm about as far as you can get.
And the irony is that if you and I were
out of town, if we were in Miami or Los
Angeles and somebody said where are you from, we'd both

(07:16):
say we're from Houston, because nobody would know where Conrae
was and nobody would know where Sugarland was. But yeah,
but there's about seventy five miles apart. That's good man,
that's nice up there. I know it is. I've got
friends who live up there. Sure do. Good for you. Man, Well,
I'm glad you're settled in any sports news you want
to share.

Speaker 4 (07:38):
We got into a player.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
Who'd we get?

Speaker 4 (07:43):
Do you number? The guy from Purbasement not Brugman.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
I'm having a hard time with the name right now.
I can't. I can't bring it up offhand.

Speaker 4 (07:57):
Listen to the morning show.

Speaker 2 (07:59):
I will, oh, I will. In fact, I've got to
talk to Sean and Brian both tomorrow morning, so I'll
be listening to them as I get my day started.

Speaker 4 (08:08):
I will. I will do Brian and John okay tomorrow morning.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
So all right, well, thank you Brian, it's not Brian Brandon.
Thanks brand It's good to hear from you, man.

Speaker 4 (08:26):
So when you mama'll send you a dress until you get.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
To Conra, all right, And if she'll send me that email,
then I'll send her back a nice note and see
if we can figure something out.

Speaker 4 (08:37):
Okay, Oh I can have you come visits.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
I'd like to do that.

Speaker 4 (08:42):
I really would, man, figure that out, Honeycott took coffee
to you where you're figuring?

Speaker 2 (08:49):
What's that?

Speaker 7 (08:50):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (08:50):
Cups of coffee? Or maybe just one, just one, just
enough to get me back to sugar Land.

Speaker 4 (08:57):
Oh what sugarland do you have?

Speaker 2 (08:59):
I'm way down south of town. No, well, not far.
It's not a bad driven not bad.

Speaker 4 (09:07):
Hey, your nixt to the Space Cowboys.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
Yes, I'm pretty close to their actually, yeah, yeah, I've
been been to some games out there, more than one.

Speaker 4 (09:18):
We're going to our first one.

Speaker 2 (09:20):
Good for you. Yeah, you'll like it. If you haven't
been to that stadium, you'll like that place. It's a
very very close venue. You're close to the action all
the time.

Speaker 4 (09:30):
How's their food?

Speaker 2 (09:33):
What's that?

Speaker 4 (09:34):
How's their food?

Speaker 2 (09:35):
Oh? Fine, just fine?

Speaker 4 (09:38):
I will try I will try their hot dog.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
Yeah, it's good, They're they're good. I have had some
of those hot dogs in there. They're pretty good. I
got a run, partner. I hate to do it to you,
but I got a bolt. All right, Brandy. It's good
to hear from you.

Speaker 3 (09:53):
Man.

Speaker 4 (09:53):
Hey, i'd be listening to you probably tomorrow with Sean.

Speaker 2 (09:59):
Oh okay, I'll try to get in there and have
a little segment with them. I'll see what I can do.
Sometimes they don't let me come in. They locked the door,
all right. Man. Oh yeah, I got it. I got it.
Don't worry. All right, I gotta run, Brandon. I'll see
you later, buddy. Audio. Yeah, thank you, audios.

Speaker 7 (10:19):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
I do want to I do want to start. I
do want to get back to talking about the outdoors,
because I was kind of thinking about it this morning.
The sky we had this morning versus what we had yesterday.
There's still a ton of humidity in the air, but
that's going to clear out some although we're gonna be
right back on it. The chances of rain tomorrow a
little bit. Tomorrow it should be okay, and then Tuesday

(10:41):
it gets a little bit heavier chance, and then Wednesday
it starts to settle out, and then by Thursday we're
going to be back to Chili. Willy again have a
high temperature in the fifties. So I don't know where
you put your coat two days ago, but wherever it is,
you're gonna want to find it. We had somebody lose
his One of the guys in the KTRH newsroom lost

(11:04):
their little card this morning, the entry card, and we
looked high and low for he ultimately found it. It's
not a good enough story of where it was or
anything like that to share it and bore you with it.
But I did have a couple of minutes and we
looked all over and still couldn't find it, and still
couldn't find it, retraced all his steps, still couldn't find it.

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And then just as I got settled back at my
desk to finish my prep work for this morning, I
found It's a really boring story about where it was,
So better to let that alone. The sky this morning,
back to the outdoors. The sky this morning would have
been great. I would. I'll take this over yesterday's sky

(11:49):
for fishing or golf, or deer hunt or quill hunting,
any of that stuff. I would, though, if it were
ducks and geese were talking about, I'd be happy to
have that cloud cover back and equally happy to have
some fog. I got a message on Facebook this morning
from faux Pro up there in Livingston. He's going out
to do some bass fishing in a little while. He's

(12:10):
waiting for the fog to lift up there. And that's now,
that is one of my favorite kind of things. It
doesn't you don't want a thick fog to do what
I'm about to talk about, but just a little bit,
just some haze in the air to make it hard
to see more than about maybe seventy five or one
hundred yards. You don't want that stuff where you can't

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see your hand in front of your face, but about
seventy eighty yards maybe one hundred yards of visibility and
timber hunting for ducks, that's some good stuff because if
they're sitting just on top of that stuff where they
where they can see down to you better than you
can see up to them, you'll hear them. You'll hear
them kind of quacking through or you hear the wings

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shooting through the trees even a little ways away from you,
and you have to try to get them close to you.
But if you do a lot of loud calling, because
that ceiling traps, all that noise, you might as well
be blowing your duck call into a megaphone. That's something
I might get into in the next segment too, By
the way, is how much is too much for duck calling?

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Ducks and geese? And I'll give you the the assessment
that I've talked about before from a man named David
low Prize. He was one of the Parks and Widlafe
Department biologists who worked at Katie Prairie and it's water
fowling Prime. He had something to say about duck calls.
And he was somebody who sat out there on that
prairie thousands of mornings just watching and listening and listening

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and watching. I can't remember whether he was game wardener biologist.
I think he might have been a little both and
de facto biologists. He spent so much time out there.

Speaker 8 (13:47):
Are Sportstock seven nineties, Houston Sports where you go with
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Speaker 2 (13:55):
I'm gapping away and didn't have my mic turned on.
I said, wow, it sounds kind of quiet. I didn't
hear that's weird. This this is my my laptop.

Speaker 6 (14:04):
Man.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
I don't know what to do with this thing. I
don't know how, but I didn't. I just walked over
here this morning and I had it. I had my
my mouth turned off, so it shouldn't have had this happen.
I've opened I've somehow managed to open like five bazillion
word documents and I don't know how. I honestly don't.
I don't know where they come from. I don't know
why they do this. It's it's almost just like DejaVu. There,

(14:28):
finally they're going good. I wanted to go to my emails.
That's what I want to do because I've got some
here and then I'm gonna go. Is that Brandon again? Okay,
hold on, let's get let's get that knocked out.

Speaker 7 (14:39):
Brandon.

Speaker 2 (14:40):
You got a question. What's up?

Speaker 3 (14:41):
Man?

Speaker 4 (14:42):
Yeah? I was asking you to look for the email
for my mom.

Speaker 7 (14:50):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (14:50):
My email is very simple. It's Doug Pike my name,
okay at iHeartMedia dot Com.

Speaker 4 (15:00):
Okay, you mean to.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
Spell out or you got it?

Speaker 4 (15:03):
So it's I. So it's Doug Pike.

Speaker 2 (15:07):
I heart I heart media Media, Yeah, media dot Com.

Speaker 4 (15:13):
Okay, all right, man, have a good day.

Speaker 2 (15:15):
Thanks Brandon.

Speaker 4 (15:16):
I'll just say happy, I'll say be holadays.

Speaker 2 (15:20):
Okay, Happy holidays to you as well. Thanks man, see you.

Speaker 4 (15:22):
I have a good day, all right.

Speaker 2 (15:24):
All right, let me go back over here. There was
something I wanted to read in my emails. I got
to get the other mouse in my pocket. Hold on,
there we go, all right, I got that. Got that
Holy cow. Mojo's up north thirty degrees thirty degree now
it sounds like double that down here right now. Not bad.
David Wade in about his old Toyota. It says he're

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my old Toyota pick up fourteen years old, and I enjoy. Boy,
I'm kind of I'm feeling you on this, David. I am.
I enjoy the lack of the latest technology much cheaper, cheaper,
and easier to keep it running. No fifteen hundred dollars
tail lights for me, Amen to that. Holy cow. That's

(16:09):
the downside to all this technology and all these little
tiny pieces and computers. You can't you can't get somebody
to fill your tank on a new car for less
than a thousand dollars. It seems like so much of
that stuff is so expensive. I had, boy, back in
the day. I'm so old. I hate to even say

(16:31):
that out loud, but back in the day, and I'm
about to talk to Rick Bison. He'll confirm this. When
you opened the hood of a vehicle, there was room
around the engine to get an arm and a couple
of wrenches and maybe somebody else's arm to help you
into that entire engine engine area, the whole everything under

(16:53):
the hood. There was stuff room to rattle around in there.
You could have put a small child in there, let
them work on the car. Not today, man, it's all
stacked in there and wires and computers and who knows
what what's up there? He is, what's up Rick?

Speaker 3 (17:12):
I used to change my own spark plug.

Speaker 2 (17:15):
Sure, you wouldn't even know where to find them, would you.
And that's all electronic.

Speaker 3 (17:19):
Ignition now, yeah, I can't even see them. I don't
even know if it has a spark plug.

Speaker 2 (17:24):
No, maybe not, probably not. I would.

Speaker 3 (17:28):
I'm not even sure I've ever raised the hood on
my truck.

Speaker 2 (17:31):
That's a fair you know. I've I've popped mine maybe
maybe four or five times. And and really you just
stare at you open it up and you just stare
at it because it doesn't look like anything we grew
up with, does it? Now?

Speaker 3 (17:46):
That when we had good old carburetors.

Speaker 6 (17:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (17:50):
Yeah, you put a four barrel.

Speaker 3 (17:55):
Good old distributor, a great pencil.

Speaker 2 (18:01):
You're right, man, what's on your mind this morning?

Speaker 3 (18:04):
Buddy? I was going to get this yesterday. I told
you I had to run, so so I had to
call somebody was stuck. Oh yeah, okay, And I'm thinking
I said, okay, and it was just a text message
because they can't call it. This is down on the
muddy brass bottom in Buckhorn, Texas, right okay, And I'm thinking,

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I'm thinking muddy sure, And I'm thinking, man, I got
a full drive truck, but I know I have an
idea where they're at. So I couldn't find the keys
to this big tractor up here where I'm at right now.
And that's going to be hammered out today as to
why I can't.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
Yeh.

Speaker 3 (18:47):
So I called the neighbor that a big retractor, full
wheel drive, hit some five mile run from where I
was at, and all the way down there, I'm thinking, Man,
if I get this thing stuck, I am really a
deep trouble.

Speaker 2 (19:05):
I've had that feeling out there on the prairie years ago.

Speaker 3 (19:08):
Okay. I listed and sold this property to this guy
and he built a barn to minim on and everything,
and he went and Multipolarius ranger and all that kind,
all the toys the and he went in and started
clearing up that blew down there, and he had some trails.

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And I went down there one time, but I took
my foewheater and he had built this road and there's
two big water oaks, well actually one was a hackberry,
and he had cut a trail between them, and I
remember thinking when I went through it, I thought, dang,

(19:49):
that's narrow. But anyway, I went on. So he's been
driving in and out of there there, duck hunting down there.
Duck season open this week even right, Yeah, And uh
so I get there and he had quote jacked up

(20:11):
his hilarious ranger. Oh boy, as to a lift, wider, bidder,
tires and now five people in it. Five people in it.
He's I'm knowing, he's running hard and fast. Nobody was
seat Milton when he went between them two three two trees.

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Guess what it came to a screeching halt. Like ad
for a second. I've been there, I've been there and
done that. I know all about that.

Speaker 2 (20:40):
I understand completely.

Speaker 3 (20:42):
I've had to make trips in home people to the
mergency room. Cooas I mean way, that's another story. Anyway,
there was a lot of blood. These guys are young.
You and me, we've been I see you right now.

Speaker 2 (20:55):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 3 (20:56):
The bottom light is he stuck that thing between them.

Speaker 2 (20:58):
Two trees probably went through their pretty much.

Speaker 3 (21:01):
I know it was probably running about twelve or fifteen
miles an hour. Let me tell you something. You're driving
twelve or fifteen miles an hour and you come to
a stop in a half of a second, something's gonna give.
It's probably gonna be you, probably so. And uh, I
think there's probably some broken bones.

Speaker 4 (21:18):
But uh, good.

Speaker 3 (21:19):
Lord, I didn't even pull it out. I just see
y'all getting the bucket on this tracker. It's a big bucket.
And I'll haul y'all back up there to the ranch
house and the little barn.

Speaker 6 (21:31):
Do y'all got?

Speaker 3 (21:31):
And sure I can figure it out from there. So
they do.

Speaker 2 (21:35):
Put selts in those things. I guess those guys probably
weren't wearing them.

Speaker 3 (21:39):
Well, you know, I'll be honest, I don't word.

Speaker 2 (21:42):
Yeah, I understand, but.

Speaker 3 (21:44):
But the thing is, and I tell everybody, here's the
trick to it that might help you. First of all,
speed kill you, okay, yep. But the most important thing
is I tell everybody when they get them michelayris Is,
I want you guys to have the girls. I want
ya to have both hands holding on to something, hold

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o break, break the fall, and the real quick exactly
for me. I had four guys. I had a guy
with a drone, I had one guy with a video camera,
and I had an appraiser. And it starts rained pretty good,
and I'm holding on the steering wheel, raining in on me.

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Everybody else is pointing and looking in the camera. Guys
still feeling and all that. And we're going up at
this hill. And I went off in a septic tanket
about nine miles an hour. I'm the only one that
didn't fly out of course, I'm the only one that
didn't tear up a nigga, the only one that almost

(22:48):
didn't get his ear cut off from hitting the seating.

Speaker 2 (22:51):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 3 (22:52):
And and my camera guy in the front seat broke
four rips.

Speaker 2 (22:56):
Wow.

Speaker 7 (22:58):
Anyway, anyway, you're still hearing that out.

Speaker 3 (23:02):
Her orby you want to, I'll catch you later. Have
a good one, all.

Speaker 2 (23:05):
Right, pardon, thank you, Rick. Good to hear from you, Mane. Yeah,
it was a little safety talk going on, a little
safety talk to be done there. I don't mind. I
don't mind. I'm hoping most of you know to drive
those things safely. There's no reason to see how fast
it'll go. I've heard when I was young, not since

(23:27):
I've become a little bit older and wiser, but I
heard way too many times. And it's a miracle some
of us made it through when when three wheelers and
four wheelers were coming out, that's a lot of what
you heard. Let's see how fast this thing will go,
all the way back to the old hon to fifty

(23:47):
little two wheel mini bikes. Let's see how fast this
will go. And if you're not used to fast and
you're still trying to show off to your buddies, sometimes
stuff happens. And if you're going to cut a path
between two trees, make sure it's about twice as wide
as your vehicle, not almost as wide as your vehicle,

(24:12):
because that's going to cause a problem. Little things like
that or what get people hurt, and unfortunately what sometimes
get people severely injured. And uh, I don't want that
happening to anybody in my audience seven one three two
one two five seven ninety Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia

(24:32):
dot com. Let's take a little break.

Speaker 8 (24:35):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety on the Goal with
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Speaker 2 (24:45):
I hope these kids have been good around here.

Speaker 1 (24:47):
You know.

Speaker 2 (24:48):
I love it when the kids are good because they
get good stuff for us. We should have, you know,
if you want to keep kids on the right track,
we should have like little mini Christmases, say on the
last day of each month or the first day of
the month. Well, no, have to be the last day,
because we'd be checking into their behavior for a month

(25:10):
instead of a whole year. By the time the end
of the year rolls around, a lot of parents have
forgotten some of the goofy stuff their kids did during
the year. All right, Melvin, Yeah, yeah, Well, what I'd
usually do with my son is we do a little
treat at dairy Queen. Uh okay, okay, once a month, nice,

(25:31):
just kind of go over the state of the Union.
Just sit down, have a little treat, and how you
doing in school? How school going. Yeah, hey, you friends
treating you all right? Do all that stuff. Of course,
there's a I was listening to this comedian on satellite
radio the other day and she was talking about how
her her I think it was her mom or her dad,

(25:52):
one of them. Anyway, they were kind of having a
pretty loud argument, and she said, would you all please
stop screaming at each other? And I think it was
the mom said, you know, well, that's what the therapist too.
It's not screaming, it's just it's just negotiating. It's just sharing.
And she said, well, look, can we just not do

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it in Denny's? And then she said, I'm trying to
enjoy Thanksgiving? Just she just kept stacking it on, just
more and more. It's a pretty funny little bit. Really
starts out with the parents yell, and then it turns
out there and Denny's for Thanksgiving and had nothing wrong
with that. They cook good food. If that's where you

(26:34):
want to go, and that's where your peeps want to go,
then more power do you man? More boy, there's no
dishes to clean up. I like that part of it,
that's for sure.

Speaker 6 (26:44):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (26:45):
I mentioned earlier duck calling and a guy named David
low Price, and David was out on that prairie. I'm
sure he's long long ago retired and had earned every bit,
every dollar whatever the state still pays him for doing
that for so long. I hope he's got a nice
pension out of that deal. The bottom line was one morning,

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and I respected his opinion a lot. He was he
knew so much about that prairie. He knew so much
about the way those birds interacted with each other and
with hunting pressure and whatnot. And I saw him on
a morning that I didn't have a trip. I was
just driving around the prairie looking and listening and watching.
And I pulled up next to him, and he waved
me over, and I hopped in the front seat of

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his truck and just listened to him talking for a while.
We had the windows down, and we could hear duck
calls going off everywhere, just all over the prairie, north, south, east,
and west. I think we were at Ah maybe Katie
Hockley cut off in five twenty nine, somewhere up in there.

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And if you hunted the prairie, you know where that is.
If you live out that way, you know where that is.

Speaker 3 (27:55):
Too.

Speaker 2 (27:55):
It's probably I don't know, it's probably a neighborhood by
now or a warehouse. But anyway, we're sitting there listened
to all these calls and he said, you know what, Doug,
And I said, what's that, David? He said, the duck
call is probably the best conservation device ever invented for waterfowl.
And what he meant by that was that people, most

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people on that prairie blew their calls so frequently and
so poorly that they scared away, hey, more ducks than
they got coming to them. And I see that now
with some of the younger people on the prairie. They've
got a duck call and they don't They just don't

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know when not to blow it. And that's something I
actually heard Benton Grimes talking to it with my buddy
down the dial this morning, talking about that you got
to know when to put it down. And for example,
when big bunch bunches of pintails come around, you see
some ducks in one direction, they're they're kind of they're
kind of working like in a little whirlpool kind of

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a spiral. They tend to go in circles around you,
and they may maybe circling something in the middle of
your spread. They may be circling something elsewhere, but they're
gonna go in circles, and if you call them too often,
you're in You're gonna definitely end up spooking them somehow,
if you just what I did. What I did with

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pintails was kind of just. I was very minimalist with them.
Once they lock in on a place, if you let
them circle ten twelve times, they're probably gonna land right
in your decoys. But if you keep blowing the call
every time one of them turns, or every time one
of them goes in a different direction, it's just not
gonna work out well for you. So my strategy with

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the pintails was to either keep the call, the duck call,
and the and the whistle close by each other and
do it all myself, or I just have somebody who
I knew I could trust. I'd just say, do just
a little bit of whistling, just a little bit a lot,
and I would focus on the lead duck. There might

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be ten ducks flying around, ten pintails flying around in
a circle. There might be two hundred flying around in
a circle, but there's always one lead duck, And as
long as that lead duck was coming toward me, I
wouldn't blow to call at all. I don't care where
the rest, I don't care where the rest of the
ducks in that whole circle are. I'm calling the lead duck.
That's it. And if he's fifty yards in front of

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that big water pintails that's boiling over our area, that great.
I don't care whether they're coming right in my face.
But I'm watching that lead duck because that's the one
that's gonna lead them down and down and down and
finally dump them in the decoys. And the lead changes.
If you watch them long enough, you'll see that they
kind of move around, they shift, and they take turns

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leading the pack and whatnot. And I didn't call hard
at that duck. As long as that duck was coming
at me, I'd just leave them a call down. But
if it turned away, just real quick, just two or
three little notes, quack quack quack, real quick. And there's
a reason you do it quick too, but quickly is
because if you'll, if you'll look up what ducks do

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when they're scared. Especially guy mallards are bad about this too.
Holy Cow three. That's scared. And if you're blowing that
three little three note call on your duck call, that's
telling them, hey, there's something wrong down here, and I'm
on the I'm on the water, but I'm getting out
of here. They don't know where that three quacks came from,

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but they don't like it. Test it. If you don't
believe me, test it next time you're out there. You can,
you can. You can lure more ducks with less calling
that they show interest if they lock their wings and
make one pass. They're kind of wanting to sit down there,
but they're looking for an excuse not to. They're looking
for a reason not to because they've probably been around hunters,

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probably been around decoys more than once in their lives,
just on the way down here on the very first year.
So be patient and be very conservative with your calling,
and you'll end up shooting a whole lot more ducks
and geese and cranes. Man the cranes down around El Campo.
I talked to a guy yesterday, Robbie Byrs from Cca,

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had a good long conversation with him. Cranes everywhere. They
had a bunch of people in the spread yesterday and
the cranes just ate them up over a pretty The
crane is not a big decoy spread. They had a
lot of people in a ditch and all they were
doing was getting the cranes to fly over them on
the way to about I think two or three dozen

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big full body decoys. That's all they had. Didn't take
any more than that. A little bit of calling, very
little calling, and a lot of patients just lie there
in the ditch and be still works out. I loved boy,
I loved goose something that way back in the day. Oh,
that was so fun. We had a field called Big
Bean that had a nice, big, fluffy, brushy ditch running

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north to south for almost a mile and there were
a lot of birds taken out of that ditch. All right,
I gotta take a break.

Speaker 8 (33:13):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety online at sports seven
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Speaker 2 (33:18):
Now more dog fight. I am boy. I do like
two pentatonics. Just to listen to this for two more seconds.
We'll get better ton. They have some of the most
unique and enjoyable arrangements for me anyway, that I've ever heard.
So thank you, Melvin, I appreciate that. And if you

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didn't like it, well, let Melbourne know and I'll just
make sure he ignores that because I like a lot
I do. I'm sorry. We're not playing Melbourn's Jellies and
jams today, by the way, so don't worry about trying
to figure that out. Only once a week, once a week,
once a week, Okay, that's all. It's all we're gonna do.

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And Sundays will be reserved on days when it looks
like it might be fun for the temperature game. We're
not giving up on that, and I've still got prizes
for that as well. But Melbourne Jams and Jellies. The prizes,
by the way, are those gift packs from Brass River
Provisions Company, which this is just a I just felt

(34:21):
instantly connected to this guy and what he's doing, and
he's so passionate about his formulas that he has for
all these different jellies and jams and sauces. Yeah, I'm
glad we got dialed in. I'm glad to be able
to speak for him because what he's got out there
in Rosenberg is some it's some pretty tasty stuff and

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it's available all over town, all over town, and even
in some places outside of the state of Texas too,
So there you have it. David Wade In he writes,
as refers to calling less, it applies to calling ducks, turkeys,
and so many other situations in life. Less is more. Yeah,

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I couldn't agree more with you, David. I minimalist calling.
If the general rule for people who are new to
waterfowl calling is to if you, if you're not one
hundred percent confident in your ability to blow perfect notes
every time you put that thing to your mouth, then

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don't blow the call at any waterfowl that are coming
toward you. Whether they're high, whether they're low, whether they're
one hundred yards out, two hundred yards out, a quarter
mile out, just don't. If they're coming at you, just
let them come. There's something interests them about what you've
got set up there. And as long as you don't

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alert them to the fact that, oh no, I'm a
human down here and I got a ducks don't get
frogs in their throat. You got to remember that when
they quite, they quack the same every time, at least
two our ears. Anyway, there may be some subtle difference
in it, maybe, but not really. And the other thing
to remember when you've got a big spread out, and

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you're trying to emulate ducks or geese or crane or
whatever that are actively feeding. Think back to what your
mother probably taught you when you were a little kid. Okay,
don't talk with your mouth full. Ducks and geese when
they're on the ground feeding, they're pretty quiet, they really are.

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When they're actively feeding, they're pretty quiet. They're not honking
all over the place, they're not making a lot, they're
not quacking and hogging and whistling and striking up the band.
They're eating. They're eating because they found something good to eat,
and it's gonna keep them healthy for the next couple
of days when it gets cold or whatever. And that's
what you want to. Just let them come, Let them come,

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Make sure the people you're hunting with stay down, make
sure they cover up their shinys, do all those things
to make yourselves invisible to the birds. And you're going
to do way way better than if you're just out
there blowing that call just to hear it echo off
the countryside. Another as a rule, also, the lower the ceiling,

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the less calling you do, because that ceiling just acts
as a wall and it makes it echo all through
the prairie boy. A goose call. You hit one sharp
note on a goose call in fog, and you'll know
what You'll recognize the difference in what it should sound
like and fog. When I hunted fogg, I almost almost

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never really hit loud duck or goose calls. It would
just either be feeding chuckles for the ducks or just
murmurs for the geese. Just a little soft murmur on
those geese used to eat them up. They just couldn't
stand it. They had to come down and see what
was causing whatever fake birds we had on the ground

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to make a little noise. They're looking for food just
like the rest of them, and they don't talk with
their mouths full seven one three two one two five
seven ninety Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. Coming
up at nine o'clock in just a few minutes. We're
gonna talk to Blamee Fryar Mood down there in South Texas.
He's been hunting down there when he's not fishing up
here every deer season since I've known him, just about.

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He started down there a very long time ago and
has has his finger on the pulse so to speak
on doves and quail and deer, and I'm just gonna
get a general state of the union for down there
smack dab in the heart of South Texas. Talk to
him when we get back. Let's get a I'm gonna
dare I try again to get another break on time, Melboyne.

(38:42):
Here we go.

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Speaker 7 (38:53):
Now here's Doug Pike.

Speaker 9 (38:55):
All right?

Speaker 2 (38:57):
Second hour starts now? Or third? Well, yeah, second hour,
last hour for this show. It would have been the
third hour yesterday. That's so complicated, it really is. What's
not complicated, though, is to go ahead and get this
guy on the phone before he has to go do something.
Blame friar mood. What's going on in South Texas? Man?

Speaker 7 (39:12):
Hello, Doug?

Speaker 2 (39:13):
Get yeah, you too, dog on it. We need to
talk more often, we really do.

Speaker 7 (39:18):
Yeah, that's what we do.

Speaker 2 (39:19):
You got you got your finger on the pulse. Go ahead?

Speaker 7 (39:23):
What is it about forty years you and I have
been friend?

Speaker 2 (39:25):
Oh my gosh, at least yeah, holy cow, I got
a seventeen year old son. Now, oh, you do. I
don't know. I don't know how that happened. Yeah, he's
a good kid. He likes the stuff we like and
that that matters, you know, And well.

Speaker 7 (39:41):
He has to do. He's the only footsteps buddy.

Speaker 2 (39:44):
Yeah, I hope he does. Man, he's the only one
in our family who has actually caught a redfish within
two miles of the galleria. I can tell you that.

Speaker 7 (39:55):
It might put some of the odds up.

Speaker 2 (39:57):
God. No, you know. It was in Buffalo Bio. He
his buddies. They fish all over the place in town,
I mean all over it places you and I would
never stop. And first cast at this little little bridge
over Buffalo Bio. This buddy of his tells him about it.
Let's go over there. Sure, let's go and first cast.
They're bass fishing, you know, And first cast, bam, he

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catches about a twenty five inch red fish.

Speaker 7 (40:20):
That's crazy. That's very good story right there.

Speaker 6 (40:25):
So that.

Speaker 2 (40:25):
Yeah, so enough about me. What's going on in south there?
Let's start with deer. How are you? How's your deer
this year?

Speaker 7 (40:30):
The deer is the best we've ever had.

Speaker 2 (40:32):
The quill we have.

Speaker 7 (40:34):
Never seen it, Doug, And this is our forty second
here on this ranch, we have never seen the likes
of the quail.

Speaker 2 (40:40):
We have ome here. Gosh, and the.

Speaker 7 (40:43):
Deer is the same way. We had so much rain
starting out. It rained and rained and rained all the
way through September. Now it's quick that much. But I
don't have any hatches we had of quail. But it's
it's a whole bunch.

Speaker 2 (40:55):
It's a bunch here.

Speaker 7 (40:57):
Here's the best we've ever had. You know, we're not
We don't protein and all that. This is all natural,
all load fences, all the way it's been for thousands
of years.

Speaker 2 (41:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (41:05):
Now two feet corn. Of course, the corn brings the
dose in and the doughs bring the bucks in. We're
having the best year we've ever had as far as
quality of deer.

Speaker 2 (41:14):
That's fantastic, man. Yeah, And this is what you live
for down there, isn't it really? When't you like, Holy cow,
this is the best year ever.

Speaker 7 (41:20):
And that that's right. Keep you look, it's all you
know in South Texas, all hills and valleys. When it
rains a bunch, everything everything does well. When it's the
drought conditions and you know, nothing does well. But we're
on top of the hills. Man, it's if the doves,
the quail, and the deer all at one time are
really good. You know, it only happened in forty years.
Has only happened probably four or five times when everything

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is just.

Speaker 2 (41:42):
Crazy cycling, and that's what cycles right now. So you're
just walking around there on cloud nine, aren't you.

Speaker 3 (41:50):
I am?

Speaker 7 (41:51):
You know, on election years, it's always tough. People don't
spend money because you know, it just does an election year,
you know, for entertainment. Okay, right, so they go on
to But now now the election's over, you know, people
are kind of to say, hey, we want to go
take our kids or we want to do something. You know,
we're feeling a little bit better about things. But anyway,
that's always this way it's been on elect Are.

Speaker 2 (42:09):
You still doing a deal with with kids? I thought
I remember you did something years ago.

Speaker 7 (42:15):
Yeah, we those kids. Now I have kids that are
third generations. They started their little kids. Now they're taking
their dads and their grandpa's hunting. Wow, we've been there
a long time. It's crazy. We leased from from the
same family for forty two years. We're on the third
generation those families and they still love us. So we're
doing something right, man?

Speaker 2 (42:34):
How many acres overall are you hunting down there?

Speaker 7 (42:38):
We have eleven thousand is our base we leased from
this family, and then on good years we get to
leave some more property for hunting, and on bad years
we tiden back down to about eleven thousand acres. But
it's a lot of work, I can tell you that.

Speaker 6 (42:50):
Boy.

Speaker 2 (42:51):
I'll bet we got two feeders.

Speaker 7 (42:52):
Going wide open year round, and just everything that goes along.
We got fifty five tower blinds and you know, it's
just keep everything going, but we do it.

Speaker 2 (43:01):
How tall is the grass down there right now, sir?
How tall is the grass down there right now?

Speaker 7 (43:08):
Doug? The broom grass, you know, the blue stems like
four foot off. It's just the normal of the buffalo
grass is crazy. It's that ratios. Now, we hadn't had
much rain, that's two much. But if we get some
more rain it'll come back up. But it's been the greenest,
the most flowers I've ever seen. That just NonStop, NonStop,
is just gorgeous down here.

Speaker 2 (43:27):
I know you had a good dove hunt too early,
is that? Do you think that'll kick back off in
the second half?

Speaker 7 (43:33):
Well, you know, we don't hunt them very much. But
when the deer hunters get through, like on a hot afternoon,
they was saying, can we go dove hunting? And we'll
take them down to a water hole and let them
get some doves. But it looks pretty good. The last
cold front looks like a bunch of new dust. They're
coming through. They're everywhere. So the next hole front may
push them out. That's just the way it is. But
the colder it gets up north, the more does we
have in the wintertime.

Speaker 2 (43:54):
Boy, the more of everything we have in Southeast Texas
and South Texas.

Speaker 7 (43:57):
Huh oh. I'm telling you, Doug, I wish you could
get down here and just come see. I remember one
year you came down and I said, I can show
you sixty covees today and he said, nah, remember we
drove only that's the way. Now you can just drive
the roads and it's covey after Kobe every one hundred yards.
That's insane.

Speaker 2 (44:15):
Absolutely Well, I may, I may call you. I might
try to take some time off. You know, the biggest
mistake I made this year, I've left ten vacation days
on the table, and I don't know why I'm not
gonna do that next year. So you may hear from me.

Speaker 6 (44:29):
Matter.

Speaker 7 (44:30):
Hey, guess what, you're getting close to the fourth quarter
like me, buddy, you better start taking some time and
have some fun.

Speaker 2 (44:36):
Yeah, yeah, fourth quarter of life. Yeah, exact year it's.

Speaker 7 (44:41):
Seventy years old. Is that's pretty much the fourth quarter
as far as.

Speaker 2 (44:44):
I'm just amen.

Speaker 6 (44:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (44:46):
And the beauty of this is my son's old enough
to drive now and he ain't scared of that. So yeah,
that's gonna work out. Well, I may call you man.

Speaker 7 (44:54):
I remember when my son drove me down to the
rant the first time when he turned seventeen. I got
to actually take a little nao. I kind of worried
about it, but he made it all the way to
the ranch.

Speaker 2 (45:04):
Holy cat man, very great drive.

Speaker 7 (45:07):
I'll never forget the day.

Speaker 2 (45:08):
Well. Yeah, and the beauty for us is they've got
GPS too. They don't even have to wake us up
to ask us which way to turn. You asked them
what town they're in. They have no idea. No, No,
it doesn't matter. Dad. We got forty eight miles and
sixty two minutes left of the drive. That's all. That's
all he needs to know. Holy cow. And we started
do any.

Speaker 7 (45:28):
Cell phones when we started down here.

Speaker 2 (45:30):
Oh, I'm man, I don't think there may not have
been cell phones when I came down there the first time.

Speaker 7 (45:36):
I know we didn't have them, but there may have
been bag phones or something like that. Yeah, something big,
old bulky stuff. But we've come a long ways. But
it's still the same down here in South Texas. We're
twenty or thirty miles in the border and nothing's changed.
There's not any growth at all. It's just the same
old giant ranches down here.

Speaker 2 (45:54):
You talked about your antler. You talked about your antlers.
How do they compare to say a average here?

Speaker 6 (46:02):
What are you up?

Speaker 2 (46:02):
Ten points? You up twenty points on your mature bucky?

Speaker 7 (46:04):
What we're about ten inches above?

Speaker 2 (46:08):
Wow, that's a big that's a big difference.

Speaker 3 (46:10):
Man.

Speaker 7 (46:12):
We've only had three groups so far. In all three groups,
most of the buckshot had been ten points. That's that's
unbelievable for us.

Speaker 2 (46:19):
It really is holy cow for all those.

Speaker 7 (46:22):
Horns and developed that good this year. But it's lots
of rain. Rain makes everything grow, That's the way it is.

Speaker 2 (46:27):
How much room do you have for for more hunters?

Speaker 7 (46:31):
We have a little bit of room, a little bit
with the their bookings were slow because the election year,
but kind of picked up. But our quill we've already
booked up for quail's. They found out early in the
year when Texas Parks and a Whilie thought, yeah, that
good report. I remember that on a scale of ten,
we're a ten, and that traveled across the whole United States.
We got them coming from California and Canada and wow,

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but Oklahoma boys, they're really coming down here. They love
Texas hunting because you know, they used to have quail
or in Oklahoma. They don't have as much anymore like
we have.

Speaker 2 (47:00):
That's like the old goose hunting days on the prairie.
You know. We had guys coming in from all over
the planet. Man. I had a guy from Italy one time,
and he and he brought his he brought his man
servant with him.

Speaker 7 (47:12):
Doug, what do you got out there now? A bunch
of warehouses out there where you shoot geese.

Speaker 2 (47:16):
Warehouses and houses. That's it, man, swing sets, pickleball courts.
It's a little different, Bunny. Yeah, you and I hadn't changed, yety.
We still love it. Man. Yeah, well, how how can
people get a hold of you?

Speaker 7 (47:33):
Man?

Speaker 2 (47:33):
I'm gonna get you. Let you get back to your day,
but I greatly appreciate your time.

Speaker 7 (47:38):
Can they can call me at seven one three seven
zero three six six five six, And sometimes our phones
works and sometimes they don't. But I promise you I'll
call you back.

Speaker 2 (47:47):
Some thing's never changed, huh. All right, man, always a
pleasure man. Thanks for thanks for your time this morning.
See all right, audios. That's a good man right there,
that's a good man. And it is true sometimes you
call down there and he might have one bar, he
might have no bars, he might have four. I don't

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know how many bars you can have, but that was
probably the best connection I've had with him down there,
And probably maybe there's just enthusiasm that improves the connection.
You can hear it in his voice. They are having
a banter year down there. I kind of knew that,
but I wanted to get it from the horse's mouth.
And nobody has a finger on the pulse of South

(48:30):
Texas any better than blame Friar Mood known him forever
back when when he and Mickey and James and Darryl
and boy. I don't want tim, I don't want to
leave anybody out, but I know I am. When I
first started at the paper, they were just like me,
young and all fired up, and we did a lot.

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We shared a lot of time in the outdoors together.
We really did. Some of my best fishing memories are
over Trinity Bay, East Bay, Galveston Bay, depending on who
I was fishing with, UH, and then all the way
up and down the coast and and lucky me, I
got to go to a lot of places all over
the country and all over the world. But my roots

(49:12):
are here. No doubt I could make ten lifetimes out
of taking advantage of the hunting and fishing opportunities that
Texas affords all of us. If we just take care
of them, they'll still be here for a long time.
I got another I got another iron in the fire,
maybe for an interview in the nine o'clock hour. If

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I can get it, I will, and if I can't,
I'll hold it for next week maybe and try to
get a state of the Union on some some somewhere
else and something else. Seven one three, two one two
five seven ninety Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com.
Let's go ahead and take this little break and get
out on time.

Speaker 8 (49:51):
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Speaker 2 (49:57):
Back to the Doug Pike Show Doug Pike Show on
Sports Talk seven ninety. Thanks to blame for our mood
for jumping in this morning. I texted him earlier and
he just said, heck, yea, what time? What time? Let's go, man.
We hadn't talked in a long time, and I'm glad
to catch up with him. Captain Scott sent me an
image those there are some antlers. Oh my goodness, there's

(50:19):
another couple of good South Texas deer right there. Holy cow. Oh,
I forgot to send I just sent him a text.
If you're listening, Scott, I just sent you a text
that I meant to send yesterday and never did. Pushed
the little blue button. So there it is. Anyway, man,
I had a lot of big deer.

Speaker 6 (50:38):
Do what.

Speaker 2 (50:41):
I say that that's funny and forgetful. Don't forget that
part of it. Yeah, it's you know, I catch myself
doing that. I'm moving so fast that I'll write out
a text and then I'll go back up to look
and ask myself if that is exactly what I wanted
to say In response to whatever somebody sent me, I'll
just get distracted. My attention just goes right out the window. Great,

(51:06):
and I'll see it like two three days later, and
at that by that time, it it hasn't It makes
no impact to send it. So I just kind of don't.
Either I'll either knock them out or I have to
stop and create a whole new text to say why
I didn't make the right move and send it originally,
and it just becomes more and more awkward the farther

(51:28):
I get into it. Ooh ooh, Travis ways in we
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Oh my gosh, there's one one more glowing endorsement for them.

(51:48):
I'm telling you this, this is good stuff. This is
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Someone three two one two five seven nine email we
Dug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. Uh a quick, I
had a question I wanted to ask about and I'm

(52:10):
looking for my my listeners who use live shrimp for bait. Still, Okay,
there is a device. I've seen it now probably a
half a dozen times. It pops into my Facebook feed
or whatever when I'm looking at internet stuff. And it's
a simple little like a curly queue of wire and

(52:31):
a rubber band or I don't know exactly because I've
never owned one, and I'm not going to invest in
them because I don't use live shrimp. But they're just
tiny little things that corkscrew onto the shank of a hook,
just a regular old single I guess you could put
them on a troublehook too, but really a single hook
would be better for this. A corkscrews onto there, and

(52:52):
then the little rubber band that comes off the front
goes over the horn of the shrimp, and there's a
little loop of wire that comes off of the corkscrew
on the hook shank that you kind of pull it
back and nuzzle it into the back of the top
of the head, and in some way way, shape or form,
it just sits there and the hook rides right straight

(53:15):
up on top of that shrimp, and the shrimp never
gets its head pierced or its tail pierced, or any
other body part pierced by that hook. It enables the
shrimp to just swim around, freely, move freely, hop around
whatever it has to do to stay away from a
big old fat fish. And I'm wondering if any of

(53:36):
you have ever used those and whether you felt like
you're getting your money's worth. Sometimes contraptions are great, sometimes
they're not. Oh, I gotta go talk to this guy, Timmy,
what's up, man, Doug?

Speaker 6 (53:51):
What's up, buddy?

Speaker 2 (53:52):
I'm doing all right. I got a hunch you're doing
all right too.

Speaker 6 (53:56):
A man, what a week? What a week? Got my
first elk?

Speaker 2 (53:59):
Really? So where were you?

Speaker 6 (54:01):
Yes? Uh cook, Missouri Okay, venture Rent Okay? Yeah, yeah,
big man? And I tell you that, Oh yeah man?
That uh core out of my three or eight, I
like that dropped them on the spot.

Speaker 2 (54:17):
Wow. And that yeah, that's your first held. So how
much bigger did it look than the last whitetail you shot?

Speaker 4 (54:27):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (54:27):
Man?

Speaker 6 (54:28):
I could not believe it. I mean I could not
believe it. You know, you know, I got I got,
I got stunk. Two years ago, I went to uh
New Mexico, Okay, and it was a good time, but
didn't bring any meat.

Speaker 1 (54:38):
Hole.

Speaker 2 (54:39):
Yeah, you got some good stuff, now, don't you.

Speaker 6 (54:42):
Oh man, I got about three hundred and fifty pounds.

Speaker 2 (54:45):
They are so big it's like the difference between a
hill country deer is a smart car and an ELK
is a school bus. Is that about right?

Speaker 3 (54:54):
Yes, sir, so.

Speaker 2 (54:57):
Got good antlers?

Speaker 6 (54:58):
Ord.

Speaker 2 (54:58):
You didn't care, you just got antler.

Speaker 6 (55:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (55:01):
Yeah, I just went for to meet nice Oh yeah,
three hundred pounds. That'll last a long time on it.

Speaker 6 (55:08):
Yeah. But I also got her. Uh they called it
a rent hind when I was there. I think we
called him a.

Speaker 4 (55:13):
Uh uh.

Speaker 3 (55:16):
Yeah, okay, wow, yeah, man, it was a great trip.

Speaker 6 (55:21):
You want to let you know because I call you.
I call you a couple of years ago. I was
disappointed I got remember that, I.

Speaker 2 (55:27):
Do, I swear I remember that.

Speaker 4 (55:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (55:30):
I went all over up there to go get an
ELK and I didn't get an elk. I'm so glad man.
Sometimes you know it was worth the way too, wasn't it.

Speaker 6 (55:38):
Oh yes, sir, Yes, sir, yes, sir.

Speaker 2 (55:40):
Well I'll tell you what. I've got one so we're even.
I've also got one elk to my credit. Oh really yeah, yeah, yeah,
I got to go up to Bill Carter's place up
in Colorado.

Speaker 9 (55:51):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (55:52):
He asked me to come up and visit with him
about aging those elk on the hoof like he did deer.
And and my my my reward for going up there,
as if I needed one, My reward was I got
to shoot one of his management elk. And and that
was a big animal. Holy cow.

Speaker 6 (56:09):
Oh, I could imagine. I can imagine.

Speaker 2 (56:12):
It was fun.

Speaker 7 (56:13):
Man.

Speaker 2 (56:13):
Well, Timmy, I am thrilled for you. I really am,
my friend. I'm so glad you got that ELG three
hundred and fifty plus whatever you got off the red stag.

Speaker 3 (56:21):
Huh.

Speaker 6 (56:22):
Yes, sir, Yes, sir you got.

Speaker 2 (56:24):
You'll be feeding the neighborhood for a year.

Speaker 6 (56:28):
Yes, sir, don't go with Bellville meat Market.

Speaker 2 (56:31):
I had a boy way to go.

Speaker 6 (56:33):
Man.

Speaker 2 (56:33):
Yeah, you took it to the right place. I didn't
want to ask it, but thanks for volunteering. That's awesome. Well,
I'm really thrilled. Man, send me a picture, Yeah, I will.

Speaker 6 (56:43):
What can I send it to?

Speaker 2 (56:45):
Just send it to my email, Doug Pike at iHeartMedia
dot com. We'll do YouTube.

Speaker 6 (56:53):
Man.

Speaker 2 (56:53):
Congratulations, audios. All right, now he wasn't excited, was he?
Holy first event you know what, first, elk is an
amazing thing, and they're just such bigger, tougher animals than
a white tailed deer. They have to be to survive
where they survive in bear country and lion country and

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all of that. And it's truly When I went up
there to Cotton Mesa, the elk were bugling and so
I got to hear all of that in that was
just something I dreamed of for a long time. I
think I did do one elk hunt, but it wasn't
during bugling, and I didn't even see an elk on

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this hunt I did in Utah years ago on the
ranch that was owned by man my dad worked for
for a long time, and I mean a giant place,
like six figures of acres, and so I didn't see one.
I saw a lot of deer, but I didn't see
an elk. And then when I finally got up to
Cotton Mesa, I saw some elk ranging in eyes and

(58:01):
class from every end of the every inch of the spectrum,
little stubby little things to giants to true giants in
the elk world, and it was just fascinating. And the
fact that they allowed me to take one off that
ranch really. That made me feel pretty good too, and
it's tough. It really is. One of the things I

(58:22):
got hammered into me. And I'm glad Timmy's elk went
down with that one shot. If you shoot that thing
and it doesn't go down, shoot it again. And sure enough,
when I shot mine, I knew I put a great
shot into it. And he started to white, took like
two steps, and the guy said, shoot him again. Hit
him again. I don't know, it's very he'd hit him again,

(58:43):
and I did, and he still went about another ten
or fifteen yards and then just kind of crumpled up.
But that was it was amazing. That was out of
a seven bag. I had a pretty I think I
shot one hundred fifty grains on that one too, as
a matter of fact. And it worked. It worked, but
it sure didn't go down like a deer gets hit

(59:04):
with it, that gets hit with a seven mag fascinating animals,
they really are. And I could go and just walk
around the woods and listen to them. It's just the
most amazing sound and it's so loud and it just
carries so far. If I get a bucket list shot
at an elk with a bow, I would probably take it.

(59:25):
I've seen it done on video many many times. But
what they don't show you on the videos on YouTube
and anywhere else there are hunting videos or hunting television programs,
what they don't show you is how many times that
person went hunting trying to accomplish that and didn't get
the animal. That's what makes it so special when you

(59:46):
finally do. That's why you could hear in Timmy's voice
there's just this weight that's lifted off his shoulders. Now
he's not a guy who's trying to get an elk.
He's a guy who got an elk. And that is
he's the guy who got an elk, same as the
guy who got his first eight pound or twenty eight

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inch or thirty inch trout or ten pound trout, whatever
whatever your goal is, he did. He won the Outdoors
Lottery for oil right then and there. Because I guarantee
you there are people in this country right now today
as we speak, who are elk hunting out in the
mountains west of here, and they may not even see

(01:00:30):
an elk, and if they do, they may not get
close enough to get a shot. And even if they
get close enough to get a shot, they might miss.
There's so many things that can go wrong on a
hunting or fishing trip that will keep you from getting
what you want. That's why it's just that's why all
of us who truly are passionate about this just get giddy.

(01:00:53):
We just get giddy when it goes right. And we
have every right to do so because we've invested hundreds,
maybe thousands of hours into doing that. And that's that's
kind of one of the reasons. I want to think
about how many hours we put in to get our reward,
and then I'm going to bring up something along those

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lines when we come back from this break that I
think is pretty important.

Speaker 4 (01:01:17):
On the way out.

Speaker 8 (01:01:18):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety a Houston sports fan
on air and on Facebook.

Speaker 2 (01:01:25):
They contact back to The Doug Pike Show nine five
on Sports Talk seven ninety The Doug Pike Show, Thanks
for listening. I just gave Melvin one of my whole
lines about some of the stories that come back. And
you know, the truth is, you shot your deer at
exactly one hundred yards out of a box line with

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a heater in it, and by the time you get home,
you're you're telling the story about how you you crawled
hands and knees through the prickly pair and the mesquite
with a knife between your teeth and a camouflage jockstrap.
And no, it's just that's not the truth.

Speaker 6 (01:02:04):
You know what you did.

Speaker 2 (01:02:06):
It doesn't matter, It doesn't matter. The venison's gonna taste
just as good no matter how you did it, and
the antlers are gonna look just as good on the wall,
no matter how you did it. Boy, it was who
sent me that? Where is that picture? Oh I've lost
it now, dog gone it. I almost had it and
then I lost it. Oh, yeah, there it is. Travis

(01:02:26):
sent me a picture of his buddy Mark with a
two seventy and six eighths, as if the six eighths
were necessary to make it good. Two hundred and seventy
inches of antler, and it looks just as big as
it sounds. That's a whole lot of antler on a deer.
They're a deer like that all over Texas, all over Texas, man.

(01:02:47):
And I'm I'm really thrilled to hear Blaine tell the
story of how, Yeah, there's a lot of big, big
high fence ranches in Texas and that's fine. I don't
have a problem with him. Unless they're really small, then
I have a little bit of an issue with it.
But if it's a significant amount of acreage and it's
behind a fence to keep the hogs out and to

(01:03:08):
keep other deer out so you can work on a
management program, then more power to you. By the way,
what I wanted to talk about when we came back
after talking about the having so much time and money
and just blood, sweat and tears invested in getting your
dream buck or your dream fish or whatever.

Speaker 4 (01:03:30):
It is.

Speaker 2 (01:03:31):
One of the things that I'm a little bit in
disagreement with, and I almost let it happen with my son,
is giving kids, giving young kids an opportunity to do
things that most adults who grew up in my age
group had to wait years to accomplish. Our parents, a

(01:03:53):
lot of us we didn't have money growing up. We
didn't have unlimited funds, We didn't have access to fancy
place is to go hunt or fish, didn't have access
to guided hunting and fishing, and so we had to learn.
We started first year as a dough then maybe a
little just a little buck that in quiet, the adults

(01:04:15):
want off the property because the genetics aren't so great,
but the little kid doesn't know that. It's just a
first buck. And you graduate from one class to the
next in fishing and hunting, and so you always have
something to look forward to. You always have another goal
in mind, until you're old enough to have the goal

(01:04:36):
of helping younger people achieve their goals. That's where I
am now. I don't need to go someplace and shoot
the biggest buck off the property. I like going deer hunting.
I love going deer hunting, I love waterfowl hunting, all
of that. But I don't have to shoot the most
or the biggest or anything. Really don't even have to
shoot a lot. I just like to see wild animals.

(01:04:58):
I love to go fishing. I don't have to bring
home a big old trout to prove anything to anybody.
And if there's kids on the boat and we get
into some fish, I might have to put my rod
down for a little while and just let them eat
it up. I'll take some pictures and enjoy it that way.
I do think that if somebody listening to me today
has a son or daughter who's coming up in hunting,

(01:05:22):
be careful not to give them too much too quickly.
Be careful not to let them shoot a Boon and
Crockett class buck when they're nine years old, or seven
years old even or twelve or even fourteen. Let it
come up gradually so that they'll want to go back.

(01:05:42):
There'll be something for which they want to join you
again in the woods or on the water. If a
kid catches a thirty my son's already got a I
think at twenty nine and a half, something like that
nine twenty nine and a half inch trout that we
caught with Cliff Webb. And so he still loves to

(01:06:02):
go fishing, but he's already got that box checked. And
so I wonder how enthusiastic he would be to go
catch a bunch of two and three and four pound trout,
which would make a fantastic trip. But he's always in
the back of his mind going to know that he's
got a twenty nine. He hasn't shot a lot of waterfowl.

(01:06:23):
He hasn't shot but one deer, and that's it's just scheduling.
It's hard, and I'm trying to arrange maybe to fix that. Actually,
I'll make a couple of phone calls today. In fact,
I want to do that for him, and I want
to get him out there to do it. But the
bottom line is just try to be careful. Try to
be careful. How fast you run these kids up the

(01:06:44):
ladder or you're going to end up here. And I know, Dad,
I'm just going to go hang out with my friends
or no, I don't want to go to to the
deer least with you tomorrow. I'm going to the mall
with my buddies. And no, no, that's not what you want.
It's not what I want, certainly. And I hear some
of that now, and it's not because he can't go. Actually,

(01:07:05):
a lot of it's baseball. His commitment to baseball is tremendous,
and I applaud him for that. I applaud him for that.
Let me go catch let me catch Alan before we
go to the break here, Allen, what's up, man, I'm good?
Thank you?

Speaker 3 (01:07:20):
So give me a price about the mid range scoop
eighty dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:07:26):
No, you get to get any decent glass, You're gonna
have to You're gonna have to bump up a little
bit from there. You got to remember that that that
scope of yours, if you have good binoculars, you're gonna
be able to see up into the woods a little bit.
They're gonna gather that much light. And the one thing
you don't want to do if you have decent binoculars
is see a see a buck that's standing six eight

(01:07:49):
ten yards up into the shadows of the of the
tree line, and then lift your rifle up and you
can't even see it. Now you can't see the animal
at all. So yeah, you gotta, you gotta. You're gonna
have to buck up and maybe save up a little
more or tell Santa to bring you something. But yeah,
you're gonna have to go. You're gonna have to go again.

Speaker 6 (01:08:08):
I go.

Speaker 3 (01:08:08):
I mean I'm nothink fifty at least, then yeah, i'd
go one.

Speaker 2 (01:08:12):
Fifty to two fifty. And and by name brand, don't
don't go get something that was made halfway around the
world by people you don't know. Get a get a
good quality, well known scope, and and don't overblow. You
don't have to have super high magnification either. You don't
want to go to some big giant look like.

Speaker 3 (01:08:32):
I gotta I got a three by nine on my
Now that's not quite enough.

Speaker 6 (01:08:36):
Well, yeah, you.

Speaker 2 (01:08:37):
Don't need Why do you need more than nine power
And how often do you really do that?

Speaker 3 (01:08:43):
Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 2 (01:08:44):
Think about it because when you when you jack that
thing up past about six, uh, the image starts kind
of wobble when you're sitting there holding it, doesn't it
a little bit?

Speaker 6 (01:08:52):
Maybe? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:08:53):
It gets hard on glasses too, So that's yeah, you know,
that's another challenge I have.

Speaker 2 (01:08:58):
Can you get?

Speaker 6 (01:08:59):
Well?

Speaker 2 (01:08:59):
Yeah, Jay, if you want to leave your glasses on there,
you can. Now there are scopes where you can accommodate
that a little bit easier. Just kind of go and
look at some different scopes with different eye relief on them,
and you can wear your glasses. But man, just don't
wear safety glasses if you're going to do that, because
if that thing comes back and pops you in the
glasses and you got glass lenses sitting there, now you

(01:09:20):
got glass in your eyes and you can't see it
to get back to the truck.

Speaker 3 (01:09:24):
Yeah, no, I got I got safety glasses all the time. Yeah,
So I was like, well, just because there, I got
them for work, And I said, well, if I got
to wear at work, I might as just wear them
all the time.

Speaker 2 (01:09:34):
So yep, might as well. And there's nothing wrong with that. Yeah,
i'd i'd go ahead and invest more in those bano
or in that in that rifle scope, because you can
see all you want through your binoculars. But that doesn't
matter at all if you can't see it through your scope.
Just keep that in mindy and go all.

Speaker 3 (01:09:50):
Right, okay, Doug, appreciate that, America.

Speaker 2 (01:09:52):
My pleasure. Merry Christmas to you too. See, Yeah, that's
I mean scopes and binoculars both. And do some research
on how rifle scopes and how binoculars work and how
the light is transmitted through there. When you see and
read about scopes that have certain numbers of coatings on

(01:10:14):
the lenses, every one of those coatings helps that light
get back through farther and farther and farther into the
scope and spit it out, dug ultimately back to your
eye so that you can see farther. You can see
images deeper into the woods. You can't well, you can't
see farther necessarily, but you see more clearly and with

(01:10:35):
more brightness. That's what you're looking for. You want to
be able to clearly see the image that you're looking at,
and the only way to do that is with quality
glass that's got a lot of Every time glass goes
through us or light goes through a surface in glass,
clear glass, Okay, it loses two percent. So and that's
the front half of the glass and the back half

(01:10:57):
of the glass, the front of the pane, the back
the pain or whatever it is. The lens you lose
two percent going through. And there's all these different lenses
in these scopes that take more and more light away
from you. When they're codd there's reflection and yeah, it's
just I don't know. I'm getting into the wheeze on
you now. Captain Scott waged in. Let me Scott probably
summed it up faster than I could. Let me see

(01:11:19):
if I can get his deal up here. Yeah, okay,
oh okay, Yeah, good scopes here, reasonably priced scopes and binoculars. Vortex.
I was leaning on some of the older brands because
I haven't had to buy them in a long time.
I buy quality stuff and it lasts forever. Vortex. If
Scott likes it, I like it. I'm very I'm familiar

(01:11:39):
with the brand. I just don't own it. So yeah,
start there, alan start there, Get something from Vortex. Get
a scope you like get some binoculars like and you'll
be able to see what you're doing. All right, Thank you, Scott.
I appreciate you jumping in quick.

Speaker 8 (01:11:52):
For me on that. This is Sports Talk seven ninety
breaking sports news on Facebook twenty four or seven.

Speaker 7 (01:11:59):
We'll get that.

Speaker 2 (01:12:01):
This is the Doug Pike Show. Charlie Brown, Christmas Boy.
That's the most familiar music I think anybody who's that, Yeah,
that's that's just been around for a long time, and
you hear it every year. If you watch TV enough
center or later, you'll hear it. Right, I can't here you.

(01:12:22):
Oh you're on the phone, aren't you. Never mind? I'm
staring at Melbourne and I aren't in the same room.
He's in another room, and he's on a bigger screen,
big screen TV in here. He's larger than life. And
I looked at him and it looked like he was
looking at me when I asked that question, but he wasn't,
So it doesn't matter. Seven one three, two one two
five seven nine. He got time for a call or
two before we check out here. We've talked about a

(01:12:44):
lot of stuff this weekend too.

Speaker 7 (01:12:46):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:12:46):
If you have a reminder that if you have company
coming into town and they're outdoorsy at all, and you
need to kill an afternoon or something. Look up one
of the little lakes where the rainbow trouders talk and
make sure adults have at least a temporary license, and
make sure your kids have appropriate gear. It's you can't
really do the rainbow trout with cane poles. I don't

(01:13:10):
think that'd be a good idea, but you certainly could
do it with Zebco two O two style and size
rods and reels. You don't have to cast real far,
but you might have to cast some. You're gonna want
to chum that water with the corn soaked in vanilla,
whether you use whatever you use for bait. And I
actually saw some lures yesterday. I'm not gonna tell you

(01:13:31):
where I saw them, because I may go back and
get a couple. I seem I'm a gidding, don't you worry? Yeah,
let me do that now. I don't want to run
out of time. Jeff, what's up, man, Corny?

Speaker 9 (01:13:39):
Insert a call so late, that's all right, patching anytime
a gear were used in the field or not. I
have a really good hiking backpack that I use mostly
around town, and it gets scuffed up, the threading comes undone.
I've tried those little patches you can buy the hunting
and fishing and camping stores, and they peel off. I
don't know if they can dieted a temp fix. So

(01:14:01):
what are you doing if you need to have it
major repaired or have a major repair down. Do you
have any place in town that you recommend?

Speaker 2 (01:14:09):
I would I would call Night Train Luggage. Okay, they're
on Richmond at Chimney Rock I think, and been in
that same space for the better part of forty years.
I'd bet the man who owned it, I don't even
know if he's still alive. It was George. I can't
remember his last name. But if anybody can patch anything

(01:14:31):
luggage wise for you, or show you something that won't
fall apart, that's going to be the place.

Speaker 7 (01:14:36):
I men.

Speaker 2 (01:14:37):
They used to make a lot of gear for like
big fancy fishing tournaments, the prizes for fishing tournaments and
all kinds of major events like that. Hunting events. There
were some hunting competitions I competed in a long long
time ago that offered some of the Night Train luggage
as part of the gear you'd get there. That's that's

(01:14:59):
the worth go on into when you're looking for something
like that, that's just gonna be darn near bulletproof.

Speaker 3 (01:15:04):
All right, Well, this is yeah old stuff.

Speaker 9 (01:15:07):
You get attached to it and you want to keep
it long, and I imagine you're the same way.

Speaker 2 (01:15:11):
I got some of my all night train stuff. Still
that's probably thirty years man. All right, I got a run. Yeah,
thanks for you all. Thanks man. Yeah, I hadn't thought
about him in a long time, but he can help
for sure. All right, that's gonna wrap it up for
this weekend. Thank you all so very much for listening.
I will be back in here doing fifty plus Live
this week starting Tuesday, and then I will be back
in this seat all the way around the next Saturday

(01:15:34):
morning at seven am, just as usual. Get outside, have
some fun with your family. It's the holiday season. Make
sure everybody's having fun. Get some vitamin D. Everybody needs that.
Get that vitamin D and enjoy it. I'll be doing
the same. You probably see me out there if you
look close enough. Thanks for listening. I really do appreciate it. Audios.