The Doug Pike Show 8-18-24

In this episode Doug talks about shooting lessons and the opening of Dove season. Do you have your hunting license? More tips on finding the right shot gun that fits you. Doug and some calllers give you the information you need to make that shot gun useful to you. Is Doug ready to go digital with his hunting license? Be sure to listen to find out. Galveston beach surf updates and Golf leader board updates.Plus, Dougs thoughts on moving the PGA. Will it affect the NFL season? Be sure to listen to find out.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is the Doug Pike Show, brought to you by
American Shooting Centers, Guns Shooting and Instruction since nineteen eighty nine.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Now Here's Doug Pike at Sunday edition of the program
starts right now, And true to Murphy's law, I come
in here and I get some prep work done. And
I actually know that was a scan I did. I
was trying to print something. We have two sets of
printers here. We got the main one in the backup

(00:32):
may they call them Maine and Secondary. And if one
doesn't work, usually the other one will work just fine,
except on Sundays and well weekends. They they like most
of the people in this office take the weekend off, apparently,
and so we'll get through it. I have lots of

(00:55):
I have lots of notes in front of me. I
have lots of backup plans in place. It's not a deal,
but it's frustrating. It's just frustrating. And if that's the
only thing that goes wrong today is that I couldn't
print out my notes for today, then I'll have a
really good day. So I'm not really worried about it.
There are doves all over the state. By the way,
you can hardly end well, not all over the state,

(01:17):
but you kind of understand what I'm saying. Two weeks,
well less than two weeks out now from the start
of dove season on September first, and whole boy, here
they come.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
And if you're not ready now, you're gonna get left behind.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
We've got the special white Wing season coming up, which
goes two days, three days, one day. Because of the
way the calendar falls, the official opening of the Morning
Dove season on September one falls on a I think
it's a Sunday. I can't even remember right now. I'm

(01:51):
making plans and I'm not even remembering what days because
I'm not quite dialed into an opener hunt. Although I
do have a couple of feelers out, I go to
make a couple of phone calls after the show today.
Bottom line is, though there are plenty of birds, there's
plenty for them to eat and barring really too, It's
still a little bit early to call the weather for

(02:14):
opening day, and I'm not going to because just as
sure as I do, something will change. It's kind of
like being one of these weather people who want to
call the path of a storm when it's halfway across
the Atlantic Ocean and tell us it's gonna hit here.
Don't believe whatever you hear about opening day weather for

(02:37):
dove season until it's about maybe two days out then,
kind of like where a hurricane's gonna hit. Same thing.
If you're two days out. Most of the better forecasters
around here are trustworthy. They'll they'll have it down by then,
But until then they're gonna try and scare you. And
since I'm gonna go out on a limb and say

(02:59):
not many many people in broadcast news, television, hunt, I'm
gonna guess that they're not thinking about us any more
than we're thinking about them. On Opening Day, you're running
out of time if you wanted to get a new shotgun,
or get your old shot gun fixed, or try to
get out and shoot some targets. I tried to get

(03:20):
my son out to America Shooting Centers yesterday, and the
response I got was, I got plans.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
Okay, okay. If I get you out on a.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
Hunt on opening weekend, you better not miss more than
you hit. That'll be disappointing. He's a pretty good shot, actually,
he had great instruction early on when he was considerably younger. Actually,
from Gil and Vickie Ash and their son Brian, well
mostly Brian. Gil and I just sat back and watched
Brian and my son stand out there and watched him

(03:54):
learn very, very methodically, very at a very set pace
that Brian wasn't going to let him go faster than
watched him learn how to bust targets.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
And it was really neat to see the lights come on.
He's a pretty athletic guy.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
My son is. He's at sixteen now. I bet he
was baby thirteen at the time, twelve or thirteen. And
Brian just took him out there and walked him through
everything and explained it to him, and the lights came
on and that first time. I've told the story before,
but I'll repeat it because it bears repeating if you

(04:33):
are interested in learning how to shoot. The first lesson
that he got from Brian, by the end of the
lesson and we're talking thirty forty minutes. By the end
of the lesson, he's busting crossing targets at thirty thirty
five yards, Like, holy cow, if it's this easy, I
want to go out there and hear what he's telling

(04:55):
my son. But Gil just kind of tapped me on
on the shoulder and said, and it's not going to
be the same next time he comes out. He's going
to struggle a little bit next time he comes out.
And just exactly as a professional shooting instructor's advice and
comments were just sure. I knew he was right. I

(05:18):
didn't know why at the time, but I knew he
was right. And so they get together for another lesson
a few days later, and now he's struggling because he's
overthinking it. He's not just doing exactly what Brian said
and letting everything else fall into place. He's trying to
jump ahead in his mind and trying to think ahead

(05:39):
in his mind, and it's getting him all confused. His
brain's getting confused. And it was exactly as it was
told to me it would be. And it really is
an eye opener. And it's why I encourage anybody who
wants to learn golf, who wants to learn shotgunning, pickleball,

(06:02):
well not pickleball, Melboyne, Please tell me you don't play pickleball. No,
don't play pickleball, okay, just checking. I'll play kickball before kickball,
oh men. One of the coolest things I ever watched happen,
and you'll appreciate this. You got kids. So my son
and my wife and I are over at that big,

(06:24):
beautiful Marriott Hotel over in San Antonio Hill Country Marriott
Hyatt Hill Country Marriot or Hyatt Hill Country Hotel.

Speaker 3 (06:32):
I had two two hotel chains twisted up together.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
Anyway, that beautiful place with the two beautiful golf courses.
We were over there because I had been hired to
write a story about the property, and they put us
up over there. They took good care of us, believe me.
And my son, who at the time was maybe six
or seven, I don't know, had on the way out

(06:59):
the house, said why don't we bring the kickball stuff?
And I had bought kickball a couple of them, and
then the base is just little rubber bases that go
with them, so that anywhere there's a mode field you
can pretty much get a kickball game going.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
We used to do that up at the Lost Creek
Park and.

Speaker 2 (07:21):
Over there at the hotel, I was looking from our
room down over this big open area, just a big
mode beautiful probably at least a half acre, maybe even
more of ground, and I'm looking around and there's families
everywhere there's kids. There's a few of them having little
picnics on the lawn. There's a couple of them running

(07:42):
around trying to fly a kite, although the wind between
the buildings made it awfully difficult. The bottom line is,
I said, hey, you want to go try to get
a kickball game? Up said sure, let's go. So we
grabbed our stuff, we went down there. We threw out
the bases and I rolled the ball and it's almost

(08:03):
like I rolled it one time, Melvin, and it was
like the pied piper dragging all those little kids behind me.
All of a sudden, we've got a fifteen on fourteen
kickball game going, Oh, isn't that great? And it just, yeah,
it went on just forever because a couple of them,
you know, they'd have to leave to go back to
the room or to go get lunch or whatever, going

(08:25):
to go swimming.

Speaker 3 (08:26):
And three or four of them, four more would.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
Materialize out of just out of thin air. And there's
more of them. If only I could get them to
do that around lakes. When I'm trying to teach them
how to fish a new Olympic sport there, you know,
kickball might Who knows I'd rather see kickball than break dancing.
I can tell you that straight up. Yeah, that'd be great.
You know that fishing thing. There's a little lake that

(08:51):
I I've talked about more than once where my son
and I actually we set out that one day to
go catch a hundred fish and did in less than
two hours, considerably less than two hours. But our usual
day over there would be thirty or forty and then
he'd kind of, honestly, he'd kind of get bored. He's
just catching him so fast. That's why I would get
him to bring a friend. That's why I would bring

(09:13):
a football or a couple of gloves in a baseball
or whatever, and just keep them occupied until they kind
of got tired of watching me catch fish and wanted
to catch more.

Speaker 4 (09:23):
And all.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
I would say that ninety percent of the time we
were over there, at least one family would stop on
the little bridge that goes over a narrow part of
this lake and just stand there and watch us. And
They've got a little kid, maybe three, four or five
years old, and I would turn to the parents and
I would say, would you mind if he catches a fish?

Speaker 5 (09:47):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (09:47):
And I know he's never caught a fish I said,
he's gonna catch one now if you'll let him. And
I explained to them that I've mashed the barbs down
on the hook, so even if something horrible goes wrong,
it's not going to be horrible. I explain that there
are a lot of fish in the water where they are,
the kid's not going to have any trouble actually catching one.

(10:09):
And by now the kids grinning from ear to ear,
and he's tugging on dad's shirt tail. Come on, dad,
come on, let me catch a fish. And you can
tell that this whole family has never been around fishing before.
They've just never done it. And I bait the hook,
put the cane pole in the little kid's hand. It

(10:29):
takes about four seconds for the cork to go under.
If it takes that long, they lift up and they've
caught a fish, and they are stoked, man, they are
absolutely stoked. I did that conservatively ninety percent of the
time that we were over there, because there were always people,
There were always kids, there were always families. It's a
great little park, but very few of them ever even

(10:52):
thought about fishing. Very few there Also, somebody wants to
know where that lake is. There's also some pretty good
catfish in it that I think the state may stock
it every now and then, but I would just throw
a couple by the when we got tired of using
the cane poles and catching tiny fish, I just bring
a couple of little bait casters and not level one.

(11:16):
It's just a little or push button reels, spin cast,
and just catch some catfish while we were there.

Speaker 3 (11:22):
Those those catfish.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
In that little lake go two three pounds and are
quite the quite the upgrade from the little perch seven
one three two one two five seven ninety. I don't
know how I got there, but I did, uh either.
I will call Preston or Preston Vaughn will call us
around eight thirty. I want to kind of shine little

(11:44):
spotlight on him because he and his dad stepped up
when I asked a few weeks ago if anybody was
willing to come aboard and help me get my this
Week in US Military History feature revived and revitalized and
back on the air. And they did. And I've already
gotten really good response from the people who have heard

(12:07):
those things. And if you haven't heard one yet, listen
for them. There was one that played yesterday right Melvin
remember about what time count in the middle? Yeah, about
eight thirty.

Speaker 3 (12:16):
Yeah, that sounds about right. It does sound right.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
And whatever time it was, I set it up in
the system to air at the same time each week.
So next Saturday, same time, same station, you'll be able
to hear something else that is relevant to us military history.
And our military has got a tremendous history.

Speaker 5 (12:38):
And.

Speaker 2 (12:40):
There are dark days and light days. We just are
fortunate to live in a country that has far more
positive outcomes than negative so far, and.

Speaker 3 (12:50):
I'm hoping we can stay on that course.

Speaker 2 (12:53):
All right, let's take this first break of the program
on the way out of If they it awake him up,
let's leave him alone. He may be busy seven seven
ninety Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com.

Speaker 3 (13:10):
I have let me go back over here.

Speaker 2 (13:12):
Since I don't have a printer working, I've got to
go back to the notes I took electronically, and there's
I want to go back to. Since we're getting up
here to the opening of dove season, which starts the
waterfowl season, and crane season, and teal season and quail season,

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all these wonderful things coming up, all these wonderful bird
hunting opportunities. And I got a call yesterday about shotguns
and how to get one that really fits and without
without paying for expensive modifications, potentially on a gun that

(13:54):
you just thought you had to have, and then you
you didn't really mess with it. You didn't try to
shoot it. He didn't even pick it up up and
really mount it and swing it a little bit in
the store. You get it home, you get it out
on the range, and you realize that it bites you
on the cheek every time you shoot it, or you
really can't get your eye line, your sight line down

(14:14):
the barrel like it should be, And what do you
do now? So to eliminate some of that, at least
what I recommended yesterday and something I've done more than once,
especially if you're gonna go someplace where you're traveling internationally
to hunt, for example, like maybe you're going down to

(14:35):
You're gonna go to Argentina with my buddy Robbie Granger,
and you don't want to carry your own guns because
that's a hassle getting a minute out of other countries,
So you're just gonna use one of the guns down there. Well,
when you walk into that gun room, or when you
walk into a gun store not knowing exactly what you

(14:57):
want and wondering what's gonna fit you best. The easy
way to get really close. And I've used this. I've
done this more than once, and it's worked out fine
for me. I'm not a I'm not a professional gunsmith,
and I don't pretend to be, but I know what works,
and so what I do is when I'm handed that gun,

(15:19):
first I make sure it's not loaded, even though they
just showed me it wasn't. That's something I'm Yeah, how
long have you been on the show, Melvine, like four months?
Five months? Five months now? Five months? You've heard me
talk at least once then about if somebody hands you
a gun and shows you it's unloaded, the first thing
you do when they hand it to you is you
check it yourself. That's right. Always, thank you check yourself. Yep,

(15:43):
just two times check it. It's better than one time,
and one time is better than none, but not as
good as too. So you've checked the gun now, and
with a shotgun, it's important that it be it be
comfortable when you mount it, and then comfortable as you
swing it.

Speaker 3 (16:00):
What I want you to do then is to close your.

Speaker 2 (16:03):
Eyes and then get the gun firmly in your hands,
like you just imagine you're out in a dove field somewhere.
Close your eyes, and then mount that gun. And as
you mount that gun, just let it go wherever it
wants to go. And if it's truly a gun that's
gonna fit you without major modification, it'll probably just snuggle

(16:24):
right up in there against your shoulder. You'll feel a
little pressure against your cheek as it comes up there.
And then when you open your eyes, if you're really lucky,
you're gonna be looking right down the barrel, right straight
down that barrel, and that is gonna be the that's
step one to a simple, easy, good fitting gun. Now,

(16:48):
there are little modifications that can be done. There's all
kinds of stuff that there's an asterisk with that feels good.

Speaker 6 (16:54):
Stuff.

Speaker 2 (16:54):
Okay, there's all kinds of little things that can be
done with padding with just a simple you know, put
a butt pad on it maybe, or tweak the forestock
or something like that. You can do that. And you
can even if you if you want to experiment a little,
if you think it's close but you're not quite sure,
then move your hand on the forestock. It's my right

(17:17):
hand because I shoot left handed. But move your left
hand if you're right handed. It's god, This is like golf.
Just the hand that's on the forestock, whichever one it is.
Just move it forward an inch or backward an inch
and see if that doesn't correct a minor imperfection in
how the gun mounts for you. It's important when you're

(17:37):
out there hunting that you not have to really think
about it. That gun should just come right into your
shoulder so that you can focus on putting the barrel
where it needs to be to hit the target. Let
me go talk to Mike for a second. See what's
on his mind. Tik duck, Come on there we go.
What's up Mike?

Speaker 5 (17:56):
Morning, young man, Good morning talking about mounting.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
I am.

Speaker 5 (18:01):
I learned from my father in law, fifty year hunting buddy.
One of the easiest ways to find a gun that
will fit you is to take that shotgun or rifle,
place the butt of that gun in the crook of
your elbow into your elbow ye, reach up naturally, and

(18:26):
if your trigger finger first pad easily places on the trigger,
then that gun will fit you.

Speaker 2 (18:35):
Going to be about the right side Yeah, that's a
good that's a good stock length measure for sure.

Speaker 5 (18:41):
And the second thing is is when you swing that
butt up into your shoulder, snug it. Don't let it
be loose, and don't let it be too hard, let
it be just let it be natural.

Speaker 3 (18:55):
Yeah, it takes time.

Speaker 2 (18:57):
You and I talk about this like it's second which
it is. But for somebody brand new to it, there's
there's gonna be that time when they're gonna they're gonna
try to trust a friend or a neighbor or somebody.

Speaker 6 (19:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:11):
I does hunt all the time, and so I can
help you pick out a shot gun.

Speaker 3 (19:14):
Nah, don't do that. Go to some place.

Speaker 2 (19:16):
All these places that I mentioned that sell guns have
people in their stores who could help you find the
right gun.

Speaker 3 (19:23):
And that's that's gonna be as helpful as anything else.

Speaker 2 (19:26):
I do. Like that for stock thing where you just
put it in the crooker your elbow, and I, like
I said yesterday, I'm like the standard size for shotguns
for some reason. Yeah, I'm so lucky with that. I've
been very blessed because I picked up a couple that
weren't racked, that weren't stock stocks, and the one the
gun I shot down in Argentina. As a matter of fact,

(19:49):
I just grabbed one off the shelf and took it
out there for an impromptu dove hunt. And that little
twenty gauge blankety blank bit me in the cheek every
time I shot it, and it bit me so bad.
You'll appreciate this, Mike. I'm I'm surrounded by doves. They're
trying to take me over. They're trying to pick me
up and take me away. And that gun hurt me

(20:11):
every time I shot it. And I went through a
half a case of shells.

Speaker 5 (20:15):
Oh lord, Oh, my.

Speaker 2 (20:18):
Cheek used to look like somebody beat it with a bat.

Speaker 5 (20:20):
It were you were you a little bit?

Speaker 2 (20:23):
Oh maybe just a little. And I was holding it
every different way I could possibly think of to get
that away from my cheek. But if I if I
got my cheek safe, then I couldn't see down the barrel.
And I just said, you know what, I'm not going
to be embarrassed by all these misses. I either got
to shoot from the hip or I got to just
take my punishment, man. And it was fun.

Speaker 5 (20:43):
This will be the first dub year that I've gone
hunting without my twelve gage to tory.

Speaker 2 (20:49):
Oh no, what happened to it?

Speaker 5 (20:51):
Nothing?

Speaker 7 (20:52):
Not a bit.

Speaker 2 (20:53):
You're just going to change up?

Speaker 5 (20:54):
Yeah, just a little less meat on the shoulder now
that I'm pushing eighty.

Speaker 2 (20:58):
Yeah, I hear you, no kidding. So are you going
from a twelve to a twenty? Is that what you're doing?

Speaker 5 (21:04):
Nope? Twenty eight?

Speaker 3 (21:05):
Oh holy cow? You shooting a sling shot man.

Speaker 5 (21:09):
Well, from what I understand, the pattern stays a lot
better than than a lot of the other higher gauges do,
so our little kids, I'm sorry. So I'm anxious to
get out there and start seeing what patterns are can
get at certain distance, you.

Speaker 3 (21:24):
Know, honestly?

Speaker 2 (21:24):
Yeah, Well, try to get out in someplace where you
can shoot that thing at paper at like thirty and
forty yards with whatever chokes in it.

Speaker 3 (21:31):
And then you'll then you'll know what your distance is.

Speaker 2 (21:34):
That that's going to be your wheelhouse, where you've still
got a nice full pattern about maybe say twenty eight
thirty inches around and wherever that is.

Speaker 3 (21:43):
Just don't shoot longer shots.

Speaker 5 (21:45):
It sure helps and making your you're shooting a little
less expensive.

Speaker 2 (21:54):
Yeah, where'd you go?

Speaker 5 (21:59):
I'm right here? Oh okay, I just had to take
a deep breath. I'm sorry, No, that's.

Speaker 2 (22:03):
Quite all right. I do that all the time. My
mind just wanders sometimes.

Speaker 5 (22:10):
What's it looked like for right wing population this year?

Speaker 2 (22:13):
I have loved much, from good to really good. There
are two or three hatches, Ivy. Everything is going well.
There's birds back on the nest. Now.

Speaker 3 (22:22):
Yeah, we're in good shape, man, we're.

Speaker 2 (22:24):
In a good shak.

Speaker 3 (22:26):
Yeah, go pop some go break some clays.

Speaker 7 (22:28):
Man.

Speaker 2 (22:28):
Let me know how you do.

Speaker 5 (22:29):
I'll give you.

Speaker 3 (22:31):
Thank you do that, Thank you, Mike, I'll see what audios.
All right, we gotta take a little break here. When
we get back, we're going to talk.

Speaker 2 (22:37):
To the man I told you I was going to
talk to today, Preston Vaughan from rafter V Services. That's
the guy who's sponsoring that military appreciation piece that's running.
We are sports Stock seven nineties, Houston Sports.

Speaker 8 (22:50):
Where you go with iHeartRadio.

Speaker 2 (22:53):
Now Now get more Doug? Are you are you feeling jazzy?

Speaker 3 (22:58):
Is that why you're doing those little jazz hands there?

Speaker 2 (23:03):
Welcome back Doug Bike Show on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Thanks for listening. Certainly do appreciate it. As promised. I
want to want to bring bring in Preston fall On,
let me get him clicked in here. Preston, if you
don't know, is the owner of Rafter V Services, which
is a primarily fence company, right, Preston.

Speaker 7 (23:22):
That's right, yes, sir. Actually that's all we do nowadays.

Speaker 2 (23:25):
Okay, Well yeah, that well with good reason too. You
got to make it all a cernshise, buddy, I don't
blame you either. Yeah, and thank you for stepping up
and sponsoring this week in US Military history, because I've
wanted to get it back on the air, and I
still there's room for more, believe me. And I just
I'm so glad that it's it's air. I had a

(23:45):
guy email me yesterday and said, oh man, I heard
it start and then something somebody distracted me and I
missed it.

Speaker 3 (23:52):
Can you tell me where I can hear it again?

Speaker 2 (23:54):
And because he's a he's a regular listener, guy named Billy.
And what I did was I just send him a
copy of the whole piece and here it is, one
big chunk man. Well, thank you for doing that. First off,
it's my honor.

Speaker 9 (24:07):
It's definitely my honor to do that. You know, we
me and my company, we support our military veterans, so
being able to sponsor this is my honor.

Speaker 2 (24:14):
Well, thank you, I appreciate that. So last three weeks
been pretty good to be in the fence business. You've
been added a lot longer though you actually you actually
started what driving a golf cart around, pulling a lawnmore
and just hustling jobs.

Speaker 9 (24:27):
Huh oh yeah, yes, sir. Back in the sixth grade,
I believe one of my buddies just called me over
to his house. He was saying, hey, man, my dad
said we can't hang out into.

Speaker 7 (24:36):
A mower yard. And I was like, all right, well,
let me get over there and help you out.

Speaker 9 (24:39):
And then I never stopped cutting grass and it kind
of just transformed into wrinklers and drainage and I've you know,
Christmas lights is pretty much everything on next tier of
the house. But I really, in the sense I want
to say about the last year or two, I've really
honed in and focused on the fencing side of things,
and I fell in love with that.

Speaker 3 (24:57):
Back when you were a little kid, pressed it, did
you have kind of a pitch?

Speaker 5 (25:00):
Sure?

Speaker 2 (25:00):
Do you just just drive around pulling the lawnmower and
look for some guy just sweating bullets? In It's fright
your heard, yeah, oh that's right.

Speaker 7 (25:07):
Yeah. I look for the guy sweating bullets.

Speaker 9 (25:08):
So that the yard with the tallest grass. You knock
on the door and say, hey, you know here I
am with lawnmartrow.

Speaker 7 (25:14):
Let me get after it.

Speaker 2 (25:15):
That's not a bad I guarantee you got my attention.
I pushed my lawnmower to the curb. I think it
was like in twenty four something like that. I said,
never again. I can't do this in August. It's fine
in in the fall, in the winter when you don't
have to do much, but man, right now, I don't
want any part of it. So one thing leads to another.
Now you're doing a lot of all the fences, lots

(25:37):
of competition in that business. If somebody in this audience
still needs fencing like I do, I got one more
neighbor to ask before I can call you back on
my job. And I'm getting really close. It's good news
and that idea. Well, what are what are the questions
that somebody ought to be asking if they're not talking
to you to make sure that they got somebody good.

Speaker 9 (25:56):
The first thing I would ask them is what material
are they going to be used? And so just to
keep it brief, there's usually cedar and pine pickets are
what the standard that we use. You want to find
out what kind of seedar pickets are using and where
they're supplying those pickets from, because I've seen a lot
of batches of cedar pickets that you can get at
the big box stores. The companies supplying from big box

(26:17):
stores that they out really really lower quality, flimsier, and
just a less quality product that I would want to offer.
So definitely would be the pickets. And not only that,
I would want to get references to look at the
crystures of their works. And then you tell me if
that's something that you know you want to be looking
at for the next ten years, if it if you
hire them versus someone else who's got more experience under

(26:38):
their belts.

Speaker 7 (26:38):
So the top two things.

Speaker 2 (26:41):
Do the lumber companies when they're when they're cutting these pickets,
do they they cut a little bit thicker picket on
the commercial side and then run thinner ones through the
hardware stores.

Speaker 9 (26:53):
Uh, I would say so, I mean I would based
on my experience, I would say, so, there's the pine
tickets that you're going to see in the big box
stores are going to be the same as they're doing
with commercial. But the cedar pickets, Uh, there's like three
or four different lumber suppliers, so you know, you just
got to figure out where they're getting them from. Make

(27:13):
sure you're getting the good quality product.

Speaker 6 (27:14):
You know.

Speaker 2 (27:15):
The reason I asked is because I tried. I had
to replace a few boards years ago in one of
my fences, and the boards I got at the hardware store.
When I went and nailed them up next to the
other one, actually I screw them in. I don't want
them coming off, and when I put them up, they
clearly were not as thick as the originals that professional

(27:36):
fencer like you put up. Now I know why I'm
getting them so cheap, right, Oh my goodness, And what
is it? That's what is it that's driven? I guess
it's lumber costs really, unless you guys are using like
titanium screws or something. But it's just lumber, isn't it.
It's just more money and lumber.

Speaker 9 (27:58):
Really since I've started his businesses, the I mean, if
the two by fours and the four by four posts
have just gone up by like I want to say,
a dollar don't mark me on that, but from at
least from my wholesaler, it's just kind of gone up.

Speaker 3 (28:10):
And you're talking a dollar a foot, aren't you.

Speaker 7 (28:13):
Yeah, yes, sir, Yeah, well I'm talking a dollar.

Speaker 6 (28:15):
For a board.

Speaker 2 (28:16):
Oh okay, okay, we'll take that. You know, I'll tell
you this well, I hear the exact same story. I
talked to Chris McGinley from kirk holmb's quite often, mostly
about going to astros games and stuff, but when we're
talking about construction costs, he says, yeah, lumber, that's most
of it. So it's not going to get any cheaper either.

(28:36):
Is it's time to put up a fence if you
need one?

Speaker 7 (28:39):
Pretty much?

Speaker 9 (28:39):
Yes, sir, that's what I would say. So it's you know,
my my, My labor rates are are always the same,
it's just you're paying the material on the difference.

Speaker 7 (28:46):
So what I wouldn't I wouldn't.

Speaker 2 (28:48):
What do you do when you're not putting up fences?

Speaker 7 (28:50):
Man, as far as you know, with work or just oh, I.

Speaker 2 (28:55):
Mean when when it's not work time.

Speaker 9 (28:58):
Well, I'm big advocate of jiu jitsu, been doing jiu
jitsu for four years now, and it's I would say
it's the best thing that's ever happened to me. It's
a lot of stuff in jiu jitsu correlates into life,
and you know, uh, it gets really hard training. Then
you step out in life and you've got to deal
with something hard and it doesn't compare it to the
hard training you just did in jiu jitsu. So it's
something that I really like and all that. I really

(29:20):
loved the horses too.

Speaker 7 (29:21):
I'm a We do a.

Speaker 9 (29:22):
Lot of ranching, ranching ranked owt horse and me and
my girlfriend back at her house and have a lot
of fun with that. So really just a big outdoors guy.

Speaker 2 (29:31):
I hadn't been on a horse in a long time,
and I truly enjoyed riding when I did. I had
some friends who had horses when I was younger and
just loved it. It just that's that that to me
is like a land version of surfing, because right, you know,
and it really it really is. I got I got
wiped out on one one time and I ended up.

(29:52):
I ended up on the ground with my leg under
the horse, and my buddy came back. It was a
muddy field and we were racing and the horse slipped
out from under itself and he comes he spins around
and comes back over and he looked at me, and
he looked at my leg and my leg was pointing
in the other direction. He said, oh, this isn't good.
We got the horse up and I wasn't hurt, but

(30:13):
he said it just looked like something out of a
out of a cartoon.

Speaker 6 (30:17):
Man.

Speaker 2 (30:18):
All right, I was really ugly and mouddy. Uh you
do any outdoor stuff.

Speaker 9 (30:23):
Like, yeah, fishing, hunting, fishing, absolutely. My dad uh been
doing that since I was a young kid, you know,
ever since I was old enough to walk, Me and
my dad had been hunting, fishing, and we do a
lot of fishing out in Rockport frequently.

Speaker 7 (30:36):
And uh, you know the kind of summer if you.

Speaker 2 (30:38):
Had down there, pretty good? Pretty good.

Speaker 5 (30:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (30:43):
I keep up with our with my dad's buddy who's
a fishing guy that we go out with and well,
and he posts all the time on Facebook and they're
they're killing it out there.

Speaker 2 (30:52):
So that's a good way to go, man. I like
that a minute, go.

Speaker 9 (30:56):
Ahead, what I was gonna say, If I can put
the tool down for a minute, I'd.

Speaker 7 (30:59):
Be out there right now.

Speaker 2 (31:00):
Boy at the truth. Yeah, I guess you got. Yeah,
I would be out there right beside you. The surf
cleared up really good yesterday. The only thing that kept
me from going, and I tried to get my son
to go, and he just I don't know, Dad, I
got plans, but I thought about driving myself. With the
tide schedule just looked atrocious. It was going out until dark,
and yeah, I wanted to go in the other way.

(31:22):
The ju jitsu thing I really appreciate as well. I've
never gotten into the martial arts, but what I see,
what I look at there is it's a way to
learn how to how to fight if you have to,
but how to learn not to have to fight. Does
that make sense?

Speaker 6 (31:38):
Absolutely?

Speaker 7 (31:39):
Absolutely? A lot of different pressure.

Speaker 2 (31:41):
Yeah, yeah, all right, so pressure is putting up fences
all day every day, I guess right now.

Speaker 7 (31:48):
Huh, yes, sir. Absolutely.

Speaker 2 (31:50):
You ever have a customer that was just really I
don't want you to name them, but just just give
me your your worst ever customer experience if you.

Speaker 3 (31:58):
Can, Oh, I'm worse. Ever, where do you start?

Speaker 6 (32:02):
Huh?

Speaker 7 (32:03):
That's gonna be tough to think about. I try, and
I try.

Speaker 9 (32:06):
To leave those at the job site that I left,
but yeah, that's every now and the we've got the
special ones, but most of my customers are honestly, I
are really good. I got a really good clientele over
the years, so you know.

Speaker 2 (32:17):
And that that's what being a good businessman tends to do.
The good people are going to gravitate to the good workman,
and I think that's where you are right now, President,
and I'm so glad to have you on board. My friend.

Speaker 7 (32:29):
Well, I'm honored.

Speaker 9 (32:30):
It's it's a great opportunity you're giving me in my business.

Speaker 7 (32:33):
And I'm just really really grateful.

Speaker 2 (32:35):
So where do they find you?

Speaker 9 (32:37):
Well, you can call me. The easiest way to get
a hold of me is call or texts me at
this number. It's eight three to two seven nine nine,
four thousand and six. To send me your name and
your home address and that'll and I'll respond back to
you myself and we'll set up a free estimate that way.

Speaker 7 (32:51):
Also got a website and Facebook.

Speaker 9 (32:52):
It's all Raftervservices dot Com and in Facebook, I got
a lot of photos of my work rafterv Services. Go
check it out and hope to earn all your listeners'
business and give him high quality fensire at a fair price.

Speaker 2 (33:04):
Yeah, I hope my face looks like the one in
the pictures. That's what I'm looking for.

Speaker 7 (33:08):
It definitely will be. We'll post it on Facebook.

Speaker 6 (33:10):
Two.

Speaker 2 (33:10):
All right, thanks, I appreciate it. Pressingen, great to hear
from you. Preston Vaughan from rafter v Services eight three
to two seven ninety nine four double six. Thank you, Preston,
Thank you, sir. You bet Bee. All right, that's that's
the guy who got this going. He and his dad
guy with me. I'm gonna make a note here, Yeah,

(33:30):
he and his dad got with me when I asked
about that year one night years a couple of months
ago now almost, and we finally got everything dialed in
and he'll cooked up. And if you hear one of
those pieces, just just know that every time I do one,
it means a lot to me as well, because I'm

(33:52):
keenly aware at having my dad fought in World War Two,
my father in law fought in World War Two. My
cousin was a Green Beret in Vietnam. I didn't serve
in a uniform. I would have had my number been called,

(34:14):
but it just didn't. All that's not the way it
went for me. But I have tremendous respect for our military.
I've mentioned before that my dad had a huge collection
of military insignia, and that's what kind of got me
interested in military history, knowing about what the first calv
did and what the second Airborne did and all of
these moving parts that are our US military. All Right,

(34:39):
we gotta take a break.

Speaker 8 (34:41):
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Speaker 2 (34:46):
Friends.

Speaker 8 (34:47):
You've got to try the conversation continues this as the
Doug Pipe Show.

Speaker 2 (34:53):
Hi, welcome back Doug Pipe Show on this Sunday morning.
I want to go to my official website where I
look at the beach. I'm gonna check saltwater recons what
I'm doing. I don't want to make it sound more
official than it is. I just want to take a
peek at the surf and see what it looks like,
and if it looks as good as I think it's

(35:13):
going to, I'm gonna really wish I was down there
stand by. Let's get the surf side Jettie Park camera
up if we can.

Speaker 3 (35:26):
Come on. I don't know what's with my I think
it might be my.

Speaker 2 (35:31):
Laptop that may be the issue, because what I'm having
problems with is it loading quickly enough for me to
be happy about it? It took me when I put
my password in this morning, it took a minute and
fifteen seconds for this thing to load. And that it
seems like an eternity when you're waiting, what is this?

(35:55):
Huh got that? Let's go? This is this is all
messed up, says my username or password is incorrect, and
I know that's not true. That's way messed up. Okay,
I'm gonna have to just go figure this out. I
think there's a problem with the webcam. It was working yesterday.

(36:18):
I don't know why it wouldn't be working today. I'm
gonna try real quickly just to get a different camera
to come up because I would like a peek at
the beach. It may be they may be in cahoots, yeah,
the printer. That might be what's going on.

Speaker 3 (36:33):
They may be in cahoots.

Speaker 2 (36:36):
I'll find out what's going on there. In any event,
I suspect it looks pretty good. The wind.

Speaker 3 (36:42):
I can go check that. I know I can do that.

Speaker 2 (36:44):
Let me get back up there and get the.

Speaker 3 (36:47):
There's the wind right there. Oh my gosh, the board
full of zeros. Holy cow, calm.

Speaker 2 (36:55):
This is another morning where there is no wind anywhere
near ten miles an hour. The closest I can get
is eight, and that is all the way down at
Look it up. Let's go at the port of Ransaspier
is blowing eight miles an hour, and everywhere else that

(37:16):
I can see on this board most of Southeast Texas.
I'm looking all the way from San Antonio to the beach,
over to Houston, over to Louisiana, and I can't find
ten mile an hour wind anywhere.

Speaker 3 (37:29):
So if you like hot, you're gonna love today.

Speaker 2 (37:33):
It's gonna be a scorcher man and it's gonna be
the same down on the beach. Although I do really
i'm pretty excited still about how that beach front might
look right now. I can't get the access right now,
but I'll I'll get that fixed, and once I do,
I'll be right back on it and telling you all
about it. Seven one three two one two five seven
ninety Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. Let me

(37:56):
go back to my my word document that I created
this morning before I realized that it was going to
be a train wreck trying to get it printed. Okay,
I've got that taken care of. I got that taken
care of, all right, go ahead and put him up.
I know how to click him in. I'll take care
of that. I'll see who that is. Tell him he's

(38:17):
gonna You got some answering to do. What's up day?
Where are you being?

Speaker 6 (38:21):
Man?

Speaker 3 (38:21):
Why are you sleeping so late?

Speaker 6 (38:24):
Man?

Speaker 4 (38:25):
I don't know, Doug, real quickly, man, I didn't even train.

Speaker 7 (38:28):
Oh, I thought I was.

Speaker 2 (38:29):
I thought it was I thought it was geitared though,
there he is. Okay, I got David and Dave. Let's go.
You're up David?

Speaker 1 (38:36):
All right?

Speaker 4 (38:36):
Which David, it's you, man, I'm talking to you real quickly.
You got an update this on whether or not you're
going fully digital on your license. But I also wanted
to because I know you got a break, Kevin. I
wanted to mention, you know, that's the thing that people
blow off into the last minute, and then they're trying
desperately then get into a class of course, and course,

(39:00):
if you're what is sixteen and underg you can you
have to take a class. But I'm afraid, Doug, because
of the online nature of that stuff, people are blowing
it off. You know, just trying to clude to it.

Speaker 6 (39:11):
And because I.

Speaker 4 (39:12):
Look at the reports every year, the accident reports every year,
and then most of them, most of the time people
involved in accidents are those who took under education and.

Speaker 6 (39:23):
Man, that's just undexcusable.

Speaker 4 (39:27):
Maybe talk about that a little bit and I'll let
you go to I know you're looking at a break.

Speaker 2 (39:30):
Well, thank you, I appreciate that. All right, David, I'll
let you go and we will go take that break,
and when we get back, I'll bring Dave up. Guitar,
Dave up. First off, I'll give him a couple of
more minutes to get up and get a little coffee
on the way out.

Speaker 1 (39:46):
This is the Doug Pike Show, brought to you by
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Speaker 2 (39:55):
Now here's Doug Pike. Hi, welcome back. Second out of
the program starts right now, And as promised, I'm going
to tee it up with my buddy guitar, Dave. What's up, Dave?

Speaker 5 (40:07):
Well?

Speaker 7 (40:08):
Hey them?

Speaker 6 (40:09):
Then to the baby I was using it. I thought
it was shad, but you know, when it's frozen, you
can't tell. But they were little piggy perts, you know, wow.
And so I hooked them.

Speaker 10 (40:18):
I hooked them through.

Speaker 6 (40:18):
The eyeballs and then put them on a double drop
hook with the white and then uh, you know, I
had my pole in there and you know, my white
pole to stick my rod really in. And then oh,
then I got my I got my red kite up
and it was flying around, dipping around, trying to hit
people here and there. I ain't a little shite in
a long time, but no, once I got it up

(40:41):
there high enough, then I just tied it off to
the chair. You know, we were watching we were watching
the uh you know, watching the water, watching the sun
come up. And then like I said, it was, it
was about a quarter to ten or so, and man,
I'm like, you know, hey, so I checked my line
and one of them, one of my baits got looked
like got bit by a small real small shark or

(41:02):
something because it had.

Speaker 10 (41:04):
It was sitting in half, and the other one just.

Speaker 6 (41:06):
Had the insides going out, you know, was checking on it.
But anyway, but we still had good time.

Speaker 10 (41:12):
You know, we still had a good.

Speaker 6 (41:14):
Time, and and uh, I wanted so bad. There was
people looking around for you know, like six dollars and
stuff like that. I was so tempted to reaching my
wallet and grab out one of my Indian heads and
tell them, hey, look what I found on her.

Speaker 2 (41:28):
I couldn't.

Speaker 6 (41:31):
Would be well, that was a long time ago at
Lake Tago. No, uh hey, I'm back here, yeah, back
here in Vanderbilt. And then uh well you eventure ain't
over yet. But now we had a great time. And boy,
there's a lot of boy they stay up all night
long over there. Man, I mean almost had to put
my earplugs in, you.

Speaker 10 (41:51):
Know, Oh my gosh, you got Yeah, well you got.

Speaker 6 (41:53):
All the buggies going around in the middle of the night,
and they got the boom boxes and everything else. But't
you know, and it's it is. It is the weekend.
So but anyway, overall it was very very successful. I
learned a lot. I learned about that uh I can't
remember the name of it. I'll have to tell.

Speaker 10 (42:12):
You next week.

Speaker 6 (42:13):
And that it's a peer. That it's a long pier
over there in uh in point a point a, but
I can't remember the name of it. And they're fishing
to rebuild the main deal. And they got a little
shack over there, but it only costs like three months
to go out on that and it's a long one
like the one that used to be on the eighty
ninth Street, you know over there, Gally. Yeah, so that's that.

(42:35):
That would be a fun thing. But uh yeah, no
other than that, like I said, we had a good
time right now we're fishing. Now now I got to
go back.

Speaker 7 (42:47):
To the r. E. A. L.

Speaker 2 (42:49):
World, the real one.

Speaker 6 (42:52):
Just yeah, because I said, I got to go back
to work to borrow, but then I got to go
back to the real world.

Speaker 7 (43:00):
And that's right.

Speaker 6 (43:00):
I would double rod rill and choked it out there again.
Oh and you were talking about the veterans, man, I'm
going to have to take some pictures to some of
the letters that they've got framed at the American Legion
over there and send them to you. And they're in
very very beautiful handwriting from some of the soldiers from
a long time ago to their wives or whatever. And

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I had, you know, two of my uncles, Uncle Raymond
and Uncle Willie. They spent five and a half years
in Germany, and then Uncle Willy he went to work
with connin O Keen, and Uncle Raymond he became a
police officer. But they both excellent musicians. And then I
told you before about my cousin that he was in Vietnam.
He was only nineteen. Well it's sad, you know, because

(43:45):
he was firing a gun all night long and the
barrel melts down, and you know, he made it back
to the United States.

Speaker 7 (43:51):
But then you know.

Speaker 6 (43:54):
He didn't make he didn't make it. But you know,
but amen, I mean, and he raised I mean, he
had crows and he taught us how to fish. That's
why I remembered him so much.

Speaker 2 (44:03):
I would too, Holy gown. I don't know anybody had
a pet crow. That's pretty cool.

Speaker 6 (44:07):
Well, they had two pet crows in that and yeah,
and you know they're all family and good people, but uh,
but you know, uh, and then there's so many oh
in all the veterans man, you know. He go up
to a VFW and we stopped at the BMW there
in fourt A and I went in there and looked
around and introduced myself. Yeah, and they got two shuffleboards

(44:28):
in there, dude, Yeah, and they got bands that.

Speaker 2 (44:34):
I gotta bounce, Dave, I gotta go catch up with Rick.

Speaker 6 (44:36):
I don't want to rob Hey, he's probably out feeding
horses or something.

Speaker 2 (44:43):
Okay, all right, man, I'll see thanks you call buddy.

Speaker 3 (44:48):
All right, let me go catch Rick here real quick.

Speaker 2 (44:50):
What's up?

Speaker 6 (44:51):
Rick? Were in you? You got that bitchure of that
deer eating that snake?

Speaker 2 (45:01):
Man's I want to say I've seen something like that before,
but I can't with any certainty. But that was just
like a holy cat. It's just so casual, dear, just
standing there chomping from the head down on a snake.
That's scary.

Speaker 6 (45:19):
It looked like it was in a high fence, probably
a breeder pen, and was bored to death. But anyway,
not speaking of snakes yesterday. A lot of people don't
know my other hobby. I collect license plates.

Speaker 2 (45:34):
Yeah yeah, yeah.

Speaker 10 (45:35):
And I got thousands of them, and.

Speaker 6 (45:39):
Uh, I got a lot. But anyway, I'm being in
a business. I'm in farmer rash business is always an
old barn or you know, a wheel house or something,
and there's old plates in there, you know, sure, And
I always get permission. I'm not I'm not lifting them
for anyone. That's scarce to know. But uh, over you

(46:00):
know forty years, I've got a lot, but i've uh
was I saw a boxing in one about six months ago.
And I called them and I said, my chance, y'all
tore that born down here? And they said no. I said,
can I have them that box of plates? They didn't even.

Speaker 10 (46:17):
Know they were in there.

Speaker 6 (46:19):
And they said yeah. So I drove two hours. Oh
right now, I kind of looked. I kind of looked
at what was in there, and uh, you know, it's
just a collection theft. But I thought, if there's a
if there's a snake in this whole county, he's going
to be in these boxes.

Speaker 2 (46:38):
Yeah, no doubt. God.

Speaker 6 (46:41):
I had my snake snatcher with it. Boy, And did
you get that picture? Yeah, yeah, yeah, of me holding
them snaps with my snake snatcher.

Speaker 3 (46:51):
No, I hadn't seen that one.

Speaker 6 (46:54):
No.

Speaker 2 (46:54):
I thought you were going to have to read you
please do good.

Speaker 10 (46:58):
Anyway in there.

Speaker 6 (47:01):
The uh problem is when I grabbed the box with
my snake snatcher, the box was about it though. It's
the place to the thirties, And so now I'm having
the I'm really having to be brave to being and
picking things up my hand with my super duper little
bitty lash light with thick gloves on hope, and not

(47:25):
to get bid. I wanted them that bad, but Anyways,
I was just going to tell you about the uh
or check on that deer that that was pretty you know,
two days in a row I've sent you things that
were just absolutely.

Speaker 3 (47:38):
In the world of freaking yeah, no kidding anyway, had
a mushroom cloud and a deer eating a snake.

Speaker 2 (47:45):
Hopefully they're not connected.

Speaker 6 (47:47):
I think about it.

Speaker 10 (47:49):
No fat, all proteins.

Speaker 6 (47:51):
That's y sake, all fat, no proteins.

Speaker 2 (47:53):
That's a good point.

Speaker 6 (47:54):
Okay, might have been on to something.

Speaker 10 (47:57):
See you later, all right, thanks.

Speaker 2 (47:59):
Rick, I see man audio sign All right. Let me
get that taken care of. Take care of that, Take
care of that. I sent him another email.

Speaker 3 (48:09):
That's done. That's done.

Speaker 2 (48:11):
Back to the Parks and Wildlife Departments. Hunter Education reading
right here from the site, Every hunter, including out of
state hunters born after September two, nineteen seventy one, must
successfully complete a hunter Education training course. Proof of certification

(48:33):
or deferral is required to be on your.

Speaker 3 (48:35):
Person while hunting.

Speaker 2 (48:37):
Minimum age of certification is nine years and cost is
fifteen dollars. Don't play around with that. Don't play around
with that, because I can pretty much bet that the
fine is going to be more than fifteen dollars, so buyer, beware,
and be keenly aware. As David and I were talking

(49:00):
about a minute ago, that it gets harder and harder
to find an open class once it gets this close
to hunting season.

Speaker 3 (49:07):
It may be too late actually, So.

Speaker 2 (49:11):
Hunt at your own risk if you dare, and make
sure you got that done.

Speaker 3 (49:16):
Seven one three two one two five seven.

Speaker 2 (49:18):
Ninety email on me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com when
we get back. I'm going to bring up something that
Rick sent me an email about yesterday, and when I
was talking about how even people who don't hunt and fish,
probably if they like the outdoors and they're birding and
they're walking on trails and they're doing all this, they

(49:38):
might want to invest in a hunting and fishing combo
license just to safeguard their ability to get into a
nice park where everything is good and it's safe to
go walking, to be able to go where a lot
of birds are, and have those trails through a birding

(49:59):
area maintain. Because that stuff doesn't pay for itself, it
really doesn't, and it's a good investment in the natural
resources of Texas. All right, on the way out, This
is sports Talk.

Speaker 8 (50:12):
Seven ninety online at sports seven ninety dot com.

Speaker 2 (50:16):
Now more Doug Fight nineteen twenty one. You're listening to
jazz on the Doug Bike Show. Thank you, Melvin. That's
kind of a It is a nice departure a different
genre from time to time. Never heard anybody. It's all
good music. Yeah, I used to have George Benson albums.

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I'm very familiar with George Benson, very familiar with a
lot of the jazz artists of the seventies and eighties.
As a matter of fact, it was just something different
that I really enjoyed listening to, especially when I was,
at one brief time in my life a disco DJ

(50:58):
and having to listen to all that all night long.
Holy cow, worrying about how many beats permitted every song
was so I could just make perfect blends with the
two turntables. You had to keep that dance floor full
back then, man, that was a big deal.

Speaker 3 (51:13):
Big, big, big, big, big big deal.

Speaker 2 (51:15):
Yes, indeed, all right, I had an email come in
that I want to address now. Well, actually I had
a bunch of them, but I'll get to all of
them if I can, and then I'll actually take a
look at the FedEx Saint Jude leaderboard first of the
FedEx Cup events. The email had to do with shooting

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an over and under for doves, and what chokes to
put in and which barrel to shoot first. Honestly, I
don't care which barrel goes off first, so long as
they both end up firing, because the difference you're talking
about a half an inch. One's a half an inch
above or below the other, basically, and that's about it.

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Maybe an inch. I'm not sure exactly how far it
is from centerpoint to centerporto those barrels, but it's not
a lot, and so it doesn't matter whether you shoot
the top or bottom first. Typically, when I was shooting competitively,
I think ninety nine percent of the guys I knew
shot bottom barrel first, and there was no real good reason.

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I feel like a skeet choke is great for a
first barrel if you're especially if you're gonna be shooting
mostly close birds over a stock tank something like that,
if you're just and then maybe go to a modified
and I'm just looking at really basic. I don't want
to get into the subsets of chokes, but just go
with skeet or open, whatever it is. Just the most

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open choke you've got for that first shot when you're
gonna be shooting close, so you get a little leeway,
and then as a bird starts to get away, or
if you're thinking about trying to knock down a second
one that's leaving, maybe go to a modified under that
close range stuff and then take it from modified to
full for longer ranges, higher birds, places where you need

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to keep patterns or keep pellets in the pattern longer,
and something that I've recommended for a very long time.
If you look hard enough, you can find cheap, cheap,
cheap shotgun shells. With those same cheap shotgun shells in
addition to having fewer pellets, they're just they're going to
lighten the load a little bit and take some cost
out of the shell that way. But you're also going

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to be shooting shot that has very little antimony in
that lead, and the animony is a hardening agent that
enables you to shoot more true round And I'll wrap
that in quotes a little bit, because there is some
compression even in the harder shot, but you want more
round pellets going down range and fewer that have been

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mashed by deformation. When that shot goes off and the
soft lead that just a pure lead pellet that when
they all bump into each other as the compression starts
for that shot, what you end up with as a
bunch of knuckleballs going down range, and they don't really
do you any good. You want a nice consistent pattern

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at specific ranges, and that's where the chokes come in.
They keep that pattern consistent with quality shot shells for
farther and farther out from the gun barrel. When I
was shooting pigeons competitively, that second shot was always full
for me, and I didn't mind letting a bird get
out of ways too. If it was doing something crazy

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right around where it was released, then I'd just let
it calm itself down on the way out and then
take that second shot. And you would be surprised how
well quality shot shells with enough pellets in them and
the right choke, you'd be surprised how far out it
actually is.

Speaker 3 (54:54):
A good shot to take, so long as you're a
good shot.

Speaker 2 (54:59):
If you can't shoot, can't shoot, and that's when you
need to go get some lessons. But cheap shotgun shells
are gonna lead you to believe you're not as good
a shot as you probably are because it's half the pellets,
well maybe not half, but a significant a significant number
of your pellets are gonna be going every witch away,
as they say, when they leave that barrel, and those

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aren't gonna be much help. They're not gonna be much help.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety Email
me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. I got a
nice email from hold on, let me get this thing
up here, and I'm not gonna read the whole thing
because it's pretty long, but I am gonna I'm gonna
acknowledge it certainly. Stam By, Uh yeah, there's Larry Okay,

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got that uh from Billy. Billy is one of the
guys who was on the ground after Beryl, working his
behind off, like everybody who was out there on the
ground in the heat was. And when when I and
my family had to deal with it was either I

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think seven days without electricity, we were getting pretty pretty frustrated,
and I was never upset with the people who were
out there doing the work. What upset me was the
way that their workloads were handled, and the people who
who worked in air conditioned offices that I bet weren't
off the grid for long, if at all.

Speaker 3 (56:26):
Yeah, I I was.

Speaker 2 (56:29):
Never upset with anybody who was out there working and
putting poles back up and stringing lines and cutting trees
off of wires and whatnot. And I've seen those guys
running all over town. And if you sit, they're still
out there. They're still working. They're getting that the center
point made a promise to get I don't know, it's
a couple of thousand line miles cleaned up and get

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the brush off of them, all the trees and limbs
and stuff that caused a lot of the outages doing that,
And these guys are out there in this hundred degree
heat working their tails off, a lot of them.

Speaker 3 (57:06):
And Bill Erra Steven, you're not the only one who
who wrote me and.

Speaker 2 (57:13):
Talked about talked about their own families being without electricity
during that time.

Speaker 3 (57:19):
I understood all that I did, and I was never
I was never at you guys.

Speaker 2 (57:23):
I was always on the guys in the suits and
the ties, telling us everything's gonna be okay. And they
were doing all they could because I had a hunch
that well, first of all, you guys weren't able to
do what you probably would have done it if it
were up to you. I would love to put all
the linemen in charge for about a month and just
let them figure it out for themselves, because they know

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what's messed up, they know where to go to fix things,
and I'll bet you it all could have been done
a little bit better. Hopefully, when the next one comes,
and it will at some point, hopefully we'll do way
better and we won't have to have these discussions. I
was upset by the people who were making the decisions
and how long it was taking them to make them.

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I never was upset with somebody who wears a tool
belt for a living tool belt and heavy boots and
jeans and a shirt and an orange vest on top
of that shirt when it's ninety degrees outside ninety five,
ninety eight, whatever it was back then. No, I'll never
be mad at you. Don't worry about that. Seven one

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three two one two five seven ninety Email me Dougpike
at iHeartMedia dot com. We'll take a look at the
the FedEx Saint Jude over there in Memphis when we
get back from this break. This is Sports Talk.

Speaker 8 (58:41):
Seven ninety Facebook dot com slash Sports Talk seven.

Speaker 3 (58:45):
Ninety Back to the Doug Pike Show.

Speaker 2 (58:49):
All right, welcome back Doug Pike Show on Sports Talk
seven ninety. Looks like we're gonna have to wait a
couple of minutes to get to that re or that rehash.
Well they reading of the leaderboard because I want to
go talk to Matthew first. What's up Matthew?

Speaker 6 (59:03):
Hey, Doug, how you doing this morning?

Speaker 2 (59:05):
I'm doing all right.

Speaker 6 (59:08):
Well.

Speaker 11 (59:08):
I wanted to get your thoughts and I know there's
been a lot of talk about it, and there's some
rationale behind it. I don't understand it. But your thoughts
on moving the PGA from you know, the end of
summer Labor Day perfect sweet spot to now it's just
kind of in the middle, and it's lost a lot
of its specialty and everybody has to do well, at
least I do. I look at every major as a gem,

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and each one is different. You know, the Masters is
in the same place every year, and the US Open,
well that ought to be at Tory Pines every other year.

Speaker 6 (59:41):
But that's just me.

Speaker 11 (59:41):
I'm by its San Diego guy.

Speaker 2 (59:44):
Oh well a lot.

Speaker 11 (59:49):
Well, it's not bad when that's your home course. You
can play for twenty eight bucks around, But why did
they do it? And do you agree with it? And
you know you're thoughts. Has it proven to be a
beneficial move for the tour?

Speaker 2 (01:00:03):
You know you have. I don't know whether it's going
to be long term beneficial or short But the only
way you can figure out why any organization that big
is doing something is if you can find the money,
because that's the only way they would change anything. The
players are going to be players, the investors, the sponsors,

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they're all going to be in there, and whoever's swinging
the biggest stick, whoever's got the biggest wallet's gonna win,
which live proved several years ago, and there's some interesting
information about that I'll get to in a second. But
changing the calendar for these events, it's gotten so it's

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gotten so hard to keep up with what's where and
who's playing for what, and how different guys are going
to be eligible next year not eligible next year. I'm
sure that if you're on the inside looking out, it's
pretty easy to figure out. But from the outside looking in,
like most of us are doing, it's just getting kind

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of it's getting kind.

Speaker 3 (01:01:13):
Of garbled up, I think, am I am I off.

Speaker 2 (01:01:16):
Am I doing something?

Speaker 11 (01:01:19):
No, I agree, and just call me old man shaking
my fist at the sky.

Speaker 6 (01:01:23):
But I don't like it old.

Speaker 11 (01:01:25):
Way, and you know, and I like the fact that
and they say, well, you know, we don't want to
compete with the NFL, and I get that to some extent,
but to a lot of us, especially me, since I
don't have an NFL team, I like being able to
watch that nice afternoon of golf, you know, every day weekend.

Speaker 6 (01:01:45):
It's special.

Speaker 11 (01:01:46):
But that's again, that's just old me shaking my fist
at the sky.

Speaker 6 (01:01:50):
Yeah, do you have a great show.

Speaker 11 (01:01:52):
Thanks for having such a group show and.

Speaker 2 (01:01:54):
You next week. I appreciate you, buddy, thank you. Yeah,
I'm gonna I'm gonna stick with that for just a
second because I don't think PGA Tour Golf competes with
the NFL.

Speaker 3 (01:02:06):
I just don't see that.

Speaker 2 (01:02:07):
I don't see the NFL going broke, and I don't
see the PGA Tour going broke. In fact, we found
out when Livgolf came along that the PGA Tour had
money to burn. All the purses went up. Everything's going up.
And the story that I wanted to bring up that
I heard the story I read twice two different sources

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this week, so that John Rahm after going and just
kind of getting his hat handed to him a few
weeks ago. There are inside sources and I don't even
know who it is, and it may be totally incorrect,
but it kind of makes sense after what's going on.

Speaker 3 (01:02:46):
John Rome is feeling a.

Speaker 2 (01:02:47):
Little bit left out now because he's not playing against
the same guy as he was when he was on
the PGA Tour, He's not keeping the same schedule he was,
and he feels like that. Well, the story said that
if he could, he would give back the money that

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Live Golf gave him and go back to playing on
the PGA Tour.

Speaker 3 (01:03:13):
Now I find that.

Speaker 2 (01:03:16):
I find that a little hard to swallow, and I
could see where he might feel like he made a
wrong decision because money isn't everything, and these guys, all
the top hundred players at least and maybe more in golf,
are are so set financially they don't care. I don't

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believe about money unless they've got some sort of secret
competition on who can.

Speaker 3 (01:03:42):
Buy the biggest jet. But otherwise.

Speaker 2 (01:03:47):
I don't see him worrying about money, and that may
be why he would be willing to hand back three
four hundred million dollars as as was report awarded when
he signed on.

Speaker 3 (01:04:02):
That's a lot of money.

Speaker 2 (01:04:03):
But if you if you're a competitor and you're already
so financially set that you and the next four generations
that carry your name will be.

Speaker 3 (01:04:13):
Set, then what's the point.

Speaker 2 (01:04:17):
There's wealthy, and then there's ridiculously wealthy, and then there's
uber billionaire wealthy, and there's only one golfer that's tapped
into that realm and probably will only be one for
a while until unless and until our dollar gets devalued.

Speaker 7 (01:04:37):
So I.

Speaker 2 (01:04:39):
Don't know. Let me see what Billy Stoker. Billy Stoker
is a pretty good barometer to this stuff. He keeps
up with it. Let me just go see. I saw
the email come in. Ah, the FedEx Cup is the
big reason the PGA moved from August to May. Makes sense,

(01:04:59):
makes sense. I don't know. I'm kind of with Matthew
a little bit. Don't rock the boat, you know, just
we were all humming along. We all were used to
the schedule, and now we got to get used to
something new. And the older you get, the harder that
is to do, I think for the generation of golfers
coming up, and you'll see them more and you'll hear

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them more on the golf courses around town. They got
the music blaring, they got the hat on backwards. Sometimes
they wear a collared shirt, sometimes they don't. At some
of even some pretty nice courses around town. The dress
code for golf used to be pretty strict, and it's

(01:05:43):
kind of loosening up because better to have a guy
with his hat on backwards paying to play golf than
have him go play golf somewhere else and give them
the money. So there's been a lot of winks, nods,
a lot of heads turned the other direction. But the

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bottom line is golf, I feel is doing pretty well.

Speaker 3 (01:06:09):
I feel like it's a healthy sport at this point.

Speaker 2 (01:06:11):
Financially, and it's even found a way to make room
for some other other entities to survive and even potentially
thrive long term. Live golf. We've got Tiger Woods doing
his thing. We've got all these different little side I
don't want to call them side shows, but they're something

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else that all these big name players are going to
be able to do, to play in more events, to
make more money, to find ways to improve their brand
even if their game doesn't get bigger, which brings us
back to the money. If you can find a way
to get the best players in the world to go

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do something anywhere, some sponsor will pay a lot of
money to them and to the organization that puts it
on and gathers them all up to watch it happen
under their name. Title sponsorships, that's the title.

Speaker 3 (01:07:12):
Sponsorships have changed everything in marketing.

Speaker 6 (01:07:15):
Really.

Speaker 2 (01:07:15):
It used to be they the Houston Open brought to
you by, or the the Phoenix Open brought to you by.
Now it's the Sponsor Houston Open, the Sponsor Phoenix Open.

Speaker 3 (01:07:27):
And I know I need a breakdown it. I'm just rambling, rambling, rambling.

Speaker 2 (01:07:33):
I'll stop someone three two one two five seven ninety
I will. I'll do the fat X when we get back,
just to make sure everybody knows who's leading. I wonder
who that might be on.

Speaker 7 (01:07:43):
The way out.

Speaker 8 (01:07:45):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety the Houston Sports Fan
on air and on Facebook.

Speaker 3 (01:07:51):
They contact back to the Doug Fike show Boy.

Speaker 2 (01:07:54):
I remember this song vividly. I liked that song too,
Man Shining Star seven three two two five seven nine.
He got time maybe for one more call if somebody
wanted to jump in. Otherwise, I am gonna go to
the leader board. I'm at the wrong site. Stand by,

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I got it up here. There we go, the official
leaderboard of the FedEx Saint Jude Champione Ship. Holy Cow.
Decie Masiyama, he jumped up yesterday, Now didn't he? Deckie Masiyama, Uh,
unless he trips over a shoe, his own shoe today,

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should walk out of there with a victory and set
himself up pretty good for the coming couple of weeks.
Dekie Matsiyama has gone sixty five, sixty four, sixty four
to find himself at with a five shot lead. He's
seventeen under five shot lead over Nick Dunlap, who shot

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sixty six yesterday, Victor Hoblin, who shot sixty six yesterday
and is now eleven under par six shots back, and
then a distant, a very distant fourth belongs to Scotty
Scheffler and Sam Burns, who, like I said, Manziama would

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really just have to just just fall on the tracks
to lose this one five shot lead one round. To
play professional golfer of his caliber, it's his tournament to lose.

Speaker 3 (01:09:37):
I've seen we've all seen in golf.

Speaker 2 (01:09:39):
We've seen bigger train wrecks, We've seen bigger collapses, But
this one I don't see happening. Manciyama has been playing
too well lately. Even Scottie Scheffler, he lost ground. He
shot sixty nine yesterday and lost ground, lost quite a bit.
Actually he lost four shots to where he was, and well,

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he's more under par, but he didn't match what he
did on Friday or Thursday for that matter, shot four
shots worse than Friday's round, and that that hurting because
Masiyama matched the sixty four that he shot on Friday
and stayed one shot up on the sixty five he

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shot on Thursday.

Speaker 3 (01:10:23):
To find himself, it's seventeen hunder more.

Speaker 2 (01:10:26):
Here comes another tournament where the winner's gonna be at
least twenty under par, averaging five hunderd par for four
rounds or better. In most of the tournaments this year
that weren't majors, And it's become a theme. It's become
a thing where unless you're really lighting it up, you're

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not even gonna get a sniff at a big paycheck.

Speaker 3 (01:10:49):
Well, you're gonna get a big paycheck.

Speaker 2 (01:10:51):
Let me rephrase that, even playing okay on the PGA Tour,
you can earn a good living these days, but not
like the guys who were in the top twenty five
or so or top fifty. You'll see that develop as
we get a little closer to the end of the
the g I wonder who's gonna win FedEx Cup Challenge

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seven one three two one two five seven nine. Email
on me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. So what
Rick and I were talking about yesterday? Rick Bison I
talking about. I believe it was after the show. It
might have been during the show. I can't remember. A
walking trails, okay, And I mentioned this just a little
bit ago. I was gonna tease it and then forgot
about it. But if you're out there enjoying the outdoors,

(01:11:33):
birding or hiking or camping or doing whatever you're doing
and not really having to pay extra, not really having
to buy a license, go ahead and buy a hunting
and fishing license, even if you never use it.

Speaker 3 (01:11:44):
Invest in our wildlife. And while you're doing that.

Speaker 2 (01:11:47):
While you're out there walking those trails, this is what
Rick and I talked about. Yesterday. If you're walking north
and I'm walking south on the trail, you and your spouse,
me and my wife, and we're gonna meet somewhere in
the middle, don't take up the whole trail and push
us off. You ever experienced that, Melbourne, been on a

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walking trail and somebody with just who thinks that's their
trail and they just don't feel like getting out of
your way and being nice.

Speaker 3 (01:12:18):
They're just jerks and they don't move over it all.
It's just real terrible, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (01:12:22):
Yes, that bothers me. That's one of my pet peaks. Yeah,
I'm thinking of exactly the same trail. It's plenty wide,
and all you have to do as a couple is
just go single file for ten feet as we pass
each other, and we can all get along and I'll
think you're a nice person, and you don't think I'm

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a nice person. But when you and whoever you're with
have to just just stay taking up as much trail
as you feel like is all yours, then I'm not
gonna think a whole lot of you. I'm not gonna
say anything, I'm not gonna provoke you in any way,
but you just peel away one teeny little layer of

(01:13:07):
respect I might have had for you had you moved
out of the way. Actually, you pull off most of
that respect if you do that with me, Why why
would you do that? Just get out of the way.
And I'm going to do the same thing. My wife
and I walk that trail a million times, and when
we come upon anybody coming our way, we'll just we'll

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go single file. I usually lead.

Speaker 3 (01:13:29):
She follows over at Oyster home.

Speaker 2 (01:13:32):
Man, here we go. Hey, by the way, I heard
that spot for Home Investors Club on KPRC today at one.
If you're somebody, if you're kind of an investor, and
I know the guy who runs it, I know the
guy who does the show, and he's the real deal.
He can help you make some money if you want
to sell a home fast, if you want to buy
homes fast and flip them and make some money off
of them, listen to that show. They'll let you know.

(01:13:54):
Home Investors Club one o'clock today on kate p RC.
I will be back tomorrow on KPRC at noon for
fifty plus. I'll be back in this seat come next Saturday,
God willing, We'll be right back here talking more about
the outdoors, talking about deery and snakes and the PGA
Tour and whatever else comes up. Will be a week

(01:14:17):
closer to hunting season. Get outside, have some fun, be safe,
stay hydrated, protect your skin, protect yourself, your families, everybody,
have a little fun. We'll see you then.

Speaker 3 (01:14:27):
Audios.