Won't You Fly

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, it's going to be a busy day around here,
a very busy day. Actually, there's a lot to unpack. Oh,
by the way, Frankie, the what I told you we
were going to do at eight thirty, called him and
asked him if he could do it like at nine o'clock,
if you would, because I already have an eight thirty
and I want to get to both of these men.

(00:21):
I got that. I got that. That's good, and I'll
explain during the first break. So greetings, thank you all
for listening this morning. I determined last night, Frankie, I
want you to wait on this whether or not we
have too many sports channels on TV now, because I
actually watched about three minutes and I was nodding off.

(00:45):
From the first fifteen seconds of it. I saw a
title of a show, a title of what was on
this channel within the sports realm on DirecTV. It starts
at about two five, I think, with kind of a
splash of four or five different screens of stuff, and
then from twoh six forward it's individual programming more or less.

(01:07):
That's the short explanation. So I'm scrolling through there last
night and I look up and I see World champ
twenty twenty two World Championship table hockey, and that's on television.
It claims, I think I gotta see this. What on

(01:30):
earth are they talking about? And it's a game? Are
you familiar with table hockey?

Speaker 2 (01:36):
I mean not in a professional sense. They didn't say
anything about them being professionals. It just said it was
the World Championships. In any event though, and I can't
imagine who would sponsor that.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
In any event. Here are two grown men. These guys
are in their late thirties maybe early forties, and they're
playing a game that is not even as not even
as interesting and entertaining as foosball. Foosball, I kind of
get it. And you have to move your hands. Well,

(02:11):
you're moving your hands a lot for this table hockey
stuff too. But it was just and I'm not gonna
dwell on it because it frankly was unwatchable. There's a
there's a referee. They've got him in the zebra striped
shirt and he's standing there. They're standing in a space
that's the size of a breakfast room table. Basically, that's
all you need for table hockey. And if you're from

(02:34):
if you're not familiar with how this game is played.
There are slides moving back and forth from one end
toward the other of this hockey rink. And I wrap
that in quotes because it's only about two and a
half feet long and maybe eighteen inches wide if that.

(02:54):
And they just there's a little puck that the referee
drops into the middle, and then these guys manipulate these things.
The mechan the mechanics of it is very similar to foosball,
only you've got little hockey players moving back and forth.
I I don't mean to be cliche, but I would
rather watch paint dry. I swear the World Championships from

(03:17):
nineteen eighty seven of paint drying. I would have watched.
I will watch if it's on before I'll ever watch
that again. Have you ever seen anything like that?

Speaker 3 (03:25):
Okay, so at first I thought you were meaning like
they were playing professional air hockey.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
Oh no, no, oh no. Nothing's so complex and compelling
as that. You looked it up, didn't you. No.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
No, I just when you said they have the little players,
I'm like, oh, okay, now I see it.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
It's like foosball. Okay, yeah, it's very much. Yeah, it's
kind of like foosball, but it's the movement is of
the players themselves and the track that they're on. Bear
in mind, each one of them can only move about
maybe a foot, So you've got to figure out which
knob to grab and whether to turn it. And when

(04:03):
you turn the knob, it doesn't it doesn't spiral around
like a foosball guy. It turns on a on a
vertical axis. These football guys are turning on a horizontal axis.
These guys are turning on a vertical axis. And it's
just just apathetic home my word. Anyway, here we are

(04:28):
in our new and improved version of the Doug Pike Show.
I am a'm focusing this year and to the nobody
complained yesterday when I said I was gonna kind of
back off a golf coverage a little bit, and then
and then I walked right into an interview with Tommy
O'Brien in the nine o'clock hour yesterday because I thought
it would help it. These are gonna be They're gonna

(04:50):
be better segments and shorter segments, I think for the
golf stuff unless there's really something going on, a major tournament,
a major development in golf, and I will I'll ricochet
off the leader boards once we get back into the
full PGA Tour season. Uh, there's there's a lot of

(05:11):
talk we can do about live golf and how it's
changing and morphing into something different and and people are
leaving it, and people are not leaving it, and there's
a lot to a lot to talk about, but now
is not the time. The thing that I found that
was actually quite interesting, The one of the biggest, uh,

(05:33):
the big ticket item this morning, is something that Senator
John Kennedy from Louisiana told the Fishing Wildlife to Service
this week. He told him straight up. He finally just
came out and said what most of us down here
have been saying. And I'm gonna be talking to David
Prutt from Riceland Waterfowl Club shortly about this.

Speaker 4 (05:51):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
He told the FEDS. He told the Fish and Wildlife
Service to basically stop letting the people in the Midwest
legally bait ducks. That's basically what they're doing. That's why
our duck season down here has been a little bit
tougher for the last I don't know fifteen years because

(06:12):
the people up north, not only are they trying to
put out better decoy spreads, and trying to do this
a little bit of that. They just straight up are
leaving food on the ground. The farmers, the way they
manipulate their crops up there, A lot of the farmers,
not all of them, but a lot of them deliberately

(06:36):
leave crop, leave grain on the ground. And that's the
textbook definition of baiting, is manipulating the land so that
there's more food on the ground than there should be. Additionally,
I found out this year that some of those people
up there are not only they're not only putting airfiers

(06:58):
in their little lakes and ponds to keep the water
open for the ducks and the geese when the freezes start.
That's what used to send them on down here, the
snow line and the and the ice that comes with it, basically,
and once the snow overtook everything, now there wasn't any food.

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The ducks and geese couldn't find the food on the ground.
Now they just keep all the water open. They deliberately
manipulate their crops to leave tons of grain on the ground,
from what I'm told, And everybody's turned a blind eye
to it, but not anymore. And I don't know if

(07:39):
you listen to Senator John Kennedy from over there in
Louisiana talk about stuff. He once he gets his hand
around an issue he wants to deal with, he deals
with it pretty well. And I hope that he can
get some kind of change made because what they're doing
up there is wrong. In addition to leaving all that

(07:59):
food food out for the birds, like I said, they
put they used to put just aerification systems in these
ponds to keep the water open. And lately, in the
last few years, they've started actually artificially warming the water
in pretty good sized bodies of water so that it
won't freeze over and the ducks and geese will stay

(08:20):
and everybody up there is having a hoot Danny grand
time with the ducks. We don't get the ducks that
stay up there. And as we've talked about a million
times on this show, conservation of energy that doesn't have
to fly all the way down here, all the way
down here to Texas, all the way to to Mexico

(08:40):
to get what it needs to get through the winter.
It's not gonna go it's not gonna come down here.
It's gonna stay up there. Things are pretty nice up there.
It'd be like I don't know. I'll have to think
of a good analogy at some point, but that that
really rubbed me the wrong way when I saw what
they were doing. And I've read. I've got the press

(09:01):
release that came out yesterday, and let's see what it says.
There's anything. Yeah, here's what it says. Kennedy to US
Fish and Wildlife Service study unsportsmanlike crop practices, slashing duck
migration to Louisiana and Texas. It doesn't say Texas on there,

(09:23):
but Louisiana and Texas have suffered greatly. And if you're
a duck hunter, you know that. Where'd all the ducks go?

Speaker 5 (09:30):
Ah?

Speaker 1 (09:30):
We got three pintails this year, but I can't seem
to find them. Well, No, they're hanging out a little
bit north of here with the mallards and the gadwalls
and the teal and the widgets and the pintails. They're
all north of here because they didn't have to come
down here, despite a significant cold weather that should have

(09:51):
sent them down here and would have had the living
conditions not been dreadfully manipulated. Right up front, he calls
and same thing. I called it unfair, and Senator Kennedy

(10:11):
called it, I'll say it to it. They wrap it
in quotes for him because I whoever wrote this, may
not understand it very well. Legal baiting. Baiting's illegal with waterfowl.
You can tell him a little bit miffed about this,
because I enjoyed a great, great run of waterfowl hunting
out on that Katie Prairie a long time ago. Me

(10:34):
and me and anybody else who wants to keep going
down there probably have noticed in the past few years
that there aren't as many ducks now. Frankly, the number
of ducks that's out there, as long as there's some,
would not keep me from hunting, would not prohibit me
from saying, Yep, I'm gonna go hunting X number of
times this season. I enjoy being out there, I enjoy

(10:56):
seeing some ducks. As long as there's a little act
activity throughout the morning. I'm not going to be all upset.
I'm not gonna worry about it. If I don't shoot
any ducks. I'll still get lunch and dinner that day
and for the rest of the week. But it's just
being out there with your friends, with people who like
it as much as you do, or at least almost
as much. It's hard for people to like some of

(11:17):
the outdoor stuff as much as I do. I'm just
absolutely nuts for it. Yeah, it's about time. I'm gonna
put a highlighter to this press release during the next
break or during this break, and I'll kind of give
you the highlights of what he told them, And I
think he will. I think he's got a good shot

(11:39):
at getting that changed up there. And I bet those
people in Arkansas and Iowa and Kansas and Nebraska are
getting a little antsy. Somebody up there needs to be
charged with baiting at a federal level, and it's been
going on way too long. And finally we've got we
got a a big, hungry dog in the fight and

(12:03):
he's gonna hopefully get something done about it. Oh, mercy,
get worked up over this stuff. I do. Indeed, Houston
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(12:24):
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(12:46):
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(14:31):
The Dug Pike Show, Thank you for listening. I am Mom.
We're gonna be talking. I got a couple of people
I got to talk to this morning, and I've got
a juggle one Frankie's gonna help me. Uh, we'll figure
this out. There's a lot, there's so much going on,
but this duck thing's really got me worked up.

Speaker 4 (14:46):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (14:46):
Seven one three eight two five. No, that's that's my
other number. Seven one three two one two five seven
ninety can tell I'm kind of worked up about these ducks.
And I started highlighting this press release that shared what
Senator John F. Kennedy from Louisiana set out, and.

Speaker 6 (15:07):
I ended up.

Speaker 1 (15:08):
Highlighting almost the whole thing. I'll get to that in
a minute. I'm gonna go talk to Mike.

Speaker 6 (15:12):
Now, what's up, Mike, morning, young man.

Speaker 5 (15:17):
You got my blood pressure up?

Speaker 1 (15:19):
Me too.

Speaker 5 (15:21):
I got a couple of things to say about this baiting.

Speaker 1 (15:24):
Thing the gentle it's a g rated show.

Speaker 5 (15:28):
I understand. There is an old sports accium that says
cheaters never win and winners never cheat. And they've got
two things working against them, and both of them are big.
One of federal law. And when you mess with mother

(15:48):
and nature, she always wins.

Speaker 1 (15:51):
That's true too.

Speaker 5 (15:54):
I got a feeling it's gonna come down hard on
them up there, but you know, fair is fair.

Speaker 1 (16:00):
The problem is that the law was changed in nineteen
ninety nine to let them do this, and I don't
think they ever when the law got changed. I don't
think the intention ever was to have it mushroom like
it did. It just it just kept growing and growing,
and it kept getting worse and worse until finally there's

(16:22):
some serious implication to allowing what they're doing up there
now to continue, and I can't imagine that it won't
be shut down.

Speaker 5 (16:31):
It is all stems around being greedy.

Speaker 1 (16:35):
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, no doubt those people didn't like
those ducks leaving now and down here. You know, if
we could find a way to keep them here for
a little longer, that'd be great too. But law is
law and rules are rules. And as soon as they
opened up the opportunity for those people up there to
flood corn fields, okay, they're flooding corn fields before for

(17:00):
their cut even and there's absolutely no farming reason to
flood a cornfield. Rice fields that we have down here
have to be flooded. That that's how rice works. Corn
doesn't need to be flooded. But up there, the one
and only reason they would do that is to keep
the ducks around, and they've been doing that for a
very long time while I got you react to this statement. Okay,

(17:21):
this is this is out of what Senator Kennedy told
to the US Fish and Wildlife Service mallard harvest in
the state of Louisiana. Drop I'll let you fill in
the blank, drop blank percent from nineteen ninety nine to
nineteen or to twenty twenty one. How much do you
think their mallard harvest in the state of Louisiana dropped
from ninety nine to twenty one over fifty Yeah, I'll

(17:44):
say ninety five ninety five percent fewer mallards taking Louisiana
from the time they started flooding their corn up north.
What's that tell you?

Speaker 5 (17:57):
Well, I don't believe. Let's let's cut saying right off
with the knees, let's hit him in the pocket book.
That's the only thing they understand.

Speaker 1 (18:04):
Yeah, that's the only thing anybody understands.

Speaker 5 (18:06):
Yeah, that's all I got.

Speaker 1 (18:07):
But yeah, thanks, yeah, thanks, Mike, appreciate it.

Speaker 7 (18:10):
Man.

Speaker 1 (18:11):
Yeah, let me just I'll peel off a couple of
more pieces out of here. This is how it came down.
In nineteen eight ninety eight, Congress enacts the Migratory Bird
Treaty Reform Act, which repealed and this is I'm reading
from his statement again, which repealed the strict liability standard
that previously gatherned governed federal waterfowl baiting violations ninety nine.

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Fish and Wildlife Service removed the enforcement mechanism that restricted
growth of hunting over intentionally flooded standing crops, particularly corn.
As a result, Louisiana has witnessed a significant decline which
I mentioned just a second ago in waterfowl migration. Goh
Lee data indicates that mallards are concentrating and stopping in

(18:58):
regions where manual flooding of corn has been come widespread. Yeah,
I'll say, And the the problem, one of the additional
problems this isn't just even about how many mallards we see,
how many how many ducks we see down there, and
how many ducks they see up there, Because if they
could all stay happy and healthy, they might have a

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little bit of a case. They might be able to
try something that would make a make a sound minded
person say, yeah, it's not so bad what you're doing.
But here's the second thing. The other problem is the
future health of duck populations, particularly because they're they're gathering
these ducks, and they're holding them all season long or

(19:40):
all winter long, basically in smaller and smaller area because
there's more and more ducks. And guess what that what
that makes them susceptible to How about a little avian flu? Now,
if you take all those ducks and introduce avian flu
when they're all sticking around in the same area because
that's where their food is, that's a problem. That's a

(20:04):
big problem. Back to his back to his Senator Kennedy's statement.
The basic idea is that the more you concentrate animals
into a small habitat, there's probably a greater opportunity for
transmission between individuals, and then the greater chansfer disease spread
within waterfowl. He's not the only person who said that.

(20:25):
So did in waterfowl circles, So did Captain Obvious. We
know it. We watched it happen down here when the
avian cholera got into the goose population about thirty years ago,
more than that now, thirty five forty years ago, and
it was horrible, and we lost thousands and thousands and
thousands of geese just on the Katie Prairie. And now

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the Mississippi Flyway has been enabled since nineteen ninety nine
to go ahead and just flood that corn, keep that
food up there. It's not like the birds are going
to continue their migration. That might have even been something
they could have passed along as the reason. They're doing
it with a wink and a nod, because you know,

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those birds have a long way to fly, and they
need to recharge their batteries. Well, they hadn't needed to
recharge them for a thousand years, really didn't need it.
If they need to find something to eat, they'll just
keep flying south until they find it. They'll get to
someplace where there's no snow on the ground, They'll get
to someplace where there's open water, and that's where they'll
stay for a while until that changes. But no, not

(21:35):
in the Midwest anymore. They want all the ducks. They
want all the ducks, and the Fish and Wildlife Service
handed that too. That Well, Congress, actually, excuse me, it
was Congress whoct enacted the Migratory Bird Treaty Reform Act,
and that has turned into a big hot mess, a

(21:55):
big hot message, just a golden ticket to baiting waterfowl
for profit. And that's the only reason that those ducks
didn't need food. They could find food. They've been finding
food for a thousand years. When the geese flew down
here the lot. There used to be tons of geese
water Canada, geese, big Greater Canadas, all the way to

(22:19):
the Texas coast, because that's how far they had to
come for food. Now they just practically like breakfast in bed.
You've got water, you got food. You don't even have
to swim two little web footstrokes to pick up some
corn when you wake up. This is nice up here,
nice up here in Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas. Yeah, this flooded Arkansas.

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They probably got some flooded corn in Arkansas too. The
Arkansas duck guys would have to respond in some way.
But the biggest punch in the face to me was
realizing that Louisiana's mallard harvest dropped ninety five five percent.
Since this was deemed okay, ninety five can you imagine

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I can't imagine enjoying the hunting I was enjoying on
the Katie Prairie years ago. And then said, well, yes
I can, because it's what it is now. We lost
about ninety five percent of what this Texas coastal prairie
used to have, and it's it's saddening, and it's sickening
to me. There was no reason for it. And it
turns out that something that was done in nineteen ninety

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eight and not monitored and not studied along the way
by anybody apparently who could not have seen this coming.
And why if you were the beneficiary of something like this,
somebody who runs a waterfowl operation, a farmer who who

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grows just enough crop to call himself a farmer and
keep his exemptions, but then opens it up to duck
hunters in the winter in these flooded duck fields of corn.
There's no reason to flood a cornfield, there never has been,
never will except to hole waterfowl. I guess they're gonna
part start putting warmers in the in the flooded cornfields too.

(24:12):
You might as well do that. You wouldn't even have
to worry about having roost ponds. This is nuts, absolutely nuts,
all right. We got to take a little break here.
All the way out, I will tell you all about
air ride bikes. That is Wayne Errington's place up there
in the four Corner Shopping Center in Tomball right there
on that main highway goes right through.

Speaker 4 (24:32):
Now.

Speaker 1 (24:32):
I don't know if you could. I guess you could
in theory, based on what I've learned about e bikes.
If I were up there and was so inclined, I
could buy an e bike and actually ride it all
the way back to my home in sugar Land. Based
on whatever will That'd be a long ride. That'd be close.
I don't know if I could make it all the
way back, but I could make it almost all the

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way back on one full charge with some of those
new e bikes. They actually have ranges sixty eighty miles
and that might get me there. I'm pretty sure it's
not any farther than eighty miles to tom Ball from
where I am. But man, they are so cool too.
I finally got to ride one a while back late
last year, and it was just it was more than

(25:14):
what I expected, far more than what I expected. And
that was Wayne told me when I got on the bike.
He said, look, I'm gonna set this thing on the
lowest setting, because if you put it on the highest
setting for this particular bike, it was one of the
ones that are used that's got dual power to both wheels,
and you could, he said, basically, if you could get
tracks and you could climb a wall with it. So

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he's got it on one and it goes up to
like five or six or eight or whatever. And when
I pushed those pedals a couple of times, and that
engine care that motor kicked in an engine, it's a
motor off. I went across the parking lot and then
and very comfortable, very quickly. There are commuter bikes, not
nearly as powerful, but certainly as capable of getting you

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to the drug store or the grocery store wherever you
need to go. Maybe just so you got a few
acres out in the country and you want to ride
to the back and check what's going on and hop
on your little e bike. If you want to hunt,
you can get a big one. If your balance isn't
what it used to be. This is what I kind
of tell my fifty plus crowd. Sometimes there are three
wheeled e bikes he has up there, and that makes
it easy as pie to get wherever you want to go.

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Fantastic way to get around. The prices are very reasonable now.
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All right, welcome back Doug Pike Show eight thirty seven
on Sports Talk seven ninety Oh Mercy, I got tangled
up Erica and down there in ktr H News whom
we're visiting. I'm gonna go straight to this phone and

(28:30):
get David Prude on the phone. David from Riceley and
Waterfowl Club. What's going on out there?

Speaker 8 (28:33):
Man?

Speaker 4 (28:35):
Not a lot? Another day was Sunshine's Well, you know
that's way better.

Speaker 1 (28:40):
I heard some There were some guys, a couple of
guys I visited with yesterday by text said yeah, it
was okay. You know, hunting wasn't great. It was okay,
but it got kind of chili like. Man, you guys
haven't had chili weather? But what two days this whole season?

Speaker 4 (28:55):
A right, that's about it.

Speaker 1 (28:57):
That's it. That's some youngsters talking, That's all it was, David. Right,
So have you seen have you seen this deal that
Senator Kennedy from Louisiana put out, the press release he
put out, and what he told the federal uh, the
Fish and Wildlife Service.

Speaker 4 (29:14):
Oh yes, that's very good.

Speaker 6 (29:15):
Glad he done it.

Speaker 1 (29:16):
I this It may be a day late and a
dollar short, but honest to goodness, if anybody you and
I know and we know a lot of people who
waterfowl hunt, if any one of them was thinking about
selling their decoys, no, hang on to them, because things
are about to change. I got a hunch Kennedy's gonna
flip this thing around and fix this.

Speaker 9 (29:36):
That's about time I hit't it thought, I've got some others. Oh,
I've got some other information he could use. You know,
when farmers do this, because I have farmed as a
farmer for several years, you have to sign up everything
with the FSA office. That's some Farmer Service agentcy right now,
that's a that's a that's a federal government document. When

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you sign it, let's say, they say you got to
have it, which farm number you farming get on?

Speaker 6 (30:02):
Now?

Speaker 9 (30:02):
Which track number in there? And it also tells you
how many acres is in that track. They already know
you say, okay, I'm going to do three hundred and
fifty acres of corn, and so you you plan it
and you only harvest three hundred acres and didn't harvest
the other that's against the law.

Speaker 4 (30:18):
That's that simple.

Speaker 3 (30:19):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (30:20):
So how have they been doing this for so long?

Speaker 4 (30:23):
And I don't know?

Speaker 1 (30:25):
Yeah, that's you know, there's a lot of questions to
ask Arthur.

Speaker 9 (30:28):
Oh, a bunch of questions. And it has been a
big thing, you know, up north. And I understand some
of it is these people that's got plenty of money
and I'm glad people do have plenty of money, because
that's what helps the world around here. It is, But
they're going in with these big high fences and places
and farming just for ducks and stuff.

Speaker 4 (30:49):
And that's perfectly legal.

Speaker 9 (30:50):
If you're just farming just for ducks and not trying
to harvest it, that's perfectly legal. But it's starting to
get to the point it's wiping out the normal guys
for public Honey.

Speaker 1 (31:02):
Yeah, yeah, well public and even down here, even Lise
Honey kind of like what you run, you know, it
hurts everybody. The The one that really knocked me all
out of my chair almost was the statistic that he
gave on Louisiana's Mallard count I don't know if you
heard me talking about it a few minutes ago. You
have you see that.

Speaker 4 (31:21):
Let me let me oh.

Speaker 1 (31:24):
Yeah, so here's the deal, and I'll let you try
to fill in the blank, just like I let Frankie.
I'll just read it. It says Mallard harvest in the
state of Louisiana dropped x percent from nineteen ninety nine
to twenty twenty one. What do you think that percentage
was five for every one hundred mallards they were killing

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in nineteen ninety eight. Now they're killing five. Imagine that
and that Now that explains so much, doesn't it.

Speaker 4 (31:56):
Oh, it's massive abounts.

Speaker 1 (31:58):
Yeah, it's just and they And I really do think
that when he gets hold of something, he doesn't let go.
And I'm truly hoping that he can get some committee
hearings going and whatever it takes in Washington, I don't care.
But this is a serious issue. And thank goodness, there's
guys like you and me and everybody will get involved

(32:20):
in this to keep talking about it. Right to your congressman,
right to everybody you can, right to the Fish and
Wildlife Service, tell them you're tired of getting ripped off
by people up north who deliberately flood corn and I
just don't like it. That's baiting. If we did that
down here, we'd go to jail prison.

Speaker 9 (32:41):
Oh yeah they Oh yeah, I mean I had a
rice field that they did not do second crop on
will it come back, volunteer, and they would not let
me manipulate it.

Speaker 4 (32:52):
Okay, that's volunteer.

Speaker 1 (32:53):
No, And yeah, it's just like weeds growing in the
yard at that point.

Speaker 4 (32:57):
Right, Well, the next year it grew back again because
he had a wet spring and it grew back on solid,
just like it did the first time. Oh God, a
trump and they still would not let me manipulate it.

Speaker 1 (33:08):
Holy cat.

Speaker 4 (33:10):
If they won't let you but it.

Speaker 1 (33:12):
Oh did we lose him? We can't hear you, David,
hang up and call him back real quick, franky in fact,
you know what, Yeah, go ahead and call him back
and ask him if he can stick around. We'll pop
a segment right here. Okay, I'll I'll start the segment
and then call him back and we'll make that happen.
Timbercreek Golf Club down there on FM twenty three to

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fifty one in friends. Would its gonna be a partly
sunny day, and the part that I would like would
be the sunshine on the back of my neck where
it's kind of cool but it still feels nice. Wouldn't
be a bad day to play golf at all. As
long as it's not raining and freezing around here. It's
always a good day to play golf. And Timber Creek's
a good good place to go do it. Got those
twenty seven holes down there, all of them very playable

(33:54):
and fun, and there's people driving around to make sure
you have a good time. Got a fantastic teaching staff
with JJ Woods and his crew down there at timber Creek.
Great place to hold a fundraising tournament. I attended I
don't know how dozens down there, that's the easiest way
to describe it, over the course of the years, and
every one of them has been a good time. Everybody

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gets treated well when they go down there. I've known
the general manager of the place since it opened up,
and he's a fantastic person. And I keep working with them,
and I'll keep doing it for as long as I can,
keep sending you there as well. If you're down on
the south side of town. Timber Creek Golf Club dot com.
You can set a tea time right now if you
want to. Timber Creek Golf Club dot com. Hey forty

(34:37):
five on Sports Talk seven ninety The Dougpike Show, thank
you for listening. Let's get back and see if we've
got a better connection. Man, you just got so upset
it just the phone line melted. David.

Speaker 4 (34:47):
I think goodness, I think so, you know, because I
say something about texts parts of wildlife.

Speaker 1 (34:54):
Be careful, be nice to them. They do a very
good job for what they got. Okay, good, yeah, yeah,
so what you got.

Speaker 4 (35:00):
Well, uh, I'm not saying nothing bad about them, first off,
I just kind of everybody has the right to agree
or disagreement, of course, but I you know, if what
we were missing down here in the South is more
sanctuaries are let's call them refuge not refugees, but roosting
areas or safe zones, you know, yeah, or you're not hunting,

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right they used to be everywhere.

Speaker 1 (35:22):
That's a good point back yeah, back when I was guiding,
there were there were roost ponds everywhere, and nobody hunted them.

Speaker 6 (35:29):
Right.

Speaker 9 (35:30):
Well, it's hard to find a place or farmers or
other landowners that will allow you to do such you know,
to plump water or keep it, you know in there
for a sanctuary only with nobody around it. Uh, Texas
Parks and Wildlife And I don't know who come up
with it. I'm sure the biologists and all their top
people did, but I'm going to give some reality to it.
They say that the pintael will fly eleven miles to feed.

(35:52):
I agree, all right, so you don't need a sanctuary,
but ever eleven miles now This is where I come
in disagreement.

Speaker 4 (35:58):
Uh. You know, I travel fifty miles to go get
something eat every now and then, but I don't do
it every day, right, I go as close to home
as I can, sure, but eleven miles that is equivalent
to putting a sainctuary in the middle of downtown Houston
and saying our roost area and saying that we're only
gonna is good enough to cover the inside of sixten Loop.

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Now is that big enough area? One sainctuary in the middle.

Speaker 6 (36:24):
Wow?

Speaker 1 (36:25):
No, not really.

Speaker 9 (36:27):
Okay, Now let's get to the reality of it. It's
from downtown Houston all the way out to Felt Way
eighth Conference.

Speaker 1 (36:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (36:33):
Yeah, Now that's much the born reality. That's not enough
of them.

Speaker 1 (36:38):
Yeah, we need a lot more roost area. And that
roost area has to be monitored too. For just like
I was talking about earlier before I called you up
for av and collar stuff like that, there has to
be And we had all those eyes and vehicles driving
around and observing and looking. When that was it was
a very robust waterfowl hunting from down where you are

(37:02):
all the way up to Katie Man there. You could
ride around and bump into one hundred trucks, guys riding
around scouting and looking and seeing what was going on
out there.

Speaker 9 (37:13):
Exactly. I think we just need more stuff. I've thought
about starting the Texas Waterfowl Alliance to get people involved,
not just guys are outfitters, but the general public involved.
And what is better for the state of Texas.

Speaker 4 (37:26):
How to do this well, I was going to do
this thirty years ago and never done it. Yeah, and
I still have it in the back in my mind.

Speaker 9 (37:32):
So we could get some people from the state of
Texas like they do in Louisiana, to other states. This
is what we're missing, This what we should be doing,
and present it to our Congress.

Speaker 4 (37:41):
When presented to you, yeah.

Speaker 1 (37:44):
Oh no, come back you there?

Speaker 9 (37:49):
Oh good, Yeah, it's just it's just reality. Of course,
I think it needs to be happening in the state.

Speaker 1 (37:55):
Let's do Let's do this, David, make me a promise
that you will bring this Texas Waterfowl a little bit
more to the four and then let's have some conversations
about getting it started. Because I can probably gather a
pretty good crew of people and and not everybody's going
to have the same opinion. We don't want to all
be little robots saying the same thing. We want to
have a lot of sharing of ideas and what will work,

(38:18):
what won't work, what might work, what could work, and
then focus on Texas waterfile. It's time. I like that.

Speaker 4 (38:26):
Yeah, I think it needs to be from public land
to private lands.

Speaker 1 (38:30):
Well, you know as well as I do. Most of
it's going to be private land because that's what Texas is,
and that really with the right with the right people
pushing something, there's there's opportunity to get things done faster
I think on private land than on public lands.

Speaker 4 (38:46):
Right, exactly, all right, man, exactly.

Speaker 1 (38:48):
You and I we're in it for the long haul, buddy.
You know that, man, So let's bring it back, come
back now, let's just come back to the present. The
last few days, what's duck hunting done?

Speaker 6 (39:02):
Well?

Speaker 9 (39:03):
This will northern wind we got didn't help anything but
drop some of the prairies more, uh, I got. We
had some guys deal, you know, two and three guys
going out and they was in the tens and twelves
and one guy went out got he shot three geese
and three ducks by himself.

Speaker 1 (39:20):
Gang man.

Speaker 9 (39:21):
But it's not totally bad, but it's just not where
we're used to. You and I both seen it in
the better days. Sure, and it can come back. Everybody
said it won't, But it can come back if John
Kerry and everything he's doing will help push this through
and stop a lot of what's been going on.

Speaker 1 (39:38):
Yeah, this guy Kennedy is gonna I think he's gonna
be the I mean John Kidd. No, I understood that.
That's not a problem. Hey man, it wouldn't be the
first time I said the wrong name on this show.
Holy Cow exactly. Oh man, the older I get, the
worse it gets too. In any event, with him taking
this up and sending this it's kind of a notice, really,

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not even a press release to the Fishy Wildlife Service
that they messed up and they need to fess up
and concede that what they did in nineteen ninety eight
and what they did again in nineteen ninety nine to
take that enforcement stuff out of it, that was wrong.
It was a mistake and they got to own it
and they got to fix it. And if we put

(40:23):
enough pressure on them. You know, votes count, man, votes count.

Speaker 4 (40:27):
Yeah, sure it does.

Speaker 9 (40:29):
And everybody's entitled the mistakes, I mean this is something
that happened. They thought it was a good idea at
the time, but they let it go on too far,
and look where it's got us.

Speaker 6 (40:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (40:37):
I really do feel like somebody convinced them with their
fingers crossed behind their back, that those birds needed some
sustenance on the way during their big, long migration. But
like I said earlier before, before I started talking to you,
those ducks had been doing that for a thousand year,
ten thousand years. They don't need they don't need a

(40:57):
convenience store on the high way way to wherever they're going.
They can just get on the highway and drive and right.

Speaker 3 (41:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (41:05):
Man, if God can create a duck and he can
go from a nesting habitat all the way to the
south as far as he feels he needs to go
naturally and turn around and make it all the way
back up north, he can handle what he's looking for.

Speaker 1 (41:17):
Phenomenal, isn't it when you stop and think about that.
We can't get to that. We can't get to the
grocery store without GPS, you know.

Speaker 4 (41:25):
That's for sure.

Speaker 1 (41:26):
I mean, really, I know a lot of people who
probably couldn't. It's just stunning how how inadequately. We are
prepared for real world stuff like that was. And I'm
not talking about going back to cave man days. I'm
talking about just going back to no electronics. Can you
imagine leaving home without your phone? Now?

Speaker 4 (41:45):
No, couldn't do it.

Speaker 1 (41:47):
Yeah, and all these places back when I was guiding
all over the prairie, just riding all over the place
and having a great time, and you'd get directions and
you'd write them down. You go two miles to this road,
and you take a left, and you go to the
where the big tree used to be and you take
a right, and you'd get there eventually, and if you didn't,
you'd have to stop at somebody's house and use their phone. Crazy,

(42:11):
all right, David, keep you keep your chin up out there,
and keep your head down and your chin up, and
we'll we'll get some ducks at some point and we'll
all be better for it. I know it, man, You've
been in a fifty years. You know what it is.
You know what it is, sir, the roller coaster.

Speaker 4 (42:26):
Put them heads together.

Speaker 1 (42:27):
Yeah, I like that, I really do. All right, all right,
good one, yes, sir, you too, audios? Oh, thank you, David.
All right, let me let him go. I'm gonna go
get Rick before we have to go to break and
we've got plenty of time. What's up, Rick, Hey dog.

Speaker 4 (42:43):
I want to come back and talk about the mallards
in just a second. But this morning I delivering a
deer stand that I sold, and on the way with
winds in my windshield, I called a good friend of mine,
Captain Lynn Smith, and you're just talking about hunting vision. Sure,
A great guy to talk to, and uh a name
come up. We were kind of reminiscing of the past

(43:04):
and I have I was able to bird hunt with
this gentleman and uh, I think he may have fished
with him. Whatever happened to Craig Dickerson or not Craig.

Speaker 1 (43:15):
Tom Tom Dickerson he got out of the media, I
think a long time ago. I made a goose hunt
with him actually one time, and I think that was
about our only real outdoor experience together. We bumped into
each other a lot back when he was doing outdoor
stuff on TV. But man, I don't know where he
ended up.

Speaker 4 (43:36):
I've done Conny with him too.

Speaker 1 (43:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (43:38):
Anyway, it's just kind of a blastom the past, going
back to the mallards. I don't see any mallards down here,
to what I'm gonna say. Down in our country, I
see ducks, but I don't see mallards. Now in my travels,
I get north of here one hundred miles and you

(43:58):
start seeing mallards. Now you're one hundred and fifty miles,
you see more mallors. So they're getting the Central Texas
and North Texas for sure. They're just not coming down here.
Apply I'm not an expert on that, but I will
tell you this. I'll sent you a video while ago email.
Yeah I thought probably said to you before. That's that's

(44:19):
all mallorsy, Okay, I believe it. Now. Both my sons
are a you know, the rabbit duck hunters, one of
them especially, and he hunts Texas till heat limited something tea,
there's nowhere else to go. Sure, and then he'll go
to Kansas and then him Nebraska. Then he'll go blah
blah blah and all the what he hunts. Because I've

(44:41):
confirmed this with him again just a minute ago. Mostly
in those states that now that video I sent you
that's in Washington State. Wow, that's flooded Cornfield.

Speaker 1 (44:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (44:54):
Yeah, But he said, in Nebraska, Kansas, northern Oklahoma. He said,
the wheat corn. He said, everything they hunt is flooded
and it's not from.

Speaker 6 (45:11):
Us.

Speaker 1 (45:12):
Yeah, yep, and that that is in Texas. That's called baiting, right,
I know.

Speaker 4 (45:18):
But I mean that's that's why he goes up there.

Speaker 1 (45:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (45:21):
I mean, it's legal up there, though.

Speaker 1 (45:23):
I know. That's my point. They made it legal in
nineteen ninety eight or ninety nine. And as a result,
now the mallards down here, that's not now. Louisiana did
get a lot more malade than we used to do.
They're Mississippi Flyway difference in Central Flyway, and they got
a lot of mallards and they don't have them now.
They're ninety five percent off. And that's that's significant now.

(45:47):
So imagine taking away ninety five percent of our pintails,
ninety five percent of our gab walls and wigeons and
teal and whatnot. It wouldn't be a whole lot of
ducks in the sky. And that's exactly what we're experiencing
here now. And that's why it's because they're being stopped
up more.

Speaker 4 (46:03):
They stop them. They're just like in North Texas now
there's no organized effort to do it. They just make it.
And uh, the other things that the guys that hunt
rabbid duck hunters Central Texas and North Texas that I'm
familiar with, they will tell you that they hardly, ever,

(46:25):
almost never shoot a banded bird because they're more local birds.
I mean, they're more local lives. They don't even migrate back.
They've got too much here to eed anyway. But they
don't come down here because there's no slapping guy, you
was just stopping because there's nowhere to come to.

Speaker 1 (46:42):
Yeah, David's been an outfitter out there in Eagle Lake
for fifty years. He runs Okay, he's right out of
high school he started. Yeah, he knows what he's.

Speaker 4 (46:50):
Talking about with them a percent. But they're not. They're
not down here because they can't get here.

Speaker 1 (46:56):
Well, they could they if they needed to, if they
needed to get here, they absolutely could. There's no, not
a not a doubt in my mind that if ducks
needed to come down here, they could, and if they
needed to, they would. But they're not. Just like I
opened the show with, they're not gonna waste one wing
beat because that costs them calories They're not gonna waste

(47:16):
one wing beat flying farther than they have to do,
far farther than they have to go to find shelter
and to find food. And that's it. Conservation of it.

Speaker 4 (47:24):
I mean, let me ask one more question.

Speaker 1 (47:27):
Yeah, okay, all my.

Speaker 4 (47:29):
All my adult laugh. I'm not saying you still can't
go get a limit of mallards or whatever, but all
my lafe, the duck hunting capital of the world was
chas Is on the on the north border Louisiana. I
don't think that's the case anymore. When's the last time

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you heard somebody going.

Speaker 1 (47:53):
Yes, stuckgart. It's not what it used to be, there's
no question about it. Why Because they've.

Speaker 4 (48:01):
Changed the whole flat pattern, that's what they've done.

Speaker 1 (48:03):
Yeah, that's basically it. When you start flooding up food
food plots, Uh, yeah, you're gonna change the whole flatway
and they've.

Speaker 4 (48:13):
They have changed. And I've argued this with Duck Sun Limited.
I don't I'm not a fan of them. I'm going
ahead and say it, and I think they've contributed to
it up there. But anyway, that's my consents worth already.

Speaker 1 (48:24):
Yeah, thanks man, I'll see it right. Yeah, good conversations
this morning, Absolutely good conversations. We gotta take a little
break here right at the top of the hour. Uh,
when we get back, we're gonna shift gears and go
from shotguns to rifles. You'll know what I'm talking about
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(50:16):
few vacation weeks during the year, and I think I'm
gonna try to spread them out. I was gone the
better part of a week and a half around Thanksgiving,
and the same around Christmas and New Year's and I
got kinda I got kind of anxious about it. I
didn't like being gone for big chunks of time. I
think I'm gonna spread them out like three four days

(50:38):
a month or something like that, and not all from
the outdoors. Believe me, I'm gonna be here weekends as
much as I can. I actually came in and worked
on at least I think at least one of the
weekends over the holidays was one that I was scheduled
for vacation. Didn't worry about it, just came back in
because I felt like it and I wanted to be here.
We're gonna shift gears now. We're gonna get away from

(50:59):
ducks and well, get away from shotguns and go to rifles.
And let me get ed ORIGI on the phone here
there he is, ed, what's going on?

Speaker 6 (51:08):
Man, Good morning, Doug. How are you this morning?

Speaker 1 (51:11):
I'm good, so crisp and cool, and I think the
wind is down? Is it not out there at the range?

Speaker 6 (51:18):
Yeah, edge down a little bit. And what I'm hearing
since you bumped me from eight thirty to nine o'clock
because of a duck story. So what I take out
of that is I shouldn't be sitting here drinking coffee
talking to you. I should be in a duck bloine.

Speaker 1 (51:31):
Maybe not, maybe not. What we're talking about is something
Senator Kennedy from Louisiana has put in front of the
Parks and Water or the Fishing Wildlife Service, the FEDS
about the mess that they made back in the late
nineteen nineties when they said it was okay to flood
cornfields and hunt duff O. Yeah. Yeah, so that's that.

Speaker 6 (51:53):
He's a good guy. He's on our side. But oh,
I know, they don't really do everything correctly.

Speaker 1 (51:58):
Yeah, it'll take a while. So back before the calendar changed,
I had a conversation about suppressors, and now that the
calendar has changed, and we knew there'd be a lot
of activity when that happened. But you told me some
numbers the other day about the backlog of applications they've
got at the federal system now since that happened, how

(52:20):
many how many applications are they trying to process still?

Speaker 6 (52:25):
Well, typically before the new year, they atf processed about
an average of about two thousand, five hundred a day,
and they were getting kind of on top of that.
They were doing a pretty good job. The wait times
were coming down quite a bit. Come January first, Fast

(52:45):
forward to January first, one hundred and fifty thousand kids
on day one, Oh my word. So needless say, they
were somewhat taken aback by that. There's a lot of people,
well they were waiting, but they're doing an excellent job
of waiting through that backlog, and wait times are coming

(53:09):
down significantly. We've had some come back as early as
two or three days from when they were submitted. It
just kind of depends right now where you fall in
in the pile. The process, it has changed, and it
hasn't changed. The process is still the same. However, what

(53:33):
went away was a two hundred dollars fee, yeah, which yeah,
big for a lot of people. So well, the process
is still kind of the same. They've gotten a really
good handle on how to process them more rapidly, so
they're doing a real good job of that.

Speaker 1 (53:55):
And Riga here from American Shooting Centers on the Bike show.
Did the prices of suppressors drop or rise or stay
the same with this change?

Speaker 6 (54:05):
Everybody's done a really good job. We've held the line
we have. We haven't changed anything. Most all of our
suppliers haven't changed anything. They realized that this is more
a change in the documentation, and a lot of people
were trepidacious about it, so everybody's done a good job

(54:25):
of holding the line. We haven't seen any gouging take
place there. The long and short of a dug is
that there are going to be some supply shortages just
because a lot of people are are getting into them now.

(54:46):
With this new lossoul demand is going to go up.
Like I say, prices are staying pretty steady. If if
I had any suggestion for anyone at this time, is
that if you want to go there route and you
find it suppressor that you like and suit your needs

(55:06):
and you want the big changes, I wouldn't wait, Okay,
I would get If you find something you like and
you have the resources to get that, I would do
it now rather than later. Prices are going to do
nothing but slowly edge up over time. Supplies are going
to do nothing but diminish over time. So if you

(55:30):
feel the time is right for you now, I got
to jump on it.

Speaker 1 (55:34):
I know most of my audience knows at least a
little about these things, ED, But what's your elevator speech
about how suppressors work and how much noise they actually.

Speaker 6 (55:43):
Reduce to a lot of people, to a lot of
hunting situations, to a lot of neighbors, to a lot
of farmers there are Godsend. Not really much different than
what has happened over the last few decades in England.
England has a much more progressive stance towards this, and

(56:05):
their suppressions are used in England more as a way
of being neighborly. You're trying not to disturb your neighbors
while you're doing your game control. So the long and
short of it is that they reduced to sound probably
seventy five percent, maybe more than that. I don't know

(56:27):
what the actual statistics are.

Speaker 1 (56:28):
That sounds about right.

Speaker 6 (56:29):
They make it a lot more user friendly, They make
it a lot more neighborly friendly. One of the big
benefits of suppressors is for women and youth shooters in
that they reduce the recoil of the rifle by about
the same by about half or seventy five percent, So
the rifles become much more user friendly, much easier to shoot.

(56:54):
Not only are you getting rid of a lot of
that muzzle blash, you're getting rid of a lot of
the recoil that goes along with it. So it's kind
of a real boon to entry level shooters because it
just makes the whole thing a lot more peaceful, a
lot more pleasant.

Speaker 1 (57:08):
Sure, did I read correctly somewhere several years ago that
adding a suppressor actually increases muscle velocity?

Speaker 6 (57:19):
It can. Again, there's lots of different suppressors, lots of
rifle styles, lots of different muscle devices, But it definitely
can increase muscleilossy to a degree in some situations. What
it does do on even a higher percentage of situations

(57:39):
is it'll take whatever rifle you're shooting it out of
and make it somewhat more accurate. Okay, they are there.
They are an improvement to accuracy as well as being
an improvement to the sound situation.

Speaker 1 (57:52):
Just by length of the barrel right.

Speaker 6 (57:55):
Or by the baffling device. It takes the sauna crack
out of the audible delivery of the thought. Okay, and
just by calming that whole moment down. A lot of
rifles experience an improvement and accuracy, which is a boon
for everybody.

Speaker 1 (58:13):
I had a guy ask me a question, and I
want to ask you, does putting a suppressor on a
rifle change its value in any one?

Speaker 6 (58:22):
No?

Speaker 1 (58:23):
I didn't think so.

Speaker 6 (58:24):
Yeah, No, no, no it doesn't. If anything, it makes
it threading a bear. If a barrel doesn't come already threaded,
having it threaded for suppressor use these days is actually
an improvement.

Speaker 1 (58:39):
As a plus, that's a good point because so many
people are going to suppressors that if it's already threaded,
then that's something they don't have to get done. Makes sense.

Speaker 6 (58:47):
Yeah, most most new rifles these days come threaded, and
just that a little bit. Not in most, but a
lot of pistols threaded these days, because adding ding a
suppressor to your favorite handgun, whether it be a defensive
handgun or a sporting handgun or just target shooting handgun.

(59:09):
As far as you know, putting a suppressor on a
twenty two is like getting an E ticket right at
the amusement park. Yeah, they are, so they take out
their twenty two's, have almost no recall to begin with.
Whatever was there goes away, whatever sound. They're good and
they don't become silent, but they become more like a

(59:30):
captain sure, and they're just really pleasant and fun for
kids and wives and everybody to shoot.

Speaker 4 (59:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (59:37):
I actually got to shoot a little twenty two with
a suppressor on it many many years ago, and it
surprised me how quiet it was. It was just remarkable.
One other thing, what's the most common end? And I'll
let you go. I know you've got stuff to do
out there's probably a million people out there trying to shoot.
Most common misconception about suppressors.

Speaker 6 (59:57):
I think it's mostly about the system all in doing
it legally, that that is not with the improvements in software,
the improvements and suppliers. We have a we'd work mostly
with a place called Silencer Shop, So we actually have
a silencer Shop video Kiosk in our store, and so

(01:00:23):
everything that you need to do can be done on site,
from your photo to your fingerprints to filing the necessary paperwork.
Whether you want to do it as there's two ways
to do it. You can do it as an individual,
where you can do it as a trust. And that's
always a bit of a question mark for people, and
you can do both ways work well. Both ways are

(01:00:44):
equally easy as an individual. The big difference is a
little less expensive, but really you as that individual, are
the only one that is authorized to use that suppressor.
If you want to use that suppressor in a family
situation where friends and relatives can use that suppressor, then
a trust is probably a better way to go, and

(01:01:05):
it's no more complicated. It's maybe one hundred dollars more
expensive total, but both processes process well and can be
done one hundred percent on site.

Speaker 1 (01:01:19):
At our place real quick.

Speaker 4 (01:01:20):
Ed.

Speaker 1 (01:01:21):
So, if I wanted to buy a suppressor and I
filled out the paperwork and it became my suppressor, I
couldn't let my son shoot that rifle.

Speaker 6 (01:01:31):
And it became your suppressor if you were in a trust.

Speaker 3 (01:01:34):
Yes, so I so.

Speaker 1 (01:01:35):
There's no way that just an individual because you know,
and I know that when people go to the to
the ranch, all their friends want to shoot their suppressed
rifle and they do correct, But but technically that's against
the law. Is that what we're dealing with.

Speaker 6 (01:01:53):
It can be okay, law enforcements present.

Speaker 1 (01:01:56):
Yes, yeah, yeah, and it's it's intent, I think. Yeah,
I understand like if now, if I were to loan
my rifle too of somebody I met at a bus
stop and and handed them that rifle, then I would
get the trouble I deserved on that. Huh. Yes, yeah,
that's what we're trying to convey here is, Yes, the

(01:02:21):
law says that if you are going to let anybody
else shoot that right and I learned that a long
time ago because I asked to shoot a guy's rifle
one time with a suppressor because I can't. It's registered
only to me. And I said, correct, I said, okay,
that's fine. Yeah, I don't want to shoot it. Then
I'm not going to put you in any.

Speaker 6 (01:02:36):
Because the way, the way the laws seas is by
letting your friend shoot it, you let your friend take
possession of it. Oh okay, yeah, and that's and that's
the part that breaks the law.

Speaker 1 (01:02:46):
That's another that makes very good sense. Uh, you cleared
it up for a lot of people. I would imagine.
Thank you ed always a pleasure keep it going out there.
I brag on you so much. You have no idea.
I really appreciate it very well.

Speaker 10 (01:02:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:02:59):
The main thing I convey is that you're a shooter.
You didn't take it over as a businessman trying to
own another business. And also I also have let the
cat out of the bag too, that nobody wants to
if you tell him you'd love to shoot for a
couple of bucks and maybe have some fun. I had
to just keep your hand on your wallet and walk away.
That's what I tell you, all Right.

Speaker 6 (01:03:21):
We enjoy what we do.

Speaker 1 (01:03:22):
Oh, I know you're doing your darn good at it too.
Thank you, Ed. I'll see it man audios. All right,
we gotta take a little break here. I'm running kind
of late. Sorry, Frankie. Stuff happens when I'm talking about things.
I enjoy El Kubano's Cigars down there in Texas City,
right there on Main Street, one of only four dozen

(01:03:43):
cigar manufacturing facilities in the entire country. That's a lot.
That's a lot of room to cover, and he covers
it very well by having the finest tobaccos, most of
them Cuban seed grown down in Central America. Everything's on
the up and up. The tobacco comes up here, it
gets cured and aged for a considerable amount of time,

(01:04:07):
and then it gets rolled by people who are actually
as Manny Lopez is the guy who owns the place,
actually of Cuban descent and have worked in the Cuban
cigar factories for many years till they came up, till
they came up here. You can watch that going on
at the Texas City location. Enjoy yourself with smoke. Maybe
watch a game in there. Next card game that breaks out,

(01:04:28):
won't be the first, I'm sure. Then they also have
a second smoking lounge at League City, and that one
is more havana style. The big garage doors open up
on either end, let the breeze blow through. Whatever the
temperature is outside, that's what's coming through there. Always seems
to be comfortable. They have more than one hundred and
different or one hundred and fifty actually different cigars that

(01:04:50):
they'll roll for you, specific tobaccos for specific flavors from
the very mild to extremely robust. And they'll even do
branded box and bands for special occasion on every one
of the cigars that they make, or they'll come to
your event for the really personal touch and people can
walk over to a little six foot table under a

(01:05:10):
canopy and have Manny or one of the other guys
from the store there come out and actually roll them
a cigar while they're watching. Elcubanosigars dot com. They ship hundreds,
if not thousands a week out of that Texas City location.
Great people always willing to help with some sort of
special occasion makes up make it even more special. Elcubanocigars

(01:05:33):
dot Com is the website. Go check it out. Man
he's a cool dude too. Elcubanocigars dot com. Belleville Meat Market, Well,
I was gonna say way out there. It's really not
way out there. Depending on what it would be from Pasadena,
it would be from Kingwood maybe. But if you can
make the drive, you'll be glad you did. Every mile
worth it. Every mile that it takes you to get

(01:05:54):
to Bellville Meat Market will be rewarded with delicious meat
products that you can order up when you get there
and take home with you when you leave. Every one
of those miles rewarded with barbecue, lunch or dinner from
ten am to seven pm every single day of the week.
They've got pecan smoked sausage. They've got pulled pork, homemade

(01:06:15):
hot dogs in addition to the traditional brisket and ribs
and chicken. That sort of stuff, Absolutely delicious homemade stuff.
Pork tenders. You can bring home four or five different
flavors of that, stuffed pork chops, pans, sausage boot and labuchery,
stuffed chickens. On and on and on. The list goes
of outstanding meat and meat related products that you can

(01:06:36):
enjoy right while you're there. Like I said, the lunch
and dinner, or you can bring on home and take
care of By the way. For the right home, I
highly recommend grabbing some beef jerky, maybe some turkey jerky,
some dry stick, something like that. All the grab and
go snacks. Fifteen minutes north of Sealy, fifteen minutes south
of Hempstead on Highway thirty six. Very easy to find

(01:06:57):
and rewarding when you get there. If you can't figure
out where it is, drive into the middle of Bellville,
roll down your windows. When you smell barbecue smoke, drive
into it, Drive into the wind. Belleville Meeatmarket dot com
is the website. Most anything in the store can be
shipped to your door too, Belleville Meatmarket dot com. I'm coming,
I'm coming, I'm coming. Oh, okay, here I am. I

(01:07:17):
finally got back, I got my coffee, finally got sat down.
Had to answer one email of several actually that I
got recently, and I apologize. I've sent an email to Ed.
While we were talking, Frankie took a call from I
believe it was John, asking how much it costs to
get a barrel threaded. I'm not certain That's why I

(01:07:39):
went ahead and sent at an email, and I'm sure
that he will respond when he gets through growing going
over all the things on his desk that he had
to go through because he took a call from me
when he said one hundred and fifty thousand applications at
the beginning of the year on the first day. It
reminded me of going on vacation and coming back and

(01:08:00):
looking at my inbox. Holy cow, I do get a lot.
I get fewer than I used to. I used to
be on the lists of several people, all of us
in media. Everybody who talks on a microphone basically is
on a million lists. Maybe two million, I'm not really sure.

(01:08:20):
But the long enough short of it is we get
things often that are of zero interest. I used to
get for some reason, Frankie, I think I may have
mentioned this before once or twice, I don't know, since
you've been around all of the Paris fashion shows, the
New York fashion shows, and when it was fashion week

(01:08:41):
in one of these Milan all of that, I would
get all the latest from all the world's best designers.
And I'm just hitting unsubscribe, unsubscribed, unsubscribed, unsubscribed, constantly trying
to get rid of that stuff. And knock on wood.
I hope I don't jinx myself. Now. I haven't gotten
any of that lately. I'm kind of glad because the

(01:09:01):
last few things I've seen coming out of those areas
where it's supposed to be the hottest, newest fashion trends,
it's just weird to me. You ever seen some of
that stuff? My cousin works in it? Does he really? Yeah?
She works in it in New York. She I'm sorry,
I apologize, A designer or just in that industry.

Speaker 3 (01:09:22):
Yeah, just in that industry. She's like a producer and
does like runway shows and all this. I'll see all
that every now and again. Have you ever been to one?
I haven't yet. I haven't yet.

Speaker 1 (01:09:34):
I haven't either, no intention, I'll take that back. There
was some bachelor auction years and years ago when I
was a bachelor and in this business, and I got
invited to participate, and I had to dress up and
walk down, and I can't remember how much somebody paid
to go out on a date with me, but it
was a significant amount of made me feel pretty good.

(01:09:55):
It wasn't like ten bucks. I would have felt cheap.
I would have done it for ten bucks but yeah,
it was a big fundraiser, and that helped all of
us who were in line for that cattle call to
feel good about ourselves. They weren't really doing that for us.
They were doing it for the cost, and that's perfectly
fine with me. I'm scrolling through these emails. Let's see

(01:10:21):
Mojo weighed in. Mojo has a history, a farming history
in the Midwest and offers this fall plowing was proven
to be no advantage, so it's been discontinued. That saves
farmers a lot of time working money. They aren't purposely
leaving grain in the fields to draw wildlife. But I'm
sure once they realized that was happening, things like pond

(01:10:44):
warmers came into use. Oh, make no mistake, Mojo, they
knew exactly what they were doing when the waterfowl outfitters
came knocking on their doors saying, Hey, you know what,
just leave that stuff up and we'll pay you a
lot of money. It's all about money, it really is.
And I know that you know a lot about being

(01:11:05):
up there, and I'll grant you it does save them
a lot of time. It's saving a lot of work.
Fuel costs all of that to plow that ground, and
I get it, but they don't have to flood it,
and that's what's the problem. If they left it standing there,
I guess it would still be good until the snow
hit it and got on it and covered up all

(01:11:27):
the grain, because that's what used to happen the snow.
I used to think it was always the freeze line.
Where is everything frozen? Where's all the water frozen? But
I was corrected by somebody I can't remember who, but
mostly from up there somewhere I can't remember exactly where.
I said, No, it's more like the snow line, because
once they can't find food, they're packing up and going

(01:11:50):
to where they can. That's not what's going on up
there now. But thank you. I understand why that might
have been the case very early on, to not plow
everything down and uh and prepare the lamb for next
year that way. But dog gone, dog going? Oh yeah, man? Oh,

(01:12:11):
who what where trying to read? Understand what I got
from Mojo in a different email about table hockey? Oh
my gosh, you got to tell me when I got
people sitting there waiting to talk to me, I didn't
realize that, Dave. You then John, John what or Dave?

Speaker 4 (01:12:27):
Dave?

Speaker 1 (01:12:27):
What's up?

Speaker 4 (01:12:29):
Hey?

Speaker 8 (01:12:29):
Hey, you know when you're talking about the ducks now,
I'm not Now, I'm not doing nothing wrong over here
on Lake Conrod feeding these ducks corn or nothing? No,
what's that?

Speaker 1 (01:12:39):
I'm sorry?

Speaker 8 (01:12:40):
You know, feeding the ducks corn?

Speaker 1 (01:12:43):
You're not.

Speaker 8 (01:12:43):
I don't think you're doing anything bad.

Speaker 1 (01:12:46):
You're not gonna get I don't think the game ward
is going to stop you from tossing a little corn
to the ducks.

Speaker 8 (01:12:51):
And he knows that.

Speaker 6 (01:12:52):
Yeah, you're not hunting.

Speaker 1 (01:12:55):
You're not hunting, so that makes it. Now, don't show
up with a sling shop next week.

Speaker 8 (01:13:03):
And real quick on the dog chocker thing I haven't had.

Speaker 4 (01:13:07):
Do you use no chakra?

Speaker 7 (01:13:08):
All that?

Speaker 4 (01:13:09):
Just the beat?

Speaker 8 (01:13:10):
Yeah, every once in a while, that vibrator, Yeah, just
distracts them.

Speaker 1 (01:13:13):
It just distracts them. That's wonderful, all right, what's always?

Speaker 4 (01:13:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:13:20):
Thank you, David. I appreciate that. Man. All right, okay,
let me get back up here. Let's go here. Hey, John,
what's up? I'm gonna go ahead and take your car.
I didn't realize you guys were on the line. Looked
up there. I'm staring at my screen.

Speaker 10 (01:13:32):
I have to wait real long. So I am not
duck her and I have never duck hunted, and I
don't want to because I don't need another obsession.

Speaker 1 (01:13:41):
I'm afraid that's a legitimate answer.

Speaker 10 (01:13:44):
You know what I mean? Oh, I do, okay, But
I heard you mentioned about up in the Northwest they
flood green fields to attract the ducks, but you can't
do it here, or something like that. But I thought
on migratory game hunting, the rules were at the federal level,
and it's the same at so how can they do

(01:14:07):
it up there? But if I understood you correctly, you
can't do it here.

Speaker 1 (01:14:12):
It's the Northwest and the Midwest where this practice has
been going on now since nineteen ninety nine, when the
Fish and Wildlife Service removed an enforcement mechanism I'm reading
from Senator Kennedy's release that previously restricted the growth of
hunting over intentionally flooded standing crops, particularly corn. And the

(01:14:32):
long and the short of it is, you've got all
these corn fields that, as Mojo pointed out, there's really
no benefit to the farmer to plow at all, and
that used to cost them a lot of time and money.
So they were leaving it standing a little bit, and
then all of a sudden somebody said, well, men, if
the ducks will hang around and eat that corn, why
don't we just flood the cornfield so they can sleep

(01:14:54):
and eat right in the same spot. And that's what
they started doing thanks to this little caveat that was
added to the Migratory Bird Treaty Reform Act that was
enacted back in nineteen ninety eight. And it's not like I.

Speaker 10 (01:15:09):
Said, but that here you cannot do that. In Texas.

Speaker 1 (01:15:13):
You cannot hunt ducks over baited fields. And that's where
it's a slippery thing, is don't we don't flood cornfields
down here? Rice fields get flooded. And like David Pruitt
from Riceland Waterfowl Club mentioned earlier, he had a field,
a rice field that actually just came back. It was
just a second growth that was never intended to grow,

(01:15:35):
and the federal authorities would not let him manipulate that
crop to make it better duck hunting. So yeah, that
that's been going on up there in the Midwest and
the Northwest for a very long time.

Speaker 6 (01:15:49):
Now since.

Speaker 10 (01:15:52):
Cornfields if it's such an advantage.

Speaker 1 (01:15:54):
But well, mostly because our prairie is so flat you
would have to you'd have to build a dyke around it,
and that wouldn't be cost effective. There's a lot of reasons.
Plus we just we've never really experienced how bad We didn't.
I don't think anybody ever thought it would be this
bad and impact the migration, the entire migrant The whole

(01:16:15):
flyway has been interrupted. It stops basically north of Texas,
and there's not that many ducks coming down here anymore
that the stab from Louisiana our mallard stuff. There's not
that many mallards that come down the central Flyway. And
when I was a guide on during the best years
of the Katie Prairie, I only saw mallards in an

(01:16:37):
extremely cold winter. If it was a warm winter, we
hardly had any at all. If it was a colder winter,
you could go to some of these little potholes and
little tiny little farm tanks and sit there for a
morning and have six or eight groups of mallards come
in there, and then some teal and whatnot. But the
mallard migration through the Mississippi Flyway is such that it,

(01:16:59):
like I said that earlier, it not the the Louisiana
Mallard harvest down ninety five percent in twenty years, ninety
five percent right after that stuff started happening. And that's
not coincidence. Yeah, it's a mess.

Speaker 10 (01:17:13):
Well then, how okay, I'll you launch another thought if
you got a second? Sure, how come if you can't
quote manipulate a field for that? How come people plant
milo then shred it and hunt doves over it? Isn't
that same thing?

Speaker 1 (01:17:27):
That's a good question. It's a good question.

Speaker 10 (01:17:29):
Yeah, and that's that's I know, allowed.

Speaker 5 (01:17:32):
I don't.

Speaker 10 (01:17:32):
I have a hundred doves three times in my life.
But you know the first thing somebody asked me, well
did they shred the milo field? I go, can you
do that? Yeah? We all do that.

Speaker 1 (01:17:42):
Yeah, it's it's gotten. It might be time to just
take us a hard hearted look at all of these
baiting and migratory bird acts and see what we can fix.
I got to go to a break. I know Frankie's
tapping his foot pretty hard because.

Speaker 10 (01:17:55):
We'll run out super late that if we talk about it,
If we talk about it anymore, I'll want a duck
and I do not want to do that.

Speaker 1 (01:18:01):
You're gonna need a lot of decoys. You're gonna need
a lease.

Speaker 10 (01:18:04):
Go call full day, more time, more money, more good.

Speaker 1 (01:18:07):
Yeah, it goes without saying all right man, thanks John,
take a break. Audios man, Holy cow, I'm running late.
I know Frank you's upset. Black Horse Golf Club. I'll
tell you about that. It doesn't take long either Fry Road.
Go two ninety to Fry Road, or come up belt
Way eight and cut over or not ninety nine, not
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(01:18:31):
remember what that development is, but it'll get you there.
Just punch it into your GPS. It'll take you there easily enough.
We all use that now two ninety to Fry Roads,
the old school Way, Fry Road, take a south south
to golf course on both sides of the road, then
turn west and lo and behold. You will see the
clubhouse up ahead. When you get there, go into the clubhouse,
go into that pro shop and make sure your tea

(01:18:54):
time is all secured. It will be, don't you worry.
If you made it online, or you can just say, hey,
i'd like to jump in with somebody. I'm by myself off.
If there's a threesome going out, I'd be happy to
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great staff. Two courses. The North Course still daily fee
as it always has been. South Course is private, and

(01:19:16):
a membership option on that one gets you access to
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At Golf Club of Houston and Blackhawk Country Club out
there in Richmond. Black Horse Golf Club dot com, go
out there, get online either way, just learn more about
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at the Doug Pike Show, I've only got a minute
here before we have to kind of bounce out to
the last break of the program, believe it or not,
Sorry about that. Uh, going back through a couple of
emails way back actually Chili down here faux pro Wade
in this small morning up where he is now on Alaska,
thirty six degrees with icy grass in the forecast wind

(01:22:08):
at zero. Yeah. I had a question to answer yesterday
about top waters on dead calm water and just basically downsize.
Just you don't have to make a lot of noise
with your lure when the water is dead still. In fact,
you want to make a little bit less. They'll feel it,

(01:22:28):
they'll hear it. From a long ways off faux faux
pro weighing in a little bit deeper, uh, from up
there on Lake Livingston. Basically I did hear one shotgun volley, Yeah,
that was it from the local marsh. So this duck thing,

(01:22:50):
I hope, I really do hope that it gathers momentum,
it gains traction, and at some point that needs to
be shut down because it genuinely has altered the flyway.
And hunting is one thing that's okay, but when you
start looking at this from the potential repercussion of disease

(01:23:16):
wiping out tens of thousands of ducks and possibly geese
as well, that really needs to be put on the
front burner, along with everybody's concerns about duck hunting in
different parts of the country. Louisiana duck hunters not doing
much good, Texas duck hunters not having a lot of luck.
And now, granted I talked in early in the program

(01:23:37):
about how duck hunting, goose hunting, any kind of recreational
hunting and fishing is not about how much meat you
bring home. Really, it typically is not. I don't know
many duck hunters who would miss a meal because they
didn't get any ducks one morning. But it is a
hack them a lot more fun and a lot more
easy to justify the expense in the early along in

(01:24:00):
the cold, nasty weather sometimes, which by the way, isn't
always conducive to great duck hunting. Some of the best
duck and goose photographs you'll ever see at any outfitters
album or at a web page. After the hunt. The
guys are standing around in T shirts, maybe even in
short pants. It's just a matter of where you are
at the right time, under the right circumstances, and holy cow,

(01:24:22):
we better take a break or we won't make it
to the end. Berry Hills, sugar Land. That's the restaurant
where I eat pretty often. I'll go up there and
pick it up, take it home. It travels very well.
This is a family restaurant own and operated by the
same family for more than thirty years, about the same
time I've been in sugar Land, and they will gladly

(01:24:44):
come to your place and cater for you if you
need a big event taken care of once you get
into the restaurant, if you're there with your family or
just a couple of friends or whatever, it is. You'll
see family style dining on the left, that's tables and booths.
You'll see a sports bar type area on the right,
and then before you even get in, you'll see the
outdoor dining, which can be really nice this time here

(01:25:04):
it might be a little chilly to night, but otherwise
not two primary cooks in the kitchen have each been
there more than ten years. It's a very very consistent
product with little subtle individual twists that the two main
cooks have put on these dishes over the years that
make them really unique and outstanding. And so far, I've

(01:25:27):
eaten a lot of stuff off the menu and I
love it all. Barryhillsugarland dot COM's website. Go check it out.
Tell them I said hello when you get in there
to good people. Barry hillsugar Land dot com Shooters corner
Palmer Highway at twenty ninth Street down there in Texas City.
Been there forty plus years, run by same two guys,
that would be Jerry the Dad and Jay the Son TK,

(01:25:50):
both of whom are among the top one hand gunsmiths
that I know. Outstanding work on everything they do. I've
had had several listeners go down there to try to
solve a problem that some other gunsmith's have told them
couldn't be solved. Never had anybody call back, knock on wood.

(01:26:10):
They all get taken care of at Shooter's Corner as
you will. They've got pre owned guns, they've got new guns,
they've got Ammo, they've got optics, they've got Camo, they've
got reloading supplies, everything you would expect to find in
an old school gun store. That's just what it is.
There's a couple of places you can just sit down
and take a load off too, if you want to
hang around there for five minutes and listen to somebody

(01:26:32):
tell their story, and then in turn, somebody will hang
around and listen to your story. Whether it's from hunting,
whether it's from from competitive shooting, whatever it is. If
it's shooting sports related, you can hear it or you
can speak it down there. They all speak your language,
just like they do everybody else who loves the shooting sports.

(01:26:53):
Shooters Corner, Palmer Highway, twenty nine Street. If you wear
a badge for a living, you get a discount, which
I think is very cool. The Shooters cornertx dot com,
d Shooters Corner t X dot com nine fifty four
on Sports Talk seven ninety. We've got just a couple
of minutes left. Let me get Oh, by the way,
I heard back from EDARIGGI. Uh, they don't do the
threading of barrels for suppressors at American shooting centers. However,

(01:27:17):
Uh Ed recommends Bridley Manufacturing, and I would have to
agree that's a that's a good place to start. Back
in the day a million years ago. I knew Jess
Briley when he was still making choke tubes in his garage,
and and that that's turned into a really fine, fine
place to go talk about guns, go look at new shotguns,
and do whatever you want to do. A wonderful company. Uh,

(01:27:41):
let's go to Faux Pro, shall we. I got him,
I got him, I got him, Oh Pro, give you
a minute and a half.

Speaker 7 (01:27:46):
What you got hey, I ain't need that much. I'll
now related to what you've been talking about today with
the cornfields and stuff like that. And if I can
find the link, I'll send it to you so you
can watch it. But uh, without saying his name, a
famous country singer. Of course, they got access to all
this wonderful property. He took the Duck Commander crew, you know,

(01:28:08):
Willie Roberts in his eyes out to this flooded cornfield
from us from a drone view of it, it's like
maybe they knocked down enough to make a hole in
the cornfield.

Speaker 4 (01:28:18):
Flooded cornfield.

Speaker 7 (01:28:20):
So these are non duck hundred people if you get
my drift and standing out there just randomly on the
side of the hole around they're just no decoys and
wearing them out, and they're just coming to this.

Speaker 1 (01:28:33):
Of course they are. They been coming to it the
whole scene.

Speaker 6 (01:28:37):
That's not that's not baby, you know, I don't, I
don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:28:40):
Yeah, man, that's what they were coming to it hard.
So yeah, hopefully this is going to open a few
eyes and get the get the Fish and Wildlife Service
interested at least in having a discussion about rethinking what
they did twenty years ago, twenty five years ago. What
a mess, I hope.

Speaker 10 (01:28:59):
So.

Speaker 7 (01:28:59):
Yeah, years ago, I used to hunt on a little
I used to hunt on the island about a thirty
thirty island. Yeah, and uh, after the last dead Duck season,
we would go out the following weekend as an experiment.
I told knew the game war. I told me we're
going to do this. I covered that island in ten
bags of corn a week after the season closed as
an experiment, and we went back to that island two

(01:29:21):
weeks later, and you couldn't count.

Speaker 6 (01:29:23):
The gadwall that busted out of that hole.

Speaker 4 (01:29:25):
So if that tells you the power a bay just
two weeks, no doubt.

Speaker 6 (01:29:28):
Three hundred ducks.

Speaker 4 (01:29:28):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:29:29):
Yeah, that's crazy. Man.

Speaker 4 (01:29:30):
All right, I got a bounce the whole season, all right, but.

Speaker 1 (01:29:33):
I hate to do it too. Yeah, I'll talk to
you soon. You're fine, Uh huh, all right, Very quickly,
I yapped about suppressor cost and threading and all that,
and didn't tell you the cost. What Ed said is
it's about one hundred and fifty bucks, which is reasonable
when you figure what you're going to get for that,
and when you get that suppressor on there and it

(01:29:53):
just changes everything. They're really cool. I gotta get some.
That's it for this week. I'll see you next week
if you can, and listen on Tuesday through Friday over
on KPRC at noon. You'll hear fifty plus I like
that show. And even if you're a little bit younger,
listen on behalf of your parents. You'll learn something that
can help them too. Thanks for listening, I really do
appreciate it. Get outside, have some fun with your family.

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