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CHIEF

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  1. A fire can be both a blessing and a curse. It will suck this year, best you can do is clean out the feeder pens, and hope there is still enough cover for them to feel safe coming to the feeder. All of the old, dead, matted grass should be burned off, the next three years you should be loaded with deer. The fire will put nitrogen back into the soil, and everything should be green as a gourd. Good time to get a grain drill and research some improved drought resistant perennial grasses (rye, Klein, or bluestem). CHIEF
  2. Yeah. When I was looking for Mrs. CHIEF a purse gun, I got it in .38. Buddy said if I bought it in .357 she would rather be assaulted. CHIEF
  3. Good friend took the last one. I have a couple of elevated spots to view from, tonight. One on Chalk Mountain, west of Glen Rose, and another at the base of Comanche Peak. It was pretty cool last night, but tonight is supposed to be bonkers. CHIEF
  4. Pizza is so cheap around here, I didn't think about checking the freezer section. Damn First World problems. This might actually be cheaper than his quad patty, quad cheese Whataburger. CHIEF
  5. That is what we do in our neighborhood. You get to hear the ol' Blue Hairs bitch about how inhumane the nets are. But it must be done for the health of the herd. CHIEF
  6. I pray to God that CHIEF Jr. doesn't see this. I don't even know where to get square proportional pizza, and beef patties. CHIEF
  7. I swear the just played “Texas Fight” at the Tech/BYU game. CHIEF
  8. Happened to me when CHIEF Jr. was about two. That was when the 620 and 183 intersection was temporarily a four way stop. We start through the intersection, and here comes this lady barreling in, running the stop sign. My wife and I hear, "you need to wait your fucking turn, bitch!!" Worst stare down from the Mrs. in 33 years. CHIEF
  9. The 280Z was about the fastest thing you could get in the late 1970s, besides exotics. It was so much lighter than the domestics, but with similar power. Had a great power to weight ratio at the time. CHIEF
  10. My uncle was a Dallas fireman, but he lived in Cleburne. He had a silver 1977 280Z as his commuter car. I loved that car. I begged him to sell it to me, when he got rid of it. I was 15, and had a "hardship" license. It was plenty fast a 130 mph car. I never got it though. I think my Mom put the kibosh on that. Would have been like giving a chimp a loaded shotgun. CHIEF
  11. For sure. We are a ribeye family, but I can still get Choice sirloins for $8.99/lb. A 1.75 lb. sirloin is still an under $10/person meal. CHIEF
  12. For 1970, I loved Two Mules for Sister Sara. CHIEF
  13. Man, I really never venture over here. But the "They Call Me...." old Spaghetti Westerns with Terrance Hill were fantastic. Almost Three Stooges level of comedy. They couldn't cuss, so the insults are fantastically hilarious. I think there is "They call Me Nobody", "They Call Me Trinity", "Trinity Is My Name." If you want to binge watch, they are worth a Sunday. CHIEF
  14. I'm not sure how far you would have to drive to get the Aguilas, it looks like you can only buy them from a specialty retailer which, I imagine in California, those are few and far between. You can buy the CCIs and have them shipped to your front door. You might want to install a spiral staircase to keep him at bay until your ammo arrives. CHIEF
  15. Earhole him, will kill him dead as a hammer. Probably the only way with a subsonic round that small. Get on line, and order the heaviest grain subsonic you can find. This would work perfectly: https://www.aguilaammo.com/products/22-sniper-subsonic-long-rifle-subsonic-lead-solid-point , never seen a sixty grain on a .22LR. CHIEF
  16. Per our DMs, I'm in. But my wife says she ain't doin' shit. CHIEF
  17. It looks like the drones are being used like suppressive or cover fire possibly. Pin the enemy down in a building so you can move your own troops. I guess when you are out of machine gun belts, you use whatever is available, no matter how much more expensive. CHIEF
  18. My FIL used to say, if you suspect someone is a hog farmer, spray their shoes with water, you will know immediately. CHIEF
  19. I call that my "stoner" plate. I eat it several times a week (fist bump). CHIEF
  20. Ours was pre-latex glove days as well. Worst I ever pulled was at another ranchers place. He was an absentee owner, had just started ranching, and called us frantic that he had a heifer trying to calve, and the calf was stuck. We go over there, and the heifer had tried to have the calf several days before, and somehow she was still alive, and not really in too bad of shape. The calf? That was another story. Not sure how long it had been dead, but when we went to pull him, he was rotten enough that he just pulled in two. The smell was absolutely atrocious. The rancher asked, "Well Mel (my dad) what are we gonna do?" Now this was a high dollar purebred Hereford heifer. My Dad said, "Terry I've got something for her in my truck." He went to the truck, came back, pulled a pistol out and shot her right between the eyes. CHIEF
  21. Yeah, we always used either a bull breed that would sire a smaller calf, or a regular breed if the cow was half brahman. The best combo we ever had were some half Brahman and Angus cows that we bought from a rancher that was breeding up for first generation Brangus (which are 5/8ths Angus, and 3/8ths Brahman) we put a Simmental bull on them. The calves came out perfect. About 65 lbs. at birth, and would grow like a weed. They were a chocolate brown, white faced, with a little flop in the ear. We could hardly keep heifers. Dad would bitch about he wanted to keep most of the heifers, but they would bring a couple of hundred dollars more than they would bring at the sale barn. Other ranchers would come buy them dozen or two at a time. CHIEF
  22. That's what CHIEF Jr. says is his next purchase. Don't know why he wants one, we don't have any grizzlies, buffalo, or polar bears around. He already has the .450BM. There is a recoil pad included, that should tell a person something. CHIEF
  23. One of the most miserable experiences I ever had was being a millhand on my uncle's dairy during the Christmas holidays sometime in the early 1980s. Their milkhands would go home to Mexico, over the holidays, and my cousin and I would milk for the two weeks we were out of school. This particular time, we had a four day stretch that stayed mostly below freezing, and warm up to the mid 30s in the afternoon. The entrance pen to the dairy barn was basically frozen mud stalagmites about 12-18" tall from the cows stomping around. The stalagmites were sharp enough that it was cutting up the cows bellies and bags as they walked through, it was a bloody mess. We had to doctor up every cow that came through. On top of that, there was one day we had to pull six calves, most of them breach. We would reach in and tie a rope around the calves rear legs, and take the tag ends and tie them to a come-a-long. We were able to pull all six, and all the calves lived, which was nice. CHIEF
  24. Haven't had it for very long, but I love to use my big Kitchenaid stand mixer to make homemade compound butters. I make a chipotle and Scotch smoked sea salt version, and a red wine with minced shallots, and coarse ground black pepper for steaks. A lemon zest, dill, and garlic version, for fish. I start with heavy cream, churn it until the buttermilk is released and add the ingredients right before the butter starts to set. CHIEF
  25. Just got back from HEB (they were open). With all that heart talk, I decided to load up: These fuckers are no longer ninety-nine cents per pound, they probably haven't been that cheap in a long time, but I usually never look at the price. They are now $2.49/lb. Still, for $13 for almost five pounds they are still a bargain. Got a tray for the dog, one for CHIEF Jr. and one for me. CHIEF
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