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He got completely out of bitcoin. He is a retired rodeo star, he bought it for the novelty, but really had no idea how to purchase anything with it. He has enough business expenses to lessen the tax implications. But as Mrs. CHIEF said, "I bet his accountant wants to kick his ass every year." CHIEF

We have a family friend (DK) that owns multiple businesses, planes, big offshore boats, etc.. I didn't go to the 19th Hole last night, but CHIEF Jr. did. Someone brought up that Bitcoin was through the roof. DK isn't the most computer savvy, but brought up that he had bought seven bitcoin for $4600 a pop, but hadn't gotten around to selling them because it was complicated. A guy that is a regular bitcoin investor showed him how to sell them. CHIEF Jr. said they watched $719k go into his account, needless to say he picked up everybody's bar tab. CHIEF

For sure. I have told this story before, but it was probably on one of the old sites. CHIEF Jr. was five, and we had our pit set up across the street from where the tennis courts were, in back of the General Services Commission. There was plenty of shit talking with the Arkies walking the sidewalks. After the game a couple of smokin' hot arkie coeds come walking by pretty late after everything had died down. Out of nowhere, CHIEF Jr. asks them if he could put a fork in their family trees. Our entire tailgate erupts with laughter, and he got a couple of "fuck you, little boy" from both of them. Apparently it really pissed them off, and they stewed all the way to their car. It was late enough that 17th was back open. All of a sudden an arkie colored BMW Z3, with the top down comes around the corner onto Trinity, sideways, and it was those two coeds. One of the girls pulls up her top and flashes two perfect breasts one painted white, and the other one red. She shouted, "how do you like that you little fuck?" He told her they were spectacular, and would she mind showing them to him again. They sped off and he got all kinda "high fives" from all of the guys that got to watch the show. It was also the game where someone bought a whole suckling pig to put on the pit, complete with an apple. They left that fucker on the pit for probably 8-10 hours. When they cut it open, it was just like Clark carving the turkey on National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, I shit you not. CHIEF

I think we are gonna wait to go up after tomorrow's game. We got 7 inches at the lease, and there is about 4 inches of water under the feeders. The owner said to come on out, but that it is really muddy. In other words, you can come out, but you sure are gonna fuck up the roads. It's our first year, so we are gonna try to keep the roads in good shape. CHIEF

I can't imagine not having an internal monologue, I would think the people that don't have one would have almost no friends, or a spouse. I can't imagine saying out loud your every thought, you would be extremely offensive. BUT, the most truly remarkable thing I have heard about is the ten people that have been diagnosed with the same condition as Marilu Henner, they can remember every day of their life. You can bring up a date that is decades old, they can tell you what day it was, and exactly what they did on that day. CHIEF

We have this heavy ten coming in regularly. We talked to the guys just south of us to see about letting him have a year on protein to see what he can turn into. They agreed, there were some guys about a mile further west. When the guys just south of us put out protein one year, on that side of their lease, the guys further west shot anything they saw. There isn't any hunting to the east or north of us, so we are gonna put a ton and a half out on Dec. 1st. We hunted in shorts and t-shirts every hunt. CHIEF

She was 29 in 1974 when Young Frankenstein was released. I thought she was younger as well. CHIEF

That sucks. We always just use t-posts and panels, no concrete or anything. I have a gas t-post driver, and a t-post puller. We can build a big pen, or take it down in about an hour. It's also the reason I was opposed to putting a storage container at our lease from last year. If you move one onto the ranch it had to be removed if you left. We left one about fifteen years ago on a lease in Aspermont. I figured out don't put anything permanent, or hard to move onto a piece of property unless you own it. CHIEF

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After decades of putting up feeder pens, we have come to realize on low fence ranches, the feeder pen has to be huge for big bucks to ever come in and eat and be seen on camera. Our best luck has been using 18 t-posts, and 9 hog panels. It is about 40 foot in diameter. Low fence monsters are not used to being in a spot where they feel hemmed in, and that they can't escape quickly. There are a few spots, on the ranch we are on now, where we can rebuild larger feed pens, but the smaller existing pens were put in with a rock drill. The former leasee owned an oilfield construction company. For some reason smaller pens don't seem to worry does and smaller, young bucks, but I have never had a mature buck go into the smaller feeder pen. They will just eat around the outside edges, and the corned roads. The 180" deer a buddy shot off of our lease, last year, was never seen on camera until we rebuilt a larger feed pen. CHIEF

We are opening feed pens, or are not building new ones for about two weeks. Letting the hogs clean up the broom weeds and dead grass to expose the ground so the deer will be able to find the corn: This feeder has been up only since Saturday, this doe started hitting it on Monday morning, she has been there every morning since: CHIEF

I look at moon phases. This weekend is supposed to be a really good weekend, next weekend is poor to fair, the following weekend is supposed to be excellent. Of course, when the rut is going on, all days should be considered good hunting days. CHIEF

The one's here are better than DQ. That's why I wonder how our DQ stays in business, unless it is a money laundering front for drug cartels. CHIEF

For sure, you can start at Golden Chick, bear crawl the 100 feet to DQ, followed by a 100 foot sprint to Chicken E, and end the amazing tour with a brisk 200 yard jog to Braum's. Oh, and if you need a break from your journey to Braum's, you can step into the Chili's for a refreshing margarita. CHIEF

Our old DQ was converted into a donut shop that doubled as a sushi restaurant in the afternoon and evening. Granbury isn't highfalutin but even the locals avoid eating sushi out of an old DQ. It didn't make it. We have one of the newer DQs with the rock front and modern look. It is a couple of blocks from a Braum's, and also sits between A Chicken Express and Golden Chick. With two places offering better chicken, and Braum's burgers and ice cream, I'm not sure how it stays in business. They must be some Blizzard selling' MoFos. CHIEF

For sure. .243 was actually a sniper round developed for the LAPD in the early 1950's. A necked down .308 brass with a .243 diameter bullet. Low recoil with high velocity let the sniper relax and not worry about recoil, and the velocity meant it was very accurate out to 300 yards. Our stand is big enough to have a gun rack that holds five guns, so I'm probably gonna stock it with: 1. .243 Winchester 2. .300 WSM 3. Suppressed .450BM shooting 395gr. subs 4. Suppressed .300BO shooting 220gr. subs with thermal 5. .17 HMR for coons and other small varmints All of these rifles need to be shot more than they are currently. The landowner has asked us to shoot as many hogs and coyotes as possible. The .243 will accomplish most of that. I ear holed a hog about ten years ago with the .243 while he was running and his head was bobbing up and down in some broom weeds. When we got back to camp, CHIEF Jr. insisted that we go to town for me to buy a lottery ticket, as he said, "ain't nobody THAT skilled, you are just one lucky motherfucker." We are headed up tomorrow to put out two more feeders that we have laying around. A couple of the guys don't have feeders, they left them at their last lease. We also have a connection to a company that sells old astroturf that was removed from football fields. We had it at our last lease, and it does wonders for keeping from tracking mud into your campsite and trailers. We bought two 40'x15' rolls for $600. This shit is thick, with the crumbled rubber still in it. Each roll weighs about 3500 lbs. If any of you DFW area hunters want some, DM me and I can get you the contact info, they have about 40 rolls still at their yard. They are off of Sun Valley just north of where I20 and Loop 820 intersect in SE Ft. Worth. CHIEF

I usually shoot my Sako .300WSM now, but with a much smaller place and 100 yard shots, I think I am going to drop back down to my .243. It's a fucking tack driver with almost zero recoil. I have been shooting it for over 50 years, ever since I was five and weighed about 50 pounds. Our buddy, on the lease, has a twelve year old daughter, it would be perfect for her to borrow. It is considered a youth model now, back when my old man bought it, it was called a varmint special. CHIEF

Mrs. CHIEF fries her CFS in about 1/4" of oil after soaking in buttermilk and egg over night. She fries her chicken in about 2-2.5" of oil after putting it in buttermilk for 3-4 hours, she does not use eggs for chicken. Sorry, I should have clarified that. Her CFS is the best I've ever eaten, her chicken is phenomenal, but not on the level of her CFS. CHIEF

This is the crux of the issue. The best CFSs are not deep fried like fried chicken. They are battered and fried on a griddle. If you want to take a battered up a bone-in chicken breast, fry it on each side for four minutes and then eat it, be my guest. The only similarity is that they have a seasoned flour batter. The steak itself, is marinaded in buttermilk and eggs. I would assume most chicken never goes through the milk and egg process. CHIEF

Stacey Keibler IS a cousin to my best friend, the friend that CHIEF Jr. is named after. Not sure how distant. I've met her and the "Undertaker" a couple of times at my friends house in Maypearl. This was in the early 2000s, she is about ten years younger than my friend and myself, and she was very shiny. CHIEF

My dad went on a mission trip to Cuba in about 2016 or 2017. He said he was absolutely in awe of their resourcefulness. Out in the country, tractors were used as much for transportation (pulling carts that could fit 18-20 people), as they were for agricultural use. They all had bald tires with a million plugs, and he said you couldn't imagine engines that they had retrofitted. Everything from old Volvo diesels, to Chevy inline sixes, and other stuff that he thought was Russian, or possibly South American in origin. If something broke they would work for weeks recasting or repairing a part from what little they had. They did have a few welders and some guys that he said were pretty damn good blacksmiths. CHIEF

Don't you know it. If I grew it out now, I would look like Slade's lead guitarist Dave Hill, or David Crosby, but gray. CHIEF

I feel about the same with Cuba as I do with Iran and Venezuela. There have been multiple attempts to overthrow the existing political structure, all through unarmed protest by an unarmed population only for the existing governments to put them downed with armed violence and political arrests. No one knows better about who needs to be eliminated than the members of that unarmed population. They need to be armed covertly and let them stage coups. All three populations are essentially prisoners in their own country, scraping by while their leadership robs the coffers and lives a luxurious life. CHIEF

I had the exact same thing happen to me as Bevo. I worked at the Comanche Peak Nuclear Plant between my senior year of high school and freshman year of college. You had to take a polygraph for employment. I had long hair, so the old gruff dude that ran the machine accused me of lying about drug use. At that time, I had never touched any non-prescription drugs in my life. It was all based off of him stereotyping. It wasn't enough to keep me from being hired though. But it sure let me know that the person administering the test can interpret anything they want how they want. CHIEF

One of the best days I’ve had was moving far enough away to no longer be responsible for our tailgate. It is absolutely stressful and exhausting. Those were the few years where I wasn’t really excited for season to start. We have a core group that is responsible for dedicated tasks, and a group email to decide what to eat. It also helped that we culled our group from about 200 down to about 30. With road games coming up it should give you some time to find people that come to every tailgate that would take up responsibility for different tasks. Someone for tents and their storage, someone for tv sets and their storage, someone to pick up meat, someone to pick up booze, etc. CHIEF