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CHIEF

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  1. One of my neighbors and a good friend actually built the pipeline across the east boundary. I can ask him tomorrow if there is a way to get something to look at. CHIEF
  2. The lease, where I hunt, between Benjamin and Guthrie has been hit by two years worth of rainfall in one month. All of the roads to camp are washed out. We have been considering a helicopter to take us to camp, drive in as far as possible and try to get a drone in. We have had a few storms with probable 100 mph winds and large hail. Google Earth hasn't taken an image since before our camp was even there. Is there a website that has somewhat current satellite imagery? I would pay for it. How current of imagery can a civilian get? Thirty days, two weeks, three days? CHIEF
  3. Mrs. CHIEF used to do that. "Derek and Angela, just got back from Cabo, and Derek caught a huge....." (stops mid-sentence to slice a tomato razor thin). I just told her, "well, you know what they say....." and walked out of the room. CHIEF
  4. I lived in Durango for a year and a half, and really loved it. It has a small liberal arts college, Ft. Lewis, where I went my freshman year. Had a season pass to Purgatory (25-30 minutes away). Durango is in the "banana belt". Overnight snow tended to melt off by the middle of the day. There are great streams to fish, hiking trails, golf courses, bars, restaurants, City Market grocery stores, etc. Mesa Verde is over in Cortez, you have Silverton and Ouray to the north with hundreds of miles of jeep trails, public land to hunt, with thousands of elk coming downslope to the Animas river valley in winter. You will have professors from the college, to meet, for intellectual conversations and a place to go to concerts. There would be likeminded musicians, if you wanted to start up a band. I'm not sure about the healthcare, but MoJames should know because he lives there and is a physician. There are direct flights into Dallas, or Houston from La Plata County Airport. Jump on a connecting flight, and you are back in Austin. CHIEF
  5. CHIEF Jr. was 4 months old, sitting on his momma's hip sucking on a pacifier the last time eggy won anything of note (1998). He is now a 25 y.o. ME, and would have to carry his momma on his hip. That's what I tell aggies at our 19th Hole when they tell me Texas is irrelevant. CHIEF
  6. This is the way it will end. CHIEF
  7. The US has multiple Rare Earth resources, one being Round Top mountain out near Sierra Blanca: https://www.usgs.gov/news/technical-announcement/usgs-updates-mineral-database-gallium-deposits-united-states But US mining corporations are having difficulty raising the capital to get mining operations off the ground: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4561612-texas-mineral-resources-round-top-seems-stalled If this isn't a time to get funding from the US government on basis of national and economic security, then when? There is more than enough money in the PUF alone to fund this venture, and it seems like a good one. It would really drive home, "What Starts Here Changes the World." (Walter Cronkite) CHIEF
  8. It was mainly rednecks that live in a $150k house, I imagine, but with wakeboard boats and trucks that cost more than their house individually. I know several of those types. CHIEF
  9. Curfews and quite hours are because a lot of idiots want to have parties and loud music going 24/7 during their stay. Some of the AirBnB locations are right in the middle of neighborhoods with working families. We had two houses, in our neighborhood, that people purchased for AirBnB party pads. After about 2-3 bookings where the clients stayed up and partied by the pool, threw beer cans in the neighbor's yard, and got into yelling matches at three in the morning, the HOA shut them down, and made a rule eliminating AirBnBs. Apparently, communities all over the nation are doing this using HOAs or deed restrictions. Idiots are the reason we cannot have nice things. CHIEF
  10. There was a YouTube poster saying that Putin had reversed his amnesty plan on Porgy. I was going to post it, but it got taken down. It will probably happen, but at a later date. The plot just thickens. CHIEF
  11. They will never get there. Their weirdness, and cultish behavior will always be off-putting to at least one of the missing pieces. They will always be Bruno Kirby's Lt. Steve Hauk, to everyone else's Robin Williams' Adrian Cronauer in Good Morning Vietnam. CHIEF
  12. Lukashenko has supplied thousands of tons of material, equipment, and armaments to Russia. What he has failed to do is send Russia meat for the grinder. I think this movement of Wagner troops into Belarus, where the military warehouses are bare is a message to Lukashenko to provide said meat or there will be repercussions. CHIEF
  13. What company did you go with? CHIEF
  14. I remember the first day of my Freshman year Eastern Civ I class. The first thing my professor said was, "the Chinese will eat anything that doesn't eat them first." CHIEF
  15. One would think that they would carry at least a six shot revolver on that shitcan. You could choose to keep up the good fight, and hope to be rescued, or choose to go out with a bang. CHIEF
  16. My BIL has one, and he loves it. However, the tolerances weren't very close between the barrels and carrier, it now has blow by. It has lasted a good 20 years though. The newer ones may have fixed the problem. CHIEF
  17. Just a cheap Truglo. Still a $300-400 scope. I actually like it. He said he put a cheaper scope on it, since it is probably going to be removed for a thermal. He was right. CHIEF
  18. I went and picked up the AR I won, thinking it would probably be just a $400 Palmetto State or something similar. Boy was I wrong. The gunsmith is an old retired Nuclear Engineer, and building out custom rifles is his hobby/obsession. So, what he donated was an AR with an Aero lower, custom Garrison trigger, and a Faxon custom barrel. He told me to insure it for $2300, as that is what it would cost to replace it. He said that since he built it, it has a lifetime warranty for as long he is able to keep gunsmithing. Also, it came with the case, and five boxes of .300 BLK ammo. https://pikeprecisionarms.com His specialty is 1911s, and AR platform. The Faxon barrel is supposed to be the most accurate barrel made in .300 BLK. It has five groves instead of six in the rifling, and they are "dovetailed" in design, grip the bullet better, and have a better gas seal. CHIEF
  19. Only child, CHIEF Jr. is an only as well. I have shit from my maternal grandfather, my late father, my late FIL, the shit I've bought, and the shit CHIEF Jr. has bought. Gun safe is full, and there are probably a half dozen guns under each bed. Told CHIEF Jr. he has to build a gun "vault" when he builds his house, a gun safe will not cut it. Feels like this: CHIEF
  20. With the Sargassum problem in the Caribbean and Gulf, right now, the west side of Cozumel will probably be one of the few cruising destinations without fucked up, stinky beaches. The problem, and the reason you have the Walmart crowd, is you can go 3-4 days for under $300/person, and for 7 days for under $500. That's just as cheap as staying at home. Every ship, out of Galveston, always makes a trip to Cozumel. The tourist traps at the end of the cruise ship piers are a spectacle to behold. https://www.carnival.com/cruise-search?pageNumber=1&numadults=4&port=GAL&pagesize=8&sort=fromprice&showBest=true&=undefined&gad=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwhJukBhBPEiwAniIcNeRnAq715AvGzOjeIU0exybuiGfk9NqqrNQduclid5FczgiTmfPoHhoCcFcQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds If they are just "beach" people and not necessarily the "swim in the ocean types," I would just book all inclusive to Cabo. There will be Walmart types, there, as well. But you can avoid them since you are not cooped up on a ship with them. CHIEF
  21. That looked like one of those giant shotgun shell bombs with the 186,000 tungsten BBs. CHIEF
  22. I can send a prayer for MAC to go kick Pat in the nards, but to be honest, I have a feeling they are in two very different places. Matthew 18:6 6 And do not lead astray one of the weak and friendless who believes in Me. If you do, it would be better for you to be dragged down with a millstone and drowned in the bottom of the sea. CHIEF
  23. This was a great topic to resurrect. We just cleaned out my late in-laws house, in Cedar Park, last weekend and closed on the sale yesterday. There were 50 years of shit packed in there. Both of them were pack rats. My SIL is one, as well, and pretty much felt entitled to everything. We nearly filled a pickup, she filled two pickups and a 20' cattle trailer. She was going to take the new washer and dryer, but Mrs. CHIEF let her know that she bought them for her mother with her own money, so they were off limits, as well as a beautiful antique china cabinet that my wife snagged for our niece. I kept hearing Mrs. CHIEF yelling, "FUCK." I went to see what the problem was. Apparently there is this feature on Google where you take a picture of something you have, it searches the internets for it, and tells you what it is worth. So there was a bunch of shit that was worth not throwing away. There was one bowl that was worth $1250, some cherry blossom depression glass, some high dollar figurines. Shit that she can sell for a lot of money is what we brought home, as we helped her sister load the Walmart entertainment center with broken shelves for the 3 1/2 hour drive back to Tyler. Of course, the SIL starts asking about shit she cannot find. SIL: Where is the Waterford Crystal punch bowl set? Mrs. CHIEF: Don't know. (Its been at our house for 15 years) SIL: Where are granddaddy's chaps? Mrs. CHIEF:Don't know. (Been at our house for 10 years) SIL: Where is granddaddy's accordion? Mrs. CHIEF: Don't know (been in my gun safe for 5 years) Thats just the tip of the iceberg. CHIEF
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