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CHIEF

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  1. So you don't have to order a Russian/Ukrainian bride by mail any longer, just drive down to Del Rio and pick you one out. CHIEF
  2. A buddy of mine that was a Vietnam vet, that drag raced. He would puff away in his tow vehicle till he was about two cars from the registration table, roll down the windows, and smoke would roll out like a Cheech and Chong movie. He never could figure out why his reaction time was so slow on his time slips, I always knew the reason. CHIEF
  3. No, no not really. I originally tied it to that, but the edit is reality. A crop duster would have many more hours. I would have to suck in my gut, and loose 30 lbs. to check my six. CHIEF
  4. Amen. Drink a half gallon of whiskey a week, smoke a cigar nightly. Last flight physical was 15 years ago, on BP meds, and statins. Single engine land (so F-16). VFR only, so minimal night time, and stay away from clouds. Got 300 hours flight time, what could go wrong? CHIEF
  5. Yes, that text the Russian soldier sent to his mother, that the Ukrainian envoy to the UN read this morning was heart wrenching. Conscripted and hauled to the Ukrainian border, given a minimal amount of bullets, and food. Then given marching orders into openly hostile territory, and he knew nothing about why he was there. Watching the dude from Round Rock, and listening to his schtick, I truly believe that the Russians, and Putin, thought they would be welcomed. It certainly explains why the Russians are so ill equipped, and ill prepared. They were supposed to pull up to the Parliament steps, having only stopped at the 7-11 for a six-pack, and be treated with keys to the city. They got Mike Tyson'ed, with their plans. CHIEF
  6. Aggie gets the number one recruiting class of all time, and now we are facing a nuclear holocaust. Coincidence, I think not. Proof that God hates the aggys. CHIEF
  7. There is no reason for any property to go into foreclosure at this time. I can't imagine anyone is "upside down" in any mortgage in America. Sell that shit, if you can't afford it, take the profit and buy a cheap travel trailer. Pay for a hookup and live on a family member's property. If you get foreclosed, 90% of the time, you are just lazy. CHIEF
  8. There needs to be a "bounty" on disabling Russian nukes. Any crew that renders a nuke inoperable gets to split $10,000,000 between them when they present the control circuitry to any NATO nation. They are free to spend it in the NATO nation of their choice. CHIEF
  9. My Ol' Man was a machinist for Santa Fe Railroad when I was a kid. There were two steaks he would buy, a T-Bone or a Sirloin. Always cooked medium. I worked as butcher for 9 months at HEB, when I first moved to Austin. The market manager didn't believe in discounting steaks. I worked the evening shift, so Mrs. CHIEF would bring CHIEF Jr. by, every night, as he would be asleep when I got home. The rule was to grind anything and everything if it didn't sell. Every night, I would go back and turn the grinder on as I wrapped 2-3 Choice filets, in butcher paper and handed them to my wife for $1.69/lb. It was usually two pounds, and at the time it was usually $10-11/lb. We were poor as church mice, but fuck, did we eat good. We ate filets for the next year. It wasn't until I had to pay "honest" prices that we had to start eating ribeyes. Cooking filets for at least three nights per week really honed my skills. I make money in the holiday season by doing a Sous Vide prime rib roast to 130 degrees and cold smoking it for 5 hours. I usually do a couple of dozen that get eaten for Thanksgiving or Christmas. It's very enjoyable. CHIEF
  10. We eat ribeyes (bone-in) when they have them, and filets. Wagyu NY strips are really good as well. There is a place called The Purple Goat in Stephenville that has a Wagyu NY strip that is as good as any ribeye I have ever eaten. CHIEF
  11. The Russians probably get paid bi-weekly. Some of the soldiers didn't save enough of their first paycheck to get there on time. CHIEF
  12. I didn't get to see the Duran Duran concert at ACL. It had Simon, Nick, and John. Why, why, why was this not a topic? They were a staple of my Junior High and early High School years. I would have gladly paid $1000 a ticket, for myself and my high school girlfriend. Mrs. CHIEF was a little young, and would have had to have stayed home. They are now touring Sweden, I wanted to save the air fare. Oh what could have been. CHIEF
  13. My wife bitched the other day that she would have retired from the State this year at 49. I remind her that she wouldn't have pulled down, remotely, the same money that she does now for the last decade. She also wouldn't be pulling the money she does now for the next decade either, as fresh face at 49. CHIEF
  14. The hogs I referenced above had thousands of acres of wheat and milo fields to graze, however I seldom saw them in the fields. That is where you would see massive herds of smaller hogs. I assume the larger hogs hit the fields at night. At our current lease, I haven't seen anything remotely as large. These hogs do not have massive acres of cultivated land to forage. Another consideration is how distant, genetically, a feral hog is from their domesticated ancestors. I know certain buyers that will not buy hogs with "floppy" ears. They consider them too closely related to their domesticated origins. CHIEF
  15. I blame it on the line at the Chicken Express in Seymour. 30 minute wait to get chicken gets everyone on edge. CHIEF
  16. Get your Ukrainian bride today, 70% off. A true "fire" sale. Gonna offer my guest room for asylum, no babushkas please. CHIEF
  17. When we hunted the Swenson Ranch in Aspermont, we had quit a few hogs that would have gone over 450 easily. I have never hunted anywhere that had hogs as big as what we saw. They were no longer a part of herds. They were just big solitary animals, away from other pigs. I shot a sow that was eight feet long, she was about two feet thick laying on her side. I thought she was an angus cow when she was about 3/4s of a mile away. Absolutely massive. It comes down to age, and how long they can avoid being killed. CHIEF
  18. My wife working for the State of Texas for 17 years is what is keeping me in the equation. She will continue to work till 65, if not she will be bored and also crazy, she gets really antsy not working, which has worked to our (my) benefit. Her current employer will cover us till she retires, then the State will pick up our Medicare. Hopefully, I die like my Dad. A heart attack and minimal hospitalization. Happened to his parents, so luckily, I've got that going for me.
  19. The deer are so thick in our subdivision, that the female mountain lion, in here, does not run off her cubs, plenty to eat for everyone. We have 3-6 around here constantly. People see them from time to time, many on security or game cameras. I see tracks on my riverfront acreage occasionally. So far, they haven't attacked humans. I too, would have a hard time shooting one. CHIEF
  20. Yep. A laser timed 4.4x 40 yard guy, is going to run a 10.6 100 meter or better. Texas has two, for sure in X and Brennan Thompson, and maybe Jamison. I doubt any team has more than 5-6 at the most. Shipley was plenty fast, probably ran a 4.4x hand timed, but would be a 4.5x laser timed. Same with Quan Cosby. CHIEF
  21. Mine is insulated, but it was going to a buyer in Alberta, Canada. It's really big inside, so it still took a lot of propane to warm up. I went through a propane container about every three hunts. Uninsulated, I would think you would go through a container per hunt, you would need to leave the heater on at all times instead of intermittent. For what Travis will charge to insulate the blind, it is worth it. We hunt fairly close to each other, the temperatures are a lot closer to Kansas than South Texas. CHIEF
  22. It's simply Maslow's Theory. Once your basic needs are met, though, I think it jumps past esteemed and straight to self-actualization. The best two weeks I have had, in the last two months, was two weeks with no TV, and limited internet. Just me and CHIEF Jr., in the middle of nowhere, hunting, bullshitting, not hitting a paved road for two weeks, eating Ramen for lunch, and looking at stars. Talk about a life reset. CHIEF
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