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  1. 19 minutes ago, gofuckyourself said:

    Bingo. Just the same two or three levels over and over but I thought it was the most incredible thing ever to "fly" an xwing.

    Winn's was my weekly sugar dealer.

    Also bought my first BB gun there.

    Did Winn's buy out Wacker's? We had one in Cleburne. I remember saving up my $14.99 to buy a Thundershift 500 to sling my Hot Wheels around an oval track. Two lanes so you could race your buddies. Someone would always start to get behind and sling it so hard it would go airborne and leave dents in the sheetrock.

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  2. My grandmother always swore that my Dad's oldest brother was plowing fields with a tractor before he started grade school. As she got older, he kept getting younger in her story. He finally got so young that I asked her how many acres he could plow before you had to stop him and change his diaper.

    But these boy's parents really take the cake. It's like their parents wanted them to leave and never show back up again. But, they were Okies so I'm pretty sure common sense was out the window:

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  3. 15 minutes ago, F250 said:

    Same, I learned to drive a truck (stick shift) at 12 years old. All of my sons did as well. My daughter started last year but in an automatic. Obviously not in the city but on the family ranch and rural roads.

    "Free range" in rural areas is very different than in the city.

    For sure. My Old Man had me hauling a cattle trailer with 14,000 lbs. of cattle to the Meridian sale barn in a 1979 Ford F-250 with him following me with another load when I was in Junior High. I probably had at least 50,000 miles worth of driving under my belt when I got my hardship license at 15. Things, and places were just different back then.

    My old High School still has an "off campus" parking area for kids that drive to school without a license (have to have a license to drive on campus). If you are going to play sports, especially during "two a days",  as a freshman you are going to have to drive, or have a parent pick you up and drop you off.

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  4. My parents and myself would still be in prison for the shit they let me do, and the shit I let CHIEF Jr. do. A lot of the rural kids in my childhood neighborhood all had motorcycles, so I warted my Dad enough that he bought me one in 3rd grade. We had our own motorcycle gang, with some of the kids being older (junior high). About ten of us would ride county roads out to about 15 miles from home, rain or shine, light or dark. We were usually back by dark, since most everybody rode dirt bikes without lights.

    CHIEF Jr. had our golf cart to cruise around with his buddies at about the same age. You are supposed to be at least 16 to drive one in our neighborhood. He knew all of our security guards and pretty much talked him out of ever getting a ticket. He would drive it over to his best friend's house and pick him up, its easily 6-8 miles away, but in the same subdivision. After the HOA started cracking down on kids on golf carts, I would just let him drive my Jeep Wrangler over there, he was maybe 12 by that time, and it was a manual.

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  5. 38 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Peter Pan ingredients:

    ROASTED PEANUTS, SUGAR, LESS THAN 2% OF: HYDROGENATED VEGETABLE OIL (RAPESEED AND COTTONSEED), SALT.

     

    Mmmmmmmm.........rapeseed oil......that's how you KNOW it's good.

    You said rapeseed twice.

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  6. 4 hours ago, SimkinsMan said:

    Listeater is absolutely my most favorite Aggy story ever. I remember watching it play out in real time and thinking this is too good to be true. If you enjoyed the Schlossnagle schadenfreude this summer, Listeater was a lot like that, albeit even more bizarre because of her mannerisms and appearance.

    I would pay a lot to know her side of the story, and to where she ended up in life. Such a perfect Aggy story with selfishness, lack of self awareness, righteous indignation, and of course the whole plot being stirred by a desire to get tickets to see A&M valiantly defeat daddy. 

    Someone on one of the older versions of Surly tracked her down about 15 or so years ago, and she was a teacher in Milano, just east of Rockdale.

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  7. 13 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    For those who don't know the first bitcoin real world purchase was 2 pizzas for 10,000 bitcoin in 2010. I hope the guy at least got 2 large supreme pizzas for what is now $910 million. (At the time, at best the 10K bitcoins were worth $20 so it wasn't an absurd cost.)

    but seriously it can be painful to pay via bitcoin because frankly the system is not designed to go fast. You would never buy a coffee with bitcoin with its basic tech. Now if you transfer something like ETH or USDC via the polygon network, the funds are moved before you can even refresh the page or app. 

    I hope the guy somewhat realized that he was incurring an ~$700K capital gain and thought through the tax implications. But I love stories like this. 

    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

  8. 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.

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  9. 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.

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  10. 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.

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    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.

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  12. 19 minutes ago, DalTxHornFan said:

    Many years ago near Brady we built some big pens like that with welded and cemented iron posts and such.  The ranch sold six months later, we lost the lease, and we were out a bunch of money!  Hope they are enjoying our pens!

    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.

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  13. 1 hour ago, Storm the Field said:

    Come borrow some of ours. They've cleared out some nice 25 yard circles around our feeders. Nothing but rutted up sand.

    Funny enough, me and some of the other guys on my lease just spent part of the morning talking about putting up hog panel fencing at our 2 newest stands. Hogs have really taken over those feeders this year. Deer rarely ever get a chance to come eat in peace.

    We estimate it'll be about $300 per feeder to put up 6 16-feet panels and a t-post every 4 feet. That sound about right?

    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.

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  14. 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:

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    This feeder has been up only since Saturday, this doe started hitting it on Monday morning, she has been there every morning since:

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  15. 17 hours ago, Storm the Field said:

    Forecast of 82/65 and 40% chance of rain on Saturday and Sunday at my lease. That's following 2 days of heavy rain on Thursday and Friday.

    Looks like it will be damn near perfect in time for Weekend 2, but unfortunately I'm gonna be out of state for a football road trip. If I decided to sit out this weekend, I wouldn't be able to make it out until 11/15, so a warm, wet Opening Weekend slopping around in the mud it is. 

    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.

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  16. 9 minutes ago, tbone_ said:

    Braums had great burgers. Or at least the my did back in the day.

    Know what I mean, Verne?

    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.

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  17. 8 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Now you've gotten me hankering to do a "small town row of chains" buffet.  Maybe some gizzards from Chicken Express, some ice cream from Braums.  Or maybe the spicy tenders from Golden Chick, and a dip cone from the DQ.  Why, the possible combinations are infinite, and all super healthy.

    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.

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  18. 19 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

     

    any converted DQ location, highly likely the new restaurant is going to slam 

    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.

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  19. 17 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    I bought my oldest daughter a 243 model 7 with really nice stock on it, a unicorn by Rem standards.  I bought it when she was very young and then fell in love with it - it drives tacks with the smaller pills.  It’s way too nice for a kid so she’ll get it when she gets older, and the little Ruger 300BO will have to do until then. But I loved that little 243 so much I bought early 50’s Flaigs Sako that had been fitted with a beautiful stock and a heavy Douglas barrel.  It loves ammo more sized towards deer and it’s difficult to leave in the safe when I head to the ranch.  243 is such a great round for Texas. 

    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.

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  20. 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.

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  21. 7 hours ago, elfenix said:

    Aaron Paul What GIF by Breaking Bad

    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.

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  22. 2 hours ago, Bill Brasky said:

    for both chicken fried steak and chicken fried chicken, the first two words "chicken fried" describe the cooking method because it is battered and deep fried like traditional fried chicken.   the last word describes the meat used    

    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.

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