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CHIEF

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  1. We decided not to lease the place in Strawn, again, this year. Too much money to be surrounded by hunters that won't let a deer live past 3.5yo. They are also putting in a wind farm on the acreage, they have about 20 sites surveyed off, and two sites that are within shooting distance of where our blind was at. Don't blame the rancher, he could use the money.

    CHIEF Jr. has a buddy that he wake surfs with every Thursday, he works at Rough Creek Lodge. The perks out there are killer. He gets 50% off of anything he purchases. He, CHIEF Jr. and another couple of friends went on an Upland Gamebird hunt last Thursday, and it was $225/person with no limit on birds, just a limit on time. They shot five pheasant, four chukars, and thirty one quail. They clean, vacuum seal, and flash freeze them for you. So a really good deal. I'm going next time.

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    Rough Creek is the first deer lease I can ever remember our family leasing. A lot of great stories. Its were the "shocked bird dog" story happened that I've told on here. We had a thousand acres to deer hunt, and 10,000 acres to quail hunt. The lakes had never really been fished when we leased it.

    I think we are going to do their Ultimate Rod and Gun Club with what we would have spent on the deer lease.

    https://www.roughcreek.com/memberships/ultimate-rod-gun-club/

    The high school buddy that works out there is the head bartender, he said he would comp any drinks we ever ordered, which would sweeten the pot.

    We can hunt deer at the Lodge, but CHIEF Jr. and I both have other places to hunt. He has a spot in Mason, I have one in Iowa Park, near Wichita Falls. I will have a better chance of killing something big. My buddy, up there, shot an 8 1/2 year old with his bow on Tuesday that scored 168 (on the decline), and weighed 277 on the hoof.

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  2. 1 hour ago, Chad Fuck said:

    Doesn't this seem like a lot of inside information really quickly?  Does that strike anyone else as odd?  

    Why would they want to drag their balls across Russia's face with this, unless all this was compromised already?  

     

    It does seem odd. I chalked it up to a Ukranian engineer that was employed there, at one time, that was high up enough to know the complete inner workings of the plant. Hell, it might have been a Ukranian contractor that built it. As for the air defense, they have dealt with it for four years, and probably know the timing from watching Russian reaction times to have a good idea of how to defeat it.

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  3. 3 hours ago, Parliament said:

    You could reasonably call that a war crime, destroying food.  We are above that.

    I'm gonna go with Aggy engineering.

    We might be above that, I don't know about the Ukes with what the Russians have done to them. Wheat is like O&G for them, need a little for home, but most is for export. Wheat, corn, and soybean markets are so low, with the Chinese looking elsewhere, American farmers could probably fill the gap.

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  4. 51 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

    Meanwhile, wheat crop failure creates an agricultural emergency.

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    https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/09/29/agricultural-emergency-declared-in-southern-russias-rostov-region-over-crop-loss-a90653

     

    ….. i’m sure the Russian economy is so strong right now that it won’t miss a few rubles in wheat sales

    With a severe drought, the Ukes need to send simple incendiary bombs on windy days into the Russian wheat fields. Burn it all, right before winter.

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  5. 3 hours ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

    Arch doesn’t soft toss the ball like quinn

    He needs to think of himself as the receiver, what velocity could he likely catch at that distance. You can’t lose 30% of your likely receiving  yards because of ball velocity. That is inexcusable. The QB Guru needs to tighten that up. 
     

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  6. 2 hours ago, Ghost of NMAS said:

    How much refining capacity does Singapore have?

    Apparently enough that a lot of American oilfield services companies have offices over there. Owens Tool has one, I think Core Services, as well. Those are both companies that have offices close to Granbury. When my son was looking for an engineering job, several had Singapore offices.

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  7. 42 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

    To get this thread back on track - there are more and more "regenerative" farms popping up.  Farms like White Oak Pastures.  6th generation farming in GA.  Will Harris (owner) was on the JRE and really broke down his system, how it is magnitudes better than factory farming AND mono-crop agriculture.

    Vertically integrated, almost zero-waste models that is all on-site and scalable

    • multi-species rotational grazing
    • holistic mgmt
    • no chemicals
    • soil building/composting
    • full utilization
    • on-site slaughter
    • soil sequesters more carbon that the livestock emit over their lifetimes
    • many environmental awards for their work.

     

     

    Have a buddy in Salado that is a partner on a Wagyu ranch that does that. From the pasture, through the finishing, to the processing. He would bring Wagyu steaks to the deer lease, and they were the shit. For some reason, show steers never brought much money at the Central Texas Fair in Clifton, my Dad would always keep mine out of the sale. His reasoning was that the steer was finished perfect, he had paid the feed bill, so he was going to eat that bastard instead of someone else.

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  8. 13 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

    Why we switched to the Mezzican devil cows....and yet, nature still gets a vote.

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    Yeah, we were always blessed good pastures to graze, not really in an arid region. Didn't have to worry about cattle freezing to death like Montana or Wyoming. Never had to really worry about snow. I imagine the work gets harder the farther North and West you go.

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  9. 1 hour ago, chainsaw said:

    No, I don't personally own cows. There are ranches in my family, my office is across the hall from a guy with land in several states that includes ranches, and I've got some drinking buddies who are ranch hands. Raising any kind of livestock is not easy and even in good times the risks of the investment going to waste are pretty high unless you know what you're doing and have convenient access to supplies and access to the right medicine and the right care.

    Raising cows that people want to buy and eventually eat, according to the people who do it for a living, is a lot of hard work.

    It's not really that hard of work, just more time consuming vaccinating, or cleaning any wounds. Screw worms have only been eradicated in the US since 1966. I remember my grandfather talking about how nice it is to not have to run your herd through the head chute every week to kill the larvae. Out of the four or five thousand head we raised over the years, I don't ever remember losing one to a disease, or to parasites. The only ones I can remember losing was one to a rattlesnake bite, and two heifers with calving problems. If you have good fences, and plenty of graze, you can kind of put them on autopilot. I've never really dealt with finishing cattle out in a feedlot, that may be a whole different situation with confined spaces.

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  10. 5 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Okay....idea....help fund Ukrainian defense by letting "tourists" pay to go up on such flights.

    How many of y'all here would pay $5k to go up on a "use a shotgun to shoot down Russian drones from an open cockpit aircraft" ride?  SIGN. ME. UP.  Get a good semi-auto shotgun with a large magazine, and let 'er rip.  Sure, make us go through some training, show some actual shooting skill -- I mean, these missions actually do matter.

    Ukraine gets cash, "volunteers" fighting for it, and Russian drowns blasted.  Win-win-win.

    Ideally in a Sopwith Camel and a Bullpup with 15 round drums. To make it really authentic to WWI, no parachutes, oh, and the Russians have to circle crash sites and drop wreathes. They have to use their own wreath fund, of course.

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  11. 22 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Sure, you wait until you have clearance from control to shoot - hold off until the target is in the clear, then have at it.

    Shit, lease some Super Tucanos from Brazil.  You only need a few, they've gotta be cheaper to operate than jet interceptors, and are better suited to tackling lower-speed targets, right?

    Fuck, just set up a meeting at the Olney Dairy Queen with the AgTractor guys, trade the herbicide/insecticide tank, and its full weight, for some armor and wing attachment points. An SUU-23 20mm gun pod under each wing shooting 6k rounds per minute, each. I bet an armored AgTractor would be under $1.5 million. This wouldn't necessarily be ideal for drones, but it sure would be fun for strafing Russian trenches at the front lines. A poor man's A-10, from a non-military defense contractor.

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  12. When people ask me how I have kept a marriage going for over 30 years, I tell them, "easy, never work cattle with your wife."

     

    One thing I would do, if I was a farmer. I would offer any rancher I knew to put as many cattle on my crop land as they want. Dual strand electric fences are cheap as shit, add a water trough and a water hauling trailer. Work out a deal on the percentage of weight gain. Farmer provides all of the feed, Rancher, all of the cows. Divvy up the cash after the calves cross the scales at the sale barn. With cattle over $3/lb., the weight gain will easily exceed whatever the crop is worth. 

    When we ranched, my Dad would always plant a lot of oats in whatever farmland we leased. He would throw feeder calves on it in the late fall, and let them overwinter until early summer. We would cross fence it (electric fence) to be able to rotate pastures, and never cared if we cut any crop off of it. It was profitable at $.75/lb. cattle prices. Our calves usually gained about 2.0-2.5 pounds per day. 600 head X 2.5/lbs./day= 1500/lbs./day or $1125 a day for approximately 120-150 days. Now do todays prices, and plug those numbers in.

    With cattle prices at where they are, Farmers need to turn that crop into meat.

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  13. 1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

    Just had a sack of 100 Pemaquid's from Fulton seafood co dropped off on my front porch.  Neighbor brought them inside to keep them cool.  They'll go into the fridge, then will eat them with friends pre-game before the Austin FC match on Sunday.

    Do you get a break on the price by buying a sack? Or are they still $3 a pop, due to shipping?

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  14. 51 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:

    They do that sometimes but it takes literally 10 seconds to walk through the other lobby.  It's not that much of an imposition.  

    I know he went when river cruises were becoming a "thing", about 8-10 years ago. I bet the tour lines got the message. He talked like hardly any of them had a walk through. You had to keep walking around the bow or stern. 

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  15. 1 minute ago, Brisketexan said:

    Jesus, dude (Brisket says unironically).

    Again, right now, I can pop onto my social media and find 100X more "Christians" who literally want me killed, silenced, or expelled from the country, because I don't share their beliefs.

    I know plenty of muslims.  Not one of them has ever voiced such a sentiment to or about me.  Logs, specks, all that stuff.  Look into it.  Your blanket statements about muslims are fucking horrible, and you should really think about what the fuck you are saying and promoting.  It's fucking twisted.

    I'm just lamenting on why no one will have the outcome they desire, or that there is a logical solution that will be reached. Sometimes bad shit just happens in our World. In religious context, we are seeing the unstoppable force meet the immoveable object. It seems people just want "tit for tat" for all eternity. Muslims vs Judaism. We killed some of your people, so you can kill a certain number of ours. A two state solution is not the solution to keep this from happening, it will just end up in border skirmishes like with Hezbollah in Lebanon, with a new invasion by Israel every few years to flush out rocket launchers.

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  16. 2 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:

    This is absolute bullshit and you should be ashamed of yourself.

    I have a video of an Arab Egyptian woman, raised in Gaza, and she says the same thing, if you want to see it. It takes courage to stand up and say what she says. We need thousands more like these women.

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  17. I have Muslim friends and former Muslim friends. Most of the former Muslims left Islam specifically over non plurality, and the inability for Islam to coexist with other religions. Many became Christians, as it welcomes anyone, and hopes to save those who have not found God yet. In services at their Mosque, the Mullah would curse those that were not of Islam. 

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  18. I have an uncle that went on one with his wife, when they were about 60. Both are in great shape and active. The enjoyed it, but one thing he said was really annoying was they would tie the cruise barges together, at port, and you would have to crawl over, or through the 4-7 other barges to get to shore.

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