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CHIEF

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  1. Thanks HC. I was counting on your knowledge and expertise. I was kinda leary, since it is built in China, but CHIEF Jr. swears they are really high quality and made right. I put a 3D printer on my Christmas list, apparently I am usually impossible to buy for. I have two rifles with 50mm objective scopes, but my .300 WSM is a 44mm, and I have a couple of rifles with even smaller objectives. Im gonna use the 3D printer to print adapter sleeves for my different objective sizes.

    CHIEF

  2. Well, I think I have decided the ditch my cheap ATN thermal, and get a clip on thermal. One of my son's best friends lives next door to one of the main guys that owns IRay. I have heard great things about them, but didn't know if anyone, on here, owned one, or is familiar with them. I'm looking at this one:

    https://irayusa.com/infiray-outdoor-mate-640-50mm-clip-on-thermal-weapon-sight/

    I can probably get it for about $4500. I am tired of having a single rifle dedicated to thermal and with this, I can move it to any rifle with a scope. It can also be used as a monocular.

    CHIEF

  3. 37 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    This.  My question upon driving into a nice enough neighborhood in San Diego 20 years ago, and knowing what the home prices were: as we passed a Jiffy Lube, I asked "where in the fuck do THOSE guys live?"  Imagine having an hour commute from your "affordable" shithole apartment well outside of SD just to get to your job at....Jiffy Lube.

    We NEED guys who work at Jiffy Lube.  Just like we need people to work at the Ralphs, and the dry cleaner, and the coffee shop in that same shopping center.  Where is affordable housing for them?

    That said, I've long thought that schools COULD use some of the land they have to create staff/teacher housing, providing both a compensation/benefit and giving themselves more flexibility and power to hire qualified personnel.  Shit, fancy private schools do it.  That's a tool that any land-rich enterprise could use, on its own.

    Jayton, Texas did this about 50 years ago with tax from oil royalties. My history/aviation teacher was from there. We went by the school, and they had nice single family homes that they provided for the teachers since Jayton is 100 miles from anywhere. I think Guthrie did the same.

    CHIEF

  4. When we were leasing 16k acres, on the Swenson Ranch, north of Abilene, we leased for $6/acre, resold the quail lease for $4/acre, and were in at $2/acre. They couldn’t even quail hunt until the day after deer season closed. 
     

    CHIEF

  5. On 11/11/2025 at 9:35 PM, HOOKEM4 said:

    I dont get the aggy wildfire website. Several 100 acres lost to a fire and it isnt even posted. Heading out to survey the damage tomorrow. Neighbor thankfully has been calling/ sending updates. It's great having amazing neighbors. Still a kick in the nuts. This year can eat all the dicks. 

    A fire can be both a blessing and a curse. It will suck this year, best you can do is clean out the feeder pens, and hope there is still enough cover for them to feel safe coming to the feeder. All of the old, dead, matted grass should be burned off, the next three years you should be loaded with deer. The fire will put nitrogen back into the soil, and everything should be green as a gourd. Good time to get a grain drill and research some improved drought resistant perennial grasses (rye, Klein, or bluestem).

    CHIEF

  6. 21 hours ago, BabaYaga said:

    There's a metric shit-ton of Taurus Judge's out there and I haven't heard many issues from them.  Wheel guns aren't exactly the most difficult items to produce, especially short barreled ones that are good for keeping you safe pumping gas or walking to/from your car.  Longer range, consistent accuracy isn't really part of the equation.  

    And for the record, and I have fired a ton of BIG handguns from 454's to .50 Desert eagles.  NOTHING made we want to pack it up and head inside more than those little f'ing .357 hammerless, ultralight snubbies.  JFC it's like grabbing a live wire.  My wrist snapped back.  Loud as hell.  Damn hand near went numb.  Utterly worthless.  After the first shot you are so discombobulated and a follow-up shot is out of the question.  

    Yeah. When I was looking for Mrs. CHIEF a purse gun, I got it in .38. Buddy said if I bought it in .357 she would rather be assaulted.

    CHIEF

  7. 1 hour ago, Kennythetiger said:

    Thank god he’s got him mama’s brains. He’ll figure it out. Step aside, Pops. 

    Pizza is so cheap around here, I didn't think about checking the freezer section. Damn First World problems. This might actually be cheaper than his quad patty, quad cheese Whataburger.

    CHIEF

  8. 15 hours ago, Anastasis said:

    Bow hunt them or capture them in controlled settings and send them off to the processor to deposit at the local food shelter. Win-win. 

    That is what we do in our neighborhood. You get to hear the ol' Blue Hairs bitch about how inhumane the nets are. But it must be done for the health of the herd.

    CHIEF

  9. The 280Z was about the fastest thing you could get in the late 1970s, besides exotics. It was so much lighter than the domestics, but with similar power. Had a great power to weight ratio at the time.

    CHIEF

  10. 2 hours ago, randomhorn said:

    I picked up a 76 280Z earlier in the year. It's in really great shape and the stock 2.8L engine runs strong. Same with the interior. It's not a factory standard color, but I like it. My plan for now is just to clean it up, go with bigger 16" panasports, maybe a new exhaust header, maaaaybe swap the 4speed for a 5, otherwise keep the little things from turning into big things, and enjoy it for what it is.

     

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    My uncle was a Dallas fireman, but he lived in Cleburne. He had a silver 1977 280Z as his commuter car. I loved that car. I begged him to sell it to me, when he got rid of it. I was 15, and had a "hardship" license. It was plenty fast a 130 mph car. I never got it though. I think my Mom put the kibosh on that. Would have been like giving a chimp a loaded shotgun.

    CHIEF

  11. 25 minutes ago, bejezuz said:

    Pork steaks are also delicious.  Personally, we've moved on to top sirloin cooked rare.  It's pretty underrated as long as you don't overcook it and cut against the grain.  

    For sure. We are a ribeye family, but I can still get Choice sirloins for $8.99/lb. A 1.75 lb. sirloin is still an under $10/person meal.

    CHIEF

  12. Man, I really never venture over here. But the "They Call Me...." old Spaghetti Westerns with Terrance Hill were fantastic. Almost Three Stooges level of comedy. They couldn't cuss, so the insults are fantastically hilarious. I think there is "They call Me Nobody", "They Call Me Trinity", "Trinity Is My Name." If you want to binge watch, they are worth a Sunday.

    CHIEF

  13. 46 minutes ago, davidg said:


    This. Probably don’t need to worry about the twist rate. I have shot a few hundred of these through a youth single shot bolt action 22 and they are very quiet without using a suppressor. If you can’t find the Aguila’s, look for some CCI 22 lr 40grn hollow point subsonic. They are pretty quite out of the same 22.

    I'm not sure how far you would have to drive to get the Aguilas, it looks like you can only buy them from a specialty retailer which, I imagine in California, those are few and far between. You can buy the CCIs and have them shipped to your front door. You might want to install a spiral staircase to keep him at bay until your ammo arrives.

    CHIEF

  14. 16 hours ago, Parliament said:

    We were pig farmers not cowboys, but the concepts are all the same.  You grow up FAST when you grow up on a farm.  A young Parliament saw things that would make you cry.

    My FIL used to say, if you suspect someone is a hog farmer, spray their shoes with water, you will know immediately.

    CHIEF

  15. 12 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    If we had any of those....my grandpa sure as shit didn't provide me any.  He took great pleasure in subjecting us "soft city kids" to the grittier parts of ranching life.  Wouldn't have done any good anyway.  Once everything flew out at once, I looked like the end of Men in Black.

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    Ours was pre-latex glove days as well. Worst I ever pulled was at another ranchers place. He was an absentee owner, had just started ranching, and called us frantic that he had a heifer trying to calve, and the calf was stuck. We go over there, and the heifer had tried to have the calf several days before, and somehow she was still alive, and not really in too bad of shape. The calf? That was another story. Not sure how long it had been dead, but when we went to pull him, he was rotten enough that he just pulled in two. The smell was absolutely atrocious. The rancher asked, "Well Mel (my dad) what are we gonna do?" Now this was a high dollar purebred Hereford heifer. My Dad said, "Terry I've got something for her in my truck." He went to the truck, came back, pulled a pistol out and shot her right between the eyes.

    CHIEF

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