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  1. My dad worked for Santa Fe Railroad when I was a little kid. GM would ship car parts in these thin veneer wooden shipping crates. He wanted me to start hunting with him when I was about 5-6 years old. He found three post oaks that were growing in a triangle and nailed three 2x6s about 30 feet up. He took two of the shipping crates, took an end off of each one and fastened them together on top of the three 2x6s, and threw in a bus seat. He nailed 2x4 steps to one of the trees to get in it. So, it was open top and exposed to the elements and was still referred to as "the Taj Mahal" of the lease.

    He would shit a rubber turkey if he saw my hunting set up today (Fridge, TV, a/c, solar electricity).

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  2. 19 hours ago, Storm the Field said:

    Lol. Old buddy of mine makes a living as a real estate agent for people buying and selling ranches. Posted this pic today from a property he was visiting with a buyer. 

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    Easily the most dangerous hunting stand I've ever seen. Said it's about 40 feet of ladder to climb with those tiny little pegs. Enter through the floor, and then there's just a swivel seat up there. 

    It's a hundred yard shot just shooting straight down.

    I've seen one of these before, apparently those towers were made in the 50s and 60s. A friend, in Bosque county, had a ranch behind ours. He had one that was not quite as tall, but probably still 25 foot. It had a Ford 8N tractor seat welded to the top, no gun rest, safety railing, or safety strap. He offered to let me hunt it, but I told him it would be too uncomfortable sitting on the giant balls you would have to have to pull that stunt.

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  3. 3 hours ago, closetojumping said:

    I've never taken a train in North America. I've heard that Amtrak is a city bus on rails and is to be avoided at all costs. Is there a nicer version that would be worth it? I've ridden numerous trains throughout Europe and would highly recommend those. You can pretty much plan an entire trip, for whatever cities you want to see, by train only for most of Europe. 

    This. The wife and CHIEF Jr. were already in Austin for a home game this year, and had her vehicle. I got the bright idea to jump on Amtrak, in Cleburne, at 4:15 and get off downtown. The train didn't get to Cleburne until almost 6 pm. The depot closed at 5 pm, so we just had to sit outside, in the heat, with no access to water or a bathroom. The trip wasn't bad, if you sit at the bar in the dining car. BUT, when we got to McGregor we had to sit on the track for over an hour waiting on a freight train to pass going the opposite direction. Then, at Belton, we had to do it again.

    I finally called Mrs. CHIEF, told her about the shitshow, and had her come pick me up at the station in Taylor, as the train was going to have another hour delay. So, all in all, a trip that I can drive in about three hours took over five hours just to get me 45 minutes away.

    There are Youtube videos of people traveling the eastern seaboard on Amtrak from Florida to New York where the train arrived almost a full 24 hours late. Also another one where the traveler jumped on Amtrak in Florida and rode to Seattle. He missed his ferry ride to Anchorage by four days.

    2 hours ago, Deej said:

    CHIEF Jr. went with my parents about 2010 or so. He said it was absolutely first class, Skyview roof was epic, food was phenomenal. Nice overnight accommodations in Kamloops. It is considered the best rail experience in North America by many.

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  4. 1 hour ago, Parliament said:

    So America has a demographic problem with all these old boomers.  All they do is use resources and vote wrong, let alone breaking Social Security.

    What I'm saying is maybe we shouldn't discount this idea.

    Wow, what a cunt. Even if you were joking, it still isn't fucking funny. You are usually a good poster. 

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  5. Has anyone ever had to shit at the Rasta Bar on the South end of Cozumel? It looks like a formidable situation. Open Air with five gallon buckets, no TP, and you gotta pay. I imagine you can slip the bartender some greenbacks and he might give you a paper towel.

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  6. 3 minutes ago, Not a cat said:

    Hell, It's close enough the house I can just run a hose.  Which would cause my mother to have flashbacks to the 80s when she comes out and sees that her idiot son is destroying her property with one of his projects.

    Or I can get that hole digging guy from another thread to come over for a weekend.

    Oh hell yeah. That close, make a screener with a wood frame and some 1/2" mesh galvanized screen from Tractor Supply. Put a shovel load in and rinse the dirt away.

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  7. 1 hour ago, Not a cat said:

    Total newb here, but I was visiting my mother's place in Kyle and noticed a bunch of flakes on a hill on her property.  Found a few promising pieces on the surface, which look like they've been worked but certainly aren't the obvious symmetrically perfect arrowheads a lot of people are posting. 

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    Top one kind of looks like a scraper of some sort, even has a nice indentation for the thumb.  Left 2 have the best shape, but the other side of each isn't finished (see pic of reverse below).  Not sure about the other 3 but they seem to be roughly the right shape and look like they've been worked.  Maybe got some rejects they started or my imagination is seeing things in an otherwise completely natural rock. 

    Reverse-

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    Anyway, if these are promising and are actually man made, what's the next step to find more?  I tried putting a shovel in the ground and hit rock almost immediately.

     

    If there is a lot of rock, any points can't be too deep. A 300 gallon tote with a gas pressure washer will do the trick.

    CHIEF

  8. 4 hours ago, closetojumping said:

    There are a few tangents to this thread that I've pondered as well. 

    1) Something similar to this thread regarding the 2022 Texas A&M class. 

    2) Looking at the opposite premise - can a single class make you playoff compatible?

    3) Rather than thinking through the 5 star and high 4 star impacts, going the opposite route and looking at a few teams and their classes over a 5 year period and seeing how many guys ranked outside of the top 250 nationally played key roles on their team, and how those teams performed. Maybe there are some interesting indicators there that would help thinking about intangibles like evaluation, development, luck and such differently. Maybe it's all noise. That's why it intrigues me.

    I've got some time right now and many of the stupid tangents that all of the threads are taking have bored me, so I'm pondering topics that might be interesting to me and some of you non-idiots posting here. 

    it's so bad, I just scroll to see if there is a new recruit/transfer that has their own post. God, I hate the offseason.

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  9. Not sure how reliable this YouTube channel is, but it discusses the huge number of Russian soldiers that have surrendered. At first it said the number was about 17k, later it says up to 35k. A Russian commander (sergeant) surrendered himself and all of the troops under his command. Ukraine has an "I want to Live" hotline, apparently a large number of Russians are taking up their offer:

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  10. My worst was the bathroom (if you can call it that) at the HTL Car Rental in Cozumel. Been eating really good spicy Mexican food all week and had to return the Jeep before flying back to Dallas. I asked the guys running it if I could use it, as I couldn't make it to the airport.They all just looked at each other in silence for about 3-5 seconds before walking me to the doorway. No door, no a/c, no TP, no hand soap, just a toilet covered in shit and full of shit covered in lye. I pulled out my phone and called Mrs. CHIEF to go to one of the surrounding restaurants or convenient stores and steal TP, paper towels, anything to wipe with and bring it to me. She went to a coffee shop and swiped an extra roll and brought it to me.

    The absolutely best place to shit? 

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    I have this badboy perched on top of a bluff about 50 yards behind my deer stand. You can take a shit and glass about 1500 acres at the same time. It's very peaceful, all you hear is the wind blowing, the bird's chirping, and the occasional fighter trainee coming by at about 150 feet. I'm always good about waving at them from my throne.

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  11. 2 hours ago, smwhorn said:

    I'm surprised actually at how hard this is beating me up.  No fever but coughing, sore throat, hacking up crap, headache and very fucking tired.

    CHIEF Jr. had a mild sore throat. The only common symptom was like bronchitis, chest congestion with coughing up shit. If we would have had an empty swimming pool, we could have filled it with mucus and spit.

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  12. Iran is kind of a tricky situation. The younger generation loves Western ideology and Western values. They are itching for a regime change, many are Christian. US Intelligence should identify, train, and somehow arm the opposition for a coup. Equip a force in Iraq and let them reenter Iran. Make things so bad at home that the regime doesn't have time to mess in other countries affairs.

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  13. 1 hour ago, MissingInAction said:

    A crop duster pilot flying an A-10 would be some Leroy Jenkins shit for the ages.

    When I worked at the FBO in Clifton we had a crop duster buddy that operated out of the airport. He had a biplane Agcat. His son always wanted to go up with him, but it was a single seater. So what did he do? He strapped his kid to the wing strut and took him for a ride. They are some crazy motherfuckers.

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  14. Took the test back around 1990. The test after the initial assessment is where I didn't do well. You have to make quick, correct decisions with hundreds of lives at stake without the time to second guess yourself. The second guessing, I couldn't keep from doing and I timed out.

    My great uncle and one of my current neighbors worked together at Ft. Worth Center as ATCs. I went and watched the last SR-71 flight from California to Washington DC, on the continental radar. The flight was 64 minutes long. The SR-71 was crossing a state in anywhere from about 3 to 8 minutes. My uncle and neighbor ate half a roll of TUMS each in the two hours I was there. 

    It's a high stress and often short-lived career. Burnout rate is incredible.

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  15. Going to La Pryor this coming weekend for an MLD meat hunt. We are planning on shooting about 15 deer or so between 3-4 of us. It’s a 26k acre low fence place a neighbor owns. CHIEF Jr. and he are pretty close friends. He borrows our Ranger sometimes when he has a house full of guests and wants to cruise around the neighborhood. 


    We had my aunt’s 70th birthday a couple of weeks ago, and my cousin reminded me that his dad is turning 73, and his little brother, my other uncle, is 66, and won’t be able to hunt many more years without help. CHIEF Jr. could afford a spot on our Benjamin lease, but he doesn’t need to spend that kind of money. Also, the ranch won’t maintain the roads, and are in no hurry to replace broken water lines to the water troughs on the place. It is 3 miles to the nearest natural water source from my blind. It rained so much, and the roads are so bad you couldn’t even get around. 


    We are going to see about getting something close in to home to accommodate work schedules and go a week to La Pryor every year to hunt monsters. It will be cheaper in the long run. Scraped up trucks, broken Rangers, and muddy trailers and blinds just isn’t fun. 
     

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  16. My maternal grandfather was a WWII vet, and told me a few when he was still alive. Of course, as a kid and an aviation fan, I asked him if he ever got to ride in any cool planes. So this is one of the stories he told me:

    He and another staff sergeant were privileged to get to drink in the Officer's Club. One night, a couple of Mustang pilots told him they were going to go blow up a bridge, in France, pre D-Day. The Allies had pretty much beaten the Luftwaffe back into Germany, and that their Mustangs had a small "perch" behind the pilot where you could take another person. They asked them if they would like to go for a ride and watch the bombing. Everything went as planned, until after the bombing run. As they climbed back to altitude, a flight of four German fighters were waiting on them. He was able to remain strapped to his perch, but his buddy, the other sergeant broke loose and rattled around the back of the plane like a BB in a tin can. It banged him up so bad he spent a week in the infirmary. 

    His other favorite story was during the Battle of the Bulge. He was the driver for a Lt. Colonel. He said it was miserably cold, so they had a canvas top on the Jeep. It had suicide doors. The Lt. Colonel cracked the door open to see what was going on, as the windows all had snow all over them. He said they were about 100 feet away from a 155mm Howitzer when it fired a shell. The Lt. Colonel was supposed to pull his head back in, and shut the door. Instead, he pulled the door shut then pulled his head back in. It basically skinned the back of both ears, and he had blood dripping from his ear lobes. My granddad said it was all he could do to keep from bursting into laughter. The Lt. Colonel finally looked at him and said, "Gotdamnit sergeant go ahead and laugh and get it over with, stupidity is some funny fuckin' shit."

    One of the best stories is one a buddy told me last night. His Dad was a P-51 ace from WWII. He was a full bird Colonel at 24, and had guys younger than him in his fighter group. They were flying out of North Africa, and bombing Italy. One of his pilots had a pet monkey that he took with him everywhere. He kept badgering the Colonel to let him take the monkey on a mission. The Colonel finally relented, told him he didn't give a shit. So they take off and start to climb out. At about 2000 feet the pilot with the monkey slows down to just about stall speed, the canopy slides back, and the monkey is thrown out. The canopy slides back closed. My buddy's dad pulls up beside him and you couldn't even see the pilot, as the entire canopy is covered in green monkey shit. He made the pilot clean it instead of the crew chief when they got back. He said they never could get the smell outta the plane, and the guy got called "shit show" the rest of the war.

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