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CHIEF

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  1. It's time to go move into the sailboat, and do what you want to do. Kick it's ass. CHIEF
  2. I'm not sure. Before the war, there were hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian women on mail order bride websites, looking to meet Western men, and leave the country. She may have been one of them. I have seen what many of these men look like, and the wool they pull from there. No way they are going to get a Western woman that looks like that. He has head tats, and is a security guard, not ideal. But at least he looks young, and in shape. Not sure who the instigator is. Women's number one goal in life, is security. She just provided herself a path to UK citizenship. CHIEF
  3. Ouch. I had an uncle that had a Coastal field and a sprigger. I never checked with anyone else. Haven’t checked prices since. CHIEF
  4. That was 2006 pricing. You throw cattle on when everyone has hay, but you can’t be in love with them. Sell them when it starts getting dry, and switch back to hay farming and sell bales at $100+ to the dumbassses that won’t sell their herd. I also had enough dairies that would have taken all I could have produced. CHIEF
  5. Yep. I consider missing out on that acreage a real turning point in what "could have been". Not a day goes by without it crossing my mind. Could have made $175k-$300k/year for the rest of my life, selling nothing but hay, or raising cattle when hay was plentiful. I know guys that have done it well up into their 90's. CHIEF
  6. The numbers quit working about a decade ago with rising land prices. There is absolutely no ranching land available anymore that can pay for itself. Even out in desolate places like Benjamin, the land is $1000-1500/acre. But it takes 40 acres to run one head. I missed out on a place in 2006, that I was going to buy instead of building my house. It was 320 acres (half section) just south of Cisco, with 319 acres of it in Coastal, it was beautiful, and only $1750/acre. The place had a few old plugged oil wells on it. I was going to drill out the plugs and replug below the water table, and use those wells for irrigation. It already had irrigation pipe, all I would have needed to do was buy compatible pumps. Dad put his pencil to it, said I could probably clear $75k/year. I told him if I spent that money on pumps and fertilizer, instead of cattle, and could cut hay every 28 days, and could get six cuttings at $50/bale, I could pay off the place in a little over three years. It was a drought that year, and hay was going for $150/bale. I could have probably paid it off in less than two years. I called the realtor, he said the place had just sold, but he had another like it. He sent me pictures, it was solid brush. Would have taken a couple of thousand an acre to clear it, and probably $500 to sprig it, and years before you could cut hay off of it. CHIEF
  7. BY, here is what I use: https://www.cabelas.com/shop/en/zeiss-conquest-v4-rifle-scope?ds_e=GOOGLE&ds_c=Cabelas|Search|DSA|CatchAll|General|NAud|NVol|NMT&gclid=Cj0KCQjwhLKUBhDiARIsAMaTLnE9yePx0s-QslJuxWLv-BFzQf59ZtDgSBIMc9k2GXHCDQK73uh68b0aAjCLEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds mine is stainless, and I paid about half as much 16 years ago. But it's a great scope. I had perfect vision when I got it, but now need glasses. It has an adjustable focus on the rear objective, so I can shoot it without my glasses. I like the 44mm objective, it's a noticeable difference, in size, to the 50mm. Less chance of getting knocked off, and easier to put in cases. The objective is not wider than the gun, so a gun case doesn't pressure it from the sides. CHIEF
  8. It has really good margins, if you inherit it from your parents or grandparents, and it's the right kind of land. If you have irrigated coastal, buy cow/calf pairs with the mother already bred back, the margins are probably close to 30%. Enough to pay off the momma after two years. Your cost is only electricity for the well pump, medications, diesel, fertilizer, and baling. I know several 2nd or 3rd generation ranchers that are millionaires, or multi-millionaires. They hit the inheritance jackpot. They have hands that take care of the ranch, while they travel around the World, and go to the sale barn and eat chicken fried steaks once a week. It's an envious life. CHIEF
  9. I know many people are against farm subsidies, but this is the reason we have them. Having a secure agricultural base that can feed the entire nation should always be the number one priority of national security. The entire nation could sustain itself on government cheese, and saltines for a while. The Great Depression taught us this lesson. 40% of potentially enlisted men were 4F'ed going into WWII from illnesses related to malnutrition. My great-great uncle, got in at 120 lbs., was shipped to New Zealand, where he promptly put on an extra 45 lbs. He said there was plenty to eat, and all the ice cream he could put in his stomach. CHIEF
  10. Also from the article, the county population is at 57: Word of the arrests spread faster than a prairie fire with a tailwind through this West Texas county, population 57 as of the last U.S. Census Bureau estimate. Spread over 671 square miles of mesquite-studded desert, Loving County has no school, no church, no grocery store and no bank. The few children who live there board the bus in the only town, Mentone (population 22), and travel about 35 miles each morning and afternoon to attend school. The 117 population remark had me wondering, who the fuck is moving to Loving county. CHIEF
  11. My Dad ran over a bumblebee nest in a pasture on our ranch when I was a kid. He got nailed in the back of the head a couple of times. He parked the shredder back over their hole and left the shredder running, ran to the truck and came to the house. Went back an hour later and turned off the tractor. CHIEF
  12. It’s like your school teacher making the school bully give you your lunch money back, but you still have to give him your tater tots. CHIEF
  13. Parker and Palo Pinto were not even desirable during the heydays of the Barnett. It is way up dip. Those wells are marginal at $10/mcf. Permian wells flare off per day as much as a Barnett well can produce in a week. CHIEF
  14. The population must be exploding. It was 91 the last time I checked. Either they are horny out there, or nearly 30 people decided this is a good place put down roots. CHIEF
  15. Tex48...DM sent. CHIEF
  16. I'll put out a feeler to my buddy at Pioneer. CHIEF
  17. One of CHIEF Jr.'s buddies (he is the first kid in the first aoudad shot) thought about getting on our lease, last year, but it is too far of a drive for his buddy from Houston/Austin to our lease. The buddy is a CPA for Price Waterhouse in Houston currently, but has been mainly working remotely in Austin (girlfriend lives in Austin, and pussy is undefeated). His dad is the head of radiology at our hospital, here, in Granbury. They are originally from Turkey, Tx. and hunted out west, but are looking for something more central Texas. They are good at aging, and managing practices. They both make great money, and are willing to invest it in the lease. Best of all, they are big Longhorn Fans. If anyone has a spot open for two guns, I would not hesitate to recommend them. They also have their own RV, so a cabin isn't necessary. It is set up to be able to receive Longhorn games from anywhere. CHIEF
  18. Yeah, I looked at my last little 2000 sq. ft. house in Cedar Park. I got a helluva deal on it in 2003 when the housing market had a small hiccup at the beginning of the Iraq war. The builder was trying to close out construction on the east side of Anderson Mill Rd. to move across and have all of his contractors on the west side. I went to look at it at $185k, and he immediately dropped the price to $163k. I built a covered porch on the back for about $12k, and put in a sprinkler system. The house is on the appraisal books, today, at $601,101. I was paying in enough extra to have the house paid off in about 18 years. I could buy the same house, currently, in my neighborhood for about $400k, and put $200k in my pocket. CHIEF
  19. Them boys from the Bastrop Walmart, they were dead within three hours. Buried in the damn pines out past the State Park. I still got the shovel. CHIEF
  20. Yep. Lending rates don't effect our buyers. Put a 2100 sq.ft.house on the market on Monday, for $625k. It's Brazos River front, but not a great hole of water. We have two offers, both full price, cash buyers, have waived appraisals, will not ask for any repairs, and willing to pay for the seller's title policy. People, in their prime earning years, are negotiating to work at home, and go into the office once or twice a week. They are taking the equity from their more expensive urban/desirable suburban home by selling it. They are going out and use that equity to pay cash, and pocket the difference, on rural, and small town residences about forty-five minutes to an hour out from their main office. In our area, that's Granbury and Glen Rose. I haven't been out that way for a while, but would think the same is happening in Burnet, Johnson City, and Blanco. CHIEF
  21. Each. I’m not talking about aggregate. Do you think any recruit alone received 7 figures? CHIEF
  22. Could a supplement be added to certain formula (when you can find it) that would give children with a deficient amount of BChE, a sufficient BChE level? Seems like the easiest and most probable way to end SIDS. CHIEF
  23. A buddy sent me this from Metcalf, southwest of Odessa, this morning. Nine thousand foot vertical with a three mile horizontal. He's running a 150 stage frac over those three miles: CHIEF
  24. My mother said the royalty check she received, today, was based/sold at $8.15/mcf. That's a nice five figure check. CHIEF
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