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CHIEF

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  1. The Russians probably get paid bi-weekly. Some of the soldiers didn't save enough of their first paycheck to get there on time. CHIEF
  2. I didn't get to see the Duran Duran concert at ACL. It had Simon, Nick, and John. Why, why, why was this not a topic? They were a staple of my Junior High and early High School years. I would have gladly paid $1000 a ticket, for myself and my high school girlfriend. Mrs. CHIEF was a little young, and would have had to have stayed home. They are now touring Sweden, I wanted to save the air fare. Oh what could have been. CHIEF
  3. My wife bitched the other day that she would have retired from the State this year at 49. I remind her that she wouldn't have pulled down, remotely, the same money that she does now for the last decade. She also wouldn't be pulling the money she does now for the next decade either, as fresh face at 49. CHIEF
  4. The hogs I referenced above had thousands of acres of wheat and milo fields to graze, however I seldom saw them in the fields. That is where you would see massive herds of smaller hogs. I assume the larger hogs hit the fields at night. At our current lease, I haven't seen anything remotely as large. These hogs do not have massive acres of cultivated land to forage. Another consideration is how distant, genetically, a feral hog is from their domesticated ancestors. I know certain buyers that will not buy hogs with "floppy" ears. They consider them too closely related to their domesticated origins. CHIEF
  5. I blame it on the line at the Chicken Express in Seymour. 30 minute wait to get chicken gets everyone on edge. CHIEF
  6. Get your Ukrainian bride today, 70% off. A true "fire" sale. Gonna offer my guest room for asylum, no babushkas please. CHIEF
  7. When we hunted the Swenson Ranch in Aspermont, we had quit a few hogs that would have gone over 450 easily. I have never hunted anywhere that had hogs as big as what we saw. They were no longer a part of herds. They were just big solitary animals, away from other pigs. I shot a sow that was eight feet long, she was about two feet thick laying on her side. I thought she was an angus cow when she was about 3/4s of a mile away. Absolutely massive. It comes down to age, and how long they can avoid being killed. CHIEF
  8. My wife working for the State of Texas for 17 years is what is keeping me in the equation. She will continue to work till 65, if not she will be bored and also crazy, she gets really antsy not working, which has worked to our (my) benefit. Her current employer will cover us till she retires, then the State will pick up our Medicare. Hopefully, I die like my Dad. A heart attack and minimal hospitalization. Happened to his parents, so luckily, I've got that going for me.
  9. The deer are so thick in our subdivision, that the female mountain lion, in here, does not run off her cubs, plenty to eat for everyone. We have 3-6 around here constantly. People see them from time to time, many on security or game cameras. I see tracks on my riverfront acreage occasionally. So far, they haven't attacked humans. I too, would have a hard time shooting one. CHIEF
  10. Forgot to add him. CHIEF
  11. Yep. A laser timed 4.4x 40 yard guy, is going to run a 10.6 100 meter or better. Texas has two, for sure in X and Brennan Thompson, and maybe Jamison. I doubt any team has more than 5-6 at the most. Shipley was plenty fast, probably ran a 4.4x hand timed, but would be a 4.5x laser timed. Same with Quan Cosby. CHIEF
  12. Mine is insulated, but it was going to a buyer in Alberta, Canada. It's really big inside, so it still took a lot of propane to warm up. I went through a propane container about every three hunts. Uninsulated, I would think you would go through a container per hunt, you would need to leave the heater on at all times instead of intermittent. For what Travis will charge to insulate the blind, it is worth it. We hunt fairly close to each other, the temperatures are a lot closer to Kansas than South Texas. CHIEF
  13. It's simply Maslow's Theory. Once your basic needs are met, though, I think it jumps past esteemed and straight to self-actualization. The best two weeks I have had, in the last two months, was two weeks with no TV, and limited internet. Just me and CHIEF Jr., in the middle of nowhere, hunting, bullshitting, not hitting a paved road for two weeks, eating Ramen for lunch, and looking at stars. Talk about a life reset. CHIEF
  14. Same. CHIEF Jr. has a kid he graduated with that has a few million Tiki's-Tok followers. He is worth probably seven or eight figures. He comes over here, he is just another "Snot nose". He comes by every time he is in town, I think he just likes being treated as another one of the kids. He started on Vine, so he was one of the first Tiki's-Tok influencers. His shit is unfunny to me, but I am an "Old". He says he is always happiest, here, or at home. Everyone has their own perspective. You choose your happiness. CHIEF
  15. I'm gonna plant an extra row, just for that remark. Also, let me know if you need some ducks for gumbo, we slayed them this year. CHIEF
  16. Yep, Deadshank, bullzack, and HB have done what I have. Unplug and tune this shit out. CHIEF Jr. has no social media, at 23, and refuses to date any gal that does. Got rid of Tinder, Snapchat, etc...and is much happier for it. None of my family watches anything but local news, so we can watch the weather. Spend my time here, for any social media. Wife and I both have Facebook that we check on family and friends and their kids (offer condolences for deaths, happy anniversaries and birthdays). We may check it once a week each. Social activities are Wednesday night at The 19th Hole, where we know everybody. We catch up on what's happening in the neighborhood. Saturday night is a fire in the fireplace on the back porch where we each invite a few friends over. I am perfectly happy going over to the shop to tinker to get out of the house, if I have no real estate showings scheduled. I'm getting ready to plant a garden. Life has never been better. CHIEF
  17. I ran identical times at his age. He runs a good curve, and is a bit slow out of the blocks. I'm not sure how good of a track coach he has, but could possibly be a 10.7 guy with a good coach that can teach you how to set up your blocks. That didn't happened to me until college, and you realize you are faster than you thought. CHIEF
  18. Ian Boyd standing behind AJ Milwee? CHIEF
  19. I spoke with one of the game wardens before season. I asked him should we use a bow, or rifle. He asked if I had "a hundred yard gun". I told him my son had a .450 Bushmaster. He told me to leave it in the blind, and always shoot towards the river. He said with a bow, you never know whose yard they may die in, they may not let you take it, and it would just sit and rot. The .450 was what he killed the two deer with when he used the blind. CHIEF
  20. I'm not saying that it is ideal, but much like being an Armenian in the Ottoman Empire, I would hate to be a non-Aryan in a Ukrainian civil war. I have yet to see Putin practice "ethnic cleansing". The situation is much like a "goat eating grass burrs". CHIEF
  21. The "out" to me, seems to be to tell Vlad to go ahead and clean up the Ukrainian shitshow, as most Ukrainians would probably be better off under Russian control. But the Baltics have shown they can govern themselves effectively, and are NATO members. Thus they will be protected by members of NATO, and an attack on them will be defended as would any attack on any NATO member (Germany, France, UK, or USA). CHIEF
  22. This is all the rage in my subdivision up by Granbury. We have several thousand on 4700 acres in a river bend. 1200 head need to be taken a year just to maintain a healthy population. I have 6 acres in the bend, but not in the HOA. I have had friends come and take about 30 deer during this year's season, including the local game wardens. You have the totally unreasonable that want no deer taken. The somewhat unreasonable that don't want netting. And the reasonable that want them all taken by any reasonable humane way possible. Nextdoor is rife with drama, the "I was near a net, when it dropped, and heard the poor deer crying out in pain and terror." and "my daughter saw deer fighting for their lives, and said it will scar her for the rest of her life" crowd get laughed at, and made fun of, which they should. Overpopulations of deer end up with Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), and Anthrax, which they spread to each other and to other species through eating after each other, and drinking from common watering spots. Anthrax can also be spread to humans through contact with an uncooked carcass or meat. We had a bulletin sent to us this year by the ranch foreman on our lease to not touch any dead deer carcass we came across that showed no bullet hole as there had been several cases of Anthrax found in King county. CHIEF
  23. With years of rampant corruption, Neo-nazi "municipal Guards" roving the streets and beating people, and the growing concern of a massive civil war on the horizon. A war that could possibly lead to genocide. It sounds as though Ukrainians have no business governing themselves, or ever having the opportunity of becoming a NATO partner. I have a tough time giving a shit whether or not Russia invades. It's like two shitty siblings rolling up their sleeves and squaring off, and Mom coming in and putting each of them in a corner. Agree with a lot of others in this thread. We have some very interesting Surlyfolk, with interesting jobs, connections, and information. CHIEF
  24. CHIEF Jr. and his buddies shot two 3 man limits this weekend at the lease: One spot they found this afternoon, he estimated had 700 birds on it. We are supposed to take 10 men out for the spots they found this next weekend to shoot two days worth of ten man limits. Both of his buddies guide duck hunts, and neither has been part of a ten man limit. One of them shot a pintail that is mount worthy to bring home. CHIEF
  25. It should taste better and have a meatier breast than a pure wild turkey, genetic engineering and all that. CHIEF
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