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CHIEF

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  1. 13 minutes ago, Gale Snoats said:

    Any consensus on proper age for a boy to start shooting a shotgun? Been talking to him about him about gun safety and he’s been around my shotguns and rifles a bit but more interested in him physically handing the kick part of it. Haven’t shot a 410 in decades so don’t really remember how it kicks if much at all. Boy will be 8 in the spring but he’s skinny skinny (unlike his daddy).

    Plenty old enough. I would go ahead and step up to a .20 gauge youth model. A .410 is about useless for birds, but makes a great snake gun, or teach him to shoot them off the ground or the power lines. LOL

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  2. 3 minutes ago, Herbie Hancock said:

    What is the group thoughts on the neighbors little rat terrier coming across the property line and running deer off from the feeder? While he’s sitting 100 yards away on his gator watching it all. I’m leaning towards a 7mag to the midsection and watching Fido explode like an earl campbell on the grill

    Film it all, and call the game warden. Harassing hunters is against the law. My son and his buddies used to duck hunt in the Brazos River bed in a hot spot behind a friend's house. A lady a couple of doors down didn't like it and started threatening to call the Game Warden. After two more times, that's what she did. The boys already knew that they had the right to be there. When the Game Warden showed up, they both explained their side of the story. The Game Warden actually cuffed her, and threatened to book her with hunter harassment to make his point. 

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  3. I was just informed, under no circumstance do you use Sea Foam for winterization, it has an alcohol base and even more corrosive than ethanol. Use Stabil Marine 360, hook up your water hose and let the engine run for about 8-10 minutes so the Stabil gets up into the fuel rail and injectors. Drain the block, unless your boat has a heat exchanger, drain the exhaust manifolds, transmission cooler, and heater, if your boat has these items. Use the pink biodegradable Marine and RV antifreeze, put all the drain plugs back in and fill the block, manifolds, transmission cooler, and heater (the whole system) its different on Yanmars, Mercruisers, Volvos, etc. on how to fill them. On the Tige above you just pull the water intake hose and fill the whole system up, Mercruiser you have to fill in three different places.

    For ballast tanks, put a funnel into the ballast drain hole and pour antifreeze onto the top of the pumps. The ballast intake pumps on this boat are self draining, and most boats are also self draining, but it would be best to check.

    Sea Foam goes into your first tank when you take it out of winterization. The non-toxic biodegradable antifreeze lets you just drop the boat into the water in the Spring and go on your way without having to do anything.

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  4. 22 minutes ago, NoRagrets said:

    I love my Taylor and can’t imagine playing another very much, but I would love to own a black one like this. But I think the only acoustic on my bucket list has to be a 12 string.

    I've got a Taylor D-300 super dreadnought, that almost cost me my marriage. I went into the GC at Hancock in about 1995, they had three of them, along with some high dollar Guilds. I played every 12 string they had, and the particular $1200 D-300 I ended up getting, sounded as good as the $3600 Guilds. It was tough to explain to a young wife, that when you find a guitar that sounds head and shoulders better than its contemporaries, you have to buy it before someone else does. So, for about a year, it was Budget Gourmets for lunch at work, instead of going out. It was totally worth it. As for Budget Gourmets, those were the fuckers that were apparently on a budget.

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  5. CHIEF Jr. is winterizing all of our friend's boats after school. He is doing about 10 a day for work on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. I am about to help him with the one below, if anybody wants, I will have him make a tutorial video.

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  6. It kinda depends on what it is, how specialized the work, how difficult it is to get the item worked on, and if I can find someone else that can do the work. A mobile skid steer mechanic gets a lot of leeway. Shitty waitstaff is something completely different.

    CHIEF Jr. is the best "in-slip" boat mechanic on Lake Granbury, the guy that owns the company knows that. If a boat owner gets horsey or is a dick for no reason, CHIEF Jr. will load his shit up mid repair tell the guy to find a trailer and take his boat somewhere else, and wait 4-6 weeks for it to be ready. 

    You need to know when you have leverage and when you don't.

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  7. 44 minutes ago, Herbie Hancock said:

    I should clarify. All but one of those instances were people poaching from the county road and not physically on our land. That decoy that you see on Lone Star Law is a legit tool and not something just for tv. We are very fortunate to have a game warden that 1) lives less than two miles away, and 2) likes us and likes to do his job.

    You would be surprised how good of a shot poachers are. They have little time to work with, so they have to be dead on. I don't know how long your local GW has been doing it, but they usually have some crazy stories, it's worth asking to have them tell you some. 

    Old time game warden told us about putting out a decoy, a truck comes by and slows down went down the road and turned around. Said he came by at 35-40 mph (county road) and shot. About 100 yards later they pull over, throw the guns out, and had their hands over their heads when they pulled up to the poachers. He asked them why they stopped, they said because they knew the deer had to be a decoy, and there was no way they could get away. The GW went out to the decoy, and there was a .22 mag bullet entry behind the ear facing the road, it was brand new decoy. The shot was less than 100 yards, but the GW still said it was the best shot he had seen. Of course, that was my question that I asked him. Also told me there is a lot more poaching than anybody realizes.

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  8. 11 hours ago, wild_turkey said:

     


    That’s pretty close to me. My neighborhood association was strongly opposed to the hotel idea, although I’m not really sure why. Concerns about noise or riff-raff I suppose?

    I’m just kinda surprised that anyone would pay $200/night to stay in a 160 sqft shipping container with a queen size bed. I’m curious what level of occupancy they’ll be able to attract.

     

    $200 a night is still cheaper than a DWI, for an out-of-towner that's probably the demographic. Especially if there is an event in town that makes it difficult to get an Uber.

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  9. Yep, we gotta come up with handles. My truck is an F350 dually flatbed, we call it the Great White Shark. CHIEF Jr.'s truck we call the Silver Bullet, but I am 100% positive that one is being used by multiple people, thinking maybe the "Silver Surfer" for him, or "Truck Nuts" bet that one is being used to.

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  10. Mom was going through some of Dad's old stuff, and found two of these, brand new, still in the box:

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    We are gonna mount one in each of our trucks. Can't wait to be involved in a high speed pursuit and get to slip into the rocking chair. I bet Lil' Beaver is now Lil' Old Crusty Beaver.

    I would have liked to have had one when we hunted north of Abilene, absolutely no phone signal out there. Any of you degenerates still have one in your vehicle?

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  11. Mom was going through some of Dad's old stuff, and found two of these, brand new, still in the box:

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    We are gonna mount one in each of our trucks. Can't wait to be involved in a high speed pursuit and get to slip into the rocking chair. I bet Lil' Beaver is now Lil' Old Crusty Beaver.

    I would have liked to have had one when we hunted north of Abilene, absolutely no phone signal out there. Any of you degenerates still have one in your vehicle?

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  12. I'm gonna do food plots like Both Taco's next year. My 6 acres is the only place you can hunt in my 4700 acre river bend subdivision. There are several big ranches across the river that do not allow hunting as well. My mom's younger brother is a retired Cleburne fire fighter, and has a fellow fire fighter that has 5 acres in the middle of these big ranches. He isn't a hunter, but has pictures of two different bucks that will go over 200 B&C on cameras that watch his garden. Somebody poached a 178 class buck out of here last year, and got caught before he reached the front gate. I worked in Illinois a few years back, they can't have feeders, but plant turnips. After a freeze the deer want the turnips so bad, that they will dig and paw them outta the ground. Apparently the freeze causes the sugar to set and are irresistible to deer.

    Sorry, I post so much on this thread, but I am having to live vicariously through all of you other hunters right now. When I was a kid, opening weekend was better than Christmas morning. Still is.

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  13. 2 hours ago, HollidayHorn said:

    That's what I had for lunch to celebrate yesterday. lol. I've never heard of that ranch. Is it off of FM 368 or Highway 25? There's some giants running around the Lake Kickapoo area. 

    It's about 4 miles west of Archer City on Hwy 25. I've seen easily a half million sandhills come off of Kickapoo. T's makes a great burger, I put it on the Burger thread in Food & Travel. I love that area and, of course, Murn's.

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  14. That's a nice buck, our last lease was on the Coppermine Ranch between Archer City and Holliday. I shot at a 170+ and missed so bad, I knew my scope had gotten knocked around. Sure enough, it wasn't even on the paper at 100 yds. That 307 lb. buck I posted above came from your neck of the woods. You should treat yourself to a burger at T's Food Store for shooting that.

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  15. 15 hours ago, Herbie Hancock said:

    Those High Plains deer are a step above. Very easy to spot one. Around Haskell/Woodson/Throckmorton area is about where I’ve noticed they make a distinct change. North and west of that point and there’s some serious low fence monster

    That's the problem I have with shooting deer, here, at home. After hunting Throckmorton, Aspermont, Haskell area, it spoiled me. Our deer are so inferior to those monsters.

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  16. 4 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

    Man, looks like a giant Kansas buck.  Lots of big ranches near WF, so who knows.  Maybe he got loose.  Those beams, looks like part mule deer!

    Thats what I thought at first, maybe a Whitetail/Muley hybrid, but those horns are 100% whitetail. I figure he probably found a creep feeder for fattening calves. When you get north of I-20, and west of HWY 281, the deer get a lot bigger. I was told that is the line where everything south migrated from Mexico over the last few thousand years, and everything North migrated from northern stock, midwest, and Canada. We had a buck go over 240 lbs. on a lease in Aspermont. 200-220 lbs. is pretty common, 307 lbs. isn't common anywhere in Texas from a low fenced place.

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  17. A buddy I used to work with lives in Iowa Park, west of Wichita Falls. He is a pumper, so he spends the day riding around checking wells, but mainly looking for big deer. He shoots at least a 165+ buck every year, all low fence. He has more huge low fence bucks on his wall than anyone I know. He just sent me a picture of this toad he shot this morning. It weighed 307 lbs. on the hoof. This buck was probably a 180+ class buck 2-3 years ago.

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  18. Here are a few:

    Johnson County-Cleburne- Burger Bar and/or Morris Neal's

    Somervell County-Glen Rose- Loco Coyote

    Erath County-Bluff Dale-Jasper's

    Archer County-Holliday- T's Food Store Archer City-Murn's

    Palo Pinto County Mineral Wells- Jesse's Drive-In

    Hood County-Granbury- C Mart (convenience store) and/or Grump's

    I have personally eaten at all of these.

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  19. 10 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

    I've never stuck with pitches as defined by a standard tuner.  Usually it's the G or B string that's flat.  "Optimum" does kind of depend on the key I'm playing in, especially if I'm playing a lot of open chords.  Interesting that they've come up with a tuner that tries to bend those pitches into what sounds right as opposed to what measures right.

    Yeah, that's how I found this tuner. Read a lot of posts and reviews from musicians that play a lot of open chords and most of them recommended this one from Peterson. I used to try tweaking the tuning to remove the flats and sharps, and it would take me upwards of 15 minutes or so. Now it takes about a minute or two.

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