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  1. I have never hunted deer but may try and grab one in early January next time I'm out there. Mix of white tail and mule deer, I've even seen a couple of antelope.

    They usually come up and drink from the cattle water tanks first thing in the morning.





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  2. 22 hours ago, High Plains Drifter said:

     

    just curious, what do they feel is wrong in your industry?

     

    I'm not drifter but there are some definite negatives of being a truck driver. 

    - Away from home for long stretches of time.

    - Unhealthy lifestyle due to driving 10+ hrs a day and eating truck stop food. 

    - Most drivers are treated like shit by shippers and receivers... 15 minutes late to your appointment because of bad weather? Sorry, wont be able to unload you for 18 hours etc. 

    - Boom/Bust industry. Rates are good now but there is a constant yo-yoing of rates every couple of years since it's such an easy market to enter/fragmented. 

  3. I worked in the transportation industry for 10 years and this will never happen in the US. The 25 largest trucking companies in the US (Jb hunt/swift/etc) only control 20% of the truckload freight out there, the vast majority of the TL freight out there is moved by small companies or independent operators who would lick their chops at some of the big company drivers going on strike.

    Plus TL rates are through the roof right now, if there was going to be a strike it would of been spring of 2020 when every carrier out there was hurting for freight due to lockdowns.

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  4. Cleaning out my grandfather's stuff I found a picture of the flight board they used to document each bombing run. This was one for a bombing run on Berlin, May 8th 1944.

    I put it in a frame along with a poster for his unit and some other random items.

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  5. 8 hours ago, victory88 said:

    You can possibly open an HSA account where you deduct the taxes now when you contribute.  I believe with TD ameritrade you can actually invest it into their funds and then if you use it on medical expenses when you are older, you don't pay taxes when you withdraw, almost like double dipping.  I read this years ago but haven't actually tried it.  I could be wrong and missing details but it was one avenue I was looking at to try to limit my tax exposure.

    Maybe someone in finance/investing field can chime in.

    Assuming you are healthy HSA's are the best option after getting up to your 401k match ,the only downside is the low amount per year you can contribute.

    No tax going in, no tax on earnings and no tax on withdraws(for health expenses)...and the best part...If it goes directly from your employer to your HSA there are no FICA taxes taken out either. 

    Once you turn 65 you can withdraw from it like a normal IRA or continue to use it for health expenses without paying taxes.

    As they are currently set up there is also no limit on how long you can wait to reimburse yourself for for medical expenses. Lets say you have a $5,000 medical bill and pay it out of pocket without using funds from your HSA. You can save a copy of that receipt and reimburse yourself that $5,000 tax free from your HSA 10/20/30 years from now. In the meantime that $5,000 is still in your HSA growing tax free. 

    Its really the ultimate retirement account

    https://www.madfientist.com/ultimate-retirement-account/

     

     

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  6. 3 hours ago, Royalfan5 said:

    Weather variance makes Kansas an interesting place to farm because the ground is priced for the shitty weather years, but it's pretty much good enough dirt that the good years can blow away anyone else on returns. Of course, you're socially obligated to grow wheat, milo, and have cattle though. 

    Weather variance is putting it lightly, we have some family land in NW KS and got 26 inches of rain in 2019 and 13 inches in 2020. 

    When we first inherited the land I was going through some numbers with my dad and they just weren't adding up so I asked him "How does anyone make money farming?" His response.... "The government". 

  7. Random K-State fan here but I dated a girl this summer who's older brother was a homeless drug addict living in Austin. When covid started her parents bought him a bus ticket back to KS....he lived with her parents for a couple of months and stole some stuff then headed back to Austin because "It's better there"

    Nothing more to add besides that besides the whole fitlump becoming a city councilwoman story is wtf/hilarious since I don't live anywhere near Austin. 

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  8. On 12/6/2020 at 10:40 AM, Al Czervik said:

    First Pheasant hunt NW of Dumas. Expected lots of exercise, wind, dust and a fun time. Watching the dogs work was great and more than a little helpful, without their help it will be a very long day.  Will do this again.  

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    Glad to see some pheasants in this thread. How far south do pheasant get in TX? 

    We recently inherited some of my grandparents farmland in western KS so I've got into pheasant hunting the last couple of years. I still have no idea what I'm doing but just love walking around the edges of fields and blasting at the random birds that fly up...worst case scenario you go on a nature hike for a couple of miles. 

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  9. Yeah, that was what I meant by the curiosity thing.  He may have thought they were bobcats, which would be stupid given the obvious differences (namely the tail).
    But the moral of the story seems to be that seeing mountain lion cubs is kind of a worst-case scenario, because mama is probably around and is not going to be pleased by your presence.
    Not all bobcat's have bobbed tails

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  10. 1 hour ago, BabaYaga said:

    We had one at the ranch years back.  Found multiple half-covered deer kills that they semi bury to return to later.  Warden told me they'd been moving in.  Guy said he heard a scream at night.....turned his blood to ice.

    Buddy's place near ours, but off the HWY, they killed a large female that was so old and unable to hunt, but lived solely off road kill.  

    *and according to Steve Rinella, they taste AMAZING.  White meat, better than pork!

    Last year I was hunting pheasant in some CRP(tall native grass) in NW Kansas. I came to the top ridge of a V shaped gully and about 150 yards away a large cat that had been bedded down in the grass took off on a sprint through the grass away from me. I couldn't get a good enough look at it to actually confirm if it was a large bobcat or mountain lion but the coat looked solid light brown with no spots as it was running through the tall grasses. 

    I watched it for a couple of minutes as it ran across another pasture, looked back then disappeared into a recently harvested corn field. My dog was blissfully unaware of the entire situation. 

    More than likely it was a bobcat (game cams have shown some large bobcats in the area) but it definitely scared the shit out of me. 

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  11. 2 hours ago, Al_4_ISU said:

    I hate Nebraska in ways a Texas fan couldn't possibly understand.  So I get this.

    But I miss having that kind of hate in conference.  I don't really hate anyone in the Big 12 except for Baylor, and that doesn't really have anything to do with sports.  If you're a fan of a Big 8 school other than maybe Oklahoma, you hate Nebraska with every fucking fiber of your being and miss having the opportunity to punk them, or given the case with their recent program, just reign blows down upon their ragged corpse as payback for 50 years of dominance, and then taking their ball, going home, and leaving us for dead on the side of the road.

    God, I fucking hate those cock suckers.

    Being a Kstate fan I agree with this 100%. They beat up on Kstate and the other Big8 schools (minus OU) for 60+ years, just pummeling our faces in while smiling about what great fans they are. When Kstate finally started beating NU consistently (5-2 from 98-04) they couldn't take it and fired Solich which started their downward spiral to where they are now. Then they left us and their 100+ year history with the Big8 schools to prove they were still relevant. 

    I would have loved nothing more than to have spent the last 10 years jumping up and down on their dying corpse as corn kernels shot from their mouth like BB's. 

    I want them back in the Big12 for that reason alone, to kick them while they are down until there is no more leather left on my shoes. 

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  12. The Athletic article had some more details. A couple players got back to town on Friday, were tested but didn't get their results until monday when they came back positive. Those players hung out with some other players over the weekend so they had to retest 55 players who had contact with the infected players, 6 of the retests came back positive. 

    Its going to be a long year. 

  13. 16 hours ago, CHIEF said:

    I grew up the first 27 years ranching. If you have over 500 acres and most of it is in pasture land, and a crop is not your primary source of income derived, you have a "ranch. If you have under 500 acres, you have a "place". If you have acreage that the primary income comes from a crop, you have a "farm". Thats the way it was always described where I grew up.

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    This is the correct answer. If you make your money on livestock its a ranch, if you make your money on cash crops its a farm. "Ranches" may still grow crops but typically its supplemental feed/silage for the cows. 

  14. 51 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

    Missouri and Iowa are in the same region.  It's like 4.5 hours from Ames to Columbia.  I agree that it doesn't have much personality.

    I dislike Mizzou because they're so fucking milquetoast, and have such obnoxiously high opinions of themselves.  There's an odd arrogance, and their flirtation with the Big 10 is a great example of it.  For some reason they thought they were above being associated with schools in other Plains states. Like people in flyover country are for some reason lesser, and not worthy of association, despite - you know - y'all are in flyover country too.

    They were generally aggressively boring, and lacked the kind of big personalities that made a school interesting.  They were arrogant as hell.  They kinda started the whole missile crisis.

    Fuck 'em.

    Agreed. 

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  15. As a K-State fan who interacts with alot of MU fans I can help shed some light on why everyone hates mizzou. First of all you have to understand that they are constant underachievers and have been for their entire lives. They are the only P5 school in a state that has 6 million people in it but they have not won a conference title in FB since we landed on the moon. The majority of that time they were playing in the Big 8 where they had a massive population advantage compared to the other states who had multiple P5 schools(OK/KS/IA). 

    Despite never winning anything mizzou fans have an extremely over confident view of their program and this manifested itself with them lifting their skirt to the big10 and starting the whole conference realignment saga of 2010 that almost sent K-State to the Mountain West conference. 

    Fuck mizzou. 

     

     

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