johnc
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Post by johnc on Oct 28, 2021 12:46:20 GMT -5
down in the barrio. chicos tacos!! northeast off dyer st?
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Post by reflex264 on Oct 28, 2021 15:58:38 GMT -5
Turn on McCombs from Dyer St. Less then a mile from the fork. Yep Chico's was good. I have heard its not nearly as good as it used to be. There were lots of good eats around there.
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Post by johnc on Oct 28, 2021 16:50:33 GMT -5
1951 to 2001. ate tons of chicos tacos and leos and griggs etc etc west side
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Post by reflex264 on Oct 29, 2021 7:25:15 GMT -5
1951 to 2001. ate tons of chicos tacos and leos and griggs etc etc west side I guess we kind of submarined this thread. lol Loved Griggs and Leos. The Hacienda down on the river had the best enchiladas verde. La Posta in Las Cruces had the best enchiladas rojo. Leo's had the best taquitos and Poncho's had the best chili rellinos.
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Post by johnc on Oct 29, 2021 8:34:35 GMT -5
La Posta was the top of the heap been going there since i was a kid. screeching parrots scared the crap outta me. the cooks at griggs on doniphan used to babysit my older sister as an infant at the restaurant as edgar griggs and his wife visited w/my parents as they ate a late dinner. went to mex restaurant in beeville tx in 2002. ordered green enchiladas. was told there was no such thing, they only came in red. manager came out, said they did serve green ones on request, but it was green food coloring. still to this day can't find a true chili relleno anywhere. shame. used to get hatch green chillis by the 50 lb case. am in central tx. nothing but tex mex.
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Post by bigbore5 on Oct 29, 2021 21:41:50 GMT -5
Y'all need to stop before I have to drive halfway across the country for some Mexican food.
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Post by georgegibbs505 on Oct 30, 2021 10:11:29 GMT -5
In my younger days I read all of Ross Seyfried’s articles, and when I decided to ask him some questions he was more than helpful every time I asked. And meeting up with him in Las Vegas and looking at double rifles and meeting all the big names in the fine gun world was amazing, 30 years later and a few hunting trips and shooting sessions and gun deals he’s still the same person. J D Jones’s shop was/is only about 20 miles away and knowing him and buying guns from his collection and hearing stories was always great, even though he had a reputation of being gruff at times , he never said one thing to me that ever showed that side of him. Elmer Keith will always be a great influence. And also John Taffin in all of his writings about hunting and shooting is for sure a top influence.
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Post by conch on Oct 30, 2021 11:38:54 GMT -5
My 6 gun mentor? you guys.
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Post by rangersedge on Oct 31, 2021 6:51:40 GMT -5
Raised on a farm. Dad had a 16 guage bolt action shotgun and a bolt action .22 rifle. An older brother bought a used single shot .22 rifle for me at an estate sale when I was about 5. I used that to shoot a lot of critters. My first hunting memory was shooting a rabbit in our apple orchard, it screeching, jumping up to my head height, and then falling back to earth dead. My next was going to woods about 1/4 mile from house on my own and shooting a bunch of squirrels all in the head. That earned me the nickname dead eye from an old neighbor at about age 6.
But revolvers... My inspiration and mentors for those were on TV and on the pages of gun magazines which I read and reread. Amazingly enough, some of those writers such as Mr. Taffin share their time with us on this forum.
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Post by johnc on Oct 31, 2021 10:50:43 GMT -5
Y'all need to stop before I have to drive halfway across the country for some Mexican food. go for it! they're still making lots of it ever day.
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Post by kevshell on Nov 1, 2021 23:22:57 GMT -5
At an early age I didn't really have a lot for sixgun/handgun mentors. My father had a few nice colts but they really never came out. I believe his shooting was over when I was old enough to shoot. My grandfather hunted a lot when he was younger. He had several nice rifles and an 1897. He only had one handgun which was a war bring back P38. I never saw that one shot either. My step father had a pre-29 Smith that got my brother and I started. That was a well used and cared for revolver that spoiled us. All others were judged by that 44. From there my brother and I started shooting, buying, and reading. I've read articles by Linebaugh, Taffin, Seyfried, Pearce, etc. I've read those articles since the late 80's. I've had few people to learn from directly but I've learned a ton from these articles. From there it's all been experimentation and practice. I was able to meet John Linebaugh after decades of reading about his work with the 45, 500 and 475. Damn good guy and one I could continue to learn from. He's probably forgotten more than I'll know. But hanging around people who know more than me is what it's all about. I've read and re-read Linebaugh's articles as well as Taffin's about loading the 45 colt to its potential. That will lead to another post here soon about my Linebaugh 45 Colt that I received recently. She's a beauty.
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Post by dougader on Nov 2, 2021 20:21:19 GMT -5
Dang nice hat!
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Post by crazyhorse on Nov 7, 2021 6:51:15 GMT -5
I grew up reading Elmer Keith, Jeff Cooper and then loved reading Ross Seyfried and John Taffin.
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Post by zac0419 on Nov 7, 2021 15:37:13 GMT -5
My six gun hunting mentor was Dick aka Sixshot. Reading his writings of hunts he had taken lit a fire under my bum.
Nuff said.
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Post by aciera on Nov 8, 2021 22:38:05 GMT -5
At an early age I didn't really have a lot for sixgun/handgun mentors. My father had a few nice colts but they really never came out. I believe his shooting was over when I was old enough to shoot. My grandfather hunted a lot when he was younger. He had several nice rifles and an 1897. He only had one handgun which was a war bring back P38. I never saw that one shot either. My step father had a pre-29 Smith that got my brother and I started. That was a well used and cared for revolver that spoiled us. All others were judged by that 44. From there my brother and I started shooting, buying, and reading. I've read articles by Linebaugh, Taffin, Seyfried, Pearce, etc. I've read those articles since the late 80's. I've had few people to learn from directly but I've learned a ton from these articles. From there it's all been experimentation and practice. I was able to meet John Linebaugh after decades of reading about his work with the 45, 500 and 475. Damn good guy and one I could continue to learn from. He's probably forgotten more than I'll know. But hanging around people who know more than me is what it's all about. I've read and re-read Linebaugh's articles as well as Taffin's about loading the 45 colt to its potential. That will lead to another post here soon about my Linebaugh 45 Colt that I received recently. She's a beauty. Who’s the weird dude in the red shirt.......looks suspicious.........
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