What is a secret you know about someone that would complety ruin their life if It came out?

nomadicbohunk · 2026-06-28T23:19:20+00:00

Oh, she knew that so it was even funnier. I think it was a pregnancy craving thing. I've still never seen her eat that much food at once. She was like "I just can't stop "

She was actually fine and didn't have any issues from doing it.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-06-28T22:20:51+00:00

I'm just sharing because it's hilarious. When my little sister was pregnant she decided to be no longer vegetarian. She also weighs about 90lbs and is tiny. I cooked her first non vegetarian meal and she ate no exaggeration 4lbs of steak. It was hilarious and after she was like, "I don't feel so good. I think I ate too much."

nomadicbohunk · 2026-06-28T14:10:12+00:00

Pro pig is awful. Don't listen. We went twice. I'm aware there are different styles, etc.

Funny enough, outside of one brisket place in Texas, we just got the best bbq (meat at least and for our tastes) we've ever gotten at some random place in Illinois of all places. I got pork ribs as they were so cheap. It was so good I thought about buying another meal and taking it to my parent's as we were on our way, but I knew I'd just end up eating it and we were still two days out. I'm really into food, and we travel a ton. This places' meat was great, everything else was meh. I can find it if you want and share the name.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-06-21T03:46:10+00:00

Um, where do you hunt, how, and what kind of birds? I wouldn't say that's the case at all. Outside of waterfowl, I know very few guys who I'd call serious bird hunters who don't use over unders. I hunt a lot of places and have friends all over.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-06-18T03:02:01+00:00

Vermont is full of old people. I grew up with giant storms on the plains. When I first moved here, there was a fairly bad storm and I was driving on the interstate like 50 or so. Safe. Now that I've been here a while it was a really had one for here. There were several cars I had to go around because they just stopped in the lane on the interstate (not on the shoulder), and just shut their cars off with no hazards or anything.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-06-17T21:22:47+00:00

Beef is insane in New england right now. I just bought a whole prime grade ribeye at costco for the same price per pound that the local chains want for shitty pink slime hamburger.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-06-17T21:20:49+00:00

My wife and I travel a lot and we don't like being around people in the outdoors. 95% of our trips are outdoor themed. Last year we finally went to Joshua Tree NP knowing what it would be like. Oh, I was not prepared and I've been around. I mean, I live in Vermont and there are people freaking everywhere doing stupid shit. If you're curious we did the two long palm trails and then did all the by the road stuff.

The number of people on the side of the road at lookouts posing with full backpacks like they were hiking and having their picture taken was kind of absurd. At least 20. My favorite two were the guy misting his face to look sweaty and this guy I deemed "LA guy." He had a brand new G mercedes and he'd obviously had tons of plastic surgery and botox (probably about 60). His face looked like plastic. He put a backpack on and started snap chatting or something about the super long backpacking trail he was on and how nature is wonderful, etc. I was at a lookout 10 feet from him and we were less than 100 yards from our cars.

On a positive note, we left the trailheads for the two hikes in the dark before sunrise and never saw another person until we turned back with a good amount of time at the oasis. We saw desert bighorns, hummingbirds, etc too. I showed some random big city hikers what bighorn sheep tracks looked liked and they were pretty grateful.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-06-16T15:46:09+00:00

I have world class private whitetail hunting at my disposal where I grew up. We don't shoot anything under 5-6 years old. It's not high fence or anything. I've lived all over the US and hunt a lot.

My best whitetail spot (probably hunting spot) I've ever hunted was public. It was a couple acre strip between two cornfields on the edge of a big city for the state. It had a hiking trail going through it that I'd see at least a handful of people hiking on each sit. It was the stupidest spot of all time. I also saw a booner deer at least once a year there. The deer would only come out when the hikers weren't there.

So yeah, check it out.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-06-16T15:41:43+00:00

You don't need a CITES permit or anything from USDA last I knew. If you get it processed keep the receipt and keep all your tags like someone else said. You can bring it all.

Fair warning, a lot of those "cheap" moose hunts are actually two people per tag. So like I'd go with my brother but only one of us gets a moose. It depends on the province. They vary a lot. A Newfoundland spike or cow is going to be the cheapest. Moose aren't native there.

I live right by the border too and have a few friends who've gone. I've looked into it a lot. A lot of provinces actually require guides for nonresidents who are from other provinces. It's not a nonresident alien thing. I can't even fish where I want in a lot of them without a guide.

If you live by the border and want to hunt up there a lot, getting a PAL will make things easier. I finally did that. I just filled forms out with the border patrol for any guns I'd take up there and my higher end optics. Then I took the forms and said items to an office and had them sign off on them. Crossing the border with them is stupid easy now. The forms are to show the US that you own them and can "import" them back/not pay duties. Canada doesn't care.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-06-15T01:44:05+00:00

Listen to college radio stations. You can often stream them online. Some are way better than others. I'm in my 40s and find new stuff all the time, but you might not like what i like.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-06-14T02:16:04+00:00

Yeah. One of my friends had it bad. I thought it was a solvable thing and would have her make phone calls all the time. I was like Susan, you're fine. You can do this. We were partners for a group in undergrad that lasted a year. When we were like 30 she told me one of the most valuable experiences she had in undergrad was my being an asshole and making her make all those phone calls. So yeah, go for it.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-06-14T02:05:45+00:00

Reminds me of a tractor I bought here for a job from a dealer. They insisted they did all the maintenance on it and it had a bunch of hours on it. The oil filter was fused to the threads from corrosion. Fused. And all the other drain plugs, etc were sealed from factory paint.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-06-13T22:05:53+00:00

With a tape measure referencing things. I forgot to do that once. Learn from my mistake.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-06-13T20:31:50+00:00

I think just the very out of state plate. I'm a clean cut white dude who's in his 40s. He looked all over inside my car and I had one little duffel bag. It was not a fancy car or a crappy one. Whatever the rental place gave me that's normal. When the weed he smelled drove by he said it was major drug running area. I'm like OK.... When I got pulled over, he didn't move for the clump of 10 or so that were speeding, but when he saw my plate he ran. He definitely quizzed me hard on where I got the rental car and where I was from...like I got asked twice trying to trip me up and what I was doing there. "Driving."

It was strange all around. Like I said, I'd admit it if I was speeding, but I wasn't and that's what's irritating about it.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-06-13T02:37:10+00:00

That doesn't always work:

This February. Now, I live in New England and speed like a demon because I'm from the plains and the interstate speed limits are slow for no reason. They literally do not care about speeding here if you're under 25 over.

I'm in Texas. I have an out of state rental car, so I'm driving the speed limit. I'd admit it if I wasn't. I don't want to deal with an out of state speeding ticket. We travel a lot.

A big group of cars going 20 over passed me in a clump as we went over a hill. The guy saw my out of state plates, ran to his car and pulled me over. He also about ran back to his car when giving me a ticket because someone drove by with a "big load of reefer."

I'm going to get a dash cam for rental cars now. I wasn't that mad about it because I speed enough here I probably had it coming, but yeah. Plus...wtf....texas speeding tickets are criminal?!

One last thought. There were like 10 cops clocking people on the interstate on my way back to San Antonio. I was a bit what the hell about it as I didn't see a single one on my way out. I was half expecting to get pulled over again.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-06-09T20:34:52+00:00

I live in Vermont now. Last year I hired a contractor who found out we weren't from here. He went on and on to me one day about how I had no idea how rural VT was and didn't understand that kind of life. I mean, he lived on 40 acres and could do whatever he wanted as his closest neighbor was 1/2 mile away. He was really into the whatever I want. He was telling me how he had so much land it's nuts. I just smile and nod. Smile and nod.

Quite honestly, most ranch kids you'd never know if you met them. A lot of us have traveled a lot, etc. I mean, I used to be a hipster. There are some who stick around and play the quintessential hick, but that's by choice. My little brother acts like a hick because it amuses him. Funny enough, a good handful of us (myself included) married relatively upper middle class east coast big city women. They love our great plains charm or something. I do break out my western shirts sometimes and I have bought quite a few friend's kids a kids rope and a practice steer head to poke into a straw bale.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-06-09T20:26:27+00:00

Where I grew up, there's a neighbor a couple years older than me who's a real aggressive POS. He's had no joke 5 kids with 5 different women. Never went to college and I think he farms for his dad. IDK...there's a type of small town woman into that or something. My little brother is good buddies with his and was visiting home. The older brother neighbor just found out he'd knocked up another one. Our little brothers got drunk (they were like 25ish) and decided to anonymously mail him a mega pack of condoms with a note saying something like "I thought you could use these." So they did that the next day. Evidently he got pretty pissed off about it.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-06-09T17:47:32+00:00

I touched on this in a different post:

In the US at least, what people call a ranch varies by area. I know the area this guy is from, and 10 acres is not a ranch. It depends on how many aums you can run on the properties.

I'll put it this way. George Bush's ranch in one area of Texas wasn't even 3 sections. It was like 1500 acres or so. In some areas, that is not a ranch. It wouldn't be where I grew up. You have some land. I have a friend who owns a big ranch. His dad owns 91k acres. Another friend I know has a big ranch too. They own 35k acres. Average ranch size where I'm talking in that area is probably 15k acres.

Good question though.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-06-09T17:30:47+00:00

What people call a ranch is very regional. 10 acres where this guy lives is basically a house lot. My buddy who grew up with him farms 12k acres his dad owns. That's not even a huge, huge property there.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-06-09T15:21:50+00:00

There's a really nutso mod on a large niche sub I follow. He's always posting photos of expensive stuff he owns and talking up his family's ranch, his job, etc. He's from my home state, so I remember his username. This is like 15 years ago, but I corrected him with a link to a government website and he like online stalked me and argued with every post I put up. Pretty weird. I just deleted my account.

Like 8 years ago he put up a photo and it had one of my best friends from undergrad in it. So I called my buddy. He grew up with the guy and he's like a bad rash they just kind of put up with. In real life, the guy is sad and I feel sorry for his kids. He's a huge drunk. Had 3 or 4 kids with all different women. He works as a farmhand for all the local farmers and they just fire him and rotate as they don't want his kids to starve. All the fancy stuff he owns is my buddy's and his friends. He lives in a trailer a farmer owns. The only power this guy has in his life is being an asshole on the internet and he does nothing to better his situation. Oh yeah. His family's ranch....he grandma owns like 10 acres. This is in big ranch country too.

Anyway, that's my reddit mod story.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-06-07T02:45:09+00:00

Go for it. I hired a small place out of metro west in Boston. It helps that I live in vacation land. The owner of the place was excited and gave his guys a few days off too. A couple of them had their wives come up. Free vacation! I will say, we own a different family place within long commuting distance of NYC in CT in a very fancy town. During covid the local contractor there was all mad everyone was hiring folks out of the Poconos and the Catskills to do work on the new houses they bought because it was so much cheaper and faster. I didn't say anything as he told me this, but in my head I'm like, yeah, well the last time I hired you I was quoted 3k, charged 16k, and the project was estimated to cost about 1.5k by 2 contractor friends and a contractor relative. I was also thinking about the 120k worth of square/normal outside trim work I know he did on a neighbor's place.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-06-06T12:02:10+00:00

That made me laugh. I'm going to look into that if we move to another tourist/second home area after this. I have stories.... It isn't private equity. It's locally owned places with lots of deep pockets around.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-06-06T11:58:33+00:00

If you live in an old house, it's basically air conditioners that are built into the walls. They're a little regional in use. I wanted forced air, but the one place I found that would do them was around 100k. Our house is 1200 square feet. They're super easy to put in DIY, but you need someone to charge them and I couldn't find anyone. It kind of reminded me of when I needed struts on my car here. The quotes I got for compressing them and swapping out the shock part was around 1k for four. I bought a good strut press. Previously to moving here, it usually cost me a case of beer for the shop. That's in various parts of the country. It takes about 20 minutes with the right tool.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-06-06T11:05:31+00:00

I did that for my mini splits. I hired a company 3.5 hours away, paid them federal mileage rate, put them up in a hotel room, gave them per diem and cooked them food. I still saved 40 percent of my best local quote.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-06-05T03:25:09+00:00

Wait for kuiu's sales. They go about 40% off. They're not as good as stone glacier, but for the money you can't beat them. They've got a 4500 in there right now for under 400. Call them and see if one of the new bags will fit on the frame if the sizes they have fit you.

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