Picked up some Lone Star the other day and got to missing the banter with Gatogordo, who hated Lone Star and preferred that rice swill from St. Louis.
There's no accounting for individual taste!

Lone Star was brewed to be hated! like Schlitz.

I miss him as well....

Gato was a BBQ aficionado. Beer, not so much? His wisdom and humor are missed.

I miss bantering with Charlie as well. Lone Star in the '70s was a good beer but they sold out + the recipe changed. He did love his Q. I've still got that portable pit for sale that he spoke of, made out of a 500 gal. propane tank w/ smoker on a flatbed trailer.

I still maintain, along with my friend Lane, that the current Lone Star is a just a good, drinkable American lager. It's not a craft beer, but it is miles above that awful rice beer.

Charlie was a character!

I met him in Shreveport,LA, before he moved to Texas.

Had a great sense of humor, and was an extremely good trap shooter.

I tied with him once, and we had to have a shoot off.

We were still straight after the a 100 targets in the shoot off.

It was very hot, and Charlie likes to drink Gatorade.

I said “This is not going to be very fair. It is so hot, and we are all seating so much. I will disappear, but Charlie, being three times my size, will still be here!”

Charlie said “Saeed, you might disappear, but your big mouth will still be here!”

Everyone was laughing their heads off.

Shreveport Gun Club ran great shoots.

I do miss my friend Charlie.

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Originally posted by Bill/Oregon:
I still maintain, along with my friend Lane, that the current Lone Star is a just a good, drinkable American lager. It's not a craft beer, but it is miles above that awful rice beer.

ok, i'll bite. whats rice beer?
right now my favorites are Pacifico and XX. spelled TEXXAS. and Corona. never drank a craft beer except once. neighbor was into making his own. gave me a glass of real dark warm beer. took a sip and handed it back.

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ok, i'll bite. whats rice beer?

Budweiser. About 60 years ago when my taste buds were more sensitive, I could taste the rice in the beer.

Dave

Saeed, I wonder how many forum members you have met over the years. Very, very many I will bet.



Nopride is correct. Bud doesn't even qualify as real beer under the German "Reinheitsgebot" purity law.

I miss Gato/Charlie.

I should have stopped by his place when I drove thru the area on the way to dsc.

He was smart and had the credibility to be opinionated.

Mike

Miss Randall/Crazyhorse, too.

charlie was the real thing he was what men should be

quote:

Originally posted by Bill/Oregon:
I still maintain, along with my friend Lane, that the current Lone Star is a just a good, drinkable American lager. It's not a craft beer, but it is miles above that awful rice beer.

That makes three of us Bill.

Silly me, I haven't yet found a craft beer I like....but I ain't really trying too hard.

Yeah...old Charlie was one of a kind!

I agree with Bill, I miss Randall as well.

I also miss the discussions with Rich (Idaho Sharpshooter). Does anyone know what got him expelled? Not that it matters now but the guy still owes me $20.00.

Randy, Georgeld sent a note to Lora recently asking if Randall's memorial fishing pond project was under way. Hope so.

Indeed, always nice to leave some form of legacy.

Grandson with our deer shot at Charlie's place.

We were in our blinds less than 30 minutes.
Charlie's wife, daughters, and son were very nice and accommodating people.

Charlie was just Charlie.

Nice whitetails Butch. I wish I had had a chance to meet Charlie in person.

Never went to his ranch but did meet him on occasion for some Q + a beer. It was convenient when he was visiting his kids at U.T.