Having grown up in Texas I will agree on the no beans part, and pretty much with your ingredients, except for your prescription of a particular cut of beef. I was raised to consider most any meat to be fair "game" for chili meat. You should have seen the pandemonium that ensued when a buch of us were camping along the Pedernales and were cooking chili when a pretty good size rock lizard ran thru camp as five guys were trying to catch it to add the pot. Anyway, I cooked a lot of javalina, venison, turkey, squirrel, armadillo, rabbit and snake into chili. Of course my New Mexican friends always complained it was too mild.