Vintage Hunting and NCOWS

[dusty texian]

Should be getting real cool up in Kentucky Rowdy.It was 28 F at the ranch this morning Good luck on your next hunt. Mule deer season starts here in Tx. the Fri. after Thanksgiving . I am getting ready . Hope you can make it down to Tx. in the spring looking forward to it .

[Rowdy Fulcher]

Dusty
Have you made any Jerky yet . We have almost ate the first batch of Jerky . Hope I have enough to finish Rifle season out . We stocked up our camp food today , will leave out tomorrow . We love cooking over the fire , we also like cooking baked Potato's in the fire . A Hot Sweet Potato with brown sugar and butter , it makes me Hungry just thinking about it . Oh and how can I forget the hickory smoked Steaks  , or Tenderloin .

[dusty texian]

Rowdy I am working on the Jerky now. I cant make it fast enough for my girls. We all like the jerky the best. I grind my own pork&deer sausage also. I think you are right about the camp cooking. My Brother and I love to cook and have a cool one around the campfire . Sounds like you are ready to go. I will spend Thanksgiving with the family and then head out to the ranch for the two wk. Mule Deer season. Was at my cabin last wk. getting it ready for season. Was very nice weather in the canyon country .  The spring on my ranch is flowing good. Deer ,Bear ,Coyote ,Mt. Lion tracks all over .My cabin is about 3.5 mi. north of the Rio Grand and Old Mexico. Big Mule Deer & Javelina down there . Hope I get one with my C. Sharps . Gonna give it a try . Dusty.

[Tascosa Joe]

Dusty:
Watch your back trail.  3.5 miles north of Mexico is not the safest place in the US these days.  Good Luck on your hunt.
T-Joe

[dusty texian]

Howdy Tascosa Joe ' Yep I know what you are saying . I keep an eye out all day and sleep with a .45 under my pillow . But thats life on the Border now days . Thanks for the Good Luck Friend .

[Deadeye Dick]

My muzzle loader deer success  on 11-13-2012. I lack period dress, but enjoy the period rifle and hunt. Black-tail deer taken in the Oregon coast range. Will be making burger, sausage and backstrap steaks out of him.

[dusty texian]

Howdy Deadeye Dick.Congratulations on a fine Buck.What kinda cannon you shooting there ?

[Deadeye Dick]

Howdy Deadeye Dick.Congratulations on a fine Buck.What kinda cannon you shooting there ?

Dusty Texan,
Thank you,
It's a Lyman Great Plains Rifle. I'm shooting a 50 cal ball ahead of 80 grains of 2F Swiss black powder. The deer was shot at 60 yards.
Deadeye Dick

[Cliff Fendley]

Way to go Deadeye, congrats on a nice buck with your muzzleloader.

[Rowdy Fulcher]

Deadeye
Good looking Buck . A 50 caliber is hard to beat . Thanks for Posting the pictures . Why does yawls Deer have black tails , must not wipe good . 

[Deadeye Dick]

Deadeye
Good looking Buck . A 50 caliber is hard to beat . Thanks for Posting the pictures . Why does yawls Deer have black tails , must not wipe good . 

Thanks Rowdy.         And here I thought that odor was the musk glands! 

[buckskin billy]

congradulations on everyones kill. glad to see other people are having good luck. i have been jinks  so far this year, but there still a month and a half left of deer season so i'm sure my luck will change.
i bought a new camp house this year and this season is the first year to be in it. i have been really enjoying staying in it.  seeing hows its just me now days i'm thinking real hard about just staying there. wouldn't be nothing to think about if i had running water there

[Deadeye Dick]

BB,
How close are  you to a stream? There is always the possibility of a well, if you can get a drill truck in that is. There is always hand digging, but that too much like work.
That ol buck is just waiting out there for you.
Deadeye Dick

[Rowdy Fulcher]

Howdy
Rifle season is almost over 3 days left to hunt . Plan on getting back after them tomorrow . I really want to take a Doe with my 73 in 44wcf . Have all my Hunting stuff packed up , will load the Jeep early tomorrow . And the Hunt will be ON .
Buckskin
Hang in there brother that Big Buck will show up . Wishing you the Best of Luck .

[Jack Wagon]

This is a vintage picture (probably 1970 or 71') of my first deer with my first rifle. The rifle is a 45-70 Remington Rolling Block I bought off a co-worker for $125. That little forked horn wasn't any monster buck, but it felt like it to me at the time.   JW

[dusty texian]

Thanks for showing us that shot from the past JW. It made me remember my first fork horn.I would drag him until I got tired and stop and stare at him and drag some more .Now my stops on a deer drag are longer the bucks are usually bigger but not as exciting as draging that forky. Dusty.

[Cliff Fendley]

Nice photo Jack Wagon.

My first buck with a bow was a little fork horn. Back in them days any buck was a prize. Now we let ones that put them to shame walk hoping they get even bigger.

[Rowdy Fulcher]

Howdy
Didn't kill a Doe with my 73 , maybe next year . Jack Wagon , would you take $125 for that Rolling Block . Thanks for sharing the picture with us . Hope everyone has a Good Hunting season . I can take a Doe with my muzzle loader in Dec. Will give it a try .

[dusty texian]

Hey Rowdy , I'm packed up and heading out to the ranch in the morning,partner got better and we will be at the ranch tomorrow eve. Gonna start hunting Thursday. Got the old Sharps shooting pretty good and feel confident in my rig. If I have some luck I will post when I get back in ten or twelve days . Cant get any recption down on that part of the border . Total wilderness down there. Cant wait. Like stepping back into the old west ,for a while . Talk when I get back. Dusty.

[Rowdy Fulcher]

Dusty
Good luck on your Hunt . I wish I was with you . Sounds like a wonderful time . Hunting in Texas , with a Sharps rifle it doesn't get any better than that . We need a Video from that part of the World , Pure Vintage Hunting . How are you fixed for a camp Cook ?
Do you have any cabins in good enough shape to stay in . I can sleep on the ground next to the fire .