What are you hunting/fishing?
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calldoctoday check out Kibler Longrifles. His kits are top notch and the novice can build them. They are a high end kit that appeals to the historically accurate side. I’m going to build my 58 cal Colonial rifle this winter.
ND Mike said in What are you hunting/fishing?:
calldoctoday check out Kibler Longrifles. His kits are top notch and the novice can build them. They are a high end kit that appeals to the historically accurate side. I’m going to build my 58 cal Colonial rifle this winter.
That should be a fun and useful project.
When I was in high school I got a Thomson-Center .50 caliber Hawken rifle kit for my birthday. I put it together in shop class, fitting, and finishing the stock and polishing and browning the metalwork. (good luck trying to do that in public school shop class today).At the time, the movie Jeremiah Johnson had just come out in which the lead actor gets a Hawken rifle when he heads to the mountains. It also coincided with Nebraska opening a primitive weapon deer season. It was a fun to learn how to shoot and hunt with a traditional front-loader. Still have it and hunt with it today, although I also have an in-line .50 cal as well.
Nebraska gradually liberalized its "primitive " weapon deer season to where in-line percussion rifles and optics are all permitted. I am ok with it as it adds another excuse to get out with another weapon to deer hunt.
Paul
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ND Mike said in What are you hunting/fishing?:
calldoctoday check out Kibler Longrifles. His kits are top notch and the novice can build them. They are a high end kit that appeals to the historically accurate side. I’m going to build my 58 cal Colonial rifle this winter.
That should be a fun and useful project.
When I was in high school I got a Thomson-Center .50 caliber Hawken rifle kit for my birthday. I put it together in shop class, fitting, and finishing the stock and polishing and browning the metalwork. (good luck trying to do that in public school shop class today).At the time, the movie Jeremiah Johnson had just come out in which the lead actor gets a Hawken rifle when he heads to the mountains. It also coincided with Nebraska opening a primitive weapon deer season. It was a fun to learn how to shoot and hunt with a traditional front-loader. Still have it and hunt with it today, although I also have an in-line .50 cal as well.
Nebraska gradually liberalized its "primitive " weapon deer season to where in-line percussion rifles and optics are all permitted. I am ok with it as it adds another excuse to get out with another weapon to deer hunt.
processhead Jeremiah Johnson is one of my all-time favorite movies! I used to do a lot of historical reenacting. Here is a photo of me and the State Shoot about 12 years ago.
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processhead Jeremiah Johnson is one of my all-time favorite movies! I used to do a lot of historical reenacting. Here is a photo of me and the State Shoot about 12 years ago.
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ND Mike you look like you are right out of the 18th century in that picture. The cross-sticks are a nice touch, and practical.
Paul
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ND Mike you look like you are right out of the 18th century in that picture. The cross-sticks are a nice touch, and practical.
processhead thanks! I really miss doing that stuff. I need to get back to it.
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craigrice both of my kids love sausage making. Even some of their friends like to get in on the action.
cdavis glad to here it encourage all of them !
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ND Mike said in What are you hunting/fishing?:
calldoctoday check out Kibler Longrifles. His kits are top notch and the novice can build them. They are a high end kit that appeals to the historically accurate side. I’m going to build my 58 cal Colonial rifle this winter.
That should be a fun and useful project.
When I was in high school I got a Thomson-Center .50 caliber Hawken rifle kit for my birthday. I put it together in shop class, fitting, and finishing the stock and polishing and browning the metalwork. (good luck trying to do that in public school shop class today).At the time, the movie Jeremiah Johnson had just come out in which the lead actor gets a Hawken rifle when he heads to the mountains. It also coincided with Nebraska opening a primitive weapon deer season. It was a fun to learn how to shoot and hunt with a traditional front-loader. Still have it and hunt with it today, although I also have an in-line .50 cal as well.
Nebraska gradually liberalized its "primitive " weapon deer season to where in-line percussion rifles and optics are all permitted. I am ok with it as it adds another excuse to get out with another weapon to deer hunt.
processhead I am not sure I could even graduate from prison today! I remember even in Jr. High shop we would have a Mountain Man thing every year. Some teachers, including myself were pretty serious about it & we had black powder, long knives, long bows, etc. However, there was nothing to worry about & everyone had the utmost respect for everyone else. Like to hear tell of that in the modern day prisons of today. On the other hand, I just feel like the in-lines & I think Knight was one of the first perhaps, are just too much like our regular rifles, in way too many ways. On the other hand, I hear the hunting rifle of the future is more like an assault rifle. I guess I have just become a dinosaur.
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processhead Jeremiah Johnson is one of my all-time favorite movies! I used to do a lot of historical reenacting. Here is a photo of me and the State Shoot about 12 years ago.
ND Mike I have not done any of it in nearly fifty years now, but it is a lot of fun & LOOKING GOOD with that Buffalo Gun!
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processhead Jeremiah Johnson is one of my all-time favorite movies! I used to do a lot of historical reenacting. Here is a photo of me and the State Shoot about 12 years ago.
ND Mike that is awesome
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ND Mike I have not done any of it in nearly fifty years now, but it is a lot of fun & LOOKING GOOD with that Buffalo Gun!
calldoctoday thanks! I even have a buffler robe at home.
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calldoctoday thanks! I even have a buffler robe at home.
ND Mike Wow, now that is amazing!
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processhead I am not sure I could even graduate from prison today! I remember even in Jr. High shop we would have a Mountain Man thing every year. Some teachers, including myself were pretty serious about it & we had black powder, long knives, long bows, etc. However, there was nothing to worry about & everyone had the utmost respect for everyone else. Like to hear tell of that in the modern day prisons of today. On the other hand, I just feel like the in-lines & I think Knight was one of the first perhaps, are just too much like our regular rifles, in way too many ways. On the other hand, I hear the hunting rifle of the future is more like an assault rifle. I guess I have just become a dinosaur.
calldoctoday said in What are you hunting/fishing?:
On the other hand, I hear the hunting rifle of the future is more like an assault rifle. I guess I have just become a dinosaur.calldoctoday I felt compelled to harvest a cull deer with my AR a few years ago just so I could say it’s hunting rifle.
We are not dinosaurs, we are renaissance men. lol
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ND Mike Your welcome. But, it takes a bunch of love for historical purposes to get it right.
zbigjeff that is true!
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I had this little kitty slip by my stand a few minutes ago. It sure spooked the does I was watching.
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I had this little kitty slip by my stand a few minutes ago. It sure spooked the does I was watching.
cdavis AWSOME! I have been seeing more and more of them in southern ohio this year on camera
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I had this little kitty slip by my stand a few minutes ago. It sure spooked the does I was watching.
cdavis
I did a double take when I first saw the picture. That branch on the tree looked like a long tail at the first glimpse.Paul
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cdavis AWSOME! I have been seeing more and more of them in southern ohio this year on camera
RON PARRISH I’ve been seeing this one almost every day I hunt but this was the first time he came right by me. I thought it would have a mate but this is the only one I’ve seen.
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cdavis
I did a double take when I first saw the picture. That branch on the tree looked like a long tail at the first glimpse.processhead I didn’t even notice that but it sure looks like it at first glance.
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