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[Blackthorn]

Wow, great pics, Doghouse Riley (btw, love the screen name! I wish I had thought of it first). Where was this?

 

[doghouse riley]

Wow, great pics, Doghouse Riley (btw, love the screen name! I wish I had thought of it first). Where was this?

Thanks,
Ft. McKavett, Kingsbury Airdrome, Ft. McKavett
Aparently McKavett has been great place to get pics. Here is one of Robert E. Howard at the Fort in 1933.

 

[Girl Friday]

My favorite photo from the Kingsbury fly in.

 

[Chasseur]

Riley and Friday those are some great photos!

My contribution is only vintage inspired, but its my warm weather stalking gear (minus my old rucksack):

 

[WH1]

Chasseur,
more details please such as rifle, stalking what??? and the blade you are carrying. and the location, I am assuming Hawaii judging by the red soil but which island?

 

[Chasseur]

Hi WH1,

More details:

The rifle is my trusty East German Merkel drilling in 16/16/7x65r

With the right hand loads she can do this at 100 yards:

The blade is my antique Hirshflanger hunting dagger from Austria:

I was stalking axis or chital deer, the beautiful spotted deer from India and Sri Lanka. They were a gift to the Hawaiian Kings back in the 1860s and are pretty common on the islands of Maui, Mokokai and Lanai. I hunt on Lanai pretty regularly for them.

 

[Flipped Lid]

That's a beautiful animal. The rack is remininiscent of a caribou. Are they in the rut now? Deer season is a couple of months away here in the Midwest.

 

[Chasseur]

I think they are about the most beautiful of all the deer, though red stag is a close second. Since they are a tropical animal there is not set rut and they adapt somewhat to their environment. So for Hawaii their rut is generally April-May ish (so our public land season is March-June ish), but at any given time about 20% of the male population could be in various stages of antler development and is 'of season'.

 

[Oldsarge]

You get the same thing in Texas. Often the best trophies are taken in February-April. I've seen some immense racks outside of Junction. Unfortunately, the best ones seem to show up after I'm done hunting for the trip or when we're driving from one blind to another. Some day, though . . .

And that's a fabulous drilling, Chasseur. I admire the concept greatly and I've never seen a badly made one.

Whether I'll ever mange to own one is a whole different question.

 

[Philip A.]

I married.

Three times and a half.

That's probably why I find buffalo hunting in rogue warriors' country so relaxing...

 

[Oldsarge]

So Jim and I went to Wyoming. If anyone wants to go there but doesn't know where to go, I strongly recommend the Rocking 7 Ranch. Great lodge, great food, great folks and as for game . . .

 

[DesertDan]

Nice buck! Good looking bison as well, you are going to have to buy an extra freezer!
What did the buffs cape out at and did you keep it?

 

[Chasseur]

Great photos Sarge!

Let me know when you are ready for your vintage British Raj/Hawaii double gun safari

 

[Oldsarge]

Nice buck! Good looking bison as well, you are going to have to buy an extra freezer!
What did the buffs cape out at and did you keep it?

With careful packing, I was able to get the entire buff, boned and packaged, into the freezer in the garage. And I got the buck in, too. Some 300+ lbs of meat, for gawd's sake. I didn't cape out the critter, just sent them to the packing plant for skinning, cutting and boning. The skulls will get bleached for European mounts (since I don't have room for anything else, anymore) and both my buff skin and my partner's will be turned into bed spreads for my son and daughter in law.

As for Hawai'i, that will depend on how well I can budget. One thing this hunt taught me is that my binoculars are totally inadequate for all-day glassing. I've simply got to get a set of Swarovskis or something close to them. I had such eyestrain by the end of the second day that I couldn't pick out a buck in the middle of field with a half hour's hunting light left. Everything else I've got works just fine but I gotta have new binos.

 

[Chasseur]

I've had excellent results with my Minox 10-50s roof prisms. Excellent balance of quality and price. When stalking in Hawaii we are doing all day glassing, and having to deal with mid-day heat mirage (temps are 85-90 during most of the day) and they have worked fine.

 

[Oldsarge]

I've been doing some research and it seems that quite possibly the Zeiss Victory FL T's are the top rated, especially in those low-light situations we run into during that legal shooting time before and after sunrise and sunset. Pricey? Oh yeah! But being afflicted with myopia, age-related far sightedness and glaucoma, I'm not going to skimp one iota on what remains of my eyesight.

 

[Michaelshane]

Did some guiding yesterday.

My hunter.....

 

[Ken]

Expedition I organised to the Amazon in search of the lost Incan city of Paititi:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIUdOS-WEic&feature=channel_video_title

 

[Giftmacher]

This was today's adventure in forest. The last but one photo is what I brought home (StG 44 piston, P08 and German M31 canteen)

 

[Oldsarge]

So, hunting with a metal detector, eh? Verrrrrrry innnnnnnnnnteresting!