Another note from Wyman

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I know this is a bit out of contemporary hunting practices but I still go after my venison in very traditional form. Sitting on a hilltop surveying an expanse of landscape at sunrise with binoculars, cross sticks, and one of my favorite rifle calibers, a 250-3000 Ackley Improved. Results can be sketchy and often requires stalks of several hundred yards to be in effective range, but with persistence it eventually pays off.
I’m now finished with deer season as Sylinda and I have enough venison to last until next season. And yes…I don’t care about how my deer score. It’s all about the meat…
BTW…I cut those willow cross sticks from a tree along Adobe Creek in 1987, only a short distance from Adobe Walls Historic Site where buffalo hunters had the now famous battle in June of 1874

Your post prompted me to revisit the Adobe Walls battle involving Billy Dixon. Thank you for that! I love studying the plains history during the mid 1800’s. So much history in a short span, and sadly it has hardly been mentioned in schools here in western Kansas.
Awesome cartridge also!

 

[butchlambert]

I like and read a lot of the old west in the 1800s mainly. I'm reading
On the Border with Mackenzie: or, Winning West Texas
Capt. R. G. Carter
Wyman recommended this book. Capt Carter wrote about his experience under Ranald McKenzie. A great book of the day to day experience of a soldier in the 1870s.

 

[ChrisNZ]

Other than Moose, it is the only venison that Charlotte will eat.

If you ever get the chance, try sika. It's apparently the only deer that has significant intramuscular fat.

 

[Doug Casner]

I watched an old episode of wagon train a while back and the indians had them trapped in some old ruins. A guy pulled his hunting rifle out and popped the chief skylined about a mile away. takeoff on adobe walls. I dont know what he was shooting took about 5 seconds to get there. They were all sweatin but Robert Fuller . Hes been in tough scrapes before. Won a silver star in Korea. Doug

 

[rayporter]

i was in the area shooting dogs once and passed a sign that read "adobe walls--30 mi"

i have regretted not taking that turn for 30 years!!!

 

[ebb]

Did Wyman figure out how to be this cool all by himself or is there an instruction book? When i was at the guidance counselor's office in high school there were zero jobs listed like Wyman has, I feel like i need to go back and give that old lady a piece on my mind.

 

[GoWyo!]

250 savage is a great cartridge, I started hunting w my step grandfathers 99eg. Recently,( past ten years) i picked up an xp100 custom shop specialty pistol and a Ruger 77R. I’ve taken many whitetail with the 99, a couple Buck antelope with the XP and shot a couple targets with the Ruger to ascertain sight in and accuracy. Its a mild mannered sweetheart of a round that kills efficiently. Re sticks, Ive made a few sets from 1/2”x 48” hardwood dowels, leather cradle to hold it together and position the rifle; 45-70 cases over the dowel ground ends with roofing nails/ brass tacks driven thru the flashholes. Stain and finish the dowels, 30 min job.

 

[butchlambert]

250 savage is a great cartridge, I started hunting w my step grandfathers 99eg. Recently,( past ten years) i picked up an xp100 custom shop specialty pistol and a Ruger 77R. I’ve taken many whitetail with the 99, a couple Buck antelope with the XP and shot a couple targets with the Ruger to ascertain sight in and accuracy. Its a mild mannered sweetheart of a round that kills efficiently. Re sticks, Ive made a few sets from 1/2”x 48” hardwood dowels, leather cradle to hold it together and position the rifle; 45-70 cases over the dowel ground ends with roofing nails/ brass tacks driven thru the flashholes. Stain and finish the dowels, 30 min job.

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