RIP Don Deckert

[alf]

I just found out Don Deckert from Porcupine SD has passed.

Anyone that ever shot at the Prairie Dog Target Club knew what a character Don was.

We are diminished....

Don Deckert Obituary (2023) - Martin, SD - Bennett County Funeral Service - Martin

View Don Deckert's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.

www.legacy.com

 

[STS]

I loved that guy. We coyote hunted together for about 40 years. There wasn't much about trapping and predator hunting that Don didn't know, or was generous enough to teach. It was a freak accident that took him from us.

 

[Ron IA]

Got to meet him many years ago he hosted the NBRSA Hunter Nationals there he was a great guy

 

[AlNyhus]

Don was a hoot. At the last NBRSA Hunter Nationals he hosted, we got there a day earlier than most and it was hotter than the hubs of Hell. Don came over to us and said: "Hey...was the dead cow gone at the gate?" We said we hadn't seen anything. "Good deal. The rendering truck couldn't get here right away and I didn't want all you guys to have to drive by that thing. A local came to the house and asked if he could butcher it for the meat. I told him to get after it because it had to all be gone by today, bones included. Had to be pretty ripe in this heat."

The story of how his family came to settle there is amazing.

We nicknamed it the 'Porcupine Sticky Butt Nationals" because everyone was pulling their shorts out of their backsides when they stood up. Don.threw some cedar boughs over some the tables outside the Cafe. L-R: Roy Oines (seated), Chad Schmidt, Craig Nagel and Richard Hunniwell.

200 at Porcupine with the Hunter gun.

 

[STS]

A photo of Don taken about 500 yards west of the resting place of Patricia and Don. We were coyote calling and Don was a master of camouflage. In this case laying out on the prairie with a tanned coyote pelt draped over him. I'll be there in a couple of months with Tack, making a stand in honor of Don.

 

[alf]

A photo of Don taken about 500 yards west of the resting place of Patricia and Don. We were coyote calling and Don was a master of camouflage. In this case laying out on the prairie with a tanned coyote pelt draped over him. I'll be there in a couple of months with Tack, making a stand in honor of Don.

That's Don, wouldn't surprise me if he had a buzztail in his pocket too.

I was going to reply in another thread about something that reminded me of the chair at Don's range that was made out of all rifle barrels welded together. Pretty cool, wished I had a pic of it. Out of curiosity, I googled his name and saw the obit......puts a cloud over the day.

Back in the early 90's I started going to Porcupine for the 4th of July matches in conjunction with my annual prairie dog shoots. That's where I was 1st introduced to Hunter BR, so I built a gun to shoot there and at the Wisconsin matches, which were more local to me. Don used to call me Hippy.

The prairie dogs at the range were off limits. Finally he decided one year they were getting out of hand, and let me shoot a few right off the bench.

That range could be quite a challenge at times. Once upon a time, I held the LG 100 yard agg record there, wonder if it's held.