.22LR
.270 Thors Hammer (.270 Win on steroids)
30-06 (Serengeti bore rider so another 100+ yr old cartridge brought into real world performance)
30/30
Can't leave out muzzleloaders!!!
MZ .54 Hawkens
MZ .50 Encore
Thank you for reminding me.
Ages ago I bought a black powder 50 caliber traditional Thompson muzzleloader., The plain jane, no shiny brass, New Englander. Single trigger, large trigger guard for winter gloves, walnut stock. Also got the Thompson factory vintage style peep sights. Then sent the trigger assembly back to Thompson to have it honed and lightened by their factory professionals.
Only hint of modern is a real Whelen shooting sling. With the heavy Thompson cast bullets maxi balls it will hold a three-inch group a 125 yards using the Whelen sling.
In days now long gone, I had a high elevation (5,500') ranch that bordered National Forest with late muzzleloader deer season that was an easy draw. The mountains went up to 9,000'
Sometimes I would l leave right from my ranch on snowshoes to hunt, other times I would leave on my Appaloosa gelding for deeper in hunts.
That rifle sure looked "right" in a saddle scabbard on an Appaloosa horse. Pure Mountain Man. Also used Green River old carbon steel knife.
I knew where the deer would migrate down to with big snowstorms coming in. I recall coming home after dark one night with heavy snow falling. Could not see any lights anywhere in the valley. I just gave my horse, Scooter was his name, free reins, to bring me home. I had a small, gutted fork horn over the back of my saddle.
Scooter brought me right up to his barn. we were all white with heavy snow.
There was a big pine with a strong limb next the corral. With Scooter pulling, I hung the dressed out little buck over that limb, then put Scooter up after tending him and drying his sweaty back down.
In the morning there was so much snow, I needed snowshoes to get out to the barn to feed my horses.
That was the best hunt I ever had
Mustangs Rule
