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  1. Colorado Cowboy

    What's your occupation?

    Took me awhile to remember that I said I'd post some picts of my models. The one on the far right is the Navaho ICBM, next is F18, then Apollo command module with escape tower, Then B2, X15 and YF22. The Navaho, Apollo and YF22 models were made by the company model shop. There is also my B2...
  2. Colorado Cowboy

    Table fare mule deer

    I have been butchering my own meat for 40 or so years. Once I started doing it myself, I NEVER got a bad piece of venison. I take special care in cutting and trimming the meat. I did get a small buck once that was tougher than shoe leather.....even the tenderloin. Ended up grinding it all...
  3. Colorado Cowboy

    Your very first big game animal

    My first big game animal was a doe mule deer I shot when I was 12 in 1954. I was hunting with my Dad and another friend of his and his son. Both of us boys had drawn doe tags and we both filled our tags. In California, you need to be at least 12 years old to hunt big game. I was shooting my 03...
  4. Colorado Cowboy

    Road Trip - Utah Wyoming & Colorado

    Just got back from a quick road trip to Salt Lake City, Rawlings Cheyenne and Denver. My son relocated his trucking business from Denver to SLC and I helped him move some stuff. I have never seen it so dry in southern Wyoming and from Denver to Alamosa/Wolf Creek Pass. Almost no snow along I-80...
  5. Colorado Cowboy

    What Caliber...

    My very first big game rifle was a 30-06 03 military Springfield made in 1927 my Grandfather got from the NRA in about 1950. I still have it and use it as a backup. My primary deer/antelope rifles is a tang safety Ruger M77 in 25-06. I use a custom .300 Wby for elk & moose. This is the fully...
  6. Colorado Cowboy

    PM's asking for information.

    Been getting a lot of PMs from people not registered and no posts on the Forum asking for information. I usually won't give them anything until they are officially a Forum member and have introduced themselves. Even then I keep pretty closed mouth, it just kinda irritates me. Just wondering...
  7. Colorado Cowboy

    Post up your Favorite Photos

    My Dad and I on my first backcountry horseback deer hunting trip, 1954 when I was 12 years old. Dad and I in Wyoming hunting antelope.....many, many years later.
  8. Colorado Cowboy

    Other Hobbies

    I love to fish, camp and do some hiking. I also am a car nut. Built several street rods and love car racing(all types). I am alos a competitive shooter. I shoot Bulls Eye Pistol and Cowboy Action. I shoot all winter in Az, NM & Calif. My 1957 Ranchero...before and after. Has a 351 Cleveland...
  9. Colorado Cowboy

    all around caliber

    Monte Carlo raises your sight plane. Depends on how the stock is designed. If you have a scope that is mounted high (like to clear a 50mm objective lens) then it will probably help. A lot depends on the makeup of you body eg. short neck, long arms, etc. I made custom stocks for 40 years and...
  10. Colorado Cowboy

    Let's see something old

    I just got this back from my local Taxi, it is a reconditioned mule deer mount my Dad shot in 1946. Pretty unusual as it was shot in the Malibu Mts. near LA by my Dad. After the War, my Dad bought 10 acres in Malibu (wish we had it today!) and we were going to move there. He built a cabin and we...
  11. Colorado Cowboy

    Let's see something old

    Picture of my Grandfather hunting ducks & geese at the Salton Sea in California. Taken about 1950. He is shooting his old Winchester M97 12 ga with a Cutts compensator on the end of the barrel. Had different choke tubes that could be screwed in...way ahead of it's time. He used to call it his...
  12. Colorado Cowboy

    Let's see something old

    Let me add a little more about our annual family High Sierra deer hunting trip. My Grandfather, Dad & Uncle started hunting this particular area right after WWII, having Red's Meadows Pack Station near Mammoth Mt pack us into the backcountry, always to the same camp. My first trip was in the...
  13. Colorado Cowboy

    Let's see something old

    1954, I was 12 years old. My first wilderness, backcountry deer hunting trip. Rode horses into camp. I didn't get a deer. I am shooting my 03 Springfield, reworked military stock and iron sights. I still have the gun and shoot it today. 63 years later, still shoots sub moa.
  14. Colorado Cowboy

    Hunting Conditions in SW Colorado & SE Utah

    Just returned from a scouting trip for 4th season elk in SW Co & SE Ut. Condition have sure changed a lot since I was there in mid July. Most of the snow from a couple of weeks ago is gone and it is pretty dry. What is the most shocking thing is the lack of feed. Grass is gone, there are no...
  15. Colorado Cowboy

    October 12, 2012

    5 years ago today, I lost my Dad. He was 94 and lived a full, productive life. I miss him a lot, especially in the fall during hunting seasons. We hunted and fished together all his life from Canada to Mexico. He taught me how to be a man and all of the values and responsibilities that came with...
  16. Colorado Cowboy

    Drawing Odds-Antelope

    I was just checking the published drawing odds listed for antelope (doe/fawn) on the Wyoming G & F website. I was really shocked at the number of tags listed as sold for the unit I want to hunt. here are the numbers: year-2010-200 tags;2011-287 tags; 2012-219 tags; 2013-5t tags; 2105-5 tags...
  17. Colorado Cowboy

    Reduced Price Doe/Fawn Antelope Tags

    Been hunting Wyoming for years and have never done this: Apply for reduced price Doe/fawn antelope tags WITHOUT applying for a buck tag. I have always added them to my buck tag application. I know you can do it, but will they take my pref points that I have accumulated for antelope? I am...
  18. Colorado Cowboy

    Oldie but goodie for inch MOA

    I am still loading a 30-06 load my Dad and I developed 50 years ago. 53 gr 4895 - the key here is it is military surplus powder! 150 gr Sierra Spitzer (Now Called Game King) Shoot it in my 03 sporterized Springfield. About 10 years ago I exhausted my supply of military 4895 that my Dad got in...
  19. Colorado Cowboy

    Laramie

    Duck hunting is ok, but goose hunting a lot better. We have 1000's of resident nonmigratory Canadians. Lots of area for field hunting and fairly easy to get permission. I have shot as many as 100 in a season.
  20. Colorado Cowboy

    Tenting on unit?

    Here is camp setup last year antelope hunting here in Colorado.